a lot of people would say, do you get the melody first or the rhythm? i always say i get the rhythm first and the melody comes out of it. >> could you play us an example of may be something where the rhythm came first? and maybe just play the rhythm. >> i will try. this is a piece called "cumulus rising." this is from a piece that i did in 1998, on the theme of water. this is sort of the theme of water rising through a team less clout. it does not have to be, but that is the sensation that gave me the idea. -- cumulus cloud. >> if you could play the rhythm first. >> i will tap it. [tapping] pretty simple. then i will play a little bit of it. ♪ >> i will leave it there. [applause] >> one of the things that people often ask is what is happening in our brains when we hear a piece of music. it is extraordinarily complicated. a sound enters the years and there is a cascade of their rick complicated processes that turn the changes in air pressure to an electrical signal which gets transmitted from the year to the brain. once it hits the brain, it gets even mo

we tried to simultaneously get the rhythm, melody, the subtleties, dynamics, accent, all those thingshat make music interesting. but a lot of times, it is good practice to tear them apart. solo guitar playing, for example, polyphonic music, you have a melody and a baseline, maybe an accompaniment, 3rd voice or harmonic accompaniment. i always suggest people to tear them apart, work on the melody, just work on the base, rhythm, accompaniment. that provides an important process to understanding how these elements have to happen simultaneously. >> when you are writing, as a fan of yours, for decades now -- i think your first record came out in the 1970's. >> 1978. >> that is right. as a fan, one of the things that struck me is you did not sound like anyone else i had heard, and you still do not. when i listen to any other guitarist,, composer, you can hear their influence, who they took this idea or technique from. your music just sounds fresh and novel. i wonder if you might be willing to disclose to us some of your influences and how they gave rise to your compositional playing style,

melody records in dupont and will be open a few more weeks.memories will last. >> reporter: for 34 years, uck hear just about anything at melody records shop in dupont circle. today, it's the sound of sadness. >> i am heartbroken. >> reporter: this melody is about to end. a victim of the music download surge. leon has come here at least once a day for 30 years or so. >> this is my home away from home. where i go when i'm sad or bored and this is my family. >> reporter: that is jack and his wife susie. they opened the store in no one 77, when rod stewart topped the billboard charts. jack remembers a phone call in the early 1980s. the caller asked for music by tonita. >> we do have it. >> could you please hold it for me and i will be there. i said i will be glad to do that. what is your name, please? >> he said stevie. stevie who? >> stevie wonder. >> yeah, right. >> five minutes later, a huge limo pulled in front of the store. ♪[ music ] he purchased the headphone and he was facing -- and he was listening and then in five minutes, the store was

while lives here with caylee and their mother melody jones. melody is on disability.ls authorities she suffers from mental illness and has attempted suicide at least once. >> she could go from one emotion to the other in a snap. if we -- me and my sister were playing, we got too loud or anything, my mom would flip out, start yelling, screaming, maybe grab something, hit one of us, so i stayed away from her. i didn't know how she would act. >> on august 7th, shortly after they find caylee's body in her bedroom, both thomas and her mother are asked to come to camden headquarters. thomas enters the box, or interview room. what follows is a remarkable window into the interrogation process from the suspect's point of view. >> did you argue with your sister? >> every now and then, maybe once a day. >> i was just answering the question. this is what happened this is how our house functions. >> just after the 30-minute mark, detectives get more specific. questioning thomas about the circumstances surrounding caylee's death. thomas recalls being woken up by his mother sometime

. >> a medley or melody. >> a melody.e difference between a medley and melody. ♪ ♪ the gravy ♪ some people think i'm bumping. >> kfc i am just eating my lunch ain't nothing crazy about me ♪ >> speechless. ♪ intergalactic kfc ♪ >>> toronto, canada, native decided to document his life every day with self-portraits. he took 4,748 pictures of himself. >> my name is jeff harris. i'm a photographer from toronto, canada. i always had new year's resolutions about keeping diaries. my diaries tend to fizzle by february, but i realized i had five minutes in the day to take a portrait. >> this video compilation put together by time.com. of course he's in the picture so he got his family and friends to take pictures. he had some famous people take pictures as well. >> took my photo. i made a scenario like him. >> you can see all these years of what he's been through, including a battle with cancer. >> wow. >> when he was going through his battle, even his doctor took pictures. >> to share his story with us, we have jeff harris "right

and the president of melody records says he's not sure what's next for him, but he's sure what he'll most and that's the customers. it's just not part of the mp3 experience. >> it's very impersonal. >> reporter: the president of melody records says he's not sure what's next for him, but he'll miss the customers the most. >> we wanted to leave on a good note. >> reporter: derrick ward, news 4. >> chuck is here now. >> we have a song lyric that sums up the day today. the sky won't snow and the sun won't shine. cloudy skies.óé!2g ongtoday. an ugly day to be outside. temperatures barely we had yesterday slowly starting to disappear across the area. that's a little dusting there. that's gleeb road. right now in washington, it's cloudy and cold and it's miserable to be outside. temperatures still holding on to 30 degrees. temperature has not moved more than war/- com oury we're aii!zing nows. problemkzç that's way. how close? petersburg, west virginia,&i the the problem is, that moisture-laiden warm air is trying to rain down into the sub there's a freezing rain advisory in all the bright-

melody records will be selling out the rest of their inventory. 5's best parker has their story. reporter: for 34 years you could hear just about anything at melody record shop in dupont circle. today it's the sound of sadness. >> i'm heartbroken. i'm without any irony, i'm heartbroken. i had tears in my eyes. reporter: this melody is about to end, a victim of the music download surge. leon weiseltier has come here at least once a day for 30 years or so. >> this is my moment away from home, where i go when i'm sad or bored. i mean they're family. reporter: that family is jack manassa and his wife susie. they opened in 1977 when rod stewart topped the billboard charts. jack remembers a phone call back in the early 1980s. the caller asked for music by tomita. >> we do have it. could you please hold it for me and i'll there be? i said i'll be glad to do that. what is your name, please? he said stevie. >> stevie who? stevie wonder. reporter: yeah, right. >> five minutes later this huge limo pulled in front of the store. he purchased the headphones and

it would be sad to lose that communication. >> there's no exact closing date for melody records righty will last. the georgetown barnes and noble bookstore disclosed. >>> two high-end stores in our area will soon be closing as well. the macy's store. and the bloomingdale's store at the white flint mall and will close inner whispering. more than 230 people will lose their jobs but will have the opportunity to apply to other stores. sales begin on sunday at 0 closed doors. >>>-- sales will begin on sunday at the both of those stores. >>> kodak may be getting ready to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy. the company has not commented on the report but is trying to sell its 1100 digital imaging patents in order to raise some cash. another sign of the times. people not shooting as many pictures on film. >> and rochester going through a big decline. >>> it appears location is just as important when it comes to finding love. if you live in the d.c. area, if you have a leg up on the competition. >> the daily beast recently compiled a list of the 25 best cities to find a date in 2012. washington d.

a lot of people would say, do you get the melody first or the rhythm? always say i get the rhythm first and the melody comes out of it. >> could you play us an example of may be something where the rhythm came first? and maybe just play the rhythm. >> i will try. this is a piece called "cumulus rising." this is from a piece that i did in 1998, on the theme of water. this is sort of the theme of water rising through a team less clout. it does not have to be, but that is the sensation that gave me the idea. -- cumulus cloud. >> if you could play the rhythm first. >> i will tap it. [tapping] pretty simple. then i will play a little bit of it.

george, facing a problem of money -- his girlfriend melody, a brilliant woman, she said to him, "now you have an understanding of what it is like to be a minority." tavis: she happens to be an african-american woman. >> melody is the head of one of the largest hedge funds and money management funds in america. this is a heavyweight woman. but she has seen so much take place. she reaches out to oprah. who reaches out to spike lee. who reaches out to everyone in the community. they garner themselves behind this to say, "you put this amount of money up. we are not going to let it fall." george put another $50 million to distribute it himself and marketed himself. he will push it along. we as the actors said ok. informants, i have not taken the job, because i have -- in four months, i have not taken a job, because i have been touring the country to talk about this movie. tavis: the story of the tuskegee airmen is an american story, to your point. let me ask a very politically incorrect question, because i can, respectfully. for all that white george lucas had to go through, being turned

the owners of melody record shop on connecticut avenue northwest. they say they would love to stay open but changing technology and a difficult economy have taken their toll. they say for the past 34 years melody has adapted from vinyl, to eight track, to cassettes, cds, and back to vinyl. the store will close for good this winter. an official date has not been announced. >>> a family is waking up with their dog after he vanished from his home in owings mills. dodger reunited with his owners thanks to high tech help. someone found him in severna park last night and used a microchip to track down his owners, who are now living in north carolina. dodger has a few scrapes and missing some teeth, but his family is happy that he is back home. >> that's what happens. you run the world for a while, you might miss some teeth after four years. you don't get regular food. >> that technology is really incredible. the humane society will do it for -- i forget how much. $30 or less, and it helps you keep track of your pet. it's a good idea. >> i need one of thos

. >>> more than three decades of business, the melody record shop in dupont circle is going to close.ers say they'd love to stay open, but changing technology and a difficult economy have taken their toll. they say the past 34 years melody has adapted from vinyl to 8 track, cassette, cds, then back to vinyl. the store will close for good later this winter. an official date has not been announced. >>> we'll recap our stop tory. right now 93% of the precincts are reporting and it remains a two-man race for the front-runner spot between mitt romney and rick santorum. right now, though, rick santorum leads by more than 100 votes. that number has been changing the last hour or so. ron paul is in third place. we stay on thisout the night. we have the latest tomorrow. >> many people in iowa are very, very glad that this is over and tonight was the last night. it's just been getting bombed calls. and many of them said they've had to pull their phones out of the sockets because they can't get any peace whatsoever. it now moves to new hampshire. where another contest will be going on there. the

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it has got strange melodies in it, and i said, i would like to sing this. i cannot remember whether one of the guys army said, i do not think i would do that it -- one of the guys said, i do not think i would do that if i was you. i said, let me try to do that. all of these people, except prince is so young, but the beatles and the stones and all the guys from europe and stuff, i knew them well. they knew me well. i was a rock-and-roll singer at 15, so they attach themselves to me. i am getting ready to work on the album now. i got something on there i am going to dedicate to you. >> i want to tell all of my friends if i stopped speaking, you understand why. i'm david walked past you and not say something, because -- i may walk past you and not say something. >> i am going to do it at the playboy festival. my husband said, why don't you do it with tavis over there? okay then. tavis: i do not want to mess with your house. it is not that serious. >> he said, why are you dedicating a song to tavis? >> i am going to be in my box seat watching you. i remember th

. >> for more than three decades melody record shop has sold music in dupont circle but now it is timesong. it is going out of business. the manager knows his career is about to end. he has worked here since the heyday of the clash. he says the independent record shop could not compete with hard times and innovation. >> it is like attending a funeral that does not end. >> the owner believes the mom- and-pop music shop will vanish. >> we became friends with most of our customers. we probably have the best customers. it will be sent to lose that feeling, that communication. >> it is a bad time for institutions. the george storm -- georgetown barnes and noble store just close. and penn camera is putting a lot of people lot of work. >> people are willing to go on line and save a couple of dollars. it is more money for them. >> some regular stop by to browse through the merchandise something they will not be doing in the future. >> it is pretty sad. i guess the industry, selling records and movies, is going down. >> as to when it will close and no definitive word. it depends on how long the

doctors have learned putting words to melody stimulates memory and helps a damaged brain recover the ability to process language. >> the idea is that that can be used as an alternative. just take the music away and then you're stringing words together. >> i will speak better. i want to get back to work. >> reporter: giffords defied long odds by surviving her attack, now she's showing what's possible for a wounded mind. ben tracy, tucson. >> this sunday giffords and her husband will attend a candlelight vigil to remember those that died in the shooting. >>> red wine may prevent cancer in women. researchers looked at women who drank at least one glass of red wine. the hormone pattern changed. >>> tiger woods' ex-wife buying a $12 million home in palm beach then tears it down. after getting 100 million from tiger woods, elen edgren buys the mansion and tears it down. no word on what she's planning to rebuild. >>> waves crashed over the pier today flooding walkways and hitting higher than the bluff. officials are advising beachgoers to stay off jetties and exposed rocks near the surf zon

can you hear them, the melodious intent, the glimmering mood in their eyes. face stitched by seam, a garment i have sewn to my skin. whatever remains of el gubenchi's 1932 cairo studio recording lives between the old cobblestone quarter and my still-warm mahogony ear. i should have gotten up to shake his hand, this uncomfortable tension between me and god. medina, its streets adorned with smells from the bazaar, yet i have chosen to adorn myself in the still concrete of columns. i am for the transcription of the arabic. in the morning, he howled the song in the name of his father, perhaps new fathers weep at the birth of their sons. do not cry for leila or for him, but drink the red wine and grow your love doublely, one for the ruby in the cup, the other for its rouge on your cheek. bombs rape the eyes of the sleeping assyrian gods. as if it were only a sand box, a few worthless grains of sand. i'll cut for you the last swathe of blue from the sky, sever my and if you'll let me, but for 5 minutes more, leave me to sleep without the knowledge of war. a kanun w

the melody record shop has announced it is closing after three decades. and download able music as part >>> a few flurries coming through. that is about the end of it. we were in the teens or early this morning. we asked our facebook page, it is so cold that -- [laughter] that is:. "that is clever. i like that with the best one. we had over 50 responses. the flights will be there. cornflake, not frosted flakes. >> thank you very much. >> that is it.

. >>> call it a sign of the times, the melody record shop in dupont circle is closing.tay open, but the changing technology and a difficult economy have taken their toll. they say for the past 34 years melody has adapted from going from vinyl to eight track to cassettes to cds and then back again to vinyl. the store will close later this winter. an official date has not been announced. >>> 2011 was a baddier f ieyear storms, and it means a lot of people will be paying more in 2012. cnbc's brian schactman says they'll be paying more. >>> homeowners insurance rates could rise after several natural disasters, tornadoes, high winds, storms. we had quite a bit. the insurance industry has seen record losses for four straight years. the group expects premiums to rise 4% to 5%. and will charge more to offset higher costs and reinsurance on their own policies. >>> delta airlines adding a $3 surcharge on all flights between the u.s. and europe. it may offset the eu's new carbon law that charges for carbon emissions. delta is the first to add a new fee. we'll see if others follow.

at the golf course in annapolis, thanks to melody, there was a little magic on this one. this summer sunrise by the chesapeake showing the calm beauty, something that the local musician worked on in his play. and going up north, where adam and his dad took a sunrise shot almost every day this year. waiting for their time lapse video, you can watch it as well on their facebook page, titled forgotten race. no way we can forget it now. so what will 2012 bring? who knows? but the same question will continue to be invited by video like this one, i recorded back in november. double rainbow, wow, what does it mean? as long as you have a camera nearby at least we all get a chance to see. meteorologist justin burke, abc 2 weather. >>> that was great, those pictures, the year is not over yet, coming up we have this year's biggest sports story to tell you about, the moments, when we look back at some of the people and the year, we'll be right back  . >>> firefighter mark falkenhand, we take a look at the men and women who made a difference in our lives. >> we lost pat model, tv st

the owners of melody record shop on connecticut avenue northwest say that they would love to stay open, but changing technology and a difficult economy have taken their toll. they say for the past 34 years the store melody has adapted to vinyl, to eight track, to cassettes, to cds, and back to vinyl again. the store will close for good this winter. the official date has not yet been announced. too bad. and it's also not only the changing technology, but especially the way we're buying music these days. >>> this morning one family is waking up with their dog after he vanished from their home in owings mills, maryland, four years ago. > >> a collie mix named dodger reunited with his owners thanks to high tech help. they found him in severna county and used a microchip to track down his owners who are now living in north carolina. dodger has a few scrapes and missing some teeth, but his family is happy he's back home. details of the most anticipated 30th birthday party.

what i tried to do is -- and the melody is there, song is there, but i tried to bring the rhythm into a more contemporary context. this has more of an r&b, hip-hop feeling to it. ♪ [applause] >> there is an obvious way that lyrics tell a story. certainly, instrumental music does, that is what ballet is about. in a way, they have it easy because there are dangers to tell the story. would you say that is what you're trying to do with your music, trying to tell a story? >> i think so. i do not always consciously have an image. often i do. sometimes it is a catalyst for starting, i will fiddle around with an idea and the image starts to rise in my mind as i work with it. for example, i played a little bit of a piece from my collection, the water garden, started in 1998, had sketched out a few ideas. it was wintertime, january. we had just moved up to mendocino county, and it was raining for two, three weeks, every day, constantly. it took me about two or three weeks to realize i was sort of an absorbing the sensation of water into everything i was doing. oh, i get it. it should be a colle

doctors have learned putting words to melody stimulates memory and helps a damaged brain recover theo process language. >> and the idea is that that can maybe then be used as a proxy or alternative, just take away the music part and suddenly you're stringing words together in a sentence. >> reporter: dr. michael lemole was gifford' neurosurgeon. he says doctors used to think only the brains of young children could repair themselves. >> the ability for the brain to sort of rework itself does get more limited as you get older but the old adage that the brain is pretty much unable to fix itself in adults, we're rethinking that. >> i will speak better. i want to get back to work. >> reporter: gabrielle giffords defied long odds by surviving her attack. now she's showing what's possible for a wounded mind. ben tracy, cbs news, tucson. >> pelley: ben mentioned the brain's singing center. well, research has found that it's overdeveloped in professional singers, which may explain why some of us sing opera and others can't carry a tune. also on our minds today, researchers in britain have mad

by adding the distinctive melodies of ancient chinese strums over western orange straition-- bring together of the greatest musical traditions the world has ever known. intricate costumes and head pieces offer a glimpse into the richness and diversity of china's past. skilled designers create large scale digital back drops that whisk the audience off to far away lands. after countless hours of training and rehearsal and after each piece has been crafted down to the minutest detail, ready to embark on the world tour. >> wow. here with details. david is assistant director at the asian arts foundation which sponsors. welcome. >> thank you for having me on the show. >> that's an eyeful. no detail left undone certainly. how do you cram 5,000 years of culture into one show? >> that's really a challenge a lot of people say you have to fit in one to two and a half hours. in the chinese means the beauty of divine being dancing and the actual performance is nothing short than being divine. >> let's get to this. reading this sense of divine. it's beyond a show. i feel irrefvent using that word -- irre

. >> meanwhile here in northern california, melody, listened to her sister joanna on the phone. >> thereas a lot of ederly peopederly -- elder low people, in wheelchairs, couldn't walk. >> she had no idea her sister and husband were on the ship as part of the european vacation. joanna called her from the u.s. embassy in rome after she and passengers made it in a life bet to a sparsely populated island. >> there was nowhere for people to sleep. ended up sleeping in the church. >> heaven compared to the chaos on the church. >> the crew did the best they could. but nay didn't understhand whan to do. >> they're home in california. they will return tomorrow night. and the cruise liner is drawing eerie comparisons to the titanic. 100th anniversary of the disaster unapre in april of thi. >> we are learning much more about the captain. he is under arrest the learn why the captain may have steered to shore as a favor to a staff member. go to u.s. world news on our home page. >> now to the talk of the town. ready for the 49ers, not since steve young was quarterback and pete wilson was governor hav

melody raised 235 dollars by herself. josh blew 43-mile-per-hour winds. and a tropical storm wind push in our hand-held and momter. 37 in baltimore and easton. wind chills however in the teens to 20s and low 30s. the precip is heavy snow back towards the mountains and we are going to miss out on that. we have ourselves a blustery day a wind advisory. we are stuck in the 30s and winds gusting around 45 miles per hour make you feel colder. sorry we don't get this round of snow tonight 25. ravens game snow showers in the offing. dome team can't handle it. 35 if you going to the game, bundle up. maybe flurries and snow showers. but we will warm next week ahead of the next storm 52 with rain on tuesday. angela. >> reporter: thank you. and good morning. as you get ready for that purple friday commute, we have got wet roads but the bigger factor is the wind. we have wind warnings on the chesapeake bay bridge. extra caution on all your bridges, ramps and overpasses this morning. let's get a live look at traffic flow. seeing increase in volume. a sharp increase on

his girlfriend, melody, she's black.he said to him, you did not understand what it was like until he tried to put this film out there. and without the other $100 million resources that he had to go and promote his own movie, this movie would have suffered the same failure that other films have. but because george can back up his own -- boy, i want to say a word i can't say right now. >> he has a passion. and he also has two black children. cuba gooding jr. and terrence record, howard, we're his two black kids. >> how do you think barack obama has been doing? >> it's a hard job. he was put in the white house with the economy falling apart, and a bunch of troops over there fighting a losing battle. and he said, i'm going to bring them home. he did, all right? he's bringing them home. and i'm not -- to me, i'm an actor first, so i'm not taking any sides. >> he's been forced to make so many compromises, and still because of trying to clean up the mess that was before him, he hasn't been in a position to do the things that he

students at may's melodie elementary and 38 other charter schools joined others as part of the longerterm project ... teachers get a hundred dollars and the schools themselves are incentivized financially for staying open that extra 90 minutes ... the mayor pointed out that chicago had the shortest school day of any major u.s. city ... the school board voted not to give the schoolteacher's their pay raise ... the union filed a labor complaint accusing them of coercing and intimidating the teachers but the mayor said today that based on what he saw he likes what he sees >>we've basically had a three weeks of education to these students' lives that tells you hello the base was before we began just adding an hour and half gives kids 17 more days of education >>our children cannot afford to wait another day to access the tools that they need to gain academic success >>each principal decides how to use the additional classroom time here at mace academy the principal said there's more time for mad science music and drama ... there will be a statement this afternoon the union and cps are pre

is it like a beat without a melody. i never thought i would live past 20.ast and we laugh, and we have to make this moment last and that's plenty -- scratch that. this is not a moment, it's a movement. we take it on a stand and roll like moses, claiming the promise lantd and if we win our independence, is that a guarantee much freedom for our descendants, and all the action in the street is exciting, and between all the bleeding and fighting i have been reading and writing, what is the state of the nation? i am passional laet smashing every expectation. i am laughing in the face of casualties and sorrow, and for the first time i am looking past tomorrow, and i am not throwing away my shot, i am not throwing away my thought, and i am not throwing away my shot -- >> very well. the hamilton -- very good. more on the debate coming after this. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and