danica patrick excited. >> i could have gotten in it and not like i'd it.iked it right away, i was fast and to go to daytona and run that arco race and get my first taste of bumping and pushing and collides into cars was liberating. it was the most fun had i had in a race car. >> ron artest wants to change his name. not so fast say the courts. he wants to chang his name to meadow world peace. you can clear you're out standing traffic warrants first, and then we can talk about changing your name. there you go for the lakers forward. he has to september 16th to ♪ [ female announcer ] you never stop improving your recipe. we never stop improving ours. we've added a touch of philly cream cheese to kraft natural shredded cheese, which adds a touch of creamy to any dish. kraft touch of philly.

danica patrick excited. >> i could have gotten in it and not like i'd it. it right away, i was fast and to go to daytona and run that arco race and get my first taste of bumping and pushing and collides into cars was liberating. it was the most fun had i had in a race car. >> ron artest wants to change his name. not so fast say the courts. he wants to chang his name to meadow world peace. you can clear you're out standing traffic warrants first, and then we can talk about changing your name. there you go for the lakers forward. he has to september 16th to get it done. have a good weekend. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. the newest release with verizon 4g lte. the first phone pre-loaded with access to net

danica patrick heading to nascar next year but this weekend her focus is on indy cars and grand prix ewn gnomea. danica raised indy cars seven years and her best finish here at infinoin in 2008. she says she enjoys the track and surroundings. >> i'm the track. i feel like this is a real rhythm track. and if you get in a good rhythm here, and can put it where you want it, it, can be a good day for you. can be a good weekend. and off the track looking forward to the wine. >> hey, now. sharks agreed on a two-year extension. could have been a restricted free agent. he'll stay in san jose and scored 32 goals last year. very good. >> good. >> and thank you very much. >> and that is this edition of abc 7 news. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm cheryl jennings. >> thanks for inviting us into your homes tonight. >> we appreciate your time as als. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. this is the "jeopardy!" teen tournament. pleaseelcome our three finalists-- a junior from aventura, florida... who won $15,851 in the first game of our final. a sophomore from decatur, georgia...

. >>> danica patrick comes to the bay area for the last time as an indy driver. i'm dennis o'donnell. baseball history tonight at yankee stadium. something ruth, gehrig and dimaggio never accomplished coming up. hurricane irene roars toward the east coast >>> within the past hour, president obama authorized federal aid for north carolina as hurricane irene roars toward the east coast. mandatory evacuations orders for tourist were extended to year round residents today in that state. some people are not leaving because they can't or are willing to risk t it. some are grateful it wasn't worse. >> i'm grateful. thank god i'm grateful. i have a friend down there and his roof is blown off. so if we -- we had the full coverage of it. it would have been bad. >> officials on two of the nation's southern islands say 90% of homes have been damage or destroyed in the bahamas. irene could reach category 4 strength by the time it makes landfall here in the united states. here's a unique perspective of the storm's massive size. >> wow. >> this video was taken from the internat

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. >> danica patrick is heading to nascar next year. his weekend her focus is on indy cars and sonoma. danica raced here in years past and won one during that stretch. the best finish at infinion and fifth in 2008. danica says she enjoys the track here, as well as the surroundings. >> on the track, you are know, i feel like this is a real rhythm track. if you get in a good rhythm here and get comfortable with the car and put it where you want it and get aggressive, it can be a good day for you, it can be a good weekend. off the track i look forward to the wine. >> the sharks continue their busy off-season locking up one of their top scorers. logan agreed to a two-year $5.7 million extension. could have been a restricted free agent next summer but they lock hem up. instead he will be in san jose where he 32 goals his rookie season. >> that's a wrap on morning sports. a special early ed digs of the news at 3:30 in the afternoon and then back again at 11. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> next, hurricane irene makes landfa

poll position for -- rather for sunday's grand prix but the buzz around the garage is news that danica patrick is jumping to nascar. now maybe danica was distracted from this week's blitz because today she finished 25th out of 28. thursday danica announced she'll race full time in nascar and been a part-time racer in the nationwide series since '09 but she never even sat in a sprint cup car yet. but she'll enter as many as 10 races with the big boys next year and danica says she didn't make the move because of the paycheck. >> if i wanted to go for money, i would have gone along time ago. i would have. i would have gone in 2006 when i could have made a lot more money. but if anything, nascar has gone down wide a bit over the years. so i can't say i caught it at the right time but it's what i want to do. >> golfers matt and dustin johnson knew that hurricane irene forced the new jersey based tournament to become a 50 fall tournament. justin won back but check out this bunker shot on the fourth. that's an eagle for johnson. he was tied with dustin until he go bees the 12th and follows that with

the one-year deadline for asylum and also the treatment of lgtb danica patrick's. we hope you can come to the forum. it is going to be at 25 venice, sweet 800, november 17 at 5:30. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. good evening, commissioners. my name is lupe. i work with the human rights commission as well. thank you for putting this together. this is a great symposium and a great place to be able to share a lot of the different views and work going on. one of the things i wanted to quickly talk about was regarding the sanctuary ordinance. there has been a lot of talk about a sanctuary ordinance. it has been in the news and a national debate. we want to remind you what it is about. first of all, the sanctuary ordinance was created back in 1989. it just had its 20-year anniversary. the human rights commission is named as the enforcement agency in the sanctuary ordinance. what that means is that no city employee or no city resources can go towards helping ice or referring anybody to ice or disclosing any information to ice. it was meant to give people

driving sensation danica patrick is set to increase her exposure in the racing world that twenty nine year old moving full time from the indy car series to no car patrick house race part time in the lower tier nascar series since two thousand and ten she became the first female to finish in the top five coming in fourth at the psalms ton three hundred in march now the american is aiming for a full season schedule next year with the long term plan is to race in the top level sprint cup by twenty thirty with the wisconsin native already in the history books after taking the indy on three hundred. eight some becoming the first female to win a race and this year recess well. finally to tennis with a draw it's been annoyance for the final grand slam of the year the u.s. open third seed maria sharapova is in line for a quarter final place for petrik of each of and what will be reprising of the wimbledon this side or sharapova introduced here of a sponsor's defense but the russian were number four is looking a bit shorter on stock here it must be said than usual as in fact that long was actu

in a few months, indycars will be in her rear view mirrors, but right now danica patrick is getting ready the grand prix. she will be jumping from nascar. she leaves after seven years and one victory on that circuit. danica says she likes the road course as well as the napa valley. i feel like this is a good rit them -- rhythem track. it can be a good day for you. it can be a good weekend. off the track i look forward to the wine. >> the u.s. open is preparing and they set a guinness world record. most people bouncing tennis balls on their racket in one location. the grand total was 658, and they did it for 10 seconds. each child participating received a free wilson tennis racket. >> that is this edition of abc news. for larry beil and sandhya patel, thanks for watching. stay tuned for the latest on hurricane irene. have a good weekend. good night. [ man ] did we get anything good? sweetie i think you need a little extra fiber in your diet. fiber makes me sad. oh common. i dare you to taste one hint of ber in fiber one. oh, i'd be able to tell. why don't i just eat this bag? and how can y

not a great one for danica patrick. she finishes 21st and hill daw brand -- hill daw brant 23rd.ot of wiggle room. he lead 71 of the 75 laps and takes the checkered flag. it is his fifth win of the year. now 47 points behind franciti. lpga's canadian open and she has the clubhouse lead. michelle had this birdie chip on 18 to force the playoff. the stanford student misses and ties for second. she was the defending champ. your canadian open champ and knows how to celebrate. championships coming up in track and field and we look forward to the 2012 olympics. a preview for the world's fastest man in south korea. all pumped up for the hundred meter final, but he false starts. that open itself up for 21-year-old blite. he steals the spotlight wining it in 9.92. u.s. open begins tomorrow. those highlights at 6:00. >> sounds good, mike. >> that does it for this edition of abc7 news. i'm dan noyes for mike and leigh, have a great night and we will see you again3333333333ú

just a day before she'll greet the press for this weekend's indy grand prix, danica patrick is making it official, she'll move to nascar next year, running a nationwide schedule at a partial sprint cup schedule. and she joins stewart hoss racing she says the right time to make this move. >> if it was about money i would have gone a long time ago. but i was going where my heart tells me to go. where my gut tells me to go. >> more with her tomorrow z fred couples removed doubt he's added tiger woods as one of his two captain picks. top 10 u.s. players are in tiger is 28th on the current list. for that reason this, is a controversial move. tiger did not qualify for remaining fed yechl cup tournament. and adam scott is two back of the leader after one round of play. and giant legends out of harding park today. clark enjoying himself. joining a select group of former giants players as well as former coaches and former broadcasters like juan simmons to raise funds for junior giants program. >> we're striking it very well. shall we say? >> did you score? >> i'm not in charge of that. if i wa

danica patrick stepped on the crash creating another multiple car crash.the official for restarting the race in these unsafe conditions. >> we were begging him. please do not go green. it's too slippery. >> and you were yelling at the officials. >> they cannot have this guy running the show because that was a decision to put a lot of drivers in danger. and you know you saw how many people crashed and it was no condition to race in, shame on him. >> look ma, no hands. actually officials agree with pao and took away that restart and then called the race off. hunter ray was declared the winner. indy series comes to sonoma in just two weeks. >>> officials have the return of guerrero. guerrero takes on marcus medina in san jose's hbo pavilion. it's robert's first fight in nearly two years. the ghost moves up in weight for this 104 pounds championship race. his father ruben will once again be in robert's corner for this presentation. 21-1 in his career as a professional. he's been a professional for 10 years and he credits his father ruben as one of his trainers

. >> danica patrick is heading to nascar. she has raced indy cars but won one race.s she enjoys the track here as well as the surroundings. >> on the track i feel like this is a real rhythm track. if you get in a good rhythm and get comfortable with the car and can put it where you want it and get aggressive, it can be a good day for you. off the traffic i love the area. >> and logan agreed to on to $2.5 million extension. lock them up and he'll be in san jose where he scored 32 goals as a rookie last season. that is wrap on morning sports, shu will be here at special edition at 3:30 and back at 11:00. have a great weekend everybody. i'm larry beil. >> next at 8:30, hurricane irene makes landfall in north carolina as new york city prepares for the worst. we'll have the latest of the category 1 storm. also 650 horsepower roars into the wine country, the big race as indy cars come cruise go into northern california. -dad, why e you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it

. >>> and danica patrick finished 84th of this race.s in the nfl hall of fame and chesters should be but now they're teaming up again to help an oakland program in need. >> david casper and damon chester played together in oakland for nearly 30 years. competing against each other for the starting tight end job. >> he was the reason they traded you to houston isn't it? >> probably ruined my life, yes. i would say it was ray's fault. >> no he was the reason they traded me to baltimore. i would like to think that any time i had a chance to play and start on whatever that david was happy with my effort and i certainly was okay with his approach to the game and i hope he was okay with mine. >> ray and i are actually different tight end. i'm a small diesel, ray is more of a train that has big plays. david and raymond recently reunited at the elizabeth house located in a former convent in the rock ridge neighborhood of north oakland. elizabeth house is a transitional program for women with children. >> coming here i was able to get my kids bac

one except, the bumping that happened here between danica patrick. third time in one year, dario frankiti was second and continues to lead in points. >>> the sharks have been tweaking their season. san jose today acquired james sheppard for a third round pick in 2013. sheppard was the ninth over all pick but has so far not lived up to the expectations that come with such a high pick. >>> and an nfl move today that would be something like joe montana signing with the cowboys. ellis spent # years with the jets. he saw the new england patriots at least twice each year. tom brady will be happy to hear ellis is now his teammate. ellis was offered a veteran minimal contract by the jets decided to join the competition now with a little something to prove. have a good week everybody. >> thanks, joe. >> be sure to join the ktvu morning news beginning at 4:30 a.m. they will have the very latest on the stock market and the reaction to the u.s. credit downgrade. >> our coverage continues online any time on ktvu.com. online any time on ktvu.com. thanks for joinin

. >> danica patrick is heading to nascar next year. but this year it's indy cars. the best finish at infinion and fifth in 2008. danica says she enjoys the track here, as well as the surroundings. >> on the track, you are know, i feel like this is a real rhythm track. if you get in a good rhythm here and get comfortable with the car and put it where you want it and get aggressive, it can be a good day for you, it can be a good weekend. off the track i look forward to the wine. >> the sharks continue their busy off-season locking up one of their top scorers. logan agreed to a two-year $5.7 million extension. could have ban restricted free agent next summer but they lock hem up. instead he will be in san jose where he 32 goals his rookie season. >>> and most people bouncing tennis balls on their racket in one location. the number was 658 people for ten seconds. each child participating received a free will son tennis racket. that's a wrap on morning sports. mike will be here with your highlights. special early edition of the news at 3:30 in the news and back again at

. >>> danica patrick and the others are heading out for the big race. he traded in academics for a racecar. here's nbc bay area's lauren scott. >> reporter: when the indy race cars pull into sonoma, keep an eye out for number 84. he learned how to race on this very same course. >> for me i don't even get back to the bay area that frequently anymore, so just getting off a plane at sfo and smell the pete's coffee right there out of the gate is definitely cool for me. >> reporter: and j.r. hildebrand loves being home knowing each of the twist and see turns. >> it's just a comfort level that you have at a home track. i can stay in my own bed and all that stuff when i race here, so it's a really neat track, it's an awesome event. you always have good weather, it's a good time of year and should be all that more sort of exciting this time around. >> he's got to get around that last lap. >> oh, no! >> he hit the wall! >> reporter: it has been a very event ful 2011 for you. we all watched the indianapolis 500. what do you think about what happened in indy? >> i

>> the endy car series maybes it's annual visit to sonoma, but thes, but around was news that danica patrick to nascar. today 28 cars qualified for tomorrow's indy grand prix and castroneves won at infineon. will power won the pole and race last year at infineon and today he claims his 6th pole of the season. that is worth $10,000 for will power, who was fined $30,000 for his anger issues following a race two weeks ago. >> danica came from 25th out of 28 spots. this is her seventh indy series race at infineon and her best finish is 5th. thursday she announced she will race full-time in nascar. she hasdanica has never sat in a sprint cup car yet. danica says she loves nascar style of bumping and grinding and didn't make the move because of the paycheck. >> if i wanted to go for money, i would have bob a long time ago. i would have gone in 2006, when i could have made a lot more money going to nascar, but if anything, nascar is going down quite a bit over the years. so i can't say i caught it at the right time, but it's what i want to do. so this decision wasn't about money at all. >> i think

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