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tonight -- ben affleck, comedian dane cook, this week in unnecessary censorship, and music from bring me the horizon. and now, to put it bluntly, jimmy kimmel! [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: hi, everyone. welcome. relax, relax. very nice. i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming and for braving the rain. i appreciate it. appreciate each and every one of you. i appreciate the love, happy valentine's night to everyone. i see we have a lot of young lovers here in our audience. some not so young. i know why you're here on this romantic night, the reason you brought the one you love is because tickets are free. and you're the 150 cheapest people in hollywood are in our audience. the history of valentine's day goes back to the middle ages when st. valentine's, who was a real person, stopped at rite aid, and they gave him with a stick with a balloon on it. did you get a gift for your wife? >> yes. >> jimmy: did your wife get a gift for you? >> yes, she got me tennis shoes. >> jimmy: they fit? >> yeah, they did. i was like -- >> jimmy: you know, there's really n

let's see if we can get those numbers up. >> she's got a digital series called hashtag cooking at today.com. >> ben>> announcer: the citi concert series on "today" is proudly presented to you by citi. >>> we are back with tony, grammy, and emmy winning -- he starred on "dear evan hanson." today is a big day. ben is out with a solo album, sing to me instead. >> hello. >> thanks for spending your big day with us. >> where else would i be? >> how does it feel on this day. you've worked on this. this is so deeply personal, and today is the day you put it out into the world and see what people think. >> totally, it's definitely been a bit of a scary thing to sort of be that vulnerable and transparent with people. the first few songs that have come out there's been such a beautiful response. i'm happy the whole project is out in its entirety and the people can listen to it start to finish. >> when you say it's personal, it really is personal. >> i think i've been fortunate to be able to be an actor in lots of different projects, and the reason this project was interesting to me is because i got to presen

ben fifth the doubt. >> other than john smith, tim cook is about the easiest name.one of the most famous people in the world. >> true. >>> next at 6:30, san ramon valley teachers, will they strike? >>> cleaning up after recent flooding a >> announcer: good morning east bay. let's get up and get going. >>> right now at 6:30, no deal. san ramon valley teachers and district officials deadlocked on one element of a new contract. we'll tell you about the issue that could lead to a strike. >> singer r. kelly is waking up in jail. the new allegation against him this morning. >>> plus, back in business. the milestone for a north bay restaurant that burned down in the 2017 wildfires. >>> good morning. it's thursday, march 7th. >> you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. mike nicco, how does i look? >> let me throw a statistic at you. less than 11% of the state is dry right now. that's the lowest level in 7 1/2 years. >> wow. >> pretty good, huh? >> it's all due to the rain of the we've had the wettest winter ever across the united states. it

taking a step back why is ceo tim cook offering these new services now tech analyst ben of creative strategies reminds us that fans do own $1.4 billion of apple's iphones and upother hardware so, has to keep adding more products and services. keeping all those fans happy, loyal and engaged. if he does, there are clear benefits one, he keeps those fans loyal to his platform. discouraging them to move to rivals and he gives consumers, if these services are a hit, another reason to buy iphones in the future melissa? >> thank you very much, josh >>> as we saw there, apple shares are down is%, but check out for the year the performance outpaces the market stock is 22% and also the best performer in the dow and the largest company and wall street remains bullish and apple with over half the analysts giving a buy rating what is at stake for apple heading into the big event on monday dan ackerman and angela zeeno. he has a buy rating on apple and increased price target from 195 to 210 gentlemen, great to have you both yesterday was a huge day for apple and not just regaining the throne or whatever you

she's got a digital series called #cooking at today.com/food. >>> up next, ben platt wit live performancei'll show you something... ♪ ♪ neeeeeewwww. ♪ >> announcer: the citi concert series on "today"lys pro presented to you by >>> we are back with tony, grammy and emmy-winning musician actor ben platt. i he starred that great show called "dear evan hanson." today is a big day. ben is out whis solo album, sing to me instead. thank you for spending your day with us. >> where else would i be. >> this is so deeply personal. today is the day you put it out into theorld andee what people thelk. >> defin a bit of a scary thing to be that vulnerable and transparent with people. the first few songs had such ab tiful response, i'm just so happy the whole project is out in its entirety. >> when you say it's personal, it really is personal. tthis is like soul of ben platt coming out. tell us about that. n i've b really fortunate to be able to be an actor on lots of different projects and on screen. the reason this is special is i get to present myself free fro character and present who i am into thin