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Times. that cold pushes to the gulf coast with that many spots challenging records in these morning hours. back to you. moving on to the drug enforcement agency's surprise inspections of nfl teams on sunday. five teams were involved. federal agents acted as part of an ongoing investigation into potential violations of the controlled substances act that investigation stems from a lawsuit filed by more than 1,200 former players. >> they allege that for years nfl teams illegally distributed painkillers in a way that left many of them addicted. >> we will never know what we really were taking at...

Focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael malden was an executive at columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes, and we could tell, again, they were young pipes. that's what you want to do is find groups you can put in the incubator and kind of develop. >> the group settled on a name, destiny's child and the hits started coming, like "no, no, no." ♪ >> destiny's child was on the express ride to the top, until -- >> what happened was the girls wanted new management, so that was pretty tough for beyonce, because her father is manager. >> the two membe...

>> duane wiggins was their producer. >> beyonce automatically stood out. i mean, everybody would say that because she simply was a very focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael maldin was an executive at columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes and we could tell, again, they were young pipes. that's what you want to do is try to find groups that you can incubate, put in the indue cue baiter and kind of develop. >> the group settled on a name, destiny's child, and the hits started coming. like "no, no, no." ♪ >> destiny's child was on the express ...

>> this is how you dedicate yourself to this craft? >> yes. and it was difficult. >> all they wanted was a major record deal. that meant lots of hard work. here is rare footage of beyonce working on early recordings. >> dwayne wiggins was their producer. >> beyonce stood out. everybody would say that. she simply was a very focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael mulden was an executive add columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes. again, they were young pipes. that's what you want to do, find groups you can put in the incubator and develop. >> the...

The danger i faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments as authorities who despite being told all of this still chose to pursue action against me as opposed to finding an alternative solution. another solution was cut us a check for $970,000. her lawyer says she did that today. she will not apparently now go to prison for three years. her album, by the way, the miseducation of lauryn hill in 1998, she won five grammies for that album. she sold millions and millions and millions of copies and now she's got a new record contract with cbs that might have ponied up ...