>> larry: he spun the tires. >> darrell: going to get away with it. keselowski not going at all. >> larry: keselowski in the 2 held carl edwards up on the outside, on the 99. edwards will make a run for third. >> darrell: a good run down the back. at-contact down the back straightaway. >> mike: kyle busch on the inside. harvick drops one. edwards to second on fresh tires. >> larry: four to go. >> darrell: three wide. >> mike: bowyer in the wall. hard. >> darrell: hard wreck. more wreck. turn four. big wreck. harvick in trouble. >> mike: keep going. keep going. keep going. >> mike: three of the four childress cars if trouble. in the closing laps. bowyer's car, the front end destroyed. >> larry: spaghetti junction on the restart like this racetrack, slick. some guys on old tires and some guys on new. that was inevitable. it's not what regan smith wanted to see. >> mike: the window fete down on bowyer. that is a signal to the safety crew he is okay. remember, we saw kyle busch dropping way down to the bottom. passing cars. almost on the apron. that is hi

not injures larry and sergei. there were a number of people that were influential in the company, and sometimes they were just wonderfully change, and these were the people i wanted to spend time with and not just once but sometimes multiple times, and time of "wired," the same month i began serious work on this book, i began working at "wired." i left ""newsweek"" and shifted to "wired." and it was a terrific experience at the same time was able to sometimes spin off articles with googles permission, because basically everything i did inside of google was for the book unless we had mutual consent otherwise. and that would help. >> host: can i just interrupt. didn't they ask you, why not release little chapters at a time. >> guest: it's a company that takes books very seriously as a corpus of information, but the two founders aren't really book people, in terms of their own preferences there, and from sergei said has to me, i thought, doesn't have the same seriousness. and sometimes working on a "wired" article we

>> larry: oh boy. well, if they only went with two right-side tires you might as well get the other left sides now. >> mike: chris and jeff? >> chris: it has been adventurous night. kasey kahne led the most laps followed by kyle busch. other activity, juan pablo montoya warned about getting near ryan newman. he got in to jimmie johnson. and then he had trouble with brian vickers early. >> jeff: slides up there, takes two tires and hits the 83 car. >> chris: rough night for brian vickers. he threads the car. sheet metal everywhere. >> jeff: loose on the driver side. >> chris: getting the 83 -- talk about earning stripe. earning tape. on pit road, hold on gas man. he was okay. >> jeff: he didn't take equipment out of the pit box either. >> chris: this is with paul menard. he was all right. >> jeff: i told you real men work in the pits. >> chris: some of the pit stop adventurous for different drivers and different crews as regan smith with seven to go in front. your start on restart inside, outside now. >

i asked larry page, larry, you're a search company and you have two operating systems. and he said to me "only two?" >> rose: so other than facebook, what's the challenge for google? >> i think the biggest challenge is thinking like a small company when it's big. and this is something that has bedeviled the founders, particularly larry, since the company started growing at a rapid rate really in the early 2000s. >> rose: have to maintain the culture they started with? >> and the nimbleness. the internet is getting products out in a big hurry, even if they have to be in beta for years. they want them out there and they want their people to feel creative and non-constrained and not have to answer to middle management. i looked into the hiring process. one of the things they really select for very closely is ambition. larry's a very ambitious person. he feels... >> rose: how do they measure ambition in the process of hiring employees? >> they look at your college g.p.a.. they make sure your s.a.t. shows you're smart and look at your g.p.a. to see if you're dedicated. they

larry can you hear me. parrot lee larry can hear me. ok we're going to take a break a quick break here we'll be back. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime. i think. one well. we never got says if the keep you safe get ready because their freedom. you know sometimes you see the story and the scene so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize that everything you saw you don't i'm sorry is a big. larry flynt joins me now from our studios in los angeles he is the publisher of hustler magazine and a lifelong advocate for free speech larry welcome. glad to be words thank you your book your new book details the numerous american presidents who behaved badly why do you think this happened so often. our always wondered apparently in five or six counties of life today and ironically lay their. private itself out for you whether it was how much you have a cinema or i was going around the room nobody were wired to believe that. five . years. sally hemings. who managed to

larry. can you hear me. apparently larry can hear me. ok we're going to take a very quick break here we'll be back. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime. i think. even one well. we never got the says for the keep you safe get ready because of their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so bleak you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some of the part of it and realize that everything you saw. i'm sorry is a big. larry flynt joins me now from our studios in los angeles he is the publisher of hustler magazine and a lifelong advocate for free speech larry welcome glad to be worth your time thank you your book your new book details the numerous american presidents who behaved badly but i do think this happened so often. i'll always wondered if the founding fathers had their sights count. and ironically they did. play their stuff out for you whether it was how much you have a son in law or alexander and want to know why there were a lot of good lead that. five. years.

people are going to be arguing that for centuries to come. >> host: a tweet from larry flynt. were there any political escapades' you left out because they couldn't be substantiated? >> guest: we had some important tapes, especially audio tapes including high-ranking politicians. that we wanted to use because it was recorded in one state. and both parties to use tapes. we were definitely sued for it. >> host: any others? >> guest: there are plenty of rabaul all presidents. we go back to some of the gossip. our focus is on going and unsubstantiated story and how they shaped american politics. >> host: what is the instance of all of this debunking? >> guest: j. edgar hoover wearing a dress and being a transvestite. that was invented to tar j. edgar hoover by his enemies and has been promoted ever since. the problem with that story is that it distracted from the true scandal of j. edgar hoover which is that he used sex files on every senator and supreme court justice, to basically control the federal government over the 47 years he served as fbi director. it undermined the consti

abc tj joins us from joplin. >> larry, good evening. the big focus in joplin is making sure everyone in the missing person's list is accounted for. the number was high as 1500. this morning 232 . i can tell you that number is lower because some of the people on the list came forward to let officials know they are alive and well. >> right there. >> barabara bryant's life and home are turned upside down. >> it was me, my soul was in the house. >> she's looking for the things that cannot be replaced. >> i lost pictures and that is most important. >> she considers herself lucky . at least 125 people died in joplin after a killer tornado struck sunday. more than 200, are still missing. they are releasing the names and hoping that the people will come forward. >> our goal is to get that number to zero. >> a home security camera captured the moment the tornado struck and kept recording. residents are recovering from the line of powerful thunderstorms and twisters and 900 reports of severe weather. in greensburg, indiana this is what is left of

this is a way of larry flint to normalise himself. >> i don't think that is accurate. we were telling the important story and the case of bill clinton in which case this national tryout and saga over sex captivated the public mind and distracted us from serious threats to america one of which was not tied up. of the 9/11 commission recordrosto led commissioners say the monica lewinsky scandal distracted the administration and kept us from doing what we should have been doing to protect the american public. p >> guest: you will never convinceub everyone about bill clinton and they will have pros and cons why he was a great president or why he was a tv and. people will argue that for centuries to come. >> were there any political any all sexual escapades left out because they cannot be substantiated? >> hall there were some imports and tapes, especially audio tapes involving high-ranking politicians that we wanted to use but we couldn't because you have to have the information from both parties. we definitely would have been sued. >> guest: there always has been rumors a

that could go on for generations. >> thank you vy much, larry, and don't forget, you can get larry'sitical insight any time, anywhere, nbc bay area.com. we still have more ahead for you on "today in the bay." >>> including the best burger in the bay area. >>> good morning, i'm mike inouye, and there's lots to do today in lthe bai. d-o-o-f, is doo dpmpbpalooza. it is the third year for this free family food festival for kids of all ages, you could learn about all parts of the food journey, from source to table top and fun things about the process in between. there's even something called the great shakoff where you can make butter while dancing. and an event that's got me dancing with excitement, is the sixth annual maker fair in san mateo, practical, whimsical, experimental, original. the maker fair is where arts and crafts bridges over with science and engineering. now if coke zero and mentos, milk jug igloo. a spaceship tree house piques your interest, this is the fair for you. the maker fair, where the slogan is, if you think it, you can build it and then make it shoot fire. come

the death of a larry i'll be sparked dozens of inquiries in italy. legal authorities sifted through all the businesses operating in somalia and in doing so uncovered the fraudulent toxic way. market. modern industry produces an increasing amount of potentially fatal waste from chemicals to heavy metals and even radioactive products the more dangerous the material the more expensive it is to destroy as a result certain individuals offer a cheaper alternative dump the waste in the third world a solution which is completely illegal. the italian authorities have exposed one of these networks it is not the only one of its kind and it is certainly not the most significant. for people who are involved in this toxic ring a former owner a somali console leoni. an expert in toxic waste. freights businessmen and a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu jon karl marx you know. and the fourth man in the network is none other than the then president of somalia . in one thousand nine hundred five a former president appoints as the only honorary consul scully

among them, jeff larry. he's a veteran crime reporter with the "joplin globe" who wrote so movingly about your own loss. i read your piece. you're in a closet with sports equipment. suddenly what you feel is rain coming in. everything is gone. how is your newsroom doing? and how is my old stomping grounds doing? >> the newsroom is on the one hand, devastated. we had seven or eight employees of the news room who have lost their home or lost most of their home. and many other possessions. but we, on the other hand, are very grateful because there was a period yesterday when after this storm had hit for about a five-hour, six-hour period where there was a question whether two of our employees, newsroom employees, had even managed to survive. and we got good word late last night on both of those. and that's -- that's what's important. and i mean, you can always get things and homes back, but you can't get a life back. >> what have you been told about shock? and what have you been told is going to be the effect?

a talent for the instrument led larry here, to julliard.t's one of the top schools in the world for the performing arts. >> when i got to julliard, i found the people that really embraced and loved chamber music. and we would hang out friday, saturday nights, and we would play string quartets and all kinds of chamber music all through the night. we'd order pizza at about 1:00 in the morning, and then we'd keep playing until, you know, 6, 7:00 in the morning, and then go out and have breakfast. >> reporter: clearly, this was years before playstation. the emerson quartet was formed out of those relationships. its members have now been playing together for more than 30 years. >> i think somehow, what we communicate to the audiences have been interesting to them, that they've wanted to see us perform. >> reporter: they certainly do. the emerson quartet travels the world, playing sold-out performances. in addition, they've been honored with an incredible eight grammys. eat your heart out, justin timberlake. >> if people want to really have a gre

sets, i'm larry king. tonight and tomorrow night, i'll turn the tables on tavis for a conversation about his life, career and his 20th anniversary in broadcasting. tavis is the author of a forthcoming book detailing 20 mistakes he's made in his life and how those mistakes have impacted him personally and professionally. the book is called "fail up, 20 lessons on building success from failure." we're glad you've joined us. part one of my conversation with tavis is coming up. right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> -- you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. than

special announcement in exclusive interviews from a look at ask if you're from prodigy from up the larry flynt and fed chairman ben bernanke fellow former e j deliberately joins me for a new segment this one time at boot camp and for our permits and i will be covering don't ask don't tell me more sensitivity training and don't ask me to take my shirt off anymore and i won't tell anyone that you've been watching adam versus the ma'am . at ten am eastern time this morning in new hampshire congressman dr ron paul made it official his campaign is no longer in exploratory mode he is running for the republican nomination for president of the united states he was able to get a double tap on the announcement by first breaking the news in an interview with george stephanopoulos on good morning america the sad thing about this is that george would always ask the most ridiculous questions about what used to be some of ron's most unpopular positions but as ron himself said the reason he's running for president. now is it would seem as if the people of america are starting to come around to the ideas

larry put handcuffs on the suspects hands and his ankles.e advised remembers against moving the suspect to the back of the plane. >> he had a contaminant of some sort it could of been on explosive by d.. i was in log beach on the twin towers fell, i swore to myself that i would never be a victim. what occurred here is simply a matter preparing myself for what could have occurred. i don't think we need to go ahead and be flustered by this. it's something we need to be prepared for. he said he wasn't the only one he said several others felt about any would expect others to do the same faced with similar circumstances. a live at sfo, kron 4 news. >>jacqueline: current conditions vary " close to the coastline but away from the coast temperatures warm without the sea breeze winds in place. fog will be done overnight and cooler conditions tomorrow. details coming up. it ♪ ♪ i got it, we got it [ groans ] ♪ who's got it see you later. ♪ yeah! ♪ come on, she got it you got it, we got it who's got it ♪ we're all different. that's why there are five n

so larry when you get home, take your smartphone out to the yard. >> one of the nicest.ybe on the web. a dramatic 9th inning come back for the giants, but they may have just lost buster posey after a scary play at the plate. and i'm sorry to tell you this thing looks pretty serious. sports is next. the count on chevy event is here. your ticket to a cruze eco. 42 mpg and over 500 highway miles a tank. one of our 9 models over 30 mpg highway. fuel up, rock on. very well qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on a chevy cruze eco for around $159 a month. or qualified buyers can get no monthly payments for 3 months. fuel economy based on epa estimates. deferred payments offer ends may 31st. the giants have a knack for the dramatic 9th inning come back. they did it again tonight against the marlins, but this game proved to be costly. 3-2 florida and bases loaded and mike stanton to the gap in left center off lopez. everybody comes in to score. 6-2 marlins. it looked like the game was over. but the giants score four in the bottom of the 9th to tie it. pat burrell and mi

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there is one exception to that rule, and that would be larry bair. i hear that your ringtone is "we are the champions," and that one is ok with me. speaking of larry, the giants were pleased to share with us the world series trophy. [applause] the giants have brought so much to this city, sharing with us this incredible trophy. it is just outstanding. it will be at the giants' boost today when we have a break -- booth today when we have a break. you can take a few photos. but do not take it home with you. you'll be hearing from me from time to time today, so i will keep this short. to kick off our events and provide welcoming remarks, allow me to introduce our newest rock star -- mayor ed lee. has shown that he is a natural for the job. i have been closed to him for decades. he is the head of the human- rights commission. he went on to become the city purchaser. mayer brown appointed him to be the director of public works, and he spent several years as city administrator. i never would have thought that ed lee would be mayor of san francisco. because

thank you very much, larry. starting a little bit early today is our business and technology show, "press here." scott mcgrew has a plea view. >>> well thank you for letting us have a half an hour of your news tomorrow. we'll run ""press here" at a special time. to make way for toker. steve levy is a top tech author, he spent two years behind the scenes for google for his book, "in the plex." and "u.s.a. today" reporter john schwartz will tell us about facebook's embarrassing week. the company's pr firm tried to bully reporters into emphasizing google. >>> we want to thank you so much for making us part of your morning. we'll have more local news for you tonight at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00, and any time of day on nbcbayarea.com. have a great morning if you're headed out to the zazzle bay to breakers running of the 100th 12-k. stay safe and sober. have a great day. see you next weekend. kd considered

and larry is beside himself. >> he has been practicing. >> i am on farmville all day long.t that i don't even get to the sports. i am in the roll of a cow. i have no idea. this is what i know, the sharks had the chance to put detroit away, and it does not happen. and now the sharks, they are going to have a lot of time to learn farmville if they don't come up with a win m! i'm fsfsfsfsfsaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxax [ asst mgr ] what are you doing? fixing the name. it'siber none. looks like one. well, i know. i put an "n" there. ah! fiber one honey clusters cereal! that's really good! it tastes good, so there can't be fiber in it! it's actually got about half a day's worth of fiber. [ asst mgr ] it says so right on the box. [ fiber seeker ] really? try it. [ mr. mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard? cardboard no, delicious yes. so where's the fiber? maybe it's in the honey clusters. [ male announcer ] fiber one. cardboard no, delicious yes. precisely what they hope to avoid. the sharks almost stole game six in detroit, but they could not hold on. the

larry gerston, thank you very much for joing us this morning. you can check out what larry has to say on our website, the prop zero blog on nbcbayarea.com. >>> much more ahead on "today in the bay." your game report on bay area baseball this weekend. >> good morning, i'm mike inouye, there's lots to do "today in the bay" if you're blowing through town this holiday weekend, which heading to san ramon. we're not talking art and wine this time, we're talking art and wind, today and tomorrow in central park, the air and wind festival will have kite-flying champions from around the world. artists and kite makers from china and hot air balloon launches as well. even a dedicated kid zone. and not just a zone, but an entire festival, the bay area kid fest 2011 continues today and tomorrow in downtown concord. just up 680. parents may learn a thing or two from the 100 different crafts and activities and exhibitses there. you can have your picture taken with the smurfs. parents, you might have to explain who these blue guys and the one blue gal are. voted

>> larry beil, one person he. > i am already feeling clawser phobic.fted by the giants and tosses the first no hitter and thankfully it wasn't against the giants. whoa, i should get mom a samsung fascinate. bright, colorful screen, high-speed downloads, hd video. she'll want videos of grandkids. i'm not ready for kids. what would i name it ? brian's good. a brian will make eye contact, work with his hands, return e-mails. okay, mom's getting a phone. get mom a new samsung fascinate for $99.99 and unlimited data for only $29.99 on america's largest high-speed wireless network. verizon. season was tossed by francisco liariano. he was traded in the aj brzenzinski deal. i know, don't cringe at once. he entered with a one and four record and era of 9 and gets a no hitter when he lines out. a very strange no, no. six walks and two strikeouts. the first complete game in 95 career starts. the giants finally found offense in new york. but it took extra innings and a slump buster to end their misery. the mets hauled out the heavy lumber. beltran with a three-run

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>> yeah. >> so i'm going to call you larry from now on. >> larry. >> all right. >>> highway 4 soundsan accident coming into our newsroom approaching a street and unfortunately it's in the median causing slower speeds. this is unusual for us to see red on our sensor this early before 6:00. here's live look at the san mateo bridge. the commute direction so far, so good out towards foster city and the peninsula. that's your traffic. back to you. >> all right, elizabeth, libby -- >> larry. >> our nicknames today. >>> in the next half hour, relief at the gas pump. >> the dramatic drop prices could take in the next month. >>> a man is killed while walking across the street. we'll tell you about the wild ride the suspect took after that accident and where he is now coming up. >>> and the clean-up has begun after day one of cinco de mayo celebrations in san jose. police are getting ready for more trouble this weekend. i'm kiet do with a live report coming up. ,, [ male announcer ] it was forged from the fires of imagination. sculpted by an unyielding passion for design. ♪ and tempered by 125

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why larry el evason is taking his neighbor to court i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. is off tonight. you'll hear two gunshots killed two people and you see the misery and the grief. and a man carrying a gun. >> it happened on national boulevard near 88th. michelle cook shows us the powerful video. >> reporter: what began as a neighborhood block party turned to this. [ yelling ] >> reporter: three people are shot and music is drowned out by the bone-chilling screams from the street. >> they were just shooting randomly. it seems like one person heard a gunshot and anybody else who had a gun in the area started shooting. >> lauren richardson is part of a film crew who happened to be there. in particular this scene. a man passes the camera openly carrying a gun. it's hard to tell who was the shooter because, after the shots were fired, many people pulled out guns. >> it's not okay to just shoot into a crowd. there was children out there. y'all are killing innocent people. >> reporter: cameras continued to roll as people gathered around the victim. aris bush of san leandro

>> do you watch "good morning america," "larry king," nancy grace"? >> reporter: casey anthony sat stone faced just feet from jurors who didn't hold back. >> i feel like she's guilty. >> reporter: it was the latest in a string of problems that didn't sit well with the defense. >> over vigorous objection, your honor. >> are you satisfied with your input into this process? >> with our objections, yes. >> reporter: the defense has the life of casey anthony in their hands. this is the jury, they can't do anything about it. the prosecution promised a cutting-edge case. including air samples from the trunk where they say the body of caylee was decomposing. the child's grandmother called 911 when she noticed the smell. her lead attorney jose baez has promised a bombshell in

. >> larry up next to explain. ó >> update for you on the break news about the cinco de mayo celebration. this video in of broken window along allen rock avenue where crowd of people vandalize several businesses in the past half hour. police are now out disbursing those crowds. >>> san jose shark new ticket pricing system rewards early birds that's according to the silicon valley business journal. sharks quietly launched dynamic pricing system for individual play off tickets similar to what the airlines do longer you wait the hotter a ticket gets yes the more it costs. real estate industry insider say the sale of this office building could signal the return of speculative redevelopment. san francisco base 4 corner property just bought the old technology building on with you bower avenue. >> transformation of union city bart station is on track. bids on project to build a public plaza, promenade and playground are due next thursday and housing is in the works. like to read more on the stories print edition of sili

the problem is, when you get to be larry king or tavis smiley or whatever, nobody wants to show the bad and the ugly about their career but i think if you can expose that, it can help other people. >> how much in life is luck? or do you agree with brant schticky, the great baseball manager, who said luck is the residue of design. tavis: i agree more with my grandmother who put it this way, it ain't no good luck, it's a good god. i don't believe in good luck, i believe in a god that is merciful and gracious. >> each chapter has ray on a title like "stay humble." when did you learn these lelessons? >> . tavis: the lesson about humility, i learned as a kid. when i was a child, i had a major humility problem. you grew up in a all white community and because i was the only african-american kid and my family was the only african-american family in that trailer park in indiana, you always felt less-man, the odd man out and we were the poorest family in the trailer park and i'm walking around with cardboard in my shoes and i have nine broisters. i always felt like the odd man out so i would tak

both gibson and oksana declined our request for an interview, but she did speak to cnn's larry king.ces, oksana. >> mel actually assaulted me whilst i was holding the baby in my arms. >> did he ever hurt your baby? >> he hit me with a fist. he hit me twice very fast. and the blow went across my mouth, broke the teeth, the veneers, and then at the end of that blow you see in my arms. >> if a sworn declaration obtained by tmz, gibson has acknowledged slapping not hitting oksana in order, he says, to stop her from shaking their daughter. in july 2010 explosive details about their rocky relationship began leaking out. >> it's scary. it's shocking. it's something that if somebody told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe it until you heard it with your own ears. >> reporter: radar online executive vice president and managing editor played the recordings for me. >> i knew these tapes were going to be explosive, that america was going to listen to these tapes and be riveted by them and disgusted by them. >> the language mel uses on the tape is extremely profane. >> reporter: in an in

best man to answer that question, nbc bay area political analyst, larry gerston. will it translate into support for obama's re-election? or is it too early? >> long term, probably not. short-term, that's another story. look, the president's popularity shot up dramatically over the past week. take a look at the polls and you see that people are so happy that orchestrated the killing of what was probably the most hated terrorist in american history. no question about it. we see this by the way, in the recent "new york times" poll, came out. the question is do you approve of the way barack obama is handling the presidency. boom, you got 11-point spike from april to may. no one's going to laugh at that. there's no question about it. it's a wonderful thing and the president will take what he can get. but again, it's probably temporary. >> it's 18 months away before we see the presidential election. but at the same time, people gave him a thumb's up on the raid in pakistan. and they gave him a thumb's down on the economy. so people clearly not willing to lump it all tog

larry larson, starting with you. is it, in fact, correct in terms of its construction and mission to think of this all as one wstem? ell, in fact, the lower >>miissippi river from cairo south was designed as a system, correct. it has a series of levees, thousands of miles of levees, and then along the points when the water gets really high, constrained by those levees it provides relief points through spillways and floodway bypassesi so it is... it's intended and does operate as a system. correct. >> couric: just to fill in the details a little bit more so, the floodgates and the spillways are when the water... they're stuck there, right? and when the water gets a certain height that's when they come into play? >> yeah. typically they would not be open because if you have a small amount of water in the river, you want to keep that water there because, remember, the water is all... the river's also used for navigation. so you want to keep is this t water there. but when the water gets extremely high, it threats to ove

larry mosconi. alioto-pier, feinstein, agnos. as bill mentioned, our dear harmonists sue burns. this is a dream fulfilled for all of us. also, we must pay tribute to an incredible front office staff who makes it all possible to support the work of this wonderful 2010 giants team. [applause] many of them are here. many of the staff that you saw, people working at the ballpark, we saw marching at the beginning of the parade. i hope you were able to pay due to them as well. thank you, 2010 giants. you will give us more than you will ever know. [applause] >> thank you. it is my pleasure, and we need a big round of applause for the next speaker, the giants a senior vice president and general manager. he put this team together, brian sabean. [applause] >> i do not know about politics but our outgoing men know how to throw a party. it is an emotional time for all of us, especially me. my knees are we, my heart is racing, a lump in my throat, but without overstating the obvious, we deserve this. northern california deserve this. san francisco deserved this. the organization, the fans. i

that is important. >> larry: that is huge heading to darlington.ave blaney and the team will be locked in the top 35. think about david ragan, he has not had a top five finish in over 2-1/2 years. we talked about what the doctor ordered for joe gibbs and what the doctor ordered for tony stewart. the first top ten finish in a while. >> darrell: we worry about the crew chief change. change on 11 and 20. what are they going to do? they answered it tonight. the 11 is happy. i saw mike ford give denny hamlin a nice pat on the back. good for them. i thought tonight was interesting. we talked about it in the opening. comers and goers. guys that needed good run. personal best. they got them. >> chris: tenth, one-two finish for joe gibbs racing who thoroughly dominated here tonight. on to darlington, next saturday night. >> chris: that will showtime, southern 500. you will see it saturday on fox. another baseball nascar double header. nine races, the quarter pole of the season, jeff. we had 17 races until the chase. third straight race here now that carl ed