there are a lot of nfl owners who feel robert kraft and the patriots have gotten rich by skirting the rules whether it was spygate, fudging injury reports, bill belichick and all the various machinations other owners feel he does. a lot of owners feel because of craft's cozy relationship with goodell that robert kraft is rich on their time. a lot of owners said, hey, dude, you make $40 million a year because of us not bob kraft. go after him for the deflating of the football thing. they wanted to take a shot and puncture the patriots' balloon. >> it is a thing where there is this reactionary phrase where they talk about the court system, he got off on a technicality meant to be like obviously the guy is guilty but the constitution got in the way. i have to say i feel that way about this. it really does seem like they were up to no good. and they didn't essentially have the evidence procedurally to nail them. i respect that because i respect process and labor law and collective bargaining agreement. i'm left feeling they probably were doing this. >> part of the problem is there is a hu

there's robert kraft, the owner of this team. bought them in the mid '90s. has watched them go to seven super bowls. four wins, three losses. >> cris: no denying what that guy has done for this organization. >> al: and for the league itself. fourth down and nine from the 38 yard line. and roethlisberger escaping, looking, firing and it's caught at the 22 yard line for a first down and will take a time-out. one other thing about rob kraft, just to bring it up. i asked him about his relationship with roger goodell. he has always been goodell's biggest booster among the owners. you know, it's a two-sided thing. he has to wear two hat. one as the owner of this team, he hates what happened over the last seven months. hates it. thinks it was unnecessary. on the other hand, kraft is so important owner because he is on the television committee, the relocation, finance all of the rest that he and goodell have to do a lot of business together on that end. talk about compartmentalizing things that's what kraft has to do. >> cris: let's face it, there's a lot of pressur

owner robert kraft reminding everyone that the pats are reigning champs and the championship banner revieled at gillete stadium 2nd quarter brady.sharp rips one to rob gronkowski. and gronk dances his way to the end-zone for a touchdown and we get our first of many gronk spikes of the season 4th quarter 21-14 pats pats from the goaline and brady hits the fading gronk again big ben and steelers score late.but not enough gronk: 5 rec, 94 yds, 3 td brady: 25-32, 288 yards, 4 td brady.with his 161st win surpasses brett favre for most wins by a quarterback for a single team.in nfl history final: 28-21 patriots the 49ers just days away from kicking off their regualr season against the minnesota vikings and it may be without a fan- favorite niners practiced today at their facility in santa clara where head coach jim tomsula and speical-teams coordinatorthomas mcgaugheysaid jarryd hayne may not play in the opener hayne made the 53-man roster from playing in just four exhibition games this summer but may *not be a part of the 46-man active roster for monday night's game >>:most rookies and lessee or

robert kraft showed off the championship trophy. brady threw for four touchdowns, including three to rob gronkowski. patriots won 28-21. the raiders will host the cincinnati bengals at 1:25 on sunday. then monday night, the 49ers take on the vikings at levi stadium. kickoff, 7:20. fans have a lot to look to but there are plenty of other events taking place around the bay. here's mike mibach. >> reporter: the oakland raiders crack open their season sunday afternoon. the bengals are in town. so are the vikings taking on the 49ers for monday night football out at levi stadium. with that, here's your weekend watch -- six years strong, oakland pride 2015 is set for sunday. the parade kicks off at 10:30 at 14th and broadway. the festival is located at 20th and broadway. that starts at 11:00 a.m. the mountain view art and wine festival is all weekend right there hon castro street between el -- on castro street between el camino real and evelyn. come see all of the super bowl trophies won by the 49ers and raiders. san francisco opera in the

kraft, who helped goodell become commissioner. >>> cape may reporting 74 degrees. back in the 80s this afternoon. >>> next at 4:30, animal control investigation, workers from delaware county's animal services are now the focus of two different death cases. we'll tell you why. >>> nbc 10 news starts now. >> preparing for the pope. even in places where the pontiff won't be visiting. today several communities outside the city will brief residents about what to expect. >> saying good-bye to a philadelphia police officer who lost his life off duty. ahead, how family and friends will remember lamar poole who died in a hit and run crash. >>> back in the 90s again. that would mean another heat wave. there is relief on the way and it arrives this afternoon. right now it's 74 degrees at 4:30. good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. i'm tracy davidson. >> i'm chris cato. it was toasty out there yesterday afternoon, wasn't it. >> sure it was. >> beyond toasty, perhaps, some might call it hot. meteog

last night patriots held a charity event, robert kraft spoke about deflate gate but listen to tom brady's response when asked, what he did this summer. >> it has been such an enjoyable off season. i think, following julian edelman has been my favorite activity all summer. >> phillies get to see one of the best pitch ers in the league when matt harvey takes the mound. phillies will have their best starter aaron nola. he won his last two starts. last night phillies bats exploded, they beat mets four-eight getting ten hits in the process and ending a ten game losing streak against the the mets. darren ruf with the career night went three for five with a home run and six rbi's. six. just do that again. nice and easy. >> rooting for barner to make the team, darren sproles to can do other things. >> nice. >> we will be right back. you tell us what you want to pay and we help find options to fit your budget. nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. my name's flo, you want to go out with me? no. uh-huh-huh! >>> nearly 200,000 books, were delivered to philadelphia schools, district teachers u

there's robert kraft, the owner of this team. bought them in the mid '90s. has watched them go to seven super bowls. four wins, three losses. >> cris: no denying what that guy has done for this organization. >> al: and for the league itself. fourth down and nine from the 38 yard line. and roethlisberger escaping, looking, firing and it's caught at the 22 yard line for a first down and will take a time-out. one other thing about rob kraft, just to bring it up. i asked him about his relationship with roger goodell. he has always been goodell's biggest booster among the owners. you know, it's a two-sided thing. he has to wear two hat. one as the owner of this team, he hates what happened over the last seven months. hates it. thinks it was unnecessary. on the other hand, kraft is so important owner because he is on the television committee, the relocation, finance all of the rest that he and goodell have to do a lot of business together on that end. talk about compartmentalizing things that's what kraft has to do. >> cris: let's face it, there's a lot of pressur

. >> patriot's owner robert kraft meets privately with hernandez two days after lloyd's murder, and kraft testifies his star tight end claims he had an alibi. >> what did he say about wanting or hoping for the time of the homicide to be revealed? >> my recollection is that he said that he hoped that the time of the event came out because he was in a club. >> yet back then, lloyd's time of death had not been announced. if hernandez knew the time of the murder, wouldn't he have to know something that had not yet been made public? why would hernandez kill odin lloyd? prosecutors suggests the motive involved some sort of falling out between hernandez and lloyd two nights earlier, when the men were at a boston nightclub. >> hernandez stormed out of the club and he looked angry. >> but angry about what? >>> ahead -- a verdict. >> four in the car and three came back to the house. your buddy ron once said he could install your ceiling fan. he couldn't. and that one time ron said another chili dog was a good idea. yeah, it wasn't. so when ron said you'd never afford a john deere tractor, you knew

meanwhile, today's ruling gave the patriots head coach bill belichick and robert kraft plenty of good reason to be all smiles prior to tonight's preseason finale against the patriots in foxboro and boy oh boy, was this one a boring football game. picking for the giants, making good on this his fourth field goal. giving the giants a lead, 12 to nine would be her final in new england. and then over at metlife stadium, connecting with chris place. and it was seven to nothing in here in the second quarter again, finishing off a 14 play and 90-yard drive making it a 14 to three jet score. and now we start playing for keeps. over at the u.s. open today roger doing a great job. that is it for sports. steve: let's talk about the legendary keith richards. having everyone all fired up today. saying that rap music is her tone deaf people. he also called metallica and black sabbath jokes. and also saying that some have a mishmash of rubbish. one individual says that he attacked the foundation of modern music are dead. steve: okay, brian says i don't agree with him, but the guy is allowed to have

robert kraft released a statement which reads in part, as i have said during this process, and throughout his patriots career, tom brady is a classy person of the highest integrity. he represents everything that is great about this game, and this league. now, we can return our focus to the game on the field. here's tim of the san jose "mercury news" on brady's legacy. >> he took on the commissioner. he took on the league. he had the standing to say i'm not going to accept any compromise that puts me as guilty. i will never accept that. i don't know a lot of players that would have had the confidence to do that, or many players who would have beat the league the way tom brady did. he beat the commissioner, possibly in a tidal wave to start a whole new round of things to take down this commissioner. tom brady's legacy -- >> tim, thank you very much. finally, now, the big winner from last week's indy race at sonoma raceway, sonoma county youth groups raised more than $55,000 during the go-pro grand prix from the 28th through the 30th. a great finish to the circuit season, and lots of kids re

he explained that donald trump gave the hat to patriots owner robert kraft to pass on to tom brady and then he told the rest of the story about that hat and if he would vote for donald trump. here it is. >> i've known him for, since 2002. i judged one of his beauty pageants. imagine that. i was a judge at a miss usa pageant 2002. so i've known him for a long time and, you know, he always gives me a call and different types of motivational speeches at different times. now he is running for president he sent me a hat and gave it to rkk a couple of weeks ago. so it found its way in to my locker. >> are you going to vote for him? >> i don't know. am i going to vote for him? that's a good question. >> so it turned out that miss usa judge was simply not going to answer that question. even with tom brady's vote, donald trump couldn't win mast nst in the election but two that could are being asked the same questions over and over with joe biden, is it are you going to run. with hillary clinton it is are you sorry? that's next. just might be the one. to clean the oceans, to start a movement, or

robert kraft holding up the trophy. brady got a huge ovation. when it was time to shine, brady looked in mid season form. he found gronkowski. unstoppable. patriots win, 28-21. here's tom. >> i was excited. our team was excited. we haven't had one of these games in a long time. it is fun being out there and getting the opportunity to go play. we took advantage of it. >> now with deflategate on pause, the last thing we would have in this game would be some sort of patriots controversy. first quarter, steelers head coach mike tomlin was fired up on the sideline. headsets the steelers coaches were using were malfunctioning. here is tomlin addressing the issue. >> it is always the case. yes. we were listening to the patriots radio broadcast for the majority of the first set on the headsets. >> the nfl was quick to take the blame. the pittsburgh coaches experienced interference caused by a stadium interference issue. the headsets provided by the nfl where both clubs used on game day. pats did not do it. >>> the braves and mets game. turner field unde

. >> does that stay, dan, because can't robert kraft now appeal that, can't that say, look, i agree to this because i thought i was doing the right thing at the i'm you by want my million bucks back? >> his son last night said he said never say never but it doesn't appear they have any intention of going back to get those sanctions removed. >> okay. dan from the "boston globe." thanks for joining us. appreciate it. >>> that does it for this edition of "newsnation." i'm alex witt. i'll be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. and noon eastern time. but up next, andrea mitchell in the house in this studio. she's got the exclusive interview with hillary clinton. don't go away. buy a new gym ba. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time and 2% back at the grocery store. even before he got 3% back on gas. kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to join the wednesday night league. because he loves to play hoops. not jump through them. that's the excitement of rewarding connections. apply online or at a bank of america near you. ♪ [ female announcer ] everything kids tou

we know robert kraft is in the against column. we can count one vote against. in past weeks as this case has been going on by the way, as judge berman has been ripping in the nfl, several other nfl owners have come out publicly to support roger goodell specifically about this and about the way he handled this. are they going to start reversing now? we'll have to see. look, there's no doubt this was hugely embarrassing. >> and in the next few minutes we could hear from the nfl. we're waiting for that. in the meantime what we know is this, the four-game suspension thrown out and it looks like tom brady will play one week from now. paul callan, rachel nichols and dale arnold thank you so much. >>> we have other big news. coming up for us, a pledge of allegiance at the trump tower. just moments from now the republican front-runner who had something to say about tom brady, i will get to that, he will heat with the head of the republican party. will donald trump sign a pledge to stay a republican? >>> then, she has defied the nation's highest court and right now the

robert kraft, the patriots owner, not happy with him obviously, but the other 31 owners, many of them have come out in support of roger goodell, so while he is not exactly bursting with authority at the moment his job is not in trouble. >> is this done? >> no, it's not done. the nfl has filed an appeal of this judgment so this could take anywhere from six months to another two or three years. what's interesting though is tom brady is going to play this whole time. so you have this great scenario coming up next thursday, the nfl season opener, big pageantry. originally until today tom brady was not going to be allowed in the building. the super bowl champions were going to raise their banner without their star quarterback allowed to even be on premises. now guess what, anderson? it's roger goodell who won't be in the building. >> is that right. >> tom brady will be on the field celebrating and roger goodell has come out in a statement and said he won't be at the game because he doesn't want to distract from the ceremony. i have to think it has something to do with the patriots fans who

he got it from robert kraft. trump said brady is a friend and a total winner. >>> we've found an animal just couldn't wait until the nfl season starts. >> a jackrabbit. >> we're not making this up. look at this. a fearless rabbit jumped on the field. this was at a canadian game. look at this. i have never seen a jump like that. it did a touchdown dance as well. >> acrobatic. [laughter] >> that's a good touchdown dance. >>> let's take a look at the commute. very quickly. traffic at the toll plaza is slow. 880 traffic is very slow. both directions, really. if you are driving in the south bay, 101 is a mess from southern san jose. >>> 100-degree temps may be hair raising but that's what we have today. it will be hot. cooler by the coast. >>> thanks for joining us. we're extending until 10:00. nunn in a few minute -- coming up in a few minutes, we're going through the 10:00 a.m. hour. more local news. we'll see you back here at noon. >>> it's a game called footsol. >> one player is -- >> ridiculously good. >> how sho

patriots chairman robert kraft said in a statement, tom brady is a classy person of the highest integrity. we are greatly appreciative of the thoughtful decision that was delivered today. now we can return our focus to the game on the field. cbs news special correspondent james brown, host of the nfl today is in washington. j.b., good to see you. >> norah, good morning, and it will be so nice to talk football again. go ahead, norah. >> i know. we're excited, too, about football. is this over? he's on the field, all done? >> it's not over. as a matter of fact scott pelle said it nicely on the evening news, if you want to distill a complicated situation down to something simple, tom brady won the league 1-0 at half-time. more appropriately it's probably late in the fourth quarter but not over yet. >> how much do you think commissioner goodell has been deflated by this? >> certainly from the player perspective, it's not been a good stretch for roger goodell at all. keep in mind judge richard berman was only focused on the process, that it was unfair. he did not render a judgment as to his gu

new england patriots owner robert kraft just released a statement about today's ruling which overturned the suspension of his quarterback tom brady. it reads in part, quote, we are greatly appreciate tive of his, referring to judge berman, his thoughtful decision that was delivered today. now we can return our focus to the game on the field. that's the same sentiment from all over boston. the mayor martin walsh tweeting, now let's get to football. and then massachusetts governor charlie barker -- baker, tweeting, overturned. it's time to raise the banner. play football and defend the patriots championship. joining me now new england patriots writer for the boast l boston globe. the fans are dancing in the streets here because they never felt tom brady was guilty. >> no, and ted wells and the nfl certainly never proved that tom brady and the patriots were guilty of deflating those footballs back in january. ted wells' report came out and found a lot of circumstantial evidence. some text messages. they felt tom brady was genuinely aware of what's going on. that's not unreasonable. i think