but commissioner david stern says prokhorov passed all the tests.ink he's a man 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 t

the clipping i found was actually the origin of the campaign and it was david stern the publisher of the philadelphia record. every day in that newspaper there was some kind of a manufactured story about how great it would be and how natural an idea it is for the united nations to come to philadelphia. an endorsement from this politician or that one, every day they found something new. the mayor for his part had had another idea that a peace conference to end world war ii should happen at independence hall so he readily transferred that interest into this idea. so within a few weeks they had a big meeting of politicians and the leading citizens of philadelphia for time in the mayor's reception hall in city hall to push this idea long. it was there when they decided they had to send some people to san francisco in order to begin lopping right right-of-way. there is this interesting coalition of newspaper people and politicians and by the last phase where they're talking about elmo bledsoe you are entering into the air of her facial i city planning for philadelphia and the city planner

. >> and then there's the police department's spokesman, david morgen stern as well. >> more again sternht now on workers' comp. so he's on light duty. >> okay. >> but the public remains radical, especially in a sleepy development where neighbors are still defending george zimmerman. >> they may have thought but he's just -- >> he has these, okay. >> never be able to convince him that george zimmerman did anything wrong. >> never been on tv a while ago. mine is on a loop, matt. >>> but he had it right, especially for those who never asked for it. >> you have jonathan good that actually saw the fight. you have jeremy and jen a who made the 911 call. you have selma, you have celine. you have all these people who are casualties of this tragedy. >> lives destroyed, careers ended. a city ripped apart by the death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. jeff triplet, the mayor more of a custodian trying to piece the broken city back together. >> you apologize and you try to make things better. that's all you can do. you can't change the past. you cannot change it. but by god, you can walk through it an

hunter stern, jackson. >> i'm david mccord. the chair of the bay chapters energy committee sierra club. and we've had a long and productive process getting to this point. i want to thank the staff for their hard work to bring the not to exceed cap down to the level that is going to work. and now it's time to move ahead. if you implement green power san francisco and begin the build out of local renewable energy that will bring the city's carbon foot print down and create jobs for san franciscans. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, hunter stern. san francisco resident and supporter of shell shock. so, three things: recs are not real green power. let me say that again, recs are not real green power. these are not my words. these are words of former general manager mr. ed harrington. he said this to this body three years ago. he said that consistently until the point that he retired. what was passed by the board last september was not a rec's based program. recs are energy, they don't create energy, they are not

this morning kicked off with a panel featuring nfl commissioner roger goodell and nba commissioner david sternorting, a federal judge ruled that apple conspired to raise the price of e-books. the justice department says it conspired to undercut amazon. apple does say that it will continue to fight these accusations. apple's media chief eddie cue is described as a central witness in the antitrust e-book trial and is here along with amazon's jeff bezos. we haven't seen them together, though they are both here. following the morning's panel, the attendees will gather by the duck pond for lunch and many will go with their families on a whitewater rafting trip. carl, we'll continue to bring you more and more on cnbc.com. back over to you. >> sounds strenuous, julia. thanks very much. it's a beautiful shot there as well. if the white house has its way greek yogurt will be on lunch menus at schools across the u.s. and it could mean big business for our next quest. the ceo of chobani joins us when "squawk on the street" returns. really? yeah, i'd like that. who are you talking to? uh, it's jake from s