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it looks pretty. >> griff: clear skies come i think. >> lisa: when adam was talking earlier, 73 in miami, although it is not too bad in new york today. >> griff: it is getting warmer. katy perry, three days away from the new year. >> joey: that is right. >> griff: exciting. >> lisa: very much. we are also seeing chaos play out at the southern border as starting the mic startling new video with migrants to break into a texas rangers home. it is not the first time this has happened on hi...

If you talk with veterans long enough about that option, they are going to be people of their word, people of action. what i would say to that i know what they are thinking, what are you doing? so if at this notion for years and years in my mind. im a small-town guy and always will be. i grew up in small-town state of illinois, every little town had a diner. veterans are certainly not anonymous in small towns. you will go to the local diner, and she would talk to people instead of talking to a d...

im christine romans. hurricane forecasters feeling the heat because the wrath of irene didnt live up to all that hype. and im carol costello. like a hurricane, rick perry stormed to the front of the gop presidential pack. the latest cnn polling gives him a double-digit lead over mitt romney. is the texas governor built for the long run? well, good morning. it is tuesday, august 30th. we are still dealing with the after effects of this hurricane. things for a lot of people starting ...

good morning. we begin with lingering misery caused by hurricane irene. youre looking at live pictures now from patterson, new jersey, where crews are actually going door-to-door rescuing people from their homes. that water, by the way, coming from the passaic river is supposed to crest today at its highest level since 1903. a pretty eye-catching image of how massive the storm was. this is coming to us from nasa. its an animated satellite of irene as its churning up the eastern seaboar...

I said, you told me we were sold out. this show is tomorrow. what the hell are you talking about? no. i grabbed this guy by the collar. i could have killed him. it was like i was back in the old neighborhood on the corner. could have killed this guy. i said youre going to ruin my career. itll be over. he said, no, no, no. thats it. theres 5,000 seats. i walked back into the arena. elvis was doing a sound check. i grabbed the colonel. and you interviewed the colonel so you know that he was a toug...

>> no money. i got to vegas and there was a message waiting for me that there was a guy in seattle, washington who i should call who loved elvis presley and owned radio stations. i said, fine. ill give him a call. called the guy up. guy named lester smith. got on the phone. i told him what i wanted to do and he said to me, okay. he said that sounds like a -- what are you going to do with the million dollars? i said im going to take elvis on tour. and he said to me, well a million dollars is a lo...

Own career, of his own love, which of course was music and film. >> larry: how so, victim, meaning? >> well, he grew up in it. he was a product of the business. and that was his only way of life. he loved it. he, you know, traveled all over before he was even discovered by colonel parker. >> larry: the book is now out in audiotape. "useful stories from a persuasive man." youll see why. ou kay. all right. were at the hotel. >> he has a cowboy hat on and a cigar and takes me up to his room and we ...

Only two requests. i dont care about the money. i dont care about anything. i care about every seat in the building being full. if every seat in the building is full, dont put the big shots in the front rows. first 20 rows, i want my fans. i need them. thats what makes me work. it makes me feel good. it makes me sing better. do those two things for me and the rest of its up to you. you can do whatever you want. >> larry: you remember the ticket prices? >> yeah, $10 tops, $7.50 in the middle, $5 ...

I said -- elvis said sure ill do a matinee. ill do anything. do a morning show. i dont care. fill the seats. i said okay. so i put the matinee on sale. now youve been to miami july 4th. >> larry: i lived there 20 years. >> i know. even the alligators leave on july 4th. >> larry: right. >> nobody hangs around. its humid. its terrible. theres no joe stone crib. theres nothing to do july 4th in miami. >> larry: right. >> everybody leaves. but i had 10,000 seats sold and they told me i could sell a ...

Story behind for my children, my grandchildren, my great grandchildren, and i wanted it in my words and i wanted it to be -- i didnt want anybody else writing it. i wanted to write it. >> larry: on your drivers license it says occupation. >> yeah. >> larry: what are you? >> concierge. well, i get up in the morning. the first 50 e-mails are favors. can you get me, can do you it, can you get me a room in vegas, get my kid into stanford, get me into cedars, into mayo clinic, can you call so and so?...