took him out in blue lake. did you know they had a lake in mississippi called blue lake?: i did know that. >> i forget, you are from mississippi. tavis: i know a little bit about it. not as much as you. you mentioned your mother, that you have always loved the ladies, starting with your mama. tell me about your mother. >> my mother was a very beautiful lady, i thought. she was very good to me. she died when i was 9.5, but if she had lived, i probably would not be trying to play guitar. she wanted me to be known as something else, not a guitar player. tavis: for what? >> anything that is somebody -- tavis: doctor, lawyer, politician. >> make the world better. tavis: but you have made the world better to a lot of people. >> you are giving me so many compliments. i am going to jump up and start hollering. tavis: your mother died at 9.5. so where do you go? >> i have quite a few relatives. i have one close relative, my uncle. i stayed with him a lot. my mother and my dad were divorced. in country like mississippi, where they were not together, they used to call it separated.

. >> reporter: from a distance it looks like a shimmering blue lake in the mohave desert.t that mirage is really a mirror. 170,000 of them, they're called helio stats. how much power do you get from each one? >> this project will fuel 140,000 california homes. so effectively one heliostat can power one california home. >> reporter: tom doyle is the c.e.o. of n.r.g., the company heading this massive solar project. >> in fact, this is the largest concentrated solar thermal project in the world. >> reporter: conventional solar panels capture the sun's energy, but these mirrors reflect it on to a 450 foot tall tower. inside is a boiler which heats to 1,000 degrees. water is turned into steam that powers a turbine and creates electricity which will likely be sent to los angeles and san francisco. >> we're actually displacing 400,000 tons per year of c.o.-2 by using solar energy in lieu of fossil fuel capacity. >> reporter: so there's steam going into the sky but no c.o.- 2. >> you've got it. that's right. >> reporter: the installation will help towards california's goal of gett

. >>> in blue water lake new mexico. governor sue anna -- suzanne declared a state of emergency. today many residents will be cleaning up and drying out. for more of the severe weather. >>reporter: there is good news for them. they have had resistant rain. that will finally ease off. in texas and new mexico and colorado where on a drought. there is rain in the forecast for denver today. it's more scatter verity. they have had real strong downpours. in parts of colorado that will's up for them. while there is rain in the forecast and it won't take much for the ground to produce more rain. they won't get as nearly as much as they have got -- received in the last 50 days. >>> the highway to yosemite national park is reopened. state 120 was closed the fire is now 81 contained. full containment is expected my the end of next week. mount deop lo -- diablo will open next week. the cost of the firefighters efforts so far is over seven four and half $4. >>> governor brown threatens the future of a bay area gun show. >>reporter: five weekends a year the cow pal becomes and gun and ammo mar

looking live lake tahoe, blue skies over the lake and here in the bay area as well.how long will this lovely weather hold up? i'll have the accu-weather forecast in just a moment. >> and taking a look at the mcarthur mairkz you can see cars making their way off of that 580 interchange on to 80. that heavy traffic on the left side of the screen just creeping towards berkeley now perhaps a little bit better for drivers heading into the maze and also, on the far left, far right side of the screen. abc 7 news at yes honey? dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and that's heart healthy. [ dad ] jan? ♪ >>> climate experts expected to issue a report saying they're 95% certain humans are mostly to blame for global warming. how certain is that? top scientists they're just about as sure of climate change than of the age of the universe or cigarettes can kill you z more certain about climate change than vit minutes are healthy. one scientist saying they boost certainty

. >>> meanwhile, in the blue water lake -- of new mexico flooding has turned the landscape into a sea of brown. one man died when his car was swept off the road by raging flood waters. governor martinez declared a state of emergency but the heavy rains that began friday have seemed to subside a bit. today, many residents will be cleaning up and drying out. >>> and for the latest in the severe weather in the midwest, we turn to brian hackney in the kpix 5 weather center. brian? >> all righty good morning phil and good morning to you. yeah you have to remember this is a part of the country, colorado along with parts of texas that had previously been experiencing drought. so now they have rain but all at once? there's some good news with the satellite map that there's rain in the forecast but it's more widely spread. this is after last week, boulder, colorado picked up as much as 15 inches of rain between monday and saturday. and aurora, colorado had nine inches of rain and today they're getting rain right now around denver. but this is a more widely scattered shower sort of regime. neve

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some of the mountainous areas around grand and blue water lake just to the southwest of grant. found in a car that washed down ash canyon around the truth or consequences area. that's spreading there. if you take a look at the weather maps, you can see moisture in the area. we'll see the showers fire again. they could be heavy at times. we're not talking about the 14, 15 inches of rain we saw earlier this week, but another inch or two in isolated areas could cause rapid rise in the rivers. one more day to get through. i think we calm down just a r little bit tomorrow. we have the tropics going on. we have a hurricane in the gulf. this is hurricane ingrid. it will make landfall possibly as a hurricane across the mexican coast line sometime tomorrow. that will bring some moisture and certainly some wind and rough seas across areas of south texas as well. lots going on, guys. we'll continue to track it. >> rick, can i ask you a quick question before we let him go? >> yes. >> that storm that's brewing down in the gulf. you've mentioned that it could affect texas. any chance that th

lake tahoe. look at that. lightning and thunder. flood concerns up in this area for heavy rainfall. that is the blue area. brown area is the fire zone. as the weather system passes through we should dry up. and that will be good news for folks in the mountains who have seen thunderstorms east of the sierra nevada. thundershowers tonight and tomorrow morning. but slight. less and less into the evening hours. 76 right now in livermore. the way this goes, temperatures are gradually going to warm up towards the end of the week. yesterday was cooler. yesterday was warmer than today. tomorrow will be warmer than today as well. the forecast highs tomorrow then, 90s. not that hot. right? tomorrow hottest mid-80s. 84, 83. mild day. fog back and forth at the coast. not a major player. it is there. patchy but not shutting you down. plenty sunshine at the beaches. five-day forecast with your bay area weekend in view there it is. heats up on thursday. friday, saturday, sunday fire danger concerns. maybe monday as well. this is what we are tracking down the road. in the mean time a slow warm up to the bay area weekend.

lake tahoe. they've been powerful and numerous. nice, quiet here where we are, traffic flowing well below. 67 in oakland, 77 los gatos, 59 in half moon bay. here looking across embarcadero, blue skies above the bay looking on to the bay a beautiful afternoon. these features we'll see fog near coast and bay overnight. and preautumn patterns setting up. you can see active weather systems around us. what is a traffic developing by next friday may have a cold front swinging through the area that can bring us a chance of rain. that would be interesting. some areas of fog and near the coast and bay. low temperatures upper 50s to around 60s, sunny, mild. and 78 in santa clara. highs in the upper 70s at redwood city mid to upper 60s on the coast. north bay highs mid 80s to calistoga to napa. east bay highs 71 at oakland. 77 in fremont. inland east bay will be warm tomorrow with highs into mid to upper 80s. here is the accu-weather forecast. cooling down sunday temperatures bouncing back with mild conditions. cooling down sharply friday that. is when we might get rain so a little bit of a fall pattern is beginning to set up. fall is officially nine day as way. >> it's friday the 13th.

the baby do -- the baby blue colored bathroom sink -- as i stated myself a decent, not tosha told me that her brother had been severely injured in a motorcycle accident in the lake charles area. a tosha carefully explained that the er physician had failed to revive her brother and the specials were on the way. listening to that tosha, having recent mode we all journey to in our lives when injuries, with inquiries to nurses and doctors about a loved one's health had been exhausted at our ability to make the situation any better is depleted. it's at that moment when you call your pastor in hopes of bringing god's grace and, perhaps, a resolution to moment that is steadily speeding towards tragedy. i knew that she wanted me to pray for her brother's condition to improve and for her to have the strength to weather the storm. to pray that she is able to do the right things and not lose it amidst her family's tragedy. but natosha didn't say any of this. she didn't even say, will you pray for me, jerry? she didn't have to. in a pastor worth his salt won't let the conversation go that far. the second that anguished call arrives, it is the pastor's job to pray. it's just

so sort of out of the blue, i mean, this is like what you read in one of those scandinavian murder mysteries. officials say two muddy cars were pulled from the bottom of a laken western oklahoma. and they contain the remains of six bodies. investigators say one car may belong to a teenager who disappeared with friends in 1970. and the other car could be linked to a case before those teens went missing. authorities are on the scene in foss lake, oklahoma trying to gather additional evidence, trying to figure out if this is related. ed lauvendera has the story. >> reporter: these cars have spent more than 40 years submerged at the bottom of foss lake in western oklahoma. investigators can peel apart the metal and hardware with their bare hands as they look for clues. two corroded rifles, a muddyed wallet and pursing and the remains of six people, three in each car. it's one fluke discovery that might have solved two long-forgotten mysteries in 1970, three teenagers in a 1969 camaro disappeared. the mystery of what happened to jimmy williams, michael rios and leah johnson made headlines in the local newspapers. and the year before in april of 1969, john alba po