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For his civil rights work. >> tell me about your dads impact on your music. obviously performed in his church. >> very early on, he taught me a number of things. having to do with timing and praising and different things like that. and coaching me in different ways. >> do you think he knew just how famous and successful you would be? >> i dont know. he did say at one point that one day, i would sing for kings and queens. he did say that. and i have, subsequently, i have. >> and you can see more ...

wounded including arizona congresswoman gabby giffords. today, she and so many others impacted are reflecting on the tragedy and the recovery. take a look right now at some live pictures. it is a dark room, but it is fitting of the somber atmosphere there on this one-year anniversary. the event will be called reflections and it is about to get started there on the university of arizona campus. it is honoring the lives of the shooting victims, the survivors and the citizen heroes who he...

good morning to you. it is thursday, august 11 now. this is "american morning." lot going on today. lets get right to it, folks. >> good morning, good morning. so much for comeback. havent seen these kind of wild swings on wall street since the darkest days of the financial meltdown. the dow diving 520 points yesterday. this time fueled by fears or at least triggered by fears. that france is on a verge of a credit downgrade. every day it seems to be something new trying terg sell-off o...

this is ali. >> chris seen on a well-deserved vacation. we have a lot going on today. lets get to it. high drama and high stakes over raising americas debt ceiling. we are now just 20 day ace way from the treasury deadline. president obama will meet again today with congressional leaders for the fifth straight day of negotiations that ended abruptly yesterday. republicans saying the president stormed out of the talks. this morning, democratic source is telling cnn president obama shut ...

The bouncer. the 11-year-old was thrown to the ground just as the castle went airborne. she is expected to be okay. and the 9-year-old was tossed on a nearby roof. she suffered serious head injuries. the jumpy castle was installed properly, but the wind was too strong. unbelievable. >> yeah, we see those things. they call them bounce houses? >> yeah, kids love them. >> amazing that the wind could pick one of those things up. well, 45 minutes past the hour right now. we get a check of the morni...

This morning. nasty storms that came through. >> straight-line winds? there was a tornado warning for north of there, but probably just straight-line winds. it was a mess. it looked like the end of the world in through the d.c. area there for a couple of hours. this is the line that now is moving down the chesapeake and eventually out to sea, but, nonetheless, it was a rough morning for montgomery county. numerous trees down beyond that one there. at one point they had had over 100,000 people ...

Well see temperatures moderate. a little bit of a cool front will try to push in as we head closer to the weekend to get us a little bit back to what we consider to be normal. want to touch on tropical storm collin. no longer a tropical storm. its been torn apart, but it remains a remnant low and well watch it carefully and also the area of disturbed area in the central caribbean. watching the guys cut the lawn here in piedmont park, not an easy task either, but good thing they have a riding law...

The choppy seas may be calm today that could allow skimmers back in the gulf to collect the oil. other big story, that heat wave moving south. its already there. >> where it should be, right? >> its not moving. its there, embedded. >> sure is, kyra. some of the temperatures over the past couple days pretty impressive as far as where weve been and where were going. century mark yesterday in new york again for the second day in the row and here are some of the numbers as far as the record highs....

Temps will struggle to get to 60 degrees in new york city. the back side of this ridge here thats been keeping all that weather nice is this plume of moisture coming in off the gulf of mexico and western texas has seen the brunt of this. a lot of rain yesterday and today. flooding rains right now and through parts of lubbock where it continues to come down here. estimations over the next 48 hours could still see, you know, 4-6 inches of more rainfall as this pattern slowly shifts. 79 for a high ...