tonight, a conversation with 14- time grammy winner alicia keyes. the new disk is called "girl on fire," and includes an impressive list of contributors. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: pleased to welcome alicia keys to this program. the 14-time grammy winner is out with her first album in three years now, and this is the first since the birth of her two-year-old son, egypt. the project is called, as if you didn't know, "girl on fire." as i mentioned at the top, it features a great lineup of guest artists. from the new disc, here is some of the video for the title track, "girl on fire." we got our feet on the ground and we're burning it town oh oh

alicia keyes, jennifer hudson and stevie wonder among the performers tonight. are looking live at the festivities in washington d-c. where the country is celebrating the inauguration of president barrack obama. here in san francisco. gamany items there are several evenings fall of celebrations. gay rights advocates are also celebrating. in his inaugural address, the gay community heard words never before spoken by >> "our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well." >> pam: the president spoke those words with the entire u=s supreme court seated just a few feet away. those same justices are due to rule on california's voter= approved ban on same sex marriage. supporters of gay marriage tell kron four, they have new optimism. >> "proposition 8 is about to go to the supreme court. they rely heavily on public sentiment. and this is our president bringing us into the fold, saying these people matter in a "

and they say he's a genius and alicia keyes and he starts talking. .[rapping] >> if he's making 78 million off of that, he is a freakin' genius. two spot, tom brady, a complete mench and next to my wife, the hottest woman. gisele. and 72 million. >> most of that's got to come from her. i think that brady for 15 or 16 with the patriots. so, she's a big breadwinner there and victoria and david beckham. >> well, this one i don't get, 54 million. >> the last time he hooked a goal was, you know, back in the early '60s, i believe. >> and oh. >> and the simple fact is she appears to be one of the four or five least interesting people who lived in the history of the planet earth and that look on her face that-- >> spice girl, and at the olympics-- >> i don't think that somebody tightened the lid on that spice girl, getting a little old and he's running around, one tad away from being the chief harpooner on the watch. and the two first i get, i don't get him. >> brad pitt angelina jolie and will pinkett and jada. >> and brad hit and his wife angelina jolie, big

alicia keyes. stevie wonder. john legend. who is the band fun. 20 minutes from now to see a lot of dancing. even though people are really dressed up like molly and i and the floor is concrete which i guess would really only be bad news if you wanted to do some tap dancing tonight. we don't have any numbers on tap dancers tonight. >> shepard: i wouldn't expect that you would get that molly, this is very much scaled back from 2009. it seemed like balls were all over town back then. >> yeah, good memory. there are only two official inaugural balls this year. they are both in this building. that's compared to 2009. there were 10 inaugural balls spread out as you were saying all over the city. they are about as far as the capacity of this facility. they will be about the same as 2009. about 40,000 people here tonight. they will come and do their first dance at all the balls and head home after a long day. one historical note four. the first inaugural ball here in washington was in 1809 when president and dolly madison hosted 400 or 500 people in a hot

alicia keyes, brad paisley, jennifer hudson. ♪ and i waited for you but you never showed ♪ >> reporterll the pomp and parties, the president took part again in what he calls the national day of service. >> this inauguration should also be an affirmation that we're all in this together. >> reporter: so the first family grabbed some paintbrushes at a local elementary school. >> i need to get some power tools. >> reporter: already the people's lawn is seeing plenty of visitors. >> we love president obama. whoo! >> reporter: i got to tell you there were a lot of folks out last night already having a good time. they've got a couple more nights to go here in washington, d.c. the official ceremony is actually starting in just with the visit president takes over at the naval observe with justice sotomayor delivering the oath. dan and bianna? >> just to make clear, you only heard reports of people partying. this is not something you witnessed firsthand. >> reporter: dan, i had to get up really early, so, no, i wasn't walking the streets with friends in town to see the inauguration, no, not at a

will be a concert for kids next saturday to celebrate president obama's inauguration featuring alicia keyeskaty perry and brad paisley. or as joe biden called them, not the wiggles. [ laughter ] major tv news yesterday, meredith vieira announced that she is leaving "who wants to be a millionaire" so that she can work for nbc news. it will be weird when vieira says, "breaking news, there's been a major earthquake in, a, canada, b, france, c, america or, d, brazil." [ laughter ] some more political news. a new survey found that 77% of americans think politicians do serious harm to the country. politicians are like, cool, at least they think we do something. [ laughter ] it's a win, right? let's go out for a beer. [ cheers and applause ] big news here. beyonce will reunite with her destiny's child bandmates on stage at the super bowl halftime show. [ cheers and applause ] big news. yeah, and rumor has it they finally think we're ready for that jelly. [ laughter ] i heard that major league baseball will implement tougher drug testing this year to screen for human growth hormone. meanwhile, base

alicia keyes, my ex-girlfriend has been named creative director.arch in motion to blackberry. the name change, makes sense, nobody called it research in motion. everyone said blackberry. >> i may give that a try. i was a huge blackberry fan. then after the keyboard. >> the keyboard is too small. >> the issue it blacked out. i was done. then i was done. >> i've don't like it. >> i lost so much information, data, after three days. i gave up. i may give it another chance. >> i will do whatever alicia tells me to do. >> exactly. >> that girl is on. ♪ fire >> i am the mother of two. i will say god bless these parents. on monday, viviana and emannuel eberly of wisconsin were welcomed into the world by their parents curtis and vicky. >> easy for curtis and vicky to remember the birthday. because at home they have another set of twins, get this who were born on the same exact day, two years ago. but at least they have some unpaid help at home. the couple has a 7, 5, and 3-year-old. god bless that family. >> very. >> full house. >> ambitious. >> yeah. >> at

alicia keyes, there's brad paisley, katy perry, marc anthony, usher, stevie wonder and many members ofl be participating in this concert to kick things off. >> a little bit of everything for somebody. brianna, thank you so much. we'll check back in with you. >> the day's headlines, overseas to algeria where the hostage crisis has been going on. right now it is reportedly over. according to the algerian news agency, 23 hostage and 32 kidnappers have been killed. the agency is also reporting the algerian military has freed 685 algerians and 107 foreigners from the gas plant. and al qaeda linked group has claimed responsibility for this attack. >>> former notre dame linebacker manti te'o says he is the victim of a sick joke. he tells espn that as recently as last wednesday, last wednesday, he believed his girlfriend was a real person even though had he never met her. a source tells cnn at least three people have been identified as the source of this hoax. >>> and after being locked out for more than 100 days, nhl players are back on the ice today. they reached an agreement last week with

and the nfl announced alicia keyes will sing the national anthem on february third, her third time singingother performer and beyonce at half time. >> clayton: she has a good agent. >> alisyn: and a good super bowl. >> clayton: she has good talent and a good agent. let's check with rick reichmuth in the studio and ear going to do the weather this time, i'm not. >> rick: we'll go back to the whole thing. and hey, so it's mid january and you start thinking snow and you want snow. look what's going to happen, one clipper moves across the great lakes, very light snow except the u.p. of michigan, the day on tuesday, snow towards boston and portland, maine, another stripe, another clipper moving in across parts of the northern plains and going through wednesday and thursday and a little more snow in the northern plains, that's it, no snow across the rockies or the west, or the mid atlantic. so we're going to remain snowless, but it's cold and this is good news, at least the snow part. it's going to inauguration monday looking at 35 degrees mid day. a little bit of cloud cover, maybe a flurry or