you couldn't see knicks games in manhattan.ime warner cable and the knicks parent company were at odds when lin sanity hit. there was such a clamor that the knicks were put back on tv here in manhattan. >> he's got some pull, that's for sure, and a heck of a shot. richard roth, we will follow this story, of course, and jeremy lin's salary will jump from $760,000 this past season to more than $8 million a year for the next three seasons. and the ironic part of the whole thing, the knicks picked up lin for scrap, basically, after he was cut loose by you guessed it, the houston rockets. >>> if you're leaving the house right now, a reminder you can continue watching cnn from your mobile phone and also watch cnn live from your desk top. go to cnn.com/tv. [ ryan ] maybe just a short run today. [ man ] "the odyssey," by homer. book one. tell me, o muse... famous town of troy... book three. book 12. poseidon... book 17. book 20. thunderbolts. book 24. the end. [ ryan ] alright, what's next. [ man ] chapter one. call me ishmael. some ye

the knicks have until tuesday to meet the offer. >>> and finally back to new york where the knicks' biggest fan made the catch of the day. yankees mark teixeira taking a swing. look out. bat goes flying into the crowd. a lucky fan made the grab and definitely doing the right thing by being in the perfect spot. and that is spike lee. he even showed off his swing. by the looks of that hat, spike may want to stick to directing. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm bill seward. >>> madonna embroiled in french politics. a self-appointed candidate for "american idol" judge and katie says no to three. >>> plus we'll introduce you to one of a kind mayor of this alaskan town. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. we are watching showers and storms as we mentioned. interstate 90 into the east or the west side of spokane. we'll also be watching a chance of some isolated showers today boise to salt lake city. not many. down to vegas, phoenix area, tucson, l.a., san diego, i think you'll have a dry day today. sneak peak of tuesday. storm or two around medford. looking at a p

it's been an interesting weekend to for the knicks. kidd was arrested for driving while intoxicated and now according to sources, the knicks will not be re-signing jeremy lyn, inking a three-year $25 million with the rockets. the knicks have until tuesday to match houston's offer but with the addition of felton it appears lynn-sanity is over in the big apple. >>> finally back to new york where the knicks biggest fan made the catch of the day. teixeira taking a swing. look out. bat goes flying into the crowd. the lucky fan made the grab and doing the right thing by being in the perfect spot. and that is spike lee. even showed off his swing. by the looks of that hack, spike may want to stick to directing. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm bill seward. >>> madonna embroiled in french politics. a self-appointed candidate for "american idol" judge and katie says no to suri. >>> plus, we'll introduce you to a one-of-a-kind mayor of this alaskan town. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." the h

that is not the only trouble for your new york knicks.imes it feels like they need to close up shot. jeremy lin could soon be leaving. brooklyn is getting a team and you need to straighten this stuff out for everyone is going to abandon you and your madison square garden. get your heads together, people! more pil. triple checking hydraulics. the evening brin more pain. so, back to more pills. almost done, when... hang on. stan's doctor recommended aleve. it can keep pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is rudy. who switched to aleve. and two pills for a day free of pain. ♪ and get the all day pain relief of aleve in liquid gels. >>shepard: the most compelling sports story of the year took a turn no fan likely could have predicted. with one day to go until the nba trading deadline, the new york knicks will likely get rid of jeremy lin. the most popular player in a decade and all that linsanity a day after his possibly replacement was arrested. jeremy lin is a free agent and rockets offered $25 million contract. and the kni

the knicks have until tuesday to match houston's offer.elton, it appears that linsanity is over in the big apple. >>> back to new york where the knicks' biggest fan made the catch of the day. yankees's mark teixeira taking a swing and look out. the bat goes flying in the crowd, a lucky fan made the grab and doing the right thing by being in the perfect spot. and that is spike lee. even showed off his swing. by the looks of that hack, spike may want to stick to directing. that's your "first look" at sports, i'm big seward. >>> now for another look at the weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. >> i know you're jealous. >> a little. >> we will find you that hat, i promise. >> spike lee looked like he was a lefty, too, he took a lefty swing. >> couldn't see past the hat. i was blinded by the neon green. >> he stood out. good morning, we had good thunderstorms rolling through new england last night, a lot of people were heading off to bed. some people did lose power. those storms are gone, out over the

the latest on jeremy lin's future and an update on another star knick who found himself in handcuffs oh my god, the new york media market, what will they do. and the quiet police strike in london where the plug is pulled on a concert featuring none over than the boss and paul mccartney. we'll tell you why that epic music duo was, get this, pushed off of the stage before they wanted to finish. >>> plus get a check on the weather, when "way too early" comes right back. it's hot out there on the acela corridor. >>> it does now seem certain that they went down in the crash of a single-engine plane that kennedy was flying last night to martha's vineyard off massachusetts. as the news spread across america throughout the day, there was a common reaction, this is unbelievable. that family truly is cursed. [ lane ] your anti-wrinkle cream is gone... but what about your wrinkles? neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. its retinol formula visibly reduces wrinkles in one week. why wait if you don't have to. neutrogena®. with lean cuisine steam bags. get our crispiest carrots and our snappiest peas a

but was letting lin walk really the right financial decision for the knicks? was making $788,000 last year. madison square garden company's value shot up $600 million since lin's start. the departure from the knicks already has cost the company's stock valuation to drop about $50 million. financial implications aside the knicks will have to replace $14.6 assists per game and enthusiasm in that arena. they will turn to new acquisitions, raymond felton and jason kidd who was arrested over the weekend for dwi to fill the void at point guard. lin tweeted last night, about his depart our from new york writing much love and thankfulness to the knicks, and new york for your support this past year. easily the best year of my life. #forevergrateful. we're forever grateful, best thing that happened since '94 when they made the finals. should only be another 15 years before we're good again. baseball now, nats hosting the mets in a great game. mets down 2-0 in the ninth until a three-run home run launched into the seats in right center put the mets up one. nationals tied

. >>> one man does it all for the nationals and one man is posing problems for the new york knicks. >>> plus, one yankee slugger loses his grip. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in weather we're watching this heat wave spreading from the midwest to the east coast. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> very good morning to you. this is "early today." in sports, there was no power shortage in the rubber game of the angels/yankees weekend match up. here's nbc's bill seward with a look at your headlines. >> good morning to you. if you like home runs, yesterday's game was for you. in the first, aybar hit a solo shot pujols followed that with his own yk back-to-back yaks. a-rodriguez, 14th of the year, three home runs before fans were settled in their seat. trumbo buried them with this bomb in the ninth. the team had eight home runs, winning 10-8. >>> nats and marlins. we know stephen strasburg can hit but he can pitch. fanned seven over six innings, picki picking up his tenth win. >>> the knicks acquired felton from portland. kidd was arr

knicks fans are in mourning. the knicks let jeremy lin go. they decided he was not worth the offer. lin is a houston rocket. his story started at palo alto high, harvard, the war dwrers and the rockets and was a worldwide superstar with the knicks. linsan tie y was born in new york, but they had doubts about his value and long-term dure ability. the rockets gave him a three-year $25 million offer. he thought the knicks would match it. they did not. lin said he was excited and honored to be a rocket once again. abc7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. a lot of rebuilding and rebuilt around jeremy lin. >> $25 million is not too shabby. >> well, "nightline" is up next. >> don't forget to set your iphone alarm clock to get the latest news, weather and traffic. >> it is available at i tunes >>> tonight on "nightline" -- up all night. superhuman energy. better focus. what if you could do everything you dream of doing and never be tired or lose your edge? it's the drug secretly being used off-label by pro athletes, pilots and suburban moms. but what's the catch? >>> j. lo and enriq

the knicks have until july 14 to match it. the race have pulled out of of the ray allen sweepstakes. they signed chauncecy billups and jamal crawford. allen met with miami yesterday. >>> to baseball now, thrilling ending between the phils and mets. new york down one with two outs in the ninth. sacks full. murphy plunged papelbon. he scrambles, can't make the play. everyone's safe and in comes a run. gets the rbi bloop single to fall. mets get to papelbon and get a win, 6-5. >>> cheer up, philly fans. ryan howard is expected to make his season debut tonight. similar situation between the nats and giants after washington ties it in the ninth. adam laroche wins it. grounds it to second. giants try to turn a double play. can't make it off. nats rally to sweep the giants, 6-5. >>> not a bad week for kevin youkilis. smacks his second home run as a member of the white sox yesterday. bond to right gives chicago the lead. that's the difference. they beat the rangers 2-1. >>> serena williams blasts her way into the finals. she ended the

knicks fans are in mourning. the knicks let jeremy lin go. they decided he was not worth the offer.houston rocket. his story started at palo alto high, harvard, the war dwrers and the rockets and was a worldwide superstar with the knicks. linsan tie y was born in new york, but they had doubts about his vaong-term long-term dure ability. the rockets gave him a three-year $25 million offer. he thought the knicks would match it. they did not. lin said he was excited and honored to be a rocket once again. abc7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. a lot of rebuilding and rebuilt around jeremy lin. >> $25 million is not too shabby. >> well, "nightline" is up next. >> don't forget to set your iphone alarm clock to get the latest news, weather and traffic. >> it is available at i tunesñsa conservative publication. he is a politician running for the highest office in the land and his current posture is unsustainable. in all likelihood he will not be able to maintain a position that looks secretive and is a departure from campaign conventions. >> that's what it's about. the lack of wha

now it looks like he won't be a knick. the team has until late tomorrow to match a three-year, $25 million offer from the houston rockets and most believe the knicks are going to let lin walk away. >> see, as a native new yorker, and i hope you are too, i'm a huge knicks fan. >> me, too. >> always a knicks fan. why would they let jeremy lin go? we're talking linsanity here. >> i know. they want him, too. he makes enough money, he's really boosted the international viewing and the jersey and the merchandising. the problem is they have a salary cap in the nba and the third year of lin's contract is like 15 million bucks and it puts the knicks at a huge disadvantage trying to pay the rest of the team. >> why not just let him go in the third year, then? >> because lin wants all three years from houston. so, you know. lin's sort of forcing their hand, i suppose, in a way. it just stinks. bring back linsanity. >> very disappointed, knicks. >> me, me. >>> well, this is another sports interesting thing going on. we all know how di

has a verbal agreement to sign a three-year, $9 million deal with the knicks. new york gets an aging hall-of-famer and they may lose a budding perennial all-star. according to reports the rockets have offered jeremy lin, a 4 year, $30 million contract. the knicks have until july 14th to match it. >>> another quick note, the clippers have pulled out of the ray allen sweepstakes and say they came to terms with chauncey billups. alan met with miami yet. >>> baseball now. thrilling ending between the phils and mets. new york down one with two outs in the ninth. sax full. he scrambles but can't make the play. everyone is safe. in comes a run. mets tie it at 5. david wright ends it on the very next pitch. gets the rbi bloop single to fall. mets get to pap pal bon. cheer up, philly fangs. ryan howard is expected to make his season debut tonight. >>> similar situation between the nats and giants. adam laroche wins it. grounder to second. a double play but can't pull it off. in comes the winning run. nats rally to sweep the giants 6-5. >>> not a bad week for kevin youki

knicks fans are in mourning. the knicks let jeremy lin go. they decided he was not worth the offer.uston rocket. his story started at palo alto high, harvard, the war dwrers and the rockets and was a worldwide superstar with the knicks. linsan tie y was born in new york, but they had doubts about his value and long-term dure ability. the rockets

on his way after a rapid rise to fame jeremy lin is the new york knicks since scientific using rockets in a deal what twenty five million dollars. and on top of the world england in south africa had to begin their rematch test series during the world's number one ranking . but first the football where russian club. buy their first ever match in the europa league later on thursday they take on hungary and side one vote in the second qualifying round and you have been banned from hosting european matches in dagestan after the way for the crowd the region dangerous so the first leg of the tie is being held in an unused arena in the moscow region the big spending twelve hour appealing to europe's governing body in the hope they'll overturn their decision a giant screen is being wrecked at angie's home ground in march glasgow supporters can watch the game produce hiddink believes the visitors will come into the tie better prepared with two competitive matches under their belts already this season . but elsewhere sweden zlatan able him of it has signed a three year deal with big spending par

the knicks have until july 14th to match it. another quick note, the clippers pulled out of the ray allen sweepstakes and came to terms with billups and claufrawford averaging with the hawks. they met yesterday. between the phils and mets, new york down one, two outs in the ninth. dan you'll murphy plunged him, scrambles, can't make the play. everyone is safe, in comes the run. the game tied. on the next pitch, hits the rbi bloop single. they get a win, the mets. khmer up philly fans. expected to make a season debut tonight. >>> similar situation between the nats and giants after washington ties it in the ninth. laroche wins it. grounder to second trying to turn a double play. can't pull it off. in comes the winning run. nats ral toy sweep the giants 6-5. a walk-off on the fourth of july and smacks his second home run as a member of the white sox yesterday. giving chicago the lead. the difference. they beat the rangers 2-1. finally, serena williams muscles her way into the women's final at wimbledon blasting tournament record ag

and on his way to rapid rise to fame jeremy lin leads the new york knicks and science vacation rockets in a deal worth twenty five million dollars. but first to football where rushing to. buy their first ever match in european competition later on thursday they take on hungary inside that in the europa league second qualifying round and see have been banned from hosting european matches in darkest on your way for the client the regent dangerous so the first leg of the tie is being held in an unused arena in the moscow region the big spending club appealing to europe's governing body in the hope they'll overturn that decision a giant screen is being erected at angie's home ground in the supporters can watch the game in countries having believes the visitors will come into the tie better prepared with two competitive matches under that belt already the season. well elsewhere sweden zlatan abraham evictions signed a three year deal with big spending part of san giovanni reports claim the french club paid a scene around twenty five million dollars for the thirty year old sweden's captain a

jeremy lin goes downtown and the knicks take the lead!er: it is hard to believe this was only five months ago. >> jeremy lin does it again! >> reporter: it is hard to believe an athlete that came on so quickly -- >> jeremy lin is for real. >> reporter: -- that energized the sports world so completely -- >> some people even say lin is saving the nba season. >> reporter: -- and helped change the basketball conversation away from an extended lockout, could be gone from a team so suddenly. >> did you see this coming? >> no, i don't think anybody really saw it coming. >> reporter: joe favorito is a sports marketing professor and former head of pr at the new york knicks. >> he became a product of everything that you could take advantage of today. there was social media, television, blogs. everybody kind of caught on to it because he was an every man. >> reporter: jeremy lin's meadoric rise sold the third most jerseys last year. >> we've collected for you the worst possible jeremy lin puns. you understand what i'm saying? >> i see, yes. >> repor

so tough for the knicks to structure it to match. and knicks decided to let him go. he was excited and honored to be a rocket once again. other news. lakers try hard to get center dwight howard from orlando. this is tough to pull off. howard wants to get go to the nets won't sign extension. lake versus to give up an drew in the deal he won't sign extension either. hard to see it getting done. clippers will acquire 39-year-old hill l sign and trade or free agent signin signing. former all star spent the past 5 years in phoenix. back up butler at small forward. remember when tiger woods no. 1 in the ranchings was afterthought a given. he can get there again with victory this week in the british open. he hasn't won a major since june of 2008. did not contend in the first 2 maim this year. he has 3 tour victory this season and comes in as favorite this week in the british open. >> i had to go through the whole process of getting healthy again. being banged u up. missing major championship because of it. i figure if i'm healthy then i can prepare properly for major champi

the knicks are not expected to count theory offer. i don't want to lose lynn stanity.e they do. >>> high lites from sunday baseball. from espn. >> good morning. i'm hakeem dermish from espn. yankees going against the angels. angels leading 1-0. albert pujols facing ivan nova. pujols takes it deep. 15th of the season. angels take a 2-0 lead. bottom of one. alex rodriguez, takes jared weaver out and gone. two-run shot. his 14th of the season. bottom nine, two outs. bateses loaded. rodriguez, 23 career grand slams, tied for most of the history. still tied for most of history. popped up. weaver picked up the 11th win. marlins, nationals in miami. marlins down 2-0. two on, two up for ramirez. strasburg, six innings. bottom nine, two outs. bases loaded. omar infante. popped one up. a collision and harper holds on to make the catch. the marlins, 1 for 13 with runners in scoring position. strasburg earns his best victory. "monday night baseball." angels/tiger, 7:00 eastern on espn, espn 3, also live on watch espn, a major matchup on "monday night baseball." angels/tiger, 7:00

lin is expected to be unveiled the houston rockets play later on thursday this after the new york knicks failed to match a three year twenty five million dollars offer for the point guard lynn passed a medical in houston ahead of completing the switch he shot to fame last season despite making only twenty five starts for the next after making his debut in december linsanity swept across america and his native taiwan the new york franchise working to keep hold of their star man but ultimately failed to match the rockets offer his form and figures were beginning to drop before his season was prematurely ended by an operation on his knee but the knicks fans believe they'll be better off with or without the twenty three year old i can't make that call because i mean he came out of nowhere is it somebody coming out of the ivy league didn't get the kind of attention or was he always been evaluated based on his ballplayer i don't really know and so the question is was he going to come back and injury and do the same things again it makes no sense he started to. go a bit over he got to me man ne

on his way to a rapid rise to fame jeremy lin leaves the new york knicks and signed the houston rockets and a deal worth twenty five million dollars. in time russia looks to continue its dominance in synchronized swimming with the london olympics now just over a week away. but first in cricket the top two test teams in the world begin their three match series later on thursday england home south africa at the oval now and defeat would see the tourists leapfrog them into the number one spot in the world rankings a draw however would be good enough to keep andrew strauss his man at top of the pile and he'll be hoping his bowling attack can help inflict south africa's first series defeat on foreign soil in six years the contest pits arguably the world's two best bowling line ups against one another the tourists are spearheaded by the world's top run ball in dale steyn while england can call upon the formidable jimmy anderson and south africa's captain graeme smith believes these are the best attacks in international cricket. i think it's a fair system and the records of what the the to bal

they report knicks are let lin leave the team.team said they would not take an offer but the rockets offer payment of $15 million and many analysts, it would be too much for the knicks. they said over the weekend he is not sure what the team will do. >> jason kidd has been arrested for drunk driving. he grew up in oakland and was arrested early yesterday morning as and police say he crashed an suv in the hamptons. he was alone when he drove his cadillac into a telephone pole. he was released after being arraigned. >> kristen: we're continuing to follow the shutdown of muni this morning. protestors have vowed to interrupt service but we'll be back live to the scene. >> eric: this is video into the newsroom in the last hour. the fire gutting a vallejo home overnight. >> we're waking up to airport delays about hour and a half at sfo, plenty of low clouds and mist and drizzle to the north. the heat is returning in parts of nation's midsection. hundred in minneapolis and 97 in st. louis. heating up again if new york city with more 90s

knicks made a big step not capitalizing on. the boxing were former w b a light welterweight champion i mean our camp says he's confident he can rediscover his best form after suffering a second straight the feat at the weekend the twenty five year old losing a united for kitchen world title fight a dunny garcia but is eyeing a quick return to the ring possibly as early as december but that future could be without his her nine trainer freddie roach but only i mean at the moment at the moment. to. tell us you know my team and we know exactly what's going up and. like so things can change. when we sit down with a team big enough for a few names to me and we're going to make a decision next week or two. meanwhile a can has been honored by the u.s. olympic boxing squad the team have been using his globes community gym in bolton to train ahead of the game for speakin next week team usa showing their gratitude by handing over to the twenty five year old one of their olympic track suits count himself wasn't a silver medalist enough and

new york knicks fans, lincredulous., i think everybody predicted this. any had until midnight to keep lin, the big apple's love affair with the dazzling 23-year-old point guard just over 26 games, lin sending out a couple of tweets. extremely excited and honored to be a houston rocket again and much love and thankfulness to the knicks and new york for your support this past year, easily the best year of my life. >> he's such a nice guy. >> this real lie likely likeable guy, a great story, when everybody says you're not going to make it and look what he does. >> he was cut twice and has a $25 million guaranteed contract. he's getting that money. jeremy lin, you're paying next time. two presidents are celebrating one milestone. coming up we have a really nice cnn exclusive with former president bill clinton with his visit with nelson mandela who turns 94 years old today. [ kimi ] atti and i had always called oregon home. until i got a job in the big apple. adjusting to city life was hard for me. and becoming a fulltime in

new york knicks fans, lincredulous., i think everybody predicted this. any had until midnight to keep lin, the big apple's love affair with the dazzling 23-year-old point guard just over 26 games, lin sending out a couple of tweets. extremely excited and honored to be a houston rocket again and much love and thankfulness to the knicks and new york for your support this past year, easily the best year of my life. >> he's such a nice guy. >> this real lie likely likeable guy, a great story, when everybody says you're not going to make it and look what he does. >> he was cut twice and has a $25 million guaranteed contract. he's getting that money. jeremy lin, you're paying next time. two presidents are celebrating one milestone. coming up we have a really nice cnn exclusive with former president bill clinton with his visit with nelson mandela who turns 94 years old today. [ kimi ] atti and i had always called oregon home. until i got a job in the big apple. adjusting to city life was hard for me. and becoming a fulltime in

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it a poison pill for the knicks and trigger the luxury tax. may not be able to afford it. >> wasn't he sleeping on somebody's couch when he arrived? >> yes, cut by the houston rockets last year and now he may get $25 million to go back and play there. >> wow. >> times change. >> that's kind of sweet revenge. all right, president obama not backing down today. he's offering no apology for attacking mitt romney over his time at private equity firm. the question is, are those attacks working? we have more live from washington coming up. [ barking ] i'm your dog, holding down the fort while you're out catching a movie. [ growls ] lucky for me, your friends showed up with this awesome bone. hey! you guys are great. and if you got your home insurance where you got your cut rate car insurance, it might not replace all this. [ electricity crackling ] [ gasping ] so get allstate. you could save money and be better protected from mayhem like me. [ dennis ] mayhem is everywhere. so get an allstate agent. are you in good hands? [ male announcer ] we believ

and looked like he might lead the knicks to the playoffs with the big star caramelo anthony out.e on another team. pete is here and more to the story, it's unfolding tonight. >> mike: it's a drama like few others. new york basketball has two teams, brooklyn nets, nothing, but good news this off season and new york knicks, longstanding favorite team here in the city and jeremy lin reenergized, led them to an unlikely run to the playoffs and got injured, missing the playoffs. and this off season theyed him to get resigned and see if they gets any offers. a chance to match it. the houstons rockets will pay piem 25 million dollars over three years, 15 million dollars after the third year and what caramelo anthony and teammates referred to as quote, unquote, a ridiculous contract. that's how absurd this money is for jeremy lin. knicks have until tuesday night whether they want to match that contract and he's a fantastic player, but 25 million dollar player? we'll see, the guy makes 500 million dollars worth of money, but the notice on-- >> people love him. >> they love this guy. is he

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the knicks did not step up and match the three-year $25 million offer sheet which houston gave jeremyin. the reason? last year of the contract is almost $15 million. had they decided to bring him back, the knicks would have had to 53 an extra $43 million, a luxury tax. as good as lin is, he's not that good. >>> tiger woods had a disappointing certainly for him u.s. open in san francisco. now he's going to try the british open, going through his paces today. woods has not won a major championship since the u.s. open in 2008. nicholas's record is 18. tiger wants to get no. 15. it's been a rough go. >> in a couple year stretch there, wasn't a whole lot of fun. i missed i think four majors there just because i was injured. i figure if i'm healthy then i can prepare properly for major championships, and i can get myself there. >> really from a media standpoint, tiger woods says very little. but whenever he speak, everybody has the microphone. he's been interviewed since he was what? 3 years old. so he knows the media is not his friend. and doesn't have to. >> and people are, you know, rush

now the latest one, four years $20 million, an offer that the knicks will be able to match if they areson kidd, they thought the kid was saying, wants one more contract, one more hurrah, he is finish his career at madison square garden. the knicks will try and match lin's offer and let jason kidd tutor jeremy. >>> serena williams onto the wimbledon finals. she's the only one left among the american players. ve venus was -- venus was out of there in round 1. and just watch serena do her thing. she adadvances -- advances. >>> a pair of soccer notes, earthquakes' forward chris onedolow ski -- wondolowski, the league's player of the month. 11, 4, and 3. and david beckham already had a one-game suspension, now he's going to have to sit out another. he was injured on the ground at stanford stadium, issued a yellow card for kicking the ball when the game was not in progress. he missed the galaxy's home loss on wednesday. now he's going to miss it in chicago. he still feels it, apparently, at his age. >>> five stages down in the tour de france, 121 miles today. of there's a crash in the last 3

and jeremy lin, the new york knicks have matched houston's offer sheet. so you're going to have -- a lot of bay area kids. he's going to be now on the same team with jason kidd from cal in the knicks backcourt. >>> serena williams working this afternoon against a reigning ncaa champion, nicole gibbs of stanford. serena said she had a 24 hour flight from wimbledon. is that long? >> that's too long ! >> you think she'd be flying private. >> i'm sure. maybe she made a couple of stops. >> anyway, we'll ask the e-shurance people. >> she probably meant with the time change. >> maybe that's it. jacqueline, as always, coming through. give me the tour de france. 120 miles in the french mountains. bradley wiggins retains the yellow jersey. and it's being called a $750,000 shift. rollandinno, sponsor for coke, got $750,000 a year. they caught him sipping a pepsi, and coke immediately dropped him. >> whoa!

. >>> new york knicks fan lincredulous this morning, he's heading to the lone star state, the knicks declining to match the offer of $25 million over the next three years. they had until midnight last night to keep lin. he played 26 games in new york and sent out a few weeks, saying extremely excited and honored to be a houston rocket again and much thanks and love to the knicks and new york for your support this year, easily the best year of my life. >> it went by fast, that great month and gone and now moved to houston. back to our top story, four hours from now president obama will meet with tom vil sack and they'll discuss the efforts to respond to the drought. 55% of the u.s. is in moderate to extreme drought. that's the sixth highest percentage in the drought ever recorded. one contributing factor, june rank the as the third driest month nationally in 118 years and more important by the last 12 months have been the warmest in the country since the record keeping began. illinois seeing some of the harshest effects, let's get right to sheila simon, lieutenant governor. we appreci