laker and boston celtic and star of spike tv's pros vs. joes. when i sat down, this all really started after the season when lebron james did his first interview with us, at his home in akron, early june. we talked about his free agency and his big decision. here's what he said then. in your head, is there places you would look to go? i am not going to ask you to commit, but if you want to commit, do it right here? >> for me, i think my ultimate goal is winning championships. and i understand, that me going down as one of the greats, will not happen until i, you know win a championship. so for me, the team that i decide to go to, or staying in cleveland, that ultimately has the best chance for me to win a championship, not one year, but multiple years or for me to continue to get better and help the team win. i think ultimately would pea be decision. >> larry: can we say it will not be a poor team, a team of players who you do not calculate would be there to win championships? because you can't play forever? >> no, i cannot play forever. that is

except you have to remember the lakers are still the champions.s, best player, kobe bryant played worst game in game seven against the celtics. the other guys came up and they won. that's what you've got to make sure that they have the guys and they don't just focus on the big three. i mean it is going to be a huge draw down there. i hope so. i hope people show up on time to games. but we'll see what happens. they have to get through the staples center. >> championship, john, big guy in the league. championships are won in the paint. you win with rebounding and defense. all due respect to chris bosh. i would take pau gasol over chris bosh. >> larry: who is the miami center? >> i don't know. >> shaq, shaq. >> shaq is trying to sell his house. lebron move in. they should all move in. they're bachelors. dwyane wade. move into shaq's big house. that would be a video. i would want a reality show just of the house. >> that tall. i have seen him. next door neighbor for eight years. >> what were you doing -- >> larry: is sid rosenberg still with us? >> i

you know obviously the lakers is a bonus. you know like i said i am a big boss wolf and to be able to go to the lakers. you know. more world news now may have bollixed chelsea days are over thirty three year old germany captain has signed a two year contract with a buyer leverkusen leverkusen finished fourth in the bundesliga last season on the coach poncas and ballack hopes he can contribute positively to a school with a bright future but he'll have to recover his fitness and full fast not easy for a thirty three year old boy aged his ankle in may and missed the world cup but hopes to be back for the start of the new season. i am still doing build up the training strength training in the next few days i will try to do a bit of running for the first time if everything goes smoothly. and jump into team training in the next two or three weeks this is my in order to be ready for the first day of the new season to boxing now i will defend his w b o and i.b.o. heavyweight graus against alexander by that can all september eleventh

officials plan to create a detailed map of the california coast to help prevent mistakes bike the -- laker the crumbling cliff in pacifica. >>> emotion experts said the ocean is claiming more and more of our coast. and to save it, we need better pictures. from the top of pacifica's bluff and from below, crews today continued the battle against the drum belling cliffs. but one look at this. it's clear to anyone there should have been better planning. >> it's no good. wasn't any good to begin with. is. >> 3-d images of all 1200 miles of california's coast including the entire bay area was so detailed, you might make out footprints in the sand. >> we're gonna have some major solution things people can look at. >> this is gonna combine unprecedent the detail. >> that kind of resolution will allow it do a much better job looking at climate change. >> engineers say they need the data to design tomorrow's coastal protection. >> so behave a few decades to develop a better understanding of water level the and wave conditions and erosion rates. >> state researchers will begin aerial mapping flights

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the paf mavs wanted lind, so did lakers, he decided to play for warriors.son told me he has tall dwront play in the nba. >> there is my dream to play in the nba. now, i get to do it for warriors team. it's more than a dream come true. and i consider myself a basketball player. i know i'm ready to play at this level. and i understand the asian-american community has supported me and i'm thankful for that. >> and there is a fan favorite z david lee dislocated middle finger on his right hand yesterday and there is a is lee should be fine for training camp but going to miss the world championships. baseball, we don't know fa.'s are pretenders or contenders but know there are two out of three from the red sox. there is std first career major league homer. there is is is number six and there is 3-1 a's. there is davis, two out single, knocks in a pair. and there is help from the d. there is a double play and they're now a game over 500 there. is the foulout there is clayton sur spended five games and going to appeal thachl the umps just blew whit acting manager d

he turned down offers from the lakers and dallas. nothing like working in your hometown. i know about that. >> several people are dead from an accident involving a greyhound bus. several cars go up in flames at a parking lot in sfo and investigators are called out. >> i'm terry mcsweeney. bart is offering its riders some of its $4.5 million surplus and riders are saying, no thanks. i'll explain in a live report. >> we are tracking weather across the country. everything has been moving least on west coast and green conditions indicate that we have few flight delays. everybody is good to go right now. check out our website for more information if you are traveling or if you want local information or anything else at www.abc7.com. www.abc7.com. away be back. "meg whitman says she'll run california like her company..." seen this attack on meg whitman? who are these people? they're the unions and special interests behind jerry brown. they want jerry brown because, he won't "rock the boat," in sacramento. he'll be the same as he ever was. high taxes. lost jobs. big pensions for

you are already in vegas the favorites to win though the lakers won two in a row.llenge would be if i was on the team with you. okay? so, you got these three fantastic players and then you got me -- >> can you shoot? >> jimmy: no. >> can you set screens? >> jimmy: barely. barely. barely. i would be terrible -- i would easily be the worst player in the history of professional basketball. >> but you'd be able to crack jokes -- >> jimmy: keep things light. >> yeah. we can use you. >> jimmy: i'm ready to go. if you get a text, it's probably from me. that's all i'm saying what about your kids? did they want you to stay in miami? did they want you -- what did they want you to do? >> well, my -- i got two boys, 8 and 3. my 3-year-old, he really don't really care. >> jimmy: he doesn't? >> no, he doesn't. my 8-year-old is a fan of the game. i'm not his favorite player at all. it happens that way. >> jimmy: you're not? >> lebron is. how ironic. so i asked him, i said, you know, how do you feel about if daddy came and played in chicago, and i was being serious. and he was lik

like if the nba instead of playing game seven, had the lakers and celtics settle it with pop a shot.t's ridiculous. in case you didn't see the exciting match between paraguay and japan, here was the highlight. it's our world cup play of the day. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: when does football come back? the head of the governing body for soccer, fifa, they finally apologized for some of the terrible officiating that's been going on. spe sichic they apologized for an english goal that was withdrawn and then a goal by argentina that was unfairly awarded against mexico. the refs from those matches have been sent home. that's what you get for hiring the guys at the foot locker. they're not real. fifa said they will now study the possibility of using instant replay in the future. they've been against that. and they've acknowledged that there might be something wrong with the official world cup ball. they denied that there was something wrong before the cup began. many players, though, they said it reminds them of a cheap supermarket ball. it flies too easy through the air and behaves

but who do you like in this lakers-celtics series?mean, me being an eastern conference guy, i like boston. i mean, i've played against those guys and lost to them in the second round. you know, just the caliber of players they got, the winners they got, i think they have a great opportunity to win. >> larry: you think they can win? >> i think they can. >> larry: how did you lose to them? >> you know, their team was just, i think, a little bit better than ours. and they took advantage of some of our weaknesses. you know, when you have paul pierce and ray allen and kevin garnett, you kind of forget about rajon rondo. and that's exactly what happened at times. and he kind of controls the whole ship that goes on in boston. and they did a good job. i mean, we're a really good team, but they were better than us in this series. >> larry: even though you had the better record all year? >> even though we had the better record. >> larry: is that frustrating? >> absolutely. definitely frustrating for me, knowing the competitor i am and knowing w

anthony laker wrote the only game in time, racetrack, the famous piece by a sense of where you are withill bradley. >> first new yorker piece. and a real masterpiece. >> rose: it is. >> bill at his height. >> as good as he was on the knicks and really -- supreme college ball. >> rose: he was indeed. so politics for a moment while i have roger here. so obama. having read the book and having seen -- what do you make of this? >> i think it is axiomatic going into an off year election a congressional election this coming november, when unemployment is still close to ten percent and we are fighting a war in afghanistan that is so god forsaken and these papers that have come out, wonderful profile of this guy for wiki leaks and i think the times and guardian and did a great job of summarizing this -- what is in it but we know what is happening. we have an extremely unreliable ally in cab bull, extremely unreliable ally in pakistan, a very difficult military mission that obama does not seem to have his heart in as well as other people. yet a lot of people who understand very well why we got in

including selling his private box at lakers games. >> i sold it because of you! don't have any [ bleep ] money. i have to support you and everybody else. i have to sell paintings. >> reporter: this morning tmz is reporting the judge will continue to allow mel gibson to see his daughter, so the current visitation agreement remains in place. that includes daytime visits and one overnight a week, but matt, investigators are just now starting to review these tapes and anything can still change. >> all right, jeff thanks very much. let's get a check at the weather. >> as we look across the country, we have the heat here in the east, a risk of strong storms along the upper midwest. 78 degrees in portland, oregon, today. 93 in l.a. 114 in phoenix, arizona. we're looking at hit or miss >>> seeing lots of sunshine around san jose. to the south, maybe later on this afternoon, may see clouds building up. look at the thunder showers in the southern sierra this morn. flash flood watches are around lake tahoe area. use caution. if you're heading up to the high country. bay are

how much of the lakers to are still not drawn up from bart we have calls into them we will check withsoon as we find out what kind of delay should be expected we'll come back to give you the update. major delays on bart plan a little extra time getting into work this morning. stock futures are rising and the dow yesterday declined more than one-third of a percent to 10,00498 the nasdaq dropped more than 1% to nearly 2000 to 65 we also have more formation on jobless numbers coming in the last five minutes off first-time claims for unemployment had dropped by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted four under and 57,000 analysts had restricted a smaller drop much more on this account as the opening bell rings at 6:30 a.m. a little less than 45 minutes rain now. california is expanding a rebate program for appliances today the state's cash for finances is now adding dishwashers, freezers, water heaters deleting in haiti air- conditioning to the list of appliances that are eligible for rebate amounts will rage very much a dead could be $50 could be a thousand dollars or anywhere in between the en

northbound out of downtown san jose 881 01 interchange traffic is still backed up leading to trouble the lakerscrashed long gone but the heavy traffic trade accord itself out in the northbound direction. the back up still reaches far as 88101 interchange. the bay bridge toll plaza metering lights were not activated until the 7:00 hour they were turned off in the o'clock hour we have been free of any back up until now you see here a few cars stacked up over here waiting to pay now the $4 instead of $6 toll. because the pool drops at 10:00 we tend to see a jump in volume heading toward the bay bridge a second wave at the bay bridge toll plaza. admittedly this morning it's not bad but that's not surprising there has not been any traffic all morning long. here ride to the san mateo bridge check from there no longer any back up reported on the approach to this band traffic is thinning out on the westbound ride. >> 10 03 rain now on our developing story out of richmond and manhunt is underway for two suspects involved in an early morning car theft that wound up being a kidnapping as well because of f