crowd there at the espn zone in new york well, maybe not so much a crowd. he s at the espn zone in new york city. richard, bite likes of it are there people gathering to see this and do they really care? what s the vibe? reporter: people are trickling in here. there are some people from virginia we spoke with who were disappointed in tiger woods actions so far and they have come to listen to what he has to say. a short time ago in times square in the crossroads of the world i spoke with americans and asked them what do they want tiger woods to tell the american people. i kind of want him to say he s sorry. i think he was an idol for a lot of people and he was pure and good and we look up to people like that and he let a lot of people down. so he either fooled us or i don t like to be lied to. it s nobody else s business, between him and his wife. if he wasn t a celebrity, they
woods apology, so how did it play publicly. our richard roth is gauging reaction in new york. richard where are you and what are you seeing and doing? wolf, i m here in the espn zone, a sports mecca here in the heart of times square, but hours ago it was tiger square. everything stopped, the cacophony of sports, and olympics and everybody stopped and listened to the remarks by tiger woods. many of you in this room are my friends. many of you in this room know me. do you forgive him? or do you think it will take time for that? well, i mean i m not here to judge him. he did what he did, and he owned up to it. i don t nobody supports what he did, you know, but it is what he does from today on. he doesn t have to apologize to me, but he has to apologize
no, he didn t kill anybody, so it will take a while for people to forgive him, but they won t forgive. reporter: lynn, what did you? good points, all. but i still think people can change. they really can. his wife has been classy throughout the whole thing. reporter: lynn, chuck, sanford, thank you very much. the view from middle america here in new york, and new york here at the espn zone, sports fans reviewing the 13-minute tape you might say. tony, back to you. all right, richard, appreciate it. thank you. and thank knothose folks for us. get a woman s comments on tiger s statement last hour, along with comments from sports writers who followed his career closely. and charlie reimer, charlie was a good player. charlie s not with uls. ooh.
in espn zone in times square in new york. richard, as the pga commissioner was saying, it was not sort of a big triumphant comeback and it had a kind of sad, somber note to it, and what was the reaction at espn zone? well, people knew an apology was coming and kevin here i have been dining with, what do you think, kevin? is it over? he made mistakes and held himself accountable. i don t know, i think it is over. that is what he did. he made some mistakes, and he owned up to it. i respect him more today than i did yesterday. all right. kevin, thank you. you will take care of the check, right? right. there are other people that we talked to a lot of people here in the espn zone and supportive of tiger woods and they feel that the apology was handled correctly, and they are accepting even if they weren t before, and some of the men felt that he was not contrite enough,
failing to live up to. the denial by iran s supreme leader came during the country s launch of a new destroyer armed to surface-to-air missiles. firefighters in austin, texas, put out hot spots in an irs office building today. they ve recovered two bodies. one is believed to be the pilot that deliberately flew his plane into the building, 53-year-old joseph stack. the other apparently an irs employee. stack railed in an online suicide note about run-ins with the irs. two people are critically injured from the crash and explosion. 11 others described as walking wounded. back to our top story now. the 14-minute-long apology from tiger woods. our richard roth is at the espn zone in new york getting reaction from fans. and, richard, how did this statement go over in that room? reporter: well, what was amazing to me when tiger woods first started speaking and throughout the 13-minute rearcs, total silence, this in the espn zone, which is usually a