[applause] >> how many know the song living in the city by stevie wonder. that great skit at end where stevie plays all the voices and gets arrested. new york city, skyscrapers and everything. this is a poem that reimagines that gentlemen exists the bus in that skit as john henry. this is a section of it. skyscrapers and everything. j hammer henry mallet [inaudible] could barely fit hammer poking out like natural man's skyscraper to the concrete for deep machine sleep abouts income. don't go john henry traffic man, don't go across that street. the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after.

stevie brown, finds the ladder, picks off dan lafevor, the rookie out of michigan. and that led to a field goal and maybe a spot on the roster. raiders are 2-0 after a 32-17 victory. >>> the earthquakes need to get busy if they're thinking about postseason. sixth in the western conference out of eight teams, so they gained ground hosting the galaxy. see van geovany, signed last week. a tough angle. the earthquakes go up 1-0. time for defense. second half. 74th minute, galaxy looking to equalize. donovan denied by bush. earthquake shocked the galaxy 1-0, improving to 8-6-5. >> always good to bet a first-place team. they're great team so we can build on that and kind of keep climbing up the ladder to the playoffs. that's what we have our eyes on and we think we can get there. >> mike: let's go to infineon raceway. will power continuing to show why he leads. locks up his eight poll -- pole of the season. 108-miles-an-hour. castroneves and frank -- franchitti start second and third. nascar, in bristol. jimmie johnson running second. not anymore. gets turned and spins in

more dangerous than he was the day this happened with stevie. >> reporter: stevie was miller's cousin, stefan miller. steve had experience training wild animals than day he was shooting a video to promote a new social networking website. the idea was that he would ignore the danger of the bear before the two of them wrestled. rocky seemed to be hitting all his marks and having fun until -- >> that's great. >> release him! >> i >> is he bleeding? >> yes, he is. he's bleeding. >> reporter: moments after stumbling out of the camera's view, miller collapsed and died. >> he was my, like, young brother, you know? i raised him. he looked up to me. just die in your arms like that, there's no greater pain on earth, man. >> reporter: and afterwards, rocky was in immediate danger, too. wildlife authorities considered having him killed, but decided in the end, it was an accident. >> it was a split, one-tenth of a second where we made the decision to grab him. so, yeah, if you want to say he made a mistake, but he was doing what he was trained to do. >> reporter: when bears play rough, they can be

. >>> stevie wonder visiting in japan has called on national leaders to set aside their egos to abolish nuclear weapons. he made the appeal on thursday in tokyo. he's visited japan for the first time in three years to perform at a music event. wonder said he's heard the growing calls around the world for nuclear abolition and thinks it can be achieved if people think seriously about humanity. >> leaders have to get rid of their ego and find that place of love in their spirits. i think we have to value this very thing that we are in, and that's life. that's how we can have a nuclear-free world. >> wonder was appointed a u.n. peace ambassador last year and is known for his years of work supporting racial equality. during his 50-year career, wonder has had many hit songs including "i just called to say i love you" and "ebony and ivory." >>> south korea has begun a large scale anti-submarine drill in the yellow sea off the peninsula. north korea has already denounced it as a serious challenge. the five-day drill began on thursday in waters. 4500 personnel from the army, navy and air force a

kurzweil has patented over two dozen inventions, including the first music synthesizer, which he sold to steviewonder. president clinton awarded him the national medal of technology, and few have more faith in technology than ray kurzweil. >> computers are already better than humans at logical thinking. it is our emotional intelligence, the ability to be funny, to get the joke, that is the cutting edge of human intelligence. that's the most sophisticated, complicated thing we do, and that's exactly the heart of my prediction that these computers will match us in emotional intelligence, which includes our whole moral system. >> i don't think that will ever be reached because now we are dealing in the realm of the spirit. if the entire realm of the spirit that has been spoken about in the history of poetry and literature and philosophy and theology is reducible to electrical synapse, then we can reproduce it eveually in a machine, because electricity is at the basis of the machine. i deny that premise. i think that there is more to human beings than reducible to measurable stimuli, and in that re

interesting in a guy singing like louie armstrong or playing jazz music, so if you could imitate steviemy interest with girls. so i started singing like that. and then as i got a little bit older, i said wait a minute, i'm a jazz musician, i need to do what i do. so the singing, i came -- i didn't study singing formally. >> larry: harry mentioned his father earlier, his father was district attorney of new orleans. harry took our "larry king live" crew on a tour of musicians village. watch. >> five years ago was hurricane katrina and so many people died and lost their homes and all of these homes are the ones that we have helped build. now we have an actual place where musicians live and will be able to teach with the ellis marsalis center for music, so it's an exciting time. just to think that this was just a vacant lot five years ago, it's pretty unbelievable. i mean people are living here now. and establishing a whole new tradition. so it's pretty exciting for me to walk these streets. it's almost inconceivable to mention new orleans without music, so the fact that we have the musicia

stevie brown climbs the ladder to pick off the fever. returns it 46 yards.d goal and maybe a spot on the roster. raiders 2-0 the preseason after a 32-17 victory. the earthquakes need to get busy if they're thinking about the postseason. currently 6th in the western conference but can gain grown hosting the first place l.a. galaxy. 4th minutes as they take advantage of the mistake. chris converts on the tough angle where worth another look. earthquakes go up 1-0. time now for a little defense. second half, 74th minute. looking to equalize. approves 8, 6 and 5. >> first-please team. they're a great team. i think we can build on that a lot, keep climbing up the ladder for the playoffs. so we have our eyes on it and think we can get there. >> to the finnon raceway calling for the grand prix of sonoma. continuing to show why it's there this year. locked up his indy car series regard. qualifying he completes the 3.3 mile lap. 16 seconds. defending champ will start second and third. finally the nascar's sprint hitting bristol motor speedway. johnson gets turned, sp

to high-profile gigs with bob dylan, bruce springsteen and stevie wonder.he harmonica has always been, well, low profile. seen as a play thing that just anyone can pick up and blow. a harmonica is not just a souped-up kazoo. >> correct. it's a real musical instrument. people just don't know. >> reporter: in a reopen opened factory in rockford illinois, brad harrison is devoting his life to making the harmonica a major player. so this is the assembly line. >> yeah. >> reporter: harrison and his six-man band hand craft each b- rad as in brad harmonica, the only model made in america. harrison's harmonica shares the basic mechanics with its competitors, air passing back and forth over reads inside side makes the harmonica sing. you can play the harmonica blowing out.... >> and drawing in, both. which is the only musical instrument you're able to do that with. >> reporter: it seems very eco friendly. you're not wasting any breath. but the b-radical works and plays radically different. >> the design is very functional. >> reporter: the rounded body is more comfo

you're watching "the early show" on cbs. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ♪ happy birthday to you >> stevie wonder, happy> i did. i just tied it up with a bow for you on a birthday gift. >> thank you. >> any time. your top 40- >> how about a long distance dedication. >> coming up later in the show. so, it's president obama's birthday today. heading home to chicago to celebrate. mrs. obama and sasha are in spain, malia is at camp. he'll be celebrating with friends. he's looking a little gray. >> friday he came bounding into the interview area full of energy. that is the most telling thing, is -- he really is grayer, without question, grayer, but in terms of energy and sort of lines on the face or any of that other kind of stuff, we've seen over the years what being in the white house can do to a president. and he looks like he's -- >> even his face -- >> at least overtly looks like he has it together. >> he doesn't look tired or drawn or stressed. >> well, he was probably happy to see me because lord knows, everybody likes me. >> keep in mind, you really never notice it until you see those pictures one --

stevie wonder. come on.how. what is it about the program? >> the fun. one of the things we remember forever is the soul train line. think about it? the fact that we have the soul train line and there's so much energy there. you learned how to dance watching "soul train." >> it was a new kind of dancing. more erotic than we'd seen in a good way. >> in a good way. it always changed. you learned about style and so many different things from watching it. you were inspired. >> you can't go to a wedding with the two lines. >> you better be the one coming down. >> the movie will live on forever. >> you got a new cd that's dropping, don't you, coming up? >> i actually have yet to title it. i've asked the fans to help me title it. they're going on the website to help me title it. someone has taken off with this name one woman show or something like this. >> is this the new zuf that's the video i did for the title. >> i like the idea of asking fans to help you -- >> you did that -- >> i wanted too for the book. you ha