joining us is author larry cane who was there when the beatles landed in the states. that was in 1964. >> cow palace september 19, 1964. they arrived on the 18th. great stories. i'm sure there's somebody out there in their mid-60s screaming pulling their hair out throwing jellybeans and getting totally out of control. >> some of us younger guys do it, too. >> we could sit down and figure out a novel with six guys in liverpool going from nowhere to somewhere and the potholes they fell into, the sicknesses they had, the parents who supported them despite the fact that two of them that died very young, two parents. the trip though hamburg where they had to be shot up every couple of days because they were so sick from engaging themselves with the wrong time of "working women." the fact that they almost doesn't make it. the betrayal of one of the band members. the love, the support, the fact that 25 people gave them everything they needed to get going. >> let's talk about pete best because he was the original drummer. ringo came in. i imagine you -- did you talk to him? >

we hear about that amazing chance encounter with the beatles' motorcade back in the day. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. the u.s. tonight is dealing with the fallout from apparently listening in on much of the world. this week it was the german chancellor angela merkel on the phone with president obama angry at reports that her cell phone had been listened in to by the u.s. spy agency. she was just the latest foreign leader in recent days to learn of it. then came the report of the guardian newspaper that the u.s. has monitored communications of 35 world leaders in all. all of this comes from the files that edward snowden made off with after his job as a u.s. intelligence analyst. all of it is making for big problems around the world for this administration. so we begin tonight with our political director chief white house correspondent chuck todd. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. ever since snowden had been letting the world know that the u.s. has been spying on allies all over the world, the obama administration has been in diplomatic

airport to see the beatles arrive. on the way home, a limo pulled up next to their car. >> they all put the windows down, and, you know, hey!" and just, hey, i got my camera, i'll take them. and guess what? they really saw us. and we saw them. >> reporter: starr found many of his personal pictures in his basement and has compiled them into a new book called "photograph." i'm sure over the years you've been asked to write an autobiography a lot. >> i have. >> reporter: is this your autobiography? >> >> it is. i think it's a much better way. i'll tell the story, which you've got to pay to write, and you look at the pictures so this is the best way for me. >> reporter: the book has prompted a search for those kids in the car. turns out many of them still live on the east coast. ringo starr says he doesn't need a reunion. he prefers to simply remember that moment when everyone was having the time of their lives. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. we're going to leave yo

. >> the beatles. the boobs, beatles. you know?e minutes before i was going on, my manager was like the beatles are in the crowd. and, you know, it was -- my mom they live in memphis, so not a far trip to new orleans. they were there. that was the highlight of her life. watching. she didn't watch me, she watched paul the whole show. >> jimmy: the same thing happened to me last night with my mother. >> yeah. >> jimmy: my mother was saying, i remember when i was 16, watching the beatles on "ed sullivan" just being amazed and wishing that i could be there. i was kind of like, well, he is on your son's show tonight. she was like, "yeah, yeah, yeah." >> yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. he is so sharp too. >> jimmy: he is. >> he has obviously been one of my idols for a long time. because to be like you said, at the age he is, and still out playing me, you know? >> jimmy: and looking better than me. >> both of us. >> jimmy: i don't know about you. >> we just did the iheart thing in vegas. he opened the night. i closed the night. technically i

. >> and he gets to meet the beatles. >> that is worth imagining. "if kennedy lived," jeff

there has never been a group with the glue of beatles and probably the entertainment industries wantt that way. they don't want everyone listening to the same album for a generation, they want to niche market. >> you probably have a room in your house devo these, a paul shrine, you are the best to ask, does he say anything new in the interviews? >> to most interview efforts they don't come with any real willing of the history or what he has said before so it is sort of like pressing a jukebox but the were and you get a6, the great thing about john and i, we used to write songs. and record them. and sell them. that is the same thing. you can get him to open up and tell stories never told. >> but he has probably been asked, in fairness, these questions of this song, that song, yoko, and half a 348 -- 500,000 times. >> no one has been as famous at paul mccartney as long as paul mccartney. >> he always gets good press except when he was going through the ugly divorce. >> or the 1980's were difficult in terms of press because people now were overly grieveed by, or appropriately grieved by

the beatle's drummer put out a tour to find the fans for a new book called photography. as the same goes, star recreated the shot with a little help from his friends at the today's show, those fans who skipped school to see the band are in their 60s. bob to thet was suspended three days to truancy. the head master finally admitted skipping school for the lads from liverpool was a good idea. beatlemania is sleeve and well even two band members aren't. they are the best selling band in history with more billboard hits than any other. incredibly, they continue to be hot today, 43 years after they broke up. only five acts have been able to sell as much music in britain this century as the beatles. the fab four saying you never give me your money. you only give me your funny paper. i am not sure what they were talking about because they grossed $71 million just this past year. paul mccartney made 47 million, largely thanks to solo giggs and publishing rights to a gone but not forgotten star bud d.c. holingly. john lennon's estate grossed $12 million. ringo tours with his band

take a look at the foe the he shot from a car window during the beatles first visit to the u.s.64. it happens to be a great photo of a car full of kids who pulled up alongside the beatles motorcade. the photo had never been shown before today. it's in a new book of his. he believes it may have been taken in florida, maybe miami. if you're in the picture or know someone who is, there's new information on our website tonight to contact. because ringo would like to know. >>> when we come back, a certain detail in another celebrated photo. this one of a decorated soldier saluting. it made tonight's "making a difference" report. night's he m difference report. . can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen an

. >> two girls wanted to meet the beatles way back when. they tried to get in touch with them back then. john donvan picks up the story from there. >> reporter: december 1963. they were four guys that had just broken out over the ocean. their first number one hit in the u.k., "please, please me." ♪ as i please be you >> reporter: they were two british teenagers trying to figure out how to meet the boys. barbara, 18, lynn, 17. the way to meet the beatles was to go high-tech. reel-to-reel recording. the message they sent, this is the original. >> hi, boys. two of your fans here, sending you a tape. >> my name's barbara helmor. 17-year-olds old. >> my name is lynda johnson. i'm 19 years of age. >> this dream is just to come around the back and see you. but i suppose that will never happen because we can always live. >> reporter: then, they put it in the box. here it is, this is the original. addressed to where the boys were playing next. and near the town where they were born, they casted upon the postal system, where it floated somehow for 50

and the world changed for all us teenagers the beatles and the stoles i paid no attention until i actually got out of the military and i went to one year of junior college and while i was at junior college mark lane came there and spoke and i listened to him. and that's when i don't that you mean wait a minute there's people that are saying it isn't what the government said you know there's people out there questioning the warren commission more it's all exactly m. so what really did it believe it or not was pro wrestling in the mid 1980's wrestling and already spent twenty six regional territories where you drove to the towns when vince mcmahon took it national with cable t.v. all of a sudden we're no longer driving to towns we're flying all over the country well larry you know as well as i do when you fly a lot there's a lot of dead time you sit in airports you sit on planes so i at that point started reading every book i could get my hands on the kennedy killing because to me it was way more intriguing than reading vince flynn or clancy or any of them because their work is just their im

. >>> and 50 years ago, the beatles landed. so what happened to the day that had everyone scrambling, remembering, cheering? our "instant index" is coming. scrambling, remembering, cheering? our kwlt instant index is coming. feet, kicking. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you're trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. don't start taking xeljanz if you have any kind of infection, unless ok with your doctor. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests, including certain liver tests, before you start and while you are taking xeljanz. tell your doctor if y

the beach. i'd be like, "what is going on right now?!" a beatle and a rolling stone. >> yeah, you know. is -- he was -- kind of like, acting like the manager of the hotel. he had come around to the bar -- "are you all right? are you okay? you want a drink?" he would be like -- i said, "keith. you know. you should get paid for this." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you should let people do this. you don't have to do this, keith. >> he was loving it. bringing his little dog around. and talk to all the guests. >> jimmy: he's a charming man. >> very nice. >> jimmy: i did go to the rolling stones at barclay's center here in brooklyn. and i got my beers and my pretzel and whatever. and i'm walking to my seats spilling beer on everybody. and i go, "excuse me." and i hear this voice go -- [ imitating mccartney ] "no problem, come right through." and it's you. and i go, "i am sitting next to paul mccartney at a rolling stones concert." i chugged the first beer completely. and then i had the other one. shoving a pretzel in my mouth. like, "oh, my god. this is unbelievable!" and mick jagger starts singing "

grieved by the assassination of john lennon and suddenly he became the bad guy in the story of the beatlesbossy one and he said, yeah, it is a drag, and he took criticism but he was ambushed and himself, greening, at that time. >> i went to a concert in washington a couple of months ago and i thought i was a know nautic but you have devoted your life to the study you are researching a book on him. is it hard to break new ground given the millions of words. >> it is a book about the beat thes, tightly focused on year and functioning at a biography of a single song and i was privilege the enough to get an interview with sir paul for the book. >> you are disclosing this exclusively on "media buzz." >> and then we will defeat it out. i was allotted ten minutes on the telephone with him. >> any second thoughts about such a short period? >> i thought i should decline i don't want to do an insanta cruz disand i came to my sents and as it turned out this is one of my achievements we were able to go for 26 minutes on the we phone and his wife con filed to the broke of the before he enjoyed the sess

the beatles conquered the world with their songs so they gave whole generation of people ten years youngerermission to try the same thing. it worked out for some of us. i'm happy to say and grateful that i was one of those people. >> rose: but when you were there as a young man growing up there as a kid growing up there, did people come and say you should be singing because you've got, you know, perfect pitch, you've got a great voice, you know, you've got beauty. >> there were no real cludes -- clues as to how you would get out of town. my father would have been happy for me to get a job. when i did become a music he wasn't quite sure it was a real job even to his last days. he may be right. >> rose: i don't know if television's a real job either. he said what is it you do, you go talk on television that's not a job. >> yes. >> rose: but you were inspired by the beatles, inspired by the fact you had talent and there was a story of the queen mother rolling up in a rolls royce. >> they would invite everybody and they got very excited when the queen or the queen mother would come. i remember

how is it possible that there is such a media frenzy over the cute beatle? es it better, to quote carly simon. they don't want everyone listening in unison to the same album any more. they want a niche market because it's more profitable. >> since you probably have a room in your house devoted on to these archives, you're the best person to ask, does paul mccartney ever say anything new? >> to most interviewers, they don't come with any knowledge of the history or what he has said before. it's sort of like press ago nuke box button and no matter what you ask, you get a6. >> the great thing about john and i is we used the write songs and record them and sell them, you know, which is sort of reducteo absurdum. if you know what you're doing with paul, you can get him to open up. >> but in fairness, he's probably been asked these questions about this song, that song, yoko ohno, what, a half million times? >> yeah. no one has been as famous as paul mccartney as long as paul mccartney. >> what's remarkable is he's always gotten good press except maybe in the period

he told us they were heading home to new jersey after a failed attempt to see the beatles at j.f.k.new york. they never dreamed they'd catch up with the fab four on the highway. something amazing happened when the eagles took a fledgling player under their wings. "on the road" is next. wings. "on the road" is next. .. yeah! [ male announcer ] and more of a journey. keep going strong. and as you look for a medicare supplement insurance plan... expect the same kind of commitment you demand of yourself. aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. go long. insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. the pain started up and wrapped around to the front. i couldn't play my bassoon because of the pressure that i felt throughout my whole head. the blistering and the rash was moving down towards my eye. the doctors at the emergency room recommended that i have it checked out by an eye doctor. there was concern about my eyesight. when i had shingles the music stopped. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive, but not energy or even my mood.

a week ago ringo asked for help in finding the young beatles fans. nds at the "today" show not only found the surviving former kids, got them together on the plaza this morning, they recreated the photo. they have arranged for them all to attend an upcoming ringo starr concert in las vegas. how about that? >>> this weekend in las vegas, a 64-year-old man named john force did something extraordinary. this is what he does for a living. it takes only four seconds to show it to you. that's drag racing. 4.062 seconds, 310 miles an hour. that was john force winning the nhra title for the 16th time. the driver he beat in the next lane was his daughter courtney. he says he'd like to celebrate turni turning 56 next year with a 17th nhra title. >>> and let's hear it for the world series and strange game endings. saturday night's game ended with an ump's call at the base path to home was obstructed by a pair of legs. last night it ended when the pinch runner's legs couldn't get him back to first in time. all of it led "snl"'sset myers to speculate on twitter tha

>> thooiz these girls recorded a fan letter and sent it along one of the beatles is finally responding reporter: december 1963, they were four guys who had just broken out over the ocean. their fist number one hit in the u.k., please, please me. they were two british teenagers trying to figure out how to meet the boys. barbara 19, lynn 17 who decided the way to reach the beatles was to go high-tech, reel to reel recording and the message they taped that december a day 50 years ago, this is the original. >> hi boys. two of your fans sending you this name. we hope you like it. >> my name is barbara. >> my name is linda johnson i'm 19 years of age, have green eyes and long dark hair. >> the dream is to come around the back and see you. but i suppose that will never happen but we can live in hopes. >> here it is. this is the original, addressed to where the boys were playing next. near the town where they were born they cast it upon the postal system where it floated 50 years while the music changed from "yellow submarine" to "long and winding road" and on and on until one day it landed in

elvis, the beatles, bob dylan. it holds up.ot just in regard to music but in other arenas, technology doesn't fit this paradigm because technologically, we are advancing every day. i think they are actually setbacks, but that is a conversation for another time. genres -- haveer we experienced the best that is ever going to come? the most you can do is elevate to the level of sarah von or the level of billie holiday or louis armstrong. this is where i am cutting this generation some slack. to expressght to be your artistry, but how do they become iconic? is that still possible? is the argument from some of this is that it doesn't get better than x, y, or z. >> i am not sure it doesn't get better. when i was playing with bob dylan in 1966, i was 20 years old. i did not know that was it and that this was a musical revolution. that what we were doing was going to change music forever. lament plays a part. artists today that will grow and will do something magical. time will tell. you are very much a traditionalist. i am trying to k

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as we were leaving, my sister and i sing to the beatles "yesterday." watch the city of chicago vanish in our rearview mayor. my sister and i were leaving the only land we ever knew, the city of chicago and the united states of america. >> and you suddenly had to go to school and learn spanish. >> juan, i grew up in the quintessential latino bilingual family, right? my parents spoke spanish all of the time and i spoke english to them. iunderstood my english, understood their spanish. we got along just fine. i told -- and to my mom and dad decided to return to puerto rico. i still remember when i went to for my sophomore year there in high school and the , what is your i'm name? and i said my name one of the infinite ways it had been pronounced. i was glad they did not change the way it was spelled. i did not focus on the way people pronounce my name but now is important. everybody started laughing when i pronounce my name. i returned the next day to the nowsroom thinking, at least i know my name. i learned a few words in spanish. remember walking up and

no one has to explain how important the beatles are. even people who like a band like u2 who, you know, recorded lou reed's songs, don't necessarily know the impact he had on them. >> so you'll be interested in this. i've just been told by my producers that the former drummer of velvet underground and band made of lou reed will join us the next hour to talk about lou's legacy. >> that will be great. >> amaze pg. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. thank four asking me. it was an honor. >> can't wait for that coming up next hour. more fallout from the nsa spying controversy. looks like the spying on angela merkel may be more than previously believeed. maybe going back more than a decade. and storm expected to hit the united kingdom. may be the worst storm in decades. we will go live to the english coast, next. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for the smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the buses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution into the air. so i feel g

underground days he remain aid vital solo performer for decades although he didn't have the success the beatles enjoyed he's considered a rock pioneer. he was rocked with spermtdal art, literature, and film. among his collaborators, andy wa warhohl. >> and the changing weather. >>> and the gusty winds? >> 45 miles an hour in the hill. you see it around the peninsula and into the east bay and out towa toward liver more. you have winds at 28 miles an hour on the camera is bouncing pretty well. bouncing around with those gusty winds and hanging on and you can see the low clouds that have moved to oakland and beneath the low clouds we'll have drizzle. the hour-by-hour forecast in terms of wind shows you the peak wind gusts for the coast will arrive sunrise tomorrow morning and the winds occur over areas of the water with a lesser friction over the water and the higher hill tops of the east bay and around the peninsula, areas above 2,000 feet could could get gusty winds at times close to 60 miles an hour. seen 45 miles an hour gusts in the higher hills and by mid day, the afternoon, breezy but not a

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