i am here to speak bryant tan on bryant t on behalf of bryant ta. i have known him since he was involved in the while less youth center. he was involved with a lot of youth programs there. a lot of youth can say that they look up to bryant as a role model. he's an mit graduate and he would be a great asset to the entertainment commission. i look forward to seeing him in that role. as an entertainer, he would be there to support the needs of the community. thank you. >> hello, my name is asha metta, i am from the beacon initiative. at my office is right across the hall from bryant's. i have been the director of the initiative and i have been able to watch bryant grow. it was just an idea into a very robust use leadership program. it in fuses high levels of youth leadership within -- i would imagine of all the departments, it has the greatest amount of that type of leadership. taken a small body of young people helping make decisions into multiple bodies and citywide change. it is incredibly exciting and robust youth empowerment initiatives that he ha

trending now, "kobe bryant."e a a bachelor once again now that his wife, vanessa, has filed for divorce. what's trending tomorrow? "kim kardashian-bryant." [ laughter ] "kim kardashian-bryant." [ applause ] >> jay: let's see if anything's trending about our show tonight. trending right now, "charles barkley." charles barkley. [ cheers and applause ] apparently our good friend charles is asking for a new set of golf clubs for christmas. what's trending in the future? umm -- [ laughter ] yeah. [ cheers and applause ] and finally, there's no use knowing what the future brings if you haven't learned the lessons of the past. with that in mind, our good friends over at jibjab bring you this "2011 year in review." >> jibjab! ♪ 2011 was hairy a year unlike any we've seen there were schweddy balls from ben & jerry ♪ ♪ and a warlock assassin named sheen ♪ >> winning! ♪ ♪ lohan strauss-khan mitt romney, rick perry and cain ♪ ♪ big trials love childs 2011 bye bye ♪ ♪ the s&p blew up our rating the job market stayed in a slum

in the case of the bryants there's reportdly no prenup.t mean under california, not good for kobe? >> not good for kobe. it might not be as bad as you think. apparently they've been negotiating some settlement agreement. at least that's what's being reported. if so, kobe has a little control over what will happen in the outcome of his divorce. it doesn't mean he won't have to pay. but it will keep it out of the hands of the court which could be possibly a worse result for him if it ends up in a judge's hands as opposed to his own. >> jennifer, his wife is asking for half of everything kobe made in the last ten years. by some estimates that's $40 million. could she actually get that much? >> absolutely. california is a community property state where the property acquired during the course of the marriage becomes open to division upon a divorce. so anything that he earned during that time, of course, expenses are detected out, it's estimated that number is around $80 million, half of which would be 40. it's very likely she might get a sum ar

bryant had sexually assaulted her.he couple have been married 10 and a half years and have children. long wait but it to business for the washington wizards. the wizards will face the 76 up.s in a preseason match that in a moment. john gonzalez is outside of the impact.r more on the >>> better late than never, that fans are telling us. by no means a great crowd. to thehan 12,000 came game. say theys in the area will take it. chinatown is booming once again with basketball fans. have been waiting for the over and we are to be back. the first preseason game has workersack thousands of were left high and dry for months. people that rely on the nba washington but all country where this is part of the economy. >> the nba ponce's first ever out proved to be a destructive one. lockout.a's first ever the concession stands to business is back up. they seem appreciative of those who showed up. >> we go to a lot of losers year and we enjoy it. >> like an early christmas extremely late start of exhibitions a key games. a cab drive

bryant, in the inbound. deng comes up with the steal. and rose. off the dribble, i said rose, off the dribble. putting up the floater for two. pulls leadings 88-87. rose, 22 points in the game. h.8 left to play. bryant attacked. deng blocked the shot. the bulls win, 88-87. that's your espn news update. i'm jorge andres. for more, tune in to espn news. >> oh, good games yesterday. welcome back, nba, welcome back. >>> it's perhaps the biggest highlight to come out of this weekend's nfl matchups. >> jerome simpson tries some aerial acrobat ix, jumping and somersaulting up and over and arizona defender, and yet, he sticks the landing. nice dismount, dude. it helped the bengals win on saturday. the video has been viewed millions of times on youtube. up and td. >> are we watches gymnastics or football? i love it. >> well done. >> i love it. oh, my goodness. that's sheer athleticism. >>> up next, divorce drama in hollywood. mel gibson writes a nine-figure check to his ex-wife. >>> and cute and cuddly. the polar bear cub and his human caregivers. i'm phil

bryant. when did owners worried about another team being too good get the power to stop it from happening? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning, i'm willie geist and this is "way too early." the show that no owner is worried about being too good. aim glad you're watching or listening live on sirius xm radio. tweet me@willie geist one or text the word awake to 622639. the best responses later in the show. come on, guy, wake up. next 30 minutes your cram session for friday, december 9th. a lot going on including nicolas sarkozy telling his fellow europeans if they don't act today there will no check chance for the eu. what he means on that. >>> plus, will ferrell is in low-budget tv ads for old milwaukee beer and doing them for nothing. what's the story here? we'll show you the spots in a little bit. the news live at 5:30 a.m. the republican candidates for president gearing up for another debate tomorrow night in iowa as newt gingrich settles into his spot as the field's front-runner

also, for keyby bryant, we know how this is going to play out. his wife, vanessa, has now filed for divorce. details on why in just a moment. but from the cnn center, this is your saturday morning. so glad you could spend part of your weekend with us. one down, one to go. after minutes to go, the senate approved one of the bills in front of them. today and so far this morning, it was that payroll tax extension. that means your paycheck should stay about the same, but only for the next couple of months. if it had expired, then the government would have been taking a bigger chunk out of your paycheck. the average american family would see about $1,000 increase in their paychecks per month. the house has to take this up, however. expected to do that next week. the payroll tax extension is expected to pass and it did. what are we expecting in the house maybe come monday? >> t.j., that's actually a very unclear still at this moment. since this extension agreement came late last night, we've been trying to find out how this is going to play out in the

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derrick rose, the mvp, outpoints kobe bryant and the lakers, 88-87. and to all a good night. >> hubie: mike that was just great strategy by chicago. they had deng on him. look at this. three guys are on kobe. a clean block from the rear, right there. >> mike: deng. >> hubie: yep. just watch the elevation. right there, the corner guy -- they get two guys, have a shot at blocking the shot. but to this game was the double-team to give them the basketball in this situation. and this is an incredible shot by derrick rose over the top. >> mike: he worked on that floater a lot this season. and here's rose with heather cox. >> heather: thank you, mike. congratulations. we just saw your winning basket with 4.8 seconds left. describe the confidence level you have to have as you are making that shot. >> my teammates give me the confidence to take the shot, man. without them, without my coaching staff, whatever, i wouldn't be in that position. they gave me the ball. we just fall away back into the game. >> heather: after a sluggish third quarter, wehere you reall

>> pelley: i don't live in cleveland. >> bryant: okay.d be your summer home. ( laughter ) >> pelley: in theory, there shouldn't be this many abandoned houses. when homeowners walk away, the bank is supposed to take responsibility. but one little known feature of the great recession is that many banks are walking away, too, unwilling to maintain a house whose value has crashed. >> rokakis: very often, a bank will take a property to the point of foreclosure, but won't go to the sheriff's sale because they don't want that property. they don't want the responsibility of the $8,000- $10,000 bill that comes with tearing this house down. >> pelley: former county treasurer jim rokakis says some banks have turned their backs on a blight they created. >> rokakis: in a normal real estate market, people are out looking for loans. in the perverse real estate market we created in this country, you know, during the period 2000 to 2006, this wasn't people looking for money, this was money looking for people. and that's why so many of those loans were mad

great defense forced a turnover by kobe bryant inside 10 seconds bryantmvp derrick rose the old one hadto regain the lead. five seconds left lakers had one more chance right to kobe bryant had 28 points and became but they bought them on the baseline and deng packed it to end game 88-87. have the warriors' next right here on wgn looking forward to that that you so much. that is the news tonight.

he's been doing something called, bryanting. do you know what that is? kobe bryanting? tebowing. except when kobe gets down on one knee, he's praying for a a good divorce lawyer. [ laughter ] it's a little similar to tebowing. [ applause ] hey -- and kris humphries has signed a one-year deal with the new jersey nets for $8 million. remember the last multimillion-dollar deal he signed lasted only 72 days. so this is a whole year. [ light laughter ] this will be a good one. hey, thomas haden church on the show tonight. he's from the -- [ cheers and applause ] yes, terrific actor. he's from this new -- great family movie. it's called "we bought a zoo." and they're already working on the sequel. in the sequel the family falls on hard times, that's called "we ate a zebra." it's a good movie, too. it's a lovely, wonderful story. [ laughter ] and "fear factor" doing really well here at nbc. you know, they've already come up with a spinoff. have you seen the ads? just take a look. >> announcer: in three -- [ screams ] >> announcer: two -- >> whoa! >> announcer: one. [ screams ]

bryant commits his eighth turn over of the game. derrick rose's that's his cue to step up.e youngest mvp studies the defense then drives. scores the go ahead bucket. 32 for rose. both score the final seven points. kobe the one last chance to beat him is in denial. no follow, no bucket. chicago wins 88-87. lakers may never win a game this year. then i may be wrong. >>> how would you feel if you lost the nba finals then told you had to open in dallas and watch dallas raise their first championship banner. but at least the lakers get a little pay back. lebron tips it back for wade. and you have to like that 26 points, eight rebounds, six assists for wade. dallas traded for former laker odom. number seven in white, lamar gets called. odom gets ejected. >>> the knicks main man carmelo anthony misses. this time carmelo is money. new york led by 10 at halftime. but they're playing without their star paul pierce. rondo all alone for the game tieing line up. boston led until carmelo anthony hits a three pointer that ties the game again. carmelo scores his -- jumper won't go. new yor

i'm pete gilbert. >> kobe bryant's wife has filed for divorce. she cited irreconcileable differences as the reason for the split. they asked for physical and legal custody of the their two daughters. vanessa stayed with the l.a. lakers star after a colorado woman accused him of rain in 2003. those charges were dropped and the case was settled out of court. >> cute children. >> yes, beautiful. >> here's a look ahead to our next hour of "11 news saturday morning". >> loved ones remembering the life of a baltimore county teen who was killed in an accident. i'm sheldon dutes. that story straight ahead. >> a family sues the baltimore city school system and two school principals over bullying. i'm lowell melzer. the story coming up. >> no snow now, while it may be cold enough this evening, there may be a few flakes here and there. we'll talk about the insta-weather plus forecast coming up. >> publicity around the sexual abuse at penn state prompted the chancellor of maryland to revisit their rules. washington called for stronger child abuse reporting l

laker guard kobe bryant and his wife are divorcing.e filed today citing irreconcilable differences. there is no prenuptial agreement. it is reported that kobe bryant is worth, get this, pregnant pause, $360 million. so it's california, catherine. >> i know what that means. >> that means half. >> i know that means half. >> and he knows that means half. >> he does now. >> so his knees will buckle just a little bit more. storewide. unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save. get $10 off with... ...no exclusions. we make christmas affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. [ male announcer ] it's easy to see what subaru owners care about. ♪ that's why we created the share the love event. get a great deal on a new subaru and 250 dollars goes to your choice of five charities. ♪ with your help, we can reach 20 million dollars by the end of this, our fourth year. [ female announcer ] get 0 percent apr financing on select models for thirty-six months and we'll donate two-hundred and fifty dollars to your choice of five charities. no

he ended up venting to bear bryant. >> i said, "you're going to have a stroke." he was so intense. >> interviewer: this is the first guy you heard the word "al qaeda" and "bin laden" from. shouldn't he be there? >> well, he wasn't. >> interviewer: but that wasn't your decision. i got a feeling that wasn't your decision. >> well, he wasn't there. >> interviewer: it wasn't your decision, was it? >> he wasn't there. >> narrator: stuck in new york, o'neill had to be content to learn as much as possible long distance. agents in east africa had found another training manual nearly identical to the one found in the world trade center bombing. one cooperating witness revealed that bin laden was planning to send operatives to the us for pilot training. a computer found in a raid showed hundreds of targets around the world already surveilled and approved. o'neill's agents identified a man named mohamed rashed daoud al-'owahali. he led them to a safe house in yemen that acted as a kind of terrorist telephone exchange, relaying messages to and from bin laden in afghanistan.l

bryant said he can play through pain as he entered his 16th season. the lakers will open against chicago on christmas day. injuries in football and basketball, the tough keep going. >> thank you, mark. we'll be right back. there's always a moment. the moment you decide to get involved, to get engaged. this is my american story. when you teach someone to read they have a sense of self-fulfillment. seeing family, friends fall victim to gang violence, drugs it definitely made me want to serve. there was a hole in the ground and by the time we left, there was a house. i realized that these kids were not getting a meal. it is so easy to give back. i don't have a lot of money to help people but i do have something: i have time. you can give any skill you have get up and do something! just imagine how strong a society we could be. every one of us has a role to play in making our communities and our country stronger. discover yours - help us continue to make a difference in the life of our nation. go to serve dot gov and find the opportunity that >>> be sure

bryant with the fade-away, puts his team up by six. but he may have re-injured his wrist on the play. after landing on the court. he checks out his arm. chicago would not go away. deng to the hoop and the foul. the bulls wind three. they cut it to one. then off a kobe turnover, derrick rose hits hits the floa. he had 22. bulls by one with 4.8 seconds left. kobe's shot is blocked. chicago pulls out a thriller. >>> 88-87. >> just playing defense. and it worked out for us tonight. we definitely don't want to be in that situation, but thank god that it came through our way. >> the celtics playing without paul pierce. rondo with the team, high 31 points but the knicks counter with cal -- carmelo anthony. boston with the ball. one last chance to tie or go ahead. but kevin garnett's jumper is off the rim. the knicks win, 106-104. >> defending champs dallas took on miami but the rematch of last season's finals was more of a mismatch. off the turnover, here come the easement lebron james to chris bosch for the jam. miami led by 21 at the break.

with less than a minute to play and bryant puts l.a. on top by six. bryant scored 28 despite playing with a torn ligament in his right wrist. yes, he falls on the court and you can see him rubbing his arm later. chicago wouldn't go away. gasol and the bulls are within three. they cut it to one. and then off a kobe turnover. he had 22. the bulls lead by one. the last chance for the lakers and they go to kobe. a shot is blocked and chicago pulls out a thriller 88-87. the celtics without paul pierce took on the knicks. rondo picks up the slack. the knicks come back behind anthony. with time running out. new york lead by two. boston with the ball. and it is off the rim. and the knicks hang on to win it 106-104. the mavs look nothing like champs as they are smoked by miami .'s it turned out to be a mismatch. miami lead by as much as 35. now, lebron james with a touch pass to dwyane wade for two of his 26. six assists 10 rebounds and 37 points. 105-94 the final. the score does not indicate how lopsided this game was. dwight howard and the magic were in okla

champions los angeles lakers have started the new season with defeats kobe bryant and company losing to the chicago bulls on home court by single point eighty eight eighty seven the visitors had a narrow two point lead after the first quarter they extended their advantage to seven by halftime mainly thanks to derrick rose who would eventually finish with twenty two points for the visitors the lakers woke up only in the third period as bryant with his partners added eight more than their rivals to find themselves one point ahead by the beginning of the fourth quarter dunk from josh mcroberts given los angeles a sixty nine sixty eight means besides were neck and neck for the final twelve minutes but with less than five seconds to go rose added the most important to point to seal the final result the game finished eighty eight eighty seven in favor of the bulls. stand across the ocean where in the n.f.l. the green bay packers have clinched the number one seed in the playoffs that's asked for a beating the chicago bears on home serve thirty five twenty one aaron rodgers turned out to be

-- kobe bryant is the -- kobe bryant is the best player. rim is shaped like a a doughnut. i'll dunk it, eat it, anyway -- [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: not bad. >> you know what? i like him so much i'm going to give him a pass. >> jay: you're gonna give him a a pass? like, is there any people that do you and just get irritated by. i don't like it when that guy does it. >> no, frank caliendo does a a good job. what i hate more than anything in the world, jay. >> jay: mm-hmm. >> every fat black guy who's bald -- >> jay: yeah. >> -- comes up to me and say they look like me. [ laughter ] >> jay: yeah. >> listen, i am not -- i'm talking 50 to 100-- every fat, black guy who's bald -- and i'll be thinking, damn -- clearly, i'm not as good looking as i think i am. [ laughter and applause ] >> jay: look, we'll take a a break. when we come back we'll talk politics. hey, remember, jenny craig. more with charles right after this. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thank you card to pick up

>>ysabel: kobe bryant and his wife are divorcing. and as of lyons filed divorce papers yesterday citing irreconcilable differences. there is no freedom of between the two. it is estimated his worth of to $360 million. the couple plans to share joint custody of their two daughters to. >>marty: when we come back, stanley roberts and the the latest edition of people behaving badly. >>ysabel: traffic is sticking up a bit but moving slowly. if the fifth >>marty: glide memorial church did away more than 5000 bags filled with groceries on friday. as stanley roberts explains, he paid a visit to the giveaway but found a lot of people behaving badly. >>stanley: there was a mass sell-off in said francisco that had nothing to do with stocks and bonds. for >>stanley: at every year of glide memorial church gives out food to the needy. this year, they even had a new set up to speed the process, but leave it to people with less than honorable intentions. chief >>stanley: look at all of this food, the man in the brown shirt has set up shop to sell th

. >> james bryant. >> good morning, directors. >director kim: we called mr. bryan be we will continue to call the names. >> james bryant. western regional director. have done a very fine job, maria, you always have done a fine job around the city. you continue. i am impressed that you all have been very good about looking at what is important about making sure this project works in a very professional way, in a very financial responsible way, and bringing all the unions together, including mike. that is a joke. let me express, if at all possible, if you could saee any federal changes to keep the door open. i come from a community that has very high unemployment, and we would like to use this as a possibility of changing, not only the status of someone's common life, but the status of a community's life. this project has the potential. i am impressed with the categories that you all have diligently talked about. those categories including, where you need to start, which is where the youths are, the high schools, in developing folks with apprenticeship programs

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goes to new orleans and chris brown will be a new member of the los angeles clippers to give kobe bryant-a run for his money. now here is what is crazy, he has $27 million guaranteed but there's a new rule in the nba without warning to too much detail you can cut a guy and it will not count against your salary cap but you still have to pay him. so they cut him, they owe him $27 million they still did the money but they did not have that against the cap, so they can go out and sign somebody else. the nook aaron davis he's good for like a year or two and then he did in some trouble. some people, the more you get to know them the more you like them and when you get to know them, nothing but trouble. for cleveland as on the hook for 27 million right now. and what does qum cruzahy--and what doesqumay brown look like? this is him. he was bumped around, he still had the little chip on his shoulder. >> i did nothing have anything to prove to be in the no. 1 pick. i have let this stuff go. as i said a key part the people around me. i think there always be critics and everything that you do. >>gar

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vanessa bryant and the basketball star had been married more than ten years. they have two daughters who are 8 and 5 years old. in 2003 colorado prosecutors charged kobe bryant with sexual assault but dropped the case after the victim refused to testify. >>> a united front in suburban detroit as about 200 muslims and christian protestors lined up to picket lowe's, because they chose to pull ads from the tlc show "the all-american muslim." lowe's decision came after a florida group opposed the show. a local station said 30 counterprotestors showed up to support lowe's. >>> the hazing scandal at florida a&m university may soon lead to a lawsuit. a freshman said is vicious hazing left her leg so badly injured she had to go to the hospital. her attorney is going to join me next. >>> but first, a national report released just this week finds that nearly half of america's public schools failed federal achievement standards. how can parents help turn around a failing school? we get some advices from from steve perry in this edition of "perry's principles". >> there a