hello, everybody. i am randi kaye. we re glad you are with us. we start off with the victims of irene. for those of you who think irene was a dud, well, tell that to the families of the 21 people who died in that storm and the people that lost their homes and the estimated $10 billion price tag is nothing to sneeze at either. irene may not have been as bad as expected in some areas, but worst in others. vermont, much of the state is under water. a short time ago president obama declared a state of emergency making vermont elvauable for disaster relieve. it will take time to recover from the storm of this magnitude. the affects are being felt across much of the country. in new england and states like vermont where there has been an enormous amount of flooding. the responses continues and i want to make sure fema and other agencies are doing everything they can to help people on the ground. check out the video of vermont. it shows the power of irene destroying one of the st
to washington but is all of that true? tonight we re keeping them honest. first the jobs. we created more jobs than any other state in the nation, as a matter of fact, in the last two years, we created almost half of all the jobs created in america. that s governor perry yesterday. you ll hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that s out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than dunld in texas over the last four years and texas is creating many jobs in part because the population is growing so fast, up more than 4 million since rick perry took office, more people buying goods and services and more jobs. some of the people come illegally across the border. according to the it ex-text association of business, ille
billy ray cyrus for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. billy ray, how are you? i m doing great. how you doing, piers? my first question, did you ever have this terrible nagging feeling if you suddenly keeled over from a heart attack tomorrow, the headlines would be, miley cyrus dad dies of an achey breaky heart? if that were the case, that s what it s going to read. there s no doubt about it. as ironic as my life is at times, that will probably be the way i go. you have had an extraordinarily checkered life. i was reading all about it the other day. just researching you. you ve had great highs. great lows. fair liberal dose of scandal and drama and everything else. how would you as you approach your 50th birthday. by the way, you have weathered much better than i have. as you approach it, how would you sum up your life? i would sum it up as for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. for me, there s never been anything in the middle. it s
the greatest mullet in the history of music. what were you thinking with that hair? billy ray cyrus for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. billy ray, how are you? i m doing great. my first question, did you ever have this terrible nagging feeling if you suddenly keeled over from a heart attack tomorrow, the headlines would be, miley cyrus dad dies of an achey breaky heart? if that were the case, that s what it s going to read. as ironic as my life is at times, that will probably be the way i go. you have had an extraordinarily checkered life. i was researching you. you ve had great highs. great lows. fair liberal dose of scandal and drama and everything else. how would you as you approach your 50th birthday. by the way, you have weathered much better than i have. as you approach it, how would you sum up your life? i would sum it up as for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. for me, there s never been anything in the middle. it s alway
captions by vitac www.vitac.com billy ray, how are you? i m doing great. how you doing, piers? my first question, did you ever have this terrible nagging feeling if you suddenly keeled over from a heart attack tomorrow, the headlines would be, miley cyrus dad dies of an achey breaky heart? if that were the case, that s what it s going to read. there s no doubt about it. as ironic as my life is at times, that will probably be the way i go. you have had an extraordinarily checkered life. i was reading all about it the other day. just researching you. you ve had great highs. great lows. fair liberal dose of scandal and drama and everything else. how would you as you approach your 50th birthday. by the way, you have weathered much better than i have. as you approach it, how would you sum up your life? i would sum it up as for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. for me, there s never been anything in the middle. it s always been white hot or i