starring bob weir. a founding member of the grateful dead, weir has been a long strange trip his entire life. >> it started in his teens when he left california for life on a ranch. weir has gone back to those times for his album "blue mountain." you'll see him perform at the king's theater in a moment but, first, here is anthony mason's conversation with him. >> reporter: bob weir's new album of cowboy songs is his first solo record of original material in 30 years. but the roots of his new music go back even further, before his time as a founding member of the grateful dead to the early 1960s when weir had a teenage dream of finding a home on the range. >> i thought it would be a terribly romantic thing to do to which di. >> reporter: you were 15 ? >> i found my way to wyoming and living on a ranch out there and living in a bunk house. i was the kid on the ranch so i got to shovel a lot of stalls. >> reporter: the nights, he says, were long and quiet. >> there wasn't -- wasn't much to do but tell stori

i had a chance to ask bob weir why did they lower the prices? >> what we're trying to do is build an audience and one way to do that is lower your ticket prices. >> reporter: with the economy the way it is, is that a reaction to that as well? >> well it seems to fit. it sometimes make sense in this economy. you know, we don't need to be slamming people. >> reporter: did you and phil promise not to break any speakers own any strings to keep the cost down of the tour? >> you know, we've gotten -- we've gotten real good about that. >> reporter: yeah? >> i don't break near as much stuff as i used to. >> reporter: i also had a chance to play a few bars with bob weir, if they have that tape. it was one of the things i wanted to do for a while. ♪ ♪ bob weir was gracious enough to oblige me in one of the things they wanted to do. in fact, guys, concerts have been one of the bright spots in the economy according to "billboard" magazine ticket sales were up in 2009 to $4.4 billion. winter tour for which tickets it range from -- $70 but mostly sold out. we

>> reporter: with grateful dead co-founder bob weir and his band wolf bros. a combination more than a decade in the make ing where grateful dead classics -- ♪ -- are reimagined as classical music. in preparation weir and his core band don was, jay lane and jeff kamedy, spent weeks rehearsing in california. who's going to be more intimidated going into this thing, the band or the symphony orchestra? >> that's an excellent question. i don't know. i'm not sure that the orchestral players know what they're walking into. boy, this is going to be interesting. ♪ >> reporter: and so it was. four nights the audience was on its feet. to the consternation of ushers unfamiliar with jam band etiquette. ♪ a triumph for orchestra and band. >> i think it's probably going to go on for the rest of my lifetime. >> reporter: and it was a triumph for the music professor who brought cultur and counterculture together. giancarlo aquilan tachlt e, an italian composer at stanford university, had never paid much attention to the grateful dead before meeting bob weir in 2009. but worki

composer at stanford university had never paid much attention to the grateful dead before meeting bob weirr, he is now as dedicated to the music as any dead head. >> the music of the grateful dead, there's so much material that somehow once you get into it, when you get deeper into that understanding how they work musically, counterpoint, harmony, rhythm, i found it translated into the orchestra in a very natural way. it feels like it's faster than usual. might be too much coffee for me. >> we can slow it down. i have nothing against that. >> reporter: aquilanti studied the improv that was part of every grateful dead show. he saw the influence of weir's partner jerry garcia. >> the grateful dead, he sang his songs. you now sing his songs. >> i can't sing them his way. i'm not going to try. those songs need to live. they need to live and breathe and grow. a song is a living critter. if i may wax, the characters in the songs are real. they live in some other world. they come and visit us through the musicians, the artists who have dedicated their lives to being that medium and inviting those

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

. >> that's from a conversation i had earlier this week with bob weir, former get tuitarist with grateful dead. for their summer tour, because of the economy, all tickets will be around $40. >> fabulous. >> further. >> you play with -- look at that. that's amazing. and for those of you who didn't know, steve plays a mean, mean guitar. you can see the rest 0 the interview -- >> and he's crazy about the grateful dead. >> he is. we'll bring you that interview about the dead and their business and all of that stuff. nice interview with bob weir, who was gracious with us. >> "street signs" comes up next. >>> it is 2:00 on wall street. stocks are down, nearly triple digits. well off the lows of the session. jobless claims, the reason for the fall. we've got ten sectors in the market lower. still all 30 dow stocks in the red. we're having a bit of a comeback. we'll be tracking it. meantime, we're facing a snowicane. record snow hurting american's economy fower homes sold. it matters to our bottom line. >>> in washington, it's sunny there, snowing here. health care summit in full swing literally

bob weir's guitars, ron mckerr none's piano, jerry garcia's amp and components of the band's famous walld. >> which was the grateful dead absolutely historic and majestic life touring rig that weighed tons that was how they could reach out clean sound in the audience. >> the auction attracted dead head his around the world, giving thousands of dollars in biddings, hoping to get a piece of the grateful dead's long strange trip. >> thanks to joe frooir,iar. we got some right there. >> what i did always know is >> what i did always know is they have the most devoted fans metastat ic brcancer is relentless, >> what i did always know is they have the most devoted fans but i'm relentless every day. and having more days is possible with verzenio, proven to help you live significantly longer when taken with fulvestrant. verzenio + fulvestrant is for women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer that has progressed after hormone therapy. diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection. at the first sign, call your doctor, start an anti-diarrheal, and drink fluids. before tak

bob weir, carlos santana, muhammad ali, timothy leary, janis joplin, eldridge cleaver, allen ginsburg- well, we don't know who the photographer was. that's a mystery. the photographs were abandoned along with thousands more in unprocessed rolls, their secrets wrapped tight in dark key cases. bay area photographer bill delzell is raising money to develop the remaining pictures and find the photographer. photography allows us to enter a captured moment. we flirt with time travel. our imagination enlivens. what happened to that bubble-blowing boy? what were these guys looking at? what song were these women dancing to? was that afternoon on the fire escape the one that changed everything for one of those on it? the mystery of the photographer pulls us in more. a young woman exercising the new freedom of the age. a young man who went to war and never returned. for many of the subjects, this period was a phase. was that true for the photographer? did they put down the camera and become a banker? these lost frames remind us that we all leave traces. moments, passions, visions, pieces of time

i played the weir part in all of the stuff that i do but there was bob weir doing the weir part so i was forced to take the jerry part, playing a cool gibson guitar. >> you didn't bring us a picture? >> you know, i didn't think about it. >> we had a picture from harwood with black eyed peas. >> i just want everybody to see how much cooler everybody is than they think. >> here is news that wasn't revealed. i talked about selling his songs to commercials and he said he was not opposed to it. what do you think would be the one product that might approach bob weir? >> he's got some good hair. >> it's not hair. relative to a song. a fairly popular song for the dead in the '70s. >> sing it. >> i don't like any of the popular songs. >> okay. anyway. this was miracle whip approached bob weir. >> miracle whip? >> to use the song "i need a miracle." true story. right from the guy's mouth u we'll try to bring you this. because of the olympics also we'll bring you this stuff next week but his thoughts about wall street, joe, and making money and all of that stuff. i know we got to break. >> we d

on the road last year, bob weir had a dome that persuaded him the dead's long strange trip has a long to go. >> what did you see in that dream? >> we were on stage. suddenly i found myself like 20 feet behind my own head looking at myself playing, then i look over, his hair is grey it's 20 years later, i look back at myself there's somebody with brown hair in late 50s. >> it's not new. >> this is the music going on. >> how did it feel? >> it felt altogether right and felt logical. okay, that's what i've been up to all my life. >> osgood: ahead. i use what's already inside me to reach my goals. so i liked when my doctor told me that i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin. it helps activate my body to do what it's supposed to do release its own insulin. trulicity responds when my blood sugar rises. i take it once a week, and it works 24/7. it comes in an easy-to-use pen and i may even lose a little weight. trulicity is a once-weekly injectable prescription medicine to improve blood sugar in adults with

get way from this balances out he is in san francisco for seven years, struck up a friendship with bob weir. >> he asked if i'd sing the anthem, i did that and he said i'd like to be a part of something. >> then, brian stow was attacked at a dodgers game. >> all of that was changed that day. and it affected all of us and our city. >> this is the result. >> i play music because it makes me feel good. we can make other people feel better. >> they organized concerts and they raised $60,000 and produced a dvd that goes on sale tuesday tim says what happened gave him pause and brought him closer to his family. >> my little brother sings oper na. three languages. in our house in thanksgiving there is a four hour set and dinner in between. >> that dvd will sell for $20. >> that is fun. >> yes. >> and let's hope this pulls in a lot of money. >> there is pleasant weather continuing. it's pleasant and tomorrow, sunny skies, high temperatures inland into low to mid-80s and 70s to low 80s around the bay. there is a bit of a cooling trend through mid week and there are temperatures rebound by sunday, mo

bob weir and three other original band concerts were joined by replacements for the jerry garcia role. >>> an event that takes months to plan, more than 1000 volunteers to ordinate, and a lot of competitive spirit. 650 athletes to part in special olympics competition in davis today.'s allie rasmus shares the story of a mother and dad competing together.>> reporter: athletes take the field. they have practiced every week, and this is the moment they have been waiting for.>> i can do it. >> reporter: dough hargis from napa has been competing for 20 years. >> i do bocci, bowling, i do something all the time. i love to have fun. >> reporter: in the stands for number one fan, a fellow athlete and competitor who also happens to be her daughter. two generations making the games a family tradition. kelly hargis walked away with a gold medal in the hundred yard dash. from bocce ball to shotput, even if the athletes don't go home with a metal, they all walk away with a lot of confidence. >> a lot of these people if it weren't for specially fix -- special olympics wouldn't have a reason to leave

. >> bob weir and hall of famer bill walton and brought the first pitch. four and struck out eight. brandon had three hits for the giants. hunters spence walked three times as stole two bases. sergio pigeonite inning. the giants won. they're still 12 games a bind. >> still ahead of the kron 4 morning news a 7:00 a.m.. three people have been killed at town hall meeting in pennsylvania. >> a price cut for and all the electric vehicle. if you thought about buying one. this is the crown. >> we're also watching a hot spot on the bay bridge. george will give us a full detail coming up. and >>james:good morning, top stories were following this tuesday august 6th. the bay area could have another strike on its hands. a-c transit workers have voted to strike. details on how it could affect your commute come tomorrow.

people who dream of seeing their name in lights, most don't share a a marquis with tim plannery or bob weir of the. benefit concert for bryan stow puts the giants fan center stage, though he is unable to be here. stow was brutally beaten at an away game against the dodgers last march. he is still undergoing rehabilitation. tonight's goal is to raise money and awareness. >> you can love sports all you want without hating the other team. >> reporter: mother and sister say bryan is and ware of all the attention and they are are overwhelmed by it. >> you know, to see so many people still come out for bryan, it's amazing. >> reporter: the line to attend tonight's benefit wrapped around the block. >> he is a giant's fan like i am. >> reporter: promoters hoped to raise $75,000 with auction item like autographed guitars from the stones, springsteen and santana and giant's memorabilia. >> pretty much bidding on a lot of it. >> reporter: the benefit isn't just about money, but a reminder that some things are priceless. >> the only way to beat heat is to love harder and love more. ♪[ music ] >> report

the lineup is bob weir of the grateful dead. and john fogarty. they hope that the four-day affair will be an uplifting moment in the wake of the violence two weeks ago in charlottesville. [singing] alison: take a look at this. this is not the typical police dash cam video story. this is an officer out in minnesota. who saw millie dancing in the parking lot of her apartment building, so the officer turned up the music and joined her. it was posted on facebook. he has gained internet fame as the dancing queen. >> i don't know. i was just amazed. i was shocked. then they get going further drew attention that i am able to do this. that is what i do. alison: for why she was there dancing by herself? she says sometimes you just need to dance. larry: i like that. alison: i know! larry: dance lake nobody's watching. >> exactly. now she has a new friend. larry: now we're all watching. [laughter] sorry! that's the way it works. alison: let's get a check on the weather. it is cooling down a little bit. steve: absolutely! it is looking so nice out there now.

again, there's bob weir. metallica is up next. can continue to abc7 news.com or through the abc7 news app. >>> new details on the destructive tubs fire, the con kel reporting tonight the blaze might have have been caused by mechanical equipment of another company. the utility company didn't provide any other evidence for that claim. cal fire is investigating the possible role that downed electrical wires had in starting those deadly fires. officials in napa and sonoma counties are reporting no run-off problems from the rain that passed through the north bay last night and into today. crews in both counties inspected burn areas and say they found no debris flow issues. in addition to possible mudslides officials were worried about toxins from fire debris flowing into storm drains. we've not heard of any official reports of that being a problem today. so that's encouraging. and we are in a break between storms tonight. we take a live look now, many of us woke up to rain this morning, certainly raining in walnut creek this morning, j

he rolled lyrics for about 30 songs for the grateful dead starting in the 1970s after meeting bob weirboarding school. he tweeted about him saying this life is fleeting as we all know. the news we serve is not. john had a way of taking life difficult things and framing them as challenges therefore adventures. he was to be admired for that even emulated. he will live on in the songs we roll.>>> from a celebration of russian culture to the lunar new year. a lot to celebrate this weekend and the bay area. rosemary tells us what is happening in our we can watch. >>> here are a few events happening around the bay. baseball season fast approaching the saturday giants -- at&t part. players q&a free player autographs. a kid zone and more. a trip to russia without leaving the bay area. 30th annual russian festival. food dance music and art. it happens friday through sunday at russian sensor. once experienced a vibrant per traditions of the chinese new year? san francisco chinese street fair a great opportunity to immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of chinese culture. it is going on this

. >> bob weir with the preview. >> joe, bob weir wants to improve the quality of what you ingest musicallywhen "squawk box" comes back. comes back. >>> netflix will be integrated into tivo on three of the smaller cable operators. grande communications and rcn sell couple services are the first in the united states to bring netflix as an app to a cable set top box. this is like putting fluoride in the water. this is like some kind of communist plot. the arrangements make it easier to access tphret flicks movies. we work for comcast. it's fine. i love tom rogers. do what you've got to do. you can now get it on your television sets because you don't have to switch to an apple tv or a roku box. shares with netflix have been moving on different things this week. down about $4 a share. we have xfinity on comcast. >> apple was supposed to be doing a deal. >> bite your tongue. >> okay. go slow now. how does this -- for cnbc. >> with a cnbc app you can get on these systems. >> the content will be worth more? >> the content will come over the top. all the content creators will have a bountiful harve

bob weir phil lesh mickey hart will be joined by bruce hornsby and several other performers. jerry garcia died back a month after they performed here in r.f.k. >> wonder how long that will take to sell out. >> probably already is! >> exactly. one d.c. lawmaker wants every child in the city to get some good books. and we'll explain how coming up. >> plus the man hunt for two suspects after a deadly rampage in florida. >> and a spa suddenly shuts down and employees leave the jobs. customers fear losing thousands of dollars worth of giftcards. 7 is on your side trying to get all that money back. >> and d.c. streetcar delayed again. i'm chris as a small business owner you wouldn't deliver just half of what you have to offer to your customers. so why are you settling for half-fast internet? only verizon fios comes with speedmatch. upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. so large files are sent in a snap and video conferences with customers are seamless. don't miss your last chance to get $300 when you switch to fios internet and phone for just $99.99 a month with a 2-year a

this comes after guitarist bob weir fell on stage last week. to his website the band sun able to perform for the next several weeks due to unforeseen circumstances. they were scheduled to play in napa on may 9 president. the statement says he plans to hit the road in late june for some solo shows. >>> authorities are investigating an outbreak of valley fever at two solar plants under construction. 28 workers got sick at the tow paz solar farm and the california valley solar ranch. valley fever can cause flu-like symptoms. it spread when people inhale fun gal spores. they are also trying to control an outbreak in prisons, there's no sign of a decrease in violence on television. parents television council says in the days after the school shootings there was little or no drop in tv violence. they found nearly half contained violence such as shootings and beatings. the violence becomes more specific and darker as broadcast networks compete with cable networks. >>> archaeologists say they've uncovered the first evidence that some of america's earli

coming up next, a conversation with bob weir is about the trains that played a part in the presidenciesdrew jackson, abraham lincoln, warren hardy, franklin roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, and george h. w. bush. and of a presidential's house -- johnson. he's the author of the president travels by train, politics and moments. now i would like to introduce our special guest today, bob withers., he's an author of course, he has written this book, which is the subject of our discussion today. the president travels by train. it was actually his first of what

it is jerry garcia tribute night it bob weir will sing the national anthem and garcia's daughter will throw out the first pitch. it's the first of a four-game series with the cubs. you can catch tomorrow's game right here on nbc bay area. >> you will want your long thermal shirt under the tie dye. >> yeah. >> thanks, a lot. >> thanks for joining us this morning. the "today" show coming up next. >> a local news update in a half hour.

apparently, they didn't play very well. >>> stories, we got a chance to ask bob weir. about remembering jerry on his birthday. i asked him for a single fond memory. here's what he said. >> we were just chugging away. nobody was taking a lead. nobody was soloing. nothing. and so i sort of edged my way over to jer i. this is nice. he wasn't going anywhere. he was just, man, i could just live here forever is what he told me. i remember that fondly. >> the fiddle of it, he had a conversation with garcia. i asked him another question, i said, are you surprised the music has endured so long? it's 24/7 on sirius. bob weir does a weekly -- here's why i think he said the music is endearing. >> it doesn't surprise me. there's a lot to this stuff. it wasn't written for the purpose of selling a million records or, you know, appealing to the current trends in popular music and we had no talent for that. so we abandoned that early on. >> so don't try to be trendy. this is the latest thing they're doing here, andrew. warren haines and the almond brothers are working with the san fran

i've going to be playing with bob weir soon and the benefit, can we announced that now?ect out in san francisco, we're going to play at bob weir's sweetwater club. isn't it cool? >> great. >> and sammy haga will show up because he lives down the road, and some other folks. >> sammy hagar ever play with bob weir? >> they do "loose lucy" together and a bunch of other songs. everything is sort of a meeting of minds, i just got the two-minute warning here in my head. >> oh, my god. >> do i have a time-out? >> rick, do you have anything? >> i want to do something quick on inflation, bring up the charts fast. lot of mixed signals whether or not the market is seeing inflation from the new round of quantitative easing. here are the numbers there, guys, oil, since the jackson hole meeting i picked two points, you can argue with the points, event studies are always flawed for this reason. i took the day before bernanke's jackson hole speech and the day before the fed announcement which was on the 12th, there's gold up, commodities up, guys go quickly to the next screen and we'll s

. >>> happening today rock legends will take the stage in a pop-up concert for solar progress bob weireful dead, and sammy haggard are set to perform at the phoenix hotel to show solidarity with the solar industry. they want to encourage the california p. u. c. to expand solar access to more californians. it starts at 3:00 this afternoon at the phoenix hotel on eddy street in san francisco. let's get a final check of the accuweather forecast. >> we are looking at some sunshine outside some of your windows. and temperatures today will reflect that. partly cloudy cloudy skies. the accuweather forecast featuring more sun and mild temperatures each and every day with thursday looking like the warmest day and increasing clouds. rain should be returning by next weekend. looks like a couple systems lining up. that will be some good news, and snow. snow levels could start out pretty high. >> but nothing like the east coast so we are just fine, yeah. thank you. that's going to do it for us. thanks for joining us on the abc7 sunday morning news. i'm carolyn tyler along with lisa argen. the news

. >>> happening today rock legends will take the stage in a pop-up concert for solar progress bob weirammy haggard are set to perform at the phoenix hotel to show solidarity with the solar industry. they want to encourage the california public utility commission to expand solar access to more californians. the free concert starts at 3:00 this afternoon at the hotel on eddy street in san francisco. it's free. how often can you say that? >> not very often. we have a pretty good-looking day today. a mixture of clouds and sun with temperatures climbing through the 50s. 56 fremont. look for about 60 oakland. the accuweather seven-day forecast maybe a sprinkle in the north bay tomorrow. then we will see more sun. dry days with numbers in the 60s and rain returns next weekend and mountain snow. looking forward to that, but also nice to have a break. >> it is. thank you, lisa. thank you for joining us on the abc7 sunday morning news. i'm carolyn tyler along with lisa argen. the news continues now online, on twitter, facebook and on all your mobile devices with our abc7 news app. abc7 news cont

creation of music legend bob weir. >> i spwet to build the ultimate play pen for a musician.ishltion one of the founders of the grateful dead created this studio where bands can rehears and perform. >> what i am beginning to see here the future of music is live. do it in your living room. we can bring more intimate experience than you can get anywhere else. >>reporter: what makes it amazing is a revolutionary technology that changes the accoustic of the room. read by microphone in the ceiling. >> room sounds like this. them controls it on an i-pad. >> good to cathedral. about by contrast. >>reporter: valuable when creating a piece of music. so he gives me the demo and who shows up but fellow marin musician red rocker sammy h a.g. ar. >> about they put it through software and put it back out. >>reporter: result are astonishing. ♪ containment be better than this? no. l. >>reporter: there will be more shows posted on tri-studio web site. what can do you to make this better. >> in 6 months this will be old hat. >>reporter: performance will be pay per view. bob embraces the concep

that is bob weir on stage in front of thousands at the climate rally.was a little earlier today. also on the bill, john legend, the roots, josh stone, and jimly cliff. but it's not just about entertainment for the earth network which organized that event. it's also a call to action. >> we've waited and waited and waited for climate legislation that would put us in the same position as the rest of the world. we have been really dragging our feet. so this is going to send i hope a little message to the u.s. government and to congress in general that they need to pass climate legislation, good climate legislation, and they need to do it now. i hope they can follow the science. the worst thing they can do is pass legislation that doesn't do anything to create a green economy, to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. if they cave to the oil companies, if they cave to the coal industry, we might as well not do anything at all. apparently the administration felt that health care was more important than climate change. we have now cleared the table o

also on the stage, grateful dead bob weir. it was taped last january in napa, but this is the first time you'll get to see it on tv. comcast will broadcast it on the comcast hometown network tonight at 8:00. >>> we still have more ahead for "today in the bay." the controversial decision overnight regarding the prison sentence for ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak. and how to solve the nation's debt problems by minting new money. there is no mass-produced human. every human being is unique. and there is one store that recognizes it. the sleep number store. the only place in the world you'll find... the extraordinarily comfortable sleep number experience. an exclusive collection of innovations that totally individualizes your sleep. the only place you'll find the sleep number bed. a bed with dual-air technology that allows you to adjust to the support your body needs. each of your bodies. and the only place you'll find the sleep number year-end event. save 50% on the closeout of our silver limited edition bed. final days!

maybe that puts him in the frontline if you have bob weir in his jean shorts kicking you offstage. >> somebody call fox legal. this is a disclaimer. i don't believe it. >> we had an opportunity to come out here and go here's kasich then we threw some trump on the back side of that for some reason. this is what's going on. donald trump is commanding the media. >> which would you rather watch? >> about that the point? >> yeah. >> which makes the better television? isn't that the point right now? >> but there's a reason. if he was 1 or 2% or zero we wouldn't be doing that, would we geraldo? >> you look to the ratings put john kasich on you're going to get a rating that's about here. put trump on you get a bigger rating. that's what's driving the conversation. >> i want to quickly saw the loser so far is jeb bush. he's come across as an schlumpy little shoulders. >> what are you talking about? he's a tall guy with broad shoulders. >> but compared to trump, just check him out. >> we're going to do a little gopr next. but make sure to catch "the five" tomorrow night because presidential can

. >> she shares a birthday of the bob weir of the grateful dead.is 68 years old today. >> how about that. >> i hope everybody even why is their birthday. >> so tomorrow we need to you come to wilmington delaware. sue will be there along with chris o'connell. >> yep. >> they are walking to end alzheimer's. such a good cause. it is on the river front. the walk is a at 9:30. more information on our web site. sue serio says you might to have wear some layers chris murphy. >> this weekend chris o'connell, he is an intense guy. >> yes. >> he is probably up for like a sprint, not a walk, not a jog but like a sprint, on the way. >> yes. >> full on run. >> some people do run the the walk because they like to show off. i would not be one of them. i promise you that. i will take a lot at ultimate doppler radar. we have a few showers in the the area this is well ahead of the cold front that is coming through, but if you are out in chester county in caln township we are seeing a couple of showers there. maybe up toward pottstown and further north around delawar

he'll be joined by his band and former member of the gritful dead bob weir.onated to stowe's family. the 42-year-old paramedic was beaten outside dodger stadium last year and has been in rehabilitation since october. two men have been charged in the beating and are due back in court in march. tonight's fund-raiser starts at 8:00 at the uptown theater in napa. >>> merchants in pittsburg are joining forces to oppose a proposed homeless shelter in their neighborhood. state law requires the city of pittsburg to pick an area for a facility. some are upset with the sites under consideration. they're concerned about potential loitering and shoplifting. >> negative in a big way. i mean, homeless means they usually don't have any money to spend. that means crime will happen. >> homeless advocates say emergency shelters are essential, especially during these rough times. downtown business owners say they understand the need but they want the facility built in an area that does not affect the local economy. the city planning commission will decide where to zone for shel

coming up next, a conversation with bob weir is about the trains that played a part in the presidencies of andrew jackson, abraham lincoln, warren hardy, franklin roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, and george h. w. bush. and of a presidential's house -- johnson. he's the author of the president travels by train, politics and moments. now i would like to introduce our special guest today, bob withers., he's an author of course, he has written this book, which is the subject of our discussion today. the president travels by train. it was actually his first of what is now 29 books. it came out in the first edition in 1996. it is subsequently been updated several times. in 2018 was re-released by echo point books and media. i believe it's the third and fourth addition of the book. bob himself was a journalist by trade. and for 38 years worked for the huntington herald dispatch in huntington, west virginia, where he currently lives. he has a b. a. from martial university. while he was in college he worked summers for the no railroad, that actually is how i got to know bob. i interne

makes sense when fema is basically sounding a little bit like they're quoting the grateful dead's bob weirn stone. the future is here. we are it. we are on our own, on our own, on our own. there is a fear down here we can't forget, hasn't got a name just yet. weir may have been talking about the fear and pain on a planet that can look so peaceful from afar and what we as people do with fear. this is deep stuff. too much fear can be debilitating. too little can be dangerous to ourselves. take a look back, say, at 2012. americans weren't thinking about pandemics. the big health care news was the supreme court upholding obamacare, not covid. people were debating a presidential election. there was a scandal at penn state. and amidst all that in 2012, let me tell you what donna nash was doing. she was afraid of something else, a pandemic. specifically, she was concerned a flu-like pandemic would spread easily. the government couldn't curb it, and that initially the best safety measures would be what individual people did on their own, getting masks, sanitizing, not anything that might happen la

founding member bob weir is bringing his band, bobby weir and wolf brothers, to perform at frost amphitheateranford university on october 29th. the band will be accompanied by the stanford symphony orchestra and the wolf pack, a string and brass quintet. tickets start around $60 for general admission. they can reach up to $300. a beautiful dance competition got underway in argentina this weekend. the tango world championship took place in buenos aires. look at that. more than 20,000 people showed up to watch the dancers. 650 couples from 35 countries hit the stage for this year's contest. those who couldn't make it in person were able to vote for their favorite performances on line. such a beautiful dance. i know. >> i just want to keep watching this. this is so cool. >> i wish i could do that. i know. okay well, the start of the school year can be really be a fresh start for anybody. >> for one wisconsin family, this school year is extra special because three generations of the same family will be enrolled in college. so the family consists of two college aged daughters, mia and samantha. th

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

thousands gathered for a climate rally, which featured performances from stars like bob weir from then legend, the roots and josh stone. organizers say they hope the big names and the big crowds will tell lawmakers to act, because the effort to end global warms has been waiting long enough. >> we've been really dragging our feet, and so this is going to send i hope a little message to the u.s. government and to congress in general that they need to pass climate legislation, good climate legislation and they need to do it now. ♪ >> among the activists, musicians at today's rally, sting seen here last year at you united nations concert now lending his voice to help the environment, something he has long supported. earlier he and his wife, trudy stiler spoke with me before his performance at the climate rally. they want big government because it's the only way to make the changes that are needed before it is too late. take a listen. >> why are we doing this? >> reporter: yeah. >> we've been in this struggle for over 20 years, trudy and i, you know, trying to get the message out, and as y

. ♪ >> reporter: and bob weir of the grateful dead, the band that most truly eembodies the counterculture>> it wasn't about mobilization. for me and most of the people that i know, it was a big fun time. ♪ well, maybe it is just the time of year or maybe it's the time of man, i don't know ♪ >> reporter: so maybe it was just the time of year or time of men and women now halfway through their lives who still cling to the belief that they were a part of the event that defined their generation. even if most of us know we're a lot more flesh and blood than star dust and golden, it's very hard to put aside a fantasy so much more enriching and ennobling than reality. i'm jeff greenfield for "nightline" in new york >> a look back at the vault as we approach the 40th anniversary in woodstock. i was in woodstock last weekend. i got to meet michael lange. you may have seen the famed director is making a movie called "taking woodstock." and my wife is in it. >> she plays? >> she plays a reporter in the movie and she has two lines. >> they're all stars, the whole hubbard gang. >> and wedding day accus