commissioner david stern and mlb commissioner bud selig the charles woodson era is over in green bay.ackers released the 36 year old woodson after 7 seasons. woodson had two years left on a 5-year, $55 million deal and was due to make $9 million next year. in 2009 woodson was the defensive player of the year for the pack he spent his first 8 seasons with the raiders where he was the rookie of the year in 1998 at age 36, after 15 years in the league - you got to serena oldest #1 ever serena williams regained her number one ranking today in qatar after beating petra kyitova in three sets. in doing so, at age 31 she becomes the oldest woman williams cried after the match when addressing the crowd saying she never thought she would be here again

. >>> the kings are closer to moving to seattle david stern said the group had featured an agreement to purchase the kings and have formally filed papers. he called the group very strong and said a board will make a decision on the move in april. the mayor of sacramento said he is working to put together a group to buy the team and build a stadium. >>> a camel that got loose in concord is back at a secure corral. we have video of the unusual rondo. the owner tells us the animal, caught a fence, the highway patrol got him home but three hours later he was on the run again. >> i think he found a way to compromise the fence line. >> animal services said the owners will be given a warning. >>> great white sharks are the most feared predator. now they are the ones getting protection. today they decided to move the great whites to the california threatened or endangered species list. researchers say there are fewer than 400 great whites between mexico, hawaii and alaska. >> we will sort this out, still ahead. >>> the only thing that may have talked to bill murray at this week's golf challe

but commissioner david stern says prokhorov passed all the tests. of character? >> i think he's as man who has passed a very tight security check, and nobody has come up with any reason why he shouldn't be an nba owner. >> commissioner stern believes prokhorov to be a shrewd businessman, although we found him to be a bit unorthodox. where's your computer? >> i don't use a computer. >> you have something against computers? >> we have too much information, and it's really impossible to filter it. >> he believes his biggest strengths are organization and leading people. any abilities you wish you had that you don't have? >> sometimes maybe to be less tall. >> to be less tall? [chuckles] well, you're about to enter a world of very tall people with the nba. you're gonna actually be pretty short. >> [chuckles] compared with the players, yes, but compared with the common people, i am tall enough. trust me. >> prokhorov has been brushing up on his english and his jump shot. if everything goes according to plan, in 2012, he will move the nets to a brand new

super bowl week talk about legalizing sports betting betting, david stern nba commissioner -- commissionerone thing i am certain of commonage jersey says they have no idea they're doing because they are just interested in making it the dollar. >> but if you legalize it is in the light and where you get more problems with college sports when they don't pay the players. >> whether sports betting or on-line gambling, it is projecting another domestic industry. john: nfl, nba, national hockey league have joined a lawsuit against new jersey that it threatens the integrity of sports sports, fundamentally at odds with the contest must be perceived as being determined solely on the basis of honest athletic competition. >> is already happening. there are bookies on it every corner and a tremendous amount of illegal gambling. bring it into the light. >> the most ardent supporters of those leaks those of the most ardent illegal gamblers. >> nobody will watch the bull without the spread is published in "usa today." [laughter] people are watching the game because of the spread. john: half of the state'

super bowl week talk about legalizing sports betting betting, david stern nba commissioner -- commissioner, one thing i am certain of commonage jersey says they have no idea they're doing because they are just interested in making it the dollar. >> but if you legalize it is in the light and where you get more problems with college sports when they don't pay the players. >> whether sports betting or on-line gambling, it is projecting another domestic industry. john: nfl, nba, national hockey league have joined a lawsuit against new jersey that it threatens the integrity of sports sports, fundamentally at odds with the contest must be perceived as being determined solely on the basis of honest athletic competition. >> is already happening. there are bookies on it every corner and a tremendous amount of illegal gambling. bring it into the light. >> the most ardent supporters of those leaks those of the most ardent illegal gamblers. >> nobody will watch the bull without the spread is published in "usa today." [laughter] people are watching the game because of the spread. john: half of the stat

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now they have sponsored other distinguished speakers, the founder ross perot, the commissioner david stern, david gergen. sue and chuck have dedicated their careers and energy to serving their country and their community and a variety of ways. between them, they are formidable, diplomatic corps that spends from iceland to jamaica to d.c. to tallahassee and miami. they served from 2001 to 2005 during the same time when the secretary served as the national security advisor and u.s. secretary of state governor bush appointed the secretary of state of florida from 2005 to 2007. she has taught at ford service institute as the co-chair of the u.s. the part of state mandatory seminar for the newly appointed ambassadors and in an interesting twist she spoke at stanford university where secretary rice is a very distinguished member of the faculty and former provost and the university of miami school of law. she was the u.s. ambassador to the republic of iceland during the administration of george h. w. bush and during the ronald reagan administration he served as the under secretary and assistant s

nba commissioner david stern says he wants that plan in his office within the next two weeks. mayor johnson says he will meet that deadline. >> we are going to have all the agreements and actions and documents. >> i like the fact we don't have to do anything this week or next but have until april 18th to bring it before the owners. >> microsoft executive steve is leading the investment group that hopes to bring the kings to seattle. in response. sacramento mayor says he is ready to build a new downtown stadium to save the kings. >>> four golden state warriors are heading to houston for the nba all star weekend. david lee is a reserve on the all star team. would you believe he's the warriors first all star since remember letrell? he did it in 1997. steph curry are compete in the three-point shootout. >>> back here at home big trees are about to come down at golden gate park. the park and recreation department is plan to remove 150 trees from the park in the coming months. this is the second phase of a program that is targeting hazardous trees in the area. after those trees were

david stern says he wants that plan in his office in the next two weeks. mayor john san says he -- johnson says he will meet that deadline. four golden state warrior members are heading to houston for the nba all star weekend. david lee is a reserve. he's the first all star since litrell did in in '97. steph curry will be competing in the three point shootout. >>> palo alto will be able to upgrade its indoor athletic facilities thanks to a anonymous donor. now the donor wants to bring the schools athletic department up to the standards of rival gun high school. that project could be finished by summer 2015. great news for them. >>> 6:26 is the time. i hope we have great news in traffic. >> i think so far so good. we've been looking at a lot of these commutes. including the santa clara valley and 280 still looks pretty good if you have to go into the office today. so far so good. southbound 680 also looks good out of pleasanton. 580 traffic is moving along well. we're off to a nice start. we will check in with castro valley in a little bit. right now that l

nba commissioner david stern says the application from the seattle group is very strong. three weeks ago the family sold the team to investors in seattle. they are still working on a plan to keep the team in town. >> sounds like changes are coming. a major milestone for apple's itunes. >> airline news including cheaper flights. we'll take a look in business news. >>> apple's itunes hitting a major milestone. 25 billion songs downloaded. the 25 billionth song was downloaded by a man in germany. he'll receive a 10,000 gift card to itunes. if you are doing the math at home, an average of 15,000 songs downloaded every minute. that's wild. >>> the computer revolution meantime is over. scott mcgrew says the bestselling computers at christmas is not even a computer. >> it's not a computer in traditional sense. it's not a laptop. not a mac. not a pc. it's an ipad. apple sold 22 million ipads in the holiday season. hp sold 15 million computers and keep in mind that hp figure would include computers sold to businesses. a lot of airline news to pass on to you this morning. keep in m

david stern, nba commissioner. >> the one thing i'm certain of, in new jersey where they've just passed a law to legalize this, has no idea what it's doing and doesn't care because all it's interested in is making a buck. >> john: if there's more betting, there's mortemations to say throw this game. >> even so, if you're legalizing it, everything is in the light and you're less likely to have that happen. where you actually get more problems is in college sports where they don't pay the players. >> the push to have these restrictions -- > c >> john: which we'll talk about later tonight. >> whether it's sports betting or on line gambling, it's all about protecting another domestic industry. >> the nfl, the nba, the national hockey league, the ncaa, they've all joined a lawsuit against new jersey. gambling threatens the integrity of sports. fundamentally at odds with the principle that the outcomeor of the contest must be perceived by the public a s determined solely on the basis of honest athletic competition. >> they have their heads in the sand. you can bet on a game in las vegas, new

and the nba commissioner david stern called him a visionary and that his influence on the game is incalincalcuable. you have seen what he has brought to the game, and it's almost fitting that the sad news comes on the heel of the glamorous of all glamour weekends, nba all-star weekend, and you were there. >> i had a great time. i go every year. our sister network, tnt, tellvises it. they invite me, and it was a lot of fun. courtside seat celebrities. doesn't get bigger than that. beyonce there with jay-z, i was sitting a little behind them. not necessarily first row, but i had good seats. could see a back of her hair. >> beautiful hair. there you a. >> there's kobe bryant. there's my good froiend from b.e.t. you know where we were? >> where? >> michael jordan's 50th birthday party. how cool is that? >> very cool. >> happy birthday, michael jordan. arguably the best basketball player. >> we need to improve your ability to take these photos. we need to improve that. there's a good one. >> there's the wolf pack. you see shaquille o'neal, roger mason jr., the great basketball player. wala, the rap art

by comparison nba commissioner david stern and mlb commissioner bud selig both took home about $20 millionodson era is over in green bay. the packers released the 36 year old woodson after 7 seasons. woodson had two years left on a 5-year, $55 million deal and was due to make $9 million next year. in 2009 woodson was the defensive player of the year for the pack he spent his first 8 seasons with the raiders where he was the rookie of the year in 1998 at age 36, after 15 years in the league - you got to bryant braun of the milwaukee blowers has a hand written list of names of known performance enhancing drug baseball players. braun, who got out of it last year. he will have to fight this again. it has been a good night. nice to see it vicki say something positive about a restaurant normally she'd just beats them up. my man is here. we know what i like is that uni i love what he's here. its charity work. a lot of talk about michael jordan turning 50, he took some time on espn but now jordan it was hit with a question who is still better kobe bryant or lebraun james. kobe because he has five

. >>> nba commissioner david stern says the league hopes to follow major league baseball and the nfltesting for human growth hormone for next season. they ha they. >>> facebook will start telling you when ads on your page are specifically targeted for you. the social network is under pressure to beef up security and they figure telling you will get points with consumers. i don't know. i don't know telling me, hey, we're targeting you. >> we're on to you. this is how we know all this stuff. >> thank you. >>> it's a look at one of the deadliest days of america's longest war through the eyes of one of the men right in the middle of it. a warrior who ignored his own wounds to rescue others. this is part of a new special called "an american hero" from cnn's chief washington correspondent jake tapper. here is a sneak peek. >> throughout all of this did you ever think this is it? i'm not going to get out of here? >> it's like a fighter going into the boxing ring. if you think you're going to lose before you even step in the ring, you have already lost. you're there to win. you're there to f

david stern wants the plan in his office within the next two weeks and mayor johnson says he will meetne. >> we're gonna have all of the agreements and the actions and the documents there by the 1st. >> microsoft executive steve bomber, stow, in fact, it leading the investment group that hopes to bring the kings to seattle. sacramento mayor says he's ready to build a new downtown stadium to save the kings. >>> and four gordon state warriors are heading to houston for the nba all-star weekend. day lid leigh is a reserve. he's the warrior's first all- star since latrell sprewell did it. clay thompson and harrison barns are in the rises stars' game. >>> 8:24. sal's a star. but there's another crash. it happened in walnut creek, didn't it? >> that's right. this is 680, dave, southbound at laborna road. 680 southbound at laborna. we have that traffic and traffic is slowing down. the only thing that we have to say about the backup is it would be a lot worse if it wasn't such a light day thisern nothing. if we -- this morning. if we move the maps down, the commute has been very nice with no m

obviously nba commissioner david stern hates whelp his players fight during the game. when it involved the league. it now has basically a zero tolerance for it. they get involved trying to stick up for a teammate. gets tossed aside two different times. the fans who pay top dollar to sit courtside are put right in the middle of all this. when all was said and done, six technicals. roy hibbert removed from the game. he should expect a one-game extension. >>> mario, this guy's been called an ego maniac for years. his latest stunt, far from humble. he's hired an artist to make a statue of himself. that statue is going to look like that pose. it will be platinum and bronze and eyes made of special stones. guess where he's going put that statue? smack in the middle of his power. >>> jimmie johnson, he's very happy. he's making talk show rounds, he was on letterman last night. during his moment, his time to shine, of course, guess whose name came up. >> this, if you were racing this, then you'd have something, by god. >> i'd have a hard time turning that one. >> what was it l

. >> david stern said sacramento may have a shot at keeping the kings in his annual news conference.d seattle investors have made a strong offer for the kings and they could reject it. >> he said the league is still waiting to hear the details of a counter offer from sacramento mayor kevin johnson. >> in seattle, we have two dom mit tees focusing on it. the advisory finance committee and we fully expect to have that process completed for a report to the board of governors at the meeting. >> they agreed to sell controlling interest to the kings to investors for $341 million. the board is expected to make the decision in april. >> all-star weekend continues today. last night, stars were showing off their skill insist the slam dunk contest. it came down to evans and they took the coast away with a between the leg dunk over the ball boy. in today's all-star game will feature a golden state warrior. he is a reserve on the western conference all-star team. >> lee is the warrior's first all-star since lotrel back in 1997. >>> that's a brave kid. >> ball boy. >> stay still. >> time now is 7:

and the nba commissioner david stern called him a visionary and that his influence on the game is incalincalcuablef all glamour weekends, nba all-star weekend, and you were there. >> i had a great time. i go every year. our sister network, tnt, tellvises it. they invite me, and it was a lot of fun. courtside seat celebrities. doesn't get bigger than that. beyonce there with jay-z, i was sitting a little behind them. not necessarily first row, but i had good seats. could see a back of her hair. >> beautiful hair. there you a. >> there's kobe bryant. there's my good froiend from b.e.t. you know where we were? >> where? >> michael jordan's 50th birthday party. how cool is that? >> very cool. >> happy birthday, michael jordan. arguably the best basketball player. >> we need to improve your ability to take these photos. we need to improve that. there's a good one. >>

david betray us to resign-- petraeus to resign. allen has been cleared of wrongdoing. he graduated from the naval academy and is a former commandant of midshipman. >>> a stern warning fromresident obama. people the lose -- will lose their jobs if congress does not step in and stop the looming cuts. >> reporter: president obama called in police and firefighters to help him talk republicans out of letting steep spending cuts take effect. >> this is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> reporter: the automatic cuts, known in washington, as the sequester, kick in march 1st. they were designed to be so severe, they would force lawmakers to reach a budget deal. but they haven't yet. and now the president is pushing i short-term fix to allow a short time to reach a comp might. >> there is a smarter way to do this. to reduce our deficits without harming our economy. but congress has to act. >> reporter: the white house wants a plan with smaller spending cuts and more tax revenues. republicans say the government is already too bloated. and higher taxes should not be part of this equation. >> but expert isabel thawhill says the automatic cuts will hurt the economy.