at the extent of the outpouring, not that it s happening, but just at the level of it. that album touched an awful lot of people, and it was very different for its time even though, you know, there are a lot of long songs and a lot of big ambitious albums released in the 70s, it was rare to see a rock n roll performer who looked like that and sang about the things that he did. he had that big huge voice, and he was big and huge himself, and one thing they did that was very smart is they made early videos for that album. i saw him on tv as a kid. i saw him on saturday night live. he was almost impossible to ignore. what i love about it, what i read recently, he and his song writing partner went to different record labels, and they were basically laughed out of l.a., you guys are cheesy, and this is, you know, really
concerts earlier this year. the band s 70s and 80s hits often featured a jazzy sound. becker s song writing partner says he will keep steely dan s music alive as long as he can. we have rising water still in the beaumont area and other parts of the state of texas that we need to still be involved in the search and rescue process, but then the rebuilding process and this is where the long haul begins. the president has indicated he s asking for more than 7 billion dollars as a down payment on this. we need congress to step up and pass that and help texas rebuild. arthel: governor greg abbott talking about the next steps for recovery there in texas from hurricane harvey. this as we learn officials have decided to use a controlled burn on trailers full of chemicals at the houston area plant that caught fire when flooding knocked out its cooling equipment.
legendary rock n roll songwriter this morning. you ain t nothing but a hound dog gary lieber along with his song writing partner wrote the hit hound dog along with yakity yak he was 78 years old. those were the headlines. i can t believe this. in 10 years, it s going to be 10 years since the 9/11 attacks. side note, we ll be live and go over that day in all the different perspectives, looking back and looking forward. when people talk about raising money, they re talking about raising money for the museum that s going to be down there and a lot of people using innovative going about innovative programs to do so. this to me, i believe, is a little bit of a reach. maybe it was well intended but a little bit of a reach. the winery on long island has