damien actually reached out to me on facebook. actually, through facebook.d me he loved my style and that he wanted to get me and yo-yo together, and i looked up yo-yo. who's this yo-yo guy? never heard of a guy named yo-yo. >> a guy named yo-yo. exactly. yeah. >> and yo-yo in middle school, middle school bathrooms. no. but, yeah -- i looked him up and found out all the amazing things, all the awards he won and how he was a prodigy at a very young age playing for all of our presidents. i thought it was amazing. i was like -- wow. this is an incredible opportunity. i was living in l.a. by the time they reached out to me. i was 19 or 20 years old when they reached out to me and we just met up. they knew i was in l.a. and yo-yo so happened to have a concert at the walt disney concert hall here. >> uh-huh, yeah. sure. >> i met up with yo-yo there. the first thing he said to me, are you lil buck? when he saw me. i just told him, i said yes. he just gave me this big hug. the only thing he said after that is, i want to try something. he opened up his case, brought

oakland native damien lillard and sacramento kings center demarcus cousins are also finalists. 4 more players will be cut to get to the final roster of 12 that will go to spain for the fiba world cup becky hammond 1st woman full- time nba assistant coach the san antonio spurs hired wnba star becky hammon today making her the first full-time, paid female assistant on an nba coaching staff. hammon who plans to retire from the wnba's san antonio stars after this season spent time working with coach gregg popovich and the spurs last season. >> i remember telling my dad i want to play in the w nba and my dad said i never would be able to. but he never said anything about coaching!. >> she is an assistant coach and will not take the full weight but it will be interesting to follow. raiders practice today matt schaub the most-watched playiner in training camp maurice drew the de la salle alum how will he and darren mcfadden split time in the backfield? charles woodson beginning his 18th year in the nfl rod streater likely schaub's #1 receiver as a number of others batter to play opposite him

in that was burning in order to make it more easy all of us damien's for war between the cities ok i want to ask you a personal question for you when you're standing at the checkpoint how do you feel when you see these people that don't have guns and don't have anything crossing to the checkpoint for stinky's for long hours and you're standing there with a gun controlling controlling their lives. what do you feel like you very much. how many years if you even the army. five years you look young to them being an army for five years. i just can't help but think the guy's a kid and then they put him up to be the i.d.f. spokesperson i mean he had to in all fairness he did a good job of it at his age but i mean at the end of days a kid. why would you as an army want to put forward a kid as your spokesperson the idea could have done itself of a disservice by giving us a stronger person who is more of a spokesperson rather than someone who is just so young i wish that israelis and palestinians could see each other as people and not just as the representation of the israeli army and the same

basketball team that will compete in the fiba world cup in spain portland trrailblazer and oakland native damien lillard and sacramento kings center demarcus cousins also made the final 16 >> gary: the finalists now go to chicago to resume training as 4 more payers need to be cut in order to reach the final roster of 12 they will play an exhibition versus brazil at the united center on august 16. >> gary:paul george who broke his right leg during an exhibition game last week underwent surgery saturday and is expected to be out 12-18 months luckily his suffered no torn ligamants >> gary:warriors forward maurice speights was arrested and charges with d- u-i in tampa florida this morning. the team said they are aware of the incident but have no futher comment at this time. >> gary:becky hammond 1st woman full-time nba assistant coach the san antonio spurs hired wnba star becky hammon today making her the first full- time, paid female assistant on an nba coaching staff. >> gary:hammon who plans to retire from the wnba's san antonio stars after this season spent time working with coach gregg popovich

>>:warriors stephen curry and klay thompson have made the final 16 >>:oakland native damien lillard andramento kings center demarcus cousins are also >>:4 more players will be cut to get to the final roster of 12 that will go to spain for the fiba world cup >>:raiders getting ready for the season as always in napa. >>:newly acquired quarterback matt schaub the most-watched playiner in training camp. >>:raiders hoping schaub can be the answer they've been looking for >>:also new to the silver and black. >>:maurice jones-drew the de la salle alum he and darren mcfadden will split time in the backfield. >>:the raiders open preseason play at minnesota on friday. >>:here are the big stories we're working on for you this morning. >>:bart service was suspended for nearly two hours last night after a bomb threat at the west oakland bart station. >>:the threat was made on an a-c transit bus that was about to >>:the bomb squad and k-9 units were called in to search. the >>:no explosive device was found. and more help is on the way to >>:a fire crew from connecticut has been sent out to help fight

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remember they picked him up last august in a trade with jenkins but then signed la damien.f machinations taking place leading up to their first preseason game this week. >> whether mind, thank you. >>> still to come, taking it down piece by piece. we'll explain the artistic campaign that will transform salvage steel from the bay bridge. [ heart beating ] [ female announcer ] the internet gets more exciting the faster it goes. that's why, coming soon, xfinity will double the internet speed on two of our most popular plans. xfinity continues to innovate, bringing you the fastest, most reliable internet, period. [ heart beating ] xfinity internet from comcast. double the speed. [ heart beats ] ♪ [ barks ] whoo! mmm! ♪ ♪ oh, yeah [ whistling ] [ male announcer ] discover your new orleans. start exploring at followyournola.com. [ woman ] and i love new orleans! >>> let's take a live look at the new span of the bay bridge as we are learning more details about the old span. it is getting new life in public art. crews are still in the beginning stages of dismantling that span. the

basketball team that will compete in the fiba world cup in spain portland trrailblazer and oakland native damienrd and sacramento kings center demarcus cousins also made the final 16 >> gary:the finalists now go to chicago to resume training as 4 more payers need to be cut in order to reach the final roster of 12 they will play an exhibition versus brazil at the united center on august 16 >> gary: underwent surgery saturday and is expected to be out 12-18 months luckily his suffered no torn ligamants >> gary:warriors forward maurice speights was arrested and charges with d- u-i in tampa florida this morning. the team said they are aware of the incident but have no futher comment at this time. >> gary:becky hammond 1st woman full-time nba assistant coach >> gary:the san antonio spurs hired wnba star becky hammon today making her the first full-time, paid female assistant on an nba coaching staff. >> you would never have to put you would never be able to play in the nba. i will have to call my father. and tell him that he never said coaching. >> reporter:hammon who plans to retire from the wnba's

>> damien plight at "wall street journal." secretary lew, we had a couple democrats propose changes to the payroll tax allocation to send more money to the disability trust fund so that you guys don't have to do -- as a way to fix it, the solvency. do you support that? >> let me say in the past when we have had a situation like this, the measures taken in the short term at least to deal with it was to do a reallocation of the payroll tax rates to support the disability fund. i think if you look from now until 2016, there is probably no other alternative which could produce the desired results between now and then, so i think it's going to be important for there to be legislation that does reallocate the payroll tax to support the disability fund, and then as we go through the process of looking more broadly at the reforms needed in oasdi to deal with the longer term questions. i just want to underscore that we do have in our budget a number of provisions that would improve program integrity in the disability program. we're goi

if you look in history, one of -- father damien, who worked among the lepers in hawaii for so many years before he contracted it himself, just unbelievable, inspirational character. story, asd about his many have as well, and he is honored in the capital. there are so many people. they're such courageous, and whoely unheralded people take the gospel, particularly christians and others of faith as well, but my favorite scripture happens to be matthew 25 when "when i was hunger, did you feed me, naked, did you cl oth me, and whatever you did to you did on to me . so there are huge gaps in economics, health, and these people go into the most remote areas where infection, war, terrorism, threatens their lives and they do it out of the love of god and love of neighbor that is all-inspiring. purse -- samaritan's purse, all of these groups, they go where people would not dare to go. eight be lifted up. need to be praying for them -- they need to be lifted up. we need to be praying for them. they are the frontline of containing this so that it does not spread. dr. kent brantly, he is well regard

. >> reporter: hurley brings her real life son damien to the set.pt or to watch it. it's quite out there. for me this is, like, sex drugs and rock and roll. >> reporter: hurley's on-screen son prince liam has an american girlfriend that hurley's character doesn't quite like. is it very like the american girl to come in and throw all the status quo into chaos? >> and the queen's not happy she's invaded their zone and what the queen has lined up for the prince. >> reporter: so what does she have lined up for the prince? >> she has a diamond heiress lined up. >> reporter: are you guys going to -- >> kiss? >> reporter: yeah. >> right now? >> reporter: in the show. we'll just have to wait and see. but hurley says the show will be unmissable. >> you want to see drama and heightened stuff. if that's your bag, you might get lucky. >> reporter: for "today," katy tur, nbc news, london. >> bizarre on the kiss question. we got it. >>> next, more birthday surprises for our man in the morning. like this. but first this is "today" on nbc. >>> we are back now with