2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Folks in buffalo, new york, are holding their breath this morning. All that snow, seven feet, is melting and could lead to flooding. It rained yesterday and more is expected today. Temperatures are expected to reach 60 degrees with winds gusting. It, all sorts of runoff, and it does tremendous damage with anything that it hits. A strong line of storms moved through the south. A suspected tornado ripped through a farm in georgia. Meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz says its part of a larger esystem that will affect your travel plans. We continue to watch the threat. Until the Morning Hours watch g watching. We could still see an isolated tornado and damaged windfall and i went gusts. On the backside, cold air wrapping in asnowfall, the chicago end. Also looking at very warm temperatures up into the 60s that woeshlt last for two long. A lot of folks this week on an east coast storm that starts in the southeast,
2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Folks in buffalo, new york, are holding their breath this morning. All that snow, seven feet, is melting and could lead to flooding. It rained yesterday and more is expected today. Temperatures are expected to reach 60 degrees with winds gusting. Evacuation plans and emergency shelters are being readiyed and schools are closed. Mayor andrew cuomo says its dangerous for a number of reasons. Its a toxic flood. It has sewage in it, all sorts of runoff, and it does tremendous damage with anything that it hits. A strong line of storms moved through the south. A suspected tornado ripped through a farm in georgia. Meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz says its part of a larger esystem that will affect your travel plans. We continue to watch the threat. Until the Morning Hours watch g watching. We could still see an isolated tornado and damaged windfall and i went gusts. On the backside, cold air wrapping in asnowfall,
Rainbow world. So, we handed down. Hand it down. We can hand down our songs, which still hang on to hope. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. He put the rainbow in the wizard of oz, all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, i am amy goodman. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer Abbey Lincoln and bing crosby sang it. I built a railroad with time and i built a railroad and now it is done dime . R, can you spare a and tom waits. Judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans, peter yarrow, that . S al jolson, and our beloved odetta. Brother, can you spare a dime . . It may well be a new anthem for many americans. The lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. He was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. During his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his words to express antiracist, proworker messages. He . S best known for writing the lyrics to . The wizard of oz, . But he also
He always has a little great ending on the end of each of his songs. And he got hooked on w. S. Gilbert, the bab ballads. And then, when he went to townsend high school, they had them sitting in the seats by alphabetical order, so yip was h and gershwin was g, so ira sat next to yip. One day, yip walked in with the bab ballads, and ira, who was very shy and hardly spoke with anybody, just suddenly lit up and said, do you like those . And they got into a conversation, and ira then said, do you know theres music to that . And yip said, no. He said, well, come on home. So they went to iras home, which was on 2nd avenue and 5th street which is sort of upper from yips poverty at 11th and c. And they had a victrola, which is like having, you know, huge instruments today, and played him h. M. S. Pinafore. Well, yip was just absolutely flabbergasted, knocked out. And that did it. I mean, for the both of them, because ira was intensely interested that thing, too. That began their lifelong frien
Rainbow world. So, we handed down. Hand it down. We can hand down our songs, which still hang on to hope. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. He put the rainbow in the wizard of oz, all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, i am amy goodman. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer Abbey Lincoln and bing crosby sang it. I built a railroad with time and i built a railroad and now it is done dime . R, can you spare a and tom waits. Judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans, peter yarrow, that . S al jolson, and our beloved odetta. Brother, can you spare a dime . . It may well be a new anthem for many americans. The lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. He was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. During his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his words to express antiracist, proworker messages. He . S best known for writing the lyrics to . The wizard of oz, . But he also