but robert kraft surprised everyone and he made an announcement today. i have it for you. the yankees and the nationals are on the ballpark. i have the latest coming tim: the red hot nationals are home and on the field now. they start gio gonzalez on the hill against the slumping yankees. how about the nats? this is what we expected out of the gate. they have gone 16-4. a good stretch after starting the season with 13 losses in the first 20 games. bryce harper is the catalyst and he played better than anybody else in baseball. he batted .564 with nine home runs. >> try to enjoy it everybody day. >> enjoy out every day. we have a lot of confidence in the clubhouse. if i don't get it done somebody else will. >> we trust him. >> the play of the day from houston. a's-astros. funky center field. no problem. the stanford grab reels it in. making the catch of the night. the game-daveer. oakland wins 2-1. hear this. robert kraft met with the media this afternoon and surprisingly said he will stand down and accept the punishment levied by the league. $1 million fine draft picks. de

robert kraft is accepting the punishment handed down by the nfl commissioner. kpix 5's lisa chan with what some are calling a surprise decision by mr. kraft. >> reporter: 32 nfl team owners arrived in san francisco at the ritz-carlton for their spring meeting. but all eyes are on patriots owner robert kraft. >> it's been an emotionally charged couple of weeks. >> reporter: that's because about one week ago, nfl commissioner roger goodell suspended patriots quarterback tom brady for four games fined the team $1 million and took away two draft picks. this after allegations that two team staffers deflated footballs to make them easier to grip in january's afc championship game. >> there was no hard evidence and everything was circumstantial. and at the same time, when the discipline came out, i felt it was way over the top as it was unreasonable and unprecedented in my opinion. >> reporter: the scandal is now referred to as "deflate-gate," and the once strong relationship between kraft and goodell is said to be strained. but kraft says he is moving on. >> although

robert kraft released a statement. today's punishment, however, exceeded any reasonable expectation. it was based on circumstantial rather than hard or conclusive evidence. tom brady has our unconditional support. our belief in him has not waivered. reaction to the suspension was mixed on social media. blunt obviously had his quarterback's back. he tweeted this is absolutely ridiculous. shaking my head. #patsnation. cardinals defender tweeted well done, nfl. #deflategate. steve weatherford, tom brady uss suspended four games? brady will miss four games to start the season. it will be against pittsburgh buffalo, jacksonville and dallas. the fifth game on the schedule would be at indianapolis on sunday night football. what a coincidence. >> if you are looking for a consistent threat for the punishments by nfl over the years, it is hard to find one because there isn't one. >> a big jump to what the patriots got. as i said john the cover up sometimes worse than the actual crime. >>> thank you. police in lake mary florida e

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it was interesting to be in the room, but robert kraft came in, didn't take questions, then immediately addressed deflate gate. robert kraft came out and immediately addressed what has been the most talked about decision in football this year, the accusations the patriots and tom brady intentionally deflated footballs in the afc championship game. the team was find -- fined, lost draft picks, and tom brady was suspended for four games. kraft said he thought the penalty was unreasonable and unfair but gave it a lot of thought.>> i don't want to continue the rhetoric that's gone on for the last four months. i am going to accept, reluctantly, what he has given to us. and not continue this dialogue in redder. -- rhetoric. and we won't appeal. >> reporter: mike silver says it's the right decision for the league and the team to move forward. >> i give them a lot of credit for putting aside his personal feelings on this matter, doing what he rightfully believes is in the best interest of the league. >> reporter: the raider nation is here, and we can come back to a live picture. you can say tha

so this is a big contrast or at least some contrast to the statement from robert kraft of new england patriots yesterday. the owner also disputed the report. that part is similar. he said at the end, we will take whatever punishment the league hands out. we understand that is part of this investigation. what tom brady's agent is saying here, they want to fight this, at least in the court of public opinion if not all the way up to appealing, and they have a right to. >> i don't think the commissioner likes people who talk about. this doesn't just disagree with the report but does it in a cheeky way. more probable than not the league cooperated in a sting operation. could brady and his agent be making things worse before goodell decides what punishment to mete out? >> well, i think so. the corroboration between the investigator and the league doesn't make sense because the league has no interest in finding tom brady guilty, finding employees of the new england patriots guilty. that just doesn't make sense to me. if you read the report, and ted wells is a criminal lawyer, so his standard

>> nfl owners meeting in san francisco and robert kraft talked about deflate-gate situation. >> still is still in the car. >> a super hero running into a fiery crash to save lives and what he is saying about it. can you see it is cloudy. we have had drizzle that was measurable down to 675'. we will talk how long that the keep the temperatures 5- to 10-degrees below >> new details in the cause of a high school stage that collapsed and injured 17 students in a performance last month in indiana. the audience rushed to pull people from the orchestra pit. officials said that the school employee who build the stage over the pit failed to properly action core it but the employee will not be charged. one student is still recovering and has not yet returned to class. >> new england patriot made a big announcement on deflate-gate scandal as nfl team owners hell the annual meeting in san francisco. our reporter is in the newsroom with the latest. >> the patriots owner announced he will not appeal until sanctions for doe flight -- deflate fast fined $1 million and lost two draft picks and tom bra

appeal and the hearing of it. >> no. >> goodell patriots owner robert kraft hugging it out. the pats lost two draft picks and they face a million dollar fine. he was asked about the player association demand that he recuse himself from arbitrating tom brady's appeal and avoid a direct answer. >> i've been focused on meetings and not up to date on that other than the fact i'm aware of that. when we get back tomorrow we'll focus that and give it full due consideration and make sure we do the appropriate thing. >> brady is actively fighting his four-game suspension in the player's union also filing a motion in federal court to hold the nfl and goodell in contempt. after the 2014 suspension permitting his 4-year-old son with a switch. we'll hear more on that but first other breaking news. massive prescription drug bust stretched across four states. 170 doctors and drug store workers arrested for selling oxycodone and others. many experts are saying it is feeding the heroin crisis and park mark potter has the announcement. >> reporter: i can tell you that it began here in little

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as robert kraft points out there is no smoking gun here. there's no video of someone deflating footballs. but there are quite a few different things along the way, including some incriminating text messages that talk about needles, that talk about deflating footballs, that reference tom brady and his knowledge of the situation. then the fact tom brady refused to turn over his phone and his text messages. there is a lot in this report. we'll obviously comb through the many hundreds of pages word by word. but in the executive summary, you can see that they had quite a bit of circumstantial evidence even if they don't have that smoking gun videotape that would make this a whole lot clearer. then the question is what do they do from here? >> right, let's get to that in a second. back to tom brady, the superstar of this new england patriots team. let's remind everyone what he said very publicly in that news conference after they played the colts and won before the super bowl. here he was. >> i didn't, you know have any -- i didn't alter the ball

robert kraft says he disagrees with the punishment but wants the controversy to be put to rest. >>> the taps are about to open for millions in funding to help communities whose water supplies are literally you drying up. today the state water board okayed some guidelines for handing out $19 million in aid to cities and towns that have been hardest hit by the four- year old drought. meanwhile, californians overwhelmingly agree the drought is serious. almost half say cutting water use even further would be difficult and 70% say raising rates would be a serious hardship. but there's evidence that some drought relief is on the way. our chief meteorologist paul deanno says there are signs out in the pacific that a wet winter is on the way. >> reporter: if you don't like our drought you will love to their. >> there is a high chance that this is going to be a strong annual event. >> reporter: an oceanographer and professor at the university of hawaii says it's already happening el nino. the equatorial pacific is warming and shows no sign of stopping. >> if that remains persistent likely the ca

triots owner robert kraft saying his organization is disappointed by the report which he says lacked hard evidence. much more later during this show. >> a preliminary report on the deadly germanwings crash has come out showing the co-pilot may have planned the fatal fight during at least one previous trip. 150 people killed when that plane crashed into the french alps in march. we are learning the reverse flight he took earlier that day may have been a test run for this disaster. the report and flight data recorders detailing the events over a four-minute, 10 second span on the dusseldorf to barcelona trip. after reaching 37,000 feet you can the cockpit door open then close and the captain leaves. one minute later, he selects the altitude to drop 100 feet for three seconds before stabilizing the plane again as if nothing had happened. 25 seconds later, the selected altitude dropped again to 21,000 feet but a minute later, he jumps the dial back to 100 feet changing the altitude several times back and forth until it stabilized. he did that for more than two minutes. until finally you

>> well i applaud robert kraft first and foremost. he looked at the big picture here and realized i'm not going to go down this rabbit hole and put my organization through any more embarrassment. i think he did the right thing by pulling away his appeal. now you look atom brady, and roger goodell already said if you have more information, i want to hear it. i think that's going to go a long ways if he wants to get the four games reduced. we'll see if that happens. up until this point, tom has not been very forthright in the investigation and in interviews he has not outwardly said i had nothing to do with this. he has kind of skirted the issue and chosen his words wisely. >> do you think his stardom is going to help him? >> you know i think it's going to. but i also know that roger goodell does not look at these superstar athletes and hold them in any different light than anybody else. with all the stuff that has happened with adrian peterson ray rice and greg hardy, i think he has to look at himself and say i have to play this fairly

patriots owner robert kraft released a statement to say we are disappointed with the findings which do not find any hard evidence at the afc championship game would be a gross understatement an.. he goes on to say we will take the appropriate action. the report did find that kraft and bill belichick had no knowledge of the wrongdoing. the big question now, will the nfl suspend tom brady. they are reviewing the matter. >> do they suspend? >> i think he may be suspended for a game. for a guy who is 37 and at the beginning of the season when it may not be the end of the world to take a game off. they may very well suspend him. more than not, there is no hard evidence is the standard for nfl discipline. that is the standard. that is why they used that language. it is enough to issue discipline. >> what a story. thanks andy. >>> developing this morning, investigators are confident that the two men who tried to attack a texas contest to draw the prophet muhammad are confident they were acting alone. no evidence that nadir soofi or or elton simpson had contact with anyone else. simpson had si

now, bill belchick and robert kraft were exonerated in this report. but -- but three years ago there was punishments for the saints' senior leadership because they were -- ignorance was no excuse to the bounty schemes going. on a month ago, an atlanta falcons senior vice president got a suspension even though he was not involved in the transgression which was piped in crowd noise. so because of a history, we know spygate could we know playing fast and loose with the rules before, because of all that i think there will be punishment for the organization here even though robert kraft is fully cleared in this report. >> i think that's such a great point. if you look at this report, the prior transgressions, you can say that there is a culture that at least permits cheating at the patriots? >> yeah. it's not just the colts, there may be other teams. there's a watchful i -- -- listen, i was with the packers. we all have paranoia that the league favors certain teams or not. that paranoia is directed at certain team more than others, one being the patriots.

was he giving robert kraft maybe a little special treatment. were the patriots getting special treatment. i think it's going to be a big fine, a substantial fine. but i don't think you're going to see any type of suspension moving forward. i would be very surprised. >> now, joe let me go back to you on brady. the report says quote, brady's refusal to provide us with his own e-mail text messages and phone records limited the evidence available for our review and analysis. it doesn't look like brady cooperated, joe. >> well he certainly didn't in that area, you're right. he answered their question, but he wasn't going to give up his cell phone or let them look at his e-mail. so i guess that's cooperating somewhat, but not completely. >> go ahead. >> i will say this. what you were talking about before is that goodell has delegated the disciplinary action of this to troy vincent. he is not going to make the decision. >> troy vincent, a former player. maybe he can help with this more. but there is a loft factors here going on. and they're calling th

given how powerful robert kraft o is in roger goodell's inner circle. olivia: what is this due to tom brady's marketing power? he is star quarterback on a star team. what does it do to his brand? kavitha: i think it will take a hit. it has been several scandals and several rumors to get to this point. i think we are at a point where it is clear that he either cheated or lied about something. his legacy as a quarterback might not take a huge hit but his marketability outside the boston area probably will. olivia: is brady the only person who will get punished here? kavitha: brady and the two .quipment managers in question i can't see anything actually happening to bill belichick or robert kraft. i still also have to find that hard to believe. i was enjoying one of your stories earlier in which you are explaining it is the cover-up that is worse than the actual crime. this kind of cheating is cheating in itself. if you talk to equipment managers across football, this the kind of thing that happens in every locker room. the actual effect on the game is fai

robert kraft met with the media and surprised everybody by reluctantly accepting punishment against his club. the other teams are respected as well so he said he will accept the punishment and stand down. >> i know that a lot of patriot fans will be disappointed. i hope they trust my judgment. i feel that taking it off the agenda is the best thing for the patriots, our fans and the nfl. >> robert kraft taking the high road. he met with the commissioner at a birthday party saturday night face to face. i wonder if they talked about brady and that punishment. alison: still ahead -- how police think some people try to cheat you out of your money are fi alison: cause of a stage collapse in a high school in indiana that injured a dozen students there. the stage was not properly designed. a school employee constructed a lid using his own design because did not use metal support. no charges will be filed against the school employee. police in culpeper are looking if the would-be scammers are fighting back against those catching on to the scheme. and lashing out against those on the other end of

tim: robert kraft never mentioned the punishment to tom brady or his appeal. the speculation is kraft may have made a deal with roger goodell about a lighter punishment for tom brady. we don't know that. the nfl p.a. put out a statement that afternoon after kraft met with the media saying they will go ahead with the appeal on behalf of tom brady. so it's not over yet but it is interesting. after speaking like he did and then to come back and say i won't fight it, surprising. alison: it is. see you in a little bit. scott: a heads up for anyone planning to hit the road for the memorial day weekend. you might be surprised when traffic is expected to reach the worst point. alison: new information on the guy charged with firing at george zimmerman. the disturbing details revealed in a police alison: this just in from baltimore where state attorney wolfgang amadeus mozart is pushing back from -- state attorney marilyn mosby is firing back to remove her from a case. she says it bounces from one ridiculous accusation to another like a pinball on a machine far past til

. >> robert kraft claims there was no hard evidence the team intentionally underinflated game balls saying the league's conclusion was based on circumstantial findings and the punishment was not appropriate. still he thinks standing down is the right thing to do. >> i know that a lot of patriot fans are going to be disappointed in that decision. but i hope they trust my judgment. >> that decision independent of the appeal filed by patriots star quarterback tom brady. >> this doesn't affect that in the least. >> brady's appeal claims his four-game suspension is unfair and inconsistent. asserting no player in the history of the nfl has ever received anything approaching this level of discipline for similar behavior. the players association asking commissioner roger goodell to remove himself as arbitrator for the appeal adding they still have serious questions about the independence of the deflategate investigation. >> our players have always believed that there is a legitimate credibility gap when it comes to the commissioner. >> and goodell has defended the investigation as well as the puni

punishment and let's bring in andy scholes from atlanta to tell us more. >> robert kraft, all along, the wells report it's unfair and incorrect, and he even had the website made to go into detail about why the report was unfair. all signs pointing to him appealing the yesterday kraft said he was standing down because he believes its in the best interest of the league. take a listen. >> i don't want to continue the rhetoric that's gone on for the last four months. i'm going to accept reluctantly what he has given to us and not continue this dialogue and rhetoric. and we won't appeal. >> even though the patriots are not appealing their punishment tom brady is still appealing his four-game suspension. the players association asked for roger goodell to recuse himself from the appeal. he's not responded to that request but he may later today as he's expected to speak with the media at the owners meeting. >>> at the annual owner meeting is where they vote on new rules that have been proposed and the biggest one to get passed this year are extra points. the league experiments with it during

robert kraft says he will reluctantly accept the team's punishment for deflate gait. tom brayy is another story. she still appealing his suspension for using illegally deflated footballs at last year's play off. the raiders have growing speck lace that they will leave oakland and go to a new stadium in southern california. that doesn't sit well with the fans. the raiders and chargers closed on a 157 acre piece of land near downtown l.a. just today. they would share a new stadium. the raiders contend their number one choice is to build a new stadium here in oakland. >> we're doing a parallel path. if we can't get something done in oakland, we have to have something -- >> i'm frustrated. i don't know what is going on with my team. we just want to know what is going on here in oakland. >> a lot of concern for raiders fans. they assume they want to stay here, but they're still having plans, the raiders also confirming their leading effort to build a stadium down south. coming up what the mayor says is blocking a deal in oakland. >> now to basketball, are you ready for the

patriots owner robert kraft says he will not appeal the team's deflategate punishment. he'll fork over a million dollars and two draft picks. tom brady is appealing his four-game suspension. >>> another hot topic at the meeting, the raiders' future. nbc sports has learned the raiders and chargers are enlisting former 49ers president carmen policy to help get their shared stadium built in los angeles. >> robert kraft, net worth in 2015, $4.3 billion. he can shell out the one million. >> just let it be over. >>> how about the warriors? gets serious for the dubs. the western conference finals is about to start. the warriors facing off against the houston rockets in's about of seven series. it's a showdown between the mvp steph curry and the runner-up rockets james harden. game one tips off tonight at 6:00 at oracle arena. >> i don't think steph curry would approve of that kind of heckling. >> he would. he is the victor. >>> steph curry on the look of the cover of the new edition of sports illustrated. this is the third si cover in the last two years that he's graced. >> is

kraft, said the patriots accept the league's findings. >>> and new safety concerns about oil shipments. six tank cars exploded into flames in rural north dakota. black smoke could be seen for miles. no injuries were reported bought small town was evacuated. and theth fiery accident including that same kind of tank car. >>> the decision is seen as an attempt to rebuild trust after the death of freddy gray and subsequent unrest. baltimore's police union welcomes it. in brit >>> in britain, people going to the poles. charley, good morning. >> reporter: the fight begins but most prediction poles are pointing towards no clear winner. dave buchanan fighting for another five years and in the other end, the labor party hoping to win victory but a pole suggests a hung parliament and then you add the scottish national party. poles suggest a surge could see them emerge as the third largest. and you have a party that wins the most seats, so a bunch of losers, as it were might win. and as fares the special relationship with the united states, that's not likely to change no matter who is in power. b

the team owner robert kraft saying brady has the patriots unwaivering support. andy scholes has more for us. there will be an appeals process. what is going on? >> reporter: the nfl hitting brady with the suspension. the league says they must protect the integrity of the game. in a letter to brady, executive vice president of football operations troy vincent says brady's actions described were considered detrimental to the game of football. brady's agent said the discipline is ridiculous and has no basis. the nfl lacks standards or protocols with respect to the handling of footballs prior to the game. this is not the fault of tom or the patriots. we will appeal. the letter to the patriots mentioned the team's prior record and spygate. the punishment this time around is harsher. the patriots the only franchise since 1980 to be stripped of a first-round draft pick and it happened to them twice. nfl doubling the fine to the patriots this time around. tom brady with a harsher punishment. robert kraft went get the apology. he released a statement condemning the actio

. >> not a bad strategy. 24 hours after patriots owner robert kraft made it clear his club would not appeal deflategate, nfl commissioner roger goodell spoke about tom brady's app >> i look forward to hearing directly from tom. if there is new information or information that can be helpful to us in getting this right. i want to hear directly from tom on that. >> let's go to the nba. great game last night between houston and golden state. james harden 28 points. steph curry, 34. the warriors game from 15 down. this game had it all. hard fouls, big drives nine blocks. steph curry is impossible to contain. he was the m.v.p. but afterwards his daughter riley was the star. >> we are both supposed to -- >> that's too loud daddy. >> i know. hold on one second. >> be quiet. tim: "be quiet!" 2-year-old riley curry stealing the spotlight from her dad. nba m.v.p. steph curry and you know he is loving every second of it. the hawks and lebron james and the cavaliers play tonight in game one of the best of seven series in the eastern conference finals. that's what you say to me every night. be qui

robert kraft released a statement. to say we are disappointed in the findings which do not include any hard evidence of deliberate deflation of footballs at the afc championship game would be a gross understatement. he goes on to say we will accept the findings of the report and take the appropriate actions based on the report. kraft and bill belichick had no knowledge of the wrongdoing. will tom brady get suspended and will the patriots have a fine or have draft picks taken away because of the findings of the wells' report? >> when is tom brady going to talk? we have had half a day already. he has to come out and explain or admit to it or talk against it. >> the cover up is always worse than the crime. >> do you think there will be a tom brady suspension? >> i say one game. andy says? >> sean payton got a whole season because he would not cooperate during bounty gate. i think he gets three or four games. >> i don't know why you take a risk like that for a deflated ball. i don't get it. >>> investigators becoming confi

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. >> the speech came one day after patriots owner robert kraft announced he will not challenge the league's punishment including a $1 million fine and a loss of two draft picks, but that hasn't stopped the nflpa from continuing their appeal on behalf of tom brady, to challenge brady's four-game suspension over deflate-gate. yesterday, the player's union called on goodell to recuse himself from the appeal because he is inherently biassed against brady. goodell's response -- >> under due consideration, full consideration to that. >> joining me is ross tucker who played part of his career with the new england patriots. thanks for joining me. do you think this marks a low point for relations between the league and its players? >> i don't look at it that way. most believe tom brady did something inappropriate. they don't want roger goodell hearing the appeals, so they're going to go through the legal process to try to fight that. but ultimately to me this is not as big of an issue as player benefits health insurance, post-playing days. i mean who hears the appeal for guys that hit their wife or

patriots owner robert kraft says they accept the findings. >>> new details about the "germanwings" plane crash into the french alps. the copilot practiced controlled descent earlier that day. french investigators say lubitz repeatedly sent the plane into a descent and brought it back up during a flight from germany down to spain. it was during the return trip to désseldorf that the same plane crashed killing all 150 people on board. >>> there is another concern regarding the new eastern span of the bay bridge. [ no audio ] >>> kiet do went to find out more on the self-driving big rigs. >> reporter: self-driving cars so last year. we are here at a chp waystation in fremont to talk about self- driving big rigs. the so-called freightliner inspiration truck is the first of its kind in the country to receive an autonomous commercial truck license. there are only two of them. they are only driving in nevada. the truck can drive itself on the freeway staying in its lane, cruising or braking when necessary, and a human driver will still be inside the cab. it can do other duties like paperwork a

will robert kraft's decision for the patriots to accept their penalties in any way affect tom brady's appeal and your hearing of it? >> no. >> you can address -- would you allow tom brady a second chance to show cooperation by say turning over e-mails and could that help and appeal appeal to you? >> i won't get into hypotheticals. we have a process here that is long established. i look forward to hearing directly from tom if there is new information or there is information that can be helpful to us in getting this right. i want to hear directly from tom on that. >> how do you address the question of how can you be fair hearing the appeal after you've already meted out judgment? >> two things. first off, it was an independent investigation done by ted wells. he drew a conclusion about whether there was a violation or not. he drew the facts and the investigation. i got a chance to read the report just shortly before you did. and so we've been very transparent on that side of it. the second part is once we had the wells report our staff led by troy vincent who handles these matters on a

i want to first go to robert kraft owner of the new england patriots. he's speaking about what's called deflategate, the nfl's punishment of the new england patriots and tom brady the star quarterback. let's listen to mr. kraft. >> i have the privilege of going to a meeting similar to what we're at here in orlando and being welcomed in an nfl owners meeting. so here's a fan and a former season ticket holder living a dream and being welcomed in that room. i got goose bumps that day. and i vowed at that time that i would do everything i could do to make the new england patriots an elite team and hopefully respected throughout the country and at the same time do whatever i could do to try to help the nfl become the most popular sport in america. you know what i've learned over the last two decades, is that the heart and soul of the strength of the nfl that is a partnership of 32 teams and what's become very clear over those two decades that at no time should the agenda of one team outweigh the collective good of the full 32. so i have a way of looking at p

robert kraft issuing a swift and sharp rebuke. in part of it he

. >>> patriots owner robert kraft says his team will accept any discipline handed down by the nfl. cleared in the report were patriots head coach bill belichick and his coaching staff. the report says there's no evidence they knew anything about deflating the balls. again, there's no smoking gun in the report but by nfl rules and standards, they don't need one. they need a preponderance of evidence to prove that a rule was broken and this report does show a preponderance of evidence that tom brady knew what was up and in fact was even directing it to some degree. so that's key here. it doesn't have to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, none of that. a preponderance of evidence, but no smoking gun. >> mr. kraft is holding on to that smoking gun, but it doesn't sound like need that at this point. >> wait for this one, there will be more coverage throughout the morning on the scandal all morning long. new details any time on abcnews.com. >>> funeral services are set in ft. worth for former texas lawmaker jim wright. wright served on capitol hill for 34 years, including a tenure as s

this is not just how tom brady is going to be dealt with it's about how bill belichick and robert kraft are going to be dealt with. >> you how do you think the patriots ought to be dealt with? >> they should lose draft picks and should receive a substantial fine. if you look at the personal conduct policy it says in there very clearly that if you are guilty or if you are involved in certain activities, including among other things fraud you are subject to discipline from the league. well we've had two owners who have been involved with fraud cases one that was convicted that is ziggy wolf of the viking and jimmy haas lam of haslam of cleveland it is any guess how the commissioner's office is going to react to this. >> what would jump out at you when you saw the texts between equipment managers and phone calls that tom brady had. >> clearly it didn't look good. as i've said before, these two employees were not going to do this on their own. they didn't just wake up one morning and say you know what i need to deflate some of these footballs for tom brady. the fact that they did this after

roger goodell talks about patriots owner robert kraft and star quarterback robert >>> if you take a look now we are counting down to the final late show with david letterman. and this is a live look at famous ed sullivan theater in new york. tonight no announced guests but we know a lot of celebrities are there and that there are also a lot of price necessary store for what will be certainly television history. >>> a five-year old mini poodle is fighting for his life, this is chicago who was attacked by a pit bull outside his owner's northeast philadelphia apartment. the dog was reportedly unleashed and could not be separated from the poodle. >> yeah, chicago was in his mouth like he was a rag doll. i hit the dog with my hand. then i took my foot and was kicking him. >> witness says pit bowel's owner grabbed the dog by its neck and walked away. we knock on their door but in one answered. we know chicago suffered skin, nerve damage and wilson's have filed a police report. >>> a former bank in south jersey is in more. >> demolition crews were on side in beverly burlington county but they c

the nfl owners meeting in san francisco, and patriot owner robert kraft got a chance to meet with the media today. the wells report, the commissioners punishment, the patriots will reluctantly not appeal the decision. he said out of respect for the commissioner's office and the 32 teams the league, the patriots will pay the $1 million fine, not fight the loss of the two draft picks that have been taken away. the nfl pa will proceed with the appeal of tom brady's suspension and ask the commissioner to recuse himself. leon: when have you ever seen a brown pairrrot? tim: that is all. turn out the lights, i will get the door. alison: be careful over there. maybe you need a jolt he for work. there is a new trend in california. narrator: puerto rico's healthcare system is on life support, putting three and lion puerto ricans at risk. it's an outrage. puerto ricans are us citizens and pay the same medicare taxes, but receive only half the federal healthcare funding as the other 50 states. the headlines tell the story... woman: "unfairreatment from washington." man: "thousands without medicat

. >> so robert kraft issue said a statement saying, tom brady has our unconditional support. our belief in him has not wavered. what's your reaction to all this? >> of course he has to come out and say that it's his quarterback. he's won four super bowls for him. this is his golden boy. there's no doubt in my mind i don't think this is going to detract from tom brady's legacy too much. but it is an asterisk against them and it is something that i think we all suspected was going to happen, this four-game suspension is nothing that i don't think anybody in the industry thought was going to happen. i think they'll appeal it obviously and come back probably with a two-game suspension. but the surprising thing here was the actual draft picks they got taken away from them. the million dollars isn't going to hurt the club but the draft picks are going to. so that was a surprising factor. >> first round next season and the season after that a fourth round. >> correct. >> you think this punishment is fair? >> i think the punishment is very fair. if you look at when guys get suspended

. >>> team owner robert kraft put out a statement saying in part that his team did nothing up appropriate. >>> it is the last day of campaigning in the united kingdom where polls show tomorrow's election is exceptionally close. at this point own one thing is clear. no party is likely to secure an outright majority. >> in north london, wealthy and liberal. in this era of coalition politicians some don't like the idea of their party doing deals with those who would chop down the united kingdom. >> would you vote labor if they didn't have to get the support of the scottish nationalists. >> yes. >> you hit it on the head. >> this election uniquely in the u.k. is forcing to get the parties which are like apples and oranges and that makes things potentially very messy. if the opinion polls are right there is no math ticks that would allow the coalition the majority in. and this late in the day leading conservatives to question the moral authority or legitimacy of that arrangement. the conservatives are full of talk of constitutional crisis. the opponents of the scottish national party are take

team owner robert kraft waved something of a white flag yesterday. he says they'll not appeal their fine and loss of two draft picks. that doesn't mean tom brady won't appeal his four-game suspension. >>> a new champ on "dancing with the stars." noah galway rumer willis and riker lynch. >> only one couple could walk away with the mirrorball trophy. noah took third. season favorites rumer and val taking it all. they're flying to new york as we speak. >>> the major change to the scoring system in the nfl. >>> and a car plows into a home driving right into a nursery. a baby sleeping in that mangled crib making an amazing escape. >>> a paddle boarder's brush with a mass i have killer whale. a little too close here. >>> late consumer alert this morning. more and more people are having their debit card information stolen. the information is being stolen at the highest rate in at least 20 years. compromises in atms located at banks were up nearly 175% in the first quarter of this year. as opposed to 2014. at nonbank atms, those compromises soord more than 3

. >> a statement, patriots owner robert kraft said the deflate-gate investigation was one sided. kraft said it far exceeded any reasonable expectation and that brady has the team as you support. one tweeted this is ridiculous. but patrick peterson wrote well done nfl. >>> now, one of the police officers gunned down during a traffic stop in hattiesburg, mississippi, will be buried thursday. yesterday, a memorial service was held for officers benjamin deen and liquori tate. more than 1,000 people attended. later four suspects charged in the shooting appeared in court. marvin banks the suspected gunman faces two counts of capital murder. >>> george zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted of killing teenager trayvon martin has been accused of another road rage incident. so far no charges have been charged against zimmerman or the alleged victim. >> reporter: matt apperson would not explain why he shot at george zimmerman marking the second confrontation between them. police impounded zimmerman's truck as they investigateded the late-day shooting. a bullet missed

. >> reporter: robert kraft, long viewed as roger goodell's closest allies, argued the punishment far exceeded expectations. brady's agent came out blasting the suspension as ridiculous. insisting the penalty was predetermined by the league. it's that stiff suspension fueling the most traffic on twitter today. including comparisons to the initial punishment former baltimore ravens running back ray rice received, two games for punching his fiancee. tom brady gets double the suspension of ray rice? the nfl is an absolute joke. >> this isn't a court of law. this is the weird world of the nfl and what the patriots were accused of and found guilty of doing is affecting the integrity of the crime. that is an important punishment that is an important crime. >> reporter: the patriots facing a $1 million fine defiantly replacing his picture. sales of all things brady have doubled. as fans rally behind the qb. >> it's ridiculous. a fraud. >> it's about some air in a ball. he didn't commit a crime. he didn't commit a felony. it's nothing like that. just leave him alone. >> reporter: a handful of

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today robert kraft spoke in san francisco where nfl team owners gathered for the spring meeting. he says he disagreed with the part but wants to put the "deflate-gate" conversation -- he says he disagreed with the punishment but wants to put the "deflate-gate" conversation off the that i believe. >> this is the best for the fans, the patriots and the nfl. >> the fight isn't over for quarterback tom brady. his four-game suspension will be appealed. >>> a big step forward today for the proposed raiders- chargers stadium down in los angeles. the complex deal closed on land in the city of carson. it allows a lease agreement between the city and a stadium authority. the idea is to build an nfl stadium in carson for both the san diego chargers and the oakland raiders. and former san francisco 49ers executive carmen policy is heading up the effort in los angeles. he has been hired by both the chargers and raiders to take the lead of that proposed $1.7 billion stadium in carson. raiders owner mark davis said he has to keep his options open. >>> trying to get something done in oakland. we