nationwide is on your side. >>> back with tom arnold. tom you've been sober for two decades. more than that you've become an activist in this area for other hollywood times you've fallen off the rails, including charlie sheen. >> well, everybody that's sober reaches out and does service work. or someone's in trouble. it just so happens that i work in hollywood so a lot of that is with my friends. people have reached out to me. obviously i wouldn't be sober if it wasn't for the friends i have. in the beginning and even now. i think that people talk about hollywood being a bad place for drugs and alcohol, it's a great place for recovery. there's a lot of recovery here and a lot of meetings and a lot of help. and it feels good to help people. obviously it's a selfish thing. i help them, i feel good about myself. that's a good thing. and it always comes back when you need it the most. when you're down on yourself and you say, wait a minute, but i actually did some nice things. okay. i might be okay. >> when you see someone like charlie going through what he's been through the las

can't live with them, can't kill them. >> the one and only tom arnold in the blockbuster movie "true lies." your old friend arnold schwarzenegger. >> yeah. yeah. he's a good man. >> you're great friends with limb. i know he's been hinting there might be a remake of that great film which was a huge hit. tell me about arnold. he's been through a really shattering few months. i've known him not as well as you but i've always liked him very much. what do you make of what's going on? >> you have to understand he grew up much like me in a small town in austria in his case and i think that's what we bond on. he respects that. coming from somewhere and doing something. he's very charitable. he's -- this has been tough because our relationship is based on a lot of humor and to find humor in all this has been hard. i'm just his friend. unconditionally just like he's been for me at the worst times in my life. so anything i can do for him -- i love maria and the kids obviously. hopefully this thing gets better for him. >> were you as stunned as everybody else? >> yeah. yeah. obviously people don'

that's all from a fascinating interview with tom arnold. >>> i'm zain verjee in london. the un just declared a famine in war torn somalia. thousands are flooding into a refugee camp in kenya just across the somali border. cnn's david mckenzie is there with a live report. david, describe what you're seeing. >> reporter: zain, we're seeing thousands streaming into dadaab camp. there isn't enough food aid getting into southern somalia. the un declared a famine in two regions of southern somalia. they say nearly 3 million people are suffering from acute malnutrition. they say that this is hitting that benchmark, that nearly a third of the people could die if they don't receive food aid fast. the worst hit zain are the children. we've seen children here hungry, desperately in need of food aid and we've even seen children dieing here. one father told me they just came here to find help. they didn't get what they wanted, hi buried his child sarah in the ground near us yesterday morning, zain. >> how difficult is it, david, because of the fighting going on in somalia as well for

. >> fascinating interview from tom arnold. >>> i'm zain verjee in london. here is our main story. the suspect in the norway attacks is set to appear in court three hours from now. cnn's diana magnay joins us now at a gathering point for victims where they're still searching for more possible victims. diana. >> reporter: hi, zain. the search continues. as you say, there are still four people listed as missing and the police are using all sorts of devices to try to find them including a mini submarine, but the death toll is at least at 86 as you said. anders be anders behreng breivik will be appearing in court. he'll be pleading not guilty so he'll get a chance to explain his extremely right-winged ideologies in court. that's why a lot of people are asking that this be a closed hearing. the police, for one, has a facebook page asking that no one be admitted into the courtroom so he doesn't get this kind of platform to air his views. already 60,000 members on that. i talked to people this morning about it and they said everything has gone his way so far and this must stop. also anoth

. >> fascinating interview from tom arnold. i'm don lemon. you're in the "cnn newsroom." >>> if you weren't paying close attention to the deficit and the debt ceiling talks in washington, you really need to now. a sunday filled with tv talking points face-to-face meetings and party conference calls brought the debt ceiling debate back to the very beginning. a little stalemate tonight and traders worldwide are surely taking notice, several overseas markets have opened lower in monday trading and the u.s. stock futures and trending -- they're trending lower right now. in washington this hour, power brokers from the president to the house speaker are standing firm unwilling to abandon their positions. our correspondent, our congressional correspondent kate bolduan has been tracking the events for us all day in d.c. and joins me now. kate, where do we stand right now. >> reporter: bottom line, don, after a long weekend of work and of meetings and a lot of negotiating there is no deal between congressional leaders and the white house. republicans

. >> fascinating interview from tom arnold. >>> breaking news tonight in washington, efforts to reach an agreement on the debt crisis failed. markets around the world already falling even though some leaders of our government say a deal could be done monday. revealed and speaking out for the first time, the alleged victim of the dominique strauss-kahn incident, the hotel maid telling her story point day she says the former head of the international monetary fund attacked and raped her. [ sirens ] >>> up in flame, someone setting fires in los angeles, more than a dozen in just the past four hours. houses, cars, nothing is safe. we're talking live with the l.a. fire department tonight. >>> students on a wilderness adventure attacked by a grizzly bear and one of her cubs bites and puncture wounds and the latest on their conditions. >>> plus there. >>> therefore, by the powers vested by me by the state of new york i pronounce you both married. [ cheers and applause ] >> history is made in new york. same-sex marriages, even new york city's mayor gets involved by performing a ceremony. i'm

that's all from a fascinating interview with tom arnold. now "anderson cooper 360." >> piers, thank you. sanjay gupta in tonight for anderson cooper. we begin with washington's trillion dollar showdown over the debt. two weeks to go until the treasury says it will be out of money to pay the bills there were two major developments. one has been called a possible break through. the other is being attacked by some as a stunt. >> on this vote the yeas are 234 and the nays are 190. the bill has passed. without objection and motion reconsiders laying on the table. >> that's the house tonight passing h.r. 2560, better known as cut, cap and balance. now it's a republican and tea party sponsored measure calling for massive spending cuts, a spending cap, and congress passing a balanced budget amendment. only then would the debt limit be allowed to go up, ending the current crisis. the measure was passed with just five democratic votes. senate democrats say they'll defeat it. if somehow they fail, president obama says he'll veto it. in other words, it