first, rita lindall, rita and i are both in the same cohort as the music program at uc berkley and we've been saying for 4 years, we need to play music. so we finally made it happen. so, rita lindall, and then masuro koga. mas and i have been playing together for a very long time, so much so that we wore the same shirt without having to talk to each other about it. mas is in high demand both as a teacher and as a session side man, having played with everybody from anthony brown's asian american orchestra to wane wallace's newest cd. who haven't you played with lately? yeah, he's played with everybody. you can find mas on a lot of different cd's from the local jazz community. this song we're going to do is an air called the brown-haired girl. when i was recording, when i was fortunate to be able to record bridge across the blue, i was telling them i got this air, i got it off the chieftan's album, i'm going to do it on the electric base. he looked at me and said, you're nuts. people are going to go crazy but if you can do it, i'll help you. he gave me this book of airs and went, figure it

most recently before we stopped the music program, a variety of cover bands, classic rock cover bands, live jazz musicians, of your original bands as well. as well as the local neighborhood, trying to help out people and the neighborhood, and never brought any large names to the venue. the classic cover bands seem to be filled proof. people are out trying to look for a good time. >> '60s music? >> as long as it is good, i don't mind. >> be you know what type of entertainment the other clubs are doing? >> not a lot in a few blocks. the closest of the top of my head would be the confusion lunch. it is an upscale nightclub with maybe 1015 full sum. there aren't very many other bars. they don't have any live entertainment venues. monarch is actually a new edition. not so much live bands, but deejays and what not. not to many of the things like this in the neighborhood. >> tempest is unique in that there are not really anything else behind -- a around it. you have to know where it is to find it. >> anybody from the public wish to comment on this application? you have to come up and speak.

most recently before we stopped the music program, a variety of cover bands, classic rock cover bands, live jazz musicians, of your original bands as well. as well as the local neighborhood, trying to help out people and the neighborhood, and never brought any large names to the venue. the classic cover bands seem to be filled proof. people are out trying to look for a good time. >> '60s music? >> as long as it is good, i don't mind. >> be you know what type of entertainment the other clubs are doing? >> not a lot in a few blocks. the closest of the top of my head would be the confusion lunch. it is an upscale nightclub with maybe 1015 full sum. there aren't very many other bars. they don't have any ve

he is an adviser for nbc's "smash" make a musical program.schools nationwide that have drama programs not getting the support they need. >> good for them. >> yeah. >>> "tonight show" coming up next. >> we'll see you tomorrow. have a good one. ♪ [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪ ...northrop grumman's security solutions are invisibly at work, protecting people's lives... [ soldier ] move out! [ male announcer ] ...without their even knowing it. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. >> announcer: it's "the tonight featuring rickey minor

just benefit the musically inclined student it helps all students perform better in other subjects. >> they're going to install a new sound system and use it for an after school band program and after school musical theater. it's the grand prize in an online contest called nice job, mom, we rock. she came up with tips for a healthy life style. >> and involve your son with daily activities, cooking, gardening. and cleaning house. >> sandy and her son got a trip to disneyland and saw sarah in concert. there are other payoffs from gains. her son won $1,000 from the art program. >> i would like to know what you're going to enter next. >> i won a computer last week. >> music in schools can lead to this. in fremont abc 7 news. >> coming up next, warriors trading away a popular player. >> and didn't get much in return. the story is coming up next in sports. you can see >>> join me tonight at 9:00, coming up, unusually warm weather that is bringing spring time to the economy. >> then at 11:00 a final vote, santa clara is poised to seal the deal for the new stadium. the bigger price tag and just who will pay for it. and there is kind of a strange, unusual move today. >> everyone i

. >> the family also donates sports and local music programs. >> a consumer alert for parents.ind out if -- >> we'll also tell you where you can get free pretzels today. >> the ravens use the franchise tag. and commissioner roger godel gets some gets some you know what's exciting, graduation. when i look up into my student's faces, i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor, i am committed to making a difference in peoples lives and i am a phoenix. >> part of the business of football. the franchise tag. now the ravens have applied it to ray rice. the reason the ravens put the franchise tag on ray rice, it keeps the two sides discussing a long-term contract. it means means rice can't leave as a free agent but it guarantees him a salary of $7.7 million the upcoming season. the tag buys both sides time to continue negotiating. more often than not the player with a franchise tag gets a long-term contract. suggs is an example of that. >> evans. the touchdown p

in jazz, a nonprofit foundation to encourage them to worship and support underserved kids with music programsnstruments. >> every year the foundation puts on a summer workshop where of one-on-one training is provided by a professional jazz instructors. 7 >> 17 year-old stiles says that music is now one of his favorite things >> it was definitely an awesome moment in my life >> the joy for me is to see everyone collaborate in such a positive way >> for bringing thousands of students and seniors together to make music, this week's jefferson ward goes to maurice. >> it is official, the winning mega millions ticket is out there and there are three of them. what officials said that a record-breaking $640 million jackpot really brought out the hopeful and winning tickets were sold in maryland, kan., and illinois. still too early to know any information about the lucky ticket holders. last night's jackpot was one of the biggest on record. the winning numbers were >> 46, 23, 38, 42, 23 >> some ticket holders in the bay area did come close. tickets sold at five stores had numbers matching five out of

. >> it has been cut in pe programs, music programs, i mean still the three rs, read, writ and arithmeticthat is still a big deal but stuff you guys are doing help the man and woman, don't you -- >> -- mentoring aspect of it because we are baltimore kids so we know what they had to deal with because at one point in time we were in their shoes, we were them. >> sure. >> and now they are dealing with so much other stuff that we had to deal with, so the mentoring portion of it is not only helping them on a court or on a field, this is helping them in life, so we -- we -- we are teaching them about life. we are just so happy to have a sports component attached to it but our main focus is education in life, because you can't do anything in life without education, bar none, i don't care what you want to do so if we start there the football, the basketball and all the other stuff comes easy to them because these kids are way better than what we will ever be athletically talented -- >> -- at that age -- >> -- focus on everything else other than the sports part because that comes easy to them. >>

from the big stage to the classroom, alicia keys' guitarist tells us about his effort to save music programs's a fascinating guy. he started this foundation. he'll be on "ellen." he works with a couple of the folks from the popular tv show. so he has a great program we'll talk to him about it. >> which is great because that's one of the big things lost right away in school. >> and they're bringing in money and instruments. no more of these plastic recorders. >>> i'm suzanne shaw. legislation has been introduced to kill all plans for high-speed ra rail. nbc bay area thinks it's premature to pull the plug. the new high-speed rail leadership has just foraged new pa partnerships with regional rail lines. cal train, for example, would get a share of bullet train funds to upgrade and electrify their existing rails this would serve all of us in the bay area much sooner than the original plans. in 20 years california's population is expected to reach almost 50 million. we have to improve our transportation network to support a 21st century economy. and we agree with governor brown, given a choice be

this opportunity is thanks to the capital jazz project, a music training program made possible throughartnership with the washington performing arts society, d.c. public schools and jazz at lincoln center. the program provides free instruments, class instruction, performance experience and opportunities to work with jazz greats. >> i think it's an honor, 'cause most people don't get a chance to play with professionals, so this is truly a blessing to them. >> we hopefully will just spark their curiosity to go out and start researching to music, researching about life, because jazz music is about life. it is america's art form. >> i love the different styles of playing the instrument. and also how they work together, even without a conductor, since we used conductors. >> reporter: today, these students jam with the wynton marsalis band at the duke ellington school of the arts, but who knows what tomorrow will bring. do you see yourself in a jazz band or do see yourself in a marching band? where do you see yourself? >> well, i see myself in both, actually. >> reporter: this program began

please give a warm welcome tuesday korean-american musical group for tonight's opening program. we're in a wonderful? founded 18 years ago, the music and art culture center's mission is to raise across cultural awareness, inspired artistic expression, has and from the arts education and preservation of cultural values on long korean-americans and thier youth. since coming to the u.s. in the early 1990's, she has been a pioneer in educating youth and the general public on caribbean dance in the san francisco bay area. -- korean dance in the san francisco bay area. once again, are round of applause for our opening number. it is such a pleasure to be with you here tonight for this special celebration. please stand now for our national anthem, sung by ayumi perry. ayumi. >> ♪ oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly str eaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that o

students there will likely see more children in their classes and music and art programs will likely disappear. >>> we continue to track the storm and its impact on the bay area. how some residents in one city are preparing for floods. and we take you to the sierra where the snow made it tough to travel. >> we did it again. [ cheering and applause ] >>> more wins for rick santorum on the road to the white house. votes being counted into the night in the deep south and hawaii. >>> a shocking day considering the warriors and their best player, monta ellis. randy moss details are leaking out. those straight ahead on your source for news, sports and entertainment, kron4. >>> a man suspected of molesting small children in snow has been arrested and is facing charges. john walker of campbell was arraigned on a total of 14 counts of lewd acts with children. police say campbell was using his position as a nanny to take advantage of the children in his care. investigators say they are now looking for other potential victims in this case. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors.

singer peter gabriel pulled his music from limbaugh's program after learning his 1986 hit "sledge hammer" was played during last week's rant. >>> finally, what's black, white, and 100 years old? that's right, lift a glass of milk to the oreo today. the first iconic cookie was sold on this day in 1912. 100 oreos for everyone. >>> coming up, the bulls get payback against the pacers. and three teams secure their bids for march madness. >>> plus, and overtime thriller in a fierce west coast basketball rivalry. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports, the oklahoma city thunder notches a 13-straight home court victory last night after narrowly escaping the dallas mavericks. here is nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all of your sports headlines. >>> good morning. if it seems like your favorite nba team is playing every night, you're probably right. teams are playing more back-to-back games because of the condensed schedule. dirk no

. >>> as if it wasn't bad enough, peter gabriel pulled his music from limbaugh's program after learning his 1986 hit "sledgehammer" was played during the rant last week. >>> what is black, white and 100 years old today? that's right, lift a glass of milk to the oreo cookie. on this day in 1912, the national biscuit company made the first sale of the now iconic cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookie. good excuse for you to indulge. >>> last night on the "the rachel maddow show" show, connie schultz said rush limbaugh's apology hasn't done anything to do anything on the attack. >> i watched ms. fluke's testimony live, our oldest daughter is exactly her age, just almost exactly, she is in law school. we have three other young women, two daughters and a daughter-in-law, mother of our only grandchild of reproductive age. rush limbaugh does not understand when he unleashed when he said those words because he went after my girl, the girls of mothers across the country regardless of politics. and that is what he has completely under estimated as have candidates, what is the down side to saying

program. fantastic.[music] >> good afternoon i'd like to begin. thank you and welcome to todays performance of dacugo in english. as most of you know is a comical one man story telling that uses very limited stage set and instruments and thus it's a japanese tradition performing arts that requires special and traditional and highly trained skills. >> today's story. the hunter. 300 decadesing an in japan there was a man who liked hunting. he told a lie to a bird. or a small light. small harrons make good friends or not. you might find the answer in my story. >> good afternoon. what are you up to these days anything exciting? yes, i have an idea. >> are you going to be the hunter in >> you told on me you're going to be unicorn hunter. it's a kind of snake kind of hunt er japan. you ever seen them. it was a stupid idea. just the one. the japanese proverb says. my prompt cart. please listen. okay. go ahead. i go to where many harrons come to feed. i walled out to one of him in a loud voice like this. [yelling] hello mr. onin. what will the herring thi

our well as programs, libraries, art, music. the last three funded by the richmond funds. and the quality teacher education act of 2008. this was a parcel tax passed by the citizens of san francisco. nearly 70% of the vote providing heads of salaries to our teachers, designed to make this our teaching work force. supervisor farrell, i referenced the family satisfaction survey. i don't have the total number of families involved, but 96% of the families say that their child enjoys going to school. a 93% say that they are going to a nurturing environment. 91% would recommend the schools to other parents, at 90% says that the child says that they love the school. what they want to talk about -- lastly, what i want to talk about is a model city district partnership. and this is what -- this is one of the most exciting aspects of having us here today. the city takes an active role in its students. even though we have a low population of students and a lower than average concentration in public schools, the city cares about the public school students. the kindergarten to college

music source. we had a day jay come. the light sequences were programmed to play with music.ful. >> one project that i loved working on was the car organ that we made for diehard batteries. >> we powered a cube of light, a double stamped keyboard, 24 cars without batteries and gary newman. >> we went to the desert unprepared. we had never seen the cars before -- >> all with one diehard platinum battery. >> we came up with a design where we took 24 black and white cars and arranged them like a piano keyboard, the black puns on a steel deck like the keys on the piano. we replaced horns with horns of our design that were tuned to match their location on a piano keyboard. >> the reason i loved this project so much was because we brought everything we needed, yet still everything went wrong. every technical problem we could encounter we encountered. and it came down to the last minute. ♪ >> it was just the most amazing moment. wow. we did it. we absolutely did it. and it was great. ♪ >> it caught the attention of the producers of "extreme home makeover." they thought that it would

music and art programs will likely disappear. >>> families trusted him to take care of their childrenworked as a nanny was charged today with 14 counts of lewd acts with children including child molestation and child pornography. he used his position to manipulate children. >> police tell me the children knew this man as mr. johnny. this is a photo of the 41-year- old man that worked as a full time nanny for 10 years in the campbell area. he was arrested last week as one of his alleged victims came forward. several families left their children in his care. his victims are between the ables of 9-15 years old. >> we've identified eight victims. based on his position and other information in the investigation, we believe there are other victims. he was actually hired by a family to watch the children in their home and other families brought their children to that home for him to watch. >> the campbell police department tells me they believe he acted allow. he's held at the santa claire jail, kron 4 news. >>> we're always tracking neighborhood crime. here's the crime tracker in foster cit

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. >> there is a new mood music on iran spent nuclear program this week, the unexpected voice of unity. president obama has claimed to be able to get the world together better than ever before. >> we have been able to mobilize unprecedented crippling sanctions on iraq. -- on iran. iran is feeling a bite on these sanctions in a substantial way. the world is unified and iran is politically isolated. >> fresh from discussions from the israeli prime minister, mr. obama stressed political, not military action. it is the reluctance to get involved in another military entanglement that explains this announcement current -- this announcement. >> on behalf of france, germany, the united kingdom, russia, china i have resumed talks with iran. >> there are signs that diplomacy and sanctions are having an impact. iran agreed to have inspectors visit the previously off-limits since installation. it is a move welcomed by the group, and by this president. and this coming election year, war with iran is the last thing mr. obama wants. >> i am now joined by a guest who formerly served in the state depar

. >> there is a new mood music on iran spent nuclear program this week, the unexpected voice of unity. president obama has claimed to be able to get the world together better than ever before. >> we have been able to mobilize unprecedented crippling sanctions on iraq. -- on iran. iran is feeling a bite on these sanctions in a substantial way. the world is unified and iran is politically isolated. >> fresh from discussions from the israeli prime minister, mr. obama stressed political, not military action. it is the reluctance to get involved in another military entanglement that explains this announcement current -- this announcement. >> on behalf of france, germany, the united kingdom, russia, china i have resumed talks with iran. >> there are signs that diplomacy and sanctions are having an impact. iran agreed to have inspectors visit the previously off-limits since installation. it is a move welcomed by the group, and by this president. and this coming election year, war with iran is the last thing mr. obama wants. >> i am now joined by a guest who formerly served in the state depar

(music) for a copy of this program or other programs in the road to recovery series, call samhsa at 100-662-help or order online at recoverymonth.gov, and click multimedia. (music) thanning television analogious as a simple area. but it's geographicic of the city. from the golden gate heights and the little area called the extension triangle and the park and inaudiblee lake shore, lake side. we have a number of distinct -- welcome to the latest addition of the district -- i am jennifer low. today we are focusing on district 7. the district between the lake and zoo. to remain something of a mystery of san francisco. let's find the charm of district 7. >> look at this, it's one of the most unique strips in all of san francisco. we have the unique neighborhoods to make san francisco what it is. they are unique and distinct and have their own characteristics. that's what we love. >> i think the most characteristic in district 7 you have residents that have been here forever. you have generations. i am fourth generation san franciscoian. you have a lot of people that live in san francisco

projects in four seasons from presenting dance, producing theater, presenting music, having a full scale education program, and having more than 50,000 visitors in the building almost every year. a lot of our emerging artists generate their first projects here, which is great. then we continue to try to support figuring out where those works can go. we have been blessed to have that were produced in new york, go unto festivals, go on to the warsaw theater festival. to me, those are great things, when you see artists who think there is no or else of someone being interested in me being a woman of color telling her story and getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. artists becoming better artists. what is great about surely coming back to brava, we have this established, amazing writer who has won a slew of awards and now she gets an opportunity to direct her work. even though she is an amazing, established writer, the truth is, she is also being nurtured as a director, being given space to create. >> and the play is described as ceremony and theater meet. in the indigenous tradition, w

programs. we have dance and theater, music and writing, national sciences and technology. we have the arts center, the museums. youth sports is an important topic that i will revisit in the second when we talk about challenges. we have an abundance of sports leagues and camps. we have about 500 courses for kids between the birth -- and some are immediately after birth. they start at nine months to five years. physical activity, arts and culture stimulation, it runs from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. supervisor farrell: there are a lot of programs we want more of, for sure. do you have statistics on usage? how are we guiding metrics and how are we thinking about this? >> we have some very good metrics. we do track our program registrations both on a year-to- year basis and season-to-season basis. march 3 was the first day of registration for the spring registration season. we have 3300 registrations in the first day, 700 more than last year. it was growth of about 14%. that is something we are working on. we want to make sure the class's we are offering -- classes we're offering.