i'm laurence scott.ight some insider stuff with the giants. we take you behind the scenes for how to watch batting practice. third base coach tim flannery gives us the tour. plus, a piece of giants history from the past on wax. we drop the needle on that. plus, the sharks getting ready r a.n l.inga agasthe in l.a. ag kings. we talked to them before they headed down to the city of angels. that and more coming up on >>> the animated hit rio soaring to the top of the box office this weekend. the family adventure pulled in more than $27 million, marking its second week at the number one spot. tyler perry,ed me dea's big happy family beat out anothbuers debut, water for elephants starring reese witherspoon. we'll be right back. >>> we're calling it the tour de trikes. only in san francisco, hundreds of people showed up for the 11th annual big wheels bike race. oh, yes, big wheels. it's an adults only affair, sort of. the so-called grownups carry their bikes to the steep hill and barrel down as fast as they ca

i'm laurence scott.s our first edition of the book club as we dive into some of the latest literature about the giant, and we get out the calendar to save the date later this week. the sharks open the play-offs at home, and a team they've never faced before in the postseason enters the tank. what to expect and when to expect it. that's coming up. >>> plus a two-part sitdown conversation, giants beat writer with the san jose mercury news andrew baggarly joins us in a matter of minutes. we'll go deep into his new book, "a band of misfits." >>> well, the warriors tonight may have faced the sacramento kings for the very last time. but that's not the real concern. monta ellis was taken to the hospital tonight after hitting his head. the latest from oakland just a bit later. >>> but we start with a fantastic finish at the masters, about asse

>> laurence, you want to start? >> i would defer to mark on that one. >> mark. >> the japanese. >> , economist with a jump in and say this is why we need to privatize the ocean. and so we think that private property gets treated pretty well relative to public property. and so, it's not the hit the of answer but it would reduce the extraction of fish and would create incentives because if one harvests the fish then they are not there to growing and reproduce the next year. >> let's back up a second. there's something that needs to be understood here, that there

for that, we bring in nbc's laurence scott who spoke with a lot of fans here inside and outside of the stadium. >> reporter: nothing really shocking, because the fans want to believe in barry bonds, they want to believe in the home run record we saw broken here. but there's some realism to all of this. the fans arriving for today's game, a little bittersweet because it is rivalry week here with the donldgers in towns. but the fans we talked to all knew there was a verdict. there wasn't much surprise, guilty of obstruction of justice won't sway too many opinions. regardless of how the fans felt about bonds, there was a lot of discontent about the government spending this kind of money to prove virtually nothing. and many staunch supporters talking about their love of bonds. but fans are also realists and this is what fans had to say about the all-time home run king. >> all of this stuff wouldn't have happened if he wouldn't have broken the home run record. if he wouldn't have broken babe ruth record, all this wouldn't have happened. but i think any verdict will diminish his record. and

. >>> checking in with laurence scott and a little look at the giants today. >> can we blame rob?absolutely! go for it. >> the giants trying to avoid a sweep today in strange territory with this team right now. sellout crowds at china basin. but atlanta braves have been bringing it all weekend long. the giants tried to turn the tables today. while the a's trying to split their series with the mariners in seattle. they get another tough game out of their division foe. and the sharks, game five was a missed opportunity to close out the kings. a win tomorrow does the trick. we ows witp he u trkthgh s harrmo before they headed back to l.a.rr >>> and now the xfinity sports desk on nbc bay area news. >> good evening. the giants trying to avoid four straight losses. the convict atlanta braves came in with a chance to sweep today. salvaging the game would require some late-inning magic. and that would be no easy task. we pick it up. the game tied at two, top seven, jason heyward with a three run blast off jeremy affeldt who followed guillermo moto in relief of sanchez. but the giants show

i'm laurence scott. in a matter of minutes, we'll be joined by oakland a's starter gio gonzalez, plus the latest on the giants in l.a. >>> also stanford women in the national semifinals. part of a dramatic game that comes down to the final seconds. four consecutive years in the final four. the cardinal trying to secure a spot in the championship game. >>> the a's are on a three-city road trip. they'll be gone for ten days. first we catch up with gio gonzalez. we'll talk fashion, "jersey shore" fist pumps plus his start today at the coliseum against seattle. >>> and an oakland raiders star is arrested. it's an unusual offense. we'll give you some of the details we've been hearing later in the show. but let's start with the giants in los angeles tonight, trying to split their opening series with the rival dodgers. yesterday the giants exploding for ten runs in grabbing their first win of the season.

i'm laurence scott. we bring sports talk radio to your television with some no-holds-barred chatter. one of the best radio hosts in the bay area joining us tonight. he sits in for jim rome later this week. we'll talk the week that was in bay area sports and so much more. >>> plus "saturday night live" invades oakland for a lazy sunday. andy sandberg and others watching trevor cahill just dealing today. and talk about awkward. the sharks laying an egg at the tank last night. just ugly. what they plan to regroup before game 3 tuesday in l.a. we hear from the sharks tonight. >>> but first, we start with the giants staying a little longer than usual in the desert, going extra innings today while looking for a sweep in arizona. buster posey on fire in this series. the home run last night, then he gets another today, helping tie the game at 4 in the sixth. arizona pulled

laurence scott is here.hen we talk about skateboarding, kick flip, olys. >> gleaming the cube. >> did i pull it off? >> you did your best. >> a lot of giants stuff going on. >> a joyous occasion for everybody tomorrow at china basin. the giants looking forward to this whole thing and the fans. their opponent is the cardinals, who tony la russa exacerbated by the scene he's dealing with in st. louis. the master seeing some young stars rise to the top of the leaderboard. and the warriors taking to the street. asking fans to use coliseum b.a.r.t. when coming to the game. the cross-bay journey coming up in sports. >>> in the weather, we're tracking a very chilly and breezy evening. there's a live view of oakland. and we still have some thunderstorms showing up on the area newspaper is celebrating an important milestone. it was 40 years ago this week the "bay area reporter" began covering lbgt issues. >> how this paper has been here for the good times and through the struggles. >> 1969, you had the riots and ston

laurence fishburne, sir michelle keller among others all my children will also go off the air in septemberone life to live will go off the air in january. >>pam: 680-interchange is getting slow we will be back. live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. with a developing story. >> the developing story at 5:00 p.m. keeping you updated. brian stowe, the victim but was beaten at opening day. was taken off of his,. the san jose sharks are honoring him. they are all waiting for him to come on out of his st

that's where we're joined by laurence scott. when is it going to happen? >> reporter: fans think it's this year. tonight, one of those fan that is sharks fans live for. let's take you inside the tank because tonight, we show you what it looks like from the sharks' perspective entering the ice if you've ever wondered. that's where we start. the game night presentation given an extra shot of adrenaline during the playoffs. it's a festive atmosphere as well outside here tonight as well. but the real story, we were just talking about it, is the postseason. it's time. we've done this. the cup finals is the only round the sharks have never reached. and fans are full of expectations. >> i'm really hoping that we obviously succeed and i hope that we do get the cup. i am hoping that we get at least a sweep or anything more than that would be awesome. >> this has to be the year. they've come so close every year, year after year, the guys are playing well as a unit. this is the year. this is the time. >> reporter: coming up in sports, the sharks' players help us brea

>> laurence? >> i was hoping not to get that question. [laughter] of all of the carbon-free sources of energy out there, nuclear is the one that's most ready to go -- no, not ready, but they have the most presence already here and now. you know, 15%-20% of the electricity portfolio in the world were higher in the case of france and japan. it's carbon free. it really is. that white smoke -- >> [inaudible] >> carbon, in terms of co2 emissions, the white stuff coming out is water vapor, not co2, but, man, look at what just happened, look at the incredible damages. i find myself really torn over nuclear. i don't have a clear answer for you of all the energy sources, it's what i struggle with the most. >> okay. going to this gentleman over here with the last question. >> there's a lot of talk of $10 gas and depletion of the resources. how do you comment on our country's approach to ethanol and subsidizing corn. does that make since -- sense the way we're doing it? >> i have a section on it in the book, and i'll pass it to matt. simply, corn et

we have the city administrator and lorenz -- laurence cornfield. the purpose is to provide -- i believe the fourth major report studying the risks facing the city and it recommends a number of actions that the san francisco city government and leaders should take to reduce the consequences of a future earthquake. i want to thank the volunteer is advisory committee that has been added for many years to build a culture unpreparedness within the city that relies on residents and the block by block efforts to keep us safe. >> amy brown, active city and administrator. i want to echo your thanks for those the could not be here with us today, and the dozens of san francisco residents and experts that gave up very generously of their time to look at these seismic rifts and catalogued them, it is a rather sobering picture that emerges. and also identified actions. the report culminated in december of last year. in january of this year, taking those 17 recommendations in looking at how best to go about implementing that. they engage the specific departments

es >>> good evening, laurence scott outside the sharks locker room.oing something different to get you ready for game two against the l.a. kings. the first game was a real toe-to-toe battle, it went into overtime. the sharks arriving tonight cool, calm, collected, ready to get down to business. here's how we got to this point. >> game one, the kings came ready to make it a brawl with the sharks. you hardly see this in the postseason. ben eager going at it. he's been suspended for one game and will not play tonight for the kings. the stars rookie will likely be the nhl rookie of the year. he makes his mark early this postseason with the go ahead goal in the second. justin williams catches niemi in a rare moment of compromise. the big pawelski picking up where he left off last season. the huge pass to quick to win it in overtime. the sharks up 1-0 in the series. now they're going to try to make it a 2-0 lead before heading to l.a. for game three. >> continue our momentum. win in overtime like that,

let's see if laurence can deliver some more. >> clear skies outside right now. a weak cold front went through this morning. but we are getting ready for that off shore wind and here comes that should sunshine again. in the 50s all across the bay. 53 in san francisco. if you are planning on traveling around the state, the high country not bad, although a slight chance of showers in the tahoe area. another chance for showers moves in late in the day on tuesday. one system moving through today kind of stalling out. here comes that sunshine again and it looks like it's going to be pretty nice for the next couple of days. still a little chilly around the bay area. overnight temperatures 30s and 40s. we're going to bring in that sunshine and about 68 and about 66 in pal palo alto. about 67 liver more and 67 in walnut creek. plan on 60s and 70s in most spots and looking out over the next few days as we're going to see plenty of sunshine. those temperatures soaring well into the 70s. by tuesday things begin to cool off a bit. maybe wednesday night we start to talk about

laurence scott here doing something a little different tonight, we are inside the tank for game two. the fans will be in here fairly soon. the puck drops in about an hour and 30 minutes. it's game two of the sharks/kings series. the players arriving today feeling pretty good about themselves as they head into what is the second game or has become a real battle here against l.a. let's show you how we got to this point. game one the kings came ready to make it a brawl with the sharks. you hardly see this in the postseason but ben eager going at it with kyle clifford in response to a hit put on ian white. stoll has been suspended one game for the act and will not play tonight for the kings. the rookie flashing the brilliance he showed in the regular season. he makes his mark early this postseason with the go ahead goal in the second. justin williams catches a rare moment of compromise tying things up before a scoreless third which in the sudden death overtime pavelski picking up where he left off last postseason, huge goal past jonathan quick to win in overtime sharks up 1-0 in the seri

. >> for more information, visit sfartscommisis >> good morning i'm laurence cornfield chief building inspector and like to welcome you to our brown bag lunch we do the third thursday of every month at the department of building inspection. we invite you to participate so call for information and join us. our next talk is on decks and balcones. today we will talk about commercial restaurants in san francisco. we have a lot of people in the audience who are restaurant exe experts and architects and industry people. i should talk about commercial restaurants and how to get permit issues resolved and problems resolved during lunchtime. is probably not a thing that's going to attract a lot of people in the commercial restaurant business because they work at lunch and they are not here. hopefully we can broadcast this and may be if there is an interest we will do it at a future date. another thing, perhaps we should do this at a restaurant because we want to support restaurant necessary san francisco. we did last year have lunch at town hall restaurant we will do that again later this year

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laurence scott is going to join us. rob maeda is going to check in with the weather forecast. and we'll check in with the barry bonds trial just a short distance away from here with traci grant. >> we're going to kick things off with the giants fans. the players saying they couldn't have done it without them. and the giants fans showed up in force today. over 40 -- how many? 42,000? >> 42,000. and then standing room only. >> yes, exactly. our marianne favro is outside at&t park where she has been chatting up the fans, and they are stoked. maryanne? >> i'm telling you, jessica, you couldn't script this day any better. first of all, it was a spectacular day weather-wise. then you have the thrill of seeing world champions play. and then on top of that, an exciting game. baseball doesn't get any better than this. >> souvenirs! >> reporter: photo opes, souvenir sales, a celebration and a sea of orange and black. this is morgan robertson's first opening day. it's hall wither's 21st. >> didn't want to miss this one. opening day great year from last year. and, you know, just been a gi

crowley and now you look at laurence tribe that's already two people from the obama administration that have essentially broken ranks or defected over this issue but then again it's only two people do you think. you know the others within the obama administration honestly agree with what they're doing here or is everyone just his character speak out because if we look at p.j. crowley as the example he was forced to resign directly after he made his comments and peter querulous the very same cation when he when he finally did resign he made some comments that have become very prescient he said that in this current world we live in an information travels the globe quickly and people in other countries see what we're doing and the chinese come out a couple weeks later with this report that includes point of the treatment of bradley manning as evidence of human us human rights violations and this is not only embarrassing to president obama it's embarrassing the united states obviously we don't mean we say we talk about the markets in freedom and justice our constitution does not mean what i

list you know without due process that they want to wiretap everything that the cia doesn't want laurence for anything anymore right the suspension of habeas corpus association people can't give material support in a very broadly elastic up initially of that to suspected terrorist groups i mean we still walk around on a day to day basis we feel free but we're less free as a direct result of this and it's inevitable every single wartime situation pat in this country's history that's when there are famous clampdowns against liberties and have another woodrow wilson it happened under abraham lincoln have happened to people who you know most people like you are or give some respect to it is inevitable if we are going to be the world's policeman and constantly at war for whatever reason this is going to be a practical side effect enough why we meaning you me anyone else need to fight this constantly because there's always going to be this litmus test and it's not going to be the litmus test against closing guantanamo it's going to be about the individual speech of an individual person because

. >> here now is laurence scott with sports. >>> good evening, the padres beat the giants 12 out of 18 were in first place in the west for 148 games of the season. but we all know what happened. and today, it was their first meeting of the year, a day game in san diego, where you can spin and look in at petco. top of one, giants manufacturing a run, an rbi ground-out from aubrey huff, it scores torres who singled and stole second just before all of that. but the story of the day a rough outing to start the season for madison bum gartner, he loads the bases and walks in the go-ahead run and the padres would add another, that's all they need, after three innings pitched. not a good day. but, hey, san diego, they win the home opener 3-1 over the giants. game two of the two-game set also a day game and it's tomorrow. the a's starting a three-city road trip. conor jackson gets the score start, ripping a double to left, and bringing laroche home. mark ellis he would double in this inning. he brings in jackson here. the play off the wall. and this throw back to second. you got to watch it. it

. >> let's bring in laurence scott with sports. >>> good evening. even this early the giants do not want to give up ground to rockies. with a sweep in colorado the giants could cut the lead to one. a great way to start, send tim lincicome to the hill. but before he headed out to the mount, two major blasts, path burrell with this three-run shot. his team-leading fifth home run of the season puts is the giants up 4-0. nate schierholtz getting this one. won't stop until the upper deck. a five-run opening frame for the giants. freddy sanchez added yet another homer, part of three more giants runs. right now, it's 8-0 giants in the fifth. comprehensive coverage of every bay area sports team is on comcast sports net bay area every night at 10:30, a full 30 minutes of coverage. go deep with sports central every night at 10:30. riding a two-game win streak, the a's have the day off. tomorrow the boston red sox enter the coliseum to start a two-game series. the a's making a couple roster moves today. dallas brayton put on the 15-day disabled list. he's 1-1

. >> laurence freeman from executive intelligence review with the african desk. in terms of two viable states for sudan, i've been a supporter working on sudan for almost 20 years. it seems to me that there has to be a positive vision for sudan to move forward, which i have not seen anywhere in washington to articulate this vision. which would be and south sudan unite together for the benefit of all people sudan. and this seems to me that center around the question of production of food, especially two of our brothers southern sudan, but food for northern sudan where poverty exists, electrical power, rail transportation. this idea of two countries working together, the self-interest and benefit of each other for a positive program that goes beyond simple debt relief, this is not discussed in washington. and i want to know if the three ex-presidents have thought about these ideas for the future of sudan. [inaudible conversations] >> yes, sir. i think that with regard to the defense question, i think part of what all of us need to appreciate is the fact that, you k