heart and you ll never walk alone reporter: lewis struggled with his own health problems over the years including prostate cancer, type-one diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis, and heart disease. it s been a long, long, grueling ride. i ve ingested more than 24,000 pills. reporter: through it all, he kept his sense of humor. you better laugh at it because the alternative is not funny. [ laughter ] good stuff. raised more than a billion dollars for muscular dystrophy. unreal. what a legacy it is. so will the weather cooperate today for a little tiny event being called the eclipse of the century? a big day, guys. let s get to meteorologist pedram javaheri. the big day here. and we re watching the forecast very carefully because easy to see what s going on at least across the northwestern corner of the country, oregon, idaho into wyoming, generally clear
be a hit. score. get the audience laughing and happy. that s the secret. of success in this business. reporter: he didn t just make audiences laugh. lewis used his fame to make a difference taking up the fight against muscular dystrophy. for more than four decades his annual labor day telethons helped raise more than $1 billion for research and treatment and almost ended with his signature song you ll never walk alone. walk on with hope in your heart and you ll never walk alone reporter: lewis struggled with his own health problems over the years including prostate cancer, type i diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis and heart disease. a long, long grueling ride. i ve ingested more than 24,000 pills. reporter: through it all, he kept his sense of humor. you better laugh at it.
we ll stand up to make sure whatever we need to do and make sure that does not happen. bannon s movie praised sarah palin and savaging hillary clinton on the left. with the clinton, nothing is safe. we are the ones that s paying a price. through it all, he preached the gospel of a government. unbelievable. unbelievable. reporter: by the time he and trump joined forces, bannon was going through the media and the leaks of all strikes. i say it everyday, these middle class working women are ten times smarter than the intellectual groups. he was never able to push any major legislations through the passage. he fell out of favor with some trump s family members and
yet, through it all, you never lost that spirit. [applause] your-protestyour oppressor is to break you but poland could not be broken. [applause] and when the day came on june 2nd, 1979, and 1 million pols gathered around victory square for their very first mass with their polish pope, that day every communist in warsaw must have known that their oppressive system would soon come crashing down. they must have known it at the exact moment during pope john paul ii s sermon when a million polish men, women, and children, suddenly raised
identity, indeed, the very essence of your culture and your humanity. yet, through it all, you never lost that spirit. your oppressors tried to break you, but poland could not be broken. and when the day came on june 2nd, 1979, and one million polish people gathered around victory square for their first mass with their polish pope, that day every communist in warsaw must have known that their oppressive system would soon come crashing down. they must have known it at the exact moment during pope john