now poised for a comeback with clive davis. >> i picked up the phone and called her one day and i said back to work. she was a little stunned. >> reporter: 3 1/2 years later, houston is about to release her first album in seven years. "i look to you" is filled with songs of triumph over adversity, written by others but true to her life. >> is this emotional? absolutely. is this a personal feeling of gratification, apprehension, anxiety, concern as she gets into rigors? yeah, very much so. >> reporter: reviews have mostly been good, including "usa today" and "billboard," even while acknowledging that time and hard living have shaved some notes off that range. >> nobody of her age can. and the great ones find ways around it. >> reporter: houston returns to a changed musical landscape, dominated by much younger singers, miley, taylor, beyonce. an online promotional video reminds the world of a whitney so good she sold 170 million albums and singles. can her star rise again? >> my mail would indicate that the world is rooting for whitney houston. >> chris jansing, nbc news. >> nbc news con

that delefinne inthy o of e reasons why clive davis wbl ae to get half the music industry in new yorker just to see her. you know what i mean? i think we're all anxious for that. >> one thing i did read is that she will not be giving many -- or any live interviews and will not really be touring at all. why is that? does she not want to put herself out there? >> i mean at her age it's going to be difficult to do those big songs, big note, use that voice the way she used to do, night after night. she's going to need two, three, four nights to rest the voice before she can go again. here is another problem for her. at her age it's hard to tour, you know. as i said, it's hard to get exposure. how do you pull new people into your tent when you can't go out and touchhem at the garden, staple center, et cetera? maybe wel see her do one or two big dates. you can't do a ton. regular people are saying now you have to pay attention to that instant messaging of twitter and facebook. if she goes to radio city music hall even and doesn't have a perfect night, twitter and the whole world tells you t

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>> and susan weinberg, right behind you is clive and we want to introduce him. >> what was your role. >> hello. >> what was your role

clive edited and asked if he would write the introduction he has written several books he comments on npr and seems to have the right touch. >> host: let's divan and pick a page and see what we find and you can explain it. as i lay on dead and dying. >> guest: there were a lot of zombie contributions. there were a lot of contributions from certain authors. i don't know if i have that right in front of me but if we come over here we have people who have that information. do you have a sheet of the most seek well titles? that is what we're looking for write now. >> i do not. >> host: what are you working on? >> good digital audio in addition and right now i am waiting for a final audiophiles to come from michigan from the the studio i will prove them right here in the booth with had found the ones i am okay i will upload to the site and let all of the mentors know that the body of music is an overdrive they can pull down the file and put them on their side d&b will have the audio edition. >> host: you have already recorded the audio edition? why in michigan? >> guest: we have a great re

timothy wirth later served as president clinton's clive -- climate change negotiator. bill makes no sense. he said, "the republicans, in fact, are right. it is a cap and tax bill. that is what it is because they're raising revenue to do all sorts of things." you heard it here first. a democrat thinks republicans are right. the white house has build the town halls as a chance for president obama to hear from the american people. a closer look at last week's event in portsmouth, new hampshire, reveals the only reason barack obama is interested is because he wants to hear from himself. are around 10,000 words were spoken in new hampshire, 8000 of which came from the president's mouth. he spoke almost 90% of the time. when he says he wants to go it alone, maybe that is what he needs. we continue with a bomb shell from "the wall street journal." gecko vo: geico's the third-largest car insurance company in the nation. but, it's not like we're kicking back, now, havin' a cuppa tea. gecko vo: takes lots of sweat to become that big. gecko vo: 'course, geckos don't literally swe

. >> and now look, cleveland traded cc sabathia a few years ago and clive lee the past year and toughtting rid of the cy young award winners. >> oh, my gosh, i would love to have the two guys in our stuff and ace, the number two guy like that on our staff with all of our young guys. we would be a dynasty tough to beat for awhile. >> felix pa is in left field today in the starting lineup and seems like he has gotten his stroke down the last month. >> he has. i am worried today whether or not that kind of cramp or pulled hamstring he had yesterday might limit them. he's a kid that wants to be out there applying aught the time. you have to ad-- playing there all the time. offensively, he is really coming on strong and his swing is getting pure. the guys in minor league .300 hitter and i think he's bringing it to the big league now. >> does he have more power than you thought? >> reporter: think everyone is surprised by the fact that once he gets ahead of the bat, this guy has good juice, especially here at camden yards. >> no doubt about it. ever since the trade of aubrey huff is getting

clive for my uncle's stand against violence, hit, and war and his belief that peace can be kept throughhe triumph of justice and the interest of justice can come only through the were suppresseworks of peaco the lord. >> lord, hear our prayer. >> as my uncle teddy once told thousands of millions, maybe said of us in part -- in dark passages and bright days, in the words of tennyson, that my brothers quoted and love and will have special meaning for us and now, i am part of all that i have met. though much is taken, much of lights. that which we are, we are, one equal temperature rocard, strong-willed, to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield, we pray to the lord. >> lord, hear our prayer. >> for the joy of my uncle teddy's laughter, the light >> for his surrender and noble contributions to the human spirit, for his face in heaven, his father, his mother, his brothers and sisters, and all who went before him who welcomed him home and for all the times to come when the rest of us will think of him, cuddling affectionately on the boat, surrounded by family as we sailed the nantucket s

as a footnote, my colleague, norm ornstein, wrote a piece about a month ago challenging pieces of clive crook in the "financial times" and others in the "post" have written criticizing the style of leadership. norman argued that given what h called the dysfunctionality of congress, it was better for the president to hang back. i then wrote a piece that said, i won't challenge you -- though i don't agree with you, i won't challenge you really on the stimulus package or health care, but in trade, if the president hangs back, it's going to be a disaster, because particularly in the house, i think there's a lot of mischief that will come forward. and we've seen this -- i'm not going to go into details, some of my colleagues here may talk about this -- we have seen this with such things as "buy america," with the amendment that cut off the -- the small programs with the mexican trucks and coming down the road of equal and more important i think -- and we don't know how this will play out -- is a direct challenge to presidential authority on the climate change bill, where the proposed tariff

as a footnote, my colleague, norm ornstein, wrote a piece about a month ago challenging pieces of clive crook in the "financial times" and others in the "post" have written criticizing the style of leadership. norman argued that given what h called the dysfunctionality of congress, it was better for the president to hang back. i then wrote a piece that said, i won't challenge you -- though i don't agree with you, i won't challenge you really on the stimulus package or health care, but in trade, if the president hangs back, it's going to be a disaster, because particularly in the house, i think there's a lot of mischief that will come forward. and we've seen this -- i'm not going to go into details, some of my colleagues here may talk about this -- we have seen this with such things as "buy america," with the amendment that cut off the -- the small programs with the mexican trucks and coming down the road of equal and more important i think -- and we don't know how this will play out -- is a direct challenge to presidential authority on the climate change bill, where the proposed tariff