the committee is headed by cochairs nancye helman and larry bear. without their of leadership, none of this would have been possible. [applause] i want to welcome not only them, but all of the steering committee, and the host committee members who are here today. please identify yourself. [applause] the bridge and the city of san francisco have a special connection. cynically, physically, and culturally. we have been so honored to have the city as an organizing partner for the 75th anniversary with a fabulous leadership of mayor at the and the super support of the special events director martha colon, as well as all of the city departments. ladies and gentlemen, please help me in giving a warm welcome to the mayor who bridges us all, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you very much for that wonderful welcome. thank you, everyone, for coming. we are glad you are so boring. that is wonderful. -- so orange. thank you for joining all of us. so glad to be here with our board of supervisors, police chief, fire chief, so many of our other department directo

. >> you can't take out shouting we have no bulls and bears, get with the program. now, larry, go ahead. >> you know, this is the straw that broke the camel's back, for small and medium sized businesses in particular, they are under attack in this country right now. the regulatory environment, they tax incertainty, if i talk to the businesses every day and they're saying, now what, i'm not in the mood to hire, it's not just because of the health care law, it's because of health care law in addition to everything else, they're already dealing with, now, certainly, we can't blame the health care law for the malaise on main street, but it's not helping matters, it's the not going to encourage anyone to go out and hire and it's going to hurt wages because the companies are going to pass that through and-- >> and with the clean response. rather than these platitudes, rather than the platitudes, can we refer to some facts here. >> jewel yin, hojulian, you're one-- we'll get on, finish your sentence. >> saying it hurts the middle class, it's regress seive and the worst of all kinds o

bear. he was later tranquilized and brought to safety. larrybc news. >> unbelievable. >> wow. >> and the geography, the topography of duluth is unique. we were just discussing it because the city is build around steep hills and cliffs. they're calling this the duluth deluge. >> say that ten times faster. >> duluth deluge. unbelievable, though. unbelievable pictures, sinkholes. cars getting swallowed by these sinkholes. >> and just to add to the craziness, you have polar bears and seals out there. >> yes, polar bears on the list. thankfully they stayed put. a lot of the animals drowned in this unfortunate disaster. the mayor is expected to contact president obama for relief, as well. >>> well, the other door is wide open in the northeast. if you think yesterday was hot, everybody, wait and see what's in store for today. nearly a dozen states remain under heat warnings and advisories from new england to the mid-atlantic. record highs expected in new york and d.c. and the heat index in some places could reach as high as 110. thousands of folks bea

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bear it is. there is no insurance like the esurance. as >>gary: basketball legend larry bird needs a break.tepping down as president of the indiana pacers. third donnie walsh is scheduled to come back to handle the draft. larry bird is stepping away from the indiana pacers. when you have a lot of money you may not have common sense. hammadi stottlemyre was fined $50,000 for a tweet a gay slurred. hist that before >>gary: when we return, would you like deceit chris brown and drake fighting? i'm telling you they have been offered a million dollars to fight. the story is next. psst pensions >>gary: chris brown and drake got into a fight and now a promoter has offered >> $1 million to take their frustrations to the rain. the fight led be held at the l.a. states will center on august 25th. aside from just watching, the match would be for a good cause. all proceeds would be donated to charity. >>pam: we will see you at 8:00 p.m.. >>> new "today" show fallout after the reports that regis is in and ann curry is out. >>> plus, did john edwards dump rielle hunter over her new tell-all book? her surpr

larry is recuperating and will be back monday. >>> our top story, wall street whipsawed and the bears are battling like these two brawling bears in florida. the roller coaster ride sent investors into hiding for the week. we were down just 1% for all of that. if you thought this week was ulcer inducing. next week could be worse. wall street and for politicians. markets, the economy and politics. the three keys. we have your battle plan to protect your money and maybe make it grow. also tonight as president obama accuses mitt romney of outsourcing jobs, bun deposits are asking is president obama running against the gdp and not the gop? first we begin with stocks ending the week on a high note, rebounding from the second biggest one-day sell-off this year. if you think you needed dramamine this week, next week could be even more -- fun, it says right here. seema mody and brian shaktman have it covered for us. seema a? >> it was a volatile week with jamie dimon's testimony on tuesday. the fomc meeting on wednesday and economic data points on thursday, not to mention moody's downgrading credit ratings of 15 global banks. today some g

bear with us on that one. so let me introduce the panel, it's a good one. we are going to start off by hearing from larry swagger, the president of the national wildlife organization. and in addition to his long and impressive resume on conservation and climate change issues, one of his other claims of fame is that he's inspired and mentored a whole generation of conservationists, myself included. i used to work down the hall from larry at one of my other jobs. second up, we're going to hear from doug ray, he is an associate lab director for the department of energy's national laboratory in pacific northwest. he's one of those smart people that deals with science and technology and all things having to do with energy and ramifications on climate change. doug, if you're looking for a job, we need your kind in boulder. and third, we're going to hear from dan ferber who is an independent award-winning journalist with several biology degrees who seems to have a knack for taking scientific issues and making them understandable to the reading public. in other words, a science geek that can communicate. that's

bears was injured, and then they fell over an air conditioner. they stared at each other for awhile and then went away into the woods together. interesting. >> didn't look like they were playing. larry i don't think they were playing. i really don't have anywhere to go after that. i will just get to the baseball. it is the best and the worst of tim lincecum in one game. not quite wrestling bears, but wrestling with the a's. timmy with a rocky first inning in oakland and then he is bailed out in the 9th. sports >>> good evening. tim lincecum has not won a game for the giants since april. he didn't win tonight. he add shaky evening, but recovered for a dramatic 9th inning rally in the bay bridge series opener. nothing better than father and son taking in the ballgame. timmy another rough start, bottom of the first and weeks back of the box and a's on the board 1-0. bases loaded and smith grounder to first. bell has to step on first and he doesn't do that. it is a 3-0 lead. timmy struck out the said. lynn succumb worked six innings and struck out 8. they lead 3-1 in the 9th. he comes up empty and buster posey and we are tied at 3. hector sanchez and base hit. the giants go up 5-3. the

bears was injured, and then they fell over an air conditioner. they stared at each other for awhile and then went away into the woods together. interesting. >> didn't look like they were playing. larry? >> i don't think they were playing. i really don't have anywhere to go after that. i will just get to the baseball. it is the best and the worst of tim lincecum in one game. not quite wrestling bears, but wrestling with the a's. timmy with a rocky first inning in oakland and then he is bailed out in the 9 >>> good evening. tim lincecum has not won a game for the giants since april. he didn't win tonight. he add shaky evening, but recovered for a dramatic 9th inning rally in the bay bridge series opener. nothing better than father and son taking in the ballgame. timmy another rough start, bottom of the first and weeks back of the box and a's on the board 1-0. bases loaded and smith grounder to first. bell has to step on first and he doesn't do that. it is a 3-0 lead. timmy struck out the said. lynn succumb worked six innings and struck out 8. they lead 3-1 in the 9th. he comes up empty and buster posey and we are tied at 3. hector sanchez and base hit. the giants go up 5-3. the a's, n

bear battle. check out the home video. 2 matey animal wrestling in front of stunned homeowner. join us at 11:00. >> larry with sports. they could use a win. >> sountdz like every giants fanny know. ominous almost unthinkable stat giants lost the last 9 games started by tim. now the rocky outing tonight early on for the 2 time cy young award winner. in oakland nothing better than is. >> cocoa yips stolen second and third. lead 1 nothing then later the bases lowed. smith a a grounder to first. brandon belt didn't step on the bag and he's late to the plate so week scores. part of 43 pitch inning and 2 nothing a's and timy mows everybody down. struck off the side. pennington went 6 innings. gave up 3 runs. struck out 8. giants didn't give tim much help and parker strikes out ryan so then this. pick off second bates. that is sloppy poor baseball by the giants. that ended the threat. a's leading 3-1 in the eighth. back east. new york mayor bloomberg taking in the yankees mets game. mets come out swinging. slumping davis breaking out. taking petit deep to right. actually knocked the ball over the wall for a 3 r

bears was injured, and then they fell over an air conditioner. they stared at each other for awhile and then went away into the woods together. interesting. >> didn't look like they were playing. larry? >> i don't think they were playing. i really don't have anywhere to go after that. i will just get to the baseball. it is the best and the worst of tim lincecum in one game. not quite wrestling bears, but wrestling with the a's. timmy with a rocky first inning in oakland and then he is bailed out in the 9 [ horn honks ] ♪ ♪ [ man ] excuse me miss. [ gasps ] this fiber one 90 calorie brownie has all the moist, chewy, deliciousness you desire. mmmm. thanks. at 90 calories, the brownie of your dreams is now deliciously real. tim lincecum has not won a game for the giants since april. he didn't win tonight. he add shaky evening, but recovered for a dramatic 9th inning rally bay bridge in the bay bridge series opener. nothing better than father and son taking in the ballgame. timmy another rough start, bottom of the first and weeks back of the box and a's on the board 1-0. bases loaded and smith grounder to first. bell has to step on first and he doesn't do that. it is a 3-0 lead. timmy s

larry, thank you for joining us again. >> thank you. >> all right. well, so you don't think that what happens tomorrow will necessarily have a bearing in the november electiondy is saying? >> probably not. you know, governor you have been around politics for so long, it's a classical analyst trick to take anything that happens today and draw a straight line between it and the november election. >> that's not the way politics works. first of all, you are going to have two different candidates running for president, different themes, different issues five months for new events to take hold, new trends to take hold new economic data to be released. so no, i don't happen to think there is any direct relationship. i think the incorrect facts of this election are relatively mild. if i could add one other thing. we know something very, very interesting in the polling interviews when they do open-ended questions and, also some of the bres interviews with people. there seems to be a slice. i don't know how big the slice is but it's a slice of the wisconsin electorate saying they are going to vote against recall because they are tired of rules. they are tired of what

bear cub returned to the wild. why some people are calling it a big mistake. all ahead on abc 7 news at 11:00. larrybout baseball. who won and who lost. >> the giants down in the oc as we say, orange county trying to take the rubber match of a three game series they had the misfortune of facing the angels ace jarred weaver in his first start back after a stint on the disabled list. threw a no hitter on may 2. i tell you what, great stuff again tonight. first batter of the game. a taste of weaver's nastiness. takes buster posey with a high heave. only struck out three. angels get on the board as alberto hits his fourth homer of the year. a solo shot in the second. angels tack on a item of couple of more in the fog. tremendous. single to center. aybar and the angels go up 3-0. just went final. 6 h-0 angels over the giants. as for the a's they honored they are second baseman before their game with the dodgers tonight. in the second, arribe. josh rest tig appears to catch the ball but flies out on impact. take a look with the replay. he's got it. he's got it. he's got it. it flies out. juan rivera came