david bowie david bowie's the artist who most extended the scope of pop music and a lot so it was it. was david bowie's legacy that he wrote and composed in the last month of his life and this atmosphere is palpable in the piece. as a skit it's about someone who doesn't belong on this planet. an alien who wants to leave wants to die. feels that death is approaching. its. belly selected seventeen of his own songs with a musical which tells the story of an alien stranded on an trapped in a human body tortured by night and elucidations. the musical is loosely based on the one nine hundred seventy six film the man who fell to earth in which bowie played the lead role as. the musical is like a sequel the alien is still on but still doesn't feel it has. now isn't that of it's always fun to play an outsider i've also always been an outsider and so i feel very close to the character it doesn't seem alien to me. it's michelin's and not. the other one on fun and i'm still. when i'm done i'm not. part i'm sure and plan it as far as move. to forgive some of. the choice to go back to his plan this

first 4 traffic alert in bowie. annapolis road nr enterprise road, only one lane open each direction to get past this wer main break. because of the cold temperatures, we're also hearing about ice through the area. just be careful. also, bowie, westbound 50 t 197, left side blocked by a crash there near collington road. at's brand new. also, this crash on the outer loop before leown. inner loop is looking okay. rest of the beltway looks pretty typical forhis time of day. no big worries. eastund 66 slow inbound aft 123. that's an earlier crash causing that delay. eastbound 66 travel times. 37 miles per hour. per outhbound, 36 mil hour. and the top of the beltway, outer loop going about 20 miles per hour. going to takeou 27 minutes. remember to listen to wtop3. fm when you hop in your car. >>> it's 6:53. this week the white house announced a plan thatrges educators to make s.t.e.m. more meaningful and inspiring. this morning we're stlights a local teacher and school already doing just that. >> news 4's molette green i

now david bowie was one of the most innovative cysts of his time he was a master of the concept album telling intricate stories with his music so it's perhaps no surprise that shortly before his tragic death in twenty sixteen he also composed a musical with the help of irish playwright and walsh we were in hamburg for a dazzling performance of the show. the video for the song lazarus was released before david kelley died in january twenty sixth. god. loves god nothing left to lose. and this is jim and a to alexander's share in the musical lazarus. david gold david bowie's the artist who most extended the scope of pop music and a lot so it was it. was david bowie's legacy that he wrote and composed in the last month of his life and this atmosphere is comparable in the piece as a skit it's about someone who doesn't belong on this planet. an alien who wants to leave and wants to die. feels that death is approaching. its. very selective seventeen of his own songs with a musical which tells the story of an alien stranded on a truck to human body tortured by night and inducing nations. the

first 4 traffic alert because on this issue bowie. we're talking about a water main break and very low temperatures that could tur some of this into ice. here's what is partially shut down. annapolis road near enterprise road, a single lane the only thing getting by in each direction. let'sno look elsewher 66 inbound after 123, still very slow because of an earlier crash. e inbound lanes are slow. outbound, westbound, no major issues there. inner loop l outerp of the beltway, nice and clear. no problems there. everything is green and rolling along. we did have earlier roadwork that's out of the way. 14 northwest, another closure here. street near randolph, all lanes blocked because of fire department activity.l weave a live picture and live report from the scene of that water main break inco bowi ng up in a little bit. chris? >> thank you, melissa. >>> this morning we're working to learn more about this fire on 14th street in northwest d.c. flames sparked inside a barbershop, and firefighters were able to quickly put them out. h no on

most notably, in 1976, david bowie came here. >> jim: have a seat. well, there we go, there we go. >> anthony: jim rakete is a celebrated photographer known for his intimate portraits. he began his career as a photojournalist, and in '76, captured the first moments of david bowie stepping off the train in west berlin -- a city he would live and work in for the next three years. bowie was exhausted and burned out and looking for a new way to live and to work. and the music he created during that time was something truly groundbreaking and new. the result was both a professional and personal rebirth, and some of the most powerful and influential recordings of all time. classics which i'd love to play here, but cannot afford. >> jim: he wasn't a big name at the time, but it was a historical point, because he came to berlin the week after he split with his band. and from l.a. he went to berlin, he had to regenerate from -- >> anthony: well, l.a. had been really bad, apparently existing only on cartons of milk and cocaine, i think, and not much else. >> j

taking a now in bowie. water main breaknnapolis road at enterprise road. some delays through the area. we have one lane getting by each direction. it is so cold through that area, chuck and i were just talking about this, and it could be a situation where we're dealing with some ice on the road there as well. just a little while from now. taking a live look eastbound, 66 afterti123, have these delays inbound because of an earlier crash. that's slower than normal, especially for 5:00 in the morning. 14th street and northwest near randolph, lanes blocked for fire department activity there. the beltway, inner loop, outer loop, no major issues. >> thank you, melissa.> t's 4:54. for people who can afford it, it will be a major andelme change. today cuba's state telephone company wil allow mobile phone customers to use the internet via a new 3g network. until now, they've only been able to get state-run e-mail accounts on cell phones. it's one of the las nations in the world to open access. internet in homes was only launched last year. the cost of internet acce

this is in bowie thisni m. annapolis road near enterprise road, a water main break. we were shut down. you can see in this video just bubbling out of the ground there. nowe know a single lane is getting by in each direction. so that is an improvement. justin finch will be out there in just a little bit. take a live look here right now. eastbound 66 after 123, had a crash blocking the lanes. we're still slow inbound here. you can see that isth not sog we normally see this time of day. aistrict heights, inner loop after pennsylvaavenue, work zone blocks the right lane. george's st of princ county is looking good this morning. more news, weather, and traffic comi up in just a minute.ng >>> all right. you nest, how often do check your cell phone while you're driving? >> a lot, but only at red lights. >> right, not while you're driving. >> never moving. for leaders in virginia, they say it's happening way too often. hing a campaigu to get drivers to focus. >> news 4 transportation reporter adam tuss went to get a better picture of what drivers are seeing on the roads. >>

some on one thousand nine hundred sixty eight a stone's twenty one year old david bowie watches the film two thousand and one in london's casino cinerama say he goes home and writes space oddity his own musical homage to alienation in the space age with its lonely astronaut major tom. strategic defeat christian west germany in one thousand nine hundred three major tom and spies peter schilling to his only since pop it in. two thousand and one made dystopian so i find cool in alien ridley scott takes the idea of how an aloof and indifferent supercomputer one step further in alien the ships are going to intelligence called mother demonstrates how humans themselves have become obsolete. hello day. you're looking well the ominous hell nine thousand times apple computer pitchman in this commercial from the late one nine hundred ninety s. two thousand when computers began to misbehave remember well. the same sense time of two thousand and one and spied countless i five films but least confraternity kubrick for his space adventure the motion. but there's no more affectionate how much the two th

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sh first enrolled in bowie as a junior in 2016 after earningsc both her higol diploma and an associates degree through a dual learning program in her native ns, new york. she said she plans on making the most of this fast track. >> most people are starting college and going through the cond year. that i'm finishing my bachelors, it is the best birthday gift to me ever. >> she said she's heading right into gra school. she will focus on broadcast journalism in her undergrad years but moving toward screen writing and directing for grad school. >> go ahead. go ahead on. congratulations to her.ld >> wt bet against her. 19 years old in grad school. she'll doe som amazing things. >> it's humbling. >> way to go. congratulations. >>> supreme court justice ruth baderinsburg had a message for newly sworn citizens of our country. >> congratations to all of our citizens. >> she spoke at aat naturaln ceremony this morning. 31 people from 26 different countries now officially u.s. citizens. rbg told the crowd, she herself is a daughter and grand dghter of immigrants. with both sides in fact coming thr

we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. >>> david bowie. mick jagger. billy joel. rod stewart. all famous, all rich, and all men. rock and roll has been pretty much dominated by men until the last few years. ♪ heartbreaker >> pat benatar is hot. really hot. three albums in the last three years, all top sellers. the latest album hit the top of the charts in just one month. her style is defiant, raucous, tough and very sexy. ♪ we are young ♪ heartache to heartache we stand ♪ ♪ no promises, no demands >> it appears to me that the one on stage is what i would picture a modern woman to be, someone who is aggressive and soft at the same time, has a lot of strength and conviction and can look good and still have brains. >> you would think that in the era of music becoming a visual form more than ever that it would all be about objectification. but there were a lot of strong women on that video screen. ♪ >> meet the darlings of l.a.'s new music scene, the go-gos. ♪ see the people walking down the street ♪ >> unlike earlier girl groups such as the ronettes o

wednesday bowie is one of his victims. her pelvis was >> they tried to throw out my sse specifically, and i'm glad the jury through that. this is the best ive been in a year and a half. >> reporter: another survivor, marcus martin. is is martin as he was struck by fields' car, tumbling off the back to street, his leg broken. for him this guilty verdict means relief. >> justice is served today. my mama used to tell me, you make rdur bed out of h rocks, one day you got to lay in it. n> reporter: jurors will return to the courtroomonday to begin hearing testimony in the sentencing phase of this trial, when james field faces possibility of multiple life prison terms.ne >> details about the cases against two men once close to president trump. court edpers fil yesterday by special counsel robert team show the president's former campaign manager, paul manafort, ttified twice before a grand jury. nfut there's noormation about what that grand jury is investigating. the documents also show manafort lied when he told inv htigators th

"al" bowie / injured in charlottesville attack:"i'm very happy with the verdict. i could not be more ecstatic. they tried to throw out my case specifically and i'm glad the jury saw through that. and this is the best i've been in a year and a half."(ken) prosecutors say fields wanted to harm people that day... and evidence included fields' social media posts... texts with his mother and jail phone calls. fields now faces a possible sentence of life in prison. (catherine) three new court filings in two separate cases --one calls for a steep punishment for the president's former personal attorney ... (ken) the other alleges the president's former campaign chairman lied to investigators. andy rose has a look at the new reports out today. president trump's former personal attorney could be facing jail time --federal prosecutors calling for quote, "a substantial term of imprisonment" for michael cohen.in august, cohen pleaded guilty in the southern district of new york to eight federal crimes --including tax fraud, making false statements to a bank, and campaign- finan

. >> was somebody like david bowie a natural for you? i'm a great david bowie fan. i don't know if you were, but he was particularly cutting edge on all the gender fluidity, and his music was cutting edge, and his persona. >> he's dynamic, and you can feel it sit tting there, as you can with brando, and a something really emanates. >> i'm going to play a clip. >> let me play a clip. >> story teller and a story writer, and i decided that i'd prefer to enact a lot of the material i was writing, rather than performs. at this moment i'm performing adds myseas myself but i will return in the future to return back to writing stories, and i don't care what anybody says. i like doing it, and it's what i shall continue doing. >> everybody, you know, laughed at that. did you get him then? did you get how revolutionary he was in this industry and how -- >> probably not. probably my antenna were a little wiggly at that point, and lame. but then as i watched him, as they would say about garbott, se didn't seem very interesting instead studio. there was all kind of things going o

janelle bowie who i recommend has a persuasive take. which is don't try to do it with a white candidate. bowie writes black candidates like obama can stay somewhat silent on race and raise racism rather than vocalizing it and allowing the space to focus on economic messaging without triggering the cycle of polarization clinton experience the. i'm joined by cornell belcher, msnbc political analyst and democratic bolster. victoria de francesco, school of public affairs at the university ever texas and msnbc political analyst, and charlie pierce, writer at large for esq. cornell, what do you think of jemel's thesis? >> you know, i love the piece because i love the conversation that it's sparking. i can quibble with some of the data because i think, you know, the racial image of barack obama really did impact sort of voters' view of him. we started tracking this back in the spring of 2008, sort of how voters in battle ground states viewed him. so i don't think it was completely that inokinawa lags there. but i do think there is something sa

from david bowie... ..to eltonjohn... ..to take that. they all chose the most famous name in high street music to launch an album. but that was then. now, hmv has collapsed into administration for the second time in five years. the main reason? people are finding other ways to get music and movies. netflix or spotify. i don't ever buy anything. no, i don't buy any. i download everything. i like movies but i'm not bothered about having them on dvd all the time and stuff like that. so it won't be that bad for me, to be honest. hmv‘s current owners bought it out of administration five years ago. but today they said an extremely weak christmas and a poor outlook for music and dvd sales next year meant they couldn't go on trading. when it comes to physical sales, hmv is still a major force, with around a third of all music sales in the uk and about a quarter of the dvd and blu—ray market. but both are in decline and a big fall in recent months in sales of dvds seems to have pushed the firm over the edge. don't you get sick of it all? the

"al" bowie / injured in charlottesville attack:"i'm very happy with the verdict. i could not be more ecstatic. they tried to throw out my case specifically and i'm glad the jury saw through that. and this is the best i've been in a year and a half.> (justine) sentencing is set for sentencing is set for monday. fields faces up to life in prison. now back to you. . (ken) new details are emerging in the deadly mass shooting in thousand oaks. officials now say the deputy killed was shot by "friendly fire". last month a gunman opened fire at the borderline bar and grill in ventura county killing 11 people. the gunman shot at sergeant ron helus five times... but it turns out that he died from a bullet that was fired by a c-h-p officer who was also involved in the gun battle. chief l.d. mapleschpchief l.d. maples/ chp: "the mere thought of something like this happening is devastating to all of us who are sworn to protect and save lives. this tragedy underscores the difficult and dangerous circumstances law enforcement faces every day, often with only mere seconds to reac