Football fans will be cheering the strikers on the field and cursing the strikers off the field. Boxing legend muhammad ali. Gathering for one final goodbye. Earlier, thousands of people lined the streets of the city as the funeral procession passed through. The pallbearers include the former heavyweight champion. And actor will smith that played him in the film about his life. Muhammad ali died a week ago at the age of 74. I am joined now by maries jackson who is an associate professor. And and affiliated. Good afternoon. We understand we met. I dropped out of school in a turbulent. Perhaps i was the most underdressed because i had on workboots. What do you do . I am working as a longshoreman and trying to get the money to go back to school. I will make you a promise. And you are a professor at georgetown university. You can say just with that one encounter. He set the model, doing the war against vietnam. While many people today, they see it as a hero. They felt that by speaking agai
Sports legends, soars on his own wings, through the hearts of his fans. But first the nightline five. Number one is just good evening, thank you for joining us. Were coming to you tonight from louisville, kentucky, the beloved hometown of muhammad ali. He was laid to rest today as thousands of mourners celebrated one of americas greatest sports legends. Well have more on that later in the broadcast. But first, we begin with the growing epidemic thats killing americans in record numbers. A painkiller significantly more powerful than heroin fentanyl. The dea issuing an urgent warning. Now we take an indepth look. Reporter fentanyl, the drug deadlier than heroin. Causing an epidemic of Overdose Deaths all across the country. Today the dea issued a warning. I want to take a minute today to talk to you about something very important. It could kill you. Thats fentanyl. Reporter even touching a few amounts, like a few grains of salt, can be lethal. Its the substance connected to the sudden de
This song was made definitely in the 70s. And it happens to be i love it. Sal and i are both finally 40, right, sal . This song happens to be one of mike mibachs favorites because he is a dead head, even though he doesnt look like one. Good morning, everyone. It is mornings on 2 the 9. I am Sal Castaneda along with pam in for gasia, and mike. It occurs to me what a long strange trip its been. Indeed. It sure has been. All right. We have a lot of news to get to. We do. All right. We will start with the shakeup at the tonight Oakland Police department. Police chief sean whent is out. Yeah, he led the Oakland Police department for the past three years. He left last night. A very big surprised. Whent took over in 2013. He has been with the Oakland Police department for 20 years. Officially, mayor libby schaaf says whent resigned, but a source tells us he was forced out. The Bay Area News Group reports that mayor schaff has been angry about allegations of Sexual Misconduct within the depart
Cleveland where steph curry came alive. Doctors nothing more exciting than to come in a hostile arena and shut up the crowd. As the second half started, the cavaliers were shooting a technical foul, the cavs went out and scored on their first possession. The warriors were down by 8. They rallied and it was because they started to hit the three point shots. A great possession as Klay Thompson hit three. The warriors had one key possession. 7 seconds on the shot clock. Got offensive rebound and netted curry a basket. That was a key possession. Curry with 38 points. The guy that came alive, harrison barns. Four for five from 3point range. You could feel the tide shifted. Steph curry had to listen for a couple days he was not playing up to mvp standards. We as a team had to understand that we were lackadaisical, didnt show up and myself included in that. Today is a new day and new opportunity to a fresh start to come out and get back to who we are as a team and play with agressis aggressio
Courtroom. It wasnt until they said please ride for the honorable. Judge aaron persky , it click then i realized i was in his courthouse. Reporter persky is under a firestorm for sentencing jot brock turner to just six months in jail, the maximum sentence was 14 years. It wasnt long before persky told jurors he was recently part of a high profile case. He said if there is anyone in the jury that had any feelings towards him to raise your hand. I did. It was just his tone, he talked as if it was nothing. I think thats what got to me and all of the other jurors to raise their hand. Reporter the 19yearold says she and four other people were required to give a reason. She told persky, she didnt feel comfortable being front of a judge who she thought, favored turner instead of the victim in the unrelated case. She also said he made her blood boil. The fact that a judge decided to give the defendant, a rapist, more feelings towards him and wanted him to be okay instead of the victim. Thats w