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ditto for john henry. jeff bezos wants to experiment. he wants to shift this medium and help it into the new age. >> and then you have this. >> i'm going to have post-traumatic stress. i was at "newsweek" for a decade. >> this went under the hammer for next to nothing. having no longer been in print, it's online and hardly there at all. they have to deny they are up for sale. >> you are holding "the new york times." they had to announce they're not for sale. >> this is how these papers are changing. just this week i subscribed to the home edition of "the new york times" because i moved to new york. i did it at 7:00 in the evening on wednesday. 7:00 in the evening on wednesday. on thursday morning at 6:00 a.m., it was outside the front gate. >> i am happy for you that you have this time to spend with your newspaper. thank you so much for being with us. you get to leave with these special parting gifts. >> have you seen this interesting article. >> coming up, mark zuckerberg has mostly shied away from politics until now. >> this is somethi

. >> i'm john henry smith.he tigers miguel cabrera continued his march toward another triple crown monday night. highlights from motown coming up in aljazeera america sports. >> more witnesses are expected to testify today in the sentencing of major nidal hasan. he's the army psychiatrist convicted last week of gang down 13 of his fellow soldiers in 2009 at tort hood. it appears we may hear from the 42-year-old before his punishment is handed down. live with us from the texas army post is heidi zhou-castro. hassan admitted to the shootings, but has he shown remorse since the proceedings began? >> no remorse whatsoever. he was emotionalless. yesterday as we heard one after another, family members of the victims talking about their unmeasurable loss. hassan declined to cross those relatives, using that soft spoken measured voice. now, there was any indication of what was going on underneath that masked exterior, he did ask for frequent breaks between the testimony, perhaps some sign of disquiet. meanwhile, elsewh

john henry got it for not even $70 million. it was worth $40 million in losses for "the new york times" to move it along which is kind of interesting if you think about it. the delivery of content is an important area. if they can keep the losses and keep the cash flow positive, some of these companies make money, not very much money but the cash flow is positive, that they can do something interesting. >> fewer and fewer are actually reading the actual newspaper. we know that printing is expensive. >> right. >> how come newspapers just don't go all digital? are there other issues we're not seeing? >> i don't know. they might as well just do that because i think it doesn't mean you have to get rid of print products. if there's good opportunities to do print products, do them. it's not like you have to be religious about them. the question is do the new consumers, especially young people, they love news. people love news. news has not gotten outof style. it's grown. online news has exploded. if they don't like print, why force i

a few days ago boston red sox owner john henry bought the "boston globe" for the bargain basement price of only $70 million. what is going on here? why will these foes succeed while others have failed. joining us is our own julia boorstin. why will they succeed where others have failed in. >> i think the question is how do you define success? one thing jeff bezos makes very clear in his letter about this and it was also in the press release is that he's not investing this just as a financial endeavor but he sees this as supporting journalism. he says "i understand the critical role the post plays in washington, d.c. and our nation and the post values will not change." he talks about the importance of the fact that the internet has changed every part of the news interest and it needs to expand and innovate. he has a lot of success using technology to transform the distribution of content. it will be really interesting to see how he applies that approach to newspapers and to the post. >> no question bezos is a digital genius. they're losing advertisers and they're losing readers to the in

. >> i'm john henry smith. if there's one player who proves you don't have to be a power hitter to be a baseball star, it's ichiro suzuki. coming up in sports, we'll tell you about his latest milestone. w gear. >> a new york yankee moves alongside elite company. john henry smith now here with sports. >> we are talking about ichiro suzuki. he's had an incredible career. when he became the first japanese player to make the leap to major league baseball, many thought he was too frail to survive in the american games. suzuki has proven himself to be one of the greatest contact hitters this game has ever seen. he reached a milestone with his first inning single, collecting his 4,000th career. fans gave him a standing o., teammates congratulated him. he has only logged part of those hits in the major leagues, the rest came in japan. >> as much courage as it takes to play contact sports like football or hockey, it takes a special courage to stand in the batter's box and stair down a 90-mile per hour fastball. there wa

. >> i'm john henry smith.ollege football star johnny moon zeal received his punishment, but was it really a punishment at all? launched a new and needed voice in journalism. the new york times calls it "serious, straight-forward news". "accurate, responsible" says the washington post. and the baltimore sun says, "instantly engaging and powerful". al jazeera america, there's more to it. >> what are the laws going to begin to take effect? >> reporter: the laws do not go >> convicted killer major nidal hasan is facing years of mandatory appeals. wednesday, a court martial jury sentenced him to death years after the shooting rampage at fort hood. his sentence came less than one week after conviction. it was november, 2009 when he opened fire on his fellow soldiers. 13 people died and more than 30 others were injured. >> investigators say a north korean ship was carrying weapons in violation of u.n. sanctions. there are reports a ship seize said in panama last month contained cargo including missile launching equip

this past weekend, john henry bout the "boston globe" along with their website and other assets for $70on bucks. he refused to talk about his plans, saying it would be presumptuous to talk about plans before we close the deal. three other moguls also made bids. this is the beginning of the new trend of the uber wealthy buying news service. some special take that michael bloomberg will try to buy the "new york times" and/or the financial times after he leaves office. and the koch brothers have expressed an interest in the tribune company. their interest has sparked multiple protests because of their strong conservative views, deep pockets and unapologetic views. joining us from new york to answer some questions are sam seder, and a guy -- i think his name is michael shure. he is the host of this program, and i'm just his under study. let's start with the "boston globe." it is widely accepted that newspapers are not profitable right now. michael we'll start with you. why would a billionaire want to get into an interest like this if not for the political influence that comes with newspaper

jeff bezos, john henry, warren buffet, these guys are good businessmen.u read twitter, you think print is dead and why do these businessmen want them so badly? just vanity? >> some is that but warren buffet i think is fantastic loves newspapers, not looking to transform the newspaper business, ditto john henry or sam zell from the "new york times." jeff bezos really wants to experiment and shift this medium into the new age. >> then you have this -- >> oh, no. i will have post traumatic stress. i was at ""newsweek"" for a decade. >> this one under the hammer for next to nothing. having been in print and now online and now hardly there at all. and they have to deny they're hardly up for sale. >> ayou are holding up the "new york times" this week and they had to announce we are not for sale. >> this is how it's changing. just this week i subscribed to the home edition of the "new york times" because i've moved to new york. i did it -- i did it at 7:00 in the evening on wednesday, 7:00 in the evening on wednesday. on thursday morning at 6:00 a.m., it was out

while "the boston globe" sold days ago to red sox owner john henry for $70 million.n "the new york times" paid for it 20 years ago. >> bob woodward, like to talk about larger media trends but this "washington post" story personal for you, talk about yesterday your feelings, talk about the future of the post. >> it's sad, but we're in this survival game and i think when you look at this, the bottom line in really everything surrounding it, is good news. jeff bezos is one of the real innovators. he understands things in ways that other people don't. he's willing to put a lot of his own money on the line here. he has deep pockets. we've discussed about, you know, what's the status of journalism reporting. do we really know what goes on? i think anyone will tell you in the news business, we don't dig deep enough. i think this is somebody who's -- who digs deep. he -- he gave a very interesting speech nine years ago in which he said, whenever there is something that is big that's done inefficiently, it's an opportunity. and if there's anything done inefficiently it's the

. >> thank you john henry smith. that will do it for this edition of aljazeera news. we're he back at 11:00 eastern.

john henry smith. >> you did that well.e a pro. >> i did it twice. >> the national league central has seemed like a two horse race, two horse race between the cardinals and pirates, but as the announcer hollers down the stretch they come, the reds are lurking in third place, just two and a half games out of the top spot monday night. the visiting reds jumped on the cardinals 4-0 before sluggers jumped all over reds pitching, holiday going yard, turning a rout into a tight one. a grand slam, 7-10 with bases loaded this year, but that was the most impressive clutch knock. the cards take sole possession of first place. it was just a month and a half ago that mets pitcher matt harvey was starting the all-star game. his world has turned upside down, the result of a partially tosh legment in his elbow. the mets placed harvey on the disabled list after an m.r.i. revealed an injury could lead to tommy john surgery. the mets are hoping that several weeks of rest will allow the ligament to heal on its own. harvey's 9-5 this season wi

. >> i'm john henry smith. tiger woods can't find a comfortable bed. sports, coming up.ission. >> there's more to america, more stories, more voices, more points of view. now there's are news channel with more of what americans want to know. >> i'm ali velshi and this is "real money." this is "america tonight." sglovrjs our -- >> our news coverage reveal more of america's stories. >> welcome back to aljazeera, i'm dell walter, u.n. weapon inspectors driving in their convoy were hit repeatedly by gunfire en route to the site of the alleged chemical weapons attacks. they were forced to return to their hotel. there are no reports of injuries. >> california forestry officials say the wild of yosemite national park is 7% contained. strong winds are pushing the flames back into the park. >> the nation's third largest school district back in session this morning. students in the midwest navigating school closures and teacher layoffs. >> u.n. secretary said the world is watching syria as chemical weapons teams investigate a site near damascus. 335 people were killed in an allege

. >> thank you, dave, i'm john henry smith.t drama, look no further than bail's national league central. highlights when aljazeera turns to sports. >> boston magazine released images of tsarnaev emerging bottoming the boat where he was hiding. he is pleading not guilty to charges. >> here's john henry smith with the sports. >> we had a young lady totally a breath of fresh air come out of the u.s. open. baseball, st. louis cardinals are the only national league central team to win a word series. you know what they haven't won in the last three seasons? a central division crown. jay bruce was in right field, tuesday night, should have tried a bit harder. matt carpenter had safe passage home. the cardinals take a 1-0 lead. they hold the lead until he showed what he could do. the cards would go on to win 6-1. they'll try and sweep the reds tonight. st. louis is also in first place, the second place pirates trying to keep pace. they couldn't keep aramis ramirez from going yard. that's his 350th career home run. they led 6-5 in the s

john henry now rooted in boston buying the boston globe any of the grand family rooted here in washingtond.c. ceding control of the paper. andnalism is important having the resources necessary to do the kind of community- based reporting and broader reporting is vitally important to the american democracy. >> thank you very much for being with us, p.j. crowley, former state department folk spokesperson. now he's a fellow at the george washington university. when we come back, we look at yemen. is the story of an eight-year- old boy who was given a chip to put in his surrogate father's coat, later that father was killed in the drone strike. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> week in today's show with a shocking new story out of yemen read the article is called, "did an 8-year-old spy for america?" it is written by gregory johnsen . in it, he writes the united states was able to target and alleged al qaeda operative named adnan al-qadhi for an american drone strike after u.s. allies in y

. >>> deal number three, the owner of the boston red sox is now the owner of the boston globe, john henry purchased the paper from the new york times company for the bargain price of $70 million. the deal includes the globe's website and boston.com site, the price tag is just a fraction of the more than $1 billion. the new york times company paid for the newspaper two decades ago. >>> and in the world of television today. time warner cable made a proposal to cvs to end their fee dispute. glenn sent a letter to le les moonvez giving consumers a chance to pay ala carte. in the interview, the incoming ceo robert marcus said he wants to make a deal. >> we're as anxious as anyone to restore cbs programming to our lineup, and ensure customers have access to it, the key really is, we need to do so at a fair price and on reasonable terms for our customers. >> no word yet from cbs. shares of time warner cable ended the day higher, shares of cbs down more than 1%. >>> joining us now to talk more about this rapidly changing media landscape is jason blair. media 12re analyst with the advisory group.

john henry smith is here with that story and more in sports. >> certainly an exciting time.ver the last three seasons, the cardinals are the only national league central team to win a world series. one thing they haven't won in that span is a central division crown. they are trying to rectify that problem this year. the reds jay bruce dropped it in right field, and matt holliday's single enassures passage home. cardinals take a 1-0 lead. sin-soo choo went watered and suddenly the cardinals lead is down to one. the cards would win 6-1. they try and sweep the reds tonight. >> to tennis, the men's top seed at the u.s. open mostly played like it during his opening round match. despite facing eight break points, he managed to cruise in 82 minutes to a win. he had 28 winners and just nine forced errors in the match. he will now take on becker in second round play. >> the top-seeded american in this year's field was on his game tuesday, as well. he made an easy meal of the italian in first round action. he is trying to become the first american to win a tennis grand slam in 10 year

john henry smith is here with that story in sports. >> some people have been saying tying is back. that phrase took on a whole new meaning, all week, tiger woods had been dealing with a bad back. wouldn't you know, he tweaked it from what he says was a soft hotel bed. hmm. despite the pain and stiffness, the big cat was still in contention, but on number 13, the back bites back. tiger in obvious pain as the ball sails into the swamp. believe it or not, this is the second straight year he has had back stiffness from a bad mattress. tiger got it going. he had a chance, check out the beautiful approach on number 17. tiger knocks it really, really close. he would birdie that to within a shot of lead. he needed this you putt, not going to happen. in fight the back pain, he guts out a second place finish. >> to baseball. the dodgers on the verge sunday of doing something they haven't done in two and a half months, lose a series. the red sox pounding out 12 base hits, including this two-run home run courtesy of saltalamacchia. the red sox brought their gloves, too. check out this play in

one percent of his net worth apparently billionaires purchasing newspapers is all the new craze john henry the owner of the red sox purchased the boston globe for seventy million dollars just last week warren buffett's firm berkshire hathaway bought the roanoke virginia times in may and there are rumors charles koch is pursuing the chicago times or the chicago tribune some speculate these billionaires each have their own political agenda to push but others are saying this is about developing a new age of media yet to be seen cathy merrill williams publisher of washingtonian magazine said there is a play of people with money who want to see if they can reinvent an industry and they're looking at it as an opportunity to remake the future of journalism and media yes bay those has been politically active he gave the largest donation to defend gay marriage in the state of washington he contributed to libertarian publications and democratic candidates his company amazon even has its own political action committee but it seems as though he is on a mission to change the course of media and a lette

this comes days after the new york times company announced it sold the boston globe to investor john henry: that has not stopped people from purchasing lottery tickets had a certain station at el pitta. worth a cool $1.1 million and the winner has not been announced. now when states power ball jackpot at $4 million and counting they are selling roughly a thousand tickets every day. who is thomas hurley?? this is a lucky place to buy tickets? yes it is the lucky place, you knowthe answer is -- the most heartbroken jeopardy >> pam: who is thomas curley? that answer is the most heartbreaking jeopardy contestant and a long time. contestant in a long time. the 8th grader was sent home from final jeopardy during kids week. despite the fact that he and many others say he got the question right. this is what happened. >> was because he misspelled it badly. he placed a p in and near and that is unfortunate. the judge's ruling against it. ".ruling against you." >> pam: 12-year-old thomas hurley held back tears after his loss. he later told his local newspaper that he felt cheated. a lot of people ag

john henry will pay for the newspaper. it's a drop from what the times paid for the paper 20 years ago. the boston globe has taken a hit in recent years as more readers and advertisers move online. >>> they surpass the price of the ipo, they close 38.05. that's 5 cents more than its initial offering. analysts say the stock rebounded when it found it was making money from mobile advertising in recent years. >> there's new event to this year's lineup. the high tech event kicks off at 3:00 this afternoon. about 200 developers and designers will pair up in teams and compete and create an app for the festival. the window of the -- winner of the app challenge will be announced on august 7th. >>> the 13th annual event runs through sunday. it wraps up 8:00 tonight. >> several streets in the downtown area will be closed. they include jefferson, clay and 12th and 14th streets. >> the time is 7:25, if you you've been liking the weather lately you should like it this weekend. more of the same, no complaints here. >> it's hard to gripe

red sox owner john henry entered a deal with the new york times to purchase the news paper for $70 million's a big drop compared to the $1.1 billion the times paid for the globe back in 1993. news papers have been struggling financially with readers and advertisers moving to online sources. >>> a north bay couple transformed their home into a sanctuary for animals who would otherwise not have any where to go. the jefferson award winners at the bright haven. >> reporter: bailey is paraplegic. >> he has a wonderful life. he races around in his wheelchair and life's good. hopefully he'll get stronger as the days go by. >> they founded the bright haven healing art center for animals more than 20 years ago in their home. richard says they take in those that would otherwise be abandoned or euthanized because they're disabled, old, or terminally ill. >> there was a disposal of these animals that still had quite a lot of life to lead. >> reporter: today the couple, their staff and volunteers are caring for five dogs and 17 cats. plus roosters, geese, and horses on their ten acre property. every ro

losing mountains of "money" today, the new york times, selling the boston globe to john henry, principalf the boston red sox for $70 million. the body back in 1993 and paid just over 1 billion. possibly making money when he should not have, the n.c.a.a. investigating whether he was paid to sign hundreds of autographs earlier this year. that is according to espn. if they says he committed a violation is eligibility to play to be in jeopardy. a short while ago major league baseballs left alex rodriquez with a 211 game suspension which means the yankees' third baseman is banned through the entire 2014 season. as representatives city is appealing, which means he can play and get paid tonight and throughout the entire process. it could be the rest of the season. a lot of comment so far today that it is all about money for everyone involved. here is a twist. all decision is looking like it could be a big moneymaker for the lead. here to explain why, fox sports radio host and psychologist. let me start with you first. this is my theory. everyone is talking about this, and i want to see how he i

with you too. >> thank you. >> when hess walks out of the store, henry immediately calls police and reports the crime. >> yeah, i'm john shell got robbed with a gun and the guy just left. i'm trying to get his license plate. >> it doesn't take long for police to track down henry's polite robber. this surveillance video immediately goes viral. after it appears on the local news and leads authorities to hess just days later. not surprisingly, hess handles the arrest quite well. >> a couple of days later, some police, they came to my store towards the car and they told me the guy was very polite when we went to arrest him. he was so polite, waiting for them. >> hess confesses to robbing henry's store with a pellet gun, and is arrested for first degree robbery. but it turns out this isn't his first run-in with the law. in 2003, the fbi dubbed hess the transaction bandit after he robbed several banks in the seattle area. he was actually on probation at the time he robbed henry. hess pleads guilty to first degree robbery, and in april 2011, he is sentenced to five years in prison. as for henry's stolen money? hess tells poli

. >> i'm john henry smith. a player so great, you know him by his first name. ichiro's big accomplishment, coming up on aljazeera sports. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? it drives discussion across america. share your story on tv and online. hi, my name is jonathan betz, and i'm from dallas, texas, and i'm an anchor for al jazeera america. i started in a small television station in rural arkansas. it's a part of the country that often gets overlooked. but there are a lot of fascinating people there, a lot of fascinating stories there. i like that al jazeera will pay attention to those kinds of places. what drew me to journalism is i like the idea that we are documenting history. al jazeera documents it like none other. and to be a journalist, and to be part of a team like that? that's an incredible blessing. >> welcome back. i'm richelle carey. >> must be maybe freed from prison. he will wait under house arrest to be retried on charges he killed protestors during the arab spring. >> an out of control wildfire near yose

john henry the new owner. i wonder if he's going to take what he's learned about sabre metrics in baseball and apply it to the "globe." >> i think both of these purchases suggest that the newspaper industry needs new approaches. i think the grahams essentially said that by saying we cannot take this newspaper into the future, we need to hand it off to somebody who does have another plan, another way of going about it. and, you know, jeff bezos may be the guy to do that. we hope so at "the washington post." >> healthy invests in reporters. what a great idea. there have been a real loss of newsroom jobs. the brand of "the post" covering washington could use some reinvigorating and use more reporting on federal agencies. that's what the paper has always had attention about. i assume you agree with me. >> we also need to cover our local city and our region. "the washington post" has always from the get-go within a local newspaper. and what's interesting here is we will have a publisher who is an absentee publisher

red sox owner john henry bought the "boston globe" from the "new york times company" for $70 million. the tribune company's newspaper division, which owns the "los angeles times," "chicago tribune" and the "baltimore sun," is also on the block. donald graham is chairman and c.e.o. of the "washington post" company. he joins me now. full disclosure, i worked for you for the "washington post." >> i was going to ask if you disclosed your terrible conflict. >> for seven great years in the 1980s. ruth marcus one of your leading columnists said that this is a brave and painful decision for your family to make. was it also a necessary one? >> well, we thought so. the publisher of the post now is catherine way mut. that's a job that i held when you were on the paper. i held it for 21 years. but catherine and i sat down at the end of last year, the end of 2012. we looked at how how the paper had done in 2012 and what we could reasonably expect going forward. 201 is the 7th consecutive year the paper has been down in revenues so what do you do when you have less money coming in the door? you try

john henry, the owner of the boston red sox earlier this week announced that he was buying the boston globe. arob kushner who is also an internet mogul owns the orange county register. bezos is famous for resisting short-term pressure and he's very customer-focused. so this insulates the post from any of the pressures that a corporation would have publicly traded corporation would have in the way it stewards the paper. >> suarez: he is a man who has understood how to use the internet as a commerce vehicle. perhaps as well as anybody on planet earth. is that a good fit for a newspaper ownership in the 21st century? >> yes. the readership of newspapers is going online. it's going mobile. newspapers have held on to their readership if you look at total audience much better than many other media. according to scarborough data, 59% of people 18 to 24 read newspaper media content every week. this is a surprising number to people who think that newspapers have become irrelevant. but they are encountering that media on facebook and social media and on digital devices, on mobile devices so und

announcement of the purchase by jeff bezos came just days after the boston red sox owner and billionaire john henry entered an agreement to buy the boston globe newspaper from the new york times company for $70 million. the obama administration is ordered all nonemergency personnel to leave yemen and urged u.s. citizens currently living there to depart immediately. in a statement issued today, the state department cited the continued potential for terrorist attacks. meanwhile, u.s. drone strike killed four people in yemen today, marking the fourth such attack in less than two weeks. yemeni tribal leaders said the dead were suspected members of al qaeda. one is believed to be a senior al qaeda member. the news follows revelations electronic communications between al qaeda leaders were behind me shuttering of nearly two dozen diplomatic hosts over the weekend. thehe intercepted messages, al qaeda chief reportedly ordered the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to carry out an attack as early as this past sunday. the new york times originally withheld the names of the leaders involved at the b

. >>> boston red sox owner john henry is buying "the boston globe" from "the new york times." the deal? 70 million in cash, far less than the 100 million that deal was expected to fetch. "after the bell" starts right now. adam: we want to get to the action. lincoln ellis is the in pits of the cme. talk about what is happening with commodities. what can you share with us, lincoln? >> very interesting day here, as the equity markets trade back and forth, seesaw, it make as new high. commodities particularly in the corn complex reach the lowest level they have seen since 2010. as a previous guest was saying to liz, you continue to see across the commodities complex die he vergence what is going on with the real economy and what is going on with the fed-engineered economy, stock market making new highs. keeping people wrong-footed. people trying to ferret out which way a fed policy piece would go and really having to for the time-being anyway, to ignore the fundamentals. it is august and perhaps the saying this year should be sell in august and go away because in you sold in may y

this in a week when "the boston globe "was sold to john henry.washington post" another new owner there, but just how long can "new york times" go it alone, bob? >> well, look, i think several more years. a lot of people, when the earnings came out focused on the fact that ad revenues had declined. everyone says oh, it could go on, but they have 740,000 paid digit at subscribe. scribers. i think they have a lot of cash still. i think they can hold out for several more years. they do seem, robert frank, to be doing digital better than any competitors. >> tyler, i've seen this move many times before. for 15 of my 18 years, the bancroft family said it never was for sale, until it is. the dividend at "new york times" is still not back. you have family members that eventually could press we need income at some point. right now they're able to hold it down. that doesn't last forever. >>> i have been saying for a while watch what mayor bloomberg does when he gets out of office. >> very good point. >>> sly stallone, bruce willis known as tough guys, now t

. >> you have another billionaire red sox other tha john henry paid $70 million for the "boston globe." people like him, bezos, warren buffett. are newspapers the playthings for the very rich? or are they taking them on as a serious investment or content is king? >> i think that content is king what you can do with these brand names. "the washington post" is a tremendous brand name. you know, john henry actually got it for not even $70 million because there were $110 million pension fund. so it wasorth $40 million in losses for "the new york times" to move it along, which is kind of interesting if you think about it. >> the deliveryof content is an important area. if they can manage to keep these loss ors make them -- you know, the cash flow is positive. some of these companies make money, not very much, but the cash flow is positive. they can do something interesting. >> fewer and fewer are actually reading the actual newspaper. we know that printing is expensive. >> right. >> how come newspapers don't just go all digital? are there other issues we're not seeing? >> i don't know. i s

our john henry smith has a preview.eporter: columnist dub rothson and doug, tell me, serena williams, she has come in, lost in cincinnati but she looks like she has come in with the eye of the tiger. it seems like there is one person who could really, really see her and -- beat her and that's azarank. with a do you think about the prospects? >> serena has played a pretty dominating season. she looked like she was in serena form in the first round. she put a beat down on her opponent. but i think one player that probably doesn't fear sere na is her. serena has a dominating record over here but ozeranka has shown she is one of the players that might be able to take her out of this tournament. >> on the men's side, jokovich comes in number 1 seated. but nadal having won one of the two tournaments in this and you have the defending champ as the third seat, tight at the top of the men's draw. >> absolutely. jokovich has been the best player on hard courts. nadal has had a phenomenal season since he came off from his 7 month

for more i'm joined by john henry smith live in new york.or those who don't follow american football, give us a sense of how huge, how significant this settlement is. >> reporter: well, i think very early on the first reactions to the settlement were that this is a win for the nfl in terms of the amount of money we're talking about, $765 million sounds like a lot of money, but then you consider that the nfl made $9.5 billion last year. it works out to about 8%, but when you think about it deeper, it's a really significant win for both sides. the players don't have to wait five to ten years for this case to be litigated to get some money out of this. the players can get some money today. when i say the players, i mean all 18,000 former players around right now are eligible. they can get their money now, and the nfl doesn't have to go through that litigation and have the skeletons in their closets where concussions are concerned borne out for public view during that time period. both sides win for not paying attorneys for five to ten years, wh