this hour about the issues at hand. also meet the new generation of flash mobs. kids using social media to commit crimes. what happened to the days of dancing and singing in the middle of the mall? hello, everyone. i m don lemon. we start with breaking news. there s a lot of news. i want to get you caught up. it s out of libya tonight. a rebel spokesman says anti-government troops have now entered the capital. and cnn s senior correspondent matthew chance is live in tripoli. we spoke with you not long ago. what are you seeing and hearing now? reporter: the situation appears to have calmed a little since we last spoke, don. there s still sporadic outbursts of gunfire across the city that we can hear periodically, every few minutes or so. clearly the situation isn t as calm as the government authorities are telling us that it is. we ve had a press conference within the last hour or so with the libyan government spokesperson. he says that a number of armed small odd number
at 9:00 that night, i knew that i would never see him alive again. three teenage boys suspected. i wanted to bash their head up against the wall, kick his face in. three teens demonized. that was the first thing that everybody started saying that it was a ritualistic killing, satanic killing. three teens convicted. guilty of capital murder. their accused ring leader sent to death row. i m in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, seven days a week. he deserves to be to be chured and punished for the rest of his life for murdering three 8-year-old children! it was a crime almost too horrible to imagine. three teens worshipping satan murdering three 8-year-old boys. that happened right here back in 1993. two of the teens got life in prison, a third was judged to be so evil that he was sentenced to die. but after spending 18 years behind bars, a dramatic new development. the so-called west memphis three were abruptly granted their freedom. something that woul
you know, we turned down another interview for this. where are you going? you re leaving? absolutely extraordinary, dare i say it, rather surreal moment. christine o donnell, one-time tea party darling walks out of my studio rather than answering straightforward questions. you ve heard all about the fuss. and if you missed it, tonight we re going to re-air the whole interview all over again. i m going to get some of the smartest people in politics and media to weigh in with their verdict. was it christine s day? or was it mine? all right. are we off? are we done? i m not. i m still here. decide for yourself. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, i m here in san diego where i m doing an interview with presidential hopeful jon huntsman and that will air at monday night 9:00 p.m. eastern. but right now tonight, it s all about the scandal involving me and christine o donnell and that interview and that walkout. we thought it d be a good idea to bring you up to speed
where are you going? you re leaving? absolutely extraordinary, dare i say it, surreal moment. christine o donnell, one-time tea party darling walks out of my studio rather than answering straightforward questions. you ve heard all about the fuss. and if you missed it, tonight we re going to reair the whole interview all over again. i m going to get some of the smartest people in politics and media to weigh in with their verdict. was it christine s day? or was it mine? all right. are we off? are we done? i m not. i m still here. decide for yourself. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, i m here in san diego where i m doing an interview with presidential hopeful jon huntsman and that will air at monday night 9:00 p.m. eastern. but right now tonight, it s all about the scandal involving me and christine o donnell and that interview and that walkout. we thought it d be a good idea to bring you up to speed by getting correspondent joe john to do a wrapup of what s g
another recession. and adds new urgency to the political debate here in washington over new jobs initiatives. the dow jones industrial average was down just short of 420 points or 3.7%. the nasdaq down 5.2%. the s & p 500 down 4.5%. it is what drove the markets down that is again stoking recession fears. overseas more jitters as europe struggles to contain its debt crisis. here at home, data some see as evidence of a new downturn. weekly unemployment claims rose much more than expected. sales of existing homes dropped by 3.5% in july. analysts had been expecting a modest increase. the key manufacturing index was way down. and inflation on consumer goods was up. add in collapsening consumer confident and you get sober advice like this. 2012 could be a very difficult year. i m on the camp that we have more chance of being in recession than avoiding it. so they should be conservative right now. their confidence should be down. because there s every reason out there that they s