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evening new hampshire votes in a heavy snowstorm is a poll shows guy running neck and neck with walter mondale we look at how new hampshire affected other presidential elections and what it could do today also today a wall street as another wave of selling as congress and the white house remain deadlocked on budget deficits we examine what outcome is what jim lehrer is off today workers in washington also tonight the supreme court has handed down a decision in a controversial sex discrimination case the verdict may close the case but not the controversy we update the news from lebanon more fighting and rumors of a summit meeting in damascus and we hear about a young musician whose name is not michael jackson is unusual virtuosity is making him one of the most talked about artist although the macneil lehrer newshour is funded by at and t the corporation for public broadcasting and the station and other public television stations a scandinavian airlines dc ten

gallon hundred and sixty three people over shot at kennedy international airport in new york late this afternoon the accident occurred during a heavy rainstorm accompanied by high winds plane stopped with its nose wheel on a narrow creek the passengers were able to walk off and only a dozen suffered minor injuries a spokesman for scandinavian airline said the accident was spitting on the web servers the storm that contributed to the airline accident was part of a weather system that was causing rain and snow across one fourth of the nation i have a band of snow stretched across the nation from mississippi the main parts of the midwest and northwest receiving their worst pounding of the winter as much as two feet fell in parts of missouri fifteen inches covered northern arkansas and eighteen inches blanketed the city while the western part of new york and pennsylvania registered two inches of new snow an hour an all star when stranded hundreds of motorists and forced schools and factories to war was in

a number of states is blamed for at least sixteen deaths results should be coming in very soon from new hampshire where the polls are just now starting to close down the nation's first presidential primary was held in the midst of sweden's know stormy weather that some predicted would cut into the voter turnout whatever the results they are sure to have a major bearing in the contest for the democratic nomination a lake poll done by the washington post and abc news show colorado senator gary hart moving up into a dead heat with former vice president walter mondale the poll was taken over the past three days and had a six point margin of error but it raised questions about whether mondale would pull off the victory that the long predicted for him based on his early organization and relatively high standing in a national public opinion survey as we said primary that brought a wintry weather in new england but not the blizzard the calm of the candidates here and persuade many voters boeing wasn't worth the trouble new hampshire democrats were deciding who

get this state's twenty two delegate votes at the party's nash convention there will be three thousand nine hundred and thirty three delegates in all all still the voters are proud that they are the first in the country to cast their ballot for the primary election so the candidates were also out of date thing that last minute smile that final hands it might make the difference gary carter the campaign trail one extra time weather forced him to cancel a trip to maine and other campaign was also being closely watched senator john glenn of ohio acknowledged it he might finish hard in new hampshire that said that it would not convince him it was time to retire from the presidential race and his condition had at the earliest voting as they came in that any town of dixville notch or shortly after midnight residents went to the polls in the democratic primary gave three boats to ernest hollings to tim mondale and one each to heart and ruben ask you in the republican primary hollings also got five write in votes while president reagan and

fifty robin ft since the fifties the new hampshire primaries developed a life of its own in the making of presidents even the recent influence of the iowa caucuses a week earlier as less in new hampshire his ability to give candidates momentum or deny it for the primaries and caucus states ahead this year its importance may be even greater because the democratic party has been so many states together in the month of march but it's an effect that the people of new hampshire do not create by themselves it's an unpredictable interaction between voters candidates pollsters and the news media nobody designing a rational system for nominating presidential candidates would begin with new hampshire it is too small and too unrepresentative of the country as a whole it as newer than one million people and almost half of them live out in the country double the national percentage but they're mostly factory in office workers not farmers the state is not only a lot more rural in the nation but a lot more republican

forty percent of new hampshire voters registered republican compared to twenty five percent nationwide he's a decent man he knows the problems of new hampshire he's been here several times please welcome fritz mondale and the more conservative democrats across the country they are predominantly catholic and heavily french canadian an ethnic group that is politically significant only in this corner of the nation but the state is changing its the fastest growing state in the east the depressed no economy of textiles and shoes is being replaced by high technology spillover from massachusetts that is given the state population an unusually high proportion of white collar managerial types summer is encroaching on new hampshire's pastoral loveliness yet the state remains pristine in another sense along with alaska it has no states sales or income tax population changes are gradually making the state more like the nation's

demographics but it remains an typical for example it has hardly any blacks all the same new hampshire's lead a major presidential elections for a generation the primaries also proudly displayed in the memory lane restaurant in manchester their most celebrated history of upsetting the odds makers and the media of creating victories not just from violence but from expectations a nineteen sixty four barry goldwater and new hampshire were to lead over nelson rockefeller international law both men were buried by write in votes for henry cabot lodge who was thousands of miles away in saigon as us ambassador those lines would go well there's so much nineteen sixty eight eugene mccarthy was campaigning against the vietnam war and president johnson thought all wanted to be more

orderly or more we dedicated and committed to this political campaign of nineteen hundred and fifty eight then you have a new idea about them in a poll two weeks before the primary mccarthy was trailing johnson sixty two to eleven percent in the vote he was told second but he's forty one percent compared to johnson's forty nine made mccarthy the psychological winner second was first it gave the anti war movement a lift and it led to johnson's withdrawal but in the end johnson's vice president hubert humphrey the nomination but in seventy two edmund muskie from neighbor remain at a sixty five to eighteen lead in a poll six weeks before the primaries and george mcgovern from the midwest shrank dramatically because mostly had done so much worse than expected and mcgovern so much better second was first again and the government launched on his way to the nomination nineteen seventies

the unknown jimmy carter broke out of the pack three months before new hampshire his numbers didn't even register in national polls of twenty eight percent became a tremendous springboard put his picture on the covers of national news magazines and ended with his nomination four years later edward kennedy took on president carter but his challenger is pretty much wrecked year by a strong country where the president went on to win re nomination came behind in the iowa caucuses ten points behind in the polls delivered a knockout punch to george bush who ended up his convention ellis history of upsets and unpredictability the new hampshire primaries been consistent in one sense since they began the beauty contest in nineteen fifty two no one has become president of the united states who did not win in new hampshire and the candidates who scored those tiny subsets like henry cabot lodge a gene

mccarthy george mcgovern did not become president running a surprisingly strong second in new hampshire may have been good for headlines momentum in fundraising it may even lead to the nomination as it did for mcgovern so far number two has never led to the white house that has done nothing to dampen the ardor in this year's primary which is often looked like the rest of the number two with its companion game i'm playing the expectations the presidential hopes of some of the democrats may be about as durable as these ice sculptures of the candidates in a shopping mall in concord an unusually warm february at least until today storm has already taken its toll so have the polls until today that their expectation for walter mondale was that he would have an easy win perhaps virtually locking up the nomination is nearly fifty percent women and created a danger that a smaller boat in new hampshire would seem a loss no with the latest poll showing very hard perhaps an economic model may be forced to play in the coming in first is

victory enough gary hart's expectations of sword correspondingly after his second place sixteen percent in iowa as the polls have shown him about beginning on monday his staff has talked more and more boldly some even talking of winning new hampshire is danger is that anything less than a strong second after such heady talk could kill a new momentum john glenn suffered his big damage in iowa we're sixth place exploded his images mondale's chief competition now new hampshire has become a desperate effort to recover latest polls do with encouraging putting in a distant third since expectations for atlanta now some modest a strong showing close to mondale and hart would be a surprise perhaps keep his campaign alive expectations about jesse jackson have risen and fallen a few weeks ago he seemed the wildcard generating a campaign enthusiasm the others were reporters began to talk of a surprisingly strong showing in a state with a tiny black population now apparently

become by the controversy over his remarks about jews jackson stands forth in the latest poll it's different expectations game for the four remaining democrats mcgovern cranston wings and ask you the pundits expect some or all to do so poorly here that they will have to drop out the latest polls give each five percent or less of polls on boats george mcgovern says he's going on to campaign in massachusetts the only state he took from nixon in nineteen seventy two mcgovern denies that he is running a difference when mondale was ignoring hints that they get out to help one or the other alan cranston's expectations were not raised by his fifth place showing in iowa and have not been improved by poll standings in new hampshire is one candidate who will consider dropping out it doesn't break into the top three the new hampshire i sculptor didn't include the true southerners hollings and ask you are

now telling us who ignored i were staked his whole effort to make an early northern showing here he says he'll hang him for the southern primaries in march no matter what happens the us uses the same friends and emerging into the void being embarrassed by a big loss in his home state florida just now it's all up to the new hampshire voters and the news media who translate votes and expectations and momentum or lack of it for the primaries ahead if any one of those four trailing candidates did better today than the poll suggest the commentators would give his campaign a case of life one complicating factor is ronald reagan conservative groups even urging democrats to write in the president's name if it did it would distort the democrats recently whatever gary hart's last minute surge in new hampshire you know the democrats got a sobering reminder today of mondale's lead in the rest of the nation a new york times poll showed mondale a choice of fifty seven percent of the country's democrats jackson was a very distant second with eight percent and hartford with seven percent

moreover suffers from incomplete slates of delegates in the next round two weeks ago when five hundred delegates are chosen in nine states and so called super tuesday senator hart has been able to organize delegate slates and only forty percent of the district's but new hampshire could make it a flight today it's the big political story in washington today with a deficit and the continuing inability of the bipartisan working group to do anything about it even before they met federal reserve chairman paul volcker was telling a meeting of the nation's governors that in order to get consumer interest rates down a bulging federal deficit must be cut quickly and i certainly think we have a hundred billion dollar problem in more than a hundred billion dollar problem when one looks out further in the future i was that what i think might be a reasonable doubt payments turns toward the bigger amount but sneaking over time and i suppose i try to be realistic and answering the question in

keeping myself with a normal mo but what's possible now in the short run i think that as big enough to begin to make an empire hundred billion in the first year would certainly made a startling difference in my mind in terms of the kinds of problems we have i would be satisfied with something short of that as a down payment but in saying that i don't want any volcker is positioned to him in step with a proposal adopted later in the day by the national governors association that calls for deficit reductions of almost a hundred and fifty billion dollars over the next three years president reagan's proposal for a one hundred billion dollar reduction over that period volcker said is not adequate mr wright it was also rebuffed today by the results of a meeting of republican and democratic members of the bipartisan congressional working group trying to attack the deficit

their talks with representatives of the white house broke up with no new meeting gave senate republicans rejected a democratic all or new major tax increases while democrats and some republicans insisted over the objections of the white house at any package includes sizable cuts in the defense budget each family recommended reading in just a minute

and the minimum and so what i think will be the leader and the forty minutes of the signs of the nineteen eighty eight treasury secretary donna reagan's sitting in on those bipartisan talks told an american legion meeting in washington today but the administration would not accept a large defense spending cuts as the basis for a deficit reduction plan we cannot indeed we will not accept wholesale slashes of the defense budget some leverage some pottery goal in spending reductions i don't mean to say that the pentagon to

be considered as a sacred cow knowledge should be handed a blank check there are perhaps a government savings achievable what that cannot be an ill conceived ill advised and indiscriminate hacking it is imperative that progress being made and reducing deficits equally important as progress itself is how we make that progress all their number of actions that can be taken on the revenue side the cut back or eliminate loopholes an unintended benefit is we must focus on cutting domestic spending we must resist attempts to lower the deficit from general tax increases on the repeal of tax and that tax increases besides being unfair the already britain taxpayer simply wouldn't have the desired effect and quite possibly could cause a very

undesirable patients reagan said despite today's problems he's cautiously optimistic that there will be further progress by the bipartisan group is by reagan's outlook a warning from chairman volcker and the reports of dissension within the congressional white house working group help cause a drop in the stock market at the close the dow jones average of thirty industrial stocks was down almost twenty three point two eleven fifty seven point forty years shed some light on the significance of today's developments is robert john moe cofounder of a bipartisan private group called the committee for a responsible federal budget as john oh spent twenty two years as the democratic member of the congress last four of them as chairman of the house budget committee before he retired in nineteen eighty yeah i know you've been following the progress of this cell bipartisan working group what you think the prospects are that they're going to be able to reach any kind of consensus probe of the pride or difficult

to come to grips with in an election year that's the difficulty but the crisis is there you just heard paul volcker enunciated there have been other people who have consistently been saying you got to get control of its deficit they can't put it all out there risking the very well being of this country but the trouble is that both sides are playing politics if you hear the secretary of the treasury say that you've got to cut spending what they mean by cutting spending the discretionary spending has already been cut by president reagan's first two years we just heard a rule out any major cuts in the defense you want to cut spending further you're talking about defense and the huge entitlement programs which no one wants to go near that one a half to go and address them eventually like medicare like social security like veterans benefits costa living adjustments and all those but that's the spending that the secretary doesn't spell out the fact is that unless there is a real crisis and

mourning and on wall street or in the bond markets or be forced by third warren nations or collapse of some sort in the third world and the rest of the world more threatened one here unless that happens i'm afraid neither side will give in before they elect would you have any more with what we were told today was mr wright's characterization of the white house he said that it displayed inflexible hostility to cuts in defense spending is that a fair character i don't know if that's a fair characterization because i wasn't there and i don't know there are inflexible or hostile but there's no question in my mind that if the president is serious after all he invited them the reagan democrats to join him in a bipartisan effort to do something about the deficit this year if that's the case and we should be willing to put everything on the table and that everything these defense in taxes what art let's talk about the fans what about <unk> domenici the senate budget committee chairman proposal to cut defense spending increases down below five percent crews

from thirteen percent exactly and the president is has repudiated and rejected that in fact i understand his his comments today when one that that issue was this disgust was that there were observers not participants in that issue and you know the president didn't really know that he isn't going to get their respective of the talks he should really know that he's not going to get the kind of defense increase that he's asking for this year twelve or seventeen percent in all wrong that it's gonna be me more likely five and the five percent area that senator domenici is talking about how you're laying a lot of it the responsibility on the republicans on the white house but isn't it true that the democrats are also going to have the shows and yemen has many allies and the democrats are going to have to show that good and spending issues for example in medicare issues in cost of living well but the point is who starts this is a chicken and egg situation but it's the

president who is responsible for proposing and suggesting his budget and where he is going to find the two hundred billion dollars that is short he invites them in to find places to have to make the reductions and it excludes defense and taxes and neither side wants to talk about entitlements at this early stage what's left there isn't anything why why would neither side won because they know that they're going to have to be part of the final yes but i think that that would be the last item on the agenda in these talks i think the first things that they would have to do would be to talk to about defense issues and reductions talk about reasonable tax increases and even difficult tax increases as senator dole has been suggested suggesting we're so congressman roskam casket was suggested and then approached the entitlements perhaps through the back door of course the living adjustments things that time but what i'm saying is that if it's so politically impossible for

the republicans for the white house to be discussing with tax increases and we're asking them to stick to stick out their necks why should the democrats simultaneously sad because when it comes to entitlements i think the democrats have indicated a willingness to sit down and discuss things with the president and that's where they are now you know i think that you know both sides should announce and say that all of those items will be on the table for discussion rather than saying as a secretary reagan said today we're not gonna let them to slash the defense budgets i'm not saying that one side is totally right or the other side is totally wrong and i recognize now that most of the problem now lies with whitehouse i think that there's a clear recognition this nation by everyone who has barely cognizant of the fiscal situation this country there's a clear recognition that we cut taxes too much couple of years ago and that is the problem with with without our budget right now including mr feldstein but there's a clear

recognition by mr bulger why buy the markets in the art by the end of that the educate any fight ever accept the presidency absolutely does not want to go along with finding additional revenue certainly his own people on his own and his own republican party in the house and senate recognized a need for for additional revenue well if all this is is is you say that i we just witnessing for the silly political exercise all activities in this term as you know our political especially a few months before intellect and i believe that there are hard decisions to be made here making increases in taxes as a hard decision cutting down cost of living adjustments and entitlements is a hard decision posen too hard one and neither side wants to make that decision unless it absolutely has to think they can wait until next year which i think is suicidal so what's missing and what

is going to force them i think what would force the stock market went there i think you announced about twenty points today you can if you have a continuous bet know in the economy from around the world that actually would force him to act but apps and that i believe they will feel and try to get beyond the election to next year i think that's extremely dangerous and one last thing quickly what about this white house idea of the line item veto i worried if i'm in the house of representatives today where not but if i were i would give the president a line item veto for a year or two if the elections come up and show us where he would reduce the deficit by two hundred billion dollars he couldn't do it unless he did what we're just talking about any chance you think the democrats will do that well i don't think so because frankly neither democrats or republicans like to give up why not give up their powers if i were to give the president a line item veto in effect congress could

really almost gone home what's your best projection and where does all this i think that given the economic realities the threat of wall street the threat of the bond markets the fact that what's scaring at the threat of higher interest rates which many economists tell us is coming along this year that to me will indicate that there is an outside chance that they can get together and do something not big this year but at least get started a lot of people that i hope that in his journal thank you robin the supreme court handed the reagan administration a major legal victory today the court by a sixty three vote ruled that the federal government does not have the right to cut off all types of aid to a college simply because of sex discrimination in one specific program women's groups in the carter administration and argued the part of a nineteen seventy into law called title nine require that any type of discrimination should disqualify in school from receiving every type of a reading the court rejected today last year the administration came under heavy political

fire from women's groups for its narrow interpretation day the political he continued as leaders of women's groups criticized the decision and called on congress to amend the law today's ruling is a victory only for those who seek to keep women and girls from competing fully and academics from having a chance to participate in school athletics and finally from being fully participating members of society the result is that female students can expect the second class status that comes with restrictions an outright prohibitions that will inevitably result from this decision it is shocking that the court would today rule in effect that sex discrimination is acceptable in programs departments or activities in educational institutions that dealt specifically receive federal funds it is all too painfully clear that this nation has not yet declared unequivocally and forcefully that sex discrimination punishes women and is utterly unacceptable under our laws one of the supreme

court justices thurgood marshall was admitted to bethesda naval hospital in washington today suffering from bronchitis marshall who's seventy six was reported to be a condition and undergoing test it's b in jerusalem twenty one people were in today when two hand grenades exploded in front of a blue jeans boutique on the city's main shopping street none of the injuries was critical three separate factions of the palestine liberation organization claim that they are the

explosions to his soldiers were killed in an ambush near the lebanese town of number two year which might have a large palestinian refugee camp is really sore fired back at the attackers and began a search of the area wouldn't president amin gemayel was expected to go to damascus within the next day or so the summit talks with syrian president hafez assad when violence in lebanon and i wrote a heavy artillery rocket and machine gunfire continued along the green line dividing to miles east they wrote the muslim west beirut the associated press reported today that president reagan special envoy donald rumsfeld would resign soon out of frustration with us policy in lebanon hasn't worked the state department in the white house both denied it but the eighties dr wood storks in the persian gulf the defense department today confirmed that a us destroyer opened fire on sunday to warn off an iranian patrol plane machine guns and fires were used the first time a us ship has opened fire in the four years they've been patrolling the area radio signals were used to warn off an iranian friend it was too close to

the ships the us and other western countries have been concerned that iran might stop vital oil shipments through the strait of hormuz as its war with iraq escalated president reagan said the us is determined to keep a straight open us officials today said there was no evidence to support iraq's claim yesterday that it had attacked iran's main oil terminal at current island in india the government of indira gandhi promised today that it would be ruthless in stamping out violence between hindus and sikhs in the past two weeks nearly seventy people have been killed and thirty injured in fighting between the two religious groups in punjab and how young the state's six seven seeking greater political autonomy and religious concessions such as gandhi's government said today it would quote take every possible step to stamp out violence ruthlessly whatever may be the cost the company that operates the three mile island nuclear plant in pennsylvania has agreed to plead guilty to a charge that he

falsified data about the plant in an agreement announced in court today by the us attorney david dark queen the metropolitan edison company will pay a million dollars to a special fund which would be used for emergency planning around the reactor site in nineteen seventy nine three mile island unit to was the scene of the worst commercial atomic power plant accident in us history us attorney said the agreement does not make a connection between bad accident and dave gilkey play three actor operators have also agreed to plead no contest the six other charges brought by the government the agreement goes before a federal judge for approval before it becomes final the suburb of times beach missouri is at the center of yet another dioxin controversy he was just over a year ago that the environmental protection agency bought out the entire town because it was contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of dioxin now federal and state officials a chosen times beach

and the ideal home for a new hazardous waste site where dioxin found in other parts of the state would be brought in store and that doesn't sit well with times beaches neighbors correspondent on the home and found in this report almost everyone has been evacuated from time speech the soil and roads here are still heavily contaminated and you have to check with regard to enter times beach is essentially a ghost town now fama for about twenty lane jumper and his family lived in times beach for ten years he built his home here to his son was born here lane and his family had hoped to stay there were four hundred and two single family residences four hundred

mobile homes in the two troopers in this house earlier this out in lebanon with celeste holm offense the store i was living with is being late nineteen eighty two times beach was hit by the double disasters of the worst flooding in its history and the official government announcement of massive dioxin contamination the jumpers were relocated to a small apartment in eureka missouri three miles from their old hole is bare people's cars or houses for forty fifty miles away still family scattered as hard as they were but the evacuation of lame jumper and others from times beach has not ended missouri's dioxin crisis the state discovered thirty six other sites that had been similarly contaminated with dioxin under growing public pressure for some kind of action state

officials proposed a plan to remove contaminated soil from several of those sites and place it in a concrete bunker in times beach the siberian are supposed to be here in this open field it used to be a city park the bunker would be on evacuated and already contaminated land in times beach but it would be located only several hundred yards from eureka a town of thirty eight hundred people and the town to which lane jump or has been moved our inn you read the residents are apprehensive about the potential effects of having a hazardous waste dumps so nearby on february sixteenth several hundred area residents turned out an inherent cajole missouri department of natural resources director fred lesser what they thought

oh no it's been no landfill obama wished them to testify as your letter is really sure letters bonobo oh it is as a human health problem in uganda does not sell it needs people you're sitting here with us some calls <unk> laughter because nobody wants it in their backyard and i don't believe in a fireplace that you can put in locating this blogger in the frontline when their possibilities for alternatives is totally irresponsible and i guarantee you and the governor that we will fight you through the agency process through the courts or through the legislature necessary with this big plan will be done everyone wants us to solve the problem somewhere else

people living on the sides want the problem removed from the area the people in eureka don't want more maternal brought to times beach about the people of your eco point to the nineteen eighty two flawed as a graphic illustration of quiet times beach is the wrong place for a bunker filled with contaminated dirt to rome lot easier if his city attorney come in and put a massive landfill in the floodplain of china should really affect the situation and director not to mention that thing to watch an awful lot of toxic materials down to a downstream neighbors their end of december for the water was completely over these mobile homes maybe a foot higher than the top of these mobile homes this trailer park is directly adjacent to the countryside lessard says he's taken the floods into account not just about purchases to love love on channel provence in small levees that

they're designed to protect the bunker in the soviet times beach but also have a side benefit of providing to record flood protection for eureka one of the major fears here is that if a bunker is built in times beach it will be only the beginning times beach will become the dump site of missouri i think the epa and the department of natural resources perceive the need to have a very large dump or landfill operation for the containment of hazardous waste and i think that they've pinpointed times beach missouri is location i can understand that concern and i can also say that that is not our proposal is not my intention i'm willing to sign whatever binding assurances government can sign to commit that that will happen and the battle over whether hunger should be

built in times beach continues but lane jumpers more concerned about over all das problem it's about time that the people in the country realized that time speech and our love kamau are only a start of what's really going to come to light and they need to put pressure on their legislators and the lawmakers and then the movers and shakers in government through hours of human lives are at stake director lesser of the missouri department of natural resources said he would decide by march eight whether to push ahead with plans to build the bunker in times beach this april the reagan administration came under fire again today for cutting hundreds of thousands of recipients from the social security disability program members of the house select committee on aging charged with the social security administration has ignored court rulings requiring the agency to determine whether an individual's medical condition has improved before stopping benefit

states administer the disability program for the federal government and north carolina as james hunt is one of nine governors who have refused to remove any more people from the program until a national medical improvement standard is adopted and told the committee that fifteen thousand disabled in his state have lost their benefits in the last two years there is nothing in the law to support these terminations ssa was completely ignoring statutes and legal process and people that ssi determine were able to work or dying and in october of nineteen eighty three mr chairman the case of a man named han elaine johnson before circuit court of appeals tell that the burden of proof is on s s a to demonstrate improvement in the recipient's medical condition before benefits can be terminated now holly dotson never saw any of those benefits

because he died shortly after the opinion was handed down in fact he died of the very disease that the ss a phone was not disabling a human life seems a high price to pay to get a medical improvement standard in our state of north carolina the reagan administration today admitted that there were some problems in reviewing disability claim its spokesman at the social security administration said that the agency was reexamining the review process and would quote and just not necessary to ensure a fair and equitable trade is fb the

new hampshire primary isn't the only contest americans will be following tonight the national academy of recording arts and sciences says mounting a three hour show to announce the annual grammy awards the most talked about artist there will be pop star michael jackson has received an unprecedented twelve nominations in the category of record of the year jackson's beat it is competing with jackson's billie jean leading to the possibility of another artist squeaking in because of the split that's just one of the unusual possibilities at this year's grammys charlayne hunter gault has another but i have to tell you about is perhaps the most unusual combination in the history of the

grammys one artist has been nominated in bulk the classical and jazz categories is wynton marsalis whose jazz album think of one is up along with his classical album haydn humble el mozart from it prompted concertos but there are still other factors that make wynton marsalis unusual he's young twenty two gifted he is one of the few artists ever to play both classical and jazz music and he's black the driving force behind his creativity at at yes

bees over the last few years of places around the country like this a denver nightclub the crowd's turning out to be a young trumpet player keep getting bigger as the marcellus name gets bigger and bigger as russia says it's not just the fans who think this could be the start of something big jazz greats like thing or solace is well on his way into their hall of fame mr horvath and eight fish a plentiful flow no no no we're with what we're direction as olive oil

and still friction it is the classical recording for the atlantic and he seems to be as we certainly have a form of suggestions on a pad and overseers of great careers just want to are you anyway hi ho la people saw you should ensure that goes to be a better just because

he plays a drug dealer and they did that to give the heightened trumpeter because there is just so lang classical music was a choice for marsalis jazz playing was more like a calling on three key factors in un my father's jazz musician and number two growing up in new orleans is why range of music he could be played and throughout gaza very fortunate to meet a lot of different musicians who taught me a lot of things and was really isn't a musical tradition my sausage truly a product of his environment the child at that historically musical city new orleans the second of five sons of the respected new orleans jazz pianist ellis marsalis i asked alice was stalin soviet forces and more so

leslie moonves other factors that propelled listening to jazz went inside onto up and our life skills and his third grade year and i think through the years he was looking to find himself in his own our cultural heritage and i i think you know since he was around music in and it was around him our time and it i was a student of the trumpet and i think that within his experiences he saw have found something that represented himself something that he could present to people of other cultures and it became a big thing with him think that he thought a bomb fell in love with it with what was seen as he felt that the new owners of my music one pilots began to express his identity to

jazz it liberated him totally as it is about the truth and the truth was the same in at sixty one white person wrote it is it is a nineteen forty one of the actors who played the music transcends all region is an hour there this all his life was also the plan for shares his commitment and desire to learn more about their music they frequently work together six

it's been marcellus couldn't escape jazz surrounded as he was that the many great musicians who were his parents' friends el faro gave him his first trumpet without parole and that was a good thing hello there i asked alice furlaud warren deal with obama's own coverage says only welcomes is a lot less expensive and mouse it gives of those changes to our you know so you know we don't want to lose

the speakers so only easy as the respective a glimpse of seals as the community and more recently play some clothes a few most of the name can do you know is a company that has a medicine they can take this hour because before what classical music up and says hey that some donors to listen to us in chapter chickasaw practiced monopoly like this modern similarities between chance of classical music's summarize a way of faking the way of life of a group of people whose music summarizes the feeling of some type of people in europe at that time to get into new york city also awesome effects such as the us with a really great artist can do and i respect all great music is the say the music is in

motion with us and for us to always take on your feet and his five had to get all the people swimming in the play with him was like making up some of the spring moment this logic in classical music had had was brilliant chris appling adnan is the is the victims the drama in the arctic sea's music is really logical he takes a freezing terrorism i was that way or you didn't intend to go bum bum bum bum bum bum bum ba ba bum bum ba ba ba ba boom like that these things like that that have a resignation want to play it because you wanna do justice to their genius is it inevitable that there is going to be a conflict between the jazz musician and the classical musician fishel the disappearance of different musicality as saying that the disappearance of technical difficulties of pain jump trumpet in the jazz were implanted in the past the way of different ways that we use it that

makes it so difficult this is the way his lips actually enter into the metal mouthpiece of a trumpet and it's a totally different way of the of the mussels a completely different in different order i when he's playing jazz when he said they're going to ask of music you think you think he's gonna have to make it so i think that that talent off of the head well why would you have to make it is difficult to keep from one thing to another really do justice to both of them maybe and i haven't seen one of those from the classical sense that is there's no way that he could very well within the next five is recall everything is a recall right now is for the president for instance is is man's the men jazz musicians rally of shariah elated to

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