for you. good morning to you, welcome to early start on this monday morning. i m zoraida sambolin. and i m ashlee. it s the kind of heat that makes it hard to breathe and it is still threatening millions of americans all the way from the midwest to the northeast this morning. about 16 people have now died from this heat since thursday when triple-digit temperatures unleashed killer storms that have now left millions of people without power this morning. it s incredible, but look how many states are now dealing with miserable conditions in ohio, 425,000 people are now without power. that s as of 10:00 p.m. last night. it s the same story in virginia and maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are just waiting for the power to come back on. just a whiff of ac in these extraordinary temperatures. the problem there doesn t seem to be much of a let-up in sight. 20 states are under heat advisory warnings. and now a state of emergency has been declared by the gove
i can drive you. i feel fine. as racy as ever. i don t think you can say this on prime-time cnn. we re just going to have to have a sort of slew of bleeps. let me apologize. tonight, the one thing you never thought you d see him go. she said, you okay with talking about it? i said sure. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight. oliver stone. on his first oscar more than 30 years ago for midnight express. churning out hits ever since. platoon. born on the fourth of july. jfk. and wall street. opinionated on everything. i m pretty sure he ll have some tough answers. oliver stone. hello, piers. welcome. i m very excited. i ve been a huge fan of yours for a long time. i don t normally say that. it s a very american thing to say that. we re british. we tend to hide our feelings. i love the provocative undercurrent towards them. i love the fact you in your own life are as provocative. you don t really take prisoners, do you?
good morning and welcome to this friday edition of early start nice to have you with us. we re bringing you the news, 5:00 a.m. in the east. so let s get started. up first, renewing the war with just about four months until election day, republicans with a rallying point. they are promise to go do what the supreme court did not do, toss in the trash the health care reform law. sarah palin with a bit of sar kachl even thanked the supreme court in a facebook post. here it is. thank you, scotus. this obama care ruling fires up the troops as america s eyes are opened. thank god. joe johns will join us so that we can chat about this a little bit. joe, are you there? we ll get him a little later and talk about what this this means politically moving forward. and in the meantime, let s do this, shall we, because what a day it was. if you had your tv news set on, it was a whiplash because another war has been renewed with just four months until election day. republicans are reall
a 5-4 decision in the end, it was john roberts, the chief justice appointed by president bush who saved the health care law. senator obama voted against roberts confirmation in 2005. roberts went against his four conservative justices ruling that the individual mandate, which requires people to buy health insurance was a tax, not a penalty that falls under the congressional power to levy taxes. a harsh oped said the remarkable decision upholding the affordable care act is shot through with confusion. the mandate that s really a tax except when it isn t and the government whose powers are limit except when they aren t. one thing is clear, this was a one man show and that man was john roberts. our senior legal analyst jeff toobin joins us now. he was in the courtroom when the decision was announced. was it chaotic? it was the opposite of chaotic, soledad. i ve been privileged to cover a lot of news events and i have never been in a room like that, there were not air molecules
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