Manhunt for Van Driver in Barcelona Attack; Remembering Jerry Lewis
ROMANS: An international manhunt is underway for the driver of a van who ran over and killed 13 people in Barcelona last week.</s>ROMANS: Police now pouring over the wreckage from a suspected bomb factory for any clues about the terror cell behind this attack and they're looking for this man, 22-year-old Moroccan national, Younes Abouyaaqoub. The interior ministry of Catalan confirming over night, he is that man right there, is the suspected driver. Again, he is on the loose.</s>ROMANS: CNN's Isa Soares joins us live from Barcelona. Bring us up to speed, Isa.</s>ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Very good morning to you, Christine. That's right, in the last few hours, the Catalan interior ministry confirming to CNN that the man on the run is Younes Abouyaaqoub. He is 22-years of old -- of age, considered to be from Morocco, Moroccan national. He's was -- he's the man behind the white van that, Christine, that plowed into Plaza Catalunya where we are and killed more than 14 people and continued on to Las Ramblas, plowing people down. Police tightening the net on him, saying they are looking for him, they have reinforced the border with France. But they also cannot say whether perhaps he's already escaped into France, so a lot of attention looking into his whereabouts. But also, police circling one man in particular, and that is an Imam -- an Imam from Ripoll. Ripoll is just north here of Barcelona. The city has eight of the 12 suspected attackers. And now they want to know whether he, the Imam, was a suspected ringleader. Christine.</s>ROMANS: Interesting, all right, trying to piece all of that together for us this morning. Isa Soares in Barcelona, thank you, Isa.</s>BRIGGS: The world of showbiz and the nation mourning the death of Jerry Lewis this morning. Lewis best known for Slapstick comedy and his commitment to fund rising as a telethon host for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He died Sunday after a brief illness at 91. CNN's Stephanie Elam takes a look back at his life and legendary career.</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He was born Joseph Levitch in 1926 but he became known to the world as Jerry Lewis, the zany but lovable fool in film such as The Bell Boy and The Nutty Professor. Lewis hit it big at age 20 when he teamed up with another young entertainer, Dean Martin.</s>JERRY LEWIS, LEGENDARY COMEDIAN: Dean was the virile, macho, and I was the monkey. And I knew we had lightning in a barrel.</s>ELAM: Martin and Lewis became one of the most popular comedy teams in history. Thousands of sold-out performances, 16 hit movies, and dozens of radio and TV appearances. On his own, Lewis signed a seven-year, $10 million contract with Paramount in 1959. At that time, it was the largest contract ever between a studio and performer. Lewis went on to act in or direct shows and movies for several decades. He later offered this advice to fellow entertainers.</s>LEWIS: Be a hit, score. Get the audience laughing and happy. That's the secret of success in this business.</s>ELAM: He didn't just make audiences laugh. Lewis used his fame to make a difference, taking up the fight against muscular dystrophy. For more than four decades, his annual Labor Day telethons helped raise more than $1 billion for research and treatment and almost always ended with his signature song, You'll Never Walk Alone.</s>LEWIS: Walk alone with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone</s>ELAM: Lewis struggled with his own health problems over the years including prostate cancer, type-one diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis, and heart disease.</s>LEWIS: It's been a long, long, grueling ride. I've ingested more than 24,000 pills.</s>ELAM: But through it all, he kept his sense of humor.</s>LEWIS: You better laugh at it because the alternative is not funny.</s>BRIGGS: Good stuff. He raised more than a billion dollars for muscular dystrophy.</s>ROMANS: Unbelievable, yes.</s>BRIGGS: It's unreal. What a legacy it is.</s>ROMANS: All right, so will the weather cooperate today for a little tiny event you've never heard off, being called the eclipse of the century. It's a very big day, guys. Let's get to our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri.</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Dave and Christine, the big day here. And we're watching the forecast very carefully because very easy to see what's going on here, at least across the northwestern corner of the country, Oregon, Idaho into Wyoming, generally clear skies, some wildfires across the region but making it pretty hazy across the region. So incredibly that ash could enhance some of the colors when it comes to approaching totality in the last few minutes before the sun is completely obscured for those couple of minutes. That notice around the central portion of the country, plenty of cloud cover, some storms, some of which that could be severe. And then once again toward the southeast, namely around, say, portions of South Carolina, around Charleston, also looking at some cloud cover. Maybe 80 percent of the sky could be covered by clouds across Charleston, still watching that very carefully, as well. It's really interesting to think about the light and the complete totality because if you think, say, you're in an area that have 95 percent, 96 percent, 97 percent of coverage of the sun, it's going to get pretty dark, and really not so the case. In fact, even at 99 percent, it is still about 10,000 times brighter than once the sun is completely covered at 100 percent. Really an analogy to use here is to think about say, a hotel with a blackout curtain. If a little bit that curtain is open, you're going to let a tremendous amount of light in. But once you cover it completely, it gets dark, that could be the case across some of these areas with the 100 percent totality guys.</s>ROMANS: Wow. You can see the planets in the middle of the day.</s>BRIGGS: It's 2:45 Eastern Time, I think we peek.</s>ROMANS: Yes.</s>BRIGGS: Time to go a little after 10 for those...</s>ROMANS: And I think it's like 71 percent eclipse. So I'm trying to figure out where to take the kids.</s>BRIGGS: Take them to just Oregon. You can make it there in the net couple of hours.</s>ROMANS: Too Late. Too Late.</s>BRIGGS: All right, some breaking news this morning, ten sailors missing in the Pacific after a U.S. Navy destroyer collides with an oil tanker. We'll have the latest on the search on EARLY START.