the summer the help. this is piers morgan tonight. it s not easy to find a bright spot in america s economy these days but my next guests have done just that. inventor dean kamen the man behind the segue and will.i.am from the black eyed teamed up with the geeker builder? i do music and if you look at the industry i m in, it s based on technology, from radio to phonographs to cds, it s all technology, microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, right, it s all technology. how did you meet him? i met him on stage touring, as you know our crew was building our stage, right, technology, getting all the lights, all that stuff. i m on the segway. so i was riding the segway and i was like, just thinking about the idea, who thought of this. i was riding, thought to lean back to stop and leaned forward and who thinks that way? i got introduced to dean kamen via e-mail. dean, you re mr. robot and running this thing for 20 years, inspired these american kids and
these folks weren t rioting like we have seen the past several days. they were there to clean up. now the problem is that the violence, looting and arson has spread to sever other british cities besides london. also a nationwide manhunt for two brothers and their older sister accused much opening fire on a florida police officer, then robbing a georgia bank. you re seeing the three siblings there and authorities do consider them armed and extremely dangerous. all right. wall street did a bit of a u-turn yesterday and thank goodness it did. we don t know exactly what it s going to do today. but we are waiting to see. that is coming up for us in about 29 minutes from now. the dow closed up 429 points yesterday. however, that was a reversal of fortunes from monday s loss of 634 points. christine romans in new york for us. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange for us. christine, 29 minutes away. what is going to happen? reporter: futures are lower and alison can tell
complicated partisan bickering. the senate went o recess without giving the agency a short-term funding extension. president obama believes the issue will be resolved by the end of the week. the transportation secretary says you have nothing to worry about when you fly. i ll be speaking to him later on american morning. president obama turns 50 today. he qualifies for a free scoop at baskin-robbins. and he got a surprise in chicago happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday jennifer hudson much better singer than rahm emanuel. 26 seconds of the president s comedic stylings. it s true, that i turn 50 tomorrow. which means by the time i wake up i ll have an e-mail from aarp. asking me to call president obama and tell him to protect medicare. funny, yet topical. some suppoers paid nearly $36,00for dinner. hoe they got a lot of free refills. if you re planning a trip to the caribbean, there s trouble in paradise, named tropical storm emily. i
oh, i had many loves. and, of course, her charlie. i m way too old for him now. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. anybody watching the debt vote in the house monday night had to have been extraordinarily moved by that remarkable emotional moment when congresswoman gabrielle giffords walked out on the floor to cast her first vote since an assassination attempt nearly killed her back in january. joining me now is a man who s had his own brush with death, abc news bob woodruff. he s got a primetime nightline special on her and other near death experiences tonight at 10:00 eastern. he joins me now. bob, it must have been a pretty moving moment for you particularly watching gabby giffords given what you had been through yourself. you know, i think all of us i m sure you re the same. you re pretty stunned and shocked that she showed up like that suddenly right there on the floor of congress. her recovery s been pretty remarkable, i have to say. i didn t
and now it s time to talk about jobs. all right. let talk about jobs. here s one, neil bowlen s job with the faa new on furlough. i have a hard time understanding their partisan bickering and rhetoric. we re reaching into our investments, savings, signed up for unemployment, and that s barely going to make the electric bill, much less the water and mortgage, so, yeah, we re incredibly disappointed. he says congress could have prevented his ordeal with just a day s work. here s why they failed to. it s a little complex but worth knowing. since 2007 the faa has been running on short-term funding bills that routinely pass through congress, almost like the debt limit until now. this time politics have intruded with republicans inserting language about rural airports and faa unionization into the process, neither of which democrats support. you can decide for yourself if you re for subsidizing rural airports or whether the faa should unionize. i m not taking a position. th