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Eyewitness News at 6 : KYW : January 26, 2017 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
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indication natalie colder air is here and it will be here for a while. wind are still strong, wind advisory has expired but we have a 37-mile an hour gusts reported at this hour in wilmington. the gusts to 29 in philadelphia. 30 miles an hour in lancaster. still 29 miles an her gusts in dover. so definite the liz still blustery outside tonight, not as bad as it was earlier when winds gusting between 45 and 50 miles an hour in many spots , all across the region. temperatures have dropped as well, so again, expect gusty wind through the rest of this evening, tonight will feel like the 20's, temperatures dropping back to the the 30's. wind stay strong. cold start to your friday morning and it does stay windy , cool, for your friday, does that last through weekend though, i'll tell but that and as we head into next week another chance for possibly some snow, i'll tell you when coming up, ukee. >>> thanks, kate. >>> new jersey state police investigators are still following leads to figure out the source of a dumbbell that smashed through a driver's windshield earlier this month. they tw
indication natalie colder air is here and it will be here for a while. wind are still strong, wind advisory has expired but we have a 37-mile an hour gusts reported at this hour in wilmington. the gusts to 29 in philadelphia. 30 miles an hour in lancaster. still 29 miles an her gusts in dover. so definite the liz still blustery outside tonight, not as bad as it was earlier when winds gusting between 45 and 50 miles an hour in many spots , all across the region. temperatures have dropped as...
The Papers : BBCNEWS : January 22, 2017 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT
the broadcaster, natalie haynes, and rob merrick, deputy political editor at the independent. it is nice to have you both here. tomorrow's front pages, then. starting with, which is it? the ft. thank you. the financial times leads with more reaction to the trump administration's hard line against what it is calling the dishonest media. the i says the prime minister's post—brexit plan is to reboot british industry. the daily express has claims from a leading brexit campaigner that up to a million eu migrants may head to the uk over the next two years. the metro says theresa may is ready to challenge president trump over sexist remarks when she meets him at the white house on friday. the telegraph says a free trade deal with the united states is likely to open the door to us jobs for british workers. the times reports that rural enterprises will be the biggest losers in upcoming business rate rises in england. and the daily mail claims terrorists and criminals are able to travel to britain without crossing border control because of a loophole on the eurostar. not trump, but trident,
the broadcaster, natalie haynes, and rob merrick, deputy political editor at the independent. it is nice to have you both here. tomorrow's front pages, then. starting with, which is it? the ft. thank you. the financial times leads with more reaction to the trump administration's hard line against what it is calling the dishonest media. the i says the prime minister's post—brexit plan is to reboot british industry. the daily express has claims from a leading brexit campaigner that up to a...
Jimmy Kimmel Live : WPVI : January 30, 2017 11:35pm-12:37am EST
♪ >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- natalie portman. from "rosewood," and now, and furthermore, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. guillermo's away on assignment but he'll be back tomorrow. what a weekend it was, there's so much going on. i know, i'm sorry. i don't know if you're on facebook. this is facebook in a nutshell. this is not our country. click here to contact your senator. we must resist. oh, look who's almost walking. sign up here to march on washington. he must be impeached. i made buffalo chicken dip, it's unbelievable. there's a lot of passion because after like 60 years we finally have a president who keeps his campaign promises and it's donald trump. [ laughter ] it's almost impossible to keep up with all of this. you know how over the course of his time in office, over four years or eight years, the president gets old and his hair turns x-ray? during this administration, instead of him, that's going to happen to all of us. [ lau
♪ >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- natalie portman. from "rosewood," and now, and furthermore, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. guillermo's away on assignment but he'll be back tomorrow. what a weekend it was, there's so much going on. i know, i'm sorry. i don't know if you're on facebook. this is facebook in a nutshell....
KRON 4 News at 8 : KRON : January 15, 2017 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
by KRON
spencer blake spoke with the family of natalie griffin, the 19-year-old who kept herself alive in a rising river on a freezing night. spencer is live in castro valley tonight. spencer the details of survival are incredible. natalie griffin and jenna santos were friends and graduates from castro valley high school. as part of winter break from college, the two went on a road trip up north on tuesdayand came back during the thick of wednesday's rainstorm. "it was dread before we even knew what happened. and the worst possible thing happened that you could possibly imagine." jenna santos and natalie griffin had enjoyed a quick trip up in the humboldt area tuesday to visit humboldt state where santos attended. griffin's parents had urged the friends to wait until thursday to come back, because of the storm that rolled through wednesday. she assumed they *did stay an extra night up there, until she got an early morning phone call from her daughter's boyfriend. "he had basically said, 'i'm worried about natalie. is she home?' i went to her room and she wasn't in her bed. so everything sta
spencer blake spoke with the family of natalie griffin, the 19-year-old who kept herself alive in a rising river on a freezing night. spencer is live in castro valley tonight. spencer the details of survival are incredible. natalie griffin and jenna santos were friends and graduates from castro valley high school. as part of winter break from college, the two went on a road trip up north on tuesdayand came back during the thick of wednesday's rainstorm. "it was dread before we even knew...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : January 1, 2017 11:00pm-12:01am PST
decades-long tradition. we'll have it all live here on newsroom. i'm natalie allen. thank you for joining us. >>> 39 people in turkey started the new year celebrating, and that turned out to be their last hour. turkey is now promising to find the shooter who killed them at a popular nightclub in istanbul. the gunman has not been identified. this security footage apds pearo show the attacker shooting as he enters the club. in his first statement as the new attorney general, antonio gutierrez declared it despicable. hopes that the organizers and perpetrators of the heinous act will be identified and brought to justice swiftly. cnn's ian lee joins us from istanbul, and with that statement, it's looking more and more like this is pointing to isis. what are you hearing, ian? >> reporter: that's right, natalie, it does seem to be whittleing down who is responsible for this act. all the experts we've been talking to have been saying it does bear the hallmark of an isis attack, mainly because in the past isis looks for these soft targets full of civilians to carry out their attacks. pkk coming ou
decades-long tradition. we'll have it all live here on newsroom. i'm natalie allen. thank you for joining us. >>> 39 people in turkey started the new year celebrating, and that turned out to be their last hour. turkey is now promising to find the shooter who killed them at a popular nightclub in istanbul. the gunman has not been identified. this security footage apds pearo show the attacker shooting as he enters the club. in his first statement as the new attorney general, antonio...
KPIX 5 News – Early Edition : KPIX : January 16, 2017 4:30am-5:01am PST
story.>> survivor natalie griffin can't put any pressure on her right foot, it is swollen cut up and scratched. >> this happened in the car. i remember getting in the tree. my foot was covered in blood. >> she survived a car crash that killed her best friend, jenna santos. it is hard for her to talk about it, her family recounts the story. >> she said i thought i was going to die. >> the two were driving home after spending a couple of days in humble county, jenna was driving, light rain 7:30 wednesday night highway 101 just north of welts. the car hydroplaned, flipped several times and landed in a flooded creek. they tried to kick open the front windshield but more water rushed in, natalie told jenna to follow her to the back window. >> they jumped out the back window as soon as she got out, she pulled herself up above the waterline looked down at her car was under the water. >> the 19-year-old held onto the treat for roughly 10 hours. the next morning she was caught up in floating debris and almost drowned trying to swim out of the creek. >> i made it to the shore but i had to scra
story.>> survivor natalie griffin can't put any pressure on her right foot, it is swollen cut up and scratched. >> this happened in the car. i remember getting in the tree. my foot was covered in blood. >> she survived a car crash that killed her best friend, jenna santos. it is hard for her to talk about it, her family recounts the story. >> she said i thought i was going to die. >> the two were driving home after spending a couple of days in humble county, jenna...
favor of the fortifying the country's borders verse concerns natalie civil rights of thousands are suffering a major setback. >> i cannot say i'm surprised by this given level of fear monkering we have been witness es and assault on immigrant rights that have been taken place. >> reporter: caitlin barry was part of the fleet of lawyers at philadelphia international saturday night trying to free perfect clients detained by home land security and held at delaware county prison. by sunday all of those taken into custody had been released but a cloud of confusion, lingering effects of the the trump administration's executive order has left much uncertainty 72 hours after it was imposed. cbs-3 was with pennsylvania governor tom wolf earlier and he says state's attorney jennies challenging the executive action along with more than a dozen other top prosecutors. >> this is not who we are. people believe their country to come to the united states to escape oppression not to come and find it. >> reporter: some leading members of the republican party have also denounced parts of the presiden
favor of the fortifying the country's borders verse concerns natalie civil rights of thousands are suffering a major setback. >> i cannot say i'm surprised by this given level of fear monkering we have been witness es and assault on immigrant rights that have been taken place. >> reporter: caitlin barry was part of the fleet of lawyers at philadelphia international saturday night trying to free perfect clients detained by home land security and held at delaware county prison. by...
claiming natalie travel ban violates the constitution, and 14 other states, and the district of columbia also say they will file suit. >> well, lets take a more in department tenth look at the travel ban. to be clear trump's order bars citizens from these nations you are going to see in red. that is iraq, syria, iran, libya, somalia, sudan and yemen. there entering the u.s. for next 90 days. trump administration ace that these seven countries are part of the ban that was designated by the reeve just administration, as posing a threat to national security under the current visa ram. part of the president's statements yesterday said that this is not about religion but terror and keeping the country safe. now taking a look at this map, and the blue items here. it is notable natalie list of banned country toss in the include nations where the 9/11 hijacker came from. that is saudi arabia, egypt, united arab emirates and lebanon. the thirdly there has been talk on social media about countries that to business with trump's former companies and how they are affect. president trump resigned ther
claiming natalie travel ban violates the constitution, and 14 other states, and the district of columbia also say they will file suit. >> well, lets take a more in department tenth look at the travel ban. to be clear trump's order bars citizens from these nations you are going to see in red. that is iraq, syria, iran, libya, somalia, sudan and yemen. there entering the u.s. for next 90 days. trump administration ace that these seven countries are part of the ban that was designated by...
travel ban. organizers say natalie demonstration confirms the school's community message of inclusion for all people. >> i do believe in community values of love, acceptance, tolerance, and that is what we're here to show. we stand with everyone and we're trying to give resources so everyone knows they are welcomed here. >> march wrapped up with several students speakers and rendition of the civil rights anthem we shall overcome. >>> president trump's travel ban is shaking up leadership in the just advertise tenth. now that attention is trickling down to lawmakers as they deciding whether to confirm the president's pick for attorney general. republican senators say they need to move quickly to confirm attorney attorney general nominee jeff sessions. >> this country without an attorney general we saw last night, was a major problem. >> reporter: monday night president trump fired acting head of the department of justice sally yates after, executive order temporarily banning travel of citizens of seven mostly muslim countries. white house, says she bee straight department obvious advert
travel ban. organizers say natalie demonstration confirms the school's community message of inclusion for all people. >> i do believe in community values of love, acceptance, tolerance, and that is what we're here to show. we stand with everyone and we're trying to give resources so everyone knows they are welcomed here. >> march wrapped up with several students speakers and rendition of the civil rights anthem we shall overcome. >>> president trump's travel ban is shaking...
it. >> kelly ann conway told hatchers natalie the white house is on their side. >> allow me to headache it the very clear, we hear you. we see you. we respect. >> reporter: president trump says he will announce his choice for supreme court seat next week. >>> many people from our area took the bus trip to washington for the how much for life, "eyewitness news" caught up with seminarians before they left saint charles seminar any wynnewood earlier this morning. supporters say that march is an important cause for hugh map rights. >> it is a great way to one, show world that we to care about women. we care about every life, and for us to go town there it is the biggest demonstration in d.c. it the is a beautiful sight to see. >> the philadelphia archdiocese said that it expected thousands of local catholics to attend this years how much. >>> this morning president donald trump took to twit tore share his thoughts, he tweeted march for life is so important to all of you marching, you have high full sort. >>> the president has just wrapped up an event at the defense tenth where he s
it. >> kelly ann conway told hatchers natalie the white house is on their side. >> allow me to headache it the very clear, we hear you. we see you. we respect. >> reporter: president trump says he will announce his choice for supreme court seat next week. >>> many people from our area took the bus trip to washington for the how much for life, "eyewitness news" caught up with seminarians before they left saint charles seminar any wynnewood earlier this...
Action News Weekend 6PM : WPVI : January 29, 2017 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
that just a moment ago natalie we're told a moment ago natalie protesters went inside the building. they were outside here protesting. they have gone inside, there was a very large, crowd, estimated to be the in the hundreds if not thousands out there, this afternoon, blocking traffic, and, the access to the international terminal here at philadelphia international airport. our main airport. >> in boston copley square was filled as you can see with thousands protesters immigration ban. there were similar scenes, coast to coast and airports including orlando and raleigh-durham, where demonstrators stranded we are all equal. >> reporter: this afternoon president trump defended his executive order on immigration , he says natalie u.s. will show compassion, but must keep this nation safe. he denied that this is a muslim ban and attack the media for describing it that way. some in congress say the white house caused chaos by rushing the order, and several leaders called for immediate rerigses. arizona senator john mccain called it a self inn trick wound in the war on terror. >> i think
that just a moment ago natalie we're told a moment ago natalie protesters went inside the building. they were outside here protesting. they have gone inside, there was a very large, crowd, estimated to be the in the hundreds if not thousands out there, this afternoon, blocking traffic, and, the access to the international terminal here at philadelphia international airport. our main airport. >> in boston copley square was filled as you can see with thousands protesters immigration ban....
KPIX 5 News : KPIX : January 15, 2017 11:00pm-11:31pm PST
. they say natalie told jenna to follow her out of a back window. >> jump out of the back window that was blown out. as soon as she got out, washed up on the tree that the car hit. then turned around and the the car was down. the 19-year-old held on to the tree for 10-12 hours and she almost drowned trying to swim out of the creek. >> made it to the shore but had to scramble through bushes and she said at that ponent she was so weak she could not walk up to the road, she was crawling. >> the family took a picture of the berry bush. >> the first call was to her mom. she could not talk, it was crying and deep breathing. >> reporter: first responders found jenna in a submerged car. >> it is hard to rejoice in natalie being with us without feeling selfish that she made it and jenna did it. >> reporter: the family says mentally it will be a long recovery process. both tkpwerls graduted -- girls graduated from castro high. >> they set up a gofundme page to help with the funeral expenses. >>> now, massive sinkhole. larger than a hole that opened up in the same spot last year. we have the lat
. they say natalie told jenna to follow her out of a back window. >> jump out of the back window that was blown out. as soon as she got out, washed up on the tree that the car hit. then turned around and the the car was down. the 19-year-old held on to the tree for 10-12 hours and she almost drowned trying to swim out of the creek. >> made it to the shore but had to scramble through bushes and she said at that ponent she was so weak she could not walk up to the road, she was...
Today : KNTV : January 9, 2017 7:00am-10:01am PST
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party of the year, the golden globes. natalie and al were there, they were on the red carpet, back stage in the after parties. guys, good morning to both of you. >> hey, good morning. fitting of course that we're here in los angeles also known as la la land, that's the of mooey of the same name that hit the right notes last night. >> this is a film for dreamers. >> a dream come true for "la la land." the musical love letter to hollywood winning seven golden globes, becoming the most awarded film in the show's history. it dominated the music or comedy category. >> "la la land." >> winning best picture and best actor statues for the stars ryan gosling and emma stone. >> i have to start by thanking my amazing mom. >> this isn't the first time i'm mistaken for ryan reynolds. >> and jimmy fallon's opening numb number. >> moonlight. >> in the drama category "moonlight" won best picture. it was snubbed in the acting categories favorite losing to aaron taylor johnson in the best supporting actor category. >> isabelle huppert. >> isabelle huppert beating natalie portman. >> my heart is beat
party of the year, the golden globes. natalie and al were there, they were on the red carpet, back stage in the after parties. guys, good morning to both of you. >> hey, good morning. fitting of course that we're here in los angeles also known as la la land, that's the of mooey of the same name that hit the right notes last night. >> this is a film for dreamers. >> a dream come true for "la la land." the musical love letter to hollywood winning seven golden globes,...
Eyewitness News at 7 : KYW : January 29, 2017 7:00am-8:01am EST
day that trump was there. retreat's organizer says natalie woman used fake credentials and posed as the wife of the g.o.p. law maker on thursday. we don't know if she managed to get close to the president, we also don't know if she was at a discussion on obama care natalie president had with congressional spouses, retreat organizers were also investigating leaked audio from several sessions of the retreat. >>> septa regional rail has new schedules going into and new schedule design to improve liability and congestion. regional rail schedule was changed back in december but this time there won't be printed schedules available at stations, only posted in center city stations. you can find tea tails on our web site at cbs philly.com and cbs local app. >>> sitting behind the wheel of an exotic car may be a driver's dream but for some in the next few taste that dream becomes a reality at the pennsylvania convention center "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh takes us to the philadelphia auto show. >> reporter: who doesn't have that child-like wonder when surrounded by all of this. >> we h
day that trump was there. retreat's organizer says natalie woman used fake credentials and posed as the wife of the g.o.p. law maker on thursday. we don't know if she managed to get close to the president, we also don't know if she was at a discussion on obama care natalie president had with congressional spouses, retreat organizers were also investigating leaked audio from several sessions of the retreat. >>> septa regional rail has new schedules going into and new schedule design to...
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Good Day Philadelphia at 7A : WTXF : January 27, 2017 7:00am-9:00am EST
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find that there was drug evidence as well with the driver. >> there was. the report found natalie marijuana had marijuana and open eighths but because he was given morphine at the time he was admitted to the hospital after the accident. but he did have marijuana in his system. and, obviously, in the state of pennsylvania, certainly you don't want your train drivers, smoking weed and then driving trains but the question is whether or not that played a role, and from all reports, including a video of the inside of the train cabin, this guy acted very quickly and did everything he possibly could under the circumstances. so he should not have been smoking grass. he had weed in his system. but ultimately whether or not that was contributing fact orr cause of the accident that remains to be seen. >> thanks for having me. >> enjoy your weekend. >> we will keep you updated on amtrak incidents as they move forward. >> yes. >>> 7:17. well, go ahead. >> well, it is weekend. we are exited to see what the weekend weather is and sue has a surprise with a s in it on sunday. >> at the end of the
find that there was drug evidence as well with the driver. >> there was. the report found natalie marijuana had marijuana and open eighths but because he was given morphine at the time he was admitted to the hospital after the accident. but he did have marijuana in his system. and, obviously, in the state of pennsylvania, certainly you don't want your train drivers, smoking weed and then driving trains but the question is whether or not that played a role, and from all reports, including...
Sportsday : BBCNEWS : January 19, 2017 10:30pm-10:41pm GMT
months at sea? his team have promised to have on hand a hot burger and a cold beer. natalie pirks, bbc news, vendee. newsnight is about to begin on bbc two. here is mle. tonight we're live in washington on the eve of a seminal moment for america. there is a nervous excitement in this city, the streets are starting to fill up, but are they trump supporters who have travelled across the land, or trump protesters marching against this inexorable chapter of history? join me now on bbc two. that's newsnight with emily in washington. that's it. good evening. the dry, the settled weather will stay with us into the weekend — the high pressure will ensure that. but varieties of weather despite the high pressure, with the sunshine in the south, to the south of all the cloud it was a sparkling day after a very cold start. but of course after a mild start, where we're sitting under that weather front, it was a grey and murky day, some patchy rain and drizzle around. slightly less grey further north under the cloud in cumbria — you can see just a few rays of sunshine coming through. where we ke
months at sea? his team have promised to have on hand a hot burger and a cold beer. natalie pirks, bbc news, vendee. newsnight is about to begin on bbc two. here is mle. tonight we're live in washington on the eve of a seminal moment for america. there is a nervous excitement in this city, the streets are starting to fill up, but are they trump supporters who have travelled across the land, or trump protesters marching against this inexorable chapter of history? join me now on bbc two. that's...
Newswatch : BBCNEWS : January 21, 2017 1:30pm-1:46pm GMT
natalie portman plays the first lady. we have split, a psychological thrillerfrom m night shyamalan. and lion, the true story of a little boy lost. well, jackie, how timely? yes, extraordinary, isn't it. so this is directed by chilean film—maker pablo larrain, and it's the story of the assassination and aftermath ofjohn f kennedy, as seen through the eyes of jackie kennedy, played, as everyone will know, by natalie portman. there's been an awful lot of interest in her performance, lots and lots of nominations, and the film plays out like a kaleidoscope. it's essentiallyjuggling a series of different time frames that are all meant to be representing her fragmented state of mind, so we have the motorcade in dallas, the aftermath in washington, we have the funeral, the huge sort of funeral
natalie portman plays the first lady. we have split, a psychological thrillerfrom m night shyamalan. and lion, the true story of a little boy lost. well, jackie, how timely? yes, extraordinary, isn't it. so this is directed by chilean film—maker pablo larrain, and it's the story of the assassination and aftermath ofjohn f kennedy, as seen through the eyes of jackie kennedy, played, as everyone will know, by natalie portman. there's been an awful lot of interest in her performance, lots and...
because she was in philadelphia yesterday. today's meeting comes one day after announcement natalie meeting with mexican president nieto was called off. >>> 6:08. developing this morning in fairmount a philadelphia police officer is in the hospital after his cruiser right there collides with another car. it happened in west girard avenue, in north 26th, around 2:30 this morning. two people in the other car were not hurt. we understand officer is in stable condition, the cause of the crash is under investigation. >>> we are following developing news out of chester , police are investigating shots fired on the 500 block of east 23rd street, according to police house was shot around 1:00 this morning, no word if anyone was in the home at the time or if anyone was injured. >>> a woman is battered and bruised after an armed robbery inside of her store, turned violent, this is video right there what the gun man wound up grabbing, hear her story. >>> seven year-old mystery from south jersey solved in the jungles of the south pacific. how did a world war two solder 's ring finally see the l
because she was in philadelphia yesterday. today's meeting comes one day after announcement natalie meeting with mexican president nieto was called off. >>> 6:08. developing this morning in fairmount a philadelphia police officer is in the hospital after his cruiser right there collides with another car. it happened in west girard avenue, in north 26th, around 2:30 this morning. two people in the other car were not hurt. we understand officer is in stable condition, the cause of the...
Today : WRC : January 9, 2017 7:00am-7:45am EST
natalie and al were there on the red carpet, back stage at the afterparties. good morning to you globes. becoming the most awd win actors for the stars ryan gosling and emma stone. >> i have to thank my amazing mom. >> this isn't the first time i've been mistaken for ryan reynolds. >> and headlining host jimmy fallon's opening number. ♪ >> "moonlight." in the drama category, "moonlight" won best picture. it was snubbed in >> reportelove >> "the crown." >> reporter: on the small screen, netflix was the crown jewel of drama, winning best tv series and actress for claire foy. >> i'm having an out-of-body experience. >> reporter: a familiar feeling for tracee ellis ross, winning best for "blackish." >> this is for women of color and colorful people, whose donald trump in her speak for the cecil b. demille achievement award. >> it was that moment for the person expected to sit in the most respected seat in our country, imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the >> reporter:trpe b attacked last night at the golden globes. she is a hillary flunky wh
natalie and al were there on the red carpet, back stage at the afterparties. good morning to you globes. becoming the most awd win actors for the stars ryan gosling and emma stone. >> i have to thank my amazing mom. >> this isn't the first time i've been mistaken for ryan reynolds. >> and headlining host jimmy fallon's opening number. ♪ >> "moonlight." in the drama category, "moonlight" won best picture. it was snubbed in >> reportelove...
CSPAN3 : January 17, 2017 2:35pm-2:49pm EST
. so josh, congratulations. and natalie walker, thanks for wauting up for all of this. because they made sacrifices too. >> before you go, response to vladimir putin? [ laughter ] p . >> and the final news conference with josh earnest at the white house. you can see that on-line on our video library. search white house briefing. in washington, today starts the beginning of the winter meeting for u.s. conference of mayor answers one of their keynote speakers today, the vice president-elect mike pence set to speak shortly. we will have it live for you here on c-span 3 once it gets under way. mean while, what we have been doing during the transition, keeping an eye on trump tower. the ceo of boeing met with donald trump and spoke to reporters afterwards. annual winter ameeting. they will hear shortly from vice president-elect mike pence. meanwhile, visitors at trump tower, the ceo of boeing. >> how you doing? we had a very productive meeting. very engaged. appreciate the president-elect's time. we continue to look at ways to provide the best capability of our country and do it most aff
. so josh, congratulations. and natalie walker, thanks for wauting up for all of this. because they made sacrifices too. >> before you go, response to vladimir putin? [ laughter ] p . >> and the final news conference with josh earnest at the white house. you can see that on-line on our video library. search white house briefing. in washington, today starts the beginning of the winter meeting for u.s. conference of mayor answers one of their keynote speakers today, the vice...
ABC7 News @ 9 : KGO : January 15, 2017 9:00am-10:01am PST
back to castro valley when their car hydroplained crashed into a creek. only natalie survived. abc 7 news reporter tells us that the girls were best friends until the very end. >> this video of jenna santos laughing while on a road trip was taken wednesday morning. by wednesday night her car had hydroplaned off of highway 101 and into a swollen creek. jenna's best friend natalie griffin was in the passenger seat sean she noticed a way to escape from the sinking car through a broken rear window. >> they were upside down and her friend was like stuck and she tried to get her out but she couldn't so she got up to, you know -- she survived but her friend didn't. >> jenna couldn't get out of the front seat of the sunken car. natalie survived a night from hell. for 12 hours she clung to a tree in the freezing water and then by thursday morning she swam to a bank, pulled herself out of the water, hiked up a hill andiand flagged down a passer by. he told emergency crews where to find her best friend. 19-year-old jenna santos planned to be a psychiatrist one day. she was a cheerleader with lo
back to castro valley when their car hydroplained crashed into a creek. only natalie survived. abc 7 news reporter tells us that the girls were best friends until the very end. >> this video of jenna santos laughing while on a road trip was taken wednesday morning. by wednesday night her car had hydroplaned off of highway 101 and into a swollen creek. jenna's best friend natalie griffin was in the passenger seat sean she noticed a way to escape from the sinking car through a broken rear...
Today : WCAU : January 26, 2017 7:00am-10:01am EST
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plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a thursday morning. natalie is here, as savannah is on maternity leave. we heard that mary tyler moore passed away. the first thing you think is, wow. you start to play back the moments she gave us on tv and the movies. >> the hat toss in the air. and singing this song, as we listen to it this morning. this morning, they are paying tribute the world over. look at the hollywood walk of fame and her star. people paying their respects. leaving behind flowers and lit candles and her statue in minneapolis. as mary richards, her character there, also getting a lot of love this morning. >> we're going to talk about her life and her legacy a lot this morning. >>> but we want to start this thursday morning with politics. and immediate fallout over president trump's sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigration. his latest executive orders, including funding to begin construction of that border wall with mexico, has sparked protests across the country and around the world. in a moment, we'll talk to counselor to the president, kellyanne can
plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a thursday morning. natalie is here, as savannah is on maternity leave. we heard that mary tyler moore passed away. the first thing you think is, wow. you start to play back the moments she gave us on tv and the movies. >> the hat toss in the air. and singing this song, as we listen to it this morning. this morning, they are paying tribute the world over. look at the hollywood walk of fame and her star. people paying...
Today : WCAU : January 9, 2017 7:00am-10:00am EST
golden globes. natalie and al were there. they were on the red carpet and backstage and after-parties. >> good morning. fitting that we're here in los angeles, also known as la la land because that is the movie of the same name that hit all of the right notes last night. >> this is a film for dreamers. >> reporter: a dream come true for "la la land." ♪ ♪ city of stars >> reporter: the musical love letter to hollywood, winning seven golden globes, becoming the most awarded film in the show's history. it dominated the musical or comedy category. winning best picture and best actor statue for its stars, ryan gosling and emma stone. >> i have to start by thanking my amazing mom. >> this isn't the first time i've been mistaken for ryan reynolds. >> reporter: and headlining jimmy fallon's opening number. ♪ the cameras are up and lights are bright ♪ >> reporter: in the drama category, "moonlight" won best picture. but it snubbed in the acting categories. losing in the best supporting actor category. >> isabelle huppert beating natalie portman for best actress. and casey affle
golden globes. natalie and al were there. they were on the red carpet and backstage and after-parties. >> good morning. fitting that we're here in los angeles, also known as la la land because that is the movie of the same name that hit all of the right notes last night. >> this is a film for dreamers. >> reporter: a dream come true for "la la land." ♪ ♪ city of stars >> reporter: the musical love letter to hollywood, winning seven golden globes, becoming...
BBC News at Five : BBCNEWS : January 19, 2017 5:00pm-5:59pm GMT
natalie pirks has been following the race from the finish line at les sables d'0lonne on france's atlantic coast. he's battled everything the ocean has thrown at him, eating only freeze dried noodles and jelly, and survived on as little as 20 minutes' sleep every few hours. it's a fair bet alex thomson's last few weeks have been very different to yours. when he set off with 28 other boats on the 6th of november, the hampshire yachtsman waved goodbye to his wife and two young children and attempted for the fourth time to become the first briton to win the vendee globe in the race's 27 year history. we await the arrival... in fact, the only briton to win any kind of solo nonstop round the world race was thomson's mentor, sir robin knox—johnston, in 1969. when thomson arrives back here at les sables d'0lonne in the early hours of tomorrow morning, he'll have racked up between 25,000 and 30,000 nautical miles, been past point nemo, the furthest point from civilisation on earth, and battled 23 foot waves. he's making it look easy but it's far from it. probably the most difficult spor
natalie pirks has been following the race from the finish line at les sables d'0lonne on france's atlantic coast. he's battled everything the ocean has thrown at him, eating only freeze dried noodles and jelly, and survived on as little as 20 minutes' sleep every few hours. it's a fair bet alex thomson's last few weeks have been very different to yours. when he set off with 28 other boats on the 6th of november, the hampshire yachtsman waved goodbye to his wife and two young children and...
Fox Morning News at 5A : WTXF : January 30, 2017 5:00am-6:00am EST
strong message to the white house. our lauren johnson at philly interest natalie with the very latest on all of that. >> reporter: good morning, not much playing out the here at this hour, but as you said it was ative rent scene that played out over weekend. we hope to catch up with travelers once they start arriving to get their feelings about all of this yesterday though people packed the international terminal, to show their support the for new ly banned travelers, already in route to the u. is, when the president signs a executive order. end result of it all legal u.s. resident are being blocked from coming back in our country airports leaving many people in limbo, tea tails on the refugee restrictions are not all clear but we do know it is a tell rare i ban on entry there seven muslim majority countries, the fall out heart breaking for families being split up, detained in airports , and even sent back with cancelled visas. stories are simply sad evening >> people who saw me today, heard about high family. >> i'm from the soviet union. i'm here. refugee there a whose style
strong message to the white house. our lauren johnson at philly interest natalie with the very latest on all of that. >> reporter: good morning, not much playing out the here at this hour, but as you said it was ative rent scene that played out over weekend. we hope to catch up with travelers once they start arriving to get their feelings about all of this yesterday though people packed the international terminal, to show their support the for new ly banned travelers, already in route to...
NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt : WRC : January 10, 2017 7:00pm-7:30pm EST
back. >> three of them were women. but what's really fascinating, natalie -- >> kim's alleged robbers finally tracked down. did their dna give them away? i'm natalie morales. will kim have to face them in court? is it possible kim gets the $4.5
for today knowing natalie sun will be out there. >> yes. >> we know what we're saying. >> good morning, roads are looking nice and good, dry, we have a sinkhole but that is, more side street and we have a lot to talk about in the world of bridges. let's just go back to the sunshine. >> i'm down for that. >> we have a nice day coming up here. we will get the to that sinkhole. >> yes. >> and, lets walk out the door here on storm scan three we have cloud breaking. we will eventually see worst of the breeze taper off as well. speaking of lets look at these gusts. we are only finding gusts reporting where they are measurable. we are at 21 miles an hour in trenton. flirting with 40 in hunt pocono. still wind any carbon, monroe county but any winter weather advisory and these have licensing went out of effect. we have a clear map at that regard at this point. map itself will clear out, overhead with our satellite as well as radar. also clearing out. and then you'll see that certainly throughout the course of time here. forty-two is the temperature at the airport. the wind has eased up
for today knowing natalie sun will be out there. >> yes. >> we know what we're saying. >> good morning, roads are looking nice and good, dry, we have a sinkhole but that is, more side street and we have a lot to talk about in the world of bridges. let's just go back to the sunshine. >> i'm down for that. >> we have a nice day coming up here. we will get the to that sinkhole. >> yes. >> and, lets walk out the door here on storm scan three we have cloud...
believer natalie sixers will go higher, believe in the process, we are getting better and better. could even be layoffs. >> love it. >> did he say playoffs? he did. sixers in milwaukee tonight, highlights at 11:00. their home game against houston begins friday, nearly sold out. >> i have have to say, people are now talking about it, you know, you hear it more and more. >> that is right. >> is there room on the band wagon. >> plenty of room. >> these guys getting on me because i called them hot trash before but you have to admit they were one of the worst of all time. >> it was rough. >> nice to see them where they are right now. >> through thick and thin. >> as far as i can see. >> coming up in the the next half an hour a talk that helped children learn. >> we will show you how, cleve is this. >>> the calm after the storm, beach towns surveying their damage caused by nor'easter i'm cleve bryan coming up how soon until a major replenishment is on the way. >>> a bag of tortilla chips that knows if you are drunk, and calls you a ride? how it works he we come >>> with the nor'easter in the
believer natalie sixers will go higher, believe in the process, we are getting better and better. could even be layoffs. >> love it. >> did he say playoffs? he did. sixers in milwaukee tonight, highlights at 11:00. their home game against houston begins friday, nearly sold out. >> i have have to say, people are now talking about it, you know, you hear it more and more. >> that is right. >> is there room on the band wagon. >> plenty of room. >> these...
says natalie brutal attack will in the stop her. >> i have to work. >> reporter: police say they are still searching for the suspect. if you have any information, give philadelphia police a call. at southwest detectives, dave kinchen, fox 29 news. >> it is 5:21. >>> police are trying to track down this group of teens in north philadelphia because police say group of four or five guys punched a three two-year old man. this happened on the 900 block of west girard avenue last week. they took his wallet and ran away. then investigators think that same group to another attach just minutes later on the 1100 block of dutton, and in that case police say there was a six five-year old man who was attack. >>> there is a 50 year-old woman recovering after something that she didn't expect a manhole cover blew off, hit her and broke her ankle. it happened yesterday in ardmore at west ardmore avenues. hundreds of people in that area lost power for a brief time. peco says blast came from an underground cable but they are trying to figure out what exactly happen. >>> check this out we have video
says natalie brutal attack will in the stop her. >> i have to work. >> reporter: police say they are still searching for the suspect. if you have any information, give philadelphia police a call. at southwest detectives, dave kinchen, fox 29 news. >> it is 5:21. >>> police are trying to track down this group of teens in north philadelphia because police say group of four or five guys punched a three two-year old man. this happened on the 900 block of west girard...
60 Minutes : WUSA : January 15, 2017 7:00pm-8:00pm EST
, you won't even have to ask me to leave. nell: is this natalie grant? i met natalie at the promenade. some dive bar. (gunfire) natalie! sam: wait! natalie! (grunting) callen: natalie, who do you work for? where did you meet them? rae. lemon grove park. callen: she said her name was heather. tried to pick granger up a couple months back at a bar.
Our World : BBCNEWS : January 7, 2017 4:30am-5:01am GMT
correspondent natalie pirks, in monaco. olympic bronze and his third tour de france victory in four years. 2016 might have been a year to forget for some, but not for chris froome. but, whilst british cycling enjoys a golden age, off the road and track it is mired in controversy, with doping's blurred lines at the heart of it. a tue, or therapeutic use exemption, allows athletes to take a banned substance for genuine medical reasons. the issue is whether some have exploited the system for competitive gain. just the fact that we're having that debate about authenticity of tues, i think there's a problem with the system. i think wada, the anti—doping authorities, need to tighten their regulations around tues, so that they're not something that we question. in those leaks by russian hackers, it was revealed that froome's former team—mate sir bradley wiggins had received three tue injections before three major races in the space of three years. it is perfectly legal, but froome revealed to me he refused one in 2015 on moral grounds. i didn't feel as if having a tue in the last wee
correspondent natalie pirks, in monaco. olympic bronze and his third tour de france victory in four years. 2016 might have been a year to forget for some, but not for chris froome. but, whilst british cycling enjoys a golden age, off the road and track it is mired in controversy, with doping's blurred lines at the heart of it. a tue, or therapeutic use exemption, allows athletes to take a banned substance for genuine medical reasons. the issue is whether some have exploited the system for...
were talking about, that moisture beginning to fill in across maryland, virginia. i do think natalie shore points southern most delaware will likely see steady rain as that moisture contend builds in the next couple of hours, but this line of light showers is pretty much all you have to deal with every where else and does hit with poor timing. generally seven or 8:00 o'clock or so in the rest of the morning and then clears out of here but it is light. here's that wind elsewhere, it is really calm, anywhere from philadelphia to wilmington you will barely notice it. it is haphazard either out of the south, north or west but regardless it looks like that wind picks up and more out of the west as day goes on, it could peak as high as 20 miles an hour with higher gusts up to 30. this is once showers really clear out, however natalie wind picks up. so morning showers, afternoon wind, and clearing out. artily cloudy, colder tonight too. bottom gets pulled out from underneath us here as we tropical to 33 degrees. over the course of the next six days beyond this point the coolest spot is defi
were talking about, that moisture beginning to fill in across maryland, virginia. i do think natalie shore points southern most delaware will likely see steady rain as that moisture contend builds in the next couple of hours, but this line of light showers is pretty much all you have to deal with every where else and does hit with poor timing. generally seven or 8:00 o'clock or so in the rest of the morning and then clears out of here but it is light. here's that wind elsewhere, it is really...
KRON 4 News at 10 : KRON : January 15, 2017 10:00pm-11:01pm PST
thinking about it. >> natalie's father said she saw the full moon through a broken back window and started to climb out. she didn't see santos escape after her. she was there all night, soaked, freezing and in shock. >> she had her angels and jenna. >> the water level lowered. natalie was tangled in vines. >> she made a heroic choice to swim down to get underneath and release herself. >> she hit a dam in the water to get to the bank. with one shoe she went through thorn bushes. hours later she was able to talk to her mom on the phone. >> i was thankful to hear her voice. she couldn't talk. she was shaking or crying. >> the santos family didn't get a reunion with jenna. there was a go fund me account set up. the outpouring of love has been overwhelming. in castro valley, kron4news. >>> we had a nice weekend, a dry weekend, a little patchy dense fog. skies mostly clear out. we will have fog reforming. it is chilly in spots. 36 right now in santa rosa. 45 in san francisco and 44 in san jose. a little cool in the morning getting up early on. you will have patchy morning fog especially
thinking about it. >> natalie's father said she saw the full moon through a broken back window and started to climb out. she didn't see santos escape after her. she was there all night, soaked, freezing and in shock. >> she had her angels and jenna. >> the water level lowered. natalie was tangled in vines. >> she made a heroic choice to swim down to get underneath and release herself. >> she hit a dam in the water to get to the bank. with one shoe she went through...
BBC News : BBCNEWS : January 26, 2017 1:30pm-2:01pm GMT
going forward when we leave the european union it natalie powell will. i was so union it natalie powell will. i was so there is some indication that consumers in the european union are beginning to think twice about buying british built cars. that is already a concern. if that knock—on effect happens elsewhere then we really have problems. certainly there will be growth in the us or elsewhere. that is it from me in solihull for this hour. royal bank of scotla nd solihull for this hour. royal bank of scotland is preparing to take another financial hit for mis—selling mortgage—backed securities in america before the 2008 financial crisis.. the bank, which is more than seventy % owned by taxpayers, says its setting aside an additional three billion pounds to settle a case being brought by the us department ofjustice. nearly half of all hospitals are failing to meet basic government standards for hospital food, according to data released by the department of health. the campaign for better hospital food warns the situation is "diabolical", although the government insists that s
going forward when we leave the european union it natalie powell will. i was so union it natalie powell will. i was so there is some indication that consumers in the european union are beginning to think twice about buying british built cars. that is already a concern. if that knock—on effect happens elsewhere then we really have problems. certainly there will be growth in the us or elsewhere. that is it from me in solihull for this hour. royal bank of scotla nd solihull for this hour. royal...
Today : KNTV : January 27, 2017 7:00am-10:01am PST
. >> welcome to "today" on this friday morning. natalie wrapping up her week filling in with savannah. we tend to think we've been there, done that. no one has been there and done better than tom brokaw. >> he is a national treasure, i think. we're happy to be able to celebrate along with him, 50 amazing years. >>> let us start this friday morning with the growing battle over who is going to pay for the wall between the united states and mexico. the topic is sure to come up during president trump's first face-to-face meeting with the foreign leader today. that's britain's prime minister. our team has it all covered. and we will talk to a very vocal opponent of the wall, former mexican president vincente fox. but first, we'll say good morning to kristen welker. >> reporter: good morning. the meeting with theresa may will cap a first week here at the white house. the president will aim to solidify what he called the special relationship with britain, after triggering a diplomatic clash with mexico, one of the closest allies and third-largest trading partner. this morning president trump's b
. >> welcome to "today" on this friday morning. natalie wrapping up her week filling in with savannah. we tend to think we've been there, done that. no one has been there and done better than tom brokaw. >> he is a national treasure, i think. we're happy to be able to celebrate along with him, 50 amazing years. >>> let us start this friday morning with the growing battle over who is going to pay for the wall between the united states and mexico. the topic is sure...
Early Today : WRC : January 12, 2017 4:00am-4:30am EST
encourages any stereotyping, and the same backlash when emma stone got -- >> >>> natalie portman, in an interview with marie claire, and kutcher was paid three times more than her in the comedy "no strings attached." she said she was not as angry as she should have been but finds it crazy, and kutcher says so proud of natalie and those closing the gender gap. >> if you think about where all of this came out when jennifer lawrence came out was the sony hack, when that all came out and everybody was seeing how big of a difference there was in salaries. >> yeah. >>> this is "early today." so we don't have to wad to get clean. charmin ultra soft gets you clean without the wasteful wadding. it has comfort cushions you can see that are softer... ...and more absorbent, and you can use up to 4 times less. remember, that's charmin in there... no wasteful wadding! we all go. why not enjoy the go with charmin. new aveeno®... don't just eat yogurt... wear it. daily moisturizing body yogurt. enriched with the nutrients found in greek yogurt, intensely nourishes skin for 48 hours. aveeno®. naturall
encourages any stereotyping, and the same backlash when emma stone got -- >> >>> natalie portman, in an interview with marie claire, and kutcher was paid three times more than her in the comedy "no strings attached." she said she was not as angry as she should have been but finds it crazy, and kutcher says so proud of natalie and those closing the gender gap. >> if you think about where all of this came out when jennifer lawrence came out was the sony hack, when...
Breakfast : BBCNEWS : January 21, 2017 6:00am-7:01am GMT
about this week, mark? very interesting week. we have jackie, in which natalie portman plays the first lady. we have split, a psychological thrillerfrom m night shyamalan. and lion, the true story of a little boy lost. well, jackie, how timely? yes, extraordinary, isn't it. so this is directed by chilean film—maker pablo larrain, and it's the story of the assassination and aftermath ofjohn f kennedy, as seen through the eyes of jackie kennedy, played, as everyone will know, by natalie portman. there's been an awful lot of interest in her performance, lots and lots of nominations, and the film plays out like a kaleidoscope. it's essentiallyjuggling a series of different time frames that are all meant to be representing her fragmented state of mind, so we have the motorcade in dallas, the aftermath in washington, we have the funeral, the huge sort of funeral arrangements, and we also have a wrap round which is jackie kennedy being interviewed by a journalist who, in the film is unnamed, but it's obviously inspired by the life magazine interview. at the very beginning of the inter
about this week, mark? very interesting week. we have jackie, in which natalie portman plays the first lady. we have split, a psychological thrillerfrom m night shyamalan. and lion, the true story of a little boy lost. well, jackie, how timely? yes, extraordinary, isn't it. so this is directed by chilean film—maker pablo larrain, and it's the story of the assassination and aftermath ofjohn f kennedy, as seen through the eyes of jackie kennedy, played, as everyone will know, by natalie...
ABC7 News 11:00PM : KGO : January 14, 2017 11:00pm-12:01am PST
graduates. jenna sapt os and natalie griffin were driving back when their car hydroplaned and crashed into a creek. only natalie survived. abc7 has the story tonight from their alma mater, castro valley high. [ laughter ] >> reporter: this video of jenna santos, laughing while on a road trip in mendocino county was taken wednesday morning. by wednesday night, her car had hydroplaned off highway 101 and into a swollen creek near willits, california. jenna's best friend, natalie griffin was in the passenger seat. and she noticed a way to escape from the sinking car, through a broken rear window. >> they were upside down, and her friend was like, stuck, and she tried to get her out, but she couldn't. so she got up to -- she survived but her friend didn't. >> jenna couldn't get out of the front seat of the car. natalie for 12 hours clung to a tree in the freezing water. by thursday morning, she swam to a bank, pulled herself out of the water, hiked up a hill and flagged down a passer by. she told emergency crews where to find her best friends. >> she had so many dreams in life. >> reporte
graduates. jenna sapt os and natalie griffin were driving back when their car hydroplaned and crashed into a creek. only natalie survived. abc7 has the story tonight from their alma mater, castro valley high. [ laughter ] >> reporter: this video of jenna santos, laughing while on a road trip in mendocino county was taken wednesday morning. by wednesday night, her car had hydroplaned off highway 101 and into a swollen creek near willits, california. jenna's best friend, natalie griffin...
" natalie media is to blame. >>> this morning a man is in stable condition after being shot and carjack in southwest philadelphia. the 23 year-old victim says he pulled up to his girlfriend's home in the 1800 block of south 56th street. when he got out a man shot him in the leg and stole his silver 2007 pontiac g6. >> there is a school right across the street. we did find exterior cameras at the school. so southwest detectives is on location processing the crime scene and they will contact the school this is morning to see if they can get a copy of those recordings. >> police say natalie shooter fired at least seven times, stray bullets to hit two parked cars but fortunate the ly no one was in them at the time. >>> police are investigating a robbery and shooting in feltonville that left one man dead. shots rang out just after 8:30 on the 500 block of west loray street. eyewitnesses tell police following the gun fire two men began going through victim's pockets. the three three-year old was rushed to the hospital where he later died. >>> police found a id at the scene that did no
" natalie media is to blame. >>> this morning a man is in stable condition after being shot and carjack in southwest philadelphia. the 23 year-old victim says he pulled up to his girlfriend's home in the 1800 block of south 56th street. when he got out a man shot him in the leg and stole his silver 2007 pontiac g6. >> there is a school right across the street. we did find exterior cameras at the school. so southwest detectives is on location processing the crime scene and...
Eyewitness News at 12PM : KYW : January 27, 2017 12:00pm-12:31pm EST
donald trump. it is first time natalie command inner chief will meet the a foreign leader since becoming president. the two leaders are expect to focus on trade as uk prepares to leave the european union. seeking yesterday at the republican congressional retreat, in philadelphia, may laid out her government's policy positions. >> we have chosen a different future for our country, a future that sees us restore our parliamentary sovereignty and natalie self termination and to become even more global >> reporter: this morning mr. trump hit mexico again tweeting mexico has taken advantage of the u.s. for long enough, massive trade deficits and little help on the very weak border must change, now. the trump administration suggested tentative lance on how mexico might reimburse u.s. taxpayers for building the wall along u.s./mexico border. mexico's former president vincente fox struck back tweet ing that if the u.s. imposes an import tax mexico would do the same to u.s. exports. weijia jiang for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" a a weekend in the presidency and still no word who will be on the
donald trump. it is first time natalie command inner chief will meet the a foreign leader since becoming president. the two leaders are expect to focus on trade as uk prepares to leave the european union. seeking yesterday at the republican congressional retreat, in philadelphia, may laid out her government's policy positions. >> we have chosen a different future for our country, a future that sees us restore our parliamentary sovereignty and natalie self termination and to become even...
KRON 4 Early News : KRON : January 16, 2017 4:00am-7:01am PST
. >>reporter: this is one of the last video taken when she and natalie griffin stopped for the store on their way back to the east bay because of wednesday night storm they did not make it much beyond mile-marker 57 before they hi joe plan ended up in the creek on the verge of flooding she saw the full moon for broken back window start to climb out what she did not see her skate after her she grabbed of the tree branches she was finally able to talk to her mother on the phone. >>reporter: the family did not get a reunion with their daughter the 19 year-old touch the lives of the griffin family will setup a call from the account for parents. >>mark: nationally donald trump has escalating his war of words with the outgoing spy chief hours later he slams him on social media. >>reporter: he slammed outgoing cia director on twitter sunday night writing in part will could do much worse just look in syria to in response to the left the cia told cnn late sunday evening it had no comment track reacted to statements he made in an interview with chris wallace the intelligence community was not
. >>reporter: this is one of the last video taken when she and natalie griffin stopped for the store on their way back to the east bay because of wednesday night storm they did not make it much beyond mile-marker 57 before they hi joe plan ended up in the creek on the verge of flooding she saw the full moon for broken back window start to climb out what she did not see her skate after her she grabbed of the tree branches she was finally able to talk to her mother on the phone....
. >> welcome to "today" on this friday morning. natalie wrapping up the week, sitting in for savannah. no one has bet there and done that than tom brokaw. >> he is a national treasure, i think. we're happy to be able to celebrate along with amazing years. >>> we will start with the growing battle over who is going to pay for that wall between the united states and mexico. the topic is sure to come up with president trump's first face-to-face meeting, with britain's prime minister. we'll talk to a vocal opponent of the wall. former mexican president vincenty fox. we we say good morning to kristen welker. >> reporter: the meeting with theresa may will cap a first week here at the white house. the president will aim to solidify what he called the special relationship with britain, after triggering a diplomatic clash with mexico, one of the closest allies and third-largest trading partner. president trump's border wall creating a rift with mexico. the rift unfolding as he went to a gop conference in philadelphia. cameras capturing his ride home. >> great plane. >> reporter: the rest of the da
. >> welcome to "today" on this friday morning. natalie wrapping up the week, sitting in for savannah. no one has bet there and done that than tom brokaw. >> he is a national treasure, i think. we're happy to be able to celebrate along with amazing years. >>> we will start with the growing battle over who is going to pay for that wall between the united states and mexico. the topic is sure to come up with president trump's first face-to-face meeting, with...
natalie islamic center of victoria was completely consumed by those flames when fire fighters arrived, around 2:00 o'clock yesterday morning. the house of worship was target of the hatred several years ago and burglarized just last week, thankfully, no one was hurt. >>> the coastguard came to the rescue of the small plane that caught fire in georgetown, delaware. crew was taking part in routine helicopter training on at day afternoon when they heard the airplane pilots distress call and they diverted the chopper to delaware coastal airport, rescue swimmer and flight mechanic helped that pilot until an ambulance arrived and there is no word what cause that had fire. >>> audi expects to be recalling over half million cars next month, three audi models made between 2013 through 2017 with 2-liter turbo charged engines might have an electric coolant pump that can get block with debris another group of audi cars made between 2011 and 2017 might have defective sun roofs allowing what the tore soak into their side air bag. >>> well, we have all been there, right? decide to make a quick stop a
natalie islamic center of victoria was completely consumed by those flames when fire fighters arrived, around 2:00 o'clock yesterday morning. the house of worship was target of the hatred several years ago and burglarized just last week, thankfully, no one was hurt. >>> the coastguard came to the rescue of the small plane that caught fire in georgetown, delaware. crew was taking part in routine helicopter training on at day afternoon when they heard the airplane pilots distress call...


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\section{Introduction}
Metaverse~\cite{lee2021all} is about to take us into an epoch-making revolution. It will expand our existing physical world to a broader and boundless world that combines reality and virtuality. Metaverse can provide a more convenient and realistic work and entertainment experience. For example, a super large concert can be held in Metaverse, singers can use virtual avatars to perform super-imaginative performances, and can even use virtual singers to sing. Anyone with the dream of a singer can open his own concert in Metaverse, or it can be a parody show. For participating audiences, the singer identification technology can be used as a plug-in to quickly get the prompt of the singer information. Singer identification technology can also be used as a basis for imitation of the characters in the show to quickly switch.

Singer identification (SID) is an essential part of MIR, which purpose is to identify performing singers in a given audio sample \cite{ellis2007classifying,zhang2021singer}. SID is used in music library management to address the classification of songs by singers. Furthermore, the SID model is able to be used for downstream singing-related applications, such as similarity search, playlist generation, or song synthesis~\cite{lee2019learning,liu2019score,zhang2022MetaSID,humphrey2018introduction,aolan2021,gao2021vocal}.

In the preliminary studies, most scholars use traditional methods such as Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), Hidden Markov Model (HMM), and the Support Vector Machine (SVM) to analyze the features in speech signals \cite{zhang2003automatic,zhang2022MDCNN-SID,mandel2006song,sibo2022,Dongaonkar,zhang2022TDASS}. However, the identification accuracy based on traditional techniques is not ideal. There are several possible explanations for the traditional methods shortages. On the one hand, the song's accompaniment is an intense noise for the SID task \cite{sturm2014simple}. In the SID model, eliminating the influence of accompaniment is an essential skill for improving the identification correct rate. But the traditional methods lack the ability. On the other hand, the difference in the singing voices of the two singers may not always be obvious. Because human beings share similar mechanisms in producing sounds, leading the similar voices \cite{hsieh2020addressing}.

Most previous researches propose to separate singing from the accompaniment to address the accompaniment influence problem \cite{sha2013singing,mesaros2007singer,sharma2019importance,zhang2020research,qubo2021}. Su and Yang proposed the separation of phase information and sound \cite{su2013sparse}. The main idea is to separate and classify linguistic information, and the classification accuracy is 0.66. Open-unmix is an open-source tool with state-of-the-art performance in source separation to separate vocal and instrumental tracks of music\cite{stoter19,zhang2022SUSing}. It uses the data augmentation method and improves the accuracy of singer identification \cite{hsieh2020addressing}.

To address human voice similarly, extracting features for robust representation are one of the important solutions. The previous methods, such as linear prediction coefficients (LPC), linear prediction cepstral coefficients(LPCC), and Mel spectrum cepstral coefficients(MFCC), mainly extract features related to speech recognition \cite{cai2011automatic,patil2012combining}. In addition, there are also some music recognition features, such as pitch, vibrato, \textit{etc.}, extracted to solve the problem \cite{nwe2007exploring}. The speaker timbre features are the distinguishing features used for identifying the speaker. Hamid \textit{et al.} propose to use i-vectors and timbre similarity to identify singers, which has significantly improved the accuracy \cite{eghbal2015vectors}. But i-vector is strongly influenced by the noise in the voice. Then, X-vector, which is obtained by a deep neural network (DNN), is proposed to reduce the noise influence for timbre features \cite{snyder2018x}.

Except for the traditional methods, many scholars propose to use deep neural networks for SID. Nasrullah and Zhao \cite{nasrullah2019music} propose the convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) structure, which greatly improved the accuracy of singer identification. Zhang \textit{et al.} inspire on the principle of WaveNet~\cite{oord2016wavenet} vocoder and propose an end-to-end architecture in the time domain for singer identification. But whether or not the deep learning method is used in these models, most of them use the frame-level features to identify the singers. Frame-level features represent each frame of voice features, including the energy, \textit{etc.} It means the frame-level features are combined features of the singer's voices and the accompaniment. Even though the deep learning used in SID improves the accuracy, the accompaniment still influences the identified singer's results.

This paper proposes using two new types of features for singer identification to address the accompaniment influence. One is middle-level features which are obtained through the transfer learning of the music field. Middle-level features represent the stability of pitch and rhythm, the complexity of harmony and rhythm, \textit{etc.}, which can predict such as emotion, genre, and similarity. At the same time, it can capture music's perceptual features. We will give more detail and discuss the middle-level features in Section\ref{2.3}. The other is the timbre feature which is commonly used in speaker recognition. Among the different types of timbre features, we propose to use X-vector. Because it is more robust against noise. It means that even with the influence of accompaniment, X-vector can still distinguish different singers more accurately. We first propose a model using the frame-level audio features of spectrograms, middle-level features, and timbre features to make the singer's identification. To begin with, we use the convolutional network to fuse the combined feature from frame-level features and timbre features. Then the gated recurrent unit (GRU) is used to fuse the output features of the convolutional layer with the features obtained through the middle-level feature transfer learning. We used a public dataset, Artist20, to evaluate our model. The result shows it has improvement on the F1 score than the existing models.

Our main contributions are as follows:

\begin{itemize}
    \item We propose a new singer identification model, which uses the convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) and combines the frame-level audio features of spectrograms, middle-level features, and timbre features.
    \item We propose to use the middle-level features in the singer's identification task. Furthermore, we fuse the timbre features and frame-level to combined features, then combine them with middle-level features in the singers' identification task.
\end{itemize}

\section{Related Works}
In this section, we introduce the frame-level features, timbre features, and middle-level features. Besides, we introduce the previous model used in SID task.

\subsection{Frame-Level Audio Features} \label{2.1}

The music signal is also one type of voice signal with many characteristic parameters, such as frequency spectrum, linear prediction coefficient, linear prediction spectrum coefficient, etc. Mel-spectrum features and Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) are designed inspired by human ears, and it represents the non-linear relationship between frequency and pitch. They are widely used characteristic parameters in the field of audio identification. After discrete cosine transforms for log Mel-spectrum features to get the MFCC. They are results of Fast Fourier Transform for the original signal. However, because of the mathematical operation and wave filter used, some information is lost from the original signal. Some scholars propose directly input the original voice into the end-to-end neural network system to music information retrieval. Even though the end-to-end model resolves the information loss problem, the system required more learning data and increases time complexity. Therefore, we propose to use the Mel-spectrum features as frame-level audio features in the SID model.

\subsection{Timbral Features}
Timbre is different from different speakers. Therefore, the timbre feature was first applied to speaker recognition, more accurately distinguishing different speakers. X-vector\cite{snyder2018x} is one of the timbre features. Because of the statistics pooling layer in its network, X-vector can convert any length signal into fixed-length feature expressions. The X-vector model used a data augmentation strategy, including noise and reverberation in training. It makes the model more robust to interference such as noise and reverberation. Not only the speaker identification but also some other voice domain tasks, text-to-speech, voice conversion, \textit{etc.}, embedded X-vector for performance gains \cite{snyder2019speaker,pappagari2020x,jeancolas2021x,tang2022avqvc}.

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{Summary of middle-level features}
    \begin{tabular}{ccccc}
    \hline
     Perceptual Feature  &  mean  &  min  &  max  &  variance  \\
    \hline
    Melodiousness &          5.97  &          1.00  &        10.00  &          1.54  \\
    Articulation &          5.57  &          1.00  &          9.80  &          1.80  \\
    Rhythmic complexity &          4.66  &          1.00  &        10.00  &          1.44  \\
    Rhythmic stability &          6.30  &          1.20  &        10.00  &          1.47  \\
    Dissonance &          4.89  &          1.00  &          9.60  &          1.39  \\
    Tonal stability &          6.77  &          1.00  &        10.00  &          1.12  \\
    Modality &          5.48  &          1.60  &        10.00  &          1.35  \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}%
  \label{tab:mlf}%
\end{table}%

\subsection{Middle-Level Features} \label{2.3}

The characteristics of the music field can be roughly divided into three levels. We call the clearly defined concepts such as beats and chords low-level features. Subjective concepts that are not clearly defined, such as mood, genre, and similarity, are called high-level characteristics. High-level characteristics can only be defined by considering all aspects of music. The ones in between are called middle-level features, such as the music's speed and the stability of rhythm. The concept of mid-level features was first proposed by Aljanaki and Soleymani \cite{aljanaki2018data} to improve music emotion recognition. They conclude seven mid-level musical features, including \emph{Melodiousness}, \emph{Articulation}, \emph{Rhythmic Complexity}, \emph{Rhythmic Stability}, \emph{Dissonance}, \emph{Tonal Stability}, and \emph{Modality}, each feature are continuous values between 1 and 10. They also provide audio and annotated example dataset of middle-level features. Besides, middle-level features have also been used for music retrieval and classification \cite{chowdhury2021towards}. Table \ref{tab:mlf} shows the descriptive statistical analysis of middle-level features.

\subsection{Singer Identification Models}
For traditional methods,  Ellis \textit{et al.} propose to use MFCC and Chroma-based features and Support Vector Machine (SVM) to identify singers \cite{ellis2007classifying}. SVM model aims to find a maximum-margin hyperplane divided by the target singer and others. Similarly, Su and Yang propose to base on SVM to use the codeword-based bag of features (BOF) \cite{DBLP:conf/ismir/SuY13}.  BOF means making a label for each frame of music to identify singers. Langlois \textit{et al}. propose to use Hidden Markov  Model (HMM) with MFCC features \cite{DBLP:conf/ismir/LangloisM09}.

For deep learning methods, Choi \textit{et al.} \cite{choi2017convolutional} prove that CNN could be used as a feature extractor for MIR tasks. At the same time, due to the characteristic that the sound is continuous along the time axis, the recurrent neural network (RNN) has also achieved great success in audio tasks such as speech recognition. Nasrullah and Zhao \cite{nasrullah2019music} propose a CRNN model for singers identification. The model consists of four CNN blocks, two GRU blocks, a fully connected layer, and a softmax function. CRNN combines the advantages of CNN and RNN, which lead the average F1 score on the album-split atrist20 dataset to achieve 0.603. Even though it is a significant improvement compared to the previous model, the model still does not fix the accompaniment's influence. To address it, Hsieh \textit{et al}. propose a data augmentation method to mix the different song's accompaniment and vocal \cite{9054069}. It means the singer's vocal will mix multiple accompaniments to be new songs. By using the CRNN model for augmented data, which is called CRNNM, the identify result achieves 0.73 on F1, which is the stat-of-the-art result in singer identification.

\section{Singer Identification Models}
In this section, we discuss our proposed model, including the features extraction, and architecture of the model.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figs/SID.jpg}
  \caption{The architecture of the proposed SID model. After preprocessing, the input of SID is the original audio, frame-level features (Mel-spectrum), and timbre features (X-vector). To begin with, we use the convolution network to process the combined features from frame-level features and timbre features. Besides, by using the Inception V3 to extract the middle-level features from audio. In addition, the two GRU layers and dense to identify the singer through the combined features and middle-level features. The $\oplus$ symbol stands for channel-wise concatenation.}
  \label{fig:flow}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Features Extraction}
We aim to use the frame-level features, timbre features, and middle-level features to improve the performance of singer identification. The feature extraction algorithm is shown in Algorithm \ref{alg: feat extraction}.

\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Feature extraction of frame-level feature, timbre and the Middel-level feature. }\label{alg: feat extraction}
\textbf{Input:} audio waveform $x_{audio}$ \\
\textbf{Output:} fusion feature $y_{feat}$
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\State  $feat_{mel}
\gets MEL(STFT(x_{audio}))$ \Comment{ get mel spectrum}
\State  $feat_{timbre}
\gets TDNN(x_{audio})$ \Comment{ get timbre of x-vecotor}
\State $feat_{middle}^{L3},feat_{middle}^{L4},feat_{middle}^{L5}
\gets InspectionV3(x_{audio})$ \Comment{ get middle feature}
\State $fusion_{concat}
\gets Stack(feat_{mel},feat_{timbre})$
\State $fusion_{cnn}
\gets CNN(fusion_{concat})$
\State $y_{feat}
\gets Concat(fusion_{cnn},feat_{middle}^{layer}), layer \in \{L3,L4,L5\}$
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}

\subsubsection{Extract of Frame-Level Features}

We propose to use the mel-spectrogram as the frame-level feature. As we discussed in Section \ref{2.1}, we first make Short-term Fourier Transform (STFT) for the original signal to get the spectrogram information. By using a mel filter for the spectrogram, we get the mel-spectrogram.
The STFT equation is shown as below,

\begin{align}
feat_{spec} = \sum\limits_{n = - \infty }^\infty x [n]w[n - m]{e^{ - j\omega n}}
\label{eq1}
\end{align}
where, $x[n]$ represents the input signal and $w[n]$ describes the window function, such as Hamming window.

 Then we transfer it to the mels domain as the following equation.

\begin{equation}
    feat_{mel} = 2595log_{10}(1+\frac{feat_{spec}}{700})
\end{equation}
\noindent where, the $feat_{mel}$ represents the mel-spectogram features, $feat_{spec}$ is the spectrogram features same in Equation \ref{eq1}.

\subsubsection{Extract of Timbre Features}

We propose to use the X-vector as the timbre feature. To extract the features, we used the Snyder \textit{et al.}\cite{snyder2018x} proposed Deep Neural Network (DNN) before the singer identification. The DNN model consists of multiple TDNN layers, a statistics pooling layer, two embedding layers, and a Softmax layer. TDNN layer is also a multiple layer neural network to be able to learn the sequence information. The statistics pooling layer is used to combine each frame to represent the input voice features. In our model, X-vector is a 512 dimensions vector.

\subsubsection{Extract of Middle-Level Features}

The middle-level features used in this paper are obtained through the transfer learning of the original middle-level features of music~\cite{aljanaki2018data}. This feature can reflect the middle-level features of music such as Melodiousness, Rhythmic stability, and Rhythmic complexity, and can capture Perceptual features of music perception.

The middle-level feature network is the same as Inception V3 used in the previous work~\cite{aljanaki2018data}. We input the singing voice into the model to obtain the middle-level features. But instead of using the final output of the model as the middle-level features, we extracted the outputs of the third, fourth, and fifth layers of the Inccriteria V3 network to represent the features. We called the L3, L4, and L5 middle-level features for different layers result. Such operations are also compatible with transfer learning. The three middle-level features are as follows:

\textbf{L3 middle-level features}: Represents the inverse third level of Incetption V3 as a representation of the middle-level feature, which is 1-by-128 dimensions.

\textbf{L4 middle-level features}: Represents the inverse fourth level of Incetption V3 as a representation of the middle-level feature, which is 1-by-128 dimensions.

\textbf{L5 middle-level features}: Represents the inverse fifth level of Incetption V3 as a representation of the middle-level feature, which is 1-by-256 dimensions.

\subsection{CRNN with Multiple Features}

For using the multiple features, we propose the SID model shown in Figure \ref{fig:flow}. We preprocess the frame-level features and timbre features from audio to get the mel-spectrogram and X-vector.

To begin with, we combine the mel-spectrum features and X-vector features to combined features. Besides, to use inspection V3 \cite{szegedy2016rethinking} to extract the middle-level features. In addition, to use the four-layer convolutional layers to fuse the combined features. The convolutional layers aim to learn the critical information of the combined features. Then, we combine the output of convolutional layers and middle-level features. Furthermore, the two-layers GRU \cite{DBLP:journals/access/ChengSCLCCH21} is used to learn the new combined features. GRU layer aims to find the sequence information of the music. Finally, we use the ultimate fusion features to identify singers through the dense layer.

\section{Experiments}
The models are evaluated using Artist20 under the album split, averaging the F1 scores of three independent runs.

\subsection{Dataset and Audio Processing}
Artist20, a music artist identification dataset created by Ellis \cite{ellis2007classifying}, was used in this paper to evaluate classification performance. It contains six albums by 20 artists, covering a variety of musical styles.The summary is given in Table \ref{tab:Artist20}.

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{Artist20 dataset specifications}
    \begin{tabular}{cc|cc}
    \hline
    \textbf{Property} & \textbf{Value} & \textbf{Property} & \textbf{Value} \\
    \hline
    Bitrate & 32 kbps & Channels & Mono \\
    Sample Rate & 16 kHz & Albums Per Artist & 6\\
    \hline
    Total Tracks & 1413 & Total Artists & 20 \\

    \hline
    \end{tabular}%
  \label{tab:Artist20}%
\end{table}%

The Artist20 dataset is the most widely used dataset for artist identification. It is composed of 20 artists; each artist has 6 albums and a total of 1413 songs. In the literature of SID, data splitting can be done in two ways: song-split or album-split. The former split a dataset by randomly assigning songs to the three subsets. In contrast, the latter makes sure that songs from the same album are either in the training, validation or the test split. According to the deep learning model principle, splitting the dataset into training and testing is an important experiment setting. For singer identification, a song always has the same part, especially in the refrain. If we randomly split the song, these same frames may be arranged into both training and testing datasets.  Besides, Whitman \textit{et al}. \cite{whitman2001artist} finds the producer effect. It means the songs in the same albums have a similar style. The style is useless for singer identification as a singer always has multiple styles of songs. Suppose split the albums' songs to training and validating datasets, the learned features in the album's style, not the target singer. According to the two special reasons in singer classification, splitting the dataset by album is the better choice to avoid the noise from the same frames in the songs and the same style. Therefore, the accuracy for song-split might be overly optimistic and tends to be higher than that of album-split. In the evaluation, we focus on and only consider album-split in our work.

To follow the album split, we divided four of the six albums into training sets, and the remaining two were divided into validation sets and test sets. We also chunk the data, cutting each song according to a window length of 30 seconds and a sliding time of 10 seconds.

\subsection{Experimental Setting}

We set the SVM (SFCC features) \cite{ellis2007classifying}, HMM\cite{DBLP:conf/ismir/LangloisM09}, SVM\cite{DBLP:conf/ismir/LangloisM09}, Nerueal Network\cite{7489950}, CRNN model \cite{nasrullah2019music}, and state-of-the-art CRNNM model \cite{9054069} as the baseline, to compare with our proposed model. The propose model uses frame-level features, mel-spectrogram, to identify the singers. It is called CRNN+X-vector+middle-level features that show the different features used.

Furthermore, to analyze each feature contribution in the singer identification, we set an ablation experiment for different features used. Except for the previous model and the proposed one, we add the CRNN+X-vector model which uses frame-level features and timbre features.

Moreover, we set the second ablation experiment to determine which middle-level feature is more suitable to identify the singer. There are three comparable models which use one of the L3, L4, and L5 middle-level features. The model is called as CRNN+X-vector+\emph{\{middle-level feature\}}, middle-level feature $\in$ [L3, L4, L5].

Besides, we set the third ablation experiment. We purpose to study the combined different layers of middle-level features, such as combined L3 and L4, etc, how to influence the identification result. We set the model name as CRNN+X-vector+\emph{\{used middle-level features\}}. But we set CRNN+X-vector+All to represent the model that uses L3, L4, and L5 together.

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{Average testing F1 score on the Artist20 dataset.}
    \begin{tabular}{cccc}
    \hline
    Type & Model & F1/best & F1/avg \\
    \hline
    Baseline & SVM (MFCC  features)\cite{ellis2007classifying}  & 0.49 & 0.48  \\
    Baseline & HMM\cite{DBLP:conf/ismir/LangloisM09}  & 0.52 & 0.51  \\
    Baseline & SVM (BOF features)\cite{DBLP:conf/ismir/SuY13}  & 0.58 & 0.56  \\
    Baseline & Neural Network\cite{7489950}  & 0.57 & 0.56  \\
    Baseline & CRNN\cite{nasrullah2019music}  & 0.61 & 0.60  \\
    Baseline & CRNNM\cite{9054069}  & 0.75 & 0.73  \\
    \textbf{Our} & \textbf{CRNN+X-vector+L4} &   \textbf{0.86} & \textbf{0.81}   \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}%
  \label{tab:addlabel}%
\end{table}%

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{Average testing F1 score for ablation experiments. AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral1} to AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3} represents the ablation experiment \uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral1} to \uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3}.}
  \begin{tabular}{cccc}
  \hline
    Type & Model & F1/best & F1/avg \\
  \hline
    AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral1} & CRNN+X-vector &  0.72 & 0.71    \\
    AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2} & CRNN+X-vector+L3 &   0.81 & 0.80   \\
    \textbf{AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2}} & \textbf{CRNN+X-vector+L4} &   \textbf{0.86} & \textbf{0.81}   \\
    AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2} & CRNN+X-vector+L5 &   0.79 & 0.78   \\
    AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3} & CRNN+X-vector+L3+L4 &   0.71 & 0.70   \\
    AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3} & CRNN+X-vector+L3+L5 &   0.80 & 0.80   \\
    AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3} & CRNN+X-vector+L4+L5 &   0.77 & 0.76   \\
    AT\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3} & CRNN+X-vector+All &   0.78 & 0.77   \\

    \hline
    \end{tabular}%
  \label{tab:AT}%
\end{table}%

\subsection{Results and Discussion}
\textbf{Overall Comparisons.} Table \ref{tab:addlabel} shows the result of identify singers. The single most striking observation to emerge from the data comparison was the \emph{CRNN+X-vector+L4} model achieves 0.86 in terms of F1 score, which improves 0.1 than the stat-of-the-art model. Our proposed model obtains the best result and addresses the accompaniment influence without data augmentation.

\textbf{Ablation experiment \uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral1}}. As can be seen from Table\ref{tab:AT}, when embedding the X-vector features to CRNN, the result improved 0.11 F1 scores. It means the timbre features are beneficial for identifying singers. But the F1 score for CRNN+X-vector is smaller than the proposed model. The reasonable explanation is middle-level features introduced in this paper are positively correlated to the identification.

\textbf{Ablation experiment \uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2}}. The more surprising finding is that the L5 middle-level features reduce the F1 score from 0.86 to 0.79. A possible explanation for this might be that the deeper the inception V3 model, the more fuse operation in middle-level features, leading the over-fitting. It means the model may be wrong to believe some identifying information is noise and remove it. Because the inception V3 is a multiple convolution layers model, it will lose information during each operation. The possible explanation for L3 worse than L4 is that the convolution of the third layer of inception V3 is under-fitting. It means the convolution result in the third layer still has noise in it.

\textbf{Ablation experiment \uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3}}. What is surprising is that combining more than one middle-features is not helpful for identifying singers and reduces the result. This result may be explained by the fact that L3, L4, and L5 middle-features have learned similar contents and have multicollinearity. The multicollinearity affects the CRNN and gets a bad result.

In summary, these results show that the timbre features and middle-level features are important for singer identification and useful for reducing the accompaniment influence. This is a significant result that our proposed model achieves 0.86 F1 scores on Artist20, which is higher 0.2 than the baseline.

\begin{figure}[htb]
  \centering

  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figs/best-t-SNE.png}
  \caption{The t-SNE Visualization of \emph{CRNN+X-vector+L4 middle-level} model. Each color represents a class, the number of classes is 20.}
  \label{fig:speech_production}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Visualization}
To show our model performance, this paper uses an extra method than only the F1 scores. The visualization method is able to show the different classes and their distance between each class in a graph. This paper uses t-distribution random neighbor embedding (t-SNE)\cite{van2008visualizing} to do the visualization. The t-SNE is able to reduce the dimension of data, and the classification can be explored intuitively. At the bottleneck layer of the network shown in Figure \ref{fig:flow}, to directly carry out the final full connection layer, each audio sample is transformed into a vector for classification. These vectors describe the representations that the model learns to use for segmentation.

Figure \ref{fig:speech_production} shows the visualization of the singer identification result by \emph{CRNN+X-vector+L4} model. It proves singers are successfully divided into 20 categories, and the distance is far apart from each other. It is a significant improvement from the previous CRNN\cite{nasrullah2019music}.

\section{Conclusions}
For singer identification in the Metaverse, we introduce two new features: the timbre feature and the features obtained through the transfer learning of the middle-level features of music. Then, the convolutional network and recurrent network were used to fuse Mel-spectrum, timbre, and features obtained through middle-level feature transfer learning and then use the final fusion features to identify singers. The evaluation results on a benchmark dataset of Artist20 show that the best performing model achieves an average F1 score of 0.86 across three independent trials, which is a substantial improvement over the corresponding baseline under similar conditions. Furthermore, the empirical results show that both the timbre features and the obtained through the transfer learning of the middle-level features of music improve performance, especially the latter.
The features introduced in this article can be applied to other singing voice-related tasks such as music genre classification.

\section{Acknowledgement}
This paper is supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province under grant No.2021B0101400003. Corresponding author is Jianzong Wang from Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd (jzwang@188.com).

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