he did. >> suarez: clem clem's defense is going to concentrate on tearing down the testimony of brian mcnamee, his former trainer. has mcnamee testified success in past prosecutions? has he been a credible witness in other trials? >> well, this is going to come up in in this trial. one issue mcnamee had is he was at one point a suspect in in a sexual assault case in florida. he was never charged and the case was completely dismissed and that may end up being a centerpiece of clemens' defense teams argument. >> suarez: are there other ballplayers, former teammates of roger clemens, people who've even admitted using drugs themselves on the witness list as far as you know right now? >> there are on the potential witness list. so a number of former players, several of whom have admitted to receiving drug from mr. mcanymoremy himself but one who stands out is andy pettitte. not only because he's a high profile athlete and great pitcher but because they were kind of two peas in a pod for a while. they were best friends. it was almost an older brother in roger clemens but also because pettitte admit

i have never taken steroids or hgh. >> reporter: for a decade brian mcnamee worked out intensively with clemens and helped shape the rocket into one of the most powerful pitches in the major leagues. he initially denied giving clemens drugs but admitted to federal agents he injected the seven time cy young winner keeping the used needles which will be key scientific evidence in the trial. clemens' legal team said the story was made up to save mcnamee from drug charges. clemens faces six felony counts that could land him in prison if convicted. a potential witness list read to the jury pool included numerous doctors and trainers connected with the four teams clemens played for during his career. >> that was fox 5's paul wagner. jury selection is expected to last all week and into next monday. each side as well as judge reggie walton is questioning the potential jurors very closely. some of them answered questions for 20 minutes or more. >>> coming up next on the news edge at 11:00 a bizarre burglary at an adult video store. wait till you hear what an army officer is accused of doing insi

. >> the trainer brian mcnamee testified he provided roger clemens with drugs. >>> you can call it game warming. a studdie says global warming will cut in half the land in california that is suitable for growing grapes. ktvu's tom vacar is live in napa for what that could mean for the wine industry. >>> the damage to premium wine country will take place if average temperatures rise only 2 degrees. that's a conservative estimate. >> reporter: lonely france, italy and spain make more wine than california and global warming threatens the grapes. >> which areas are able to adapt to these changing conditions with low cost practices and which undergo warming that pushes the temperatures into a new threshold. >> here in napa, the average growing season temperature has been 68 degrees. by 2040 it will be 70 degrees. the average number of hot days, days over 95 degrees, which has been 30 or fewer will increase to 40. >> current tolerance is -- can be sensitive to the hot days. >> and bugs love hot weather. >> and that could enable -- >> reporter: org washington would benefit as their wine region

he says his former train brian mcnamee lied to authorities when he says he injected steroids into clemens. there are some big names on the potential witness list, including barry bonds and mark mcgwire and clemens' manager and gm in new york, joe torre. >>> the washington nationals aren't just one of the hottest teams in baseball, they're also one of the most exciting. look at this. >> oh, my goodness! just glad everybody's okay. >> ramos missed the sign for a suicide squeeze last night, and swung away with teammate michael morse sprinting home from third base. fortunately, ramos fouled the ball back and missed morse, who was about ten feet away from the plate. here's the kicker. they tried it again, at the same at-bat and they were successful that time. ramos executed a nice bunt, and morse scored what turned out to be the game-winning run. the nats went on to beat the chicago cubs 5-4. >> he almost got scalped. so good thing it worked the second time. my goodness. >> worse than a baseball in the teeth. >> i know. could be bad. >> it could be bad. 4:51 now. time for weather and traffic o

at that same table was the chief witness against him, brian mcnamee who for years served as clemens'ngth coach, told congress he gave clemens at least 12 steroid shots over three seasons. >> i injected those drugs into the body of roger clemens at his direction. >> it never happened. never happened. >> reporter: in an interview with mike wallace of "60 minutes", clemens said those injections were vitamin b 12, not steroids. >> if what he's saying, which is totally false, if he's doing that to me i should have a third ear coming out of my forehead and pulling tractors with my teeth. >> reporter: the clash between clemens and mcthat knee won't be the trial's only drama. an all-star roster of former players could be called both for and against clemens. but the most damaging witness could be clemens' close friend and former teammate andy pettitte who said clemens once admitted to him he used hgh. david epstein calls pettitte's story believable. >> why would he want to lie bit. it gives him the credibility of someone who can have those conversations on that level with roger clemens. >> re

. >> let me beclear -- >> reporter: unlike barry bonds, whose trainer went to jail, rainer brian mcnamee is the witness, even providing things. >> during the time i worked with roger clemens i injected him. >> reporter: peter says roger clemens' prosecutors have the friend and teammate andy petit. he says roger clemens told him about using drugs. >> i believe abdomeny misheard. >> the problem that roger clemens has is mett. because petit is someone who is seen as a eagle scout. >> reporter: unlike barry bonds roger clemens in washington does not have home field advantage and are betting he strikes out with the jurors. reporting live, rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> three san francisco giants fan are recovering from injuries suffered from a flying bat. they were behind the dugout, watch this, when sandoval's bat slipped out of his hands. the bat bounced off the bug utoutand -- dugout and hit three fans. one suffered from a head injury, one person was hit around the eye and a second in the shin. >>> the suspence is over, the olympic committee announced the host for the 2018 winter

never used steroids or other performance enhancing drugs during his career as longtime trainer brian mcnamee testify that he ejected clemens with steroids and as medical evidence to prove it clemens' off former teammate and friend andy pettitte is also expected to testify against him ... >>new federal documents show it took exxon mobil nearly twice as long to fully steel pipeline that spilled crude oil into the yellowstone river. exxon's records show that the pipeline to shut down 56 minutes after the leak occurred originally exxon told federal and state officials that it only took 30 minutes to seal the leak. cleanup crews are still struggling to contain a url as a deal with high water and a swift current roughly 1,000 bar. of oil has spilled. >>you can't treat your questions to president obama's today and he will answer but do not expected to tweet back the president is holding his first ever twitter town hall meeting to users can send in questions through the official #askobama# on twitter questions will be selected both in advance and in real time during the event the president will answ

brian mcnamee says he injected him with steroids during itself decade they worked out together. >>> president obama has summoned leaders of both parties to the white house tomorrow to reach a solution on raising the national debt ceiling. republicans and democrats are differing on the issue but a deal must be reached by august 2nd or the u.s. may be forced to default for the first time ever. they are pressing congress to reach a long term deal within two weeks. any deal has to include tax hikes. house speaker john boehner predicted that progress will take longer. >>> family families of service members that commit suicide are receiving help. they receive letters. they have been reviewing the policy for two years after being lobbied by military families. >> a fun rafting trip turned dangerous. they were on a run at south fork near placerville. wayne freedman shows us why rafting is so different than in years past. >>> nothing like the morning after joys of unpacking from the weekend camping trip unless a guy is grateful to see another morning at home. that would be jim of walnut creek. >> i fee

it will pit him against his former trainer brian mcnamee.e said he injected clemens several times. >>> president obama has summoned leaders of both parties to reach a solution on raising the national debt ceiling. they have been clashing on on this issue but the treasury department says a deal must be reached by all 2nd or the u.s. may be forced to default on its bills for the first time ever. they prodded congress to reach a deal and the agreement must include tax hikes that republicans strongly oppose. >> we need to take spending on domestic programs, defense programs and in entitlement programs and we need to take on spending in the tax code, spending on certain tax breaks and deductions for the wealthiest of americans. >> president asked congressional meerdz to leave their ultimatum at the door. join bair predicted the progress would be fruitless unless they back down on tax inzbleesz a fun rafting group quickly turned disastrous. it was on the american river near placer very many. wayne freedman shows us why rafting right now is so diff

he is claiming it is a blackmail deal now and they will go down the alley where they portray brian mcnamee. >> do you also believe in the tooth fairy? >> it is not just him. it was the guy who was shipping hdh to his home. evidence is overwhelming in this trial. >> if clemens is able it pull a casey anthony, does make the hall of fame if he is cleared of the charges? >> probably yankee not. too main question marks. >> even if he is guilty, which i believe he is, i wouldn't be shocked in the least for he is found innocent because he has a ton of money. he can get the best lawyers and we've seen as in the anthony case, if you have great representation, the fact of the case don't mean much. >> he has a good one. college enwas told he didn't have to testify and the big dummy still went up there, raised his hand and said i didn't do it. hwhat is going on in his hive. >> he was kind of in a no-one situation. if you tax all the best players that played in the '90s and none of them are ever going to make the hall of fame, who is going to be? we'll have aaa players in the hall of fame. >> you will

not only his former trainer, brian mcnamee, is going to be testifying but possibly even his best friendr, andy pettitte. >> yeah. that's his battery meat, his dear friend. they both left new york to go out to texas to play together for a year. andy pettitte has been the pristine gentleman of baseball. and he, too, came to an acknowledgment that he may have dabbled with something at one point in time. but he's going to give it to them in spades, fred. he's going to say, unequivocally, roger told me he was injecting himself with steroids. that's going to come out of andy pettitte's mouth. that's pretty damaging testimony. >> there's no way around that? >> i don't know how clemens gets around that. no. i don't see it. and the judge is limiting the double hearsay. he's limiting what other people are going to say, mcnamee told them -- >> andy pettitte isn't hearsay. >> right. this is 100% coming into evidence. i'm saying the double hearsay statements down the road are not coming -- unless clemens' lawyer opens the door with some sloppy questioning. then who knows? the floodgates could open.

defense of course claims the evidence was faked and that clemens' trainer brian mcnamee mixed up the> this is one of my favorite sports stories of the year. stanford quarterback andrew luck's decision to stay in school instead of turning pro. luck has been working as a counselor at peyton manning's quarterback academy in louisiana. luck reached out to the future hall of famer, who also decided to stay in school before joining the nfl. and we know how his decision played out. >> i was proud of andrew for making that decision and big strong good-looking quarterback, he is going to have a great senior year. and i think it's great. he plays for college football. when the time comes he will be an excellent nfl quarterback for a long time. >> so who will be the number one -- so he will be the number one pick in next year's nfl draft. >>> breaking news in marin county. authorities are on the scene at tennessee valley beach. first reports were that a woman was in the water. crews have been out on the rocks there and on the beach searching. we have a crew on the way. we'll also have the lates

clemens' former trainer, brian mcnamee, will testify against the former ace, saying he personally injected him with steroids and human growth hormone. he faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison if found guilty. >>> right now the mexican navy searching for the seven american tourists still missing after the boat they were in capsized. that 115-foot bank sank about 60 miles south of the port of san felipe on sunday. they were on an annual fourth of july fishing trip when an electrical storm came up. now we're hearing from some survivors. one man says he and the seven other people he was with were hanging on to a cooler to keep their heads above water. >> well, we tried to swim to a light we saw on the horizon. and after about three hours, we figured it wasn't working, because the light didn't get any closer. we decided to swim for shore, and we all got separated, and for about 9 of the 16 hours i was out there, i was alone. >> reporter: officials say at least one american was killed. the other 35 passengers and crew members on board were all rescued. >>> exxonmobil admits the scope of

the bulk of the trial will pit clemens against former trainer brian mcnamee, who claims he injected several former players on the team. >>> also right now, a historic event for d.c. happening at the verizon center. the drawly la ma and invited guests are gathering for a blessing. news 4's kimberly suiters is live at the verizon center now with more on the events going on there. kimberly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, eun. a morning of prayer followed bay birthday party for the dalai la lama, it's his 76th birthday here. they think about 10,000 people every day should show up over the next ten days for prayer, for meditation, and also in part for a celebration of this country's political and religious freedoms. >> it means a lot, i can tell you. >> reporter: she represents the tibetan community in all of new york and new jersey. she awaits not only the dalai lama, but 15 buses of buddhist faithful to arrive at the verizon center. for you, would bit like the pope blessing catholics? a similar situation? >> exactly. exactly. >> reporter: a monk who runs a monastery in the u.s. says

his former trainer, brian mcnamee, told authorities that he personally injected clemens with steroids and human growth hormone. there are some big names on the potential witness list, including former sluggers barry bonds, mark mcgwire, and clemens' manager and gm in new york, joe torre and brian cashman. >>> well, it will take more than just an nfl lockout to keep us from finding reasons to make fun of the dallas cowboys. >> yes. >> especially after this one. >> one of the cowboys' star wide receivers may want to step up his game with the ladies. roy williams came up with a very original way of proposing to his girlfriend. he recorded the proposal and then stuck it in the mail, along with a $76,000 engagement ring. well, she apparently wasn't swept off her feet by the gesture. maybe he song it. adding insult to injury, she then, well she kept the ring. >> and here's where it gets ugly. >> it does get ugly because he filed a lawsuit to try to get that ring back. >> well, eventually his now ex-girlfriend not only did she say no but i guess they broke up. found out now she says the fath

. >> reporter: pettitte and d rmer clemens trainer brian mcnamee were to be key government witnesses. injected him on numerous occasions with steroids and human growth hormones. >> reporter: clemens was indicted last august for his testimony regarding alleged use of steroids and human growth hormone or hgh. >> let me be clear. i have never taken steroids or hgh. >> reporter: in opening statements clemens' attorney rusty harden pointed out taxpayer dollars spent on the government's case so far. 103 law enforcement officers, 9 attorneys, 229 investigative reports and 72 investigative locations. >> you can't try someone twice for the same crime. if the judge decides jeopardy's attached, this trial's done. >> reporter: for now, though, of his 354 career wins, you get the feeling this victory in court might be among the sweetest for roger clemens. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >>> let's shift gears a little bit now. it's time for your friday forecast. stormy with a threat of tornados from d dver to minneapolis. downpours drench the southwest. showers in the pacific northwest. downpours