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Him. today the world is remembering the blues legend that died thursday in las vegas. bb stands for blues boy. as a young kid, he rose from poverty to king of blues inspiring generations of artists from clapton to lenny cravits that tweeted this morning. president obamaed president obama tweeted a simple bb king. he was humble when it came to his skills. >> it's a lot of people that can do exactly what i do and do it better, they're just not me. >> president obama released a statement remembering king that performed at the white house in 2012. he said in part, quote the blues has lost its king...

Chicago." he sang in february 2012 at courthousethe white house. you guys had so many top hits with bb king. how many, 30 35? >> 35 top singles. and also tops on our top 200. >> who was louvcille? >> that was the guitar. he was playing in a club and two men were fighting over a woman named loucille. he went back in and saved his guitar. >> why is it that he was the man that embodied blues? because of the timing, his bill street memphis upbringing? >> i think bill street helps. that was the precursor to modern day rock-n-roll.

Clinton on the democratic side there's not going to be much of a difference there. the difference is going to be what are they going to do in the foreign affairs in the situation we face today and that's where he's going, i think, have to get to pretty quickly. >> carl one thing he said quickly. i personally wouldn't think this is a problem with this politically, he says when it comes to israel i'll go to my brother. middle east, he would do that as well. is that a problem? >> first of all we don't know. that's what somebody says he said in a meeting in front of the republican jewish coalition...

His 80s and never gave up his spirit to play the blues. music icons are tweeting their condolences lenny kravitz tweeted b.b. anyone could play. lee brice said, my heart just broke into a million pieces. not enough space to describe my feelings of the man. legend, pure teach. >> brian, elisabeth, back to you. >> trace their roots back to him. >> that's a story that was breaking yesterday. this story has been breaking all week long. fatal acceleration right now we have comes from that am tack train. new video reveals the engineer sped up moments before the deadly derailment. >> that engineer no...

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