a 40-ton whale a few feet from your sailboat. what happens next? if you predicted a squished boat, congratulations. the whale snapped the mast in two. the couple on the boat could have used the sale but quickly fired up the motor. luckily a tourist got the pictures or the insurance company would have never believed it! >> isn't that incredible? >> that's what you call a moby dick. >> they will be here all week. >>> thanks very much, everybody. "the nightly news" is coming up next. we thank you for being with us. >> see you at 6:00. is soft on cats. but deadly on fleas. so ask your ve r ntad the flea specialist, for effective, but gentle flea control.

right into a couple's sailboat in the waters off capetown, south africa. some skeptics wondered if the photo could be a fake, but it turns out there's video of it recorded by another boater nearby. the quality's not great, but you sure can see, this was a close encounter. >>> in washington tonight, a retirement ceremony for general stanley mcchrystal, the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan, whose storied career came to an abrupt end after he and his staff criticized and mocked the civilian leadership, including the president, in a "rolling stone" article. in his last form elect, mcchrystal saluted the troop at fort mcnair for the final time. >>> longtime journalist daniel schorr has died. schorr reported and broke stories at home and abroad for more than 70 years, many of them as one of the original murrow boys at cbs news. he covered world war ii, the cold war and perhaps most famously, watergate, where he discovered his own name on the so-called nixon enemies list. in 1976, he refused to tell congress who his source had been on a story about

now it leapt out of the water next to the sailboat but eventually landed on that sailboat.t crushed parts of the boat. luckily the couple on board escaped unharmed. i look at this photo here and i think why didn't the whale, if we can put the photo back up, why didn't the whale pick on the big boat in the background? we're going to talk to the couple that was on board exclusively. >> it knew it could take the sailboat. also some other images getting a lot of attention. plus size model crystal wren say recent photos of her were retouched to make her appear much thinner than she actually is and she is fighting mad about it. this morning she's here to speak out about the controversy. >> and it now has a remarkable 500 million users but who actually owns the rights to the multibillion dollar empire that is facebook? we'll tell you about a new fight brewing over that. >> but we're going to begin this half hour with new details in the murder of aspiring actress and model julianna redding who prosecutors claim was the victim of a murder for hire plot. nbc's kristen welker is in lo

it sure did. >> i don't understand how a sailboat, though, provokes a whale. that doesn't seem like a fair t ch. >> you don't wan >> not so mch >>> marysol on? >> good to of it's so hot. hotter than hades. >> how hot is it? >> you know, this is why i work at "good morning ame they anwr mto t 21 states under heat advisor a lot of these areas seeing some of the hottest temperatures, for june, for sure, in the nation's capital. and even for july. raleigh, 102. washington, d.c., 102. it feels more like 105, 110, when you factor in all of the humidity. same area we're keeping an eye on a little farther north because of severe weather. general risk areas. 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts. flooding is possible. hail. and again, the strong winds again. thanks so much. more on your saturday outlook a little bit later on in the show. bill, over to you. i think when i met you, you had on a ski mask. >> i was nervous to meet you. >> most people are. >> i was shy. there we go. >>> we're talking about ski masks. that's a lovely segue, thank you, marysol, into bank robbing. many

in a sailboat, you cannot turn and get out of the way. next, we're going to walk across the plaza and into the ferry building. we will have over and stop at this store, and we have not all of these phenomenal mushrooms. -- and we have all of these phenomena mushrooms. >> they have an official title and placard. he is one of our tenants. ihe started out as a beat cop in san francisco, helping out at the farmers' market. he had grown up at a farm. he started getting interested in mushrooms, and it has grown into this incredible business. >> are any of these local? >> their family farm is at moth landing. they also going to the forest, and they did not tell anybody where they're going because there are very particular. you will see a forger walking through a building with a mushroom that the found after a big rainstorm and probably bring it in here. them excellent. i have never seen some of these before. the lion's mane mushroom? some of these are great. >> i love mushrooms. i am a big portobello fan. they are phenomenal. >> and the prices a

a 40-ton southern white whale shot out of the water and landed right on the 32-foot sailboat. the big guy made quite a splash, causing significant damage and even snapped the boat's steel mast in two. the collision could have badly injured the whale, but left the crew virtually unscathed. you know, bill, i've been out in the waters near cape cod, and i've seen these huge whales swimming by, and i've always asked, can they jump on to your boat? now i know. >> thank goodness for the picture. imagine trying to explain to the insurance adjuster that my boat was snapped in half by a whale? >> i swear, i swear. >> that's a tale and a half. >> there you go. >>> time now for a look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. a judge in phoenix will hear opening arguments in a fight to keep arizona's controversial new immigration law from taking effect july 29th. the law requires officers to check a person's immigration status if there's a reasonable suspicion they're in this country illegally. >>> colton harris-moore, better known as the barefoot bandit, will f

. >> reporter: so you might think of investment grade as more of a tanker than a sailboat. not terribly exciting but the safer option if seas get rough. >> susie: here's what we're watching for you tomorrow. housing starts for june come out. analysts are expecting a second straight monthly fall. that's due to the end of the home buyer tax credit. a big day for earnings. results for apple, goldman sachs, johnson and johnson and pepsico. also gold our word on the street segment looks at lifelong strategies when it comes to investing in the precious metals. a setback today for ireland's recovery. moody's downgraded the country's credit rating. moody's lowered ireland one notch. it still remains above junk level though. the ratings agency cited a weak banking system and rising debt. but moody's still boosted its outlook from ireland from negative to stable, saying another downgrade is unlikely. ireland was the first euro zone nation to enter recession. it was out in the first quarter of this year. >> tom: major banks in greece are expected to pass a series of stress tests. the

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a 40-ton whale leaps out of the water and crushes this sailboat. we will talk to the sailors about their harrowing adventure. early this thursday morning, july 22nd, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. on this thursday, i'm harry zblith i'm erica hill. good to have you with us this morning. >> have you ever been to the tetons? >> i have not. >> most beautiful stunning piece outside of jackson, wyoming. and if you are a werner like i lived out there for a dozen years, you want to climb those things. what one of the truths of climbing out there is late in the afternoon, you get the thunderstorms almost every day. thunder, lightening here in the tetons. three different climbing groups up above 13,000 feet. >> they were almost there. >> up there. they were way up there. you get up that high, there no place to high. thunder and lightning comes in, lot of people hurt. one person still miss thing morning. the latest that. >> we are going to take a look this morning at that whale. pictures are amazing. 40-ton whale crushes a boat. we are going

someone who races sailboats loves sailing on san francisco bay. >>> the mayor commissioned the study as an opening pitch. any takers so far. >> i really don't know the city is putting together its package and it will be towards the end of this year that bmw, oracle and larry olsen make its decision when and where the next america's cup would happen. >> just once i would like to see an economic report on a sporting event we are not sure how much it will make but will be fun. >> this will be a lot of fun. >> ann back to you. >>> coming up, thousands of runners hitting the streets for san francisco marathon. we have already seen traffic tie ups. the areas drivers might want to avoid. >> after days of worrying about tropical storm bonnie, relief in the gulf. when crews can get back to work on oil spill clean up efforts. >>> an over reaction, the question raised after the firing of usda employee, sherry shiraz. willie brown giving us his opinion on the reason she was fired so quickly. >>> i am in the cbs weather center. will the fog break up, plus the big cool down on the way. more coming

a 40-ton whale jumping on to a sailboat. [ music ] . >>> martinez is set to join several other bay areas to use surveillance cameras to fight crime. they are going to install six cameras. the two areas are known crime hot spots. the cameras are expected to be installed by the end of the summer. >>> a new report indicates hate crimes dropped last year in california, continuing an almost decade-long trend. the state department of justice says hate crimes in 2009 decreased 29% from the year before. hate crimes have been decreased by half since they peaked after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. the report says 1100 crimes motivated by racism, anti- religion sentiment or other forms of bias were reported in 2009. >>> firefighters in southern california say they now have the upper hand on a grass fire that threatened homes and halted traffic on i-5. the 40- acre fire started just before 2:00 this afternoon in the hills about 30 miles northwest of la. six helicopters and some 200 firefighters battled the fire which threatened about 30 homes. by about 4:00 no active flames were showing. a second fir

a 40-ton whale was in south african waters twhen crashed into their sailboat snapping the mast in half. take a look at the sooifs this. the whale left barnacles and pieces of blubber on the deck but swam off and seemed fine. they talked about the on-deck ordeal. >> i saw this huge monster shape come out of the water. and that's it. i mean, it just happened in an instant. it was quite frightening. >> blow me down, blow off my top siders. you can catch the rest of that interview coming up on the "today" show. >> and he is going to chase that whale around the world. >> they ought to write a book about this. >> you've got a warning about something. >> there's a study in australia. surveying 1,000 couples about their attitudes towards relationships. and found those couples who go and see a lot of romantic comedies, where everything turns out perfect in the end, have an unrealistic view about how love should be. the study is commissioned by filmmakers. it says 1 in 4 women who are fans of these romantic comedies expect their man to know what they are thinking. here's a strange quiz this morn

whale's encounter with a sailboat. it snapped the mast in two. there is a video of event and investigation into whether it was people's fault for sailing too close to the whale. they deny it. it left pieces of skin and blib other the deck. >> can you imagine sailing and boom. >> as for our weather could be good whale watching weather? >> not too bad cloudy and overcast through much of the morning hours as we're seeing right now. beautiful shot and then emeryville cam high definition low clouds hanging around. kind of cloudy overcast but hopefully sunshine poking through by the afternoon hours. especially further inland you go. more sunshine you'll see. >> hope you are having a great saturday morning and temperatures are in the cool 50s in most areas. 54 degrees out toward oakland 58 degrees and temperatures will be kind of warmer by this afternoon. >> okay. and up ahead aubrey huff powers the giants in arizona. larry beil has highlights coming up in sports. >>> today youtube is asking people to help them make a documentary film. life in a day wan

. >>> a sailboat made of thousands of recycled plastic bottles has finished its journey across the pacific ocean. the plastic y made it after four months. it set sail to raise awareness about hazards of waste. they faced fears storms. the boat traveled 8,000 nautical miles making pit stops in the south pacific before reaching sydnie. >> i bet you saw some what else. you don't have to go that far. >> no, we went down to monterey, we saw blue what else, gray what else, humpback whales. >> amazing. >> they are an important moyes, i forget what the name is. >> dolphin. >> like a leak oh for something. >> you were able to see that through the fog and the low clouds. >> it was beautiful there were low clods but perfect. >> an amazing weekend, so many things going on, the weather did not seem to slow anybody down. today a different story, numbers averaged 18 degrees below normal in many of the inland locations, here is the scene now where currently it's 57 degrees, wind are blowing out of the west up to 23 miles per hour. mount vac a cam looking out from lake curry where today's high temperature

reporter: rob hamill's brother was one of the few personer-- werners to die under the regime after his sailboat was captured by account khmer rouge in 1978. >> all i can say is that my family who are no longer here to see justice, would not want to see this man walk free even if it is in 19 years time. >> reporter: but the trial commenced two years ago, few cambodians knew much about the international court which has three cambodian and two foreign judges. two-thirds of today's cambodians weren't even born when cat mere rouge were in power. the regime's kingpins are either elderly or long dead, including the recluseive leader pol pot. their pen guide -- genocidal legacy, 2 million deaths is memorialized in modest museums visited by cambodian and foreign tourists, these include the high school dok supervised when it was converted into a prison for-- where some 15,000 people died. several nongovernment organizations and the court itself launched campaigns to educate the cambodian public about the legal proceedings. tens of thousands of citizens and schoolkids from around the country have been bus

follow-up on that dramatic picture we showed you yesterday of the whale that crashed onto a passing sailboaton video. the 40-ton whale leaps out of the sea, there it goes, and lands right on top of the boat bringing its mast down. the boat stayed afloat. the two people on board were okay. and the whale, it went on its way. katie couric now has a preview of tonight's cbs evening news. >>> good morning. tonight, terror closer to home. we'll show you how mexican drug cartels are using al qaeda terror tactics right in our backyard. that story and more only >> this weather report sponsored by mercedes benz. experience truly great engineering today at your authorized dealer. >> all right. you two looked like you just stepped off the beach, that manhattan beach. all right. over to you. >>> in this morning's "healthwat retin >>> in this morning's healthwatch retinitis pigmentosa leads to blindness. this man and his dad took off on a cross-country trip. it began in san diego june 14th, 3500 miles later here they are with us on the plaza. they are doing it to raise money and awareness. great to have y

a 40-ton whale breaching the water right next to their sailboat. the whale then slammed into the boat's deck. that's what's left of the deck and tore the mast, just broke it. luckily, those two sailors were not hurt. the whale slid off the deck and then just swam away. >> wow. >>> governor schwarzenegger tried his hand at standup comedy, talking about the controversy surrounding mel gibson. >> but the good news is that bp has contained the oil leak. that's good news, finally [ applause ] >> finally. [ applause ] >>> the bad news is no one has figured out how to contain mel gibson. [ laughter ] >> the governor talked to utility workers in sacramento. mel gibson, of course, has been under fire since recordings came out of him using sexist language, towards his former girlfriend. >>> still ahead -- mixed news about real estate. >>> plus, five of the hottest zip codes in the country, they are right here in the bay area. >>> the chp now says the driver of the greyhound bus that crashed in fresno early this morning was swerved to avoid an overturned mini

mcdermott: i rise today to congratulate the crew of the sailing ship ocean watch a 16-foot sailboat which just completed a 28,000 mile journey around the americas. a little more than a year ago, mark schrader, herb mccormick, and david lawson sailed north through alaska and the northwest passage, area usually too full of ice to pass because is now navigable because of the rapidly warming area. they arrived safely in the atlanta i think ocean. they sailed south along the atlantic coast to the challenging route around cape horn where they once again met the watts of the pacific. after traveling for over a year and completing more than 28,000 nautical mile they finished the expedition and returned home to seattle. they set sail with the mission of inspiring, educating, and engaging the citizens throughout the americas to protect our fragile oceans. this amazing journey was envisioned by david rockefeller jr. and captain mark schrader of washington. to implement their shared vision, mr. rockefeller enlisted the assistance of a nonprofit organization he helped to found, sailors for the sea, th

. >>> a sailboat largely made from more than 12,000 recycled bottles docked at sydney harbor after four ocean pollution from plastic waste. that's incredible. it is 8:04. now to al for a check of the weather. >> thank you very much, nat. we have college-bound graduates here. where are you going to school? >> mercier college. >> ducane university. >> thanks for coming down. let's check your weather. we'll show you as far as our pick city today, nbc bay area san francisco, widespread low clouds, drizzle and 62 degrees. as we check the rest of the weather we have monsoonal moisture in the southwest and showers there. remnants of bonnie along the coast. less humid in the northeast. northern minnesota into north dakota, a slight risk of storms. warm in seattle. >>> and he's another look at the pick city of the day. san francisco, we've got low clouds, misty skies and a healthy sea breeze out there blowing in all the low clouds into the altamonte pass, out to fairfield this morning. eventually, we'll see clearing approaching lunchtime, but look at temperatures inland. we should see 80s and 90

and a cool new video, whef video of the whale over that sailboat. >> that is amazing. >> the question in the gulf coast they're going to be watching bonnie making landfall sometime sunday. rain ahead of that. risk of strong storms from indiana, illinois, into upstate new york. sizzling and hot in the eastern half of the country. sunday more hot weather along the eastern seaboard. heavy rain in the lower gulf thanks to bonnie coming onshore and the sizzling weather >>> good morning to you, a beautiful cool start to the morning across the bay area. of course, it is our summer, there's the fog and right over san francisco you can see it blowing through. 50s in san francisco, we'll get sunshine later this afternoon. if you're headed to the a's game later tonight, dog day at the park, 7:05. we'll have clear conditions by the afternoon. by the evening hours that fog rolls back in. 64 in san francisco, 70s and 80s for the rest of the bay area. low 80s south bay through sunday. enjoy it. >>> and that's your latest weather. >> all right, al, thanks. up next, when good parents have bad kids. so