bonnie raitt from the sony stage. you can see bonnie live on tour starting thursday in paso robles.tim allen and kenny rogers will be here. and on thursday we'll be joined by john mayer and from "scandal", katie lowes. >> jimmy: our first guest is a five-time emmy-nominated actor who has been gifted with vocal cords fashioned from whiskey drizzled elk leather. his new show "the millers" premieres thursday night on cbs, please say hello to will arnett. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: how are you doing? good to see you. >> whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo! just sort of keep it going. let's keep it going! good night. >> jimmy: will arnett, everyone. [ drum roll ] good to see you. everything all right? how have you been lately? >> thank you for asking, jimmy. you know, i have been really good, actually. i just got back from canada. >> jimmy: you did? >> there visit might dad. i ameri. canadian. >> jimmy: their government is still operating, right, up there. >> yeah, turns out it's the best way to just keep things going. is to keep the government operating. >> jimmy: what were you doing up t

to cross out the control of the internet i'm joined by bonnie precis sutton in washington she is the education director at wired safety also in washington we have brain mcgovern he is the co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and in london we cross to jim hill locke he is the executive director of the open rights group all right folks cross talk rules for the fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it if i go to you first in washington all the major internet groups from i can i can to publicly traded companies communications companies are all saying the same thing they want to free themselves of washington's influence in the n.s.a. are they just blowing smoke and is that possible. what they need to do is free themselves from the money. any people are incredibly naive in trying to figure out why places like the major internet companies and the major telecommunications companies cooperate with the government it's for the money and so unless citizens rise up and say look you know we had system in our privacy and less the younger g

i want to go ahead bonnie jump in go ahead. i'm curious because one of the things that we're in there saying you're taking the hit for this but we all know that other governments have surveillance and that governments are actually working with n.s.a. so it's not just the united states government's you know if you're among the you know what do we think james bond and all those kind of things that stuff happened way before the internet so what we're seeing is that the blame is going for the things that are the privacy things but we're not talking about hell we're not talking about looking at the oceans would you agree we're not talking about when they go on being able to track and be able to tell. all the people we're talking about what's out there on spying and surveillance the kind of yeah but i mean help i agree with you bonnie but if i could go to ray here the difference is the difference is i agree with you completely but great big difference is that the u.s. government says we don't do these things and we keep finding out t

to cross off the control of the internet i'm joined by bonnie precis sutton in washington she is the education director at wired safety also in washington we have brain mcgovern he is the co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and in london we cross to jim hill law he is the executive director of the open rights group all right folks cross talk rules for the fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it if i go to you first in washington all the major internet groups from icon i can to publicly traded companies communication companies are all saying the same thing they want to free themselves of washington's influence in the n.s.a. are they just blowing smoke and is that possible. i what they need to do is to free themselves from the money. any people are incredibly naive in trying to figure out why places like the major internet companies and the major telecommunications companies cooperate with the government it's for the money and so unless citizens rise up and say look you know we had system in our privacy unless the younger ge

traveling to go ahead bonnie jump in go ahead. i'm curious because one of the things that we're in there saying you're taking the hit for this but we all know that other governments have surveillance and that governments are actually working with n.s.a. so it's not just the united states government you know if you're among the you know what do we think james bond and all those kind of things that stuff happened way before the internet so what we're seeing is the blame is going for the things that are the privacy things but we're not talking about hell we're not talking about looking at the oceans which degree we're not talking about when they're being able to track and be able to tell. all the people who are talking about what's out there on spying and surveillance the kind yeah but i mean help i agree with you bonnie but if i could go to ray here the difference is the difference is i agree with you completely but great big difference is that the u.s. government says we don't do these things and we keep finding out that they do th

i want to go ahead bonnie jump in go ahead. i'm curious because one of the things that we're in there saying you're taking the heat for this but we all know that other governments have surveillance and that governments are actually working with n.s.a. so it's not just you know state governments you know if you're among the you know what do we think james bond and all those kind of things that stuff happened way before the internet so what we're seeing is the blame is going for the things that are the privacy things but we're not talking about hell we're not talking about looking at the oceans which we agree we're not talking about when they're being able to track it and be able to tell. all the people who are talking about what's out there on spying and surveillance the kind yeah but i mean help i agree with you vonnie but if i could go to ray here the difference is the difference is i agree with you completely but great big difference is that the u.s. government says we don't do these things and we keep finding out that they d

the help of highly technical people who alas also have a conscience witness edward snowden you know bonnie you know we've we've heard it before all this happened with snowden i think all of us with more on it to believe that our privacy was being respected by facebook google microsoft eccentric cetera and they could this whole story broke they were very timid about talking about their relationship with the n.s.a. and now they come out and say we want to protect your privacy why should we believe them now. well actually the whole thing is the public doesn't understand and most people i work in supercomputing and we start talking about how the data is collected people have a misconception about. the government listening to individual telephone calls you know they're doing data analytics and they're doing things like looking at the ocean in different kinds of things so there's a lot of big data the process is being done and people like those but what they don't like is the involvement in what they think is their personal life and up personally. i'm not doing anything that would be a problem s

in it, polar bear bo tells bonni the lion how he can save the planet. >> what did you learn?>> at home, gemma checked if electrical devices were switched on when they weren't needed. after completing all the tasks in her workbook, she'll be able to call herself a climate ambassador. >> because they work on it at home, they ask themselves how their family could help the environment. it's important that they get their families on board. >> jenal came up with all the exercises himself. he purposely chose to use a polar bear, because it's a symbol for climate change that children already know. in the comics, bo comes from the arctic to germany. he meets bonni the lion, who knows nothing about climate change. >> so he left all the lights and the tv on, even though he wasn't home. >> but, thanks to the climate license workbook, these children know better. jenal educates some 300 children each year with his project. the 35-year-old also practices what he preaches. he gets around without using a car. ♪ jenal likes to listen to music while he works. he earns his living as a freelance

bonnie fuller right after this. >> alaska is a very extreme environment. >> hurricane force winds. >>o really bad situations and we always pull it off. >> get in the water. go. get it on. >> on the water, go! >> i love this job. i do it to save lives. >> a lot of the times the co-star comes before the family. when he is out flying, i do pray. >> i love you daddy. >> everything they throw at us we do. >> fall is finally here. >> and for every season there a reason to watch. >> it's just right. >> all your local weather, travel updates and the day's top stories. >> you just can't beat this kind of weather. >>> according to the cdc, some 300,000 americans are diagnosed with lyme disease each year making it ten times more common than we always originally thought. >> one of our good friends was recently diagnosed, bonnie fuller. >> and we have lyme disease expert, dr. john halperin. he's the chair of neurosciences in new jersey. welcome both. >> thank you. >> one day you were supposed to be on with us and they said something was wrong. and doctors couldn't even figure out originally what w

- ♪ beyond bonnie banks ♪ and beyond bonnie brae's - okay, they're almost here. what? come on!e gonna be mean, can you at least be subtle? - oh, in the warehouse we use code names for people we want to talk about. andy was jelly roll. mike was dennis the menace. ryan was douche bag. - hey, that's not a code name. that's just an insult. - plus, everyone would know who you meant. - yeah. - no. that's a great idea. yes, let's have a code name. how 'bout mondays? i hate mondays? mondays are the worst? - nobody's named monday. - hey, how 'bout we go with pam? simple, easy to remember. - 'cause there's someone already here named pam. all: hey! - welcome to your party. - everybody get comfy now. this first song's over a half hour long. [playing off-tune notes] ♪ best gig ever. they asked me to play only originals. i said, "have you heard my originals? they're terrible." they said, "even better." i said, "i get it. it's an ironic party for nellie." - maybe we should just go. - no. i gotta do this. hey, jessica, can i talk to you? - uh, yeah, sure. what's up? - maybe we could talk in pr

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>> thank you all for coming, i would like to really briefly introduce bonnie angle with the breast cancer fund, she is going to do a presentation for you on prevention, ways to preventolin ks of chemicals in breast cancer and i'll let her talk about the rest, bonnie, thank you for coming. >> alright. thank you all so much for being here today. i'm very excited to be able to give this presentation to you, unfortunately, i was expecting to have a co-presenter who had a minor accident and visited the emergency room this morning instead of visiting us, so we have plenty of folks from the breast cancer fund and other groups on hand to answer questions, but we are missing our policy geru unfortunately, i don't know how much this audience is familiar with it but we've also been meeting and talking about doing a study of exposures among women firefighters in particular, and so we have some members of that team talking about that here, sharl patton is back there, give a wave, and did rachel step out already? and rachel thought she was going to give a wave but she had to step out to go to another m

you might not understand it, bonnie but it is the mist industry of their -- mystery of their lives that they decided i'm going to marry jesus and that can be odd for people that are not catholic but for the ladies that decided i will make this commitment -- >> why do you have to be celibate in order to be able to run a church? i mean that is why -- that is fine for that nun. and married to christ. the problem is how do you run a church that way? >> some people say and talking to a reverend friend of mine and he says when i have to manage my family and i have the crisis of my people you know what i mean? i'm divided. when you have the priest the priest is on call for you when there is a marriage and a baptism and a death. i mean he is there for you. i mean literally. i called my priest and i got a call 30 minutes later. his his commitment to his parishioners and to the lord and that is why they make that vow and it is a tough vow and counter cultural vow and we might not understand it but it is what they have committed their lives to and how best they fee they serve god and their lives a

it's bonnie mcdaniel's "queen bee." good to see you. >> good to see you. thank you. >>> we want to take another look, howard, a the forecast. it's getting cold and colder. >> yeah, first things first. yesterday we were in the upper 60s, today upper 50s with rain around, especially if you've been south and east of d.c. you know what i've been talking b. a threat for a couple of showers here this morning, especially this morning, especially south of town. this afternoon we're still looking at mostly cloudy skies. a few breaks and an isolated shower. highs in the upper 50s with the wind kicking out of the northwest here this afternoon at times gusting over 20 miles an hour. we've been watching one batch of rain which has been forming over south central virginia coming up through our neck of the woods. then thisth storm. see it spinning here coming toward southwestern ohio. that clipper-like system will bring rain and snow showers to the mountains out west and give us a chance for a shower a little later. right now on doppler 9000, you'll notice the areas of y

bonnie, welcome. let me get a quick thought here.id the government slow down slow your business or tangle it? >> a little bit, yes. >> yes, how? >> well, first of all, usda, they couldn't do any loans there. getting the transcripts back from the irs, slowed down quite a bit. so i think more than anything, i think it was consumer confidence. >> all right. >> in the market. >> consumer confidence and sort of the recordkeeping and logistics of getting a mortgage through the process. to our first listing, 11346 charlotte view drive. asking 224, 900, three bedrooms, two baths, 1700 square feet, why do you like it? >> this is in the valentine area. you know that area, tyler. it's a great popular area. it has two golf courses in the area. you can walk to shopping, restaurants, you have all the amenities you need and you're not too far from town. it's a wonderful place to live. >> and 2500 in taxes. i will not tell you what i pay. second listing, 1126 saratoga boulevard, taxes just above 2 1u7bz 00, five beds, four baths, this is a big house

bonnie was having a nice afternoon with her niece.tunately, that is when someone snatched her phone right out of her purse. >> i had too much in it. it was sitting on a side table by the, where we're having tae. it just vanished. >> she called verizon to report phone stolen june 23. two days after the phone was stolen. she said her contract had expired. and was being service on a month to month basis. verizon told her she'd are to v.to continue paying the bill. >> i said i zront a phone, i am not under contract. >> but till bills continued to come, she was charged $10.21 for a bill covering june 29th, six days after she reported her phone stolen. verizon charged her a fee to suspend her service. then, the following month, they charged her $17.51 for taking the phone out of suspension. so she can transfer to another carrier. >> i was angry. >> we showed the with bill to mark tony executive director of the utility reform network. >> there is no justification for that. that is a rippoff. >> tony says consumers need to take complaints to

tomorrow night, will arnett, clark gregg and music from bonnie raitt. from her knees make you think she means it this time she'll tear a hole in you ♪ ♪ the one you can't repair but i still love her i don't really care when we were young oh oh we did enough when it got ♪ ♪ cold ooh ooh we bundled up i can't be told ah ah it can't be done it's better to feel pain than nothing at all the opposite of love's ♪ ♪ indifference so pay attention now i'm standing on your porch screaming out and i won't leave until you ♪ ♪ come downstairs so keep your head up keep your love keep your head up my love so keep your head up love keep your ♪ ♪ head up keep your love and i don't blame you dear for running like you did all these years i would do the same ♪ ♪ you'd best believe and the highway signs say we're close but i don't read those things anymore i never trusted my own eyes when we were young ♪ ♪ oh oh we did enough when it got cold ooh ooh we bundled up i can't be told ah ah it can't be ♪ ♪ done so keep your head up keep your love keep your head up my love keep yo

bonnie was having a nice afternoon with her niece.ortunately, that is when someone snatched her phone right out of her purse. >> i had too much in it. it was sitting on a side table by the, where we're having tae. it just vanished. >> she called verizon to report phone stolen june 23. two days after the phone was stolen. she said her contract had expired. and was being service on a month to month basis. verizon told her she'd are to v.to continue paying the bill. >> i said i zront a phone, i am not under contract. >> but till bills continued to come, she was charged $10.21 for a bill covering june 29th, six days after she reported her phone stolen. verizon charged her a fee to suspend her service. then, the following month, they charged her $17.51 for taking the phone out of suspension. so she can transfer to another carrier. >> i was angry. >> we showed the with bill to mark tony executive director of the utility reform network. >> there is no justification for that. that is a rippoff. >> tony says consumers need to take complaints t

tonight, will arnett, from "marvel's agents of shield," clark gregg, and music from bonnie raitt. with cleto and the cletones. and now, here's jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: thank you for coming to visit us here. i will tell you something -- the government may be shut down. but we are open for business

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tonight, will arnett, from "marvel's agents of shield," clark gregg, and music from bonnie raitt.and now, here's jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: thank you for coming to visit us here. i will tell you something -- the government may be shut down. but we are open for business here! [ cheers and applause ] what are we doing here? shouldn't we all be out looting a best buy or something? who wants to start a post-apocalyptic motorcycle gang? [ cheers and applause ] to be honest i didn't notice the government was shut down today. but the 800,000 government employees who had their hours gut or jobs taken away definitely did. but the good news is congress is still getting paid. [ audience booing ] >> jimmy: i want the names of the idiots who elected these people -- oh, wait, it was us? never mind. federal food assistance programs are on hold. nasa mostly shut down. national parks are closed. even forced the animals to leave. squirrels, chipmunks, bunnies all out on the streets. meanwhile the affordable care act, also known as obama care which is what everyone is fighting over became available tod

bonnie is on the republican line. good morning. bonnie, go ahead. are you there? there you are. go ahead. isler: yes, what upsets me as soon as they got furloughed, they went right to unemployment, and in maryland they are going to get paid twice. they are not going to go after them for unemployment. why should they get double dipped for doing nothing? remark, hit them where it hurts, and harry reid told the one governor, don't screw it up for us, and that means he is not going to make any concessions? why? this old man needs to go. a state has the highest unemployment of any state in the u.s., and it is ridiculous. host: oklahoma. james. independent line. caller: i am going to talk about obamacare. the republicans -- i really do not know what to say. should the republicans go with what obama is trying to do and get the government back open. i mean, that is what i think should happen. people --ays thought what happened to we, the people? what happened to that? they are not listening to the people. ain't worrying about the people. i understand there is debt, but i want to know wh

amy lou harris and bonnie ray. >> an update on our breaking news before we go.this is sasoon city where 1,000 acres have burned this afternoon. the fire is 70% contained. one structure is burned. we'll have an update at 6:00. hope to see you then. e government shutdown is really hitting home now for a lot of american families who are just trying to put food on the table. >>> what really happened that set off that big scare and fatal shooting on capitol hill, and what we have learned so far about the woman behind the wheel. >>> state of emergency along the gulf coast as a bistorm closes in. evacuations tonight in parts of louisiana. >>> nbc news exclusive. elizabeth smart talks with meredith vieira. a decade after her kidnapping ordeal, she finally talks about why she didn't run when it looked like she had the chance. >>> and master class. how the great tony bennett is putting his money where his heart is. "nightly news" begins now.

bonnie bennett says the school's zero tolerance policy is out of control, and she plans on doing whatever it takes to get her son's record cleared. other than citing their code of conduct, the school has not commented on the matter. - react to story - vytas wx earlier in our story about the federal government shutdown we asked should furloughed government employees get back pay once the government shudown ends? carla writes" its not their fault they are not working." but tim writes "i've been laid off 3 times in the last 4 years. i didn't get reimbursed. deal with it." go to fox- baltimore dot com and tell us what you think. you can also sound off through facebook. send us a tweet.. at foxbaltimore. and you can text your answer to 45203. enter fox45a for yes.. or fox45b for no. comparing the effects of taking medication... to working

dozens of bands including bonnie ray, steve martin will headline six stages. it's free. the event tries to infuse the spirit of the founder. >> i think about him all the time. i think everyone works their butts off for him. we just want to make sure it comes off right for him and his family. >> really a spectacular event. it takes place in the area of the park renamed helman hollow. >> i'll be there. try to find me. in the midst of the tension over the shutdown, a shooting on capitol hill forces a lockdown following a high speed chase from the white house. tonight, what we are learning about the woman behind the wheel. a small child in the car. and the incident that started it all. the big scare at the capitol, the latest on the shutdown. "nbc nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. we were in the midst of day three of the government shutdown when much more urgent, more dire news came out of the nation's capital this afternoon. a report of shots fired, people wounded on capitol hill

bonnie, help us understand.at is happening and what is it important for americans to worry and care about this? >> antiquities in syria ar are d hostage in this conflict. the country's full of great monuments, important ancient cities, archeological treasures that have never been discovered. there is just no way to protect them in this situation and chaos. >> we're just seeing terrible situations. one of the most important medieval castles has been used by rebels and we're showing it here. just an absolutely beautiful place but the rebels have taken it over and the syrian regime hit it with airstrikes. the most recent in july of this year. let's take a look at some of that. [ explosion ] >> and this is what the spectacular castle looks like now. is there anything that can be done to protect the site like this? >> yes, it's a difficult question. there is no legal way to enforce the convention since the signing of the protocol. there are few institutions which would suggest that professionals are sent to protect t

. >> hey, nurses, can you meet me by bonnie's desk?and once chris tucker and the other nurses in the infusion treatment area have had their say. >> does anyone needs the words? >> should we say, the song. ♪ the chemo's done and we're so excited for you ♪ ♪ hey now ♪ hey now ♪ the chemo's done >> for any patient who wants it, and many do, get their singing sendoff. it began with a patient having a real rough go of her treatment. >> the one day she said to us, i can't wait for this to be done. when i'm done, would you like sing for me? we said sure. having no idea. >> his differential is not back yet. >> with that request, a tradition among the staff was born. chris says sometimes they'll sing it twice a day. the light-hearted moments helping the staff deal a job that can be rather intense. still over the years, chris has come to realize their song does a lot more. >> this is for you. this is for you. okay. here we go. >> the musical bow at the end of chemotherapy goes a long way to rehumanizing what can often be a dehumanizing experienc

coming up next on jimmy kimmle, singer bonnie rate. >> i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson.s continues on-line and on twitter and all of your mobile devices with the new abc7 news app. we appreciate your time. have a great weekend.

the cats named luna, bonnie, and leo are all making a full recovery after receiving oxygen from theirescuers. all of the animals were returned to their owner. >>> right now a preview of an exclusive investigative unit report. drivers under the influence. we're not talking about alcohol here. our investigative unit finding drugs from prescriptions to illegal narcotics impairing those behind the wheel causing accidents that are not resulting in dui convictions. officers say drugs, of course, can affect your ability to drive, but identifying exactly what kind and the level of impairment is challenging. some police departments, they're now training officers as drug recognition experts trying to identify and get those dangers off the road. >> when there was the drug issue that was brought up, it was -- this wasn't an accident. it could have been prevented. it's such a risk to do that and then go out on the road and rip people's families apart. >> tonight at 11:00 our investigative unit has the powerful video telling the story of a young mother hit by a drunk driver and then left caught rig

enjoying heaven, bonnie. come join me. there's a gun in my nightstand. what happened with kate and everything, but i did have one more thought. yeah, what's that? well, since kate is blind, you could probably just do a different voice and go out with her all over again. brian (nasally): hey. are you kate? yes. hey, it's noah from jdate. oh, my god! hi! closed captioning is brought to you in part by... good call on the subway tuscan chicken melt, this thing is so good. i know, i was just posting about it. #delicious, #niceprice, #cheeseplease, #tangy, #vinaigretteisafunnyword... [ male announcer ] get your own tuscan chicken melt $6 footlong special. subway. eat fresh.

(door rattling) bonnie: joe, open the garage. i've earned this private time!a hostile takeover of a jelly factory. i'll show those smuckers. that's fine, but you can't drive. oh, don't be ridiculous! driver pete at your service, sir. peter, we're not doing that. aw. carter, you work too much as it is. you're not a young man anymore. you need to slow down. slow down?! i can't slow down. i'm running a six-billion- dollar company. if i slow down, the company goes under. it just seems to me that perhaps it's time to think about retirement. never! retirement's for old people. i can work till i die. maybe even after that. mr. pewterschmidt, the gentlemen from zurich are here for your 10:00. will you need anything else? mr. pewterschmidt! but, dear, we are old. we can't keep pretending that nothing's changed. i mean, we almost injured our grandchild today. besides, you're always complaining that you don't have enough time to play polo or sit in a chair and moisten your mouth. that is true. it does sometimes take me a while to moisten my mouth. there we go, all moist.

dozens of bands, including bonnie rate, and emmy lou harris are going to headline six stages, and allf this for free. the festival takes place in an area of golden gate park renamed hellman hall. it attracted a kwaut of a million people last year, and it continues tomorrow. the question is what kind of weather are they going to have? >> who should we ask? >> i think we'll ask the guy who had the perfect weather for his birthday today. >> happy birth day. >> thank you. thank you. yeah, it was beautiful outside. you know being temperatures are going to be very similar tomorrow. if you are making plans to get outside and get down to that bluegrass festival, you'll be looking at temperatures near 80 in san francisco. they got up to 83 downtown. 84 in redwood city. 85 in san jose. same in livermore. gilroy topped out at 93 degrees. now we are expecting, again, similar conditions for tomorrow. in fact, bodega bay, usually they don't get this warm. the average high 74. temperatures even at the coast going to continue to run about five, even 15 degrees above average for tomorrow and, again, b

tonight, will arnett, from "marvel's agents of shield," clark gregg, and music from bonnie raitt.d the cletones. and now, here's jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: thank you for coming to visit us here. wi

bonnie erickson, who designed her, described her as a truck driver who thinks he is a fashion model. [laughter] tavis: there are a couple of things you said. one of them is -- this is so uncommon in the world of needed today -- if the pilot doesn't catch fire, if the first half of the first season doesn't catch fire, somebody gets canned. infamously now -- i should say famously now, this thing didn't catch fire. stickand it was really a to address from jim. it did three times to get the muppet show on tv. he had been on variety shows in the 1960s. he knew they could work. he knew they could hold their own for 30 minutes. i'm a, after sesame street hit, he managed to convince michael eisner when he was i -- at abc to fund a pilot. the first pilot was called valentine show. it doesn't do anything. the second one is called the muppet show, sex and violence, which he thought was hilarious and it didn't catch fire either. those people after the first and cond would have said alright, that's a point to. jim knew that it would work. found someoney who invested in jim and said i will give yo

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[laughter] but "bonnie & clyde" gets in there, too, so it goes up to 2011.e idea was to take a fresh look and try to understand what is so basic and wonderful and marvelous about this, everyone says, basic american art form. and yet the intellectual and academic classes did not get to it until relatively recently. the first hundred years, no one cared about it at all. it was just there. i guess it was regarded as a wonderful entertainment and nothing more, but now people, academics are constantly taking a look and pulling aside the facade to see what the messages are. >> what are the messages? >> the best way i could explain it is, i have a friend who is a photographer and he recently took a cross-country trip, new york to california, by car, avoided all the big cities, just went to small towns, taking photographs. he got a book out of it, in fact. it's called "follow me." and he noticed that, everywhere he went, in the small towns -- we think of it as an idyll, as, life is simple, life is true -- they thought of it as being trapped in a world that has absol

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i don't know if you can listen but 200 yards away, bonnie raitt is singing and has been for about a half hour. one of 90 acts theer weekend. all by the end of the weekend, 100,000 people will have attended this festival. it's time to exercise patience. if you're missing employees we know where some of them may have been. >> did you play hooky? >> no. i just pray all day. >> chances are he got plenty of exercise with the music being played in golden gate park. that dancing. he passed away two years ago but bequeathed enough money for the concert to go another decade. >> he said this is the selfish thing he can do. because he loved being here this, is his idea of being in heaven, i'm sure he's in heaven listening to everyone of the acts. >> beginning with mc hammer opening the show once again, bringing san francisco middle schoolers into his act. >> i think all of the words because of the parents. you know? music got passed down and an invite says the performer has arrived or will, soon. so did jesse d and his band. >> well, just got to be worth it. so, got to be a good set. >> was it?. >>

so bonnie, the owner of the toys now she only has a limited amount of room in the backpack.se a few favorites. >> despite innovation, all of the technology sh creating animation is still a time consuming process. >> it's a long process but the new computer animation gives the artist almost unlimited flexibility. >> we're in a little world so it's, we do a chunk then give it away. we see how it fits in with other chunks. >> from story board to final rendering it's in the same league as big screen predecessors. >> i stepped in something. >> laura anthony abc 7 news. >> looks like fun. both pixar and abc 7 are owned by walt disney company. >> yes. >> sunny skies, nice way to end the week, plenty of sunshine coast and bay. along the temperatures temperatures upper 50s to 60s. not church change for saturday morning low clouds and sun. sunday clouds will be gone. shun will be out. and we'll see a warm up. >> larry beil enjoying the game at the coliseum tonight, larry. >> it's freezing as far as forecast out here this, game is turning into deja vu for a's and fans. we'll have highl

shaun white, apolo ohno, dick button or bonnie blair? >> shaun white?d olympian? >> apolo ohno and "dancing with the stars'" champion as well. >> he's a nice kid. >> he's friendly, nice guy, incredible speed skater. looks great in tights. >> look at you, johnny. >> back across to kathy. >> johnny is going to be an awesome addition to our winter coverage. he's so delightful. >>> he's from chicago. al and matt have teamed up to try all of the following olympic sports except? >> wrestling? >> no, they did that. >> what a day! >> you are so popular. okay. what is the one thing they did not do? >> they haven't figure skated. they synchronized. >> this was my favorite. is this the luge? and matt was on the bottom. matt was on the bottom. >> stackable. >> that and the wrestling was one of my favorites. >> that's so sexy. >> this lady is from washington state. >> which one is not a mascot for the sochi olympics? >> the snowman? >> how did you know that and break my record? >> oh. >> they have multiple mascots? >> russia was very specific in choosing very russia