. >> i'm fortunate enough to have been on that usa team to where i didn't have to choose. hi kobe on one wing and i had lebron. >> and guess who the coach was. >> coach k. >> there you go. exactly. and he's coming back i think. >> yes, yes he's coming back. >> it is as good tas can get. >> definitely, definitely. i've always said me scoring 61 points in high school for my late grandfather was the great east chievement i've had. >> 61 points in high school for your late grandfather. my granted father was murdered by five teenagers. and the day after his funeral i scored 61 points. and he was 61 years old. when he died. >> were you determined to do that when you worked on the course that night. >> yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. the most high score before that was 34 points in a game. and before the game, my aunt sort of mentioned it to me. and i was like man is this really possible. and you know t was two and a half minutes left in the game and i had 59 points scored a shot and got fouled. and that was it. >> how close were you to him. >> oh, very close, my grandfather nathanial jo

>>t is funny when i playe withthe usa team eveone it pratt i how is it gng to bplaying for auke coh. you went to wake forest. en you play for the u, all that stuff i put way behind you. yoare playing for america. it's not about wake. ate not about duke. it's about winning thigold medal. what are all these illustrations out you. what should you say about them. >> the illustrations werso fun in creati the book because that is me and my other. that is my mother there. she used to we that shall di -- she used towear that hair style. and 's really a good picture of a of us. my grandfather is here too. my gndfather is in e book look at this picturef me when i was a kid, with a charlotte hornets warp suit on. this is the last page of the book. >> oh, great. >> so this is nathaal jones re. >>ie grandfather. >> the most influential person other thayour moth never your lif >> yh, definitely, yes. he d the first rican-american owned service station in north carolina. >> the you go. >> this is a story abo family too, isn't it. >> it is, it is. >> great to you haven the program. >> thanks for hav

and he's the point guard on the gold medal winning usa basketball team in the beijing olympics.ttle bit not too much. >> jimmy: i mean, our heights are kind of similar. i mean, we're almost the same -- >> hold on, hold on, hold on, now. >> jimmy: i'm wearing heels, too. [ laughter ] but i mean, look at this. these are the guys you play against. can we zoom in? look at this. >> yao ming. >> jimmy: yao ming. i mean, what are you? 6' -- >> 6'. 6'1" on a good day. >> jimmy: 6'1" on a good day. and yao ming is what? >> 7'6." >> jimmy: 7'6" and you just still -- you don't care 'cause you're still an all-star and you're just -- you're just good. >> you can't. you can't care. you still got to play the game. >> jimmy: yeah. >> as long as they don't change that goal from ten foot, i think i'll be all right. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: exactly. >> if they go higher i'm in troue. >> jimmy: so, you put out this book for kids called "long shot" and it's really, really -- it's really cool. kind of your story. >> definitely, definitely. it's called "long shot: never too small to dream big." and it's

team usa has been working around the clock to make a big meatball and tommy lasorda is our official taster guinness world records. thank you for coming out. great to have you. stewart, what requirements do we have to meet? >> well, the largest meatball must be the larger version of the same food item and the same food items and of course it must be edible. >> very good. we have done all those things. were you in mexico when they set the record? >> unfortunately, not. my colleagues were there and we can verify it was 109 pounds. >> well, we'll break that record tonight. >> take that back to england or wherever you're from. we're required to have an expert in weights and measure to make sure our scale is calibrated and working properly. pedro is everything working properly? >> yes. >> who are you rooting for, mexico or the united states? >> mexico and the united states. >> no, no, you must choose a side, pedro. who are you rooting for, mexico or the united states? >> the united states. >> the united states. [ cheers and applause ] all right. so for frame of reference, guillermo get up here.

nbc news teamed up with "usa today" toook at where your money is going. interesting questions and interesting answers. tom costello joins us now. i know some of the money goes to fuel taxes. >> reporter: and the tsa and to keep the airports operating well, but guess what? some of it doesn't. the airlines say about 30% of your airline ticket, about 30% more or less, will go to taxes and fees, but you probably don't know you are also paying for airports that only service private planes. airports you and i will probably never see or use. it doesn't matter where you are flying. those bargain airline tickets have a way of getting pricey. a $300 ticket can jump to $365 once you add in federal and local taxes and fees a chunk of that money goes to build and maintain commercial airports, but also airport for private planes. a "usa today" review finds $1 billion in airport tict taxes this year will go to nearly 2,000 little-used airports that offer no commercial service. airports most of us never use. >> it's outrageous to think the customers on our flights are be

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. >>> coming up tonight, she's back on the road campaigning, but this time for team usa.o land her presence and her voice to her husband's pitch for the hometown to get the olympics to chicago. we'll have that story for you tonight and the rest of the day's other news on nbc "nightly news." ann, for now, back to you. >> all right, thanks, brian. it is now 8:04. let's go back outside for a check of the weather with al. >>> hey, thanks a lot, ann. we've got some folks here on a chilly mortganing in your jammi how come? >> we're jammin' in our jammies -- >> there you go. >> a comfort-thon. >> okay. >> we're raising money for the organization and we're -- >> what organization? okay, you guys need to get a better spokesperson. but it's for common ground. okay, thanks a lot. wow. helping the homeless, a good thing. all right. let's check your weather, see what's going on. catalina island, nbc 4. partly sunny and breezy, 75 degrees. rest of the country, you can see we've got snow in the rockies and up through utah, sunshine through the pacific northwest, a slight risk of strong

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usa olympic jacket. not the one that was worn, but signed by michael on the back. great things. tired of that dream team, it was such an iconic situation. >> and maybe his second favorite sport, golf. you can have michael jackson's golf bag. >> it's amazing how prolific he is at golf and how many clubs and bags he has. this has the bulls logo. tie it is into who he was, the badge player. beautifully signed across the front. this is the kind of thing that should be a couple thousand dollars. it's a great piece for the money. >> this is an unbelievable item, isn't it? >> it is. it's one of the badges used by michael as all the players had at the olympic village during the dream team. it has his photograph, signed on the back by michael. relative to the money, this is the sort of thing people might want to get into now because this is about a $2,000 to $3,000 piece, but given his stature he is the babe ruth of basketball. >> so many jerseys, so many signatures, so many basketballs. >> this is unique. by definition it's absolutely unique and it is something you would go after. >> what else do we have here?

usa play now underway here. got started tonight with tulsa coming down to new orleans to face an improved tulane team, but not a team that could hang with tulsa at the end of the day. especially with the defensive pressure that the golden hurricane was bringing on joe kempp. >> yeah, i think that was a surprise to see tulsa's defense play as well as they did tonight. and it was james locket bringing a lot of it from the outside. lot of pressure, getting after kemp in the back field. causing him to hurry his passes, really knocking the ball around. causing an things done for the team. with a sac bunt in the sixth inning. but as you can see, the rockies coming back strong so far in the seventh inning at this point it was a big play by haren there evening things up. but as you can see, a one one-game -- even game right now. a one-game cushion for colorado. >> colorado up by a game. the giants nipping away. they're going to be paying close aattention. that game between the d'backs and the rockies. right now the giants have a 3-2 lead on the brewers. one out away from closing it o out. bengie molina, a solo home run

usa today," some schools budget cuts, and they shut down sports. >> that is interesting because you would consider that life training, sports teams. >> not only that kids are getting fatter. they're eating more because they're exercising less. when we all grew up, my mom got me out of the house at 7:00 a.m. i played until it was time to eat dinner. >> that's because she didn't want you there. >> that's because -- whether she hated me or not, you know, i don't want to get into that right now before we read the "usa today." all i can tell you is it kept me skinny. >> and in human company. >> right. >> not solitaries with xboxes. >> everybody has xboxes and iphones. >> virtual childhood. >> everybody is going inside. >> let's look at the miami herald. offshore drilling in florida? a coalition of oil companies is looking to open florida's western shores to oil drilling. >> pensacola. "indianapolis star." indiana university has a plan to offset tuition hikes. students with at least a "b" average get to pay less, $500 in credits. you get through that in beer on a weekend. >> there was a school we reported on radio that's paying you not to come. they hav