Have never done before. Hello, gloria. And her husband mike. Hello, mike. No, no. It was electrifying. I was tingle ing the whole time. He was going to kiss him on the cheek and he s sitting there going, eeee. You re watching kind of a master class reflebcting humanity. It was revolution nay. Reporter: revolutionary in a lot of ways. Changed the way we think about society. That s a picture of sammy davis. Look what he writes here. To archie bunker, the whitest guy i know. Archie bunker was jaw dropping and you realized norman leer is taking us into a new realm of comedy. That was my dad. My father used to say janette, it s sunday we re going out for drinks. Dad, we re going to go out for a chinese meal. Why do you have to say chinks. Just sold his home to a family of colorsedcoloreds. No. Part of the joy of doing it was this hasn t been done before. Oh, hi, neighbor. All in the family commented directly on racism saying we need to deal with this and this is a vehicle we need to do that
And particularly so in those hot spots where vaccination rates are still quite low. Maybe 30%. That would be missouri and arkansas, louisiana, florida. And those are areas of deep concern. As he said, one of the epicenters of the covid surge, florida. That state now accounting for one of every five new infections in the country. Cnn s randi kaye joins me from riviera beach, florida. How are people responding to the spike in cases there? reporter: they don t want to change anything in the state of florida. They seem to think things are going well, despite the surge of numbers on the state level. In the last week we saw more than 110,000 new cases in florida. The daily average 50,818 cases yesterday. Yesterday there was a record for the most cases in a single day. 21 ,683 cases yesterday. If you look at how florida stacks up across the country, 19. 2 % of all the cases in the u. S. Are here in the state of florida. Mostly in south florida where we are. Also florida is seeing the highest
Getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: what do you need to know about tokyo? deep, deep waters. The first time i came here, it was like it was a transformative, uh, experience. It was a powerful and violent experience. It was as if it was just like taking acid for the first time. Meaning, what do i do now? i see the whole world in a different way. Um, i often compare the experience of going to japan for the first time, going to tokyo for the first time, uh, to what what eric clapton and, uh, pete townsend must ve gone through. The reigning guitar gods of england. What they must ve gone through the week that jimi hendrix came to town. You hear about it, you go see it. The whole a window opens up into a whole new thing. And you think, what does this mean? what do i have left to say? what do i do now? welcome to tokyo. You are not invited. This is the other tokyo. 12 hour flight, and i m baked. No sleep. Might as well must go out
You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. But what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. Unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. It s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. Ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. You ve got poison, ratt, warrant. She s my cherry pie cool drink of water such a sweet surprise tastes so good make a grown man cry sweet cherry pie a lot of hairspray going on. There s a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. It s not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. So that s selling. When i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. They played a kind of music. They were expected to have a certain facade. Mtv s ratings are surprisingly small. But those who do watch, mostly teenagers and young adults, buy a lot of records and tapes a
Unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you ve probably noticed that america s latest craze is disco dance. This is punkrock, and its purpose to promote violence, sex, and destruction, in that order. Rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london according to a police source from an overdose of drugs. Janice joplin was found dead last night. The cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. Jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rockmusic group, is dead. He was 27. The early years of the 70s are sad in music. Because you lose people. And you lose the beatles. The small gathering on salvo row is only the beginning. The event is so momentous that historians may, one day, view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. The beatles are breaking up. It was like a death for a lot of people. Rock and roll, as we understood, in the 1960s, was no longer with us. Never. I wonder what i am doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. Well, you might know i