i will be close to santonio which is robert -- where robert johnson recorded. i started thinking.ns, we should use that type of gear. those guys like johnson treated the recorded straight to the record. i thought that is what we will do. that turned out to be problematic. no one does it anymore. we went with a 1954 field recording machine and an rca microphone. we rearecorded the old-fashioned way. set up a microphone and everyone gathers around it and you play. the drums are sitting over there. sam phillips made it easy for us. he had x's or the vocalists were supposed to stand and the drum kit is supposed to set up. the minute we started playing, this sounds like the sun sessions, it sounds like johnny cash. >> tavis: you wrote 13 songs in 13 days. is that true? >> i had to. once we decided to do it, you know me. i have never played anything in my life. it kind of falls out. by the time that we decided we were going to do this, we were behind schedule. i called up t-bone burnett and said you got time to do this? i can work this into my schedule. everything was kind of like, bein

and i'm going to be -- close to san antonio, which is where robert johnson recorded back in the 30's at the gunter hotel. i started -- thinking. you know, things are on your back. i thought, if we record in these historic locations, then we should use that type of gear. now those guys, like johnson, when they recorded him, they recorded straight to disk. you know. straight to the record. so, i thought that's what we'll do. but that turned out to be problematic in this day since nobody does it anymore. then we went with a 19 -- i think it is a 1954 mono ampex field recording machine. we recorded in those three locations, with a band, the old-fashioned way. set a microphone up and everybody gathers around and you play. the drums over there. and sam phillips made it easy, because he had x's on the floor -- >> where to stand. >> he did. where the vocalist is supposed to stand and the drum kit. we started playing and we thought, this sounds like a sun session. it sounds like johnny cash. tavis: they said to the ear of those that are fans, what are we going to hear differently on this proj

it is a partnership with the robert wood johnson foundation. >> reporter: we talked about the sauces yesterday, hold an days, what does it go over. >> andrea mark knows her way around a hollandaise sauce. >> what happens is called blooming. the flavor gets bigger and bigger and bigger. >> reporter: and kate adamick knows the subtleties of spices. between the two of them chef andrea and chef kate have cooked their way through enough coq au vin and beef wellington to merit their own show on the food network. >> where does salt come from. >> but these days the two classically trained chefs from new york city have chosen a far more mundane place to showcase their talents. they're taking their culinary knowledge on the road to the public school lunchrooms of america. and the people who prepare food for the kids who eat there. and here's one of the reasons why. >> it is as that one-third to one half of our children born since the year 2000 will acquire type ii diabetes in their lifetime because the centers for disease control says that this is the first generation in american history to ha

the robert wood johnson foundation. >> reporter: to watch him sanding a boat engine cover on a hot louisiana afternoon, you'd never know it, but marty nunez is stressed out. >> this was going to be our year to where you know get our two feet on the ground. >> reporter: five years ago, the 46-year-old's shrimp buyer's business at yscloskey in st. bernard parish was destroyed by hurricane katrina. virtually every structure in the parish was under water for weeks, leaving residents traumatized. now the oil spill has increased the psychic toll. with a lot of sweat equity and a $70,000 loan from the small business administration nunez and his wife dawn rebuilt their marine store, and were back in the shrimp buying business once again. >> i think we would have did pretty good this year, then comes the oil spill. we got blindsided by this. >> reporter: even though fishermen who aren't working cleanup for b.p. are back out in the gulf shrimping again, few processors are buying from nunez. and at the store, customers aren't showing up for dawn's home made meals. >> i've never been this far in debt th

the health unit is a partnership with the robert wood johnson foundation. >> it's been just over four months since president obama signed the health reform bill into law. but it remains under attack across much of the country. at least 20 more states are now challenging the constitutionality of the new law either in court or on the ballot. in virginia today a federal judge allowed the first lawsuit to go forward. by denying a motion from the justice department to dismiss a case filed by the state attorney general. it argues the law is unconstitutional because it requires most americans to buy insurance. tomorrow voters in missouri will decide whether to pass referendum c which would make it against the law to require people to buy insurance. for its part democrats and the obama administration are trying to ... to persuade americans that health-care reform will be a major improvement. >> how are you this morning? >> the latest announcement, a new report that says the law will pay medicare $8 billion over the next few years and $575 billion over the rest of the decade. so far some porti

countries most renowned organizations -- the national pta, the centers for disease control, the robert wood johnsonndation, the national education association, the food and drug administration, and many more. i am here today to expand those partnerships and to help stop bullying. i am a dad, two daughters, one in high school and one in college. i represent the many parents from cartoon network, turner broadcasting, and time warner, all of whom are passionate about the needs and concerns we see in hear firsthand in our own ofs' lives and in the lives our young viewers. our interest in this critical issue came about naturally. more than a year ago, from conversations about our own childhood experiences, as well as those from our kids. the idea is to do something meaningful with bullying prevention, and it began to crystallize with in these discussions. we began to ask ourselves, what with the next steps be? what did we do that would be most effective -- what could we do that would be most effective? it inspired a leadership team to begin the process of exploring the topics that resonated with kids. w

involved in this scheme, but a hung jury was also unable to convict robert blagojevich of the four counts against him. emily? >> whit johnson in washington, thanks. >>> investigators in north texas want to know why a heavily armed man with a trailer full of explosives attacked a police station. it happened tuesday in mckinney, texas, about 30 miles north of dallas. 29-year-old patrick gray sharp drove his pickup and the trailer into a police station parking lot and open fire. he retreated into a line of trees and fired at least 100 rounds before dying in a shootout with police. the mckinney police chief calls it a clear-cut case of suicide by cop. >> he wasn't trying to keep any of this secret. he got out in a position where he was actively engaging not just any building, the entire police department of this city. >> sharp set fire to his truck and ammunition inside exploded but the trailer did not. no one was hurt except sharp. it's unclear if he was hit by police bullets or took his own life. >>> a south carolina woman will be arraigned on two counts of murder today after admitting she killed her two young sons. 29-year-o