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tonight, the show's host is remembering billy taylor as the heart, soul and brain of jazz.aylor died tuesday of heart failure. he was 89. >>> when we come back here tonight, how do you keep a thousand-pound sea cow warm when the water turns dangerously cold? >>> we're not sure why this video went viral but who can resist a dancing penguin? though the music playing in the background is a laconic version of "auld lang syne," this little guy's happy feet were certainly dancing to his own tune. >>> this harsh winter has brought penguin style temperatures all the way to south florida, presenting a problem for the manatees who live in the normally warm waters. nbc's kerry sanders reports on the effort to help keep these gentle sea creatures safe and warm. >> reporter: beneath the steamy waters here in florida, a migration is under way. herds of endangered manatees in search of warmth. this week, the weather in parts of the state dipped into the teens, turning their watery homes frigid. >> manatees are actually a very temperature sensitive species. they're subtropical. so any wate

departing democrat james oberstar; shutting down ethnic studies classes and remembering jazz legend billy taylor. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the snow plows kept going in new york city today, four days after last weekend's blizzard. officials said crews have plowed every street at least once, and they're trying to get down to the asphalt streets. some blocks were still impassable because of abandoned cars. mayor michael bloomberg today called the city's response to the storm inadequate and unacceptable. he's been heavily criticized, but he promised to get answers, after the cleanup. >> you can get angry or you can focus on number one keep our work force out there and trying to solve problem of today. number one priority and to do it safely. number two, we can then go and have an investigation to learn so that we can do it better. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, new storms in the west dumped heavy rain and snow on arizona,

for millions of listeners and viewers, he was doctor billy taylor-- the pianist who also had a ph.d in music education and a passion for spreading his love of jazz. >> i feel strongly about the arts. and i feel very strongly about the country i live in. >> brown: taylor began his professional career in new york in 1943, eventually serving as house pianist at birdland, the legendary jazz club and playing with many of the era's greats, including charlie parker, dizzy gillespie and miles davis. he started his own trio in 1951 and also began lecturing and writing on jazz-- the beginnings of decades of work in radio, television and schools, bringing jazz to a wider audience. >> welcome to jazz alive. >> brown: he was well-known in the public broadcasting world hosting several programs on n.p.r. from the 1970s until 2002. in the early '80s, taylor became a correspondent for cbs "sunday morning." he interviewed other artists and on occasion played music himself. taylor also reached out to young people in numerous ways. he took his jazz mobile into new york's poorer neigbhorhoods and around th

billy taylor died yesterday of heart failure in a new york city hospital-- he was 89. heroes managed to get a little girl out alive. next. plus, tonight at 11 on cbs 5 >> smith: finally tonight, folks here in the northeast are still seeing red over all that white stuff that blew in this week. but in california, up on mammouth mountain, they see green every time it snows, and as terry mccarthy reports, it's been snowing a lot. >> reporter: if you think new yorkers have it bad, welcome to mammouth lakes, california, 17 feet of snow has fallen in just the past 12 days. >> it's so deep! >> reporter: but no one here is complaining. mammouth is home to one of california's most popular ski resorts. >> it's been amazing. it's absolutely the best you could ever imagine. >> reporter: the snow has beaten all records. more than three times the december average. >> i've been here 32 years. i've never seen this much snow ever in december. we stopped counting when i got snowed into my house on monday. >> reporter: with so much snow dumping so fast, ski patrol has been on high alert,

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