people like thomas davis and his foundation, the thomas davis foundation, are doing great work in theirwork. we're so proud of that work. we want to make sure that we're supporting that and enhancing that and making sure that we can help our children for the long-term future. >> commissioner and thomas davis, have a great day on nfl draft day. a big, big event out there. thank you both. >> it is. thank you very much. >> see you guys. >> you bet. thank you. >> bye. >>> this morning, we start a new series called "coming in common -- "something in common" with key and peele. >> i go here -- i sit here? >> yeah. ♪ >> jordan peele, welcome to "something in common." >> welcome to "something in common." >> thank you, sir. >> ahead, the pea pesticide -- >>> ahead, dr. holly phillips is in our toyota green room with the science and new way to fight back. you're watching cbs this morning. to help protect your dog or cat from fleas and ticks. with the performance you expect from a monthly topical in a non-greasy collar... seresto® kills and repels fleas and ticks for 8 continuous months. seresto®.

it's a day for tommy davis to honor a man he's never met, his uncle, private first class thomas e. davis. in 1941, davis joined the army and became a member of the 27th infantry division. davis was a decorated soldier, awarded a silver star in 1944 for rescuing a fellow soldier. >> always together. >> reporter: 80-year-old hazel priest remembers waving good-bye from a school bus to her older brother as he went off to war. >> my dad and tom got in the car, and when the bus pulled away, they pulled away. >> reporter: that was the last time she saw him. in 1945, davis was killed in combat during the battle for okinawa. he was just 27 years old. fast forward to 2014. on saipan, a tiny piece of metal flashes in a corn field. it was davis' dog tag. with the help of a japanese nonprofit, the dog tag makes it to the davis family. >> there it is, thomas e. davis. >> reporter: first held by tommy and then kissed by hazel, overcome with emotion. >> they grew up together. there's that bond there. it's unbreakable. >> reporter: does it seem to you that it represents not just your uncle tommy but

the nfl commissioner and panthers linebacker thomas davis join us to talk about the nfl draft and alsoom brady and comedians kate and peel interview each other in our new series called something in common. the news is back in the morning. see you at 7:00. >> thank you. >>> facebook executives and employees have a good reason to celebrate this morning. comcast is buying a major movie studio. joining us now is kcbs radio's financial reporter jason brooks. >> reporter: good morning, kenny and michelle. a busy morning. we have some wheeling and dealing to lead things off with comcast buying dreamworks animation for $3.8 billion. comcast owns universal pictures and will use dreamworks to go after disney. dreamworks behind hits like shrek, "kung fu panda" and madagascar. shares in dreamworks are up on that news. facebook doing some serious heavy lifting this morning. its shares are soaring off its performance in the 1st quarter. revenue up more than 50% to about $5.5 billion, big profit, big gains in advertising revenue and facebook user base continues to rise more than 1.6 billion users aro

snap chat encourage users to drive faster and this this then nfl commissioner roger goodell and thomas davisin us. we will talk about the nfl draft and tom brady. >>> and then this, comedian key and peele interviews each other in the new series called something in common. all of that and more, the the news is back in the morning, see new about zero minutes. >> this will be entertaining, definitely good they should be great. >> it is great, great, brooke. >> thank you. >>> next talented young athletes are flock to go franklin field for the annual penn relays. >> pat gallen is live in university city with the preview of the oldest, largest and field event in the entire united states. track and field is my favorite to watch, pat. >> reporter: you just enjoy what i did there during that tease then. >> not really. >> i'm one of the the fastest people out here, yeah. beautiful morning out here, at franklin field, you can see sunnies out the which is nice but katie just said rain will interrupt things here at franklin field later on. it is 121st install president of the penn relays that kicks off a

thomas davis held me to task. >> come back. come back, guys. to him now. >> coach, we missed at this. come back to coach rivera. >>> was in the middle of giving my speech, ready to break the guys down. thomas says, coach you have to do it. i went -- one time. >> cam newtnewton, people think showed poor sportsmanship after losing the super bowl. what do you think? >> was a difficult time for him and the rest of the guys in the locker room when we lost. i've been on the winning end and losing end twice now. you put your whole heart and soul into something, you wanted to win, i don't think guys other people understand how certain guys react to it. to get out there, do what he did. it was very difficult. not many people have been in that situation. it's easy to be critical about it. the best way to handle it, let the head coach get up there. let me speak for my football team. a day or two after the players settle down, put them out there. i will get across of criticism for saying what i'm saying. i believe that if you're going to have a player come

davis. laura thomas, roger ritter, bill, dennis, victor martin, matt drew, ethan, zouie. any name i mentioned, come up. >> are we ready? this place reminds me of philadelphia when we first started this country, we didn't have space, but we made it work. i've been living in pier 80, i have a little time, i brought a lot of stuff to talk about, but it's just paper. i'm not going to do it. sometimes i feel like someone sent us to mars, but let me speak about the problem. i'm on ssi. i'm a navy veteran of 10 years and i can't find anything to live in at all that's close to being descent. we can do better than that. i have all kinds of things i can talk about. priorities and health and welfare of the extremely poor are in jeopardy. there are could nds more than the city possibly know about. thousands. i walk around this city of love and i don't see it. i see people with nothing using whatever they can find to exist. the rich inside their world, they go about their days not noticing the damage to our people. the poorest of poors displaced. we can do better than this, and the id

davis. this is how for the democratic party has declined. it is not quivering in its boots against the threat of the confederacy. a couple more images quickly. drawing donepaign by thomas nast. he goes on to a great deal of promise later. we have jefferson davis clasping hands with the union veteran. they are clasping hands over a grave and the tombstone says "in memory of union heroes fallen in a useless war." favorplication is if you democrats, what you are saying is that every sacrifice made to this point has been wasted. we have a veteran who is clearly given the great sacrifice. we have columbia weeding by the grave. grave.ping by the a vote for mcclellan is a vote for clasping hands of -- with the seven traders -- southern traitors. this is my favorite one. the republican lampooning this ludicrous combination of commitments in the democratic party. you have mcclellan, the war democrat riding a warhorse with a sword while smoking a peace pipe and wearing a bonnet. that is supposed to be saying something about his masculinity. peaceaccompanied by the democrat writing -- riding a donkey. this is a ludicrous, nation. -- combination. nothing matters more than the fall

davis would not enlist them and lost. history repeats itself, warned mitchell. and it seems hardly coincidental that thomasentworth higgenson wrote his article detailing the valorous contributions of the south carolina volunteers during the midst of the spanish-american war. the heroices of the u.s. ct should not and cannot be forgotten. black soldiers assigned -- and here's a link with mark's talk -- black soldiers assigned to, quote, passfy the indians in the american west, the buffalo soldiers, were among the first to be mobilized in 1898. this was in part -- there's the scientific racism that goes in with that that many white americans thought physiologically and bilogically they were better suited to fight in the caribbean. 10,000 african-americans served. many of them to much acclaim. news of the 9th and 10th calvaries heroics along roosevelt's rough riders under the command of former confederate general joseph wheeler filled newspapers throughout the nation. booker t. washington likewise chimed in. just as he had praised the 54th massachusetts for their civil war service, he lauded the service of ci

davis. that was my only brother, my go-to guy. my son, corey thomas, only twin, the youngest one out of all them, and my nephew, joshua, from ohio. i was talking to my other nephew at the station when it all went down. this man has no remorse at all. six years, he never approached none of us. he never told us he was sorry for what happened. and he knows he could have done the right thing. all he had to do was make one of them 40 phone calls a day he called checking on production, shut it down, fix every. he refused to do it. i miss my family. he hugged his and all he gets is a year? she done great. she gave him what she could give him. they need to be stricter, marsh penalties for people like that who puts greed and money over human life. >> i'm alex trebek. if you're age 50 to 85, i have an important message about security. write down the number on your screen, so you can call when i finish. the lock i want to talk to you about isn't the one on your door. this is a lock for your life insurance, a rate lock, that guarantees your rate can never go up a

thomas off the high ground. after longdays lee was ordered by davis to send long street down. leave wrote to davis and said, among many other things, he said i have an idea about long street. he fights the major battle that -- what you be done with long street, he should be moved up to northeastern , where heto knoxville can chase out the union forces there. then he can come back into my army. sound like a joke or a funny little proposal. but this had fatal consequences. battle, the confederates on scene got into a contestger-pointing with all subordinates pointing the finger at bragg as to who left rose -- who let rosecrans's armie at escape. they were blaming each other. down tont personally settle the dispute. they settled it in typical either in which davis loved or hated you, and bragg was one of his buddies. been one of have the most intriguing conferences of the war, his subordinates sat there in the presence of bragg and all recommended he be removed from command. and what happens? in thisstained bragg position and removed most of the subordinates. that long problem wa

davis pledged financial backing for the team moving to sin city. he said he would spend $500 million toward the building of a new stadium there. abc 7 news reporter eric thomasat raiders fans are saying about this. >> reporter: we're watching the raider faithful filing into the fox theater here in oakland to find out how the team plans on improving itself after getting a bonus in selling season tickets selling out for the first time ever. so the last thing these folks want to hear is the team is shopping around for a new home. >> together, we can turn the silver state into the silver and black state. >> reporter: that's the message raider owner mark davis had for tourism officials in southern nevada today. he wants their backing to build a $1.3 billion stadium in las vegas, and he's putting his money where his mouth is. >> if this panel recommends the requested funding, the legislature passes it and the nfl approves the resulting deal, the raiders plan to contribute $500 million to this project. >> reporter: 300 million of that would come from the team, the other 200 million put up by the nfl. davis was flanked by international soccer star david beckham to s