which by the way isn t too bad. that s a good analogy. but he does he does keep tweeting. it does seem as though he s in perpetual campaign mode. there is a transition literally taking place. but keep in mind he s not president. he s not making the big decisions. obama s still president. even though a lot of people have kind of forgotten that. obama s been so ineffective that he s sort of receded from the headlines. forbes magazine has him as the 48th most powerful person on earth and donald trump s number 2. so in a sense trump is sort of like president but you ve got to wait 30 days. so whether or not he s taking a daily briefing, he s acting like the president, making decisions like the president, he s not ready for that. let s see what happens when he s really president. i think he s right. he s not ready for it. that definitely is clear. oddly enough, putin was number 1 on forbes list. he was. the tweeting issue now. one of the examples of tweeting first witho
millions of people are under a heavy smog advisory in china. the country has an orange alert in place in several cities and provinces including the capital of beijing. a city of more than 22 million people. the alert means people need to stay indoors and take precautions. just yesterday smog blanketed parts of southwest china causing road closures. hundreds of vehicles were stuck on the roads. joining me now with gordon chang, author of the coming collapse of china. good to have you with us, sir. what s it like to live in cline n china now with the smog so bad? in bay sieijing with the ora alert, it isn t too bad. most people are not under mandatory restrictions. things get bad under a red alert and beijing had two of those
last weekend and they did okay. these women are hilariously awesome. are the reviews good on the film? what are people saying about it? rotten tomatoes gave it a 61% which for that type of movie isn t too bad. critics are saying the story line isn t the most original. it s about a wild house party. their parents sell their family home and throw one big last hoorah. but these two are so funny, you can t go wrong. if you re a bradley cooper and dinero fan and you like the hunger games you re a j-law fan. i couldn t remember jennifer lawrence s name for a minute. but their new film joy is based on a true story and it looks really good. if you like miracle mops, it s about the inventor of the miracle mop. here s the problem. when you come together again,
i wanted to be in radio. the people on the radio were kind of like my idols. i thought i want to do that i wanted to be a doctor. when i look back at it now i say why wasn t i a doctor? i say let me take two years to see if i can get to the top rock radio station in two years. i got there in 18 months. this isn t too bad. maybe i should keep doing this. top rock station in canada, all right? and you are an idol. it wasn t so much when i was in radio. it was when i moved to television and we started a program which was kind of like a rolling stone magazine called the new music. welcome to the new music. it was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. it seems when a form of music becomes popular, a lot of bands you never expect to see come up with big hits. i interviewed u 2, the police, the culture club, before anybody knew who they were. who is the biggest rock star you interviewed? probably robert plant. robert plant led zeppelin. he came in to the
welcome back, everybody. 13 minutes past the hour. you have to see this wild video of an intense weather system including vivid lightning and side view of a super cell there. that s just gorgeous, really. then there s this time lapsed video of lightning storms on the horizon in palm beach, florida. you can see even a pretty elaborate sand castle if you look at the bottom of your screen. it s all lit up by that light show in the background. meteorologist veronica johnson is in today for bill karins, taking a look at the labor day forecast. you re laboring on this labor day. just a little bit. not too much. really, the weather across the country isn t too bad, betty. take a look. we still have showers and thunderstorms right near florida. a lot of them off the coast. i do think we re going to see more fire today, especially from tampa, south. the other zone right up here, wisconsin down toward iowa. those storms now into eastern iowa, northern missouri. flash flood watch continuing for