>> and the grammy for best new artist goes to -- esperanza spalding. >> i was just trying to collectto walk up those stairs without tripping. >> reporter: millions were watching her walk up those stairs wondering "who is this young woman?" a huge upset. her trademark music and hair-do outdoing someone else's. ♪ baby baby baby esperanza spalding had just won the grammy for best new artist, beating out justin bieber. >> i'll do my best to make a whole lot of great music for all of you. >> reporter: when we met up with her this week in japan, we learned she'd been working up to that moment since kindergarten. >> the first defining moment that sort of set off this road of my life as a musician was when i was 5 and i saw yoyo ma on "mister rogers neighborhood." i saw that and i said, i want to do music. >> reporter: drowning out the noise in her tough neighborhood in oregon with her devoted single mother. >> finding instruments. finding teachers. i sort of think of her as my saint, you know. >> reporter: she would learn obo, guitar, piano. before settling on the bass. ♪ finest days so tal

esperanza spalding, the first jazz performer to earn best new artist.the singer and bassist won out over the likes of justin bieber and the hot shot rap artist drake. >> i take to heart essentially and i'll make a whole lot of great music for all of you. it's such a police and an honor. >> reporter: a night that started with ten nominations for eminem, including record, song and album of the year, with just two wins both in rap categories. album and solo performance. lady gaga literally came out of her shell to grab three awards including best pop vocal album. that's for "the fame monster." >> thank you. >> reporter: hers was one of several acceptance speeches and lyrics bleeped during the broadcast. but a song with an expletive in its title skirted trouble. >> reporter: he changed the title to forget you and got help from puppets and gweneth paltrow for a version that was mostly censor friendly. mark barger, nbc news. >>> something for everyone there. well, now here is a look at other stories making news early today in america. in colorado, an suv cras

and with the new artist esperanza spalding >> she said that is me! >> eminem picked up to more. and the lady antebellum has a few more. >> we wanted to make natural. and make them proud national. >> a big surprise canadian group " party fire " for album of the year. arcade fire. >> with decades, with ove $26.6 millio26.6 people watchedd the online reaction? kimberlee: absolutely. and they had insults, and one said that justin biever dessert at and this twitter page. he set out a gracious tweet that after the words of course i wanted to win. it is still a wanted it but i am also happy for her. and he did not also stop because others to stand up for her. it is not a popularity contest. it is about quality music. and he was also beaten up by other artists. >>catherine: 5, budget proposals that the as/millions. why some say he is not cutting enough. gas guzzling, and how much before 8 summer gets here. >> and how about talking on your video game? the hot new gadgets. all coming up. live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. >>catherine: big bucks, but sacrifices the

justin bieber went home disappointed, so did lady gaga, but the new artist, esperanza spalding, was richly rewarded as was lady antebellum. arcade fire won top honors of the night. eminem and rihanna brought the house down as did some veterans of the trade, including jagger and bob dylan. >>> the great jazz pianist george shearing has died. shearing, who was born blind, son of a british coal miner, composed 300 songs and headed a famous quintet bearing his name. he worked with the greats, including frank sinatra, peggy lee. his best composition of all time, "lullabye of birdland" written in 1952. george shearing died of congestive heart failure. he was 91 years old. >>> we also learned today bob cook has died. we got to know bob in those pre-super bowl visa commercials. he was a member of the "never missed a super bowl" club. bob had attended all 44 super bowls until this one. he was too weak to go see his beloved green bay packers play and he had to watch their great victory from his hospital room. he died surrounded by his family. bob cook was 79 years old. >>> when we come back here ton

another surprise winner shared that feeling, esperanza spalding, the first jazz performer to win best new artist. she won out over pop-star justin bieber and hot shot rapper drake. >> i take this honor to heart so sincerely and will do my damnest to do more albums. >> reporter: record, song and album of the year went to emi m eminem. lady gaga literally came out of her shell to grab three awards, including best pop vocal album. hers was one of several bleeped by sensors during the broadcast, but a song with an expletive in its title skirted major trouble. steve lowe green chanced the title to "forget you" and brought help with puppets and gwyneth paltrow. mark barger, nbc news. >> put a pair of sunglasses on her and she could be the blonde muppet. >>> good morning to you. we have some showers coming down. much needed rain coming down at the coast pushing into the east bay. if you are leaving the house make sure to turn the windshield wipers on. it will be pretty wet this morning. it will be clear heading throughout the afternoon. the core of low pressure right now is pushing in the pa

next time for a conversation with iconic fashion designer, kenneth cole, and performance by esperanza spalding. >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference. >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioned by the national captioning institute ---www.ncicap.org--- >> this is bbc world news. funding for the presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vt., and honolulu. newman's own foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, and union bank. ♪ >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> and now, bbc world news. >> and gunfire in the gulf state o

tonight, at last night's annual music world celebration, the grammy for "best new artist" went to esperanza spalding, a jazz singer, bassist, and composer you might remember from a story we did last fall. here's an excerpt of her song, "little fly," from the album "chamber music society ♪ ♪ little... ♪ >> brown: you can see our interview with esperanza spaulding, plus reports on several other of last night's grammy winners, by visiting "art beat" on our web site. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. president obama's budget proposal for the next fiscal year came in at more than $3.7 trillion. it includes spending hikes for education and energy efficiency, but also proposes cuts and tax increases to bring down the deficit. and the ripple effects from the massive uprising in egypt have spread further across the region, with opposition protests in iran, iraq, bahrain, and yemen. >> ifill: and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: we explore the economics of valentine's day. on our "making sense" page, find out if buying a gift for your valentine cou

next time for a conversation with iconic fashion designer, kenneth cole, and performance by esperanza spalding. >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference. >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioned by the national captioning institute ---www.ncicap.org---

a great singer named esperanza spalding.he won. [ applause ] she was immediately whisked away and put in a witness protection program for her own safety. the bieber fans are furious. they've been tweeting angry acronyms all day. it does seem a little unfair. grammy voters of all the categories would pick this one as the one to suddenly start taking talent into consideration but they did. guillermo was at the grammys last night. did you go in the grammys or were you just outside. >> i was outside. >> jimmy: did you watch the show. >> yes. >> jimmy: did you like it? yes. >> jimmy: your favorite part? >> rihanna. >> jimmy: rihanna. did you get to talk to rihanna on the red carpet last night? >> no. she was busy. >> jimmy: she was busy so even though she was too busy to speak to you she was your favorite part of the show? >> yeah, she's still. >> jimmy: okay. guillermo is a very big draw on the red carpet last night and -- well, here he is, guillermo at the grammys, enjoy. ♪ >> hi, i'm guillermo. i'm here at the 53rd annual gram

tonight, at last night's annual music world celebration, the grammy for "best new artist" went to esperanza spalding, a jazz singer, bassist, and composer you might remember from a story we did last fall. here's an excerpt of her song, "little fly," from the album "chamber music society." ♪ ♪ little... ♪ >> brown: you can see our interview with esperanza spaulding, plus reports on several other of last night's grammy winners, by visiting "art beat" on our web site. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. president obama's budget proposal for the next fiscal year came in at more than $3.7 trillion. it includes spending hikes for education and energy efficiency, but also proposes cuts and tax increases to bring down the deficit. and the ripple effects from the massive uprising in egypt have spread further across the region, with opposition protests in iran, iraq, bahrain, and yemen. >> ifill: and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: we explore the economics of valentine's day. on our "making sense" page, find out if buying a gift for your valentine c

. >> esperanza spalding beat out justin bieber for best new artist. so a big upset there.artist also took their share of grammy awards, local favorite neil young won best rock song for "angry wool." train won for "soul sister." and then the album "britain's orchestra" won best surround sound album. >> it is always amazing to see the outfits for the grammys. lady gaga arrived in an egg. oh, yeah. did you see any of that, christina? >> no, but that's an egg i don't want to try to crack this morning. >>> good morning to you. hugs and kisses, everybody. maybe you are getting your valentine breakfast ready to go. anybody who thought about ì& valuen tie may want to rethink the plans until 3:00 p.m. when the showers stop. we have some pretty good rain coming down all the way from santa rosa to san jose. light scattered showers. take a look at this. a little pocket here with a pretty good cell of red and yellow. that's an indication of heavy rain coming down just to the north of antioch. i took a close look at that cell. no thunder but we could see some thunder heading into the la

but his fans were unbelievable to esperanza spalding. saying, you should die in a hole. for us all to motivate, exercise-wise, post-holidays. but it sounds like she's in a profound time in her life. her kid's off at school. little kids. the husband's at work. she's home for a few hours. sounds like she's being hard on herself. think of something good to do, that you like to do. don't focus so much on the exercise. it will come. >> take it one step at a time. >> yeah. call a friend and do a walk, every day. this is a new time, a transitional time, when your kids go off. and you're suddenly not focusing on everybody, and it's time for you, which i think is good. >> liz, thanks for coming in today. we'll be taking a lot more questions online. we'll be right back. we want to hear what you think about all these issues. go to abcnews.com to let us know. you can also vote on whether you think it's okay to use a gift card to pay for things on a date. i'm in trouble on the valentine's day thing. i got little bouquets for my daughters. they seemed to like it, including ali. you ca

esperanza spalding performing "precious" from her self-titled cd. laa la la la la ♪ la la la la dee dee ♪ oh ♪ na na na ♪ ♪ ♪ dee deela la ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ nothing wrong with me ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you always wanted something more from my body ♪ and said you needed something more from my loving ♪ but all you got was me and that's all that i can be ♪ i'm sorry if it let you down ♪ you always wanted something more from my body ♪ and said you needed something more from my loving ♪ but all you got was me and that's all that i can be ♪ but i'm not going to sit around and waste my precious divine energy there is nothing wrong with me ♪ laa la la ♪ da da da da ♪ ooooh tavis: for more information on today's show, visit tavis.pbs.org. >> all i know is his name is james. he needs extra help with his reading. >> i and james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference. >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. nationwide is proud to join tavis to improve literacy. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pb