how he overcame childhood tragedy. i was at a piano recital. it was in the intermission my aunt jesse came and said your mother just died and brought me home. it was then i kind of realized for the first time she s not there anymore. and a traumatic brush with his idol. i said i have to ask you mr. sinatra you hit this high a flat. how did you do it? i just opened my mouth and it was there. this is piers morgan tonight. i ll take you just the way you are harry connick jr., welcome. thank you. you are a man of so many hats, it s ridiculous. a singer, pianist, big band conductor, a composer, and actor. three grammys, 25 million albums sold worldwide. you starred in a broadway musical on a clear day you can see forever. and you have your first children s book. not content with dominating every other genre of entertainment, you re into the kids market. well, i guess what makes me want to do this stuff is that i guess what drives me is real interest in all
to pass an extension. now, if it gets extended, the average american will save about $1,000 in taxes next year, senate r.s and ds have been meeting right now. and john thune of south dakota stepped out a moment ago. we re hoping for some good news. what can you tell us? right, it s a two-month extension, erin. it has unemployment insurance, it has the payroll tax cut extension, and what we call the doc fix, which deals with physician reimbursements under medicare. and then it also has the keystone pipeline language that was in the house, also in this particular senate bill. so i feel really good about where we are considering the fact that the senate democrats i don t think were comfortable with the pay-fors that were being proposed. and we would like to have gotten a full year like what was passed through the house of representatives. but this is where we are. we get a two-month extension of the three things i mentioned, plus we get the pipeline. okay. two months, though
diane swonk, old friend, chief of messere, aux financial. we re talking about the middle class. who represents the middle class in this country. the democrats are trying to make the point with speeches by president obama in the last couple of weeks. democrats are the party of the middle class. republicans are the party of the rich. republicans obviously are struggling with that themselves. david, what s your sense of how republicans are thinksing themselves and who in this country represents the vast majority of people, the middle class. i don t think anybody is doing a very good job of it of the president gave a speech in kansas a week ago in which he tried to stake out this ground. he gave a very good assessment of problems facing middle class americans. his descriptions were really weak. the president s main idea seems to be to have higher taxes on those who earn a lot and to use that money to expand public employment and hope more public employment will create a broad
conductor, a composer, and actor. three grammys, 25 million albums sold worldwide. you starred in a broadway musical on a clear day you can see forever. and you have your first children s book. not content with dominating every other genre of entertainment, you re into the kids market. well, i guess what makes me want to do this stuff is that i guess what drives me is real interest in all of these different areas. and it was never really about i know you were joking about dominating these areas, but it s never really been about dthat fr me. things kind of happened organically. broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing. which happened out of practicing piano when i was a kid. and this just seemed like a natural sort of transition after this we did a children s musical. it just seemed like a fun thing to be a part of. do you think you re part of a dying breed, an all-around entertainer? there aren t many of them these days. i don t know how many of th
incredible pictures oust philippines. entire villages may have been wipe out by flash floods caused by a tropical storm. just look at the force of that storm. more than 400 people are confirmed dead now. hundreds more are missing. an estimated 100,000 people have been displaced. you can see them walking in the water in. according to witnesses, residents were in their beds when the deluge struck and water rose so quickly, people had to scrumble on to their roofs to keep from being swept away. cnn spoke with the philippines red cross about the disaster. here it is. this is one quick deep fix we never expected out of what is considered a storm that brought an awful lot of rain, that brought a lot of landslides caused by high t.i.d.e. tides n rivers and all of a sudden you have a flash flood that suddenly kills people in most of the villages in the area, and that is why today we have 436 people dead and over 350 people missing. let s get for perspective. from meteorologist ja