and listening to bob weir.s coming out here, the whole idea is after the pandemic, they want to feel alive and live music allows them to do that. nestled in a green hillside west of denver, where geological phenomena have stood for eons, the sound of music -- ♪ live music. it's once again emanating from the red rock's amphitheater. >> it's just a magical place to be. red rocks in general. >> reporter: dead heads pour in to do something they haven't been able to do in more than a year. >> it makes me heart so full and happy. awesome. >> reporter: enjoy the music of one of the grateful dead's greats. bob weir and the wolf brothers. this is their first concert since the world screeched to a halt. >> most of us have spent most of the year and a half kind of cooped up. >> reporter: but these fans are trucking out of the pandemic. ♪ no masks. colorado's governor dropped the mask mandate for the vaccinated in may. no covid testing for guests. social distancing only encouraged. instead, lots of singing along and dancin

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bob weir is joining us about this, and now, what exactly is this project and what does it entail?entailing three drilling pads in the willow area in what is set aside in the national petroleum reserve. it is what you have seen as the stark arctic b-roll that we have been showing up there which does not show the full environmental special nature here. it was set up in the' 20s when the navy was trying to get off of coal, and it stayed wilderness for a long time, and these are the shots when it went to the national wildlife reserve next door which is another point of political fighting which the nationalal conservationists began to fight and won. and if it is called a cons conservationist land, it is easier to preserve than something called a petroleum reserve. so they tried to wall it off from drilling, but joe biden said that i will not drill on federal lands, period, period, period. and so for all of the climate-minded and environmental voters, they are devastated, because it is not just about the caribou or the other animals up there, but it is about the predictive things that w

. >>> bob weir says it looks like rain, thundershowers, and storms in the forecast. some wind, lots of lightning likely. maybe some baseball games in the way of some of these lightning strikes as well. this weather is brought to you by carvana, the new way to buy a car. let's go hour by hour. we're going to see the potential for severe weather across the east coast. look at what the radar is going to do this afternoon. it's going to get warm. in some spots it's going to get hot. and then we're going to have these big cell thunderstorms. some may rotate. there's not a zero percent chance of a tornado. there's some chance, not a big one. the big threat really will be the wind and the hail and the lightning. we'll see that go by for tomorrow and light rain by the end of all this. one to two inches. the big story is how much rain we'll get across the gulf coast. temperatures begin to heat up. john. >> all right. chad myers, thank you very much. brianna? >>> the first face-to-face meeting between president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin is set to take plac

in the words of bob weir it will be a timeless moment. ♪ >> it's more than overwhelming.ve ever done. >> for the first 30 years of our bandness our togetherness we influenced huge amounts of people. basically, we were a cultural revolution. society had never seen anything like the grateful dead before. >> there's a little bit of jazz a little bit of southern rock and psychodelic rock and blues. it's the great american song. >> we came up with our own book of standards. really it's just music and that's sort of the magic of american music to begin with is the blending of music from different continents coming together. >> we are the music. and our personalities as such really ceased to exist at all. we've been so zoomed into the greatest personality of the group mind. >> it's a feeling and what you get from that feeling and what you do with that feeling. it's not just playing music and clapping and having a good time. but it makes you feel a certain kind of love. >> and that rainbow people talked about in california at the end of the first set of the first show, i mean tha

had just seen concerts by 77-year-old john anderson of yes, dead and company led by 74-year-old bob weircnn.com piece this summer marks the twilight of classic rock. few of the ageing rockers have new material. there's rarely a new album. and still they tour. which is why i would add to that list donald trump at age 76 currently on his own greatest hits tour. see it this way, trump walked out on stage, he nodded and pointed at a crowd whose hands and cell phones were raised high. what does that look like? like classic rock fans. this audience came for the trump experience. they're ready for in his case not the songs but the one liners and the excitement. it was billed as a policy speech, something that is not his forte. on the topic of crime. but you can see him read the room and feed off the crowd. when the crowd is bored, he gets bored. what does he do, he throws something else into the mix. he goes off script to keep them enthused. and he did so with a rant on transgender athletes that had nothing to do with crime. the crowd went wild. say what you will about him, he knows how to read

yes, we have bob weir, bill kreitz man and mickey heart. just absolutely fantastic.ight. oh, my god, what a show. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm in a crowd here to the back row. it was absolutely awesome. it was so much fun that even steve was smiling because steve, he always had the worst -- >> so, andy, if you were me, how would you get the mic away from bill walton? >> i know. you just got to take it, man. it's like a river of words. >> you just have to take it. >> especially with steve -- >> back to you guys. >> hey, bill, get me some shirts and stickers. it's shakedown, okay? you know when you're at a dead show and bill walton pops up in the middle of the floor, oh, man. he goes to almost every show. he'll be there, there he is in the middle like a beacon of light shining in there. everybody is so happy to see him. such a cool guy. such a great representative of the band. i cannot wait to see don lemon and brooke baldwin. they're in nashville? >> they've taking it national. they're taking it across the country. >> they're going to be live inside "the brady bunch

we'll talk about this next as we get bob's sig snal established. bill weir will show us.ve it or not, is seaweed. let's take a look. >> reporter: to avoid cascading disaster, science agrees it won't be enough just to stop using fossil fuels, humanity must remove trillions of tons of planet-cooking pollution already in our seas and sky. and whoever figures out how to do that, might get $100 million from elon musk. >> some people say just plant a bunch of trees. that's not so easy. fertilizer, you have to water them. where is the water go into come from? what habitat are you potentially destroying. >> reporter: the controversial billionaire says he wants to lure out geniuses who will figure out how to capture and store carbon dioxide on massive scales. >> it's a godzilla. it's burning forests down, stealing our fish. >> reporter: among the finalists is a humble fisherman from maine. >> there's this thing out there ruining everything that we love. all the good stuff is getting ruined. >> your dream was to have a boat? >> i just wanted a boat. i really wanted a boat. there ar

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weir. let's discuss with bob henson, a meteorologist. hi, bob. how much is the sea level rise around new york likely to create more severe weather emergencies in the coming years? >> well, sea level rise is certainly a problem not only in new york city but along the whole east coast and the gulf coast. sea level is rising on the west coast as well, obviously. but there are features in the ocean that are making sea level rise for of a problem on the gulf and atlantic coast. that extends all up and down the coast, not only because of the skyscraper problem you have been hearing about, but water is being withdrawn from ground level. so the land is simply sinking vuas a result of that. the land is sinking and sea level rising. we are going to see many more days of what we call sunny day flooding where, you know, you might just have nice weather. but the astronomical tides get worse and worse and you see a real and serious concern. >> i want to ask you about a different kind of climate issue. smoke from wild fires burning in western canada is beginnin

but as bob says -- ♪ for the times they are a changin' ♪ >> reporter: bill weir, cnn, new york. >> benn film "jimmy carter: rock 'n' roll president" at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on cnn. follow me on cnn @skraktapper. tune in to cnn tonight to say good-bye, perhaps good riddance to 2020. live new year's eve coverage hosted by anderson cooper and andy cohen kiks o kicks off at p.m. pattie labelle, snoop dogg, carol baskin of "tiger king" fame, and jbj himself, jon bon jovi. democratic georgia senate candidate john osoff, ohio governor mike dewine, gubernatorial kabd date stacey abrams and dr. jerome adams 9:00 a.m. and noon eastern on sunday. see new 2021. god i hope it's a better year for you. our coverage continues right now. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jichl acosta. this is a cnn situation room special report. the u.s. coronavirus death toll has topped 344,000 people and the country is on the verge of 20 million confirmed cases, the same number of vaccines the trump administration said it planned to administ

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bob mcmcdonald. i am eager to hear what he has to say about all of these matters. bill weir is standing by in hawaii as we unpack that devastation. also, a top american pastor who says that teachings of jesus are apparently too woke, yes, you heard me say that, for trump supporting evangelicals. and the riverboat captain in that alabama brawl is speaking out for the first time right here tonight. by the way, if you haven't noticed, it is the summer of women from the beehive to "barbie" and the swifties. but first, everyone, look, jack smith has already made his new year's plans. it's not going to be swinging sweet caroline. he will be getting ready for trial. his office is now declaring that they want to see the election enteri case on january 2nd. that date, if you look at the calendar, might seem glare ringly obvious. it's a few days before the third anniversary of the attack on the capitol and, yes, less than two weeks before the iowa caucus. and also, of course, the day after new year's day. so he, obviously, came to play. it's also very legal and public clashes as well

weir, i know you're getting there soon, keep us updated. and thank you so much for joining us tonight. cnn prime time with abby phillip starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ is bobd as a national security threat? and where are the democrats on whether remaining in his position should even be tolerated? two essential questions tonight, as menendez remains defiant in the face of a damning indictment. good evening, everyone, i'm abby philip. and among the charges that the democrat is accused of using his power to get sensitive information about american diplomats oversee. information that eventually made its way to a foreign government. and while he is temporarily stepping down from being the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, he is still privy to classified information. now, the governor of his state suggested those allegations alone make him compromised. and one of menendez's democratic colleagues went even farther. >> does it sound like espionage from your perspective? >> as a former intel officer, we collected information and we paid people for that information. so in the simplest of terms, yes. from a legal standpoint, i'll defer to the doj on

weir just joins me. >> great to be with you, my friend. >> here's our starting line. president trump's escalating feud with the top republican takes another nasty turn after repeated attacks from mr. trump, senator bob corker said the president is treating the white house like a "reality show" and that the president's threats could put the nation "on the path to world war ii." they are threatening to denounce the president's hardline measures. >>> vice president mike pence's walkout of an nfl game after players kneeled is asking how much did this p.r. stunt cost tax payers. >>> one week after the deadliest mass shooting investigators are still stumped on the killer's motive. could a deposition from a lawsuit four years ago provide any clues at all? we have the hraelas vegas kille his own words. an all-star celebrity panel. but let's start with the latest on the bob corker rift with low johns. >> reporter: the president of the united states and a republican senator seemed to lay bear the long simmering tensions between the president and the very congress he will need to get his agenda through capitol hill. in a scathingry teak, senator bob corker telling the new york sometimes that president trump's

bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. >>> the fabulous johnny weir at the winter olympics but still putting on quite a show in sochi with his attire. look at the outfits. leather leggings. hot pink jacket. he wears braids sometimes. broachs and wear this on television as an nbc analyst. johnny weir refused to call for a boycott of the olympics over russia's anti-gay laws. he explained why in an interview with keith olberman. >> it's a slap in the face to people who made me who i am. before a gay man, before a white man, i'm an olympian. a boycott would negate all that. we have to be here. we have to show putin what we're about. my opinion being gay while i'm over the top and i'm a fob laws skater at the end of the day i'm a person. that's all i want to be a normal equal part of society >> he said that in his russian military outfit. that interview upset some gay rights activist saying johnny weir is only concerned about johnny weir about his own am big. others say his flambouyance is critical in itself. >>> welcome, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> glad y