clive davis said to jim, "do you ever listen to rock-and- roll?" he said you are like ethel merman, i think she is fine. they said, you are like robert goulet, that made me mad. i was down, it was 530 in the afternoon at broadway and 57th and i am standing in the middle of broadway, not on the sidewalk, in the middle of the street, screaming at the top of my lungs. i cannot repeat the language. just -- cabs are honking at me, and i am slapping the cab, going leave me alone. i am screaming at clive davis, after calling me ethel merman and robert goulet. they asked him if he had one h regret and he said yes, not signing meat loaf. tavis: how did you develop that style, rock opera? in 1972, i was put in " as you like it." >> the most money i had made with $6,500. and i had these patrons of the opera. come to me and offered me $60,000 a year to study for five years and make my debut at the met. i am a tenor, which means i sing as high as a tenor, it does not sound like it. that is all this. i sing the same notes as a tenor,it is big. when someone offer

celebrated her birthday in new york city with friends like clive davis.p making it happen. she has a new album that she is collaborating with her good friend clive davis. that she used to work with, back a long time ago. i know she is a nice lady. whitney houston's godmother and i was at her birthday party a couple years ago. class act. class act. greg? >> greg: speaking of class act, project runway all-star had the finale. the winner was mondo. i have been following him for a couple of years. literally and figuratively. >> kimberly: you have a man crush. >> greg: he has restraining order. i don't have a man crush. >> kimberly: you do. >> greg: he 2010 all-star. congrats. >> dana: have you met him? >> greg: no. >> dana: invite him on "red eye." >> greg: why don't you? >> kimberly: i'm fine. good. more free time on my calendar. eric? >> eric: can we throw the picture up there of my one more thing. b.f.e. remember joe biden had the real open mic mistake, the gaffe. turns out the obama campaign is selling the t-shirt for $30. they have come around. >> greg:

and again, just last year, at clive davis' pregrammy gala. ♪ that's what friends are for >> she was therl i never had. >> reporter: today, on "gma," deionne spoke for the first time since that terrible day. when was the last time you spoke to whitney? >> i spoke to whitney the day she died. spoke to her that morning. she was so up and ready. happy. i mean, she had everything in the world to live for. you know? >> reporter: we learned that in her will, whitney houston left her entire estate to her only child, bobbi kristina brown. the 19-year-old will have to wait until she's 30 to inherit everything. financially, she will be supported. but emotionally -- >> that's the one thing i love about my family. we are a family. so, she has support that she actually has. >> reporter: as for dionne warwick? she says she is finally starting to heal. >> i am -- i'm heading towards being okay. i think the comfort comes in knowing that she's in good hands now. she's in the best hands right now. she has greeted and been greeted, not only by the heavenly father. but my mother, her aunts and uncles, her f

houston had planned to attend clive davis' pregrammy party and it shocked and saddened the world. she leaves behind her daughter and a musical legacy that will be remembered forever. stephanie stanton, nbc news los angeles. >>> in texas, police raided what were two active moonshine still making bootleg booze that goes for $100 a pint. neighbors are also accused of helping cook the 190 proof alcohol. police say the stills could have easily caused an explosion. >>> elsewhere in texas, a neighborhood is under siege from a pack of wild chihuahuas. it's believed a man who was a hoarder had kept the dogs until he vanished last week. animal control workers have been trying to keep up. neighbors say the dogs are killing cats in the area. >>> in california, happy hour is hitting the road i guess you could say. this is called a bar cycle. it's a human powered rolling watering hole. the company behind it hopes to rent it out for parties but before you crack open a cold one while pedaling, be warned, in most cases there is no drinking allowed on public streets, only on private property. >>> f

houston had planned to a tend clive davis' pre-grammy party. she leaves behind a musical legacy that will forever be remembered. >> reporter: here's your first look at other news going on around america today. in texas, police raided what they say were two active moonshine stills at a home making bootleg booze that goes for $100 a pint. neighbors are also accused of helping cook the 190-proof alcohol. police say the stills could have caused an explosion. >>> a neighborhood is under siege from a pack of wild chihuahuas. a man kept the dogs until he b vanished last week. neighbors say the dogs are killing cats in the area. >>> happy hour is hitting the road, the bar cycle. a human powered rolling watering hole. before you crack open a cold one while peddling, be warned, in most cases there is no drinking a i loued on public streets, only private property. >>> it's only the replica of a giant snake, but it's a life-sized copy of a massive prehistoric snake. it's said to have roamed the earth 60 million years ago. on display in new york. it will sl

names in music and movies singing and speaking in her honor, including alicia keys, stevie wonder, clive davis, and kevin costner. after a fairly mild winter, a snowstorm hits the south, dumping several inches of snow, causing power outages, slippery roads, and several accidents during the presidents' day holiday weekend. >> i was wearing shorts not too long ago, so it's like a really weird, weird winter. >> crews working to restore power to thousands of homes that lost electricity. as much as 9 inches of snow fell in some areas, as the storm moved its way across the south. finally, a happy ending for elizabeth smart, the young girl who was taken from her childhood home at knifepoint in 2002, when she was only 14 years old. smart married her boyfriend, matthew gilmour, in a private spur-of-the-moment hawaiian ceremony. the two met while doing mormon mission work in paris. smart was found in march 2003. her captors, brian david mitchell and his wife, wanda barzee, are both serving prison sentences. for "teen kids news," i'm laura ingle, "fox news channel in the classroom." >> it's a place most

houston had planned to attend clive davis's pre-grammy party the night she died. her death shocked and saddened the world. houston leaves behind daughter bobbi kristina and a musical legacy that will forever be remembered. stephanie stanton, nbc news, los angeles. >>> a traffic alert for the morning rush in montgomery county. there's going to be an anti-terrorism exercise at walter reed medical center. that is expected to cause some delays tomorrow in bethesda. officials at walter reed say nobody outside of the campus is going to see anything out of the ordinary. but there will be increased security at the entrance gates. and that could back up traffic on those surrounding roads. >>> mayor vincent gray wants the skins to move their practice facility back into the district. tonight the mayor spoke to a crowd on capitol hill, a crowd of about 200 people tonight. the mayor wants the team to build a training facility on land near rfk stadium. he says it could boost the local economy and tourism. critics, though, say the 30 acres would be better used for housing or nei

and actors don't make and hey -- and clive davii, at clive davis and i was mad at him for years. >> smithgreat new york times theater critic. >> meat loaf: no, no. >> smith: no, excuse me not about clive davis.re talking >> meat loaf: yeah, clive daviss >> smith: the great music impresario. >> meat loaf: and i was angrr with him. >> smith: right. and i'll tell you -- and so looked at me and he said you're an actor. aators don't make rock records. you're like ethel merran. and he said to jim, turned to jim and i, and he said do you know anything about rock-n-roll? and i -- and i was getting angrier and jim didn't say anything. and i urned to him and i said, this man is a walking eecyclopedia of rock-n-roll. how dare you sit thhre and say to him that he doesn't know anything about rock-n-roll? he says not only are you like robert goulet. and that made meemad. [laughter] >> smith: that was the end. to ethel merman, but i draw the line aa goulet. >> meat loaf: i-i love ethel& merman..3 >> smith: right, yeah. [laughter] >>>meat loaf: i absolutely adore ethel meeman.3 -ú>> smith: yeah. >> meat

but the last time i saw whitney was actually i think it was either the bahamas or one of clive davis'which is now probably becoming three years. we were on tour together for three weeks in germany. me, deion, and whitney. she was in good health, good voice. it was wonderful. i've known her as a little girl. 19 years old i saw her. and she just had such wonderful success. but i have to, you know, refer also to what kevin costner said at the funeral. that she really was so afraid of what people were saying about her. she had this guilt. she never was totally confident about who she was and what she had. >> how big a problem -- and i've talked to a few people about this. and i got a real sense that perhaps her biggest demon was losing the magical voice that she couldn't hit those big notes again. >> i would think that would be devastating. >> destroying her. >> yeah. >> can you relate to that? >> i had to cancel a show about two years ago. i got hoarse and couldn't sing. the doctor said if you try to sing anyway, you'll ruin your voice. i had to cancel which was mortifying but it doesn't

her room last month just hours before she was settled to appear at a pre grammy awards party for clive davisetery after an emotional for our service that was attended by friends, family and celebrities. easton is survived by her ex-husband and their daughter 18 year old bobby christina. this >>stanley: apparently, some people like watching people behave badly but they are not a big fan of being caught beating badly. this i am at the van ness and debate in san francisco just outside of galileo high school but i am not alone. this intersection has a huge problem but it is only during certain times of the day. at 8:00 p.m. i will show you a traffic violation that happens so often hit is a virtual, goal line of violators. it is probably not a good idea to argue semantics of a traffic ticket here that is coming up in the next edition of people behaving badly. let them score or her and her birds are rocketed into space to reify will give the look of the new game coming up in my tech report. far far finn have ... a hung but the and a and put the and a and put manhasweetheart.nt we need to talk. i'v

>> you're talking about clive davis's pregrammy part. >> i said i'm going to be here. once i landed in l.a. that was it. >> no -- you had no -- >> she was so up and ready and happy and -- and she had everything in the world to live for. you know. new film. that was absolutely a dream to make and do. >> "sparkle." >> and completed that. she was getting ready to go back in the studio to record. getting the vocals together. it's still very, very surreal. it hasn't sunk in yet. >> you talked to her hours before. a lot of concern also about bobbi kristina, her daughter. there was overnight news that the estate will go to her. we know financially she'll be supported. emotionally -- >> she will have. the one thing i love about my family. we are family. so she has the support she needs. >> whatever she needs. >> absolutely. >> i'm going to play a little bit. i understand this is your favorite song from miss whitney mous houston. can we play it? ♪ so i'm saving all my love >> can we get a kleenex for miss warwick. what is it? >> it's the reason she became whitney. just out of t

. >> this is a gray dress she wore at the pre-grammy party of clive davis in 1996. for her fashion so these are items that are one of a kind items made for whitney houston. we estimate because whitney's collectability has not really been determined yet, not a lot of her items have come up for auction, so we conservatively estimate these items 1 to $2,000 each on the dresses. >> a dress might sell regularly for 1 to $2,000 without having been worn by whitney houston to a world famous glamorous hollywood party. what are your genuine expe expectations for how much that dress could fetch. >> i anticipate it could sell for 10 to $20,000. this is the first time her items have ever come up for auction. on march 31st we'll know what her collectability is. >> to the right of that dress is this beautiful velvet purple dress, very, very low cut with a broach on the waistband. >> yes. another one of a kind dress made for whitney houston. she wore it in the 1990s. and it was -- we have photographs and video of her wearing it on stage during a performance. >> so how critical is t

party at a new york city hotel saturday night announcing she has partnered with old friend producer clive davisproduce a new album. she hopes to start on this later this spring with a release date by the end of the year. and the party included diane sawyer and form ter fiance but willie. >> i love it. >> more complaints about the ipad 3 following consumer reports. >> glad i didn't buy one. >> following tests, the new tablet last week cned.com is here -- cnet.com is comeshowing losing wi-fi connectivity. and customers are burning through their power. >> i am throwing mine in the garbage today i am glad i stayed with my ipad 2. we talked about this. i figured out how to connect to my wireless. all of that stuff. facetime on the ipad. >> pretty cool? >> really cool. >> sweet. >> thank you dan. yes, indeed. a lot happening in the case of trayvon martin which we have been talking about on the bill press show. president obama, you may remember last monday a week ago and and we spoke to jay carney about this. i was the only one-to ask whether the white house had any comment and the president had talke

she is doing an album with her old mentor, clive davis.n it will be spectacular. you might remember, davis helped revitalize her career in the '80s so everybody hoping they can recapture some of that old magic together. i for one will never tire of listening to the queen of soul singing, one of the greatest voices and a nice woman with a great spirit on top of that. >> i know. she is so down to earth. thanks, aj. we appreciate it. >>> want information on everything breaking in the entertainment world? aj has it at 11:00 eastern on hln. >>> guess what, the new york jets are introducing their brand-new quarterback today. you've probably heard tim tebow is the new kid in town. wonder how starter mark sanchez feels about that. really. we'll have more on that story. in less than ten minutes. ♪ when your chain of supply goes from here to shanghai, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ chips from here, boards from there track it all through the air, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ clearing customs like that hurry up no time flat that's logistics. ♪ ♪ all new technology up