only the second city in the world to welcome the latest installment along with new york's radio city music hall the largest show cirque du soleil has ever traveled with. cost fifty seventy then use dollars to produce people. from all over the country flock to the very heart of russia's capital to enjoy the fairy tale spirit that canadian company has brought about. craig great to have you here thank you for coming by well first of all is it true did did did do you believe that dot com is the greatest show that sort of this they ever had then what makes it unique what should we expect what surprises i think why it's a great show here is because of the venue there's a venue because the venue so there was a guy then you know happening in the inside the kremlin well everything happiness on the ground kremlin is a great show. really right but i think the combination of the show which is a fifty seven million dollars production seventy five artists one hundred people backstage and eight hundred people working the whole the whole kremlin combined with that theater which is the biggest leader in europe

she actual will had a performance also scheduled tonight for radio city music hall.eport, that performance is still on. die ann? >> thanks for the clarification. >>> and back here in the bay area, in case you haven't heard yet, which seems almost impossible, the bay bridge is closed westbound this weekend. and there's word tonight that the caltrans crews are running slightly ahead of schedule. the closure is creating all kinds of issues for people trying to get into or out of the city. here's a look at current road conditions. you can see other bay area bridges are seeing a back-up right now. the golden gate bridge is the worst with bumper-to-bumper traffic into the city. and there's yellow and rid on the richmond san rafael bridge and the san mateo bridge. as far as the golden gate bridge, we've got the live pictures on the toll plaza, traffic opens up with all available toll booths open right now and the bridge is letting four lanes into the city, still,is's it's bumper to bumper into marin. crews started demolishing old parts of the bay area bridge. >> we've got s

draftees get together for the draft april 26th through 28th right here in new york city at radio city music hallg up at the top of the hour on "morning joe", united states ambassador to afghanistan says now is not the time to leave the fight in afghanistan despite another day of deadly attacks and protests. what are the options for the white house and united states military? we'll discuss that with our crew. >>> when we come back here, much, much. much lighter fare as we huddle around the water cooler. is sacha baron cohen makes his mark on the oscar red carpet, covering ryan seacrest in a dictator's ashes. ♪ we were skipping stones and letting go ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, rich dark chocolate, toasted oats. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. >>> despite apologies from president obama and united states military leaders about the koran burnings last week at a u.s. base in afghanistan, anti-american protests continue to rage. president obama has come under fire by his republ

his most famous job was designing the heating system for radio city music hall and rockefeller center in new york. crossway owe rostwahl holds 39 patents. log on to wusa9.com for moments in black history. >>> 4:56. we're cloudy this morning. some snow is on the way. we'll see it north and west midday and here early afternoon pushing toward the metro. temperatures slowly falling to the mid-30s by 6:00. looks like roads in the metro will stay just wet. more details coming up during 9news now at 5:00. monika samtani is in and all sorts of trouble at 5:00 a.m. >>> we have a live picture of one of the trouble spots. on new york avenue a tractor- trailer and two vehicles involved inbound new york avenue. it's shut down. use bladensburg road or montana avenue instead. i'll have more details at 5:00. >>> madonna's planning to pack more stadiums. >> chris brown is making a grammys comeback. we have those stories and more in this look at entertainment. >> reporter: the material girl is planning more stadium shows on her upcoming world tour. madonna rocked the lucas oil stadium in indianapolis d

aretha franklin paid tribute to whitney houston at radio city music hall last night.ranklin sang part of "i will always love you" and said houston was "a very fine young lady." earlier in the day franklin cited leg spasms that made her too ill to perform at the funeral. >>> a funeral today for a woman shot and killed by a culpepper county police officer earlier this month. 54-year-old patricia cook was killed after getting into a confrontation with the officer in a church parking lot on northeast street. the officer shot kick after she allegedly rolled up her car window on his arm and started to drive. a witness told news 4, though, that cook never drove off. virginia state police are investigating. >>> two people were injured in a house fire in prince george's county today. it broke out about 8:00 along beaumont street in temple hills. firefighters say both victims should be okay. the family that lived in that house, though, will have to find somewhere else to sleep tonight. investigators are trying to figure out what started that fire. >>> a day of skiing ended in t

whitney presented me with the songwriter's hall of fame at the radio city music hall a few years laterwere as i said, worked with frank sinatra, you've worked with some of the greats in the history of music. what did she have? tell me about her voice. >> she has -- i guess it's in the dna. because dionne warwick her aunt and her mother cissy, we used to work together all the time. therapy both great singers. what we call "it." >> can you define it? just the voice? >> i'm hearing voices in the back. >> so am i. >>ist just the voice. talk more about the voice and what you do with a gift like that when you have it. >> when you have it, it's like god left his hand on your shoulder longer than anybody else. you have something that comes from deep down and it's a combination of amazing emotion, but also the instrument that can deliver that emotion. because it has to be the transportation for the emotion. whitney had that at a very young age. i met michael at 12, i met aretha at 12. i met stevie wonder at 12. they had it then at 12 years owed. whitney, i think, she had the same. >> why is it

we are going to pack radio city music hall with the first annual happiness summit.ness go together with intimacy and relationships? i've learned more than anything else as i've traveled through my life in medicine that is where people need the most. a lot of folks can't come to the summit. we'll do them all over the country. today you can sign up for the event, we'll give you a ton of information from the summit. there are seven steps to win the million bucks. one of them is about relationships. it's about the fact that we crave that from each other and without that we can't have health and happiness. for all the financial guys out there if you don't have wealth you can't have health but the opposite is true, too. if you aren't healthy you can't be wealthy. >> let's talk about marriage relationships. we know emotionally we feel better in a happy marriage. but is there any evidence we are healthier people? >> there is tons of evidence. there is a marriage advantage without any question. when a man and a woman hold hands the stress hormones within a female's brain dro

radio station. it broad kcasts out of the city hall. it's a low powered fm station, programming local news, talk and music, reaches three miles from benton the license is held by the city of benton harbor, has been a decade. an excellent feature, "though he has been stripped of official authority, commissioner dennis noles hosts a road yo broadcast from a studio in the basement of city hall, like how to deal with a new state law that limits life time welfare benefits to four years. you may want to get in growing your own food because it will get to that point." you can tune in reverend jesse jackson. benton harbor's radio station has been the voice of benton harbor, not much of course but it's still coming to you live and local and real. now here is another picture of benton harbor's radio station. on ebay. benton harbor's emergency guy closed the town's radio station and auctioning the stuff on ebay. fm low power license, broadcast transmitter, broadcasting equipment, bidding starts at $5000. no takers so far, not a single bid. this is the second time he posted it on ebay. first auction timed out with no takers, three mikes, transmitter

radio station up for sale, microphones, cd players, the license. everything. all for $5,000, cords included. it's wbhc, bh for benton harbor, 96.5 f.m., formerly broadcast from the basement of benton harbor city hall with musiclk from benton harbor elected officials. they had been stripped of all their power of elected officials but at least they had one voice, right? now it has been shut down, too. emergency manager put it up on ebay, exercising absolute personal unelected control. over the weekend on ebay there were three bids for wbhc. the initial asking price was $5,000. there was that and a bid for $5,100 and $5,200 and then the listing disappeared. federal law says you can't sell a radio station licensed the way benton harbor state-appointed overseer was trying ing ting i. this was against the law, this listing. the fcc has to approve the selling of a radio station. the emergency manager still thinks he's selling the town's radio station. it can only go to a nonprofit or local government under the rules. the local government and emergency manager guy is himself a one-man local government. we heard from public radio capital last week which said they want to find a benton harbor nonprofit and help that n

city hall this tuesday. a sing along of the famed tune is planned and the music will burglary on public address systems. city officials have also asked all san francisco area radiotuesday. before coming to san francisco, tony ben set set to perform at tomorrow's grammy awards. bennett perform at the first grammys back in 1959. the 85-year-old will be singing a duet with former "american idol" contestant carrie underwood. they will also present the award for best new artist. >>> today the girl scouts every northern california are going to be kicking off cookie season. it's the 100th anniversary of the girl scout cookie season, and to celebrate 90,000 boxes of cookies will be distributed today. they go on sale on monday officially. >> love those tang-alongs! put them in the freezer! let's check in with rosemary and i know you like the cookies too! >> absolutely! have to have at least a few boxes stored away. giving you a view of what is going on here this morning. a little bit of light rain falling. if you're going to be out early, maybe a ball cap or something to protect your head. hit or miss showers. mostly cloudy skies, partial clearing by noontime, and then f