and boxing legend mohammad ali is counter punching the call by donald trump to ban entering the united states. he said political leaders should use their position to bring understanding. ali became a muslim during the height of his career. >>> people who ate at the elephant bar was the victim of a data breech. there was processing system breeches including 20 in california. the breech affects credit or debit payments made between august 12th and december 4th. there are nine elephant bar restaurants in the bay area. >>> on to the weather. we have this one-two punch coming. >> ama and dan, we have two storms coming. the first is approaching the bay area right now. i will take you in a little closer. we have seen santa rosa and ukiah. that will continue and only intensifying toward the morning commute. the current temperatures in the 50s, 60s and really it is comfortable to mild. it is muggy out there and it is going to be a misty and drizzly one with rain in the north bay. the emeryville camera is looking across the bay. stormy for your morning commute. showers and thunder tomorrow after

. >> reporter: drawing comparisons to a young mohammad ali. he lives big too. mega mansions, custom suits, big cars. >> my name is conor mcgregor. >> reporter: when his first job as an apprentice plumber in ireland didn't work out he turned his focus to boxing with a dream of making it big. >> my dream is to be world champion in the ufc. >> reporter: as featured in the irish network rte documentary series "the notorious." now with the weight of a nation on his shoulders. >> we support our own. if somebody is out there fighting and competing we get behind them. they have my back like i have their back. >> how long is it going to take you to rip his head off? >> it will be done in one. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm darren rovell in new york. >> and just how confident is mcgregor that he's got this? anyone who bets he wins with a to his after party for free. everybody wins. thank you for watching abc news. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always, we are online 24/7 on our "nightline" facebook page at abcnews.com. good announcer: in the televis

. >> reporter: drawing comparisons to a young mohammad ali. he lives big too.custom suits, big cars. >> my name is conor mcgregor. >> reporter: when his first job as an apprentice plumber in ireland didn't work out he turned his focus to boxing with a dream of making it big. >> my dream is to be world champion in the ufc. >> reporter: as featured in the irish network rte documentary series "the notorious." now with the weight of a nation on his shoulders. >> we support our own. if somebody is out there fighting and competing we get behind them. th h

and boxing legend mohammad ali is counter punching the call by donald trump to ban entering the united states. he said political leaders should use their position to bring understanding. ali became a muslim during the height of his career. >>> people who ate at the elephant bar was the victim of a data breech. there was processing system breeches including 20 in california. the breech affects credit or debit payments made between august 12th and december 4th. there are nine elephant bar restaurants in the bay area. >>> on to the weather. we have this one-two punch coming. >> ama and dan, we have two storms coming. the first is approaching the bay area right now. i will take you in a little closer. we have seen santa rosa and ukiah. that will continue and only intensifying toward the morning commute. the current temperatures in the 50s, 60s and really it is comfortable to mild. it is muggy out there and it is going to be a misty and drizzly one with rain in the north bay. the emeryville camera is looking across the bay. stormy for your morning commute. showers and thunder tomorrow after

. >> reporter: drawing comparisons to a young mohammad ali. he lives big too. mega mansions, custom suits, big cars. >> my name is conor mcgregor. >> reporter: when his first job as an apprentice plumber in ireland didn't work out he turned his focus to boxing with a dream of making it big. >> my dream is to be world champion in the ufc. >> reporter: as featured in the irish network rte documentary series "the notorious." now with the weight of a nation on his shoulders. >> we support our own. if somebody is out there fighting and competing we get they have my back like i have their back. >> how long is it going to take you to rip his head off? >> it will be done in one. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm darren rovell in new york. >> and just how confident is mcgregor that he's got this? anyone who bets he wins with a knockout in round one is invited to his after party for free. everybody wins. thank you for watching abc news. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always, we are online 24/7 on our "nightline" facebook page phil! oh no... (under his

mohammad ali is from louisville so he wants them all to go to louisville. >> let's talk about the politics. his numbers are going up, are they not? >> he has a golf course in dubai, so i want to know if it is being shutdown because there are muslims working there as well. number two, he is officially down according to a poll in iowa. ted cruz is up ahead of donald trump. this is the political reaction to him falling in iowa. >> that's it. he is flanking to the right, is he not? cruz is the only guy matching on the right. >> he is the thinking man's trump. he is the harvard law. >> do you disagree? >> he is trump with a harvard law degree. he knows how to parse it a little bit. give him a couple weeks. i think this is a reaction to donald trump seeing a dip in iowa because he thinks the people around him -- he thinks the iowa voters are idiots. >> during a rally on friday night donald trump brought up to the stage two women who were not shy about their support. >> and this is going to be our next president of these united states. >> the duo known as diamond and silk were known as internet s

. >> it's all over and mohammad ali at the end of the 14th round, it's a tko -- >> before that, you'rers. after that, you're counting in millions. that's really day one for both businesses. hbo and the cable industry. >> if you're a fan, what you'll see in the next minutes to follow may convince you you've gone to sports heaven. >> in the mid-'70s in the sports world, there were just these three giants. cbs, abc, nbc. and then in connecticut, somebody got ahold of a transponder. >> the picture you're watching right now has been taken by a camera sent through sophisticated equipment to this earth transmitting station. >> this guy, bill rasmussen, who had been fired from his job trying to figure out a way to deliver local cable sports. then when they found out about the satellite they said, so can we cover the whole state? and the guy looked and he said, no, you don't understand. >> for another 25 cents or whatever you can send this all over the country. they went, oh, gee. why would anyone want to do that? they didn't quite know what they had. >> and he wound up revolutionizing televisi

kareem abdul-jabbar and mohammad ali. kareem abdul-jabbar writes if violence can be an abstraction and it can, that's what a threat is. the trump campaign meets this definition, thus trump is isis' greatest triumph. mohammad ali does not refer to trump by name. however, he does say this in a statement first provided to nbc news. quote, i believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of islam and clarify that these misguided murders have perverted people's views on what islam really is. donald trump tweeted on monday obama said in his speech that muslims are our sports heroes. what sports is he talking about? who? is obama profiling? i'm joined by michael steele, former chairman of the rnc. nice to see you especially in person. let's dive right into this. we have donald trump's lead not just growing, it's stronger. you see the crowds coming out. they are applauding louder. the rhetoric is getting sharper. so from an establishment point of view, how much longer can he

in the 1960s, it was mohammad ali who refused to be drafted into the vietnam war on the grounds of being objector. >> they say actually every time i enter the ring, in a way, i'm going to the war. they say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what's the difference? and i like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in vietnam. >> ali was later tried and convicted of draft dodging, stripped of his title. but we had these moments where sports and social protests have intertwined. in the 1990s, michael jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. and when the product with his name on it seemed to be linked to crime and violence in poor communities, many called on him to address it. they asked him to weigh in on robberies, on kids robbed for their high-priced air jordan sneakers. but he wouldn't. and that is where race and politics and sports has kind of stayed for a long time. quiet. until recently. when we've seen a version of athlete activism that's reminiscent of that earlier era. in t

. >> reporter: drawing comparisons to a young mohammad ali. he lives big too. mega mansions, custom suits, big cars. >> my name is conor mcgregor. >> reporter: when his first job as an apprentice plumber in ireland didn't work out he