. ♪ >> reporter: 31-year-old soloman howard sings to the rich and powerful.nnedy center, singing in mozart's don giovanni with the washington opera. it's as far away as you can get from this. one of washington, d.c.'s po poorest neighborhoods, where soloman grew up, the eldest of seven children. >> we lost our home. then stayed with families, different families. we sometimes would walk until we could find something, somewhere to stay. >> reporter: his family, part of the 47% referred to by republican candidate mitt romney in that controversial video addressing wealthy republican donors. but soloman says his mother and stepfather never thought it was the government's job to take care of them. >> they always, you know, instill great values and morals in us, to never give up and keep pursuing. >> after a life of food stamps and no health care, finally a teacher heard soloman sing. >> she said, no, i want you to try this. get serious about it and see what you have. >> reporter: there was a college scholarship, an audition before opera legend placido domingo. the

still 70 at soloman's island. 68 in fredericksburg and 59 in hagers towne and cumberland and front royalso sunday plan are foretomorrow, clouds should be back in place early in the day tomorrow and that seals out any chance of much of a warm-up tomorrow and passing rain drops as well. keeping temperatures tomorrow afternoon in the upper 40s and low 50s. so a cold day coming. in fact, freeze watches are out for much of the ohio valley, western pennsylvania, even into the mountains of far western maryland. no advisories around here, but that may not be the case as we get into sunday night and the monday morning. our rain drops are gone. now the last of the drops pushing off the delaware and maryland coastline heading out to sea with the cold front itself. it will be dry tonight and dry into the early part of tomorrow, but that not going to last too long. turning much colder for this afternoon and this evening as the front moves offshore and clouds come back in and a ripple of fast moving low pressure running through here tomorrow wringing out a chance for rain showers. not a lot of rain bu

the help was needed, but soloman says don't put him and his family in some category of easy labels.ou see this debate in the country, the whole 47% question -- >> right. >> reporter: what do you want people to really begin to understand about that? >> it's very important. i remember a few times when we ate off of the salvation army food truck. had salvation army not been there, maybe i would have missed a meal that night or those few nights. what the goth does for us here is very helpful. at the same time, we do have to take >> oh, by the way, this opera singer would also like to do other things. >> i would like to do voiceovers. this is cnn. >> barbara starr, cnn. >> he did it. this is cnn. >> likes james earl jones. that's a powerful voice. i would love to know the evolution of when he discovered he had a beautiful singing voice. >> he has an amazing voice. cnn newsroom starts at the top of the hour so fred is here. >>in us for a day. i can hear his voice all day long pap lot coming up straight ahead noon eastern hour our legal guys will be with us. what do you think about the ide