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His next birthday will be his 70th. while paul mccartney has had more yesterdays than hell have tomorrows and while the golden years for him will differ from other folks, at least sir paul mccartney is once again a happily married man. he married his long-time girlfriend, nancy shevell, a businesswoman who is barbara walterss second cousin, by the way. they married in london on what would have been john lennons 71st birthday. speaking of london, big ben is leaning. the top of the spire is abou...

Shifting beneath it, and it may soon be visible to the naked eye. consumers spoke. netflix listened. they have caved in to pressure against the plan to put their dvd business on a new website named quickster. they say they will stay in one piece and they are done with the price hikes. you know how the new iphone 4s came out and was panned because it wasnt a spanking new iphone 5 as some expected? and then steve jobs died one day later and some people felt bad? well, consumers have richly rewar...

Pawtucket red sox take on the rochester red wings. most of the fans-- we can only assume-- had every intention of staying till the end of the game but several events conspired against them. >> cool and windy night here in pawtucket, rhode island. >> reporter: the first was the weather. >> felt like a blizzard but without the snow so a lot of people left during the course of the night. >> reporter: yet it wasnt the cold that drove away the bulk of them, it was the clock. the game started just aft...

>> since then, more cases, in knoxville, in lubbock, outside of seattle, and yesterdays case of a medevac plane unable to wake a sleeping controller in reno. >> we have a sick patient. we may just have to land. if we have clearance or not. >> reporter: after circling for 16 minutes, he did land on his own. safety an ls and veteran controllers insist their constantly changing schedules cause fatigue on the job. some report working eight hours, then off eight, then back for eight. hardly enough ti...

For his younger brother. >> its a struggle every morning. their energy every morning, theres nothing coming at me. >> reporter: that begs the question, what affect does sleep or the lack of it have on the teen brain? this sleep scientist has been studying teens for decades. >> there is this mythology that the older you get, the less sleep you need. >> starting at 12, childrens internal body clocks keep them up later even though they need nine hours and 15 minutes of sleep. and now research is fi...

And finally, our "person of the week." what does it take to turn a life around? ron claiborne met a man who deployed the force of five little words. >> reporter: for years, cincinnatis taft high was notorious. >> teachers do not want to teach there. >> reporter: dilapidated, crime-ridden, full of failing, forgotten students. >> the worst slum school in the city. >> reporter: so dysfunctional, each clock told a different time, all of them wrong. then, nine years ago, taft got a new principal. >> ...

And when rachel joins you at the top of the hour, she makes the case as to why the beltway is getting it wrong on republicans in the midterms. they arent uniting. over a thousand people a day are switching to chevy. they like that vehicles like the 2010 malibu, traverse and silverado half-ton have each been named a consumers digest best buy. they like that chevy backs the quality with a one-hundred-thousand mile powertrain warranty. theyre not just trading in, theyre trading up. qualified lessee...

Act as hurricane repellent and turns earl more back toward the open atlantic, which what will happen in terms of your beach plans or getaway plans, maybe some clouds, some rough surf again for the beaches but the direct impact will be well off to the atlantic. so we have best case and worst case and it depends what happens over the next 48 to even 72 hours as it moves past the bahama mas and towards the southeastern u.s. >> paul, i hope you do not have an exciting hurricane tracking week. i hope...

And a park official estimated 300,000. beck himself cited estimates as high as 500,000. and michelle bachmann guessed te crowd at saturdays beck/palin rally at least 1 million. i can remember when inflation was a democratic problem. anyway, up next, in the days after 9/11, george w. bush spoke of islam as a religion of peace. so with the debate raging over whether to build a mosque near ground zero in new york, why havent we heard that kind of thing these days from main ststm republicans. [ br...

And then they sang together "we shall overcome" and then they wrapped up the program. >> sarah lee, thanks so much. appreciate that. coming up, well talk about some movies. it is the weekend, a few releases in which to talk about. horror flicks and action flicks. we have all of it for you. and well be joined by a movie critic to give you an idea whether its worth your money. when the stage is set. and the cast has been gathered. when the curtain rises. and the spotlight is yours.