this is piers morgan tonight. as the olympics draw to a close, the games will be remembered for some of the most spectacular performances in history. michael phelps is a remarkable 22 medals in all, 18 were gold. we talked about the victories, mistakes both professional and personal. he speaks from the heart and holds back very little. michael, welcome. you said if you e ever tired, you get a bit grouchy and you can be very short. how are you feeling? i feel all right. grouchy and tired? not yet. maybe a couple of questions. you can answer the questions all day. then it will give me less time. i feel like a tape recorder though. london is my hometown. what is extraordinary is every american athlete i have interviewed, when i asked them about their role model, 90% said you. you are like a god-like figure. with that comes responsibility. are you aware of that? what do you feel about that responsibility? sometimes i feel it, but i like to think of myself as a
the california fire that s about to burn a hole in millions of wallets. this was the scene monday at chevron s richmond, california oil refinery. a huge toxic blaze partially shutting down production at one of the region s biggest gas suppliers. not a good time for that to happen, it s expected to send the pump prices skyrocketing on the west coast and beyond. ed levandera is live in dallas, texas. it s not just about gas prices, it s about people and health concerns in that area, as well, right? reporter: there s no question, people there who have been up close with the refinery fire that started on monday, and is still not quite back up to full production. have been dealing with the effects of that. but if you re like me, you ve noticed over the last few weeks already, as you pull into the gas station, hey, something is not quite right. but that s because the national average of gasoline prices has risen to $3.63 a gallon, up almost 30 cents in the last five weeks. so qui
back to being plain old welfare. newt gingrich defends that ad but makes an admission whether that ad is strictly speaking true to the facts. but first, i want to show you how mitt romney is campaign on the claims knead that very ad. 7 with a careful executive action, he removed the requirement for work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependcy. we nus restore, and i will restore work into welfare. now, listening to that, you would think the white house with the sweep of the pen somehow managed to undo all of your elected representatives, democrats and republicans accomplished on welfare reform. you get the impression the obama administration wants an america where hardworking americans pay taxes and lazy onescy sit around collecting welfare. and in case you missed the implications, newt gingrich spelled it out. i think on the hard left there s an unending desire to create a dependent america. not just
oh! iceberg tsunami. a glacier from greenland melting off the side of a cliff and causing the scare of a lifetime for a boatful of tourists. it s video you just have to see. newsroom begins right now. and good morning. thank you so much for joining me. i m carol costello. we begin this morning in oak creek, wisconsin, the site of the weekend massacre at that sikh temple. for the third straight night, the community has bonded in its grief. and the vigil keeps growing larger. the police department is also on edge. the fear white supremacists might retaliate for the death of the temple gunman. cnn s brian todd is in oak creek, wisconsin. you witnessed the depths of those concerns first hand. describe that for us. reporter: well, carol, yesterday we had gotten the name of the officer who took down the shooter on sunday. we ve gotten the name and the address of that person. we went to his house. we knocked on his door to see if he might want to talk to us. he declined, c
carolina which, of course, has a long tradition of producing heroes. drew griffin has been investigating how and when wade page was at ft. bragg, what his service entailed. he joins us now. what have you found about his time in the military? well, it was not stellar, we ll tell you that in a little bit. but we wanted to focus on ft. bragg. ft. bragg produced a lot of heroes. thousands and thousands of heroes. but back in 1995, it had a mark on that fort because there was a murder of a black couple outside the base, anderson. three soldiers identified as neo nazi skin heads were caught and convicted of that crime. they basically just picked their victims for one reason. they wanted to kill blacks. the army came under fire because it was very obvious that these soldiers were neo nazis. one of them even had what was described as a nazi shrine where he was living. that lead to a crack down by the army trying to weed out racists in the ranks. about two doz b soldiers were kicked