abc's linsey davis has the details. >> reporter: the chart topping country superstar of the 1990s, garth brooksught us hits like "the dance." much "much too young." ♪ and "if tomorrow never comes." with nearly 70 million albums sold in the u.s., brooks is the best-selling artist in this country since 1991 topping mariah carey, metallica and, yes, even the beatles. and yet in 2001 at the height of his career, brooks simply walked away retiring at just 39 years old saying he wanted to raise his three daughters. at 52 now a grandfather, he's ready to make the comeback. >> scared, yeah. old, yes. my bigger hope is i don't regret this day. >> reporter: the country star announced his return. >> want to thank god and everybody that's given me the chance to actually look at a second half of a career. >> reporter: in that second half, a new album and a world tour he first hinted at last year on "good morning america." >> all my babies are fine with it and so now i get to do what i love to do is play music. >> reporter: and the former digital download holdout now says digital sales of his music will soon

after nearly a decade and a half of retirement, garth brooks is announcing a big return to the worldsic with a new album and ambitious tour. >> ahead in the next half-hour, child birth like you have never seen it before, or perhaps, don't ever want to see it. one woman's wild ride, her delivery caught on a go pro camera. you have got to see this. you are watching "world news now." ♪ if tomorrow never comes >> well, tomorrow has come and it's here today for garth brooks. >> after deciding more than a decade to retire and stay at home with his fire, the king is announcing a major comeback to the country music scene. here's linsey davis. >> reporter: the chart-topping country superstar of the 1990s, inducted into the hall of fame, garth brooks us "the dance". ♪ the dance". >> reporter: "much too young" and "if tomorrow never comes". ♪ if tomorrow never comes >> reporter: with nearly 70 million aim bullbums, topping m carey, mattetal ka, yes, the be. but at the height of his career he walked away, retiring at just 39 years old, saying he wanted to raise his three daughters. at 52, now a

garth brooks decided more than a decade ago to stay home with his family, but today he announced he'soming out of retirement, saying he's -- quote -- scared, old, and ready for something new. here's abc's linsey davis. ♪ the thunder rolls >> reporter: the chart-topping country superstar of the 1990s inducted into the songwriters hall of fame. garth brooks brought us hit hits like "the dance," "much too young," and "if tomorrow never comes." ♪ if tomorrow never comes >> reporter: with nearly 70 million albums sold in the u.s., brooks is the best-selling artist in this country since 1991, topping mariah carey, metallica and, yes, even the beetles. and yet in 2001, at the height of his career, brooks simply walked away, retiring at just 39 years old, saying he wanted to raise his three daughters. at 52, now a grandfather, he is ready to make a comeback. >> scared, yeah. old, yes. my bigger hope is that i don't regret this day. >> reporter: today the country star announced his return -- >> i want to thank god and everybody that's given me a chance to actually look at a second half of a ca

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that's where garth brooks is set to make a big announcement. career more than a decade ago but jamie wax looks at what could be the country giant's next chapter. jamie, good morning to you. >> good morning, gayle. a cryptic message on brook'ss' website. >> for my next number -- >> reporter: garth brooks isn't just a best-selling musician of all time. he's also the third best selling artist ever in the u.s. of any music genre. ♪ there wasn't much he could recall ♪ >> reporter: he sold more than 130 million albums worldwide behind only elvis presley and the beatles. >> give me everything you've got. >> reporter: but beyond his work in the studio brooks might be best known for his energy sold out shows. >> he is really at home on the stage. i think that his recorded music is only half the story. you really have to see garth live. >> reporter: ty komer is an editor of billboard online. >> he doesn't just sell a lot of records. he sell as lot of tickets. he's known as a wild performer country or erie-wise. >> reporter: garth brooks retired in 2001 c

garth brooks brought us hit hits like the dance, much too young, and if tomorrow never comes. ♪ if tomorrow comes >> reporter: with nearly 70 million albums sold in the u.s., brooks is the best-selling artist in the u.s. since 1991, topping maria carrie, metallica and, yes, even the beatles. and yet in 2001, at the height of his career, brooks simply walked away, retiring at just 38 years old, saying he wanted to raise his three daughters. at 52, now a grandfather, he is ready to make a comeback. >> scared, yeah. old, yes. my bigger hope is that i don't regret this day. >> reporter: today the country star announced his return -- >> i want to thank god and everybody what's given me a chance to look at a second career. >> reporter: in that second half, a new album and a tour he first hinted at last year on "good morning america." >> our baby's a senior in high school and she, we've talked about it, and all my babies are fine with it. and miss yearwood is fine with it. so, now i get to do what i love to do, which is play music. >> reporter: and the former digital download holdout, who refused

the chart-topping country superstar of the 1990s, inducted into the songwriters' hall of fame, garth brooksyoung to feel >> reporter: and "if tomorrow never comes." with nearly 70 million albums sold in the u.s. brooks is the best selling artist in the country since 1991, topping mariah carey, metallica and yes even the beatles. yet at 2001 at the height of his career brooks simply walked away retiring at just 39 years old saying he wanted to raise his three daughters. at 52, now a grandfather he is ready to make a comeback. >> scared. yeah. old. yes. my bigger hope is i don't regret this day. >> reporter: the country star announced his return. >> want to thank god and everybody that has given me the chance to actually look at a second half of a career. >> reporter: in the second half a new album and world tour he first hinted at last year on "good morning america." >> all of my babies are fine with it. now i get to do what i love to do, which is play music. >> reporter: and the former digital download holdout now says digital sales of his music will soon be available on his website. do you

. >>> ♪ >>> the word is garth brooks is officially out of retirement. big announcement in nashville. >> superstar says he's ready to get back to work. reporter chris cannon talk one-on-one with garth about the roads to hit the road again. >> ♪ >> legendary sounds, legendary perform err, one we haven't heard from in a a good while. >> today i feel very lucky to be joining sony music. >> that was just the first announcement garth brooks made thursday, the superstar, is coming out of retirement. >> we got second half staring us down face, when it works or not, we don't know whether we got the chance, and that's why because i can't begin to tell you the possibilities that are out there. >> garth line up to tell the world about his plans, which, for the first time in more than a decade, includes a new albumn. so are their cowboy songs? i bet you. >> straight want to be songs? that's who i am. are their songs about your babies groping up and leaving, you bet you. >> also working on tour, a show garth homes will turn out like the national flooded concerts back

with me in the studio, we have liezel. >> garth brooks wanted to play five concerts at croak park in overwhelming demand for the tickets, hugely popular. hasn't played there for 17 years. after lots of toing and froing, he could only play two dates because the immense convenience and disruption it would cause to some local residents and businesses. it split people right down the middle. people say it is a big deal, it should be allowed to go ahead. others saying we can't have that many concerts causing that amount of disruption in an area like this. >> it sold out really quickly. and something like a tenth of the population has tickets. >> 400,000 people have tickets, you know, the man sold 125 million records give or take around the world, so he hasn't played there for nearly 20 years. so this was something so many people had been looking forward to, going to, to traveling to. and i can understand why so many people are devastated by the fact that this once in a lifetime concert -- >> we can talk to one of those devastated fans. andrea joyce, she spent over 1,000 euros for tickets f

you stole that. >> watch it right here so america can feast their eyes on "the five" table with garth brooksn it. everyone is excited. he's been on retirement until his daughters are in college. it's happening 2014. >> all right. here we go. usually we don't agree as much at least i don't with my other members of "the five." it's national ice cream month, july. these are pictures of my grand kids enjoying ice graeme on fourth of july. they are doing it up, getting ice cream every where you can well see. too much ice cream. and by the way, let me tell you, you know what? they did a study they found out that people really don't like bacon ice cream, licorice ice cream, horse radish ice cream and something called cold sweat which is pepper in your ice cream. >> you love ice cream. >> there's nothing grocer than children with sticky ice cream hands. >> they got it all over me, greg. >> you don't want to see me eat ice cream. >> some quick pictures. maybe a video of an amazing day at the grand canyon. hiked at an altitude of 6,000 feet. if you have a teen great way to reconnect, no cell phones, n

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. >> also, garth brooks makes a stunning announcement about future plans. details on that coming up. we'll be right back. >>> violent night in philadelphia's fairhill neighborhood leaves two men dead and third in critical condition. >> although these incidents don't appear to be related they've happened just blocks apart. "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer joins us now at police headquarters on more on this developing story. nicole, good morning. >> good morning, yes, at this hour, police are still searching for suspects, and a motive surrounding these two very violent crimes in north philadelphia. crimes that left two men dead and one person critically wounded. >> in north philadelphia, fatal beating and fatal beating, about half mile apart. the first incident happened shortly after 11:00 in the 2800 block of north fairhill street. there 53 year old man was beep end to death, having suffered blunt force trauma to his head. >> he was laying in a pool of blood coming from his head. >> no word on motive, but there are reports of a male seen running from

. >>> plus, garth brooks, one of music's biggest selling stars is expected to announce a comeback touretails. >>> clint dempsey, captain of the u.s. soccer team joins us in the studio. >>> and we'll have the announcement of this year's emmy nominations. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm marlie hall. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> good morning, everyone. it's thursday, july 10. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm brian hackney. this is like groundhog day, isn't it. > isn't it? >> welcome to our world. [ laughter ] >> let's see. well, what we always do. let's check in with elizabeth. >> here we go again. >> the weather very similar, low clouds and fog moved onshore this morning. breezy around the bay area. we'll talk about that coming up. >> if you are traveling in the east bay, once again, they have that full freeway closure overnight, southbound 880 at davis street. looks like they have reopened a couple of lanes approaching san leandro. we'

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brooks said previously he would play five or up in at all. do you think garth was right to pull the plug? if you want to join the conversation here on "worldwide exchange," get in touch with us via e-mail, worldwide@cnbc.com, @cnbcwex through twitter or direct to me, aj chatterley cnbc. >>> how will inflation numbers speed into the mix? stay tuned. we'll see those in a few minutes time. >>> the battle will continue. palestinian remains defiant. israel says it will agree to the deal. >>> investors turn their sights to janet yellen's testimony later today. >>> another mega listing in the mobile messaging space. lauren agrees to an ipo. >>> and technology starts lower in europe as software ag warns on sales. the stock sharply lower in frankfurt following news that major present delays will see it miss forecasts. >> expectations to see a rise of 1.6% in the month of june. and it's actually coming at 1.9% year on year. 0.2% right now in the month it was forecast at 0.1% for the month. significantly stronger than expected right now. it's actually on a year on year ba

. >> not a lot of love for garth brooks in ireland. >> the country superstar canceled five sold out show, comeback concert after the council denied permits to two of his shows. leaving half a million ticketholders holding the bag. >> the concert promoter is promising refund because his fans were angry and heartbroken. you got to find friends in low places in ireland, garth. >> and they're not asking for refund yet. sales of hillary clinton's book less than stellar. the sales of "hard choices" dropped substantially in the second week on the market. that's not all. >> people that did buy the book are not reading it, their electronic copies. readers so far have read 2.4% of her book. apparently hard choices is a bit of a hard read. >> catch the eyes of a substantial of number readers. president bush's texas ranch. >> i love this. a rare look inside george w. bush's home, featured in "architectural digest." >> the crawford texas ranch home was known as the western white house. here you see the breezeway where the 43rd president reportedly practiced his newest passion, painting. >> i can't pi

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. >>> meantime, country star garth brooks doesn't have a lot of friends in ireland. ♪ i've got friendschases my blues away ♪ >> brooks just canceled five shows in dublin. brooks said he would do all of the shows or none. looks like it's going to be none. >>> she stirred up a lot of controversy as an opinionated host on "the view" even attacking our elisabeth hasselbeck. >> do you believe i think the troops are terrorists? yes or no? >> excuse me. let me speak. okay? >> you're going to double speak. yes or not. >> i am not a double speaker. >> now tmz breaking the news that rosie o'donnell inked a deal to join whoopi on "the view" again. harvey levin. >> to me the linchpin in this whole thing was elisabeth hasselbeck. ironically i didn't think it was at the time. she was the key to the success of the show. >> elisabeth is going to weigh in on that coming up on "fox & friends." >>> coming up, one state handing out more than a million dollars in food stamps to dead people? so how to someone miss this one? >>> and want to be paid to watch your favorite tv show? well, now you can and we'll

. >> garth brooks is kicking off his come back world tour in your town. >> brook will make that official announcement later today. he told the atlanta fans the news a day early. why would the top selling solo artist of all times do that? because he promised he would be back in january. bad news for ireland. brooks five shows there will not happen. >> for the second time in two years he is the king of the home run derby. back, back, back, and gone. >> he didn't let them get the best of him smacking nine homers into the stands late in the derby. back in 1998 and 1999. >> maria molina is live for us at target field minneapolis. minnesota with all of the action. are you going to participate? >> those guys were incredible. tonight will be the all star game. it will be airing on fox. it starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. this year's all star game will be a little different and a little more special than any other. it will be derek jeter's last all star game. we had the opportunity of going on the field before the home run derby and talking to some of the players. i asked them what their favorit

. >> after 17 years garth brooks is returning to the chicago area. making his first stop on his tour at the all state arena in rosemont. he will be there with his wife. tickets on sale friday july 25th through ticketmaster. >> demetrius will be there! he already has this ticket. >> he's going to be in the mosh pit this year. >> nothing like a country concert. everytime i go past one i put on the brakes. temperatures today will be climbing into the '70s. more sun than anything. tonight we're back down into the fifties. expect warmer days in the 70 forecast. >> coming up, chicago drivers have an extra day to get a city slicker. >> and he's here, won't ask about exercises for men. or about exercises for men. or going to >> announcer: the following is a paid advertisement for the 21 day fix, brought to you by beachbody. this time, you'll lose weight, get in shape, and stay that way. >> welcome, welcome. thank you, guys. thank you. have a seat. thank you so much for joining us today. as someone dedicated to health and fitness for my entire life, i am so e

for the first time in 13 years country music star garth brook is going back on tour and he's releasing a new bualm, his first since 2001. we'll learn the first date of the tour next week. >>> george clooney is not having any of the daily male's apology for printing a story that insinuated there was religious tension between him and his future mother-in-law. clooney wrote the apology does not make up for the fact the male never cited any ursoces and made the whole thing up. he is still mad. >>> dawn of the planet apes, this movie is hitting theater today. >> gosh, that's a long name. >> planet of the apes. >>> in the series latest installment the animals think they've taken over the world after a disease outbreak wipes out humanity, but that changes when they come across a group of people looking for help. >> we don't mean any harm! >> they think we understand what you're saying. >> looks like a wild ride, dawn of the planet of the apes is rated pg13. >> it's not my kind of movie. >> i hope it's shorter than how long it takes to actually say the name of the movie. >> and get it right. >

a, bruce springsteen, madonna, or garth brooks?l fire trucks must be red? >> false. >> correct. it is false. >> this is getting heated. all right. here we go. according to the american red cross most house fires start in which room, a, laundry, b, kitchen, c, bedroom. >> kitchen. >> kitchen. [ sirens ] >> what is that alarm? >> now we have a tie. which historical figure is credited with starting one of the first volunteer fire departments in the u.s. was it benjamin franklin -- >> benjamin franklin. >> that is correct. >> oh, however, this is a real conundrum. you are not supposed to buzz in before but we did give it to you. they did it too. i believe control room, can you weigh in? >> mcallen is the winner. >> oh, yes. yes. >> 5-alarm firefighter challenge. >> that means, unfortunately, tacoma, washington, goes in the dunk tank. >> bye. >> oh, here we go. >> uh-oh. [ sirens ] >> you guys were great sports. we thank you so much. congratulations. >> excellent job. >> give me a high-five. >> incredible dancing. incredible -- >> be ri

and garth brooks set to outset elvis presley in digital sales.try experts estimate sales will shoot way past the 134 million albums elvis sold to date. next after that, elvis costello. >>> 1,000 national guard troops are headed to the border with texas and mexico. but not because the president has ordered them. texas governor rick perry yesterday taking the border crisis into his own hands while the president sits idly by. new this morning, more calls for more border troops are being made. south dakota congresswoman kristi noem joins us live in our new york studio. good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. >> for months we've been saying there is a border down south. when are we going to fix it? the president has done nothing. now rick perry stepped up and calling out the national guard. what do you think? >> it's up fortunate because that border is really the responsibility of the federal government. so the fact that the state of texas has stepped up and had to secure it themselves is really unfortunate for them financially and the fact that

." >> topping our people scene, country superstar gargt brooks -- garth brooks is back. he said he is returning from a long retirement. he is plan to go on tour. the new record will be a double album, because brook said he has a lot to say. >>> kate winslet has a message for young women everywhere. aging is fun. the 38-year-old ambassador for the makeup line has been praised throughout her career for sending out a natural image of beauty. at the party she said aging so far is fun. >> she is aging gratefully. >> a disabled california man lives in fear in his own home. this after a woman moved in with her family and refuses to leave. >> the costa conicordia >> a row home catches fire arena forces an entire family out into the night air. >> palestinians begin to leave gaza after a warning from israel about a new airstrike campaign. >> at home, sky6 live hd taking a live look over center city. it is heating up once again, we're keeping an eye out for possible storms to pop up later today. but first, meteorologist david murphy joins us outside with a look at the accuweather fo

. ♪ ♪ >> today garth brooks will announce chicago is the first stop back on his comeback world tour andhildhood friend of kate middleton confirming to an australian radio station the duchess and prince william are expecting their second child. >>> 16-year-old tom white became an overnight selfie sensation when he took this photo of billionaire warren buffett and paul mccartney outside a restaurant on sunday. he posted it on instagram with the caption "chillin' with my homies." paul mccartney was in town to play a concert and buffett is a long time resident of the area. great post there. thanks, steve. >>> sergeant bowe bergdahl completed his reintegration process apparently and is returning to active duty. he's working a desk job at fort sam houston. family of soldiers who were killed while looking for him are stunned. >> i was really surprised. i thought why would he be going to work when he, they suspect he deserted? usually you would think he would be incarcerated in the brig or somewhere until that was investigated. >> you would think he would be in the brig. why isn't he? judge nap

. >>> plus, garth brooks, one of music's biggest selling stars is expected to announce a comeback tourie wax has details. >>> clint dempsey, captain of the u.s. soccer team joins us in the studio. >>> and we'll have the announcement of this year's emmy nominations. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm marlie hall. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> today, it is thursday, july 10th good morning i'm ukee washington. >>> i'm erika von heel have tiehl. developing right now two shootings just blocks away from each other. philadelphia police are investigating whether they are both connect. >>> they put their hand up to my face, or put their hand up and i bit his finger. >> she's 91 but that did not stop this west philadelphia woman from fighting back, against two teenage burglars. >>> and a man line mansion is in flames, now investigators know, how that two alarmer started. >>> we have to talk about this morning lets start with the forecast. we have seasonal temps in the mid 80's. the lets see what is u