remember willie mays, bob costas, let me go to you first.e's obviously one of the greatest baseball players here's ever to play the game. what was it like to watch him play well, i only remember him as a kid, not as a professional, but i came to know him quite well in later years, both on a personal basis and interviewing him he was great beyond grade. >> the statistics show that. but you had to have seen him even the film clips kind of conjured up for younger people. but he was wonderous. he wasn't just great he was wonderous. he he was captivating. if you took someone to a ballpark and they had never seen a game before. and if willie wasn't having a particularly great day, he was all for four. there wasn't a spectacular play to be made. he just made that basket catch just by the way, he carried himself just by his presence and magnetism. your eyes would go oh to him, even if you didn't know a sacrifice bunt from a sacrifice fly, who's that guy? there's just something charismatic about him and he understood that bob kendra can speak to it a

well, bob costas carry champion barbara, we still best friends by the way, i'll slip this in quickly. i was telling carry earlier, i first saw women's college basketball like 40 years ago when i was doing men's games, university of missouri and they play the college game, the women's game forehand in front of like 150, 200 people and the level of play in that few decades has improved so dramatically, the level of play now is really, really good. >> yeah. all right. i think this is good for this forum. >> i like, by the way, it's all great for this. thanks for having you both very much great to have you here. and up next for us, one of america's heroes is finally getting a long overdo honore won that was held back because of his race will explain like we've got ourselves a bad man right here we've talked enough these territory and they don't come try you i will take from you until you are wiped clean from this link you use that much this year everyone had much needed, but yeah i can saga read it. are unnecessary no. neither is missing your daughter's competition to do payroll with pay

yesterday at age 93, joining us now on the phone and the veteran sportscaster and cnn contributor bob costas. bob, thanks very much for joining us. first of all, explain what by willie mays was one of the all-time greats. and what will you remember most about him well, he could do everything that a non pitcher position player could possibly do on the field at the highest possible level? >> and even though the statistics are staggering, they don't do him full justice because you had to see him play to appreciate his flare, his honest flare. he had style in everything he did. he was exciting to watch and the exuded his own joy. and he made people either bigger fan tens, or if they weren't fans to begin with he made them fans because his joy was infectious and he even had that boyish quality about him, wolf into his 80s and 90s, there was a twinkle in his eye when he talked about baseball or any other subject that interested him? he was just an extremely appealing person and an extremely exciting player to watch when i was growing up in buffalo, i loved watching on television. let me read to yo

we're joined by legendary sportscaster bob costas who got to know willie mays over the years. of course we want to lionize someone who passed, but i was struck by what joe dimaggio said about willie mays, saying he's the closest to being perfect as i've ever seen. >> that's pretty much true. that last item in steve's report about willie and his apartment on saint nicholas place in harlem, it was a ground floor apartment. and the little kids would knock on the window in the morning. let's say the giants had a game in the afternoon or later that night, he'd come out and by his testimony, i'll play stick ball with them for a couple of hours. willie was about, yes, greatness, but his statistics, as great as they are, do not do him justice because you had to see him play. he was great, but he was also wondrous. even on a day when he went 0 for 4 and there were no spectacular plays, if that was the first baseball game you ever saw, your eyes would go to willie mays. there was something charismatic about him and he emanated joy, and i think it is both poetic and poignant that he died

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among those remembering willie mays is longtime announcer and baseball historian bob costas on the today show. costas, look back at mays impact not just on the field, but off as well. willie mays was not as overtly political as contemporaries like jim brown, or certainly muhammad ali or arthur ashe, or a bit later on, kareem abdul-jabbar, bill russell and others. he was not overtly political, but both martin luther king and barack obama expressed the sentiment that without people like willie mays and other ballplayers and public figures in the 50s and 60s who gained perhaps grudging acceptance from the larger white culture that played a part, it might have been a more subtle part, but it played a part in the long march toward justice. costas added that if you were lucky enough to have seen mays play in person, your eyes immediately went to him and just followed his every move. we will continue our coverage of willie mays life and legacy throughout this newscast. coming up at 550, we're going to take you to rickwood field in birmingham, where willie mays grew up, playing how major league

bob costa, thanks so much.k at tonight's other top stories, starting with that warning from officials for florida beachgoers to stay out of the water due to dangerous rip currents that have already killed two people. cbs's manny bojorquez is in hollywood, florida, now with more. >> reporter: nancy, florida's entire east coast is at high risk today for rip currents, according to the national weather service. a pennsylvania couple drowned off the coast of hutchinson island on thursday while vacationing with their six children. authorities say they were swept away by a rip current: a powerful channel of fast-moving water that pulls swimmers away from shore. officials say if you are caught in one, swim parallel to the shore and then back to land at an angle. and if you can't escape, wave or shout for help. >> nancy: now to a scary scene when a southwest airlines plane flew unusually low over houses on its approach to the oklahoma city airport on wednesday. cbs's carter evans explains. >> reporter: here at lax, nanc

bob costas was hosting the pregame and halftime shows for nbc. >> then all of a sudden, this tragedyand it's going on concurrently. this is a drama without a script. >> a real gun that is loaded and he could've used it. you can't take a chance and someone who's been accused of murder. >> the detective had simpson cell phone number and amazingly was able to reach him. dateline obtained the actual recording of the conversation. which was not released at the time. >> let me get to my house but >> okay. we will do that. >> i will give you my whole body. >> blank use every bit a police and psychology he knew to keep since his hand on the phone. and off the trigger. >> please, you're scaring everybody, though. >> tell them i'm sorry. you can tell them later that i'm sorry. i'm sorry i did this to the police. >> listen, i think you should tell them yourself and i don't have to tell your kids that. your kids need you. >> marcia clark who by now have been assigned to prosecute simpson for nicole and ron's murders was watching all of this furious that he was still free. >> we look like the big

according to journalist bob word for word and bob costa, he was at the willard when trump called him on january 5. to be clear, bannon wasn't trying to hide his involvement in this scheme. in the days a week before january 6, he dedicated hours of his daily podcast to the big lie of the stolen election often dropping less than subtle hints to something explosive was in the works. >> people are getting fired up. people are getting matter, as they should. mike pence's his moment of destiny awaits him. it's coming on the sixth of january. january 6 was going to be the day or one of these big days and you had to converge everything to january 6. starting tomorrow, will be wild. it's incredible. you'll be part of history and getting as many people here as possible. his second term will start with a bang. all hell will break loose tomorrow. all hell will break loose tomorrow. >> two years after being convicted, steve bannon is going to prison. that's not all because he is also facing the street -- state criminal and indictment for the same scheme to rip up die hard trump supporters and ste

longtime newscaster, sportscaster, and former olympic host bob costas went on today to talk about theultural significance that mays had on the world. martin luther king told willie and other black players the same thing. willie mays was not as overtly political as contemporaries like jim brown, or certainly muhammad ali or arthur ashe, or a bit later on, kareem abdul-jabbar, bill russell and others. he was not overtly political, but both martin luther king and barack obama expressed the sentiment that without people like willie mays and other ballplayers and public figures in the 50s and 60s who gained perhaps grudging acceptance from the larger white culture that played a part, it might have been a more subtle part, but it played a part in the long march toward justice. it's so true. our coverage continues both on air and online of the legendary willie mays. you can read more about his life and how he's being remembered. 506 right now, oakland mayor shengtao facing a challenge we've seen more often recently. a recall brought on by her constituents. yeah, today we're actually hearing

this incident has struck such a chord, which is the issue of race here is legendary sportscaster bob costas talking about another dirty play recently involving two different players there was an incident recently, alyssa thomas, who happens to be african-american, grabbed the angel reese by the throat and through her to the floor flagrant to ejected from the game. >> the reason why that doesn't spark as much conversation isn't just that caitlin clark is a bigger star than alyssa thomas it's because it's a black on black incident jonah, honestly, how big an issue is race in this whole controversy that this was a black player who knocked down a white star. yeah, i think it's unavoidable, but in part because race is figures into so much of our motivation but it reasoning when it comes to their, like the rorschach text of society, people bring race to conversations in this lends itself to it. michael will ban on, on on espn was making the case that part of the issue is there are no superstar white players in the nba. and this is very much, and this is the first one in the wnba, and this is sort

what about bob costas? >> the olympics is big news for media and big news for nike. >> yes. oh, nike. nike does not have this quarter. there's too many variables. that piece today that they left out running, anybody who reads shoe dog recognizes their hallmark was running. the great steve fontaine, we always had stop preshirts on, pre was the pre to nike being great. disappointing to read that article. we need to see the china numbers, anybody china is bad. >> shoe dog, phil mike talks about why he chose china. the answer is always 2 billion feet. >> that's the -- i had him on. they didn't want to come on. i had them on "mad money." i gave tim cook two segments and phil mike two secregments. i think shoe dog is -- people didn't want to know about business. >> one of the great ceo memoirs i ever read. gary freedman completing a $10 million share purchase. >> i'm begging him to come on the show. >> that's up about 5. for a ceo who has been vocal about the industry challenges. >> last quarter was one of those

bob de la costa is both in the 1st round of the french fall. them entry election hopes to be the 1st fall arrives prime. minnesota 10 spackles between his ready soldiers and palestinians in northern gaza strip. i enabled sedans time and a too rapid suppose to say they've captive the cap to upset all states in the south face. beyond the says it's bill fighting in the area plus say this, i wouldn't believe he is competent in the past where we spoke to for us and we started about the attempt to prove that happened this week and the challenges one of your faces today from devon asked with sports, how's auction tina, maintain that 100 percent rep for the corporate america? the defending champion speak korean to finish. totally separate with 3 wins from spring. the beginning the news out in front. so everything is on the way for its 1st that paul, them on 3 election in that he says he is, the stakes are high with the fall, right. and hoping to make significant gains. national riley lee, the pen is arrived the cost of ballots, but it is a choosing 577 employees who may comp, the new nationa

according to bob word word and robert costa, bannon was at the willard when trump called him on the night of january 5 and to be clear, bannon was not trying to hide his involvement in this scheme. in the days and weeks before january 6 he dedicated hours of his daily podcast to the big lie and the stolen election, often dropping less than subtle hints that something explosive was in the works. >> people are getting fired up. people are getting matter, as they should. mike pence, his moment of destiny awaits him and it is coming on 6 january. it is the clarity that january 6 is going to be the day or one of these big days and we had to converge everything down to january 6. starting tomorrow it's going to be wild. it is incredible. you can be part of history. we want as many people to get here as possible. his first term is ending with action and his second term will start with a bang. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow, just understand this. >> now almost two years after being convicted, steve bannon is going to prison. that's not all, because bannon is also facing a state indictm

costa county firefighters did have it under control. beginning today, cal fire crews up and down the state are boosting their staffing to peak levels. our bob redell will have much more on their plan of action ahead in our next half hour. but first meteorologist kari hall is here. and kerry, we do have another hot week ahead, right? we do. we are going to see a couple of hot days in the middle of the week, but right now we are catching a break. hopefully they do continue to keep that contained and we're in the upper 50s. the wind is calm and the humidity is high, so that tends to slow the spread of any fires out there. and throughout the day we are going to see temperatures heating up, going from low 60s at 7:00 this morning to headed for the upper 80s and even a few low 90s later today. and then tomorrow the heat advisory begins as the high heat continues, it ramps back up for the inland areas. now notice that it does not include the bay and the coast. we are going to see temperatures there in the 70s and 80s, and we are looking at today some slightly warmer temperatures. but the major heat risk really increases tomorrow, so i'll have more

costa county. firefighters are on the scene of a two alarm fire in pittsburg. it's happening at an apartment on crestview drive. our bob in our newscast at 11:00. also happening now. police are investigating a shooting at a san francisco bart station that happened around 730 last night in the plaza at the 16th and mission street bart station. it's not clear what led to the shooting, nor whether anyone was i was three months old when it started. i was six years old. they said, "don't tell anyone." i needed help. they took pictures and videos. the images of me have been found over 36,000 times. they're on icloud now. i just want them gone. i think about the pictures and the videos a lot. the abusers who watch them. save them. or share them on icloud. apple could help us. but they don't. >>> this morning on the 3rd hour of "today," shark attacks. two terrifies incidents in one day. swimmers seriously injured, beaches closed, and the busy