bennett picked up two grammy awards sunday night for that album. [applause] so we congratulate you on that. i believe if you are scoring at home, that makes it 17 grammys in his career. [applause] what we love -- well, we love the cd, but today, we have gone one step further. not just a duet, but an extraordinary trio. i'm pleased to present this trio, performing for the first time together, young people from the choir of the san francisco school of the arts, the san francisco boys chorus, and the san francisco girls chorus, take it away. [applause] ♪ >> ♪ the loveliness of paris seems somehow sadly gay the glory that was rome is of another day i've been terribly alone and forgotten in manhattan i'm going home to my city by the bay i left my heart [applause] in san francisco high on a hill it calls to me to be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars the morning fog may chilly air -- chill the air i don't care my love waits there in san francisco of of -- above the blue and windy sea when i come home to you san francisco your golden sun w

in 1992 he earned a grammy for the popular, mama said knock i out.ched a new musical program called my connect studio ll cool j. welcome back. >> thank you, piers. >> i feel like we know each other so well i can call you todd. >> yes, you can. >> the name your real friends call you. >> yes, it is. >> your real buddies don't call you ll cool j. >> you're definitely allowed to call me todd, absolutely. >> the last time bet, it was a strange experience for me. a great time. the grammys were a couple days away and then whitney houston died. you had this strange position of having to host an event which had been completely overtaken by the drama of losing one of the great entertainers in the world. when you heard what had happened, what was your reaction? >> my first reaction was horrifying. you know -- you know, you hear rumors about things that people are going through. that's always tough to listen to. but, you know, i didn't expect to get that news. the timing of it was just --you know, it was horrible. >> did you know whitney well? >> yes. i knew whi

i don't think i will get a grammy for it.but i am really working recording poetry. >> oh, wow. >> i have to have a grammy. it's just not fair. >> we will get you there. >> you can watch it every sunday night at 10:00 p.m. it's a great show. for my full interview log on to fox news magazine.com. that's a wrap for this week i am michael tammero. now back to the two fabulous ladies in morning news. >> michael, thank you. >> 37 to the top of the hour. a -- 27 minut 37 minutes after . dozens of visitors of the kingdom leaving with sickness. >> smart phones they are supposed to make us more productive. are they having the opposite effect? as we head to break a look at jimmy fallon from last night. >> new research found using social networking sites like facebook can increase your chances of finding a job. it will really come in handy after you get fired from your current job for using facebook. >> let's span the globe to see what's going on overseas. a strawed dron of f-16 fighter jets after one of the planes crashed into the pacif

the grammys were a couple days away and then whitney houston died. you had this strange position of having to host an event which had been completely overtaken by the drama of losing one of the great entertainers in the world. when i heard what had happened, what was your reaction? >> my first reaction was horrifying. you know -- you know, you hear rumors about things that people are going through. that's always tough to listen to. but, you know, i didn't expect to get that news. the timing of it was just --you know, it was horrible. >> did you know whitney well? >> yes. i knew whitney. she was a very sweet girl. very sweet girl. so funny. i used to walk around -- for many years i wore my pants leg rolled up, something i was known for, one pants leg rolled up. >> i do the same thing. >> whitney used to tease me, i remember one time she saw me backstage, ll, you got that from my husband. i said, no, whitney, your husband got that from me. that was a fun moment. she was really cool. when i worked in emma couple times they came by the studio. she was a

your 17 grammys are just so unprecedented.s past week, and what a wonderful career. congratulations, tony. i want to thank our school of the arts. i want to thank our boys and girls choruses. thank you. wonderful performances. it is a fitting tribute that our boys and girls choruses and ouryouth -- our yout are here today to perform because they reflect tony's dedicated career to ensure the future of arts education. we have seen what he has done and seen what his support is, and he is encouraging youth to be leaders on and off the stage, to make sure they grow up with the values and the shared values that he has. this is such a wonderful opportunity. i also want to thank some of the school kids especially here today. we have kids from our tenderloin community school. thank you for being here. [applause] all right. we also have, for the first time, at the request of -- the idea ofcesa -- that cesar chavez elementary school wanted us to webcast this live, so we did it for them. wherever you are, welcome. [applause] tony, for 50

. >> they first reunited in february on the grammys. >> the only time and the first time in 50 yearsis year. >> thank goodness we finally made it. >> we met the band, wilson, love, jardene plus david marks who played on the first four albums and bruce johnston who joined in 1965 at the grammy museum in los angeles. >> the beach boys still remember the grammy nomination they got for good vibrations in 1966. >> and what happened? >> lost. . widely considered one of the greatest rock records ever made, god vibrations was beaten out that year by the mommasnd the papas. >> the grammy was monday. >> oh, my god, really? >> i didn't know that. >> to be honest, i wasn't pleased. >> i didn't know that. >> oh, come on. >> all these years. >> the band formed in the boy's hometown, hawthorne an la suburb when brian wilson brought together his brothers, karl and dennis, cousin mike love, and their friend al jardine. >> we would gather around the piano before we played instruments and brown would be picking up the notes from the ether like from the freshman catalog and have each one of his voices o

cool himself, ll cool j, on fame, family, and that prayer for whitney houston at the grammys. >> i could not see going out on stage and having a party without first finding some sort of peace with what took place. >> he also reveals why he's rapping again. i'm a king in the rap world. >> you really are they're talking about you in every club. >> and kyra sedgwick, her life with kevin bacon and the secret to their happy marriage. >> the secret to a happy marriage is not to take advice from celebrities about marriage. >> the end of the series "the closer." was it emotional? >> oh, very. very boo hooey. >> and how she stays so impossibly youthful. >> you have the high cheekbones everything hangs on. >> i can get you a guy to do that. >> i'm sure you can. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. we'll get to my interview with ll cool j in a moment, but first, listen to what kyra sedgwick, the gorgeous star of "the closer" told me about the biggest villain in her life, bernie madoff. >> i see him as a sick man. i see us as adults who made a choice, and i see a lot of people that are s

730,000 copies sold in the week following her grammy sweep. >> that is good. she is pregnant. she is going to take five years off. she'll have plenty of money to relax. >> when she is depressed she is really good. >> baby music. >>> what about the next half hour? >> reporter: a call you should definitely make today. >> okay. >> reporter: you have to wait 30 minutes to find out what it is. >>> it is 5:08. the suspect in the trayvon martin shooting could get out of jail later today. that story, coming up. >>> plus the president is on a bus tour, trying to put key swing states in his corn sneer and ahead in sports, nats rookie bryce harper is at the center of a rally in the ninth inning. we'll show you how it ended, we'll be right back. i'll go east coast for the philly cheesesteak omelette. no, let's go to the heartland for the midwestern meat & potatoes sandwich. wait umm, yeah. try the seven regionally inspired dishes of the tour of america menu. only at denny's. this is our perdue perfect portions, five chicken breasts individually wrapped so you can use what

. >> and bony baron, they won a grammy. >> won a grammy. >> about 30 seconds left. tweeted, hey, shawn moehler will be on the show. pick your band. so the state lines are ft. worth would like to be heard by you. and the hard stick groans, they're swedish pop, they would like to get your attention as well. shawn mohler, thank you for being with us. we'll be back in a minute. >>> that's our show for this week. if you missed the top of the show, we post all our episodes to the internet. all complete and all for free. do check out day trotter, look up elliott witmore. a ban go player from iowa. trust me, it's better than you think. i'm scott mcgrew. thank you for making us part of your sunday morning.

jarvi's ability to conduct any genre from classical to contemporary music led him to win a grammy in004. managers at the nhk symphony orchestra say they are eager to deepen relations with the artist who has performed nine times with the orchestra as guest conductor. jarvi already enjoys a high profile among japanese concertgoers. >>> the world's top football governing body, fifa, has reversed its stance on the use of headscarves for female players. members of fifa's rule-making panel revised a decision taken five years ago saying the headscarves poses no safety concerns. last year players on iran's football team refused to remove their scarves during a qualification round for the london olympics. fifa excluded them from the competition. critics said the old regulations effectively prevented muslim women from playing football. female athletes in persian gulf nations welcomed the change, but some religious leaders maintain that women's participation in sports runs against islamic principles. >>> for an update on the weather forecast, here's mai shoji. mai? >> hi. japan is dealing with

jarvi's ability to conduct any genre from classical to contemporary music led him to win a grammy in004. managers at the nhk symphony orchestra say they are eager to deepen relations with the art whoift has performed nine times with the orchestra has guest conductor. he already enjoys a high profile among japanese concertgoers. >>> the world's top football governing body fev fifa has revd its stance on the use of headscarves by female players. members of fifa's rule making panel revised a decision taken five years ago saying the headscarves pose no safety concerns. members of the female football team refused to remove their scarving during a qualification round for the olympics. fifa excluded them from the competition. fifa said the old regulations effectively prevented muslim women from playing football. female athletes in persian gulf nations welcomed the change but some religious leaders maintain that women's participation in sports runs against islamic principles. >>> for an update on the weather forecast, here's mai shoji. mai? >> hi. japan is dealing with a deluge of rainfall.

well next grammy winning soul and jobs to primo george benson is with al gore nov and spotlight. no again i walk into spotlight the interview show on r.t. . today my guest on the program is a superstar we always try to keep spotlight interactive and today's one of the days one of this concept has worked out recently i got mail from mr hugo gilkey who among other things asked me to interview brilliant american musician george benson well luckily mr benson came on tour to moscow with all his jazz so today ladies and gentlemen let me lay on you a great entertainer great humanitarian and i though for generations our music fans mr george benson. george benson started to see not long after he learned how to speak the prodigy from pittsburgh recorded his first song at the age of ten however at fifteen he fell in love with the guitar and became one of the best just guitarist of all time benson says he never could choose between singing and playing music he succeeded in both an amazingly bursa time musician and someone numerous awards including ten grammys for instrumental and vocal perfo

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we have the grammy award winning country rockers zac brown band. they will begin at 8:30. >>> we begin with a scare from passengers on a flight from new york to madrid. tom costello covers aviation for us. tom, how are you? >> reporter: good morning. delta flight to madrid, 206 passengers on board. it left new york at 8:00 but soon after turned back to jfk and escorted to a remote location on the runway after a passenger spotted something that looked very suspicious. on the floor of a lavatory, a straw with wires in it. the crew notified on board air marshals and then a female passenger began having difficulty breathing as she pointed out another male passenger she thought was the last person into the lavatory. the male passenger denied going to the rest room or having anything to do with the wires but the air marshals and crew became concerned that the female passenger might be part of a diversion. listen to the pilot talking to the tower when they were on the ramp but before police boarded the plane. >> we have a lady that is on oxygen that the f

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at age 40, bonnie raitt was suddenly a superstar. >> when i got the grammys, it was such an unreal thingers kept under cover ♪ >> reporter: her follow-up album "luck of the draw" won another three grammys. it sold nearly 8 million records and produced her biggest hit. ♪ let's give them something to talk about ♪ >> reporter: but raitt understood fame could be fleeting. >> i just didn't want that career that was based on a hit single, because i, like my dad, i wanted to be slow and steady. ♪ if i loved you >> reporter: her father was the legendary broadway leading man john raitt, who starred in shows like "oklahoma" and "carousel." bonnie would go to singing school in their swimming pool. >> we'd swim together and i got some quality dad-daughter time alone, and we swam with our heads out of the water. he was like the human jukebox, you know? i would just say, what about this one? and he would sing that. >> reporter: that would be really cool. >> it was extremely cool. ♪ >> all the duets partners i've had, he's the best. ♪ that's just love sneaking up on you ♪ >> reporter: at 62, raitt's vo

his four grammys.er actress rocksi roper, and the couch and chandelier he designed. >> it always made me feel good. it made the music sound better. you know, the lighting was right. everything was good. it just goes hand in hand with everything that i do creatively. >> reporter: in 2003 he founded kravitz design, a residential, commercial, and product design company with a real office in new york with real workers and real projects. >> the same way i make my music, the same philosophy. i'm very detail oriented. if you put me in a room that's perfect except for one flaw my eye goes right to the flaw. kind of a sickness. my attention to detail. but that's the way i am. he's designed condos and hotel suites in miami, wall paper and these chairs. >> does one help the other? >> yeah. when i'm doing music i need a break from music. doesn't mean i want to stop being creative. >> reporter: how do you keep it all straight? talking about tile designs in between gigs? >> absolutely. you have to. >> reporter: this

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. >>> kyle glover, the 11-year-old stepson of grammy award winning pop star usher died over the weekendtwo weeks after being critically injured in a boati accident. >>> finally big winners last night at teen choice awards were predictable. justin bieber, taylor swift, "the hunger games" and, of course, the twilight saga. >> i'm ready for the next thing. like swift and biebs -- >> together? >> oh, that would be news, too. but i'm ready for the next little star -- >> i don't think selena gomez would like that too much. >>> this comes from key west, florida, where one can only imagine the reaction ernest hemingway would have knowing this is part of his legacy. witness the annual running of the hemingways, part of a weekend celebration honoring the author who was born 113 years ago sunday. the winner of the hemingway look alike contest is a north carolina man who says that he paid close attention to, get this, the length of his beard and also the timing of his haircuts. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, lo

aretha franklin, 18-time grammy awarwinner told cnn in an e-mail she is interested in joining as a j. what do you think? >> i am available and interested in being a judge. i don't think she is the that will bring back the young people. maybe lindsay lohan. she has been in front of more judges and lawyers. >> can she sing? >> think outside of the box. if you are listening, get chief justice john roberts. >> that ll bring politics and older and younger people together. charlie sheen, another guy >> oh, lord. >> the whole cast of jersey shore. >> that are i might watch. >> bring excitement back to the show. it's still number two, but since 2003, it was the number one show and losing the average age of viewers is up to 15 years ole. that doesn't sound old, but it's important. >> it's all relative. i am voting for you for judge. we will be back with an interesting op ed. vacation or die. it has a lot of viewers fired up. >>> dean said you better vacation or die and he is here to make his case. really? >> go to cnn.com and read my article. i tell you, go on a vacation and don't put it off.

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the crowd gearing up for a live concert from grammy nominated concert flo rida. a moment. i can barely see what i'm reading here. sunglasses on, concert glasses on definitely. so excited about flo rida, been dancing to the music all week long. finally happened. >> you're pulling those shades off in a way most cannot. tamron, we'll have to get you a pair. >> amore concerts ahead, zac brown band with their enter vang country rock, a little reggae. then nashville's own michelle ray. >>> also brute products you may not know about, but we all should, including a towel that will cool you down in a second because it's so hot. >>> a product that promise as ten-second face-lift. ten seconds and have you a little -- >> okay. also, do you guy know today is my favorite day of the year, national fried chicken day. >> i didn't know that. >> national fry chicken day, celebrate southern roots. the trick to preparing perfect fried chicken, also bacon in the kitchen. first a check of the weather with stephanie abrams who is somewhere in that crowd. >> what song are you most excite

and i think if -- i watched the grammy's this year, and the grammy's there was a lot of glamour, dancerswas a lot of flash, and then adele came on, and everybody was dressed in black, and they only had white light on her, and she just stood there and burned. >> two girls were born around the same time period, the same year, in the same block of north london. adele and amy winehaus. >> it seems to me that neither of them cared about having hit records. what they loved was music, and the music that spoke to them was the music that they wanted to perform and be a part of. amy winehaus was out of sight. adele is genuine. there's not a lot of packaging going on there. >> eagles, one my favorite bands this is a superb album. when i go home tonight, i want to crack open a bottle of chateau margot and listen to this album. >> that's why i made this, so people like me, friends of mine can have something to play on car trips. >> it's the perfect supper club album. i commend everyone to go and buy it. it's been a real pleasure. there are not many legends around these days, you are one of them. >> i

grammy award winning rapper, nelly is herre! [ cheers and applause ] and we got great music.gain. beach house is going to be here! [ cheers and applause ] beautiful. beautiful sounding. good band. it's going to be a fun show. you guys, it's time to take a look at the stories making headlines today. and weigh the good with the bad. it's time for "pros and cons." here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: tonight we'll be taking a look at the pros and cons of the london olympics. the games kick off this friday right here on nbc. [ speaking with english accent ] it's always fun to watch. [ light laughter ] so, let's take a look at the pros and cons of the london olympics. here we go. >> steve: here we go. >> jimmy: pro, london is expecting great summer weather. con, in london that means 45 degrees and raining. [ laughter ] [ speaking with english accent ] forget your bathing suit. pro, the opening ceremonies will feature an appearance by the queen of england. con, elton john. [ laughter and applause ] is that what he's called? >> steve: is that his name? >> jimmy: he's goin