not the person that i met and married. denise richards. her life, her loves. oh, i had many loves. and of course her charlie. i m way too old for him now. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. anybody watching the debt vote in the house monday night had to have been extraordinarily moved by that remarkable emotional moment when congresswoman gabrielle giffords walked out on the floor to cast her first vote since an assassination attempt nearly killed her back in january. joining me now is a man who s had his own brush with death, abc news s bob woodruff. he s got a primetime nightline special on her and other near death experiences tonight at 10:00 eastern. bob, it must have been a pretty moving moment for you particularly watching gabby giffords given what you had been through yourself. you know, i think all of us i m sure you re the same. you re pretty stunned and shocked that she showed up like that suddenly right there on the floor of congress. h
of congress packed up and went on vacation. so now 4,000 faa workers are not being paid. tens of thousands of others involved in airport construction and maintenance are also off t job. and some $25 million are being lost every day in taxes because there is no one there to collect. that is more revenue lost in one hour than you will probably pay in your lifetime because congress members cannot reach an agreement agreement. weill tear into this developing dispute in just a moment, but here are some other stories we re watching tonight. the last pharaoh. for 30 years hosni mubarak was the lord of the nile. today he was wheeled into a cairo courtroom in a hospital bed and kept in a cage. egypt gets its show trial, but is the middle east a safer place? and the book of mormon. it s not just a broadway musical. for millions it s a road map to salvation. mitt romney follows it religiously. one ex-latter day saint says that should disqualify him from being president. then, we fin
spread to half of the country. it s been linked to ground turkey. what you need to know about this recallo keep your family safe. i m ashe velshi. burning up another day of searing heat. it s already proving deadly on this american morning. good morning to you. are you awake yet? you will be. happy thursday. it s august 4th. this is american morning. there s a lot going on today. we should get right to it. i want to talk first about the heat. heat is on congress to finish their business as we ve been reporting. they ve left washington without resolving a dispute over funding the federal aviation administration. that s resulted in tens of thousands of american workers not getting a paycheck today. on last night s in the arena with tom foreman, one worker voiced his frustration. running ourselves into debt, selling assets. unlike our congressmen and senators who are on vacation. nice congressional junket. i m sitting here watching the grass grow. watching
looks. all day long the dow headed south until it finally closed down an ugly 266 points. on wall street, 4:00 couldn t come fast enough. we ve had eight straight days of losses, the first time that happened since the global financial meltdown? 2008. it is a scary picture, and we re going to walk you through it all in just a moment. but first a look at the other stories we re drilling down on tonight. it s ramadan in syria. instead of peace, more bloodshed. graphic new images of bodies dumb it ped like garbage as the death toll rises. can the world look the other way? and japan s endless disaster. radiation levels at their highest since the earthquake and tsunami in march. you won t believe what they re testing now. then with grim news on wall street, everybody is talking about transparency. but these folks did something about it, striptease for social protest. the bears rule in more ways than one. now back to the batd news on wall street. we finally get a debt deal
allowed to raise the debt ceiling without being held accountable for it by the american people. the tea party direction of this congress the last few months has been very, very disconcerting and very unfair to the american people. is the tea party really calling the shots? i ll ask the people who started it. and the emotional moment everybody is still talking about. tonight the astonishing, unexpected return of gabby giffords. i ll ask her best friend in congress what s next. gabby melted everybody s heart last night. and glenn beck said this also could be assassinated of what he wrote in his last book. so what s he written now? i ll ask him. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. president obama signs the debt deal. the country dodges a bullet avoiding the frightening specter of a national default. so why is nobody in washington or wall street or anywhere else for that matter happy about all of this? it has battle made compromise a dirty word on capitol