national anthem.al announcement is peter argentine, citizen stamp advisory committee member and district manager of louisiana, representing the united states postal service. please welcome mr. argentine. [applause] >> thank you. i am not the district manager, though. i have to say that. i am from pittsburgh, though where it is 11 degrees today. i did not bring the cold, but it is warm here. this is a great turnout, and such a beautiful day. unfortunately, the postal service governor, who had planned to dedicate today's stamp, could not be with us this morning. and i know it is a really huge disappointment to him. remarkably, he has a very personal affection for the stamp, since is great, great grandfather fought in the war of 1812 with the 10th u.s. infantry. so i am sure he is sorry he cannot be here. however, i am very honored to be here representing the u.s. postal service and the citizen stamp advisory committee as we conclude our bicentennial commemoration of the war of 1812. the conflict has bee

it has been a national anthem in its day and remains a national anthem now.ies? let me just sketch them out for you. first, "the battle hymn of the republic" is a brilliant song that clarifies a sense of collective and especially national identity, because it is a song that unites and divides. it is a song that brilliantly defines us versus them. especially in a pluralist nation, a nation that holds together at all, you need a song that establishes on usan us versus them. it is an ideal song for a nation at war. the united states, since the civil war, has been at war a lot. the indian war, the spanish-american war -- we are a nation that has liked to go to war. it also has encouraged individual sacrifice for the greater good. the fifth stanza -- the beauty of the lilies, christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me. as he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. his truth is marching on. this willingness to sacrifice for a greater good helps create bonds of national identity. i am not saying i agree with it

lalia is a month for the singing of our national anthem (clapping.) (clapping.) >>

lalia is a month for the singing of our national anthem (clapping.) (clapping.) >> 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 thru the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? (clapping) (clapping) ladies and gentlemen you may be seated and if you take our seats one more lobster u how about a round of applause for lalia (clapping) i'd like for us to recognize the presentation of the color of slides the gallow honor of arts thank you (clapping.) ladies and gentlemen, this is truly one the nights we all look forward to when we get to install to the board of education our commissioners always a is a lead of january 9, 2015 is he there's no more important than the representation of the people and no where than the

coming up trouble with the national anthem for miss massachusetts right before last night's sixers gamen boston. this was her second try at the song. take a listen ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ oh, my goodness. >> next we'll hear more of the crowd's reaction and how the song wrapped up, that's straight ahead. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >>> at 5:23 here's a live look at the center city skyline. of course, a little bit of red out there this morning. that's because valentine's day is next weekend, in case you didn't know. it's coming up. temperatures today will be great. better than yesterday. we'll warm past the 30s today, meteorologist michelle grossman will have more details throughout the news cast. >>> i'm amy fadool from comcast sports net. miking carter williams sat out last night with a foot injury. nerlens noel playing in his hometown for the first time. sixers trail by as many as 26. with this fourth quarter three by thompson that cuts the deficit to three. that's as close as it got from the sixers. the rebound puts boston up ten. sullinger, 26 points sixers fall 107-96 but brett b

the performance of our national anthem and the retiring of the colors. [indiscernible] ♪ [national anthem playing] ♪ [indiscernible] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as a chaplain gives the invitation. >> let us pray -- god of the universe, we give you thanks for the gift of life and for the many blessings that life brings. today, we gather in this hollow temple to human freedom to honor one of arizona's most favorite sons. senator barry goldwater. few american figures have projected such a broad swath of insolence on our nature -- nation's political landscape. his strong and conservative force in his day led it to one of the great landslide losses in electoral history yet pivotally gave way to the emergence of a new generation of republican leadership that in time ended decades of democrat domination of american politics. regardless of political party we give you thanks for barry goldwater's example of a long career of public service in the united state senate. as we remember him here, may we all be inspired to consider lives and service

what did you think of idina manziel's national anthem. did she drag it out too much.o we're recapping the best and worst moments of the super bowl. get on twitter instagram, face back and let us know what you are thinking. >> plus do you have want riveria's fashion sense. >> wow. >> we will show you, look at that outfit she's wearing. designer of have that top is on our show. we will show you unique looks before they debut on the new york fashion week runway. >> do you think big sean looks at that picture and says man i missed out. >> she's smoking. >> yes. >> they broke up. he had that rude song. >> probably singing that song right now. >> okay. most people keep their salaries a huge secret. why some say it is important for your children to know just how much you make. >> you should have a discussion with your children. >> let them know with your kid. >> big bucks daddy war bucks made. >> i never mentioned it. i grew up you are never expensed to talk about how much money you you may have. >> well, people watch the super bowl for three reasons i think. there is the ga

to include this is as we were standing there they played the star-spangled banner at the czech national anthem. which always brings me to tears because as we all know the star-spangled banner says land of the free and the home of the brave, and the title of the czech national anthem is where is my home? and when they played those two together and havel's influence always makes to put those two together. thank you all very very much for being here this evening. >> thank you. [applause] >> booktv is on twitter. follow was to get publishing news, scheduled updates, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. twitter.com/booktv. >> kim zetter reports on the stuxnet computer virus which was used to sabotage iran's nuclear operations. it's about half an hour. >> the book is called "countdown to zero day: stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon." the author, "wired" magazine reporter kim zetter. ms. zetter, what is or what was stuxnet? >> guest: stuxnet was a virus/worm that was used to attack iran's nuclear plant, and uranium enrichment plant. so

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did you know eight years ago she was the national anthem singer. is that you? >> same place, glendale, arizona. so we also got this tweet i was asking people with that picture what are you making for the big game and we have one of our viewers saying i'm making trishia yearwood's crock pot mak and cheese. it's so easy. we mention all of that because of the song we are listening is the person who's going to be singing the national anthem tonight. >> idina menzel. >>> it's time forehead lines rig right now. police say they went to his home on the 300 block of wyoming avenue in wilmington but he wasn't there. he made some comments to his family which caused a concern for his safety. anyone who sees him or knows where he is, please call police. >>> we do expect some weather today, whether it be rain drops or flurries. first we have this weather question, caitlin ross. let's take a listen. >> we would like to know if the weather will cooperate us this weekend. thanks. >> just a bunch of girls. a lot of things planned. i understand, you don't want anything to come in

in the middle of the texas muslims, again most of them school kids, while they're singing the national anthem, all of a sudden none other than the satanic monster energy drink lady burst out of the anti-muslim protest tore crowd and grabbed the microphone at the event. >> i understand against islam and a false prophet muhammad. islam will never dominate the united states and by the grace of god it will not dominate texas. >> after she did that, the satanic monster energy drink lady rejoined the protestors across the street. she then led them in a chant of muhammad is dead. so that's our texas muslim capitol day went this year thanks to these nice folks. it wasn't just the satanic monster energy drink lady and the random other people on the street, they also had some company inside the texas state legislature. woman named molly white posted this on her facebook page that day. today is texas muslim capitol day in austin. i should mention she misspelled capitol. most members are back in district. i did leave an israeli flag on the reception desk in my house to ask them to renounce islamic terror

store,core, 6-2 in favor of the bruins and the organ of frank pilico played proudly with the national anthem and now in lament as the fans head home "hockey game in american" continues. zach parise tonight. coming up next except on the west coast, your local news. tonight, dateline followed by chicago fire, law and order and chicago pd. for pierre and eddie, mark pavelich mike emrick saying, so long from chicago. >>>. >>> off the top at 6:00 a live look at national harbor, the potomac river is still frozen after the winter storm, but today the temperature spiked and a lot of the snow and ice is already melting. >>> now, everybody is changing again. for a lot of you, tonight's temperatures will drop below 32 degrees. that is raising concerns over a refreeze. meteorologist amelia segal has an hour by hour look at what we can expect. >> it's going to be the suburbs north and west that will drop below the freezing market during the evening hours. right now temperatures not so bad. in the 40s for most of us 46 for washington with a high data reagan of 50. 39 already in gaithersburg and frederick

. >>> china may be to blame for the big cyberattack on anthem the nation's second largest health insurer. the data breach is similar to other operations by chinese hackers. up to 80 million people may have been affected. they gained access to social security numbers, employments in, addresses, no evidence medical information was compromised, however. >>> well another event has been added to the pope's fall trip to america. he'll address congress. john boehner announced francis will become the first pope ever to speak before a joint meeting of congress. the speech will take place on thursday september 24th. francis will also be making stops at the white house, philadelphia, and here in new york. how do we convince him to come on set. >> shouldn't be too hard. give him our names and we should be good. >>> you're going to be seeing a lot of red today, a lot of clothing in red today. >> it's wear red day, a reminder from the american heart association about heart disease in women. heart attacks and strokes kill one in three women and it's preventible in four out of cases through diet and exe

he had no right to sing the cuban national anthem and no right to do that and they were going to moveto terminate. which is what we did. the what did we learn what was happening at that time? we learned that many of the people who were coming were spies. initially a lot of people came from the embassy and they came from the embassy without their shoes. castro took their shoes because he didn't want them to take any cuban soil with them. so initially that's what was happening. but also what was happening was with us a captain in the cuban intelligence had been chosen to start the boatlift by fidel castro. one day on wqb a he announced the port was open and anybody could take their boats down there and retrieve their relatives. that started the boatlift. sent my boat down there along with everybody else and of course what we were doing was totally illegal and violation of u.s. laws. rhett tro spectively we knew he was a cuban agent and my contention what we learned from this was that castro had a plan. the plan, plan a was normalization. when he couldn't get the embargo lifted he opened

neveri'll find someone like you ♪ >> reporter: any adele song, or whitney houston singing the national anthemys had that power, but why? this is a music professor at columbia university. he was able to pull apart "glory" on the spot just after listening to it once. >> this particular song, that's a minor song. that's a major chord. >> reporter: one of the tricks they use is something called the appogism a ism appogiatura. it's something adele uses. it's not just that songs are happy or sad, more that they take us along for a ride. even pharrell's "happy." >> "happy" is -- >> reporter: a full range of happy. happy and sad together like salt and caramel, that's why it feels so good. >> salted caramel indeed. what makes your lip quiver? let us know what makes you weepy. world news is coming up soon with breakinnews. as always we're online at abc news.com. oh, what's for dinner? lemon chicken. again? what did you yake? nothin'. hey, daddy. hey, pooky. hi. how was school? good. ally made a new friend-- daniel. daniel? a boy. he's coming over on saturday. coming over, yeah? don't you ould, like mee

. >> the halftime show the national anthem and who won twitter bowl.next in "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >>> time for "the skinny." topping our headlines this morning is what else, super bowl xlix. >> turn to celebrities now. they were out in force you would expect in phoenix. you can see from these pictures, camera panning, john travolta, mark wahlberg, paul mccartney, excuse me, sir, among the high-priced talent in the stands. >> not all celebs were all smiles. kanye west here caught on camera by a fan looking down right sullen. he didn't crack a smile even before the game. >> he was on a double date with wife kim kardashian and john legend and his wife christy teigen. they were at the waffle house. >> look at who was having a good time, kevin hart and will ferrell. you remember this bet we talked about. captain america, remember super hero wager . we know who won now. >> chris evans bet chris pratt a seahawks fan and if the pats won he would have to

. >> started off with the national anthem. >> i almost missed it. >> i know. i know.eard you call. i thought, i'm coming but i was taking out my seven layer dip. >> first discussion about the super bowl is the dip. >> the one that's four layers. >> four layers of cheddar cheese in between you've got sour cream. >> sour cream. >> cream cheese. >> top. >> the seventh layer, let's see, one two, three -- yeah just a bag of shredded cheddar on top. >> so good. >> so good because you see people do this badly. it's like one person says something, one person says something else. these guys are talking over each other. not easy to do when it's an empty room. it's funny. >> we never hear any real super bowl football discussion. >> the reason we watch the super purple. >> for the commercial. >> for the they talk about the nationwide commercial one that's getting so much attention, the very sad commercial. how about the one with the -- with the boy that died. >> the boy died. >> i mean oh. >> he drowned in a bathtub. >> the bathtub. watch your kids when they're in the bathtub. >>

store,core, 6-2 in favor of the bruins and the organ of frank pilico played proudly with the national anthem and now in lament as the fans head home "hockey game in american" continues. zach parise tonight. coming up next except on the west coast, your local news. tonight, dateline followed by chicago fire, law and order and chicago pd. for pierre and eddie, mark pavelich mike emrick saying, so long from chicago. city street. now several buildings have been evacuated. now, this is all happening near 15th and locust streets. nbc 10's randy gyllenhaal joins us live from the scene. do we know what's causing this smoke. >> reporter: that's what the crews here on scene are trying to figure out. we can tell you at least three buildings have been evacuated because of heavy black smoke in the area. they include misconduct tavern a bar here at 15th and locust. as well as two other buildings. let me zoom in and show you what the crews -- mostly philadelphia firefighters as well as electric crews from peco are trying to figure out. they had a manhole situation out here just about 5:00. let me show you

chris allen is set to perform the national anthem accompanied by symphony silicon valley. >> and the for credence clear water, set to perform in the first intermission and grammy award winning singer melissa etheridge will perform in the second intermission. >> the kings take on the sharks. >> that will be fun. >> are you going? >> i am working. so that others can go. i'm sacrifices. >> we want to hear about spring training. >> a lot of baseball fans. the giants get top billing today. our joe fonzi was in arizona and has this report. >> the reporting of pitchers and catchers is the traditional start of spring training. that did happened the pitchers and catchers doing some conditioning, also doing physicals, checking out their equipment, but what they found out is when they got here, there were a whole bunch of position players already here taking batting practice and ready to go. you know, when you go in the clubhouse, you get a real feel for the hierarchy inside the clubhouse. you can see who is who by where the lockers are and the numbers. the low numbers are the starting guys. if

. >> the national anthem at a philadelphia 76ers game. >> i think that gave her a taste at what super i think this is what i want to do with my life. >> she struggled socially during my mid will school years. >> i had this click of girls i used to hang around with and all of a sudden they didn't want to hang out with me anymore and i didn't know if i was at songwriter acoustic nights or whether i was trying to do something completely different than what they were trying to do, but all of of a sudden the friends were gone. >> singing became her salvation in these painful years. she poured her heart into her music and relentlessly lobbied her mother to take her to music row. >> when i was 11 i came to nashville and just kind of knocked on doors of record labels like my mom was waiting in the car, and i had this little demo karaoke cd and would walk into every major label. the phone never rang, but taylor didn't stop. she mastered the guitar as seen here in her 2010 concert doc and then wrote and recorded her first song. ♪ ♪ >> lucky you, she wrote it the day she learned how to play guit

secretary, i could not help but thinking as the national anthem was playing, i would not hazard a guess as to how many times it has been played. i hope it provides a lasting and enduring and special memory of your time in service of your country. distinguished guests, men and women. good afternoon. it's an honor to thank the secretary for his service to the nation. i begin 48 years ago. when they called in timothy hagel and said, you have six months or you are going to get drafted. to which he put replied i tried college. three colleges. it was not in the best interest of them. to keep me. the best thing for me is to go to the army. he volunteered to says -- just as his father and grandfather had. and that characterizes his leadership as secretary of defense. theodore roosevelt once said i have enjoyed my life and work because i believe that success real success, does not depend on the position you hold but how you carry yourself. it is unquestionable that secretary hagel's lifetime of service in every position he has held is the very definition of success. it will be before -- he has t

secretary, i could not help thinking i would not hazard a guess how many times you have are the national anthem played but i'll be know today, it was played for you and i hope it provides a lasting, enduring special memory of your time in service of your country. mr. president, mr. vice president, secretary hagel distinguished guests, good afternoon. it is an honor to be her to thank secretary hagel for his arrest to our nation. what a remarkable career it has been. it began 48 years ago when the local draft board called in 22-year-old charles hagel and said, you have six months to get in college or you will be drafted into the vietnam war. he replied, i tried college. three colleges, actually. let's just say, it was not in the best interest of those academic institutions to keep him. the best thing army is actually to go into the army. likely, it may not be the best thing for the army. he recounted that himself and the oral history -- in the oral history being accumulated at the smithsonian. instead of being drafted, he volunteered on the spot to serve his country just as is grandfather had do

supposed to be a silent march but people did owe acquisitionoccasionally stop to sing the argentine national anthem and sing out "justice, justice." alberto nisman died of suspicious circumstances. his cause of death has not been determined although originally it was determined that he committed suicide. most people here oppose the government they're calling for justice, and they're protesting what they call government interference in the justice system. the government on its part originally condemned this marseilling it was a plot to destabilize the government, but at the last hour the president's chief of staff said he would have liked to have taken part in this march except he was too well-known. bark to you,back to you rob. >> thank you very much, indeed. lots more to come on the al jazeera news hour. three al jazeera journalists jailed by egypt honored by the royal television society in london. >>> and this was once a thriving town but the fear of boko haram has forced many nigerians to flee this area. >>> and ronaldo keeps madrid on course for the champions league. we'll have all the details

the singing of the canadian and united states national anthems and the retiring of the colors. ♪ >> ♪anada our home and native land true patriot love in all thy sons command with glowing hearts we see thee rise the true north strong and free from far and wide o canada we stand on guard for thee god keep our land glorious and free o canada we stand on guard for thee o canada we stand on guard for thee ♪ >> ♪ o say, can you see -- ♪ >> ♪ o 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 streaming? and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there yet wave oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as the chaplain of the united states senate, dr. barry black, gives the invocation. >> let us pray. eternal god, the heavens tell stories of your glo

meaning that he saw idina menzel sing the national anthem. [ applause ] but don't worry, he totally learned in fact, travolta was like, i can't believe this. i thought that adina menzel did a great job with the scar sha shangle samantha. [ laughter ] i mean, what's wrong with me? i was in beast mode. they should have ran the ball. did you see this? there was actually a fight between some patriots and seahawks in the end of the game. right in the last couple seconds. i'm not saying it was embarrassing for the seahawks, but the patriots won that too. that's bad. [ cheers and applause ] sorry. hashtag sorry not sorry. sorry not sorry. of course after the game they gave out the super bowl mvp award to tom brady. but before the game they gave out other awards kind of like the ones in high school yearbooks like most likely to succeed, class clown, stuff like that. with that in mind it's time for tonight show superlatives. ♪ tonight show superlatives our first player is super bowl mvp quarterback for the patriots tom brady. he was voted most inflated balls. it feels good. he had a good night. [ la

silence has been replaced with a video installation that shows belly dancing through the french national anthem, which is clever. said the artist "i am from a muslim background and my intention was not to shock or provoke, but have a starting provision for a dialogue." they threatened violence against another artist seen here. >> i can only think how long it took to learn to do that and what kind of stress they put that poor packyderm in. it is a pack packyderm by the way. i know they are scared but the message is what they did works, the terrorists, by killing the editors. they have proved that that works. they can scare the hell out of people. >> it, woulds all the time. i didn't wear my high heels because i didn't want to offend any muslims. it is offensive to people with foot fetishes like myself. what do you do? obviously terrorism works. everything they did a couple weeks ago with "charlie hebdo" is out the window now. >> these decisions are made as if there are no laws or no police. it is like they are presuming they can't be protected. it is like a batman. there are super villains every

. >> idina belted out an outstanding rendition i thought of the national anthem. others didn't like it. i don't know what do you think. >> ♪ for the land of the free, and the home of the brave ♪ >>> it was a little different. if you listened to the whole thing some people think it was drawn out. >> maybe that last night mentioned she ended it with a yes. >> because she nailed it. >> what are some of the things people should never do if their lives, never sing a national anthem at a sporting event. throw out a first pick our take name photos of myself. >> i still got it. >> in the interview after the performance she said she wanted to connect to connect to the song, and sing from her heart. >> that is all you can do right. >> i don't know why i needed to tell thaw but that is what she said. she sang from her parts. >> and then, yes. >> and then her lungs were involved too i think. >> the vocal cords. >> diaphragm and spleen. >> yes. >> okay. lets get to this weather, because, we are dealing with that what they called the blizzard of 2015, a and now another major sn

take a look at what the russian national anthem is supposed to sound like. ♪ ♪ >> now listen to the version endured. ♪ ♪ >> many called the rendition cringe worthy or worse. the anthem may have fallen flat. but throughout the visit, putin and -- putin showed the world he has friends outside the west announcing russia would help build egypt's first nuclear power plant. welcome to the new northeast. the correct answer to the gps challenge question is b, nothing says true friendship like an assault rifle. according to news agencies there have been discussions of a 3 billion$3 billion arms aid. at led to a terror attack on a free speech farm in copenhagen and what the fbi session are similarities to the paris terror attack. s. >>> oh, that's a lot of went there, and now the snow and now bitter cold. and a cease fire

national anthem crisis. hackers break into one of the nation biggest insurance company.t they got and what you can do now >> the american civil liberties union aclu says the dmv is doing a poor job of allowing people to register to vote and threatening to sue. kqed says the civil rights organization filed a complaint today alleging that the dmv makes it unnecessarily difficult to register and even when people do file a voter registration application they dot always end up on the voter role. spokesman for the dmv declined to comment hasn't seen the complaint. congress passed motor voter act in 1993 to make it easier for americans to register to vote. >>> state attorney general parris issued consumer alert data breach of anthem. if you are one of the 80 million customers you may have been hacked by cybercriminals who have now moved beyond retail targets. here's of nick smith. >> it's one of the biggest health insurance today and anthem scramble to contain a massive security breach. personal information of tens of millions of customers and employee even anthem ceo is among

. >> the afghanistan national anthem played at the cricket world cup for the very first time.they took four early wickets in their tournament debut against bangladesh. bangladesh rallied thanks to a 114 partnership both players managed to get a half century to post 267. afghanistan beat bangladesh in their one previous meeting in this format in the end afghanistan all out for 162 so lose by 105 runs. >> we don't think that they're up for the fight right from ball one. that's a criticism that we'll talk to criticism now. >> we need a really good win. that has been done. that's not an easy win but a comprehensive win. in that case i think it's really great feeling. >> bangladesh next face australia. richard par al jazeera. >> england's world cup campaign already has a growing number of problems. they were heavily beaten by australia in their first game. and headed their next match against new zealand. he's failed to score in four of the last five innings. >> i think it has helped, re reingauging with the belief that you need to have that tournament nation in your training. proba

. >> when you mentioned the national anthem and talk about playing it in any unorthodox way, you immediatelynteed percentage of hate mail from people who say how dare -- >> that is not unorthodox? >> it isn't unorthodox? >> no, no, i thought it was beautiful. there you go. >> i just thought anything that is interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young pretty actresses who use the word "excited" in every sentence. you're not frequently seen on television. is that by choice? >> well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all. it's the medium that will either save america or send it down into demise, there's no question about it. >> i'm getting out of it myself. >> really? >> we'll be back after this. >> what you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of businesses, maybe not everybody in show businesses, some politics, some newspaper people. get them all on the stage together and hope that something works, but it's a great show. a great platform for people who have something to say. >> the point is they take these scripts out of the drawers. the