sandy. >> i didn't see sandy for months sometimes. >> larry: and why he loves his guitar. >> i use it pretty much just to hide my gut. >> larry: plus, he'll tell us what he's got against itunes. garth brooks for the hour. next. on "larry king live." >> larry: great to welcome back after too long an absence, the brilliant garth brooks. the grammy-winning country superstar. he has sold more than 128 million albums. he's the number one selling solo artist in the united states' history. and he currently headlines at various times a series of shows at the beautiful encore theater at the wynn in las vegas. he'll next perform in nashville for their flood relief shows, and then be back at the wynn in january. when you hear that, number one selling solo artist, does that flip you? >> oh, yeah. i mean, it's kind of odd to hear your name with that. but i think that's more of a reflection of the audience i get to play for. i'll put the country music audience up against anybody as far as numbers, size, quality of fans. that's where it's at. you're lucky if that's your bunch. >> larry: why are they

when we toured the first time, sandy i were married and had been married, but i didn't see sandy for months sometime. long before cell phones. so i wasn't a very good partner to her. and then when the children come along, you already feel guilty about not being there 24/7. i can't imagine my children being off to college, everybody healthy and happy and then ms. yearwood says, sic 'em, oh, my god, you talk about fun. >> larry: are you as happy as you've ever been? >> yeah, i am for a lot of reasons. my mom and dad are gone. that's the downside. my brother jerry is gone. so as you get older, you start to lose people. but what i have found out is people that truly lived while they were here live forever. i see my mom every time i close my eyes. i see my mom every time i walk out on stage. so the good things are good, as long as your children are healthy and the people you love are healthy, then everything's great. as long as your relationship with god or christ or whatever it is you believe in is healthy, then everything's good. and i have to tell you right now, knock on wood because i

sandy is here with a look at where the rain is now. sandy. >> well all day long i have been watching live doppler 7 hd and it has been concentrated across the northwestern portion of california. but now we are starting to see some very light rain moving into ukiah few sprinkles are being reported in santa rosa. overnight tonight the rain will start to spread south ward so as we head into 5:00 a.m. you will start to notice some damp pavement during that commute. then as we head that the afternoon hours the rain will start to pick up, become a little more wide spread head towards 1:00 p.m. 3 or 4:00 o'clock moderate to heavy rainfall at times and at 5:00 p.m. you are looking at some wide spread rainfall here in the bay area. the rain will start to taper off as the night goes on and by 10 or 11 okay tomorrow night it is all done. but we are not done with the stormy pattern. we are in for a very wet pattern ahead after short break on wednesday and thursday we switch over to a soggy paren parent.i'll be back with more on that in just a few

i think i agree with what sandy was about to say. yes, one thing i think we need to teach -- everyone should learn is protocol and etiquette about technology and when it's appropriate to be on your blackberry and when you need to put it down and engage in conversation. i do know one thing that schools need to get a handle on is just literacy. in many forms. reading is one thing that i do not think can go away. we need to make sure we're giving kids uninterrupted time to read deeply. as a nation, i'm not sure that we're growing readers the way we need to, simply because we do a lot of things in school in the name of reading that really is not reading. the article talked about how we learn. and when -- when children are engaged in the act of reading, because reading is thinking. and when they're engaged that act for uninterrupted periods of time, the rch teesearch tells u about 90 minutes a day is what it takes to grow strong readers. schools need to audit that in their programs, how much time kids spend in a day reading, making sure t

sandy is tracking here with us and has the fork. >>reporter: that wind and the rain at least the heaviest part of that storm will come in tomorrow afternoon and evening so that could lead to power lines being knock down or trees being knocked down. here's a look at live doppler 7 hd and see a few sprinkles showing up around ukiah. no rain falling locally but we expect a completely different scene as we head towards tomorrow night. numbers right now in the fritz and the 50's. here are the highlights. rain tomorrow. heavy in the evening. wet early wednesday with cool and breezy conditions for the afternoon on wednesday and get ready for a cold thursday morning. behind the front. so here's the front that we are watching. it has all the right dynamic. moves in tomorrow. look at the moisture plume. extends quite a bit far out to the west and down to the south. we also have the cold air associated with it. this storm will bring in some heavy rain. but not immediately. tomorrow morning if you do have a commute few light showers at 5 or 6:0

. >> and sandy is here now tracking the rain that's already falling. >> yes. this rain is not going to stop for days is it. >> no it is not. we are talking about 7 straight days of rain in my accu-weather 7 day forecast. as you look at live doppler 7 hd you will see where it is raining right now. it has been very light around san francisco. now down the san mateo coast line. san mateo down to the peninsula and palo alto east towards hay hayward, san ramone, livermore ramone, livermore, very lit showers there. but we are seeing some moderate rainfall beginning to move into the santa cruz mountain around ben lo mandy and gilroy, holster area getting moderate rain as well. as you look at the state picture we have all the right dynamic to give us some wet weather for 7 straight days. sub tropical moisture getting tapped that by a few disturbances. cold air associated with this upper level low in the gulf of alaska. 2 will combine and the rainfall will add up in inch. we are talking about snow fall adding up in the 3 to 6 foot range. could be even higher in some pa

sandy berger and secretary jim steinberg. first i'm going to introduce sandy berger, of course now chair of the albright stonebridge group and former national security adviser to president bill clinton and national security adviser sandy guided foreign-policy from the balkans to cosa bow and operation desert fox in iraq on the passage of the historic pnt are, the normal trade relations with china and then with secretary of state madeleine albright who was also in our front row and i think bill cowen is here as well. we are having a little bit of a west wing clinton reunion if you will forgive us here, but together they kept a watchful eye on a strategy of diplomatic engagement to maintain stability of the korean peninsula which is back so much in the news today and i am sure that jim will discuss that. i am going to turn the podium over to sandy in just a second to introduce secretary steinberg who willed deliver remarks. at the end of that our colleague, senior fellow and also a clinton alum, our senior fellow nina hachigian

the eastbound side of sandy spring road. just before 95 that is along the right side of the roadway. take you to virginia and in to fairfax. getting word of an accident on 7100. it is in the right lane at route 29. inbound 66, you have got slow traffic as you head through manassas and centreville and here's what it looks like there. if you are planning to head to 270. take you there on the southbound side. this is what it looks like from germantown, father hurley boulevard. that will take you to montross road before that picks up. and coming up in my next report we will keep you posted on the accidents around town. >>> it's time for the morning lights every day at this time we are showing off your holiday displays. >> this morning's picture is from cynthia brown. check out her porch, all decked out in the icicle and flow flake lights. she lives in dumfries, virginia. >> e-mail your pictures to lights@wusa9.com. be sure to include your name and where you live. we are also featuring them on wusa9.com. >>> sports is next. we wi

joining me tonight on our news panel are sandy roy, editor with "new america media." rachel gordon, city hall reporter for the "san francisco chronicle" and josh richmond, legal and political affairs reporter for the "oakland tribune" and tom vacar consumer editor for kttv news. tom, did this year end better than it began or worse than expected? >> i think for a lot of people it's a toss-up, and i think for the state it's been a toss-up. we started the year out at about 12.3% unemployment, we are at 12.4% unemployment. we had a slight dip in the middle of the year, but unemploymentwise that is the problem and that's the problem for california, jobs, jobs, jobs, because everything else is impacted by that whether it's taxes, housing values, everything else, so that i think was the biggest thing. and in the united states, you know, the same thing. we started out in the united states in the high nines. we are ending up in the united states in the high nines. so, not much improvement in jobs and the outlook for jobs. in california, the problem is particularly bad because

. >> i am sold sandy endo has some video that has now gone viral that's down right funny. sandy is next in the cnn newsroom. >>> some pretty spectacular videos right now on the internet. our sandra endo is checking out what you're checking out. >> trending today, some viral videos to show you. i know you're a huge sports fan, right? >> oh, yes. >> have you ever seen this at a football game? take a look at this halftime show in hawaii. check out the marching band showing off a play of their own. >> that's pretty cool. yeah, that's great. >> i know it takes a while there, but it's worth the wait, right? >> it absolutely is worth the wait. >> we're getting that a lot this year with the lights and the music around christmas, displays all over the country. that was good stuff, sandy. >> and tony, i know you were in the holiday spirit, you were just mentioning and i know you love to dance and actually you were off a week, just the other week, right on vacation? you never told me that you went to detroit. look what we found on youtube. >> that's the money maker at work there. >>

that's enough to clear up the roads. 19 in sandy spring. 20 in centerville. 19 in manassas. what we're expecting to happen tomorrow morning is the storm system to develop off the coastline to have carolinas. that storm system then will track northward and likely kick off to the north and east. there is the chance in this storm will veer a little further to the west. should that happen, then most likely what we would see is a brief little dusting of snow again on sunday. sunday morning and midday, there is that chance. not a very good chance but just that chance that that storm kicks a little to the west and we'll have more updates as the day goes on. there is that slight chance for a little bit of snow sunday, southeast of town, but not a big one. mostly sunny. high temperatures in the mid to upper 30's. same story tomorrow. slight chance of snow mainly southeast of town. if it did happen, -- temperatures below average. >> on the outer loop of the belt way, a tractor-trailer accident between 202 and 50. authorities are arriving on the scene for that one. we're going to maryl

it's patterns after what sandy a go had been doing by the time those bills were passed. we're very lucky in that we're unique in our region we have a regional water agency and a regional planning agency and that's been much'ier than in some areas of california that may have had multiple planning and water agencies dealing with issues and also has helped us enormously as we move forward in integrated plan again with the county of san die ago and the water authority and so forth. our integrated plan effort has actually gone relatively smoothly and flood control and waist control and water supply and we're with the agencies in our region. >> question on this side of the room? >> thanks. environmental defense. question for wally and less tear your water guys and delta guys. do you think there's development going on in the delta in flood prone areas that should not be prevented and if so what do you plan to do about it? >> most of it's going on in my water district. >> absolutely the issue of local development i don't believe can be dealt with locally. i think there's no way

for instance, the plaintiffs in this case, chris perry and sandy styer. they are raising two sons. >> it's really interesting having to fight for the same rights other people have. i feel really proud to help lead this effort because i think it's incredibly effort not only for chris and i but for other gay couples. >> it's totally constitutional for the voters and lawmakers. >> reporter: in 2008, california voters approved prop 8, a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. >> all rise. >> reporter: this morning in front of a three-judge panel in federal court, prop 8 opponents had to first convince the judges that they had standing or the right to challenge the earlier decision. an attorney for the proponents never even finished his first sentence. >> the plaintiff thinks justice is served where the appellate review is frustrated in in case, where the state defendants circumvent -- >> i don't think they are t alking about justice. i think they are talking about procedural rules. >> reporter: a decision by the supreme court last year u pholding the v

sandy is here with the forecas forecast. chilly out there. >> it is but not nearly as cold as it was last nature or the night before. it's hard to believe. i have looked at the temperatures trust me. 24 hour change and they are actually running agent bit warmer. thanks to all the cloud out there let get you outside live picture rate now from our east bay hills camera as we look towards the blinking lets of sutro tower there. you can see a thin layer of haze or particulate matter rate down near the surface. this is why it is going to be a spare the air as we head that tomorrow. we are expecting the winds to remain light and there isn't much to kind of scour that out. wood burning indoors and out doors banned for the next 24 hours. as you look at live doppler 7 hd you will see whether it is raining right now from crescent city down towards eureka a. some of this across highway 101 getting into the moderate to heavy rapping. no rain in the bay area just yet. temperatures all running in the 40's except fairfeld at 37 degrees. >>

[applause] >> ok, jeff, sandy, christine hall, and nick. >> i have been gifted one minute from another supporter. >> margaret, would you pull those other cards? >> we don't have a card from larry lee. >> we are trying to be respectful. we have been here since 2:00. >> i understand that, but there are other people who have been here since 2:00 as well. move as fast as you can. >> think. i am suzanne, the save the stow lake boat house. i brought copies that margaret give you earlier -- gave you earlier. president charles chase and vice-president of the historic preservation commission asked to be sure that you see their letter, because they are asking you to defer this vote today until they have time to consider the pending landmark domination of the boat house interior and exterior. they are very interested in the interior, no matter what your staff says. they're very interested in that. there is only one boat repair shop in golden gate park. they're very interested to evaluate it. in order not to be in conflict with their work, you must honor their request and for this vote. the outcom

trainer sandy endo is going to tell us how to deal with a pain in the neck. hellas. she's a pilates trader >> when you think about where it is located it is right between the skull and the rest of the body. your head will hold the nose, the olfactory all of your senses. all that information is translated to the neck down into the body. the body reacts and my going to do with that information? it is an informational up all back-and-forth all day. and there is no wonder that there is stress with reaction, tents, emotions.. >> and if it is seasonal, with if i am stuck in traffic? late? >> first of all, the easiest thing is to breed mac.and breed- and if you want a deep breath. and brief stop light, you can take a deep breath. and usually we have a shallow breath but we want to take it all the way down to the belly and all the way up through your shoulders. >> should my belly protrude out? >> absolute, contrary to piloates -and you should feel the air to the shoulders and you should feel the stretch without having to do anything else. bring that awareness. >> light heade

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the soil in parkmerced is of a sandy nature and is subject to immediately qualification in any kind of severe earthquake. the loan will create a quake, which was not centered anywhere near parkmerced -- it was 60 miles south -- there was enough shaking so that one of the old tower apartments almost came down. it appears to me that while the plan itself discusses the problems of a seismic threat to parkmerced in the case of an earthquake, the plan itself has no provisions for specifically dealing with this situation. i find it very problematic that in addition to the old tower apartments, which were never retrofitted after the law will create a quake, the plan calls for putting up numerous other 13 to 15-story tower apartments in one of the most seismically unstable pieces of land in the bay area, so these are the two major points that i want to make tonight, and i appreciate once again the privilege of being able to speak before the commissioners, and i hope you will take these omissions of the plan into consideration when you deal with whatever action you are going to take. thank you

home side tended to draw this season and finally it was a winning debut for new manager alan pardew sandy carroll killed the game of time to give newcastle a three one victory over liverpool. the big one is tomorrow night host asked when the game is already generating heated banter between the sides who are separated by just the point asshole manager. asked inventor claimed united defender patrice evra as being disrespectful after the left back said the gun is wearing crisis i wouldn't win the league title. well i think he gave you some good stuff too to make a door hold before the game we were dragged by the way we want to play football. and not by verse statements of any body who plays against us personally i believe the. you're always your big player you respect your opponent and that's what we try to do we'll start with but will because european champions into milan have learned who they will face in the semifinals of the fifa club world cup korean sizing yam will play them next after a four one victory in abu dhabi snowing am open the scoring through molina after some more for defend

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sandy havior betrayed his great intellect as a rule he would buy one album in one pair and one temper what i thought it was very odd but that's exactly what attracted my attention besides his appearance he was very extravagant his house was nearby i also know that he often sat here just outside the loop cafe. here initially he bought stuff in the shop across the road he's unusual appearance more came out in the crowd. visiting my coffee to. illuminate if it. were a group of arab or reduce your oulu true. for. the church to give splendor psaltery he dropped into listen he's a very affable man. he would always ask for permission to take a seat. found himself in good company but he would always think each guest played the psalter in several occasions and was quite good at it but she never sang he preferred to drink red wine cold beer is. never to excess he simply enjoyed the wines teached through. while by the man card which was in hiding in belgrade under the guise of dr. holmes how his wife and children in the bosnian town of palau were constantly braided and searched. her long massive

sandy is here with the forecast >> that's right. tomorrow is a nice mild day then we get rain back in the forecast. on the topic of rain let me show you the weekend rain total pretty impressive. santa cruz mountain 2 inches of rain just over an inch and a half and santa rosa saint helena just over half inch and concord look at oakland 3 quarter inch. san francisco 43 hundredths. get down to san jose and under a quarter of an inch of rain. of time when we talk about winter coming up in tw weeks we talk about el nino or la mean a.let talk about la nina. april through november notice the equator what thes cooling and expansion of the sea surface temperatures cooling see this in blue near the equator indicating that la nina has been strengthening. what does this all mean for us? well equal chance of rainfall hear in the bay area dryer than normal or wetter than normal. willless into spring. above ample rainfall expected for the pacific northwest. below average for south central united states and so we are somewhere in between. we have h

[ominous] [engine roaring and tires rolling through sand] [drums] [door opens] click [footsteps on sandy gravel] [door closes] slam ♪ [upbeat] [people cheering] "hey, welcome home" to the men and women of the united states armed forces, the uso is home. the uso depends on the generosity of the american people, people just like you. to find out how you can help, visit us at uso dot org. the uso. until every one comes home. >>> it's time for 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> in minnesota, they were saying even god, the brett favre fan, that's why he dumped all of the snow in the metrodome so brett could have an extra day to heal his shoulder. unfortunately a day is not enough. favre inactive tonight as the vikings play the new york giants and thus ends his consecutive streak of 297 starts, the longest ever, the redskins now have the longest streak at 205. as for the game tonight played in detroit, jackson getting the start in place of favre. how is this for a start for him? first quarter he trips peterson. they both got hurt. so they would both return. not that it wo

and police say it was pastor sandy mcgriff. detectives say the 52-year-old broke into a home of a member of her own church. >> i'm not a particular. >> reporter: police have charged her with stealing more than $10,000 worth of fur coats, purses and a laptop. and she's under arrest. >> my big mistake was going through the window. >> she stepped right here. and she went inside the house. >> reporter: a neighbor spotted the pastor breaking a window. and then, allegedly taking the loot out to her car. but pastor mcgriff tells a very different story. she says she was in the neighborhood to pick up a peach cobbler, when something told her to go by that house. she says she spotted what looked like two burglars nearby. so, she broke into the home to protect the woman's belongings. in case those men came back. >> on the way out, the coats were right there. and i just grabbed everything at once. >> reporter: the pastor made her unusual defense surrounded by nine fur coats. she says, to prove, she didn't need to steal anybody's. it turns

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