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Was playing. >> we saw nora sitting at the piano with both paws on the keys playing with both paws alternating and reaching for black notes and she would play, you know, five or six notes, and then look over at us like, you know, how was that. >> we just totally lost it. we were like oh my god. oh my god. look at this. nora, what are you doing? >> betsy believes this is just an isolated incident but for nora this is just the beginning. >> she started playing every day and started doing it during...

It was really sweet. but i dont think i was anyone special. he was incredibly thoughtful to people in the music industry, and to his peers, and, you know, to his audiences. >> wow. you are under selling yourself. you definitely are more than special and he noticed that, and so many in the industry do, too. i do, too, as a good friend. edna gunderson, enjoy the new orleans jazz fest. and thank you for sharing your personal and intimate moments and experiences with a very great, great artist. than...

Nowhere like the bronx. >> in the yard out back, some freshly roasted coffee and this man, a tyrannosaurus rex of music. a man who changed the world for generations. afrika bambaataa. they go back to the same housing projects. >> thats big baba. thats great. >> he and his associates in the zulu nation were absolutely instrumental in shaping what became hip-hop culture, break dancing, graffiti, deejaying and rap. you took your records and you take the label off. >> we put tapes on it or soaked th...

Characters. >> and if youre older than 18 and scratching your head because you dont get fred, well maybe youre not supposed to. >> i hate the world. >> it just depends on what type of comedy you like. some people like other comedies and other people dont like them. some people think its stupid and other people think its awesome. i dont think about the audience. i think about the videos. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> coming up. >> i feel funny. >> a little boys trip to the dentist has mil...

The u.s. president starts a new day on his trip to london, while some accuse barack obama of meddling in british politics. plus the world mourns and searches for answers. cnn learns more about the final days of prince. and honoring the life of one of the best writers to ever take pen -- pick up the pen, i should say, people mark 400 years since the death of williams shak shakespeare. live around the world, welcome to cnn headquarters, im george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. we beg...

Young person, with no medical history in the absence of trauma. in the absence of any kind of foul play, in the absence of any kind of involvement by third parties or anything of environmental nature that might have possibly led to that death it, is, until proven otherwise, a drug death. obviously, you dont make that decision and im not criticizing them at all. they certainly must wait for the results. i think this has all the earmarks of a dug -- drug death. somebody found in that situation in ...

As many people that prince had contact with. they want to know what doctors was he seeing, where did he go. was he on any medications. kyung lah, cnn, chanhassen, minnesota. >> there have been so many tributes pouring in. perhaps the most touching may have come in stevie wonder. lets listen. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it is beautiful how he plays the piano. that was how he chose to remember his friend and fellow musical genius prince, playing

Excuse me. >> his embarrassing moment is witnessed first by his congregation of 300 people. >> stop laughing, all right? man. >> and then by thousands around the world when his blooper goes viral. >> i hope this isnt on videotape, because im -- ill have no job now. >> blake bergstrom gets flustered while sharing the biblical story of abraham and his nephew, lot, with a large youth group in colorado where hed been a youth pastor for only two months. >> pinch his tent -- pitch his tent is what i s...

But you know, you just dont want to believe that. and i dont -- most of the time -- a lot of the time that i got to know him was through donatella versace, before, during and very much afternoon he was killed, he was so supportive of the family, always very family shows so i basically grew up knowing him from working when i was 17 with versace and after that he would call me and tell me when he was in new york, paris, lond. and i never missed a concert. hes someone who would not sleep and play -...

Thank you. >> bye-bye. >> well have all-day coverage of super tuesday with the results of the primaries in five states. that is this coming tuesday right here on cnn. and our other big story today. the tributes to prince still pouring in. his fans remembering his remarkable legacy. his friends remembering simply who he was. and the spontaneous powerful moments celebrating his music over the last 24 hours. like this. the cast of the broadway show the color purple led by jennifer hudson singing ...