president katrina adams about america's inability to field top-tier male players, and how efforts to diversify the game may changthat. this story is part of our ongoing series about povty and portunity in america: chasing the dream. >> reporter: even though it has been nearly 20 years since katrina adams last played professionally, fans s clamor to have their picture taken with her. as the first former professional player to serve as chairmanf the board and president of the u.s. tennis association and chair of the uha. open, adams one of the broadest resumes in tennis. from her earliest days learning to play in chicago, her 12 years on the world tennis tour, hee has lived and breathed game for most of her life. >> its live its happening, its show time, its vibrant. >> reporter: but when katrina adams started playing tennis in 1975, it was arthur ashe who everyone wanted a picture of. seven years after his 1968 u.s.p win had blown open the doors of u.s. tennis for african american men, ashe was a sensation. it meant a lot to see him playing this sport that i had gost picked up. yoack

tennis association president katrina adams and caroline wozniacki great to see you, ladies >> thank youcaroline you won your first grand slam at the australian open earlier this year does that give you some confidence going into the open >> definitely. it was such a great experience to win it. and i've always played well here it's one of my favorite tournaments of the year. i'm hoping for a great couple of weeks. >> how is it driving interest and excitement around the sport in general >> it's very important for us to showcase tennis for two week, three weeks with our qualifying and hopefully get more people engaged with the sport and hopefully young players will want to play our sport that don't play tennis currently. >> what would you say is the state of tennis in that regard you're seeing golf tracking hard with the younger generation. >> we have our new brand net generation, which we're hoping to push and get more juniors involved and i think all sports have been struggling in the last couple of years particularly with e-sport evolving. there's a lot of activity around it >> i was go

katrina will be on our show in just a moment. first to the white house. the president was adamant. why don't sanders guarantee, why won't she say he didn't use that racist word? >> that's the he request on everyone's mind here. the president was definitive and clear in his tweet last night saying that word is not in his vocabulary. it seemed like a simple request for the press secretary to say she is quite sure no tape will come out of the president uttering that word. instead sarah said she never heard him say it, that he had said he never said it but she wouldn't state definitively we will never hear president trump saying that word in an audio recording. she also made stunning remarks while fielding questions about omarosa's book. when she was asked about the president referring to one of the top african-american officials in this white house, someone who made $179,000 per year one of the highest salaries you can earn here in the west wing, referring to her as a dog as he did on twitter this morning, saying he was thankful john kelly fired her so quickly after he entered the wes

katrina. in houston, fox news. jon: tropical storm lane now downgraded from a hurricane, but still dumping torrential rain on hawaii. adam the fox extreme weather center with an update on the storm and what to expect in your area. adam? >> hey there, jon. harvey was the wettest hurricane on u.s. record. we now know that what was hurricane lane isn't going to be in the top five as they continue to see heavy rain. as much as 45 inches of rain it was reported in some areas on the big island, and that's where they have gotten the brunt of it. we have good news, winds continue to die down as the system is falling apart. currently at 50 miles-an-hour. notice the direction. it had been moving closer and closer to the islands, but how the we see it shifting to the west -- but now we see it shifting to the west at 7 miles-an-hour. that means it is leaving the islands and will continue to do so. there are still spots among the island chain particularly the big island where you continue to see showers. as it moves farther west, that does mean we will clear off probably later tomorrow with all the rain. here's a look at how that is