willie nelson, go. >> happy birthday to willie nelson. okay? >> happy 80th birthday willie nelson.road again. >> that was pretty good. do it more sensually. you know? >> sensually? >> yeah, sensual. get the old man's juices flowing. >> no, no, no. how long is this going to take? >> just keep going. you're doing great. real sensual. like you're really into it. >> happy birthday willie nelson. >> like i'm all sweaty over you, willie. >> happy birthday willie nelson. i'm all sweaty over you. okay? >> lick your lips. lick your lips. >> how much longer is this going to take. >> pretty good. pretty sensual. we're getting there. i know what we need. >> happy birthday, hill lee nelson. okay. >> i think it's working. if you just twirl your braids seductively. >> back here and walk towards the camera. you're really walking it out of the park. >> now? okay, happy birthday willie nelson. i didn't agree to this. no. >> you're doing great. you're a natural. >> okay, good. >> i feel like you're in love with him. working great. all right. so you want to shoot this now? >> wait a minute. >> that wa

get home or you're in trouble. >>> he's country music royalty, talking about willie nelson. nown for his advocacy for smoking marijuana. nelson hit a personal milestone. that was enough for the writers of "saturday night live" to have a little fun at his expense. take a listen. >> country music legend, marijuana advocate, willie nelson turned 80 years old this week. said nelson, so few memories. >> oh, but he's still got the it. nelson wowing the crowd in atlanta during his recent concert tour. we were able to catch up with the 8 0-year-old, can you believe it, the 80-year-older be entertainer before he hit the stage. listen to his thoughts on the very hot topic of legalizing pot. >> it's all very positive, i think. washington, colorado, a lot of the other states are thinking about it. and the more successful it becomes in those places, i was noticing today, i think, on cnn, they had a big program on the colorado pot. thav that's good. i think a lot of people need to watch it and see what's going on. i think the way the economy is going, you know, we need something to pick up

willie nelson hasn't forgotten. on his 80th birthday he raised $120,000 which he gave to two towns devastated by the explosion. well done, willie nelson. >> that was a nice willie. >> he's alwa b

willie nelson hasn't forgotten.s 80th birthday he raised $120,000 which he gave to two towns devastated by the explosion. well done, willie nelson. >> that was a nice willie. >> he's always been there. he's been to the farm aid concerts, many of which i went to, some of which i can remember. >> what does he say? okay, never mind. whoa. let's get out while we can. that's it for us on the five. again, our thoughts and prayers are with the people of only. we'll see you tomorrow. special report is next. >>> holding out hope for survivors in a town turned to sticks and bricksth is special report. >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. teams continue at this hour to search for the rubble in moore, oklahoma after yesterday's yests disaster. the national weather serves is significant it's an ef-5, the strongest of ratings. although the extent of the damage is unknown, it's fair to say it's one of the most destructive twisters in american history. here you see the plaza towers elementary school on the left before the tornado

has a new cd coming out in which he shares the microphone with the likes of willie nelson, frank sinatra and michael jackson. the clip you are about to see is from a few years ago. >> ♪ then he has not to say the thing he truly feels ♪ ♪ did it my way [applause] it is hard to think of a song with a lyric better than that. i was listening to aretha franklin and her cover of this. she sold it up. her version is amazing. you suggested that i listen to another one. old friends. listen to the brook benton record. nina simone and gypsy king's. tavis: give me a sense of how that lyric came to be. isthe back story to that when i started in vegas as a kid and i got to know some not sure at a very young age. ,e already -- he always said when are you going to write me a song? he hated pop music. what i was doing, because i worked there and the mob controlled everything, they were decent with me. the years go by and i was down in miami, he was doing a movie and he called me up and said, kid, we are going to dinner. you go to dinner. and he is with and he was doing his last album. i am done, i am thr

willie nelson hasn't forgotten. on his 80th birthday he raised $120,000 which he gave to two towns devastated by the explosion. well done, willie nelson. >> that was a nice willie. >> he's always been there. he's been to the farm aid concerts, many of which i went to, some of which i can remember. >> what does he say? okay, never mind. whoa. let's get out while we can. that's it for us on the five. again, our thoughts and prayers are with >>> welcome to "red eye." i'm greg gutfeld. she is so hot they use her to light the olympic torch. and he is so funny that everyone forgets to laugh. comedian joe derosa. that was kind of mean. and in canada she a door stop. my repulsive sidekick, bill schulz. and his mustache can brerch 400 pounds while cooking a three-egg spanish omelette. john bolton, former ambassador to the u.n. and he is also the president of "red eye." before we proceed i want to point out this show was recorded last night or the night before. we want to refrain from reporting on the tornadoes

to me it sounds like a willie nelson song: "stuck in neutral again..." - unfortunately we are seeing more of the same. we are seeing payrolls flat month-over-month; we're seeing a slight decrease in the hiring, the number of folks on the payroll; we are really just seeing more of the same. - we do see optimism at least in the upper 60s. that is relatively high, and it is up about 10% in the last two months. - right. it's consistent with the last two months, and we are certainly trending up from where we were. i think what we are really seeing from a small business owner's perspective is a little bit of a jobless recovery. our clients are telling us that they're seeing some revenue growth in their businesses, but fortunately for them they're seeing productivity growth at a greater level than their revenue growth. so they are able to grow their margins a little bit by not having to hire as they handle this extra revenue. - that is troubling for anybody who is an employee or somebody looking for work, because they want to see demand from those companies pick up, and demand for the emplo

care king, annie lennox and willie nelson.of the boston marathon bombings. each will soov areceive a doctor of music degree saturday night. >> don dahler spoke with them before the graduation ceremony on saturday. >> reporter: the stars were out in boston last night, willie nelson annie lennox and carol king were celebrated as honorary doctorate candidates with the socks they made famous. although the evening was also a tribute to the city. >> i feel it's profoundly different to be here now. ♪ crazy for thinking that my love will hold you ♪ >> e think the people who are not musicians, they're the people who listened to it receive the same healing qualities that those do playing it. >> reporter: the campus is four blocks from the marathon bombing. >> immediately you want to protect them as a school. some were injured. some were hit with shrapnel as it were. many were injured internally in terms of what they saw, things that young people should never have to see. ♪ >> that evening they were writing songs. they're all over the yo

million ounces of marijuana next year. [ applause ] >> jimmy: that's like a ray gay festival and willie nelson's byrd day combined. colorado passed amendment 64 in november, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana. it's resulted in a surge of what they call pot tourism. people come for the weekend to smoke pot and the next thing they know, it's 30 years later they're still there working in a carbon neutral coffee shop. amendment 64 also allows people to grow marijuana at home. it's obviously a tremendous growth opportunity for the folks at chia pet. but this product, for instance, is targeted at folks who prefer to grow their pot outdoors. >> what an exciting new way to decorate your herb garden? introducing bong gnomes. with bong gnomes you can grow pot and smoke it without ever leaving your yard. just pack it, pop it and party. >> bong gnome! >> order now and receive a flamin-gro absolutely free. a product of weed whacker industries. put the pot in pottery. >> available at walgreens. >> jimmy: they have everything. they really have everything. last night here on nbc, the season final

hey, today's the birthday of oscar winning filmmaker james campion, lars and today willie nelson turns 80. seriously, somebody should warn him that weed is a gateway to heroin before it's too late. this is "viewpoint." >> john: good evening, i'm john fuglesang. this is "viewpoint." thank you so much for joining us this evening. president obama marked the first hundred days of his second term today with a white house news conference. with foreign policy specifically syria on top of the agenda, now at least 13 people were killed and 70 wounded today by car bombs in the capital of damascus in that country's bloody on-going civil war while at least one child was killed and several people wounded in what witnesses describe as a syrian government air strike on a refugee camp near the turkish border. meanwhile, the guardian reports syrian rebels and the government of bashar al-assad are blaming each other for that chemical weapons attack monday. president obama had previously said the assad government would cross a "red line" if it used chemical weapons. and he sort of repeated that today. >>

over the weekend, willie nelson received an honorary doctorate from the berklee college of music.re's a great picture right there. looks like -- looks he was just made headmaster of hogwarts. [ laughter ] anyway, they -- they say that the honorary doctors is the school's highest honor. though it still isn't as high as willie himself. [ laughter ] you mean, this isn't hogwarts? this is embarrassing. on friday, kanye west hit his head on a street sign. [ laughter ] he and kim kardashian were trying to get away from paparazzi. the cops were trying to make sure he wasn't hurt. they were, like, do you know your name? and kanye was like, "god?" and they go, he's fine. don't worry about it. he's fine. that's normal. that's normal. did you see this on "60 minutes" last night? they did a story on bill gates. and they included a photo of gates from his childhood. take a look at this. >> he's come a long way from that teenage prodigy obsessed with writing computer codes. >> jimmy: can we see that photo again? that's gates on the left. but look at that kid on the right! [ laughter ] i want to

wesley snipes was just released after a two-year prison term for not filing tax returns and willie nelsonunpaid taxes, although he never went to bill. hill said she planned to pay her taxes, but shep didn't have the money after she left the music business. she also supports her six children. now, the judge was unmoved, saying, quote, she doesn't deserve a get out of jail car. back to you, maria. >> that's amazing, robert. once she gets out of prison, the 37-year-old lauryn hill may want to get her financial future in order, that's for sure. we'll turn to bob pisani on that matter. he joins me along with matt hoeven who has an insights on etf portfolios for people approaching 50. and this is something blackrock's larry fink was talking about earlier in the show. i could not believe that the average guy and gal out there, who is looking toward rir retirement, so in their 40s, has only $25,000 saved. that's crazy! >> i think 55-year-olds are probably a little higher. cnbc is proud to unveil our new series of model retirement portfolios, it's three separate portfolios designed to help you inv

they expected a high stakes battle against a raging forest fire they found instead would make willie nelson proud nestled in a rowboat corner of the rogue river. national forest was a one thousand plant marijuana stash and smoke jumpers arrived the a small fire was burning at the site and the team quickly inhaled me put out the blades are in a local authorities the site was most likely used by mexican drug cartels that had started to infiltrate the region in recent years police don't have any suspects he had a few of the smokejumpers claim that they saw two men running away from the stash as they landed in the area and rumor has it they look like these guys. in the good the bad in the very very x. so. so. really a. good minnesota legislators yesterday the minnesota senate voted by a margin thirty seven to thirty to legalize same sex marriage in that state minnesota is the twelfth state and country to allow gay marriage and the first in the midwest to do so by legislative action iowa also legalized it but that was because there supreme court ruled that back in two thousand and nine now that

. >> willie nelson is also coming back to set as his cisco. >> joshed grogan will bear on july 24th.hing a star has evesk you to do. >> i had won entertainer had my guys running around all day to find fake fingernails and we cannot find them anywhere that was an interesting test. the line >> there is a movie called state and maine that has to do with a bunch of stars coming to a small town and all the crazy things that can happen while they are on tour. >> i hope to have bill marr back in the bay area sometime this year. >> bonnie raitt will be here are to run ninth. frankie valley and the four seasons will be in san francisco. they're all kinds of fun things happening. >> we'll show you this web site www got our b.p. dock come >> thank you so much risk. >> here is a movie that i recommend reluctant fundamentalist. this man goes from princeton to wall street and back in pakistan. it is a love story based on the novel. it is not a comfortable movie but it is smart 11. >> get out there and see 42 it is a good movie out san and attended fan thank you >> take a live look outside its emph