it's about your sheinhardt-universal janis joplin biopic. >> wait. we can call her janis joplin?got the life rights? it's not janie jimplin anymore? >> apparently, neither name cleared. it looks like your character's going to be called jackie jormp-jomp. >> oh, okay. so what's the good news? >> i didn't say there was any. sheinhardt-universal did some focus testing this week. >> we got 100? >> you're holding that upside-down. >> oh, no. >> yes. i was afraid of this. it turns out not having the life rights or any janis joplin songs was a negative for audiences. >> but what about my duet with jimi hendrickson at woodstocks? ♪ we're all here at woodstocks ♪ someday there will be a black president ♪ >> uh, jenna, sheinhardt-universal does not wanna release the picture. >> and how will that affect my oscar chances? adversely. unless we get independent distribution. to do that, "sing dem blues, white girl: "the jackie jormp-jomp story" has gotta get some buzz.

amplified gymnastics, joplin, missouri, congratulations.r joining us today. >> thank you very much. jenna: well, new efforts at boeing to address serious safety concerns over its dreamliner. rick has more on this. rick? >> reporter: well, boeing's' trying to get those dreamliners up in the air, and with good reason. having them grounded has cost the airplane maker more than a billion dollars. but first boeing engineers have had to come up with a fix to the problem of the plane's overheating batteries, and now the company says it has several ideas. first and four most, boeing says it's developed a box to hold the lithium ion batteries, a sort of case that could fix the problems that have led to fires in a dreamliner parked in boston as well as a second case that forced another dreamliner to make an emergency landing. boeing's designed its fleet with those lithium ion batteries because they're lighter, more powerful, but they also tend to get hot. officials will meet tomorrow. if all goes well, the airplanes could get the green light to start

. ♪ another piece of my heart now baby ♪ >> reporter: his first discovery janis joplin.n 1968. released santana's "evil ways" shortly there after. ♪ i keep on falling >> reporter: he launched alicia keys with "fallen." nurtured and guided a slew of established artists along the way, simon and garfunkle, and barry mannilow, and aretha franklin. ♪ love in a pink cadillac >> reporter: then of course there is the singer he is most identified with. ♪ learning to love yourself it is ♪ >> reporter: whitney houston he discovered when she was still a teenager. ♪ it might be a fantasy >> reporter: he introduced her on the merv griffin show in 1983. >> you either got it or you don't have it. she's got it. >> reporter: he's proven he has got it for the last 50 years. we spent hours with davis over the past month to unlock the secret of what makes the man with the golden ears tick. davis is looking for songs for a new jennifer hudson album hearing this one for the first time. ♪ ♪ >> what do you think? >> i think it is a real strong track. this is something that could be kidded for je

a new movie about janis joplin is going into production. and sheinhardt-universal is making it. i know jack can get me an audition. so i'm gonna storm into his office in character. yay! oh, liz, i knew you'd be happy for me. somebody's sleepy. i am sleepy. but i'm also so excited. hey, max, is this your baby sister? oh, what a cute little girl. or boy if you grow up and feel that's what's inside you. [baby hiccups] omg, liz. look at you and me and our biological clocks. you're going baby crazy and i keep getting turned on by car accidents. i'm not baby crazy, jenna. this whole adoption thing is just taking a lot longer than i thought. where did you get that little shoe? it isn't stealing if it fell on the ground. so, uh, that's the tour, elisa. i think you'll find being my mother's nurse a mixed bag. when she's in a foul mood, in can be horribly unpleasant. but at other times, she is...asleep. i understand. elder care can be stressful. uh, especially when the object of that care wanders around at night in depression-era petty pants. you should've seen my grandmother in her later

i mean, from joplin and springsteen and then we go to santana and earth, wind & fire and then aristarry manilow and the grateful dead and whitney and aretha. yes, it's been wonderful in recounting the stories, the anecdotes. this is not a trade book. you can learn business, but you can learn -- if you love music, if you want to be any part of music, you'll want to hear those anecdotes that the queen of soul is a real person and that whitney -- her passion for music was so great, and that's not been written about. i think i tell the full story that goes to -- "american idol," i was there for the first seven years and validated the recording contracts that led, you know, to carrie underwood and kelly clarkson. >> make a great point actually. how important are things like that, the new singing shows, the reality shows of choosing these stars? how important are the grammys today to encourage even more sales beyond the first hit? >> i think first it's the grammys. the grammys in the last two years have been the largest really almost in history. last year because of whitney's tragic death,

jamie mcmurray: a boy born in joplin, missouri was fascinated by anything with wheels and a motor.h the daytona 500 and the brickyard 400 in the same year? 1 in 195 million. the odds of a child being diagnosed with autism? 1 in 88. i'm jamie mcmurray and my niece has autism. learn more at autismspeaks.org/signs. g for a motive in the death of a decorated navy seal who was also a sniper. he was shot and killed along with another man at a gun range >> chris kyle, a former navy seal and author of the best- selling autobiography "american sniper," was shot and killed alongside chad littlefield at a texas gun range saturday. kyle called himself, "the most lethal sniper in u.s. history," and was an outspoken advocate for war veterans. "my only regrets are the guys i couldn't save. that's what keeps me up at night. but every shot i took, i felt extremely justified." police arrested 25-year-old eddie ray routh... a former marine who is believed to have left the service in 2010, according to a u-s military official. the erath county sheriff says the three men apparently went to the gun rang

we recently in the joplin tornados and also tuscaloosa tornados we brought in dod equipment to replace what was destroyed. from the fire side i know there's a lot of things you are doing to work around the interoperatability issues with regard to communications between fire and dod and maybe if ray or anybody else wants to speak to that. >> our communications challenges still exist. we have excellent telecom communications, we have a layered effect of our radio systems. we have mobile command posts that we can exercise. so we're prepared for power outages, reduction of telecoms, we have a layered effect for our communications. but as everybody here said, we need help. if somebody here can help me get a navy or marine corps aircraft to talk to my guys on the ground tactically, i need that and i don't have that today. i use a command control helicopter, a civilian helicopter, to handle that and transfer that to an air to air victor frequency. but from a command control perspective, we're fairly robust. are we perfect, no, but we do have layered defenses against that. >> miss yeager, i do

you go to india or you go to the united states, go up to the dakotas, you go to missouri, you go to joplin, what you find is that people are more resilient than we give them credit for being. people will will come out in their community and help themselves given the opportunity. now, again, back to the politics. being a heavily kurdish region, they don't have the greatest relationship with istanbul, they don't have the greatest relationship with the turkish government. it's a completely different world. it's completely opposite. when their armed forces show up, it's not really lacked upon as a good thin. this is why i want to say thank you to our military that's here today, to the army, the navy, the military in general, the marines, the coast guard, even i saw a couple air force running around here yesterday. the fact that you are here and you are in san francisco and you do this every year, it says a lot. because we lack at -- look at this as a good week. we have a great working relationship and after being there and seeing that it's not a good relationship and people get really, really

what's different between the janice joplin era and managing that talent and managing talent in 2013?se other things. but is it really that different? >> for a record company, i'm not a manager. i'm very involved, more involved if i'm dealing with entertainers that need me for material as compared to self-contained orders to write their own material. and there you wait. i had -- you wait for a patty smith whom i also signed or currently an a alicia keys, a young renaissance great talent so that there isn't difference as i interact with them. i mean you don't get into their personal life unless there is a crisis that develops. >> so given how the music industry has changed, do you have any -- you may not -- any advice for parents of struggling up and coming song writers or singers? i speak as one myself. >> i view music very positively. you're dwelling on it from a tragedy and i understand that. and there have been a few. but i don't think it is endemic -- >> i'm actually just tryi talkig about trying to break in. how do you tell a child that wants to break in. >> life's been very good

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it gave 5 million dollars to build a neonative intensive care hospital in joplin, missouri devastated two years ago. they also donated $1 million to buy laptop computers for the town's students in joplin, among several gifts given by the uae, a country that works to raise its profile as a pro-western country. >> what they've been doing in joplin is amazing. >>> and mississippi has officially ratified the 13th amendment that abolishes slavery. >> that must have been a heck of a clerical error. what's the luck, seriously, that the clerical error would prevent them from ratifying the 13th amendment, could have been the 23rd. >> they ratified it and forget to send it. >> it was passed in 1864 and not formally ratified by mississippi until 1995 making it the last state to do so. the error was apparently noticed by a pair of mississippians looking into the state's past after seeing the film "lincoln." >> it's 2013. officially ratified. >> the point is it wasn't officially ratified until 1995, the real story, in 1995, hey, maybe we should do this. >> they were busy until then. >> this story

janice joplin, jim morrison, the list is endless, jimmy hendrix.y never seem to learn. >> it's hard to predict to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist but that's what makes them an artist. that sense of creativity. that thing that makes them particular is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good. >> bill: what was the most dynamic talent that you saw? because you basically are a guy who is looking for the next big thing in rock. >> when i came to sony i signed mariah carey >> i had the chance to work with michael jackson who was as brilliant as they come. ♪ because this is thriller, thriller night. >> bill: you couldn't get through to him on the social level though? >> it wasn't my job to get through to him. my job was to get the best possible music that he could make and that i could sell for him. that was really what my role was. >> bill: was that a difficult process? >> it wasn't easy. it could take years sometimes. >> b

stan says, they cannot buy any homes in joplin missouri, which also went through a horrible ordeal. we ask the question on gerriwillis.com. 3 percent said yes to 97 percent of you said not. be sure to log onto gerriwillis.com for online question every weekday. finally tonight, you have to hear this, italian jeans company that is a trademark the name jesus, going after a dozen other u.s. clothing companies for selling jesus the and apparel. now, they claim their company has the exclusive rights to the name and other people cannot use it. >> and not getting it. jesus teens is the name of that company. they register the name. back in 2007. here is was some of those genes look-alike. the company uses phrases like dow shot at any other genes before me and he loves me follows me. according to the u.s. trademark office the name of a personal character is register both only to if you can show it is used in a way that tells people what you do in addition to who you are. in this case, they get the name because it is at tied -- the name is tied to apparel. in my opinion a name like jesus shoul

than 150,000 flight operations per year and we are talking about places like boca routon, florida, joplinarolina. >> cancel flights to smaller airports, is it a scare tactic or a promise? okay, so, anna, first we had the debt ceiling. then we had the fiscal cliff, now we have this sequestration, which is really forced budget cuts. doesn't matter what you call it. it's the third time that the sky is falling. when are people going to stop believing that the sky is falling or top the sky from falling and vote in new people? >> i think the american people have stopped believing the sky is falling already. i see a lot less anxiety and sense a lot less anxiety about this than we had during the fiscal cliff. look, don, this has become like a bad halloween movie. jason never dies. he comes back and comes back and comes back and every time the movie is worse. it really has shown tremendous lack of responsibility. you know, the president came up with this idea, he doesn't want to take ownership, the republicans, the congress passed it. they don't want to take ownership and now it is everybody's pro

. >> he did indeed and janice joplin made it famous. >> rose: exactly. >> when did you become who you are today. >> well, see, i-- my narrative would be very different from that i wrote a book before i became vice president called earth in the balance which people said whoa, how can you just let things loose like that and say what is on-- i mean, you know, i've done that for a long time. when i ran for president the first time in 1988 i announced with a speech that said the reason i'm running is to bring more attention to the global warming crisis. >> right. >> and people said well that's nuts. i mean i thought then and i believe now that-- . >> rose: so the thesis that you may be more liberated now is not true? >> i don't think it is fundamentally but you are certainly right, if you want to say that in the years when i was in the congress, the senate, the white house and -- >> there was a question of whether you might run again in 2004 but you decided not to do that. >> yeah. >> because? >>. >> well, first of all, the the attack of 9/11 on this city and the pent begun and pennsylvani

. >> tornadoes in places like tuscaloosa, joplin and other major disasters across the country.nd homeland security grant funding would be reduced to its lowest level in seven years, leading to potential layoffs of state and local emergency personnel across the country. let me close by saying this, threats from terrorism and the need to respond and recover from national disasters do not dim inish because of budget cuts. in the current fiscal climate we don't have the luxury to making cuts to our capabilities without significant impacts. we will work to continue to preserve our front line priorities as best we can. but no amount of planning can can mitigate the negative effects of sequestration. so, as we approach the 1st of march, i join with all of my other colleagues and with the governors, who we just heard outside to ask the congress to prevent sequestration in order to maintain the safety, security and resiliency of the country. thank you. >> we'll take some questions for the secretary. yes. >> reporter: you were talking about -- >> hearing from the secretary of homeland se

michael joplin: when she died of a heroin overdose it was really hard cause i didn't have a role model anymore. jim langdon: nobody was surprised, i wasn't surprised at her death but one of the most truly surprising surprising things about janis is life and death is that she's still with us. thirty seven years later no mater where you are in america you can flip on your car radio and at some point or another you're going to hear janis joplin singing. powell st. john janis was like a racecar driver. you win races and you get great adulation from the fans. but there's always the chance that they'll wipe out. john cooke: i had a dream where janis was on stage. and it was the end of the set, the end of the encore. and, that was maybe a month or so after she died, and i felt like it was janis coming to say goodbye. janis came down the ramp, and there was this little girl needing approval and comfort and she said, "was it okay, was i okay?" and i said, "you were great!" [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: hello friends and neighbors! good thursday morning. great to see you this morning. early in the morn

. >> that means smaller airports across the nation, places like boca raton, florida, joplin, missourill see their air traffic control towers shut down. >> what does this mean for you? if they have fewer people in these towers, they can't keep up with the pace of takeoffs or landings and that may mean fewer flights which could mean higher ticket prices. and that's not all. a representative for the air traffic controller worries about the impact. >> it's hard to see how it's not going time pact safety in terms of the efficiency and safety of the system. so we're very concerned how that's going to play out. >> but the transportation department insists these cuts will not impact safety, after the furloughs kick in around april 1st. well, the government also says they would have to eliminate midnight shifts at towers, too, so lots of goods we depend on like pharmaceuticals, electronics, car parts, those deliveries could be delayed. as for security lines, those will be substantially longer. when i asked if there are any upsides, one of the representatives did say, look, there does need to b

. >> you're playing lois lane and then janice joplin.verse characters. >> a lot of fun, a lot of challenges. that's what i love about my job. >> are you optimistic about winning tonight? >> no, i'm like, no. but that's all right. i'm so happy to be here, that it really supersedes any competition or any need for victory. i just really, really am apy to be here. >> i got jessica chastain to v give me her loser face. do you have a practices loser face? let me give you the bad news, you just lost. >> i'm kidding. can you imagine if i actually did that on the tell promper? >> yes, we can replay them both. you might be going -- lovely to see you. take care. >> let's go to you. a beautiful dress from amy adams. what was your view? >> inkrcredible. and that is a custom designed oscar de la renta gown that amy works specifically with him on. and oscar delurenlta this season was a special season because he dlabera collaborated with john galliano. oscar has done a lot of dressing first ladies previously, and you know, john has been a real sort of h

and there was this strutting, electrifying, white soul sister, janis joplin, performing for the peoplena. i learned to trust my ears as their music really went out there. >> you have a saying. you're very blunt. you've either got it or you don't got it. and one person who definitely had it and still does, is bruce springsteen. you're really candid about, it wasn't an overnight sensation. >> it was not an overnight sensation. but his lyrics, his symbolism, was so unique. i went on closed-circuit television to read it to our columbia salesmen so they would not call him another bob dylan. that was the kiss of death. he had his own views, his own images. and he, as dylan, came a part of america. >> and i love you had to say to bruce, i need a little more energy on stage. it's hard to imagine the boss -- >> he would play he's folk clubs. and i took him to a theater as large as radio city music hall. and the first time he got on that stage, he was still standing still in front of the mic. i pointed out to him, the virtue of going from side-to-side. >> he listened well. >> he listened well. >

jimi hendrix, he never lip synced and his performances weren't perfect but he's a classic or janis joplinemember them as fantastic artists. why does everything have to be so perfect now? >> well, it's interesting to me, you know, i was always under the assumption that the 1991 performance by whitney houston was a live performance. i was shocked ben rickey minor told the world that was lip synced. we have the ability now to kind of pull the curtain away from the wizard of oz and see what's going on behind the scenes and i think what beyonce did was show you i did levitate when i performed but i actually can levitate. >> i know but i still wish she would have, i don't know. some part, a little piece of me, and i love beyonce but i was disappointed. >> i love her, too. it's amazing this became a story and it's amazing that, you know, i do feel a little bit of what you're going through, that you would prefer to see this great entertainer entertain us in a great fashion. i think that, like i said, beyonce is a singer and an entertainer and i think the entertainer in her won out that day. she w

most reliable internet: verizon fios. [ cheers and applause ] jamie mcmurray: a boy born in joplin, missouriimself into authorities. he's been charged in connection with a double shooting that left one person dead. johnson's attorney says his client wants to defend himself against the charges and clear his name. >>> baltimore city police are now involving a murder-suicide in the waverly neighborhood. they say a woman and a man were found shot at a home around 6:00 p.m. yesterday. both died from the injuries and officials say a small child was found at the scene and was unharmed. the names of the victims have yet to be released. >>> time now for a check of your weather. here's meteorologist lynette charles. >> let's check out what's going on right now because the big story of the day, the cold and the winds and we have them both in annapolis. it's 31 degrees right now there, but with the winds out of the northwest at 11, we're feeling like we're in the 20s. so make sure you do bundle up this morning. and stay that way even as you go into the afternoon. you can see a mix of sun and clouds. tha

how heavy the snow is right now, kansas city snowfall rates about two inches an hour heavy snow in joplin and that's headed toward the northeast during the day today and we expect some pretty significant snowfall totals today in that area. as we look at that map you could see the purple areas, that's where we expect to see another about a foot of snow on top of what we have already. in chicago probably in general around six inches of snowfall. the good news for the major cities of the northeast, shouldn't be a big deal mostly rain but north and west of there into upstate new york and the mountains of vermont and new hampshire we could see up to a foot of snowfall. the moral of the story is tough traveling today and tough traveling tomorrow. >> jeff thanks. >>> three days left before huge automatic spending cuts hit the nation. pew research poll shows more than six out of ten americans think cuts will have a negative effect on the economy. >> if they come nearly half of those surveyed say they will blame republicans, just over a third will hold president obama responsible. bill plante is a