plus, a night with janis joplin, plus all the latest juicy hot topics. now here's wendy!cheers and applause ] >> wendy: yeah!

a night with janis joplin. >>> the performance to uncanny you will swear janis is alive. ♪ >> announcerour abc stations. >> ♪ ♪ >> she was a singer unlike any other. janis joplin spent brief time in the spotlight, just a few years but her impact on music lasted generations. >> now a new broadway show called "a night with janis voice joplin" and that brings back to live once again the amazing voice. we get more from producer suzanne herald. >> reporter: she was a one-woman with musical earthquake. ♪ >> reporter: few singers, male or female, before or after janis joplin could break open a note with such power and such presence. hers was a voice that married soul and sensitivity and lived a few short years on the world stage. hers was a talent frozen in time. under the lights of the theater -- ♪ her life is there. who she was as a person helped to define who she was in a singer and what made people so attracted to her. you wanted to be close to that honesty and that raw energy and that nerve that she had but it is also why she burned out so fast. you can't really bottle lightning. >> repor

>> i've seen janis joplin. i've seen david bowie, diamond dogs.idered one of the greatest productions ever. this was the greatest show i've ever seen in my life! it had it all! it was the greatest show in the history of entertainment. i don't understand it. i'm completely confused. there's like 100 people working on that show. like robots and technology. how do they make money? >> one thing for sure about this area, quite a lot of businesses are spoken but governed by the yakusa. >> yakusa, that's the fraternal organization prominent in the entertainment and financial services sector, as they say, who is said to supervise things here. principally, your arcades, gambling, pachenko, adult entertainment, porn shops and sex clubs, along with other ancillary services. but how much actual boning is going on in the sex district? generally speaking, it's more a field of dreams than the actual act of sex. hostess cafes, where a lonely overworked salary man can find the attention of cute seemingly adoring girls who find their every utterance fascinating. so

janis joplin, jim morrison, jimmy hendricks. ♪ they never seem to learn. >> it's hard to predict or ohinside the mind of an artist. that makes them an artist. that creativity, the thing that makes them tick probably pushes them to the extremes that can cause fatalities and things that end up not being good. >> what was the most dynamic talent you saw? you basically are a guy looking for the next big thing in rock. >> when i came to sony, i signed mariah carey. i had the chance the to work with michael jackson who was as brilliant as they come. ♪ >> you couldn't get through to him on a social level. >> it wasn't my job. my job was to get the best possible music he could make and i could sell for him. that was my role. >> was it a difficult process? >> it could take years sometimes. like any artist. you can paint many canvases but you melay labor over a canvas tt takes forever. >> i'm an artist but i do this every day and go home. if i labor over the canvas the show isn't on the air. >> i should manage you. >> thanks for coming in. fascinating book. >> thank you. that's it for this speci

one, i think of janis joplin, freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.othing left to lose. he's at the end of his career. secretary clinton was in the middle of hers and that's a piece of the difference. >> i hear chris cillizza, button that down. >> just to add, i'm glad ruth said it first, because i was going to say it. that's exactly what came to my mind. i do think mark knows this better than anyone. i do think the thing i see the a achilles heel too guarded, risk averse, susan's piece guess at that in the secretary of state's office. we know that happened in 2008, would it be repeated in 2016. i think there's a real danger. >> quickly, if hillary clinton doesn't run for president, i bet you john kerry does. >> that's a first prediction. you're doubling down as it were. chris cillizza, see you in a bit, ruth marcus. >>> a home coming seven weeks in the making for newman and his family at the san francisco airport. north korea released the 85-year-old california retiree and korean war vet after detaining him without explanation during the final day of

the national park service says it believes that the famous acid rock singer janis joplin may have had her ashes spread here on muir beach. >> who wouldn't want ashes spread here? >> reporter: a couple of more weeks, you can drive back pout to muir beach with your dogs, your family or your favorite group of 35 kids. >> get out of the water! >> reporter: at muir beach, don ford, kpix 5. >> redwood creek begins in the peaks of marin county's tallest mountain, mount tam and flows through muir woods until it reaches the pacific ocean. the redwood creek watershed is home to endangered species. >>> marine biologists captured these images of killer whales in santa monica bay this week. one of the researchers called the sight like seaworld without the tanks. the orcas breached. spy hop, surfed waves. created by the moving boat and played under the vessel, as well. >> it was amazing. it was probably 30 on a scale of one to ten. it was incredible. >> this marks the third consecutive year this group of orcas has appeared off los angeles during the holiday season. the whales' home turf is monterey

going to push you on that a little bit and then we can open this up to the floor in the new site janis joplino. >> being black for a while will make me a better white, which might apply to some of the characters in this book. i mean, that is beyond cringe ready. it is the nba you can gamble a little bit. again, this is something that i found quite a bit. the envy that you can double, into this world, and you can get income and get out and altman the retain your likeness and the privilege in a benefit. that was one of the criteria that i used to distinguish between those who did that and know, the always presley. the nurses, you know, in one long standing commitment. surely there is a place even if history may not have judge then of for us to potentially of my judgment. >> i am not saying we can never judge answered me these women are here for their readers and for people to sort of make judgments about, and i do. and as a woman in this book to my judge pretty harshly. san the hairs, as far as i'm concerned, went into harlem to take and take and take, did not give back, and paid essentially no

for more spend half a century josie has -- chelsea hotel has joplin,ylan, and janis and jimi hendrix, just a few that stayed there. now the building is closed for renovation and the future of the hotel remains unclear. cheryl tippins spoke to us about her new book on this cultural landmark. you in the chelsea hotel ♪ ♪ you were talking so brave and so sweet ♪ >> i do not think there has been anything like the chelsea hotel. i can think of and are the -- of another artist community this large and this old. "inside thehor of dream palace: the life and times of the chelsea hotel." this hotel was completely different from any other hotel in new york. in the 1950s we had jack kerouac stay here, dylan thomas, the poet. he made the chelsea his second home. on dylan created many of his songs when he was living here in the 1960s. "2001"c clarke wrote on the in floor. the hotel became more run down. sid vicious moved in. it looks like he is already to go. >> the manager was probably the most loved of all of the people who have been in charge of the hotel. he had such a talent for choosing who t