including the title track from his new album "clancy's tavern." >> teal me about clancy's tavern. >>o i took all of the people that were in there and i just brought clancy's, my grandmother's hot tavern back to life again. ♪ ♪ how do you like me now now that i'm on my way ♪ >> reporter: if it seems he is feeling nostalgic, perhaps he is. he left home for country music's capital, nashville. that first trip was a short one. >> playing those bars and just writing songs and taking them in and getting rejected and saying, you know, there's a thousand just like you here in nashville. fortunately, they came to oklahoma and found me. it takes finding somebody who thinks the same way you do to open that first door. ♪ >> reporter: the a few years later, that door finally opened. and in 1993, tobey keith got his first taste of success with "should of been a cowboy." ♪ i should of been a cowboy i should have learned to rope and ride ♪ >> reporter: he covers the country music theme. beers, bars, horses and smoking ♪ smoking through the front door puts a big smile on my face ♪ >> reporter: but it'

we want to leave you this morning with toby keith performing his latest hit single, clancy's tavern.in new york city. great place to visit if you have a chance. we also want to give you a look of all of the people that help make "the early show" on cbs each morning. enjoy your thanks giving. ♪ ♪ any minute the 5:00 crowd will be coming ♪ ♪ taps will be flowing with beer ♪ ♪ and cigarette smoke soon to be rising and at 5:30 clancy gets here ♪ ♪ she no longer faces, she practically raised him and that's why they're loyal and true ♪ ♪ they'll pay their tab and that pays the light bill and shell's keep their glass full of brew ♪ ♪ and the wilders and drivers and old 9 to 5ers and regular joes of the world ♪ ♪ singing here's to you, clancy, and your neighborhood tavern ♪ ♪ poor me another, my girl ♪ a waitress named lilly shows up at 7 to make sure the service is great ♪ ♪ there's a black dude named elmo that cooks in the kitchen, burgers and chicken fried steak ♪ ♪ at around 9:00 the bound will start playing, the music will fill up the air ♪ ♪ then they'll take a break of her 45 minutes,

these campaigns were tom clancy -esque thrillers but in real life filled with drama, tragedy, couragend a gallery of larger-than-life figures in the men pursued in the american warriors dedicated to apprehending. excuse me once that. click to read three excerpts from the book to sort of chemistry. starting off with my favorite bad guy of the word. historical revisionism has been kind to many individuals targeted by u.s. strategic manhunts. geronimo and punch he had been romanticized hollywood. the gusto, sandino in shared icons to leftists throughout the world. even osama bin laden was reared by significant proportion of the islamic world despite the large number of months is killed in al qaeda's attacks. despite the appealing image of a third world david battling class of the u.s. what terry is highly unlikely history will be so kind to general man while antonio noriega. most of america's apparent tightness has an admirable quality, with a sheer physical courage or commitment to cause the weather misguided it's difficult to find any redeemable traits and noriega. short course and alc

crowd will be coming taps will be flowing with beer ♪ ♪ and great smoke soon to be rising at 5:30 clancyhat is why they are loyal and true ♪ ♪ they will pay their tab and that pays the light bill ash and she will keep their glass pull of room ♪ ♪ the welders and drivers and nine to fivers and regular joe's of the world notes ♪ singing to clancy and your neighborhood tavern pour me another my girl ♪ ♪ a waitress named lily shows up at 7:00 to make sure the service is great ♪ ♪ there's a black dude named elmo that cooks in the kitchen burgers and chicken fried steak ♪ ♪ around 9:00 the band will stop playing the music will fill up the air ♪ ♪ then they will take a break every 45 minutes the jukebox takes over from there ♪ ♪ and welders and drivers and the old nine to fivers and the regular joe's of the world ♪ ♪ singing here's to you clancy and your neighborhood tavern pour me another my girl ♪ ♪ it's 1:35 last call is upon us it's time to settle the score ♪ ♪ hey, won't you call me a cab and bring me my tab and while you're at it, hell, bring me one more ♪ ♪ she has cleaned up the table a

back to you, brooke. >> jim clancy in cairo, thank you. >>> and now to chad myers. you were talking about snow possibly in the east and we got it. >> but we still have bread and milling on the shelves. we're okay. >> but we saw some reports of multiple inches and that's not fun to drive in. >> the roads were about 35 degrees and so the bridges were a little slick. >> not so bad? >> not so bad. we call it the dirty snow man event. >> dirty snowman? >> there's not enough snow and you've got leaves in it. >> how are you trying to make a snowman with three inches of snow? >> pardon me? >> three inches of snow? >> yes. this is the south. come on, you haven't seen my son make a snowman. may only be a few inches tall but it's still a snowman to him. arkansas saw the first snow of the year. not an early breaking snow event but still early and at times if hu to drive in it, maybe not so pretty. let's get to the event here. from western ten knee so parts of memphis and mississippi and alabama, that's where the snow really was. now it's shifting on up into michigan and indiana

really a severe challenge for the united states in the run up to the iraq war so of course i think clancy might be considered by the american government the best of the available options but you gyptian people want genuine democracy they don't want an interim government appointed by those who are really still be institutions of power from the mubarak. era dottie we are closely following the protests in cairo website of seeds of all because you can watch the footage from tahrir square and see the makers of eloquence they can also visit our you tube channel many videos. as egyptians or lose their lives in the fight changing their country western powers have been slow to condemn the violence the u.s. says only that is concerned about the excessive force that's being used on protesters as our correspondent there reports that the focus of the western allies for now remains else where. egypt descends into chaos once more the first signs of cracks appearing in the arab spring it's been the focus of the world's media spotlight but western leaders are turning a blind eye instead setting their sigh

really a severe challenge to the united states in the run up to the iraq war so of course i think clancy might be considered by the american government to be available options but the egyptian people want genuine democracy they don't want an interim government appointed by those who are really still the institutions of power from the mubarak. ali are closely following the protests in cairo on our website which is r.t. dot com second log on any time you like and watch licenses from time for you square and see the latest developments as they happen and you could also visit our you tube channel or you spend updates. as egyptians lose their lives in the fight for change in their country western powers have been slow to condemn violence the u.s. says only that its concerns about the excessive force that's been used on protesters so correspond i don't benefit poor it's a focus of the western allies remains. egypt descends into chaos once more the first signs of cracks appearing in the arab spring it's been the focus of the world's media spotlight but western leaders turning a blind eye instead

really a severe challenge to the united states in the run up to the iraq war so of course i think clancy might be considered by the american government the best to be available options but the egyptian people want to genuine democracy they don't want an interim government appointed by those who are really still be institutions of power from the mubarak. now we're going back to our correspondent there hope she hears this poem can you hear me. well yes we were talking about protesters and in fact the question to ask before how far are they willing to go i mean it's been the six day they're protesting there in the square. well here in tampa square there are several hundred so-called diehards who remained overnight there simply going nowhere may reflect the general mood and sentiment of tens of thousands of people many of those people have gone home but no doubt they will return later in the day now the protesters who are here many of them are still sleeping there had old in blankets the side of buildings many of them are keeping themselves warm makes two fires just walking around town here

really a severe challenge for the united states in the run up to the iraq war so of course i think clancy might be considered by the american government the best of the available options but the gyptian people want to genuine democracy they don't want an interim government appointed by those who are really still be institutions of power from the mubarak then clearly the military hasn't got a tight grip on what the people will want to see right now they have to be able to suppress this very vocal and indeed a violent protest y.c. happening now all of a sudden just a week before the elections we're seeing this uprising. yes i think that this is a genuine revolution all all the great revolutions of the past two centuries the french revolution the russian revolution all the great classic revolutions go through multiple stages there's always the feeling by the powers that be that the revolution has gone far enough but the people who are in the streets who have suffered so much in the case of the gyptian young people and workers who have lost more than a thousand dead and tens of thousands in p

. >>> and you'll remember it was a jaw-dropping headline, straight out of a tom clancy novel.er cell of russian spies living and working out of the u.s. suburbs. one of them, a glamorous woman posing for provocative photos. and it led to the biggest spy swap since the cold war. well, today, the fbi released their tapes, showing the spies in action. here's abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: russian spies in america, conducting convert covert missions to steal defense secrets, in broad daylight. watch as one spy meets another in a long island railway station. they make a quick handoff, right there. the transaction? $300,000 and a computer disc. remember russian femme fatale anna chapman, the spy who clubbed at new york city's trendiest spots? watch her go to work using james bond high tech. there's chapman, hanging out in a department store. butch she's using a hidden computer to transmit an encrypted message to this russian spy outside. >> these were the cream of the crop, hand picked out of the russian intelligence academy. >> reporter: the russians stole the identities of dead

more can handle it and anybody can what's the big deal i sort of the fox like maxim writes like roan clancy you want to talk about the penn state scandal. torturing but he believes having somebody space in the sand and firing a gun right above their head like terrify them i don't know i mean he got in trouble for that right now sure is a great authority on the morality of torture you know that we got was just. let's move on. but gimmicks you know we've heard a lot about the sneaky ways the super committee is actually trying to get out of having to do with they're supposed to be doing as a super committee which is agreeing upon one point two trillion dollars in cuts whether it comes from actual cuts or revenues and yesterday we were telling you about how they wanted to use word savings turns out that they might be changing. when washington they're looking at a paltry little one point two trillion in shavings i want to call it savings and what what do we know if we believe they're going to come up with a deal because now they're saying it's not so much going to be a success as it's going to b

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jim clancy, cnn, cairo. >>> we want to go beyond the headlines, we've seen how difficult it is for aestablish itself after the fall of a dictator or election. how is egypt going to get its footing? joining us, the director of the middle east center at the london school of economics and author of the book "the rise and fall of al qaeda." thank you for being with us. you see what's going on in egypt with the election so far. what do you make of how it's going on the ground? >> i think so far so good. i mean basic by the voting, we're talking 50 and 80% of egyptians are voting. this is really a historic moment. since 1952, when the military took over from the old regime, egyptians really have not had the chance to freely cast a ballot and elect their representatives. and that's why this is a moment of hope. this is really a moment of empowerment. and that's why many egyptians are trying to really -- it's a moment of self-determination, even though many egyptians are not celebrating the moment in the same way that the tunisians did a few weeks ago. >> help us understand this because they

. >>> tom clancy-type stuff.in a "nightline" interview she talked about a time right after september 11th when the president and most of his inner circle thought they were poisoned and that they would die. she was with the president when vice president dick cheney bluntly delivered the news. >> we were in shanghai, actually, when the vice president came on the screen and said that the white house detectors had detected botch 11 toxins and those of us exposed were going to die. >> he said that? >> he said that. and everybody freezing and the president saying, what was that, what was that, dick? >> including the president. >> including the president. >> wow. >> rice said it took another 24 hours before they found out the tests were negative. >> i cannot even imagine how that would feel. she also talked about moammar gadhafi's obsession with her. >> were you aware that he had a strange and shall i say creepy fixation on secretary of state condoleezza rice? did you know that? >> i was aware. several of my foreign min

. >> jim clancy, thanks, jim. >>> a texas teenager takes his own life worried about his illegal immigrationhe would never achieve success without the passage of the dream act. the dream act legislation would provide residency to illegal immigrants who arrived in the united states as minors. >>> and a cheating scandal. 18-year-old michael pom rats accused of collecting $500 in exchange for taking the s.a.t. test for another student. he faces felony fraud charges. another unidentified student faces a misdemeanor for paying someone to take his test for him. so far 20 students have been arrested. >>> bug news for the buckeyes. a brand new football coach. headed back to his alma mater. he began his career there. he says he's honored and humbled to return. urban meyer. >>> and good morning, jacqui, in the extreme weather center. >> snow to start you out this morning in the south. yeah. believe it or not. proof in the pictures. look at this video out of jackson, tennessee from last night and early this morning. but look at the roadways. for the most part they're wet. three inches of snow in jackso

i think one would have thought that the member was auditioning for a tom clancy film. it would sound very fantastic, very unlikely, and almost like science fiction or a spy thriller. i wish september 11, 2001, had been fiction. i wish we did not have to go to those funerals and comfort those families who suffer even today. i wish that were the fact. and there will be some who will say the scenario we talked about earlier, about a nuclear i.e.d. exploding in time's square, the national mall, or nfl football game is too provocative or too sensational or too scary. i hope they are absolutely right. i hope it's total fiction. but i think we ought to know better. i think we ought to know better that there is a regime which has demonstrated its deceit, which has man fested its evil toward its own people and to our troops in the middle east. that has used language that is more than just purple hang language. it's language -- purple language. it's language that goes beyond the pale of annihilation and israel and all that would stand with israel and now standards accused or per