party, and what this country has or hasn t learned since 9/11. plus singer josh groban. i laughed. i cried. i think i through up too. a man who can make anything sound good, even my tweets. i might want to give some of your very dramatic, very passionate tweets, the gravitas that they quite frankly deserve. memo to all the spotty tax dodging door scrounging anarchists in london, please just give it a rest for today, can you thanks this is piers morgan tonight. he gets more impertinent every time i hear that thing. josh groban is coming up later and is most entertaining. frank rich, the columnist for the new york magazine and a man who is definitely not afraid to speak his mind. he joins me now. frank, we can t start with anything else apart from this complete farce over president obama s speech about how to get america back to work. which has descended into anarchy it seems from where i m watching. what is your view? yeah, i completely agree. i think it s amateu
today with different messages. a few hours ago, alri tv broadcast a defiant audio message from saif gadhafi saying his father and closest followers are hiding in tripoli suburbs and their morale is high. listen. the leadership is fine. the leader is fine. and we are fighting and we are drinking tea and coffee and we are sitting with our families. saif gadhafi also had a message for people he calls his brethren in tripoli and alibya. reporter: we re saying to everyone move now. everyone has to move now to attack all these gangsters of the rats. the people he s calling rats are the rebels who drove the gadhafis from power. just a few hours before that fire and brim stone message, another of gadhafi s sons contacted cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson. nic joins us now from tripoli, a city, by the way, dangerously close to run out of water. nic, first, what was the message from the other gadhafi son? reporter: he was saying he is talking to the natio
at the same time that message whennet out on seirius tv on wednesday. he and his father were open to talks. libya s national transitional council is in for tough questions today. he goes for the libya contact brief in paris to discuss his plans for the future. international support for the ntc is reporting. russia tv is now recognizing the group as libya s new authority. amnesty international has release add disturbing report describing the deaths of detainees. they cite at least 88 victims and say that more than half the bodies show signs of torture. india s most famous corrupt activist is regarded as a haier. he was admitted to the hospital after striking. those are the top stories from cnn, the news leader. i m max foster. world business today starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning from cn london, i m nina dos santos. a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories
we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we re watching this hurricane unfold here in the united states. let s go right to ocean city, maryland. cnn s jeanne meserve is standing by. it s beginning to feel the wrath of irene. what s going on? reporter: the winds have become strong, so strong that the mayor has told the police to stop patrolling the streets of this town. he says if emergency calls come in, they will be considered on a case-by-case basis. what they re really worried about here is the water. you can see it behind me. the waves are simply immense. ordinarily, there s about 30 feet between the sand dunes and the high tide mark. right now, the water is right up against the dunes. it s an extraordinarily rough sometimes it is coming it halfway up the dunes. you can see some of it bursting through a snow fence right now. the mayor says that already there is some flooding in downtown ocean city. he expects that to get worse as the s
after irene does this to the bahamas, what could it do to the new york skyscrapers and subways. is new york city facing a doomsday scenario. steve jobs, the iphone, the ipad and this. i m a mac. and i m a pc. tonight, the man who started apple with jobs, the legendary steve wozniak. is this the last gasp of moammar gadhafi? do not leave tripoli. fight them. destroy them. rebels advance in tripoli. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. my one-on-one with steve wozniak is coming up. but first, estimates the storm could cause a stunning $11 billion in damage. if it continues on its current path. tonight, with this monster growing stronger, governors all the way from north carolina to connecticut have already declared states of emergency. amtrak is canceling trains south of washington, airlines are canceling flights. new york may shut down the subways on saturday. millions of people preparing for the worst of a storm. today, wind gusts up to 115 miles an hou