simpson had visits from his family, friends and attorneys, colleague bob costas. >> i went to visit him. he tried to convince me several his innocence. "look, bob, you know me. i'm a smart guy. would i leave a glove behind? would i do something like this? this doesn't make sense, that doesn't make sense."ter: but simpson was facing a mountain of evidence. >> we work in the crime lab. >> reporter: as district attorney gil garcetti confidently told nbc news back in 1995.t i am aware of, in the history of this country, has had so much d.n.a. evidence.t for the fact this were o.j. simpson, this is what you could call in sports language a >> reporter: then d.a. garcetti, made a critical decision.he case here, to downtown los angeles from santa monica. downtown the jury pool would be mostly minority and thought to to a black defendant. at the time garcetti for a number of reasons, including that the santa monica courthouse which recently had sustained earthquake damage, couldn't trial. >> reporter: can you tell us anything at all at this point? >> no, i'm sorry. >> reporter: but former detect

bob costas said joe garagiola led a truly extraordinary american life.of the most prominent baseball broadcasters and popular television personalities of his time. >> you'll have to watch that infield and outfield. >> reporter: he called games for nbc for a quarter century, filled in for johnny carson, served stints as host on the "today" show. in more recent years he worked as a broadcaster for the arizona diamondbacks where he lived many years. bryant gumbel recently wished his pal a happy birthday on his hbo show "real sports request ts. >> he fought against statuing tobacco, wrote two more books, and worked tirelessly to try to help nay tiff american kids. by any measure, that's a full life. >> joe garagiola was 90 years old. ron mott, nbc news, los angeles. >> now keep it here for more news, weather, and sports. tha we'll see you back here tomorrow. why let someone else have all the fun? the sometimes haphazard, never boring fun. the why can't it smell like this all the time fun. the learning the virtue of sharing fun. why let someone else have all

also joining us bob costa from the "washington post" from boynton beach, florida. me what you thought of the debate and what you think of how far close donald trump is to wrapping up this nomination? >> the debate was a subdued performance from the republican front-runner. trump did not have his usual bravado. in fact, it was a performance from all the candidates on stage that was policy centered. and there's a sense that ahead of these major march 15 primaries, especially in ohio and florida, everything's on the line. >> rose: does he expect to win in ohio? >> it's up for grabs, ohio. ohio governor kasich is doing very well there. he has an operation there that's surpassed trump on the ground. but trump has a lot of early vote support, based on my reporting. he also has a lot of this populist appeal. and this is a rust belt state. trump has done well there in the primaries so far. his message, especially on trade, is connecting. we saw trump's victory in michigan. i think forshadowed perhaps what could happen in ohio. >> rose: how cowy see this right now, mike, bec

in a statement bob costas said joe garagiola led a truly extraordinary american life, becoming one ofhe most prominent baseball broadcasters and popular television personalities of his time and too much more to list. >> you'll have to watch the infield and outfield. >> reporter: he called games for nbc for a quarter century, filled in for johnny carson and served two stints as host on the "today" show. >> like going to 5:00 mass again. here i am. >> matt lauer tweeting he was part of the soul of our show and in more recent years he worked as a broadcaster for the arizona diamondbacks where he lived for many years. former "today" colleague bryant gumbel recently wished his pal a happy birthday on his >> he fought against chewing tobacco, formed a foundation to help former players in need and worked tirelessly to try to help native american kids. by any measure that's a full life. >> reporter: joe garagiola was 90 years old. ron mott, nbc news, los angeles. >> and that will do it for us. i'm lester home. for al l ♪ he's begun forgetting words. forgetting where he lives. but when the day

let's go to bob costa with the "washington post." e back story here? >> based on my reporting, joe, there's a real split in the republican party this morning. there are many in the romney orbit who think there's an incoherence to the attacks on trump. that the super pacs are not getting the job done and they're applauding romney for stepping forward to offer some kind of more cutting argument against trump but a lot of the campaigns, the rivals trying to compete, they're unhappy, they think romney's suffocating their own candidates, taking the headlines away when hay ear trying to get traction. the back story is romney has been in political winter, he's been hesitant to make an endorsement but he's frustrated by how the attacks haven't landed a punch. >> bob costa, there was rumor a week ago he was going to endorse marco rubio. did he decide not to endorse rubio because of his poor performance? >> not so much as poor performance. i think romney has been close personally to rubio. he backed anymore 2010 but romney wants to see wins on

. >> reporter: as his colleague bob costas remembers -- >> he was always the quintessential hail fellow well met. he was outwardly as likeable a person as you could ever want to encounter. >> reporter: but on day two of this story, much of that history was in the process of being rewritten. the brentwood crime scene was now crawling with cops looking for clues and collecting evidence. blood was everywhere, and leading from it, a trail of bloody shoe prints. near the bodies was a bloody left-handed glove and a blue knit cap. and inside the walls of simpson's rockingham estate detective mark fuhrman was went behind kato kaelin's bungalow and discovered a moist, bloody glove, similar to the one at the crime scene. >> so we look at the glove and it looks like the same type. right-handed glove? >> yeah. the same everything. >> reporter: detectives also simpson's driveway leading from the white ford bronco parked on the street. lange braced himself for what was to come. it's a celebrity case. at midnight last night, a passerby observed the body, a female white body and a male >> reporter: by

robert costa is the author of that piece for the post and joins us now from washington. bob, it's good to have you with me. this is big news. we have just in the last 30 minutes about senator graham throwing support behind ted cruz. is this anti-trump effort you have reported snowballing and let's just talk about what that means. is that only going to help donald trump as we have seen so far? >> good to join you. there are two elements of the anti-trump brigade that are emerging as key players at the moment. that's the establishment who is starting to come around the idea of backing senator ted cruz, a hard-liner who for many years has not been very close those in party elite. now seeing him as the best chance of stopping donald trump. the other is the movement right. cpac crowd. tea party people. they think they have to do something. if they can't beat trump now to stop him on the convention floor or think about matching a third party bid. that's what i was covering this morning. a meeting, movement activist and bench back congressman. >> real quick, i want to show everybod

that will change once this is over. >> bob costa? when you mentioned last night, mr.itive way. if if you were to win the nomination, how much would you embrace the house republican agenda? specifically with regard to ryan's push on poverty reform, social security and medicare reform? >> well, i'd be talking to him. again, i don't agree with them on all of these things and i certainly don't agree on the border because i'm much stronger on the border than they are and they have a different feeling as to what should take place on the border. we will talk about everything, i'm a flexible person. that's one of the things, ted cruz will stand up and i call him lying ted because i've never seen any human being in my life that lies like ted and he holds the bible up, puts the bible down and then lies. ted cruz will say "i negotiate. trump negotiates." that's what you're supposed to do. you're supposed to gather people around and make great deals. i want to make great deals for my side of the equation. you have washington in total gridlock so i will -- i have a lot of respect

. >> so, bob costa, what are you hearing about the trump organization inside of the trump organizationfocus more on the inside game? are they -- do they realize that just having trump -- i say "they." does donald trump realize that just going out, giving a speech, getting lots of people into an auditorium and getting them out to vote at this point will not be enough, that they need to move to the next phase? >> i think, speaking to the trump campaign, they recognize that. but it's a two-front endeavor. you have to do the delegate allocation and also build relationships in washington, d.c. there are some important people like gingrich who have not endorsed but who are trying to guide trump and help him in their words to be more presidential. in his words yesterday, talking to trump trying to help him speak more on policy. >> is he trying to help in that effort? >> he describes his role as trying to help the party. he sees trump as the likely nominee and he wants to make sure trump is in a position to beat clinton. he is keeping in touch with people he met last week in washington. >> any

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. >> bob costa. >> you mentioned last night, mr. trump, a conversation with speaker ryan.alked about in a positive way. if you were to win the nomination, how much would you embrace the house republican agenda, specifically with regard to ryan's push on poverty reform, social security, and medicare reform? >> well, i would be talking to him. again, i don't agree with him on all of these things and i certainly don't agree on the border because i'm much stronger on the border than they are. they have a different -- well, they have a different feeling as to what should take place on the border. and we will talk about everything. i'm a flexible person. and you know, that's one of the things. ted cruz will stand up and, you know, i call him lying ted because i have never seen any human being in my life that lies like ted. he holds the bible up, he puts the bible down, and then he lies. and ted cruz will say i negotiate. trump negotiates. that's what you're supposed to do. you're supposed to gather people around and make great deals. i want to make great deals for my side of the

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. >> bob costa, there was a tweet last night "make no mistake, democrats would much rather run againstdonald trump because ted cruz is a known commodity. you know what state he is wins, you know what states he doesn't win. you can go back and look at history and predict it out. donald trump? nobody knows are what will happen from michigan to ohio to pennsylvania to a lot of those industrial swing states that sometimes swing elections. >> and last night was an important moment for trump. i rewatched that press conference this morning. instead of a rally, taking questions from reporters, bringing out a governor to introduce him, a sign to the republican establishment he can work with them, a measured tone in many respects, turning his eye towards the general election, not really towards his rivals. this is a trump who sees the nomination, wants the nomination, thinks he can be president. >> wow. our thanks to the entire editorial staff of the "washington post." >> they're all here look at this. >> jonathan capehart, chris cillizza. >> we can naught on a promotional poster. >>> still ahea

so, bob costa, what happens next with the republican party?e question. is there a republican party at the all of this? >> talking to my sources last night you get a sents that not only was the big story trump's victory across the country but the way trump talked about trying to unify the party and he mentioned his call with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, he said he's trying to build relationship within the party. so there's chatter about having a third party bid to have a conservative run and there's talk of having a never-trump moment at the convention. at the same time, trump with these scenes coming out of chicago and the unrest that surrounded his campaign, he talked about trying to move toward the center, at least with his temperament and his relationships. >> and, willie vandehei said this, we are going to see over the next four weeks if trump keeps winning a remarkable degree of rationalization by political insiders trying to figure out how to make peace with donald trump and we'll see if donald trump tries to figure out how to

. >> and i believe there's some members of his team, bob costa, you've been covering him more closelyisors are coordinating with sam clovis, trump's policy chairman. they're trying to mount a new argument in republican foreign policy but it's not new. we've seen not only with rand paul and ron paul but going back to pat buchanan and blocks of republicans in the 1950s and 1960s, there's been a non-interventionist isolationist strain that's been overshadowed in the bush era. and trump is taking a hammer and trying to track that consensus. >> walter isaacson, how is hillary clinton countering -- i can call these extreme statements by republicans. is that fair? these are extreme statements. you have ted cruz who consider himself to be a constitutional expert saying things that are inane. completely inane. and baseless. and not true to his believes if he is who he says he is to be. and hillary clinton, i know her tone was very mueasured. >> i think her speech in palo alto was particularly good and rewritten in light of the brussels attacks. you need to fight this with the tools we have. pa

also robert costa from "the washington post." bob, i'l you broke some news ab video trackers as luke was just making that reference there about conservative organizations trying to peg who's taking this meeting. what are you hearing? >> i'm hearing from several sources close to anti-trump super pac that there will be cameras and trackers outside of the jones day law firm today to try to get footage of republicans who are entering the building. >> the footage is going to be used for what, bob? why would they want this? >> the strategists close to the super pacs tell me they may use these in ads against members of congress and senate who believe that trump's an acceptable nominee, that they think this nomination is going to go on for months and they want to shame some of those who are associating with trump. >> robert, do you think that's going to work or is the coalescing of anti-trump forces only helping the pro-trump forces, that is the voters? >> good morning, thomas. i actually think it may work. here's why. as a lot of people are

bob redell. that story coming up. >>> and i'm stephanie chuang live in our contra costa newsroom. the latest on the capture of the bearded bandit. what helped lead to the arrest last night? "today in the bay" starts right now. >>> a very good thursday morning to you. thanks so much for joining us, i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. very calm with your weather. welcome to spring. what are we at day five or six at this point, kari? >> it's falling. >> five or six. i guess so. >> quick map. well, we had some great weather, though. it's been so nice. yesterday we had sunshine after a cool start. more of the same today except this afternoon we'll be a little bit

joining me now, robert costa, nbc political analyst and reporter at the national post. bob, there are calls from democrats, at least, for this hour for corwin -- you and i have been doing this for a long time. i can't remember another case of a journalist pressing charges against a campaign aide. >> it's an unusual situation, perhaps unprecedented. what we're looking at for the trump campaign is a campaign who has grown close, personally, professionally. . let's let trump be trump. that has formed a bond with the candidate. >> since you mentioned strategy and trump being the one leading his own strategy. i don't know if i've even seen this. but he wrote. then he says, why is she, referring to the reporter, allowed to grab me and shout questions? can i press charges? that's the newest tweet we have in from donald trump. bob, as i watch the new video we've been seeing for a few hours now from the jupiter, florida police -- we could run it again now. i haven't noticed her grabbing trump, but again, that's a still shot video with three different frames of video, so maybe we're

bob redell. that story coming up. >>> and i'm stephanie chuang live in our contra costa newsroom. the latest on the capture of the bearded bandit. what helped lead to the arrest last night? "today in the bay" starts right now. >>> a very good thursday morning to you. thanks so much for joining us, i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. very calm with your weather. welcome to spring. what are we at day five or six at this point, kari? >> it's falling. >> five or six. i guess so. >> quick map. well, we had some great weather, though. it's been so nice. yesterday we had sunshine after a cool start. more of the same today except this afternoon we'll be a little bit warmer. now at 49 degrees in the east bay and headed up to 73 degrees this afternoon. in san francisco, 68 degrees while we have 74 degrees in the north bay. i'll is a look at the weekend microclimate forecast coming up. let's see what's happening in the south bay. a heads up for those drivers, mike. >> or eyes down. a ladder reported on the roadway and i think a car hit it and that's what's going on northbound. the off

bob ericksson was walking on iron horse trail near the pleasant hill bart station when he spotted the bag. inside, unprocessed voter registration forms. he posted about it on facebook and the assistant registrar in contra costa county himself saw is. >>> the south bay experienced a swarm of four small earthquakes last night along the calaveras fault east of alum rock park. they range in magnitude from 2.6 to 3.2. the first quake took place at 8:23 last night. the last one just before 9:00 in the north bay several small quakes also happened outside santa rosa. >> did you feel it? >> no. >> slept through it. >> that's what you love about this shift. when you sleep, you sleep. let's check in with gianna with the morning commute. >> its better at the bay bridge. they are working to clear this accident out of lanes around the toll plaza. our traffic pattern a lot of cars working their way towards the right hand to avoid where the lanes are blocked but again they should have it cleared within the next couple of minutes. noninjury fender-bender in the area so give yourself a few extra minutes. the backup is substantial slow out of the maze. approaches starting to see delays, as well. antioch westbound 4 right at 24

robert costa from the "washington post." bob, thank you, sir.e a new piece up that there was this contradiction about no path but also no desire to get out of the race. so this might be a surprise for some. >> this is a pretty big turnaround. just this morning his aides were telling me he was in debate prep, and now they're telling me he won't be going to that debate and he tells costa he doesn't see a path forward. there was no clear path forward. his campaign was very freely admitting that yesterday, that they don't see a path to win, they don't see a path to get enough delegates to make a dent in this race. their supporters wanted him in the race and they wanted to live up to those supporters' desires. but as we've seen in this race, there is a very big difference between someone's facebook fans and their actual voters. i think carson is clearly coming to the table that there really is not a path that's going to get him through this. >> okay, but jane, also, from your piece, there is a report that there are folks, elders within the campaign,