died, we tend to look at her entire life as a tragedy. and in particular, the last few years as being the inevitable fall of this great star. that simply wasn t true. can we start again? yes. she had an agency. she was hungry for more creative challenges. gee. she had a lot of strength along with her vulnerability. disciplined. she stood up to the old hollywood guard and said i m mad as hell and i m not going to take it anymore. we are not machines, we are not. up until the day she died, she was a fighter. of course her early death is a tragedy but that doesn t over write everything she achieved up until that point. she became the biggest movie star in the world and remains one of the most famous and recognizable women in history. excited fans gather on a san diego beach to watch marilyn monroe shoot her first film in two years. billy wilder directs her in some like it hot which arguably her greatest role. it s incredible what she does in tha
legendary grammy award winning singer-songwriters and members of the rock n roll hall of fame and tickets for their concerts go on sale saturday. please welcome carole king and james taylor. looking out on the morning rain james taylor was one of the most prolific songwriters of our time. i think she s the best there is, miss carole king. carole king began her music career when she was just a teen. by the early 70s, she had reached the top of the charts around the world. james taylor was one of my all-time favorites. one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. and now carole king and james taylor are getting ready to tour together for the first time in 40 years. that s a bit of history. tell us about the original troubadour reunion. november 2007, james called me and said let s get together and play together with some of our old friends. we had such a great time. like carole said, it felt so good we decided to take it on the road. you
the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural. hee haw! the beverly hillbillies. cbs had the beverly hillbillies. green acres.
real. we re all americans. we stand together as united states of america. and i say to all the victims, you re in our prayers. emergency crews searching for survivors. residents reeling from the scale of the disaster. it s stuff you see on tv. doesn t happen in your town until it happens in your town. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. i m pamela brown in mayfield, kentucky. the epicenter of the deadliest december day for tornadoes on record. at least 70 people are feared dead. there is so much heartbreak surrounding where i am right now. take a look. this is what remains of the candle factory here in town. levelled by a tornado. remarkably, 40 people in the wreckage but many missing. a miracle if anybody else found alive in it. end quote. more than 30 tornados raked across six states. meteorologists say one long track twister may have riffed a 250 mile swath of damage from arkansas to kaebt. that would be a record. winds ripped apart an amazon warehouse in western
tops. 14 dead, 1300 displaced after a volcano erupts in indonesia. new covid testing requirements are now in effect for all travelers coming into the united states, and it s part of an effort to curb the varian. anyone boarding the flight to the united states including citizens must have proof of a negative covid test 24 hours before takeoff. plus, foreign nationals must be vaccinated to enter the country. now, that requirement not yet in place for u.s. citizens. cnn s nadia romero has more on the details of these new requirements. reporter: holiday travel plus the omicron variant continues to cause concern about the spread of covid-19. in late november, scientists in south africa were the first to identify the omicron variant. where and when it first emerged is still unclear. but cases are now reported in dozens of countries including europe and here in the u.s. coronavirus cases in south africa nearly quadrupled over four days in the past week. but south africa s pr