he has now returned to the l.a. field for a series of concerts, including the premier of frank zappa's 200 motels. yes, you heard that right. plus his own violin concerto. let's take a look at esa-pekka salonen as they play his violin concerto. ♪ tavis: you really consider yourself a composer more than a conductor, yes? it started out like that. conducting is something that happens. fluke. i wasns by studying composition, and we had a group of composers back in the 1970s, and the real conductors, we felt that we had to have one conductor in the group to do all that, so i was kind of voted to be that one. i realized it was actually something i like doing, so it started like that. anever thought i would have international career as a conductor. it was not part of my plan. tavis: what is the joy, the difference between the joy that composing brings you and the joy that conducting brings you? >> conducting is intensely social. you work with a hundred people collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give t

l.a. ate up our weather report. >> that's all right. l.a. is going to have bad weather, too.pical storm making land fall, tornadoes possible this afternoon to evening, we have a blizzard in wyoming and we have in l.a. and california, they are worried about fires. very hot and dangerous. let's talk about karen. it gets the headlines, the storm in the gulf of mexico. it weakened overnight. it's sheered apart by upper level winds. it's not likely to be a hurricane at land fall. the hurricane center has it being somewhere around 70 miles per hour. right now, it's 350 miles away from the mouth of the mississippi. here is the forecast past. again, it's going to skirt the coast. one in southern louisiana, that's sunday about 2:00 a.m. an overnight land fall and the morning hours, near pensacola. the snowstorm is going to cause huge problems in the west. blizzard warnings are up. this is a huge storm. could see up to 20 inches of snow with gusty winds and windchills in the teens. who is ready for that? it's beginning of october. rapid city and casper are the two cities. the tornado t

l.a.x. as julie headed for cabbo san lucas mexico. >> she was like i might have an appointment but if i don't, i'll text you, we'll have coffee. i didn't get a text, which was a little odd, but didn't think much of it. >> her son, mike, was beginning to worry after he returned from a business trip to the san francisco area. >> when i called her cell phone, the voice mail was full and that had never happened with my mom. she prided herself on being responsive. >> so you go over to your mom's house? >> so i went in the back gate and instantly it was clear that she had not been there for a while. >> what knemade that clear? >> the dogs' water dish was bone dry. my mom would die of thirst before her dogs went without water. >> mike's first call was to cindy. >> and he said, cindy, where's my mom? and i just -- i instantly knew in that moment that something had happened. i just knew, and i just said, michael, call the police, i'm on my way. >> where was deede keller? >> not only was there no wa

there is a prize that bears your l.a. philharmonic honors, those persons who are writing contemporary music for the orchestra. minds you encourage young to take up that challenge if and when they know that the old stuff is always going to be more highly regarded than anything they put together? all, these institutions are very interested in finding young talent, composing talent and of course performing talent. that is clear. known this is not so well- among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they are trying to figure out how to go about it. -- we stillo have do have a pr problem in the sense that these is to tuition spur trade themselves quite often -- that these institutions as gearedthemselves toward dead or almost dead people. [laughter] is that there is a lot of interest, and every orchestra i know, every opera house i know , is desperately looking around, trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting new ideas and new ways of getting the message across. we are in t

the leading man for l.a. clayton kershaw out of it. dodgers backed to the wall very lose but l.a. left their fight in the pregame. scoring matt carpenter and that was just a little bit of what was to come. a preview. scene robinson, puig overthrows everybody. 4-0 lead. kershaw gave up four runs in seven. just 5 innings as a matter of fact. started the fifth inning. beltran robs one. uribe and he is the nlcs mvp13- 2/3 scoreless innings. cards await a detroit-boston winner and you will see that game right here on channel 2. 9-

. >> still ahead, in l.a., law enforcement takes camera shy to another level. the l.a. sheriff's department had a photographer added to an fbi database, even know he hasn't had a criminal record. more on treating photographers like terrorist, after the break. it's welcome back. last month we brought you the story of a los angeles photographer who has been arrested multiple times for taking pictures. one instance included a confrontation with the california officer at eight metro station that he was photographing. take a look at how it went down. he was detained and searched on halloween of 2009 for filming images of the newly installed turnstiles at the metro's redline, hollywood and western stations. he was arrested on another instance of taking photographs under the auspices he was interfering with police work. he was eventually let go and was never charged with the crime. he is not alone. our photographers being targeted in l.a. by police? paul, is he alone in his claims that police are targeting photojournalists? is sean alone in his claims that police art targeting

louis beat l.a. 4-2. game five is this afternoon in l.a.. >>> in detroit, the power went out at comerica park and delayed the bottom half of the second inning of the tigers/red sox game for about 16 minutes. detroit batters had no power against boston's john lackey, who only gave up four hits. in the seventh inning, boston's mike napoli smashed a fast ball for a homer in the 1-0 win. red sox lead the series 2-1. game four is tonight in detroit. >>> lebron james says michael jordan is the greatest basketball player of all-time. but james told espn, quote, my goal is to be the best of all-time and that means maximizing everything i have. >>> members of the washington capitals posed for photos wearing some silly hats and glass with rescue dogs for a charity calendar. it will raise money for a group that adopts dogs and cats from shelters and then places th them in homes in washington, maryland and verge yain. >>> robert griffin iii and josh wilson put on wigs at an event supporting the fight against breast c

x.sylvester stallone at l.a. >> did you see that guy drive steps? up the museum >> this guy drove his car up the steps to get to the rocky statue >> do you think guys will start steps? segways up the you know. >> who knows. writing. oscar for >> he did >> sometimes i don't actually believe that he wrote. a powering talent. i know it for a fact. dayas at my gym back in the and one day he showed up on a friday and he's this guy and he and he's the nday guy who did that movie. it was unbelievable. > that is not proof that he wrote the script. >> i saw him on friday and i saw him on monday. he wrote the script. >> we love you stallone. much. you so >> what's up? >> have you ever seen someone lift ff a ski >> >> it's lindsay von. also skis. hilarious. now since lindsay's an olympic golf let's ask her about because her boyfriend's sport 2,016 part of the olympic games and couldn't versesy is swirling. >> do you think golf should be in the olympics >> of course. she had to say yes even though she doesn't believe that. >> why wouldn't it be in the olympics

taking pictures of the l.a. skyline and you miss the needle in the haystack the needle being the terrorists very interesting politicians reporter had reason t.v. thank you so much thank you megan well the f.b.i. is investigating the death of a thirteen year old boy from northern california after officers from the santa rosa police department shot and killed him police say andy lopez was carrying a polish gun that looks like an a k forty seven a riot assault rifle and was wearing a hoodie on tuesday when they confronted him when he says told police that they heard the two sheriff's deputies or the boy to put down the gun twice one sheriff's deputy opened fire when he thought that lopez aimed the gun at him family and friends gather today to say their final goodbyes to the middle school students more than one thousand people showed up according to local news stations. a number of annie's young supporters also held protests over the weekend to tell the officers actions into question the sheriff's deputy who opened

l.a.'s most fragile families. eight-year-old jade, ten-year-old elton, their mother, yesenia. and then there's celia and her oldest daughter gladys. celia is a single mother of five. each week she comes here to get food for her family. she gets to pick out clothes for her kids. >> that's wonderful, churn, on sunday. >> if the budget isn't resolved, celia's children could be on the street. >> i don't want to be on the street. you don't know what it's like to go from hotel to hotel. you don't know what it's like to be dragging your children out in the rain. you don't know that. because we did that. we slept -- we actually slept in parks. just to get into shelters. >> celia now lives in section 8 housing which relies on federal funding for rent in 2.2 million families nationwide. in l.a. county families require section 8 housing. >> we provide a subsidy that basically helps to bridge that gap. in many instances it's a significant subsidy. it could be 70 or 80% of their rent that we're subsidi

from the best chance, nearing lncht l.a., down the 5. some of the mountains will even see a couple of inches of snow. again in the mountains we could see windy conditions. how much rainfall are we talking? not blockbuster amounts but the chances there at least. you get a little -- maybe a quarter of an inch at most in a few spots. lot less than that, though, overall in many areas. that cold air still in place, northern california and the pacific northwest. but you will be dry. >>> this kind of ends the dry season. for the first time, getting a little bit of wet weather. >> it will clean out that l.a. river, which is quite dirty with hardly any water in it ever. >>> heating bills going up this winter. how much. >>> plus bizarre details of the 9-year-old stow away. >>> plus neemiemen marcus cool gifts. >>> welcome back. the supreme court is looking once again to change limits on federal campaign contributions, after hearing arguments tuesday it seems that justices are split on whether they should lift the legal limit one can give to politi

i recently ventured to downtown l.a. for a tour of the sports museum of los angeles the museum's curator gary cypress shared with me his private collection of dodges and yankees memorabilia and frankly folks i have never experienced a day like that. what a day what we've got ahead we're going to love we're in downtown los angeles at the sports museum of los angeles i've never been there is that incredible a good place and guess what it's not open to the public i'm going to find out why i want to find out a lot about dodger memorabilia and other things to come along while. sports museum of los angeles gary cypress did you build this yes i did when i belted you came. to the first thing is an impressive place i've never i've driven to dodger stadium so many ties i drive all of this freeways only dies but i've never seen this building why does it all the better public cost risk insurance at all so what i do is i open up for charities so i have a lot of charity being vents here open for friends and the dodgers use it at the m

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l.a. poorest and sickest residents, and most are uninsured. they turn to this place because if they can't pay, they'll still be seen and treated. do you have insurance? >> no, i don't have any insurance. >> reporter: you don't have insurance? >> no. >> reporter: when's the last time you had it? >> two years ago, when i lost my job. >> i don't have insurance. >> reporter: you don't have insurance. what's that like? >> just trying to not get sick. >> reporter: if the affordable care act, better known as obamacare, works, it's the patients at st. john's clinic, and millions more like them across the country, who are among those who are supposed to benefit the most. jim mangia is the president and ceo of st. john's. he says obamacare's importance can't be underestimated. >> there's no doubt in my mind that it's one of the most significant pieces of social legislation we've seen in more than a generation. >> reporter: if all goes according to plan, obamacare will expand health care coverage to

>> my story is also l.a.e verdict in the michael jackson wrongful death. >> you represented him at one time. >> who is a former client. they came back. it's amazing. this trial lasted for months. the one thing that aeg, who was the concert promotion firm, had denied at all times is that they had hired conrad murray. >> the doctor -- >> the doctor who was later convicted in criminal court, sentenced and is still sitting in l.a. county jail. and the jury came back today 12-0 they found that aeg did hire him, but the jury as juries do, found that he was not unfit with michael and awarded a giant goose egg. >> long deliberation. >> four days. if you're conrad murray and sitting in jail and you say i want that jury. because that jury just found that i was competent, on a civil context, mind you. for him he had to be convict beyond a reasonable doubt. here in the civil case, it was just a preponderance. >> are they saying michael jackson caused his own death by doctor shopping? >> they didn't have to say it but tha

even san francisco, richard knows, 77 is a beautiful afternoon and sunshine. 82 in l.a. looks like that's the weather pattern that's going to continue with the big, huge area of high pressure over idaho. huge storm system moving through the northern plains. you're going to get just a string of beautiful days continuing. where the high is located, all the cool air moves down through the rockies but then heads to the east. the warm air and the downslope components brings you warmer temperatures in san francisco and l.a. that's going to continue into today. where the high pressure is, it's cool and chilly there. boise is chilly, salt lake city, but also a nice mild start in l.a. at 59. phoenix at 63. still pretty chilly in portland and seattle. for this afternoon, that's about gorgeous. just write gorgeous write across that. looking nic humidities. looking pretty nice with that light breeze. >> you can't have it all, karins. >>> no, you can't have it all. >> you can't. and it looks great, though. an santa anas? >> it's not a full-blown event. >> still looking good. >>> macy

a 33-year-old l.a.-based song writer, who isn't, has spent a hundred grand on five years of plastic surgery to look just like his idol, justin bieber. here is toby shell done before all of the -- sheldon before the surgery and here he is after. this is the real before and of a. before and after. >> get out of my head. >> to get the look sheldon had botox injections and hair transplants. >> it is funny because he is do just about anything you want4x3 it is better to aspire and if there is no god as this person believes you might as well be justin bieber. gavin, at what point should a doctor say you are mentally ill and i will not operate on you. if somebody walks in and you are the surgeon and say i want to look like, i don't know, barbara hershey. >> before or after? joy what about these teenager -- >> what about these teenagers who get sex changes and then regret it? >> tattoo. what about tattoo? you are covered in tattoo. dowry greet them? -- do you regret them? >> it is not great being a coney island

you know the only liberal in the entire site right and good for the l.a. times that mean to try to restrict you know the content well i should say restrict the content in their newspaper but i think that's the thing you know i michael smerconish asked me this today on the radio he said you know is this censorship and i'm like i think so i mean we're right to the aren't we to the point on censorship there and you saw the government guy banning one guy it's an editorial decision by a progressive i indeed somewhat of a blinkered and rather provincial progressive but they're mostly like that so why should we worry question is the censorship or is this just i think i'm sure that it's what i mean he reads l.a. times anymore anyway they're just. i didn't know it complicates a legitimate publication but again it's it's a print publication and it's going down is it just you know i think it's when you talk like that there would be you know it sort of sounds like the old gandhi thing you know at first they ignore you then they ridicule you then they fight you then yo

it did not inform the president of reported monitoring of german chancellor angela merkel but the "l.a. times" said current and foreign officials said the white house and state department signed off on it. foreign ambassadors absolutely

would you consider hanging out in l.a. a little while, let me lean on your expertise until we do figure out what we've got? yeah. just cancelled our flights. we'll have the rest of our team out here asap. morgan: first 2 victims: wally melman and chloe harris. both killed in public places. chloe was killed while walking her dog on the beach in santa monica which she did every morning. and wally was killed outside of a massage parlor. in culver city. which he went to every tuesday. well, if he knows their schedules, maybe that means he follows his victims for a while. and not a single witness. so we know this unsub can blend in. regardless of the location, he has the ability to hide in plain sight. he's meticulous. the media's calling natalie ryan's murder the biggest celebrity homicide since sharon tate. what does that mean for us? that everybody will be watching. this guy is an assassin? when you look at the victimolgy, there's no obvious links. all the kills are clean except in the instance of the last victim, jeremy col

tomorrow night, owen wilson, from the l.a.o. "nightline" is next. i especially want to thank kanye west. thank you so much. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. >> kanye west, everybody. thank you for watching. good night! >>> tonight on "nightline" -- cops, cash, cocaine. what you are seeing undercover video of people buying drugs. wait who is selling them? they're cops and making big bucks doing it. tonight "nightline" examines the controversial way a florida city is getting into the business of busts. ♪ this is what it feels like >> this is what it feels lake to be on top of the music world. backstage with the millionaire djs find out why every superstar from jay-z to rihanna wants to be their new best friend. ♪ this is what it feels like >> i don't know if you know this, a lot of people think you are a jerk. >> fresh off kimmel, kanye just can't stay out of the spotlight. the only person who can make the kardashians look like wallflowers. what is he really doing to stay in the headlines? an inside look at can yekanye m. >

>> reporter: a rock star in the world of fund-raising annenberg has given more money to the arts in l.a. than any other woman, more than just about anybody else, in fact. >> thank you. >> reporter: yet she shuns the spotlight. how do you see yourself? >> as a person who likes to sit in a very comfortable chair with

. >> reporter: l.a. sheriffs detective tim miley. >> inside the container, the arms, legs and torso were wrapped in saran wrap, hands were covered in bags, and the hands, feet and head were covered in plastic bags. >> reporter: the remains were so decomposed that they couldn't be officially identified, and the coroner wouldn't rule it a homicide. >> police could only speculate about how the body came to be buried in the backyard of the one-time sohus residence. >> reporter: the tv show "unsolved mysteries" recreated the scene and even posted a picture of christopher chichester, calling him a person of interest, but no one called in with a tip. >> and when they didn't get anything back from that, then the case just went cold again. >> reporter: but who was then the main person of interest at the time the body was found? >> they were looking at both linda sohus, the wife, and christian gerhartstreiter. >> reporter: gerhartstreiter, who was now hiding out in plain sight as clark rockefeller and telling ever

i came back to sweden early july i was totally exhausted after the turmoil in l.a. . so i was actually sitting at home one night on the internet looking for a whole day trips with my kids and i received a call from los angeles it's a journalist who wants to comment on a lawsuit being brought against me from dold dole foods is suing us. film maker for wanting to show a fraudulent documentary slamming the company. based filmmaker frederick is being sued by a dollar the company claims the film is a fraud. we are suing. because we. produced a movie which is there clearly you know this much to read against the company and against our employees. it's three different lawsuits they're seeing frederick and. the way they doing this what exactly is their strategy. really the. us is saying. or do they have a hidden agenda i mean. we've become a part of our own film. trey's a trial and now the same forces are directed against us. have you considered accommodating them in any way with the film there is nothing to accommodate their demands include stopping the film shutting down the

we just gotten in touch with the fire department, and l.a. fire department says no residents are in peril. the entire structure is structurally sound. looks like it will be isolated to one of the apartments. still questions about whether it may have spilled over to a couple more near it. you can see the ground traffic. l.a. fire department is out and in force early this friday afternoon. that apartment fire we don't yet know how i started but we can tell you that according to the fire department of los angeles, no human beings are in any danger, at least no residents of the building. >>> are marshals, they're supposed to protect us while we're flying. now one air marshal is under arrest, charged with taking photos up a woman's skirt. the interesting thing is in the way he got caught. another passenger to the rescue. flying in america. it's an adventure, isn't it? ] . her busy saturday begins with back pain, when... hey pam, you should take advil. why? you can take four advil for all day relief. so i should give up my two aleve for more pills

the animal roamed the >>> developing news out of l.a. where fish and game officers finally got the upper hand on this wayward bear. the animal had been roaming the hillsides of a neighborhood near the rose bowl in pasadena. he was first reported near an elementary school about an hour ago then a high school and later as you saw there, he was close to the 210 freedom. they closed that freeway in one direction. wildlife officials did tranquilize him near the golf course near the rose bowl. that was just minutes ago. >>> new at 5:00 we are getting an idea of the price you will have to pay if you want a piece of twitter. twitter announced today it will sell more than 70 million shares at a price between 17 and $20 per share. the social network would raise nearly $1.3 billion with the ipo. twitter will officially price its offering on november 6. >>> strong earnings reports and encouraging economic news in china boosted stock today. the dow s&p and nasdaq were up. >>> california has 50,000 electric cars on the roads. but the governor wants to

in law father both came to california in one thousand feet the six and they both got a job downtown l.a. . department store on seventh and broadway. my father had been living downtown. but my mother she lived out in the projects the bad part of it was that i ended up hanging out in my mother's old neighborhood where i ended up joining the games and so for near i got into my addiction my addiction landed me in front of a judge. to a robbery he said you have to go to state prison so he says sin is me to eighteen years day prison. when i was doing. came really more radical i was on the revolutionary side before i got out you know i i promised all brothers that when i get out i would give back all the wrong that i've been doing as a gang member and grown up in my life right so when i got out the first thing i did was i came back to steal a role. so one day to bicycle security guards from the business improvement different color suburban shirts had just gone and twisted a home up in the air and it was about to break the woman on so i say what are you doing man this is little woman cohen goes

and so from him witnessing an injustice a day later he's at l.a. cain going through leadership development classes and now three years later he's our leader human rights work and us or my job is to is to keep trying to wake up the masses you know and and keep you know exploiting you know standing with the system is doing. it right now my personal hero and i think all of us will stay on the test of time general durbar. and the reason i admire him so much as the reason i admire so many people down. here is really somebody who grew up down here going to now spends always. did nine years and. six of those years in solitary confinement. is the individual that if you listen to the policymakers if you listen to people with money and wealth and power there's no rehabilitating. you know he's a career criminal. i guess you would have said the same thing about malcolm. x. he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. basically. and even. looking. a smile. came from always going on now and that's what really helped me. the far. field today the reas

. >> october 16th in new york and l.a. hopefully wider after that. >> what would you say some people come way from this particular film? >> it's an amazing story of kind of young love and somebody finding out who they are in self-discovery. and it's also a true story about a murder with members of american cultural history. >> well done. >> we've got a couple of questions from our orange room. britney over there. >> hey, guys. some of your twitter fans want to know you said you were getting some tattoos. when do you plan on getting them and what will they be? >> tattoos? >> yes, i love tattoos. there hasn't been a period in my life that i've been able to plan not getting naked long enough. but i do want to get tattoos. i was thinking maybe on the arms and body. nothing on the face. i think that would make it difficult for the makeup artist. >> yeah. >> but there's a few fairly pretentious quotes. >> like what? >> i'm not going to tell it. then if it were different, it would be like whoa -- he bhaked out on the other quote.

catalytic converters on cars and i remember you used to fly into l.a. and it was like. you know you can actually see the city when you fly it was just a simple thing and i wasn't that a good thing i mean the car industry. was saying it was going to put the in the

but l.a.ot nature center hovering over the edge of the hollywood hills. never built. or frank lloyd wright's sports club with its dramatic series of concrete and glass saucers. that never made it past the drawing board either. >> i wish that we had architecture of this sort of scope and ambition and really originality. how many buildings do you see with dome-shaped saucers hanging off the side of a ravine? >> even in a movie town architect s. charles lee had trouble selling what now seems to glamorous. >> he wanted to convert movie palaces into gigantic marquees to attract people in their cars to come see the movies. >> they are monstrosities to some, but to others loss is more. >> is this an example, though of squandering a chance to really make l.a. a different type of city? >> yes. it is. los angeles has had innumerable opportunities to do really great architecture and really great city planning and flubbed them. >> it's not that l.a. doesn't have its share of distinctive architecture. fran

rough that use art to advance social consciousness one of those artists is eleanor goldfield is an l.a. based singer songwriter and front woman of the band rooftop revolutionaries owner has also been a vocal supporter of occupy wall street and amend this movement to keep money out of politics she joins me now from l.a. studio eleanor welcome. thank you for having me and so i hope the ship government shutdown shame has given you some material to be inspired by you know we hear a lot about armchair revolutionaries but what exactly is a rooftop revolutionary. well. i used to live on a roof here in los angeles in the silver lake neighborhood and rooftop revolutionaries started actually as a political group and then i came up with the idea to combine my passion for political activism and my passion for music so that's where rooftop revolutionaries was born and like a bridging are not division of course we know it can ostracize a lot of musicians from a lot of audiences of why did you choose to really politics in your art. well i think it's actually i think it's the job of artists to be that

south l.a. is still an area plagued with violence.os angeles has 450 gangs with more than 80,000 total members. -- 50,000 total members. >> that is my coffeecake. >> this man is a champion in south l.a.. he has transformed his passion into a job. he is a breeder of birmingham roller pigeons. >> it is the responsibility of taking care of something. it gives you patience. you have to be patient. >> he organized an auction in his backyard. >> 65 going once. 60 five going twice. sold, 65. >> pigeons were able to unite communities torn apart with territorial fights. some members have words to keep young members off of the streets. he took damien under his wing at a time when he was approached by a gang. >> you have a group of guys here. we say, we see you every day. what are you doing? you should be hanging out with us. >> today, he has three dozen pigeons. he hopes he will be good >> three british workers -- a buster ever, a midwife, and a paramedic. i have all accepted the challenge to do their job under some of the most stressful and da

and i talked to him about it at the big l.a.ere. >> this could be the sexiest couple in hollywood. >> it's easy. looking good part. >> nice date night for the two of you? >> yeah. >> an extra special date night. the new premiere of "dallas buyers club." >> i'm proud of it. >> matthew and jared letto transforming themselves to play aids patients. still in awe of their performances. >> i'm so excited for these guys. they both went through so much to play these roles. >> like tom hanks in philadelphia before him, matthew losing a ton of weight for this film. >> i know you made a call into tom hanks to get advice from him. did the advice help? >> yeah, he let me know a few things i didn't know before. >> jared going further to play the transgendered rayon. >> do you have any idea what women go through on a daily basis? >> oh, honey, do i ever. there was waxing of the body including the eyebrows. it was a period piece. >> t >> how many points did you get on your card? >> a bunch. flew me here. >> dallas buyers club on the oscars shor

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. >> the l.a.east is taking on a new challenge and it's got nothing to do with food. >> see how many rubber bands i can put on my face at one time. >> i'm not going to lie. this looks really painful. >> see >>> this is one of those cool videos that shows us really talented dudes. in this case it's peanuts. we saw him a few weeks ago. once his fingers are greasy, he starts doing this. >> what? ♪ ♪ >> now, what he's doing is actually a dance song called finger cutting. it's a style that was influenced by ancient egyptian pictures. >> yeah. can you guy does this? >> i can do that. >> can i do that. >> not only is it that he can actually physically do those things but also think of that many things to do with your fingers. >> his fingers look like they don't have bones. they've all wavy. >> watch this. >> that's really good. ♪ ♪ >> recently released music video i want to show you ladies, i think a lot of people are going to be talking about it. starts with this guy cooking up some noodles because watch