are doing it and the historical aspect of it, right? yes. you have been drinking beer for home days because easter is still a couple of days away? today is day 31. how has it affected you? it has gone really, really well. i was prepared for the worst. i have done a lot of research on ex tenned fasting. day one and two, i had a pretty good headache. i was hungry on day one. when i awoken o the morning of day two, i really wasn t hungry. that has been the case all along. once you get past a certain point, your body says, i can take care of things in a different way. so it has actually been easier than i thought. i sort of feel bad about that. it should have been really painful. this season is supposed to be all about sacrifice. it is a sacrifice. it is not a cake walk. you have lost 20 pounds. 18 as of yesterday. so we admire you.
i m just saying. i look the way your brain works. a.j. thank you. we always appreciate it. if you want information on everything breaking in the entertainment world, a.j. s got it tonight on showbiz tonight at 5:00 p.m. eastern and 11:00 p.m. on hln. the bronx zoo cobra that s been in the news since it escaped last week, now has a name. it even has its own twitter account, still. the zoo and the new york daily news ran a contest and got more than 33,000 name suggestions. the winner, mia. which is short for missing in action. oh, and in the cobra s tweet last night, they want to name me mia, but in my heart i ll always know that my true name is mrs. justin bieber. a.j. you stuck around for this. don t you love this? oh, i did. well, because i m here to dispel any rumors that the snake will be going on tour with justin bieber s hair, which is something that we had talked about previously. i wanted to make sure that
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than that. you can bet the world is watching the u.s. budget battle. zain vergee is in london following things from that angle. hello, zain. hi, carol. let s go straight to see what the headlines are saying. this is what the guardian s headline is. how one disagreement can shut down a country. it goes on to say, is this only the start? a bigger budget battle is looming over the budget for next year, and beyond. the international herald tribune says why pay congress? if congressional republicans actually shut down the government this weekend, they will be making a powerful argument for autocracy. chinese television will be all over the story. carol, the world s watching. incredible. it certainly is. and not in a good way, frankly. nato admits it may have fired on the very forces it s trying to protect in libya. but it s not apologizing. we re live in libya after a break.
american idol fans last night. one of the season s favorites to win it all got voted off. take a look at what happened. pia. stefano, you are safe. you are safe. no, no, no! the judges and the other contestants were just stunned. you could hear the crowd booing there. a lot of idol lovers thought pia toscano was going to be the one to go all the way and win it all. she barely made it through her farewell song. she broke down after sicking. idol fans just erupted on social media after this happened. many are vowing to never watch the show again, even j. lo broke down in tears at one point. she and her fellow judges, steven tyler and randy jackson rushed onto the stage. they wanted to console pia at the end. the judges did use their only save a few weeks ago. they wanted to save another favorite, casey abrams. i m wondering today if they have regrets about that. that was a good save for them. but, again, this one, pia, the