it's something that people can really get interested is the word spartan mean a spartan race means what last kind of an outdoor race and what kind of warning racing on so well in season one they were racing in the hills kind of you know through grass and this year and it's season to mid a little more sexy kind of brought in a little more industrial om kind of racing through buildings and things like that so i think for myself to be there and to see all that and to see where exactly the sport is going because for myself this is more and tyson to me this season because i don't have the insurance of being able to run a mile in between each obstacle and i feel like for this it was kind of a shrunken where was it shot in atlanta it was amazing and just to see how athletic these people that you had no idea who they were coming from all parts of the country for me it was exciting to watch and i can't with people get ahold of it ok you've also joined up with fox sports as a full time analyst the are you comfortable with it you look at i've seen you with a rod you look pretty sailorman i feel li

spartan ultimate team challenge will premier that day at ten pm eastern on n.b.c. that same day mick will be the one calling out the guys to the yankees dressed. like. this it's been so great now to feel like when you retire you kind of feel like it's the end of the world for a little bit and i did go through a little bit of a little bit of a depression phase just because yeah man i feel like you when you're used to the same routine for twelve thirteen years of your life and it changes man i was down in the dumps you must've been a clubhouse leader tried to beat feel like. there's not a whole lot of guys seven hundred fifty people on the planet get to play major league baseball so if you're one of those special few i feel like you really got to soak it up we have some social media questions ready at k j m ten sixteen was it like to be traded to a new team after forming friendships with your previous team mates this is hard to get acclimated to a new club yes and no i feel like. it has a lot to do maybe with how many years you've been in leak like for myself i was l

his buddies call him the spartan warrior.athlete in tip-top shape, cologne had to battle back from devastating injuries in afghanistan. >> i don't know, i had t feeling that we were going toot deployment. he was hit by a grenade. >> ids, and they shot an rpg from the wall to me and i was hit right here on the other side of the glass. >> reporter: this is what was left of his army helmet. cologne says he remembers nothing of the attack. during uncertain days, his family took these pictures while he was in a coma in the hospital. he says he also doesn't remember this. president george w. bush pinning a purple heart on him. he calls it his finest moment as a u.s. soldier. >> when i woke up, my family told me that he pinned me my purple heart, and then when i got the pictures, it was like -- he pinned me and i never met him, you know. i always wanted to meet him, just see h him. >> reporter:lo carlos. i remember him, he >> reporter: when president george w. bush made a surprise visit to this gym. >> i wasn't sure you were going t

american ninja warrior returns for a new season on nbc joined by a companion competition series called spartanof the muddy team obstacle courses that have grown popular in recent years. it has a different look for season two, takes place entirely at night and on a smaller course with new obstickles. apolo ohno joins nick swisher as members of the broadcast team. >> i say it so many times throughout the show, like teamwork is more important than ever before because you have to operate as one unit, one team. everybody unified. just because you're a superstar individually doesn't mean you leave the guy who is the weakest link in the back. everyone has to operate and move smoothly. >> and step on their heads. >> that's what it looked like. >> spartan ultimate team challenge step on your head airs tonight, 10:00, right here on nbc bay area followed by the season premiere of "american ninja warrior." by the way, our film crew sent anthony trucks home in antion, he was motivated to compete on the show because of its inspirational message. >> right now at 6:00, wild weather. the bay area hit by a rare

and he called me in to 22 mitchell way in dublin, where he lived in the most spartan of circumstancese book was there on the table. and he said, you f... ending with an r. i never heard him curse. i mean, he was a soldier. he said, "how did you know these things?" and we never spoke again until the day he died. you talked about your own childhood being a singular mess. and i wondered if you would ever write about that. i thought i had this happy childhood, then, to be honest, i found out something. this sort of retrospectively dropped a bomb on my childhood, this discovery, which of course i cannot discuss — you will forgive me for saying that. i'm saying this as buoyantly as i can, but it was as if all the things i valued, and all the work i had done for 30 years, had vanished away and i had got everything wrong. and then i had the comfort of this incredible dublin protestant woman who has been my wife for 32 years. how did she put up with that? and then my three children. so who am i to say, having had a difficult childhood, was any other thing than a beautiful precursor to the happ

grandfather i worship and he called me into number 22 mitchell way in dublin where he lived in the most spartan me down on the chairandi circumstances and he sat me down on the chair and i was terrified because the book was there on the table and he said are you f —— ending with letter are. i was a soldier. i said ending with letter are. i was a soldier. i5aid how ending with letter are. i was a soldier. i said how did you know these things? we never spoke again until the day he died. you talked about your own childhood being a singular mess, i wondered whether you would ever write about that?” thought i'd have this happy childhood and then to be honest i found out something, this retrospectively dropped a bomb on my childhood, this discovery, i can't discu55, forgive me for saying that, i'm saying this as buoyantly as i can but it was as if all the things i valued and indeed all the work i had done for 30 years had vanished away and i've got everything wrong. then i have the comfort of this incredible dublin protestant woman who's been my wife for 32 years, how did she put up with that? then m

extension the confederacy, and he was willing to place himself personally in the gap, like warrior, spartan king, willing to sacrifice himself for his people, army, the cause, and though lee would not be called to make the ultimate sacrifice, his men, officers, and enlisted who shared a strong connection to their commander would offer themselves as a shield for him , texans,ve occasions georgians, mississippians, and virginians again at sailor's , a cross-section of the confetti's server would answer the call. would not return from these desperate battlefield actions, but on each occasion the army was saved from the media destruction. on these reflection incidents written in december 1865 at the request of a , andand judge was brief even conflated the events in his own memory, identifying only the moment with general gordon at spotsylvania specifically. orlecting on lee's modest confused response, one general preferred the contrast to napoleon bonaparte's order to his troops prior to the battle of austerlitz. i will keep myself at a distance from the fire. if it is your custom valor, but if

it was a spartan place with hard floors and stallless bathrooms with tiny toilets. the nuns tried to make up in love what building left physical warmth making sure they got out on playground reading to them and walking to the park. still the nuns worried about the children sister a pit petite every one of them needed adult or two to belong to. a level of care and attention she couldn't possibly provide. there were crushing mommies. days that foster family arrived to take one boy away and he unraveled in a desperate scream and whales. the unforgettable lost look that a nun named sister mary chose to observe on presidents face of a deaf girl e discovered that a present that john joseph kroal handed to her at the annual christmas party a at a downtown hotel was, in fact, just a decoration and empty box. it was from the ball the spectacle kroal, that plot got a green light to study his new rubella vaccine in the children living at st. vincent's home. in his letter requesting cole's permission did not explain to the archbishop that he captured virges from aborted fetus a

take a look here, or just wholesalers generally, a insula steel trading lower, spartan nash down 7%. and united national is trading off sharply as well. will these companies have less negotiating power when they are dealing with amazon is a parent company? will even keep those relationships intact? there are a lot of questions still about how exactly this is going to look. vonnie: julie, thank you for that run down. themore now, let's bring in senior executive at her for technology to wrote the book on york, and here in new surveillance host tom keene. what's not to like? mackey is to stay, whole foods get the home and amazon gets an upmarket brand and maybe some physical infrastructure. tom: you have two excellent people not only in jeff bezos, but also in the cultural and technological changes we're going to see here. what i find fascinating is activist shareholders get the job done. if you look at trials cancer and the people at jenna, they've done this with other people's money. one side idea here is the janet on thisffect transaction. they had their artificiality of the bond mar

i mean, read what the corinthian ambassador tries to explain to the spartans in why they can't live with the athenians. he says they are out of their minds. they invent something new every morning and if it doesn't work and then something new the next day. they are never happy to let happy in their country and they are not happy in their country. athenians had actually invented everything. history,ilosophy, professional navy, architecture. i mean, look. these guys are just kind of zooming. in the chinese case, you are going to see end are seeing china everywhere, it in every domain. it is in the book. the thing i give to my harvard class. 26 indicators. the question is, when will china become number one and students a calm in 2040, maybe in 2050. the second chart says, already. already the biggest automobile for it. already the biggest mark phone reduce it. already the biggest economy. across the whole range. they think, wow. never before has anybody been this fast in all. thucydides trap says it is everywhere. some people interpret from the t hucydidian trap that the only way to avoid w

they live what can only be described as a spartan, almost monk-like lifestyle. [ laughter ] that's whatwant for the rest of us, to live like normal, everyday billionaires with horrible taste, is that so wrong? i don't think so. [ cheers and applause ] meanwhile, there was yet another -- another revelation today regarding russian involvement in the trump campaign. the former head of the cia told investigators that the russians "brazenly interfered with our election and actively contacted members of the trump administration." and according to a report by "the washington post" the president asked two top intelligence officials to publicly deny evidence of collusion, and also asked them to find ways to get fbi director james comey to drop his investigation. just like an innocent person would do. [ laughter ] i tell you, there was no collusion between his campaign and russia, he's done a hell of a job making it seem like there was. because at this point the best thing the president has going for him is how well his orange prison jumpsuit would complement his skin. [ cheers and applause ] the

what the corinthian ambassador tried to convince to the spartans are not living with the athenians, they said, these people are out of their minds. if whatever they invent doesn't work, they have something new the next day. withine never happy their own country, and they are not happy to let anybody else be happy in their own country. inventedhe athens everything. ,rama, philosophy, history professional navy, architecture. these guys were zooming in all dimensions. in the chinese case, and we are seeing china in our face everywhere in every domain. harvardg i give to my classes 26 indicators on when will china become number one. maybeudents say in 2040, 2050. the second chart says, already. already biggest automobile producer, cell phone producer, biggest economy. they say, well. -- wow. the proposition is that the impact on the ruling power is not just military, it is economic, cultural, everywhere that we see. eli's point which is absolutely correct, some trap andterpret the proposition that the only to get -- the only way to avoid war is to concede. wait was trying to avoid the trap t

. >> and a jersey done by a spartan. >> and mcadoo, we put his dog dg the cake. >> so good the playersabout it online which has this little bakery thriving. >> it is weird because we are small with a small kitchen and a small shop, but big clients so it is good. >> curry from downtown. >> reporter: in san francisco, jonathan bloom, abc 7 news. >>> coming up, a big day ahead at the san francisco zoo. look at that. those pretty cute giraffe ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back. new developments, all lanes now open eastbound on the bay bridge. a live look from our emeryville camera. good news for drivers. >>> okay. happening today, more than just father's day, it is world draft day. so the unofficial holiday created to araise awareness for giraffes. the zoo will offer free admission to fathers with kids and there will be floyd the giraffe, a father himself will be the focus of a keeper talk at 4:30 this afternoon. don't miss that. that is cool. >> that is nice there at the zoo. you get the breeze. temperatures about 70 degrees. but we'll look for 80 today, san francisco, 90 in oakland and the peninsula

his buddies call him the spartan warrior, an elite athlete in tip top shape.n had to battle back from devastating injuries in afghanistan. >> i don't know, i had that feeling that we were going to get hit. >> you had a hunch? >> yeah, so i got on the gun. >> reporter: colon's scars tell the tale of his deployment. he was hit by a reld reld. >> they shot an rpg from the wall to me, so i blew up right here, on the other side of the glass. >> this is what was left of his army helmet. colon said he remembers nothing of the attack. during uncertain days his family took these pictures while he was in a coma in the hospital. he said he also this. president george w. bush pinning a purple heart on him. he calls it his finest moment as a u.s. soldier. >> when i woke up, my family told me that he pinned me my purple heart. so then when i got the pictures, i was like -- so he pinned me and i never met him. i always wanted to meet him and just see him in person and thank him. >> reporter: colon got that chance. >> this is carlos. >> hi, carlos, good to meet you. i remembe

we read what the corinthian ambassador tries to convince to the spartans in telling them why you cannot living with the athenians, they said, these people are out of their minds. if whatever they invent doesn't work, they have something new the next day. they are never happy within their own country, and they are not happy to let anybody else be happy in their own country. they are always doing things. i think the athens invented everything. they invented drama, they invented philosophy, they invented history, they invented professional navy, they invented architecture. these guys were zooming in all dimensions. i think in the chinese case, and we are seeing china in our face everywhere in every way in every domain. in my book the thing i give to my harvard classes 26 indicators on when will china become number one. the students say in 2040, maybe 2050. the second chart says, already. already biggest automobile producer, already biggest smartphone producer, already artificial intelligence biggest , economy. they say wow. , the proposition is that the impact on the ruling power is not ju

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. >> it's the most spartan-like game known to man. back in the day, you know? you want to move it, they want to stop you from moving it, you know? [laughter] it's the most american-like game there is. so i think that, you know, with that being said it'll be tough to take the violence out of football. stuart: what would you say to the idea play american football like rugby? no pads, no helmets, what would you say -- >> i think that would be really crazy. stuart: that would take some of the hitting out. >> yeah. but i think that would be really crazy. they're still going to be 300 pounds, they're still going to bench press 500 pounds and run -- stuart: could you do that? you weighed 300? >> yeah, back in my time. [laughter] >> wow. stuart: it's great to have you -- >> hey, my coach had a line, this is the greatest. when hit properly, the body will bend or break. [laughter] stuart: that's a truism, i think. >> oh, my goodness. >> yes. stuart: leonard, i think you're doing a great thing. >> thank you very much. stuart: donating your brain

ainsley: in the wake of the horrific ambush media wasted no spartan giving their political spin.awrence jones. >> hey, ainsley. ainsley: what was your reaction to that when you look at the headlines in the paper this morning or you hear the mainstream media and their thoughts last night, making this political already? >> it saddens me. because you would think we could get a cease-fire. last night we saw, had a sitting congressman in critical condition and the media was already talking about the leaks from the fbi about donald trump. can we have a cease-fire for one day and mourn what's happening in our country right now. no, we can't, i guess. ainsley: i was at the white house yesterday. i was expecting to get an interview with ivanka but she had to cancel for obvious reasons and didn't think it was appropriate. getting their ducks in a row at the white house. i watched nancy pelosi get up on capitol hill and talk to her friends on both sides of the aisle and bernie sanders do the same thing. our whole staff said it's great to see that within 24 hours of this happening, can we pu

a film i starred opposite burt lancaster, "go tell the spartans."acter for the dos equi ad. did you know what you got this you got something special? >> no, i didn't. i my brand new agent said they're looking for somebody, they don't know for sure, something like a hemingway-esque character. you have to do improvization. no script. you have to end with the line. that is how i arm wrestled fidel castro. [laughter] ainsley: tell us about the audition. >> the audition was interesting. i drove down, i was living up in the high sierras. i drove my elderly truck down and i didn't have much money at time. was going through a rough financial period. ainsley: sleeping in the truck. >> i slept through the malibu campground across from the malibu colony. i was wondering did i still have it. 10 years i was out of the business. and -- steve: you nailed it. gow it. brian: when you traveled around, what is it like? do people say -- steve: you're the most interesting man in the world. >> you have to is ask my wife. ainsley: you have interesting stories. the front o

good spartans forming a human chain to caught a woman caught in floodwater.ms to pull her out safely. that woman was not hurt, thanks to those people. also bernie sanders and his wife scrambling to hire top-notch help. facing fbi probe after allegedly lying seven years ago in vermont. she's accused to have millions of dollars, which did not exist in order to get that loan. the blunder led to and the college went bankrupt last year. and a texas man making a big statement. kyle bought this billboard saying i grew up with you. with your through. the russians didn't elect donald trump. i did. well, courtney joined us. >> i don't know where they get their information. it's as if they never leave new york city. but there's a lot of america out here. there are a lot of people who we don't feel like they represent us. >> courtney would not say how much cash he shelled out to buy that billboard, but i'm sure it wasn't cheap. >> yeah. you see how many other people speak out in their communities. we've got rick out there. a couple of minutes ago, i look like the sun was