sam cooke. >> songs that really touch people deeply. >> i have come to a place where i call it the sound of maternity. bob dylan calls it eternal young. i think there are certain songs that help you live without fear. when you are living in fear, you invest in violence. fear is expensive, just ask president bush. inn love. and what marvin gaye says is true, war is not the answer, only love can conquer hate. these things are not cliches, they are truisms. if we implement them, you will see a transformation in the bay area, richmond, oakland, the mission. all places where we need to dismantle the violence, the fear, the unnecessary pain that goes on. >> you are a person that has lived a pretty miraculous life. pretty extraordinary what you have accomplished, the range of people you have been able to touch with your music. you chose a beautiful word in spanish for your foundation -- miracle. could you talk about what the foundation has been able to do? >> we are able to empower and give young people a way for them to develop their own decisions. i started with my own vision. there are peopl

among the sounds floating through the neighborhood, the voice of legend-to-be sam cook, singing jingles be on the watermelons truck and they'd be (singing snchlgt ( get your red, ripe juicy watermelon here ♪ >> reporter: meanwhile pops was doing some singing of his own. he started teaching songs to his children. mavis and her sisters. when they performed a song at a local church, the audience couldn't get enough. >> three times we had to sing that same song because it was the only thing he had taught us all the way through. pops said, shucks, these people like us. we're going to go home and learn some more." >> reporter: what was the one song. >> will the circle be unbroken? ♪ will the circle be unbroken? ♪ >> reporter: the staples singers toured on the gospel circuit. as they traveled the south, pops told his children about a preacher named martin luther king. >> he said, "listen, y'all. i like this man's message. i think that if he can preach it, we can sing it." we began writing some music. >> reporter: those freedom songs helped make up the song track of the civil rights movement. t

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cook in vallejo. thank you. >>> something that american families have been hearing since the recession hit and now uncle sam is hearing it too. standard and poor has lowered the rating for u.s. credit to negative. saying that there is significant risk because congress simply cannot agree on a way to reduce the deficit. the united states still has a aaa credit raiding. of the 17 countries in the world with the same rating we are the only one with a negative outlook. the impact is expected to trickle down to everyone who borrows money.? what that means is that, going forward, u.s. borrowing costs are a little bit higher and that trickles down through the rest of the economy and increases the cost to everybody. >> here is the example. with the aaa rating it costs the united states 6 1/2 cents to borrow a dollar for two years. freese grease with a double b rating has to pay 20 cents for every dollar it buries. the government called their assessment overly pees miss particular. >>> it is crunch time for seniors deciding which college to attend. while this year more students from the golden state can cross the unive

cooking this morning. he's in times square. >>> but first, we go to sam and the weather. >> i thought for sure, you were goingeorge doesn't even have a response or an answer for that. we're out here with jamie oliver. jamie? wait. we have a -- no. easy. no. that would leave marks. we're going to talk a little bit about your show coming up. >> yep. "food revolution." >> and we're going to do stuff with you guys. are you ready for that? >> are you hungry? >> all right. let's get to the boards. one or two things going on this morning we want to talk about as you head outside your doors. we're going to show you pictures on our facebook. when there's bad to severe weather, we ask for folks to send us shots. this came in from pennsylvania from the tuesday morning line of storms that moved through there. we have to make sure we got that on this morning. it was wind and rain and a howling wind that came through that area. now, to fargo. we upped the levels. we think the red river will go in fargo, probably a foot above its previous mark. this will be within realm, within touching about the third-highest crest ever in