story, this is piers morgan tonight. you only have to hear melissa ethridge once, you only have to hear it once. she s an outspoken person on all kinds of things close to her heart. welcome. thank you. you have a wonderful fiery soul offstage, don t you? i m just making some choices? when you look at your extraordinary life, professional and personal, how do you feel now about where you ve arrived, where you are right now? i think at this point, i m 51 now. i ve realized, oh, it s just a journey. you never get there. you never get it done. it s all about how you re doing it. that is so true. you will never actually arrive, are you? no. this train never gets to a station? it does not. there is no there there. for myself, who, you know, i ve achieved some of those markers that you think, oh, the oscar, those things, and each time, i go, there s no there here. that s nice, that s great but it s about how am i doing and how s this journey? what s been the best
major spike in cases of west nile virus. health officials say it is the biggest rise since 2004. so far we ve seen 240 cases across the country with four deaths. the cdc says the cases have been in texas, mississippi and oklahoma. august is traditionally the peek month for wes nile. the virus is carried by mosquitos. to colorado now, where the university of colorado has hired an independent investigator to probe the school s handling of colorado theater shooting suspect james holmes. holmes was being seen by university psychiatrist, lynn fenton. cnn affiliate reports that she had concerns he might be a danger to others and told her colleagues but holmes dropped out of school before any investigation was before. in oakland a brick was thrown through a window of a obama office. reports say several car windows were broken as well. to oklahoma now and the wildfire disaster there. there are at least four major fires burning this morning, hundreds of homes are being threaten the
says now is the time to hold president obama responsible for gun control. before the public goes to the streeting booth what they will do. an exclusive with new york city mayor michael bloomberg. this is piers morgan tonight. face-to-face with an accused killer. this is the public s first look. james holmes, his hair dyed red and orange, looking dazed and sitten unshaven and handcuffed beside one of the public defenders assigned to his case. he didn t speak. he didn t look at any of the family members. he never took tir eyes off him. more family members watched in an overflow courtroom on closed circuit television. want to remind you of exactly what this young man is accused of doing. striding into the darkness of a movie theater jammed packed with people waiting for a midnight screening of the dark knight rises. armed to the teeth. threw a gas can to the unsuspecting crowd. 58 people injured. 17 still in hospitals. the nation is left with the question, how could this
colorado, this morning after a mass shooting at a batman movie premiere. so far, 12 dead. and 38 injured. as a community searching for answers. a special edition of cnn newsroom starts right now. hello, everyone. i m in for carol costello. we welcome viewers from around the world watching on cnn international. a night at the movies turned into a night of terror for moviegoers in colorado after a gunman opens up a rampage. and here is the latest of what we know. gunshots erupted just outside of denver in an aurora, colorado, theater during an early morning screening of the dark knight rises. that is the new batman movie. 12 people are dead, 28 more wounded. a 3-month-old baby is among the wounded. police have a suspect in custody, a young man. a witness saw that man burst into the theater. somebody kicked in the emergency exit and started throwing gas grenade sais and started shooting people at random. was it movie theater number nine? number nine, which is the one
remember that, tied to the train track, helpless, her only hope is that she s rescued before she is flattened, destroyed, ripped to bits, like a penny on the train track. makes me think of the aflac ad. the government added another $60 billion to the deficit in june. so the grand total on money that we ve borrowed so far this fiscal year is $904 billion. the real headline, though, is that that number confirmed that we are on solid track to hit a $1 trillion deficit for the fourth year in a row. well, the sky high numbers start to blur in this country. it s trillions here and trillions there and hundreds of trillions. it gets confusing. tonight actually there s a really frighteningly easy way to put that $1 trillion in perspective. so to give you just a sense of how much money we re burning through that we do not have, remember the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts that coming at the end of the year? the so-called sequester cuts that republicans and democrats alike say will kill