beverly, billy joel or elton john? >> i love them both and i'd be there if i weren't there. >> that's the con census here. very balanced. >> to other news now, is the pentagon prepared to respond in ace case of a biological terror attack? they tested their readiness today when a truck sprayed a harm less substance in the air to simulate an attack and more than 100 volunteers took part. t results of the simulation is crucial to keeping the public safe. time now for a check on how the weather is shaping up for your sunday. meteorologist steve is here. >> beverly, things are sort starting to improve her. here. we're watching a cold frornt. that will swing through during the overnight hours bringing with it showers and thorbles. the core of the nas weather to the north and east of us. hammering new jersey right now. we're going to look for slightly cooler temperatures tomorrow with lower humidity. right now 62 to 64 for a nighttime temp. coming up we will take a look at the extended outlook and the beach forecast for tomor

billy joel and elton john will perform, but is metro ready? hn gonzalez has more. >> it is quickly filling up. people are a little bit nervous about their reign, but hopefully it will not come back. the sellout crowd of about 39,000 as expected for this first-ever concert at nationals park, the legal and national -- billy joel and elton john. team officials say they were honored and excited. they say more events like these mean more revenue for the city. it is no secret that the nationals' attendance has been subpar. team officials say this is something they want to do more often. pope benedict also celebrated an historic mass. large crowds are always a concern in this area. we spoke with neighbors this week. they are worried it tonight. we spoke with one resident who rode her bike from about a block away who was very excited to try to get one of the last seats tonight. >> because it is so intimate, you could see anything from anywhere in the park. i think this concert is going to be great. i have never lived so close that i could actually trie

i'm sure it will be phenomenal. >> reporter: billy joel and elton john are bringing the face to face concert tour to washington. tickets are still available, just how much the promoter is not saying. the ballpark hold 39,000 paying customers. they are adding and reconfiguring seats due to the show. no sign of pianos just yet but this lone ground keeper has his work cut out for him. >> they will put a bunch of chairs on your grays. >> it will be covered. >> reporter: he said the field will be covered. thousand of concertgoers will be sitting in seats placed in the outfield. officials are saying parking is available but ug you take metro. >> we are half a block from the green yard and we encourage people to take the metro, especially an entertainment venue where people may be drinking and having a good time. the last thing you want to do is getting in your car and driving. if you want to drive and zoom up, we have plenty of parking. >> reporter: here is one of two truckloads of folding chairs th will be heading inside soon. gates open at 6:00. concert starts at 7:30. officials are not

elton john came back on stage and thanked the technicians.anticipated concert sold out the 40,000 seats. >> what a show. they are so talented. both of them. >> i want to say i saw them 15 years ago, and billy joel is full of energy, and elton john is proper, and english, and sounds like last night he was a little upset. >> yeah. >>> good morning, here is the deal. a weak front is making its way across the area. we are going to see the front shift the winds, at least on the backside of the front. and this is going to bring in less humid weather. a very comfortable sunday afternoon. albeit a warm sunday afternoon, with temperatures climbing into the mid-and upper 80s. and it looks like the george washington parkway. and it's warm already this morning. 81 degrees here in the district under mostly clearskies. and the winds northwesterly, and the front pushed through. and it's breezy out there. the dew point in the mid-60s, and it's muggy, but that will come down in the next few hours. 83, dallas. phoenix, 6:00 in the morning, and it's 92 degrees.

elton john and billy joel. first ever concert at nationals park is wrapping up now.ae chinn with more. >> reporter: fans are moving out right now. you can hear them on stage still and you can see kind of the crowds out there singing their last song. but here at nationals park did not disappoint. saturday night was all right for fans at the face-to-face concert bringing the rocket man and piano man on stage for the first of its kind at nationals park stadium. >> i cannot believe billy joel. he is amazing. >> reporter: as the sun went down the crowd got to see quite a piano performance after a mishap with elton john's piano. >> we will get it figured out. >> reporter: a concert that lasted almost four hours. fans fans even enjoyed the concert from out the concert gates and now worried about the train ride home. >> this worked out really well. >> we will probably leave early because it will be packed i'm sure. ♪ i hope you don't mind ♪ i hope you don't mind ♪ how wonderful life is >> reporter: fans right now on their. billy joel just finishing piano man and hoping for a

elton john and bill yankee joel set to take the stage. >>> they're setting the stage, getting ready to raise the lights smack dab in the middle of center field. there is still lots of work to be done before saturday night's big show. the first large scale concert at nationals park. >> we're excited about it. we've done some smaller concerts, of course, as part of what we do at nationals park as a ball club but this is major, as you can imagine. i'm sure it will be phenomenal. >> reporter: billy joel and elton john are bringing their face to face concert tour to washington this weekend. we are told tickets are still available. the ballpark can hold 39,000 paying customers. the nats are adding and reconfiguring the seats due to the staging of the show which is still in progress. this lone grounds keeper has his work out out for him trying to keep the grass in good shape. he says the field will be covered before saturday night. thousands of concert goers will besitting in seats place in the the yowled field. washington nationals officials are saying parking is available but suggest you ta

billy joel and elton john will top the weekend concerts. the stadium is being transformed from a ballpark to a concert venue. and the stage is in the nationals outfield. tickets for saturday night's show are still available. >>> still ahead, on 9 news now, a man hospitalized for two months comes home to find that all of his belongings are in the street. a sad story. we will have details when we come back. >>> president obama, the first lady and their two daughters meet pope benedict xvi. i'm charlie d'agata at erthe vatican. we will have the story coming up. having the right tools is crucial to being able to manage your diabetes properly. it's very important for me to uh check my blood sugar before i go on stage. being on when i'm feeling low can be like a rollercoaster. it does at times feel like my body is telling me to do one thing... and, my mind, my heart is telling me to do something else. managing my highs and lows is super important. with my contour meter i can personalize my high/lo settings so it really does micromanage where my b

we're told there were some problems with elton john's audio early on prompting him to storm off the stagebilly joel picked up the slack pretending to fix the problem. eventually technicians got everything working and elton came back on stage, apologizes and thanks the technicians. the concert sold out all of the park's nearly 40,000 seats. still to come, preparing for the worst. while powder is sprayed at the pentagon and while it may have looked like an emergency, it was all just a drill. nasa scrubs tonight's launch of "endeavour." >>> and music wasn't just in the air. it was underwater tonight at a con sertd in florida. >> coming up in sports, u.s. soccer continues its quest for the gold cup. the orioles need extras against the blu jays, plus the nates make history with help from hoton. ho (bell ringing) woo-hoo!!!! woo-hoo!!!! woo-hoo!!!! woo-hoo!!!! kobak. mr. miller (announcer) everyone's heading to arby's for the ofcifi5 $ combo of summer. featuring arby's new bbq bacon cheddar roastburger with curly fries and a drink for only $5. big on bbq taste, it's the $5 combo done better. >>

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from elton john to guns and roses to madonna, one group has represented a group of musicians. their latest addition is said to have a great voice. they're deciding is the pope -- their new signing. after a series of negotiations, the cd is to be released in november. the orchestral parts are currently being recorded. bono was there to explain the concept behind the album. >> i expected music featuring benedict, one of which he sings. he recites prayers' in portuguese, spanish, latin, german, italian. he has got an incredible voice. >> his vocals were recorded by the vatican as he conducted services or made speeches. previously, the highest album chart placing achieved by a pontiff was john paul ii. his recording of the rosary in 1994. with the weight of a major label behind him, but it xvi now stands every chance of beating that -- benedict xvi. >> the iraqi interior minister says bombs have killed at least 30 people. many others were injured in the blast. plans coincided with cyprus. --iday prayers. >> funding for this presentation was made possible by the freeman foundation

. >> the green line is free of work, but tonight's billy joel and elton john concert will likely cause delays on that line too. metro will run an additional eight-car trains and additional cars. tro says people should expect long lines there after the concert. but people who live nearby are in some ways welcoming the crowds despite potential delays. >> that brings more revenue to the nation's capital, and i think we don't have that much entertainment going on already. >> now, for the most part, trains will be coming and going every 12 to 15 minutes or so. but when you factor in all the stopping and going once you're on board trains, that's where metro is coming up with this 30-minute figure. if you're going to use metro to get around town, plan ahead. >> good advice, thank you. if you're traveling by car instead, watch out in the commonwealth. extra state troopers will hit the roads this weekend on the 95 and 81 corridors looking for speeders and drunk drivers. during last month's weekend blitz, troopers handed out more than 1,000 summons. this is the 20th year of operation land, air,

elton john, billy joel will open the concert at 7:30 with a series of duets while playing twin pianosthen perform separately, reuniting for closing encore. metro is operating additional trains to handle the crowd. should be a great show. >> looks like fun. >> question is -- are they going to get rain? >> we do have rain coming our way. really not going to get here until much later. probably after midnight. and to the west of us. >> did you have a nice saturday. >> good deal. >> can't believe the july. >> again it is july. today we were in the low 80s with all the cloud out there. however it does feel like july because it is much more humid than it was yesterday. all right. here is the deal tonight the cold front comes through. showers, thunderstorms. tomorrow morning we start off with maybe a shower or two. as the day goes on. it looks like a pretty nice day. let's talk about what is going on. you can see, yeah, plenty of cloud out there. starting off clear this morning. then the clouds started to roll in. and mostly cloudy. 70 flow. 69. humid conditions. again, temperaturewise. 79 in

the elton john billy joel concert and nats game saturday night will clog up the green line and maintenanceork will cause up to 30 minutes delays on the other line. >>> no. 2 , maryland's pep co customers can look for a $30 break on your august bill part of a legal settlement the company has to pay out. you have to use at least 1,000- kilowatt hours a month photo qualify for the month. >>> no. 1 tonight, d.c. will say good- bye to o of the area's most popular watering hole there's weekend. after 40 years of calling georgetown home nathan's bar is closing for good this sunday. the reason? well, the recession. owner is hoping for a big weekend to help pay for a hefty tax bill. >> you can check out tonight's top five on our website. head to myfoxdc.com and click on web links. >>> most people work for years before they can afford to start their own company. this girl did it before her 11th birthday. how she turned an old school bus into a booming business. >> hey, weekend is here and everybody wants to know when are we going to get the rain? we'll get some. we'll talk about when it's iming to m

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elton john and billy joel set to take the stage tomorrow.ard takes us behind the scenes today. >> reporter: they're setting the stage and getting ready to raise the light smack dab in the middle of centerfield. the first large-scale concert at nats field. >> we're excited. we've done some events as part of a ball club, but this is major. and i'm sure it's going to be phenomenal. >> reporter: billy joel and elton john are bringing their concert to washington this weekend. we're told tick thes are still available. just how many the promotor isn't saying. the nats are killing, adding and reconfiguring seats due to the staging which is still if progress. no sign of any pianos just yet. but this lone groundskeeper has his work cut out for him, trying to keep the grass in good shape. >> they're going put a bunch of chairs on your grass this weekend. >> [ inaudible ] >> he says its field will be covered before saturday night. thousands ever concert goers will be sitting in seats in the out field. they are saying parking is available but suggested y

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." >>> preparations are under way for this weekend's billy joel/elton john con sefrmt this will be theconcert ever at the stadium and it will be the biggest event to take place since pope benedict held a papal mass there last year. the concert is later today. elton john and billy joel are performing around the country as part of their face-to-face tour. >>> we have sports and weather straight ahead. steve will have the preview straight ahead. the humidity and a little bit of rain on the way. fios guy! where ya headed? ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. (voice) no i'm not! he's just goofing. (voice) no i'm not! (sighing) ted has betrayed me. (announcer) unlike cable, fios brings 100% fiber optics straight to your home and when you switch now, you can get a free compaq mini netbook. just pay shipping, handling and taxes. with fios, you'll get razor-sharp tv, blazing fast interne and crystal-clear phone service all for just... sign up today. call the vizon

elton john and billy joel kicked it off. they sang a few duets before doing some of their classics.s the first ever musical concert held at national park. >>> a bash for barbie. hundreds of barbie fanatics are in town. it includes five days of buying, selling and talking about the iconic doll. there is even a barbie fashion show. >> she's had hundreds of careers, endless eras covered, different lifestyles and -- and, you know, things that we do in our everyday life, everybody can relate to. >> this is not cheap. it costs $400 to attend. >> high heels and and barbie. >>> we all wonder if someone is g.g. >> yep. a psychologist reveal someone is telling a lie. that's all coming up next.  >>> having a hard time telling if someone is lying to you? the truth is written on your face. >> is it really? that's the basis of the series tonight. how you can spot those signs. i'm watching you. ♪ >> reporter: while some might be able to tell a lie easily, it's usually not told well. as one psychologist says the truth is written all over your fa. >> i always ask them, do you always want to kno

. >> elton john and billy el kicked off a series of concerts and sang duets before doing classics. this was the first concert held at national parks and there is hopes there will be more in the future. >>> and of course, depending on having good weather when you're having a concert there. >> but i think even if it had rained, there would be some peoe sit there and listen. >> and the skies were kind of dark yesterday afternoon. so some people were worried. >> yes. we were anticipating rain and storms last night. and some of our neighbors to the south got a little bit. but overall, we dodged the bullet. >> let's look outside. there is a shot of the washington moonument on the national mall. we have some clouds this morning. but we're going to see some sunshine also. so it will be a pretty nice day. we had anticipated very early morning showers and i'm happy to say that was out of the forecast. a pleasant sunday ahead for you. and lower humidy so it will be more comfortable than it has been. the week will start out sunny but by the end of the week, some 90s. hot weather ahead. yesterd

. >> bob: ever since elton john's been in this ballpark, saturday night's been all right. little bouncer by willie harris. another run will score. they'll get the lead run on a 3- 6 force play. hernandez home and it's 13-1. now the pitcher's spot's due up so alberto gonzalez will be the hitter. half of a day for now we'll be right back with you for an afternoon game on sunday. john lannan, chad gaudin. i wouldn't call him a heckler but it's a pseudo coach down there. come on, alberto. be aggressive. so josh bard, the only remaining position player tonight. the nats are going to bring mike macdougal in to pitch the ninth inning anyway. four hits in this inning. 16 in the game. saturday night two weeks ago the nats had 13 hits in houston. mike is ready. and it will be a nonsave situation. >> rob: he does need to stay sharp though. only problem is in houston, the next day the nats were shut out. i don't think that's going happen tomorrow. gonzalez will get around late and foul one. the home stand record will be even at 3 and 3 with a win tonight. at least since the cubs left

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this morning they woke up to elton john's "tiny dancer." that song was dedicated to the commander.rew will use a robotic arm to transfer experiments to the international space station. >>> we have seen pictures of it from space. we are getting a glimpse of te international space station from back here on earth. the pictures were taken in oregon last night. apparently the space station's solar panels reflected the sun's light in just the right way to make it advicible from the ground. the space station is about the size of a football field. orbiting at more than 17 miles miles per hour. 240 miles above the earth. >> pretty impressive. >>> we have some severe weather out there now, folks. let's get the latest on the warnings from veronica. >> yes, jim. handful of warnings still out until 5:00 p.m. most in maryland now. jefferson county, west virginia, one area there and washington county, maryland, frederick county, maryland, until 5:00 p.m. and loudoun county in virginia until 5:00 p.m., too. there is a look at the area and a look at the locations that will be affected. lightning is

[ laughter ] i mean, it looks like something elton john would wear for an encore. homo eroticus!aughter ] what's with his head? sticking up all over the place. he looks like he's hanging upside down. barberus needicus! nowicus! call supercutsicus! he's taller than i am. hey, pattinson, i make more money. scoreboardicus! [ laughter ] barnes & nobleicus. amazon top sales rankicus. "publishers weekly" favorable reviewicus. check it out, too. i have an owl that delivers my mail. [ laughter ] i hear you're ice cold. i hear you're ice cold in your movies, like your career. freezing. that's not the best oneicus, but you get it. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how crazy. that is insane. well, it doesn't stop there. it doesn't stop there. check out this mash-up that somebody posted of the outtakes. [ light laughter ] somebody posted this. i don't know who did it. the outtakes from those two videos. these guys are really at each other's throats. >> look, what do vampires do best? suck. >> does he bother me? yeah, he does. >> his records. i'm just breaking all of them. >> hello. look at t

the agency has extra trains and personnel ready on green line saturday night for the billy joel-elton john concert to handle the huge crowds. leaving the show you could wait an hour to get back on at navy yard station. other lines will be delayed by half an hour. >>> the district is losing a landmark. a water hole in georgetown ising -- is locking it's doors for good. >>> and gm standing for governmt owners. we have the latest. >>> and police on the scene of a possible hostage situation after a jewelry store robbery. we have a crew live on the scene and we'll have a live report coming up in three minutes.  >>> we want to take you back to the breaking news in leesberg, virginiam a possible hostage situation unfolding after a jewelry store robbery. wisdom martin is live on the scene. what is the latest? >> reporter: police do have the house surrounded and in the process of negotiating with the suspect who is in side with hostages. this started at 11:30 this morning when the suspect robbed the jewelry store in leesberg, called the "other kind of jewelry store" and then

billy joel and elton john face to face tour stops in dc this weekend. thursday construction workers transformed the stadium from a ballpark to a concert venue. tickets for tomorrow's show are still available. >>> he's 4 in human years but roughly a teenager in panda years. the national zoo celebrated his fourth birthday on thursday with a cake made of water, bamboo and beat juice. the panda is one of the most popular attractions at the zoo. you can get a peek at what they are doing through the panda cam. find a link on the story at wusa9.com. >>> unfortunately there's bad news from the homeland of tai shan's family. details after an earthquake strikes china. >>> this morning the first family has even bigger plans in italy. it is eight after the hour. you are watching 9 news now. >>> can you feel it? it is friday and it feels great. nothing but green cars is what we see toward the beltway telling us drivers are moving at speed it is angie with the realtime traffic coming up. >>> more families are finding out their loved ones are not buried in the correct

ballpark hosting the first ever concert this weekend and it is pretty big because billy joel and sir elton john will be taking the stage in their face to face tour. fans who are brave enough to drive to the show can prepurchase their paing if you like p there is a link on myfoxdc.com. the show tomorrow night at nationals park. that sounds like a great show. tony playing along. >> thank you very much. a great song. >> it should albright good concert. >> the weather has been great but you keep talking about some changes for the weekend. >> yeah, essentially, the summer weather that we've been lacking for the last week or so is going to be here for the weekend. so in a week, the weekend will feel the way it real will you should have been feeling. humidity, we're talking about. >> humidity and with all of that, the chance of some showers and thunderstorms. let's take a look. se ll start with -- let's e. yesterday's high temperatures right where we said they would be. that is right. nare alagonti, dulles international, b wait a minute marshall all made it up to 82 degrees yesterday. that is six degr

the billy joel/elton john concert. the duo will be performing at nationals stadium tomorrow.kers were at the stadium yesterday putting everything together for the big show. this will be the first concert ever at the stadium, now in its second year. it will be the biggest event to take place since pope benedict hold a papal mass there last year. >> a very well-known woman is celebrating her 50th birthday here in the district this week. we're talking about barbie. the national barbie doll collectors convention is being held at the marriott wardman park hotel. collreto ars speinrgou f full days celebrating everything barbie. not barbara, but barbie. they're unveiling her latest life-size inspired dress, complete with a pair of hot pink stilettos and a beatle. the convention is sold out but you can still get in. there's a public day tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. the admission is $7. barbie as opposed to barbara, even though you do have pin stilettos on. >> i do not, joe. life sized dress. >> i guess. >> and life sized stilettos. >> i d't know if there's a life sized barbie

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billy joel and elton john have been touring the country. they are old pals and go around and do the huge stadium shows with pianos where they do dueling pianos and it is great. so it will be our first rock star experience under the stars. i think that people probably hold up the cell phones with the little lighter thing on it. it should be a good time. i know it is exciting because it is really the first time washington has had this kind of event at thatstadium. >> hope though don't get rain to put a damper on it. it could be a mess out there. it will be an exciting evening. >> it should be lovely, yes. >> thanks so much. >> thanks. >> thank you. >>> coming up on news4, michael phelps pulls out of the world championship trials. >> i'm liz crenshaw. what's the best way to wash blue jeans? that's the estion. the answer is coming up on ask liz on "news4 at 4:00." you didn't want people to stare at you. and yet you picked up the phone finally and (announcer) if you think all batteries are the same, considerhis: when a tornado tore through holly

billy joel and elton john face to face tour stopped in d.c. this weekend, and today the stadium was transformed from a ballpark to a concert venue as construction crews but the punishing touches on the stage. tickets for saturday night's show are still available. >>> more than 31 million people in the u.s. watched the michael jackson memorial on tv. that is a smaller audience than princess die scbana's funeral or president obama's inauguration, but the jackson memorial was carried live on 18 different broadcast and cable networks, and millions more watched live videostreams on the internet. >>> a plan for a michael jackson statue made of butter is churning up so much controversy, the iowa state fair is putting it up for a vote. the sculpture would be displayed alongside the annual butter cow and sculptures commemorating the 40th annivsa oryfea nle artrmoons an n l.ong'ngdi the results of the vote will be announced july 17th. if you would like put your vote in, we have put a linknng o our website, wusa9.com. just click on news links. >>> $300 m

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. >>> preparations are under way at national stadium as billy joel and elton john concert.g stage ready for the big show. this will be the first concert ever at the stadium now and its second year. it will be the biggest event to take place since pope benedict held the papal mass last year. the concert is this saturday. el to be john and billy joel are performing around the country as part of the face-to-face tour. >>> there is a big birthday celebration at the nationals zoo today. the lovable giant panda tie sean turns 4 years old. the zoo pulled out all the stops to mark the big occasion. megan mcgrath reports. >> it looks like april giant pink wedding cake. t tai shan didn't know what to think. the giant panda got into the spirit of things. and began eating his cake of frozen bamboo and beat juice. >> didn't know what it was. he was like hitting at it and smelling it and stuff. and after a while he kind of starts eating it. >> reporter: look out, mom and dad. tai shan is 4 years old. that means that in bear years he is a teenager. although judging from the reaction of hi

they woke up to elton john's "tiny dancer." the song was dedicated to a commander. today the crew will use a robotic arm to transfer experiments to the international space station. >>> and this was what it looks like from the space station from here on earth. it looked like a star in the skies above oregon. apparely the space station's solar panels reflected the sun's light making it visible from the ground. the space station is about the size of a football field. it's orbiting at more than 17,000 miles per hour, about 240 miles above the earth. how cool is that? >>> it is now 11:21. coming up, a warning to joggers in rock creek park. police are searching for a man who pulled a woman into the woods and attacked her. >>> developments in the michael jackson death investigation. whom police want to interview now. >>> plus, unwelcome guest. why some washingtonians are wmifungfu abouteav ingkte som hicoasn.tom.ow nbcwhicongton. m.to oh, hi! welcome back to progressive.com! how's that car insurance? great! just bought a house... and you just heard progressive offers homeo

elton john and billy joel will take the stage tomorrow night as part of their face-to-face tour. will be the biggest event to occur at the ballpark since pope benedict xvi's mass last year. >>> and from tennis to text aisles, there are plenty of other things going on in washington area this weekend. >> that's right. wendy rieger has a preview in this week's "weekend scene." >> reporter: time to look ahead to the weekend scene with ellen mccarthy of "the washington post's" weekend section. hi again. tennis. my gosh, we have tennis mania here. it's not going away. >> so much fun, yeah. july is really going to be tennis month in washington. people might not know we have our own professional tennis team, but we do, the washington capitals. next week in particular is going be really, really exciting. serena williams is going to be playing in town on tuesday night. on thursday night, you can catch john mcenroe, which is going to be really interesting. but really whatever night you can make it out there is fun. it's actually kind of a social scene. >> sure. >> right downtown, it's outsi

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. >>> legendary singer billy joel and elton john have had to cancel a second concert on the tour as joelflu-like symptoms. doctors told joel not to work for 72 hours. now back to you. those are our top stories. >>> thanks, caroline. north korea is ratcheting up the rhetoric between north korea and south korea. north korea warns of "unmanageable deadly blows" if the u.s. were to attack. this after the u.n. sanctions on the missile test. south korea says if the tests go forward, they are aimed at inindividualing the north. >>> at least 40 americans and 69 international troops have been killed this month in afghanistan, the deadliest month for u.s. and nato forces in the afghan war. the $8 billion stimulus package was criticized when it was signed into law, now joe biden and nancy pelosi are answering the critics who say it has not happened fast enough. >>> in the new york times today, vice-president biden says critics misunderstood the stimulus package and that the action we took brows out back from the precipice. we still have a long way to go but clearly are closer to recoverystead than

he did that with "rocket man," elton john's song, like 30 years ago. >> fabulous. >> spoken words. >> his message -- >> he thought his "rocket man" was serious art. >> he did it with the priceline commercial. >> that is serious art. >> beat poetry things. let's talk reality tv right now. >> give me something more. give me something more to love. >> we've really plunged into the depths of humanity at this point when we go about these reality shows. it's just getting weirder and weirder. >> can i just point out some important news? you know, we have an obesity crisis in this country. >> we have an obesity crisis. we're not attacking the people on this show, we're attacking the concept of this show. >> what's the concept? >> it's called "more to love." premiered on fox last night. you know the "bachelor," where they have a guy and 30 women vying for his attention, his love and perhaps even a ring? >> yes. >> it's the same concept, except fox is branding it for heavy-set people. >> obese. >> here's a clip. they're not all obese. >> i'm a big man and i enjoy being a man of large stature. i

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. >> yeah, i was photographing elton john's ball, and elton told me that michael died and i didn't believemany rumors around michael. and then later on somebody came up to me and said cnn has confirmed that michael died. and i said cnn saying it, i better call back to l.a. and find out. >> we look at him, he seems to be full of energy, and he seems to be as precise as he ever was. you watch some of his concert footage. what did you make of the talk around him that he suffered from severe insomnia and was suffering with that and looking for any way to try to get some sleep. did you see that, the type of pressure before you're about to embark of something so physical of a concert? >> i didn't see that. i was at the rehearsal and he was full of energy, full of life. ready to work. he was really into the show. they put on this amazing production, i couldn't wait to see it at the o-2 arena with all of the fans. they were going to do "thriller" in 3-d, he always threw some element in the show to do something different. from doing his cherry picker bit, going over the crowd, to him shooting up ou

elton john does it, too. >> okay. >> and i just enjoy business.h. i kind of had that caribbean, southern upbringing in new york. >> i like that. >> i'm a big mix. >> and they encouraged you to go into singing, didn't they? >> my grandmother was always in the choir. so i was raided in the choir. >> in the church. >> in the church. and my granather was a jazz musician. had a lot of bands and stuff. so he played tenor sax. >> so did my daddy! >> so you grew up with not just the musicality but also the integrity, and what your life should be like. not just what you do, but what you should be. >> yeah, but my grandfather was a guy who believed in washing his hands up to his elbows. he fixed his own car. he went back to school at 70 years old. >> did he really? >> yeah. >> he was an inspiration. a family of people who believe in education andngoirk w hard. >> i guess you have how many children? >> i have four. 19-year-old, 18-year-old, 13-year-old and an 8-year-old. >> is it stuff for you raising kids in this environment? >> i mean, yeah, it's tough. yo

elton gallegly of california as a member of the to the commission. mr. gallegly has expressed interest in serving in this capacity and i'm pleased to fulfill his request. signed, sincerely, john a. boehner, republican leader. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to suspend the rules, to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i rise today to discuss our relationship with our neighbor to the south. >> the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to discuss our relationship with our neighbor to the south, cuba. i applaud president obama for his plan to re-engage cuba in a constructive dialogue and support his first steps toward that end, but i must ask, what has cuba done? improving relationship between the united states and cuba is something i strongly support, but i do not support this partnership at any cost. i must asked, what has cuba done? cuba still imprisons political