jenna: welcome back, everybody. here at media desk we have a lot of great video coming into our newsroom today, including this one an amazing rescue by a good samaritan. mark is being hailed a hero after he helped rescue a driver from a wrecked car in minnesota. as they were pulling the drive out from behind the wheel they noticed smoke and moments later the car burst into flames. a spinal cord doctor from the mayo clinic was nearby. they say if it weren t for him and the police officer the driver probably would not have survived. a man burning and a guy unconscious, you get them out. jenna: it s that simple. the doctor says he s no hero he just did what anyone else would.
today s wall street journal. congresswoman thank you. jenna: a little sports business now. tiger woods the scandals we are all familiar how it affected his private life, also his public life. what about his pocketbook? everybody says he s going to lose a lot of money and sponsors. did that actually happen? robert gray from the fox network is here to tell us how tiger tkpweud. reporter: he s still in the green. i talked to a lot of folks before and after the scandal, they said he s going to take a bit of a hit, some of the core folks will stand behind him. nike built their entire golf business around him. he did okay. about $90 million. he was number one according to sports illustrate ned their north gnat 50 list that they come out with every year. he s down from the neighborhood he was in before which was $120 million a year most of that coming from endorsements. 90 million not too bad. jenna: and it s a recession, he s going to feel it. who are the sponsors that
it is something that needs to be resolved that hasn t been resolved and must be resolved, and so we have done two things, we ve made a concerted effort to try to resolve these cases and we ve also begun a process of looking at our entire operation from an outside consultant to take a look and see whether or not there are any other things that we re doing or shouldn t be doing that would potentially lead to claims in the future. reporter: the secretary talking about pending lawsuits against usda on the basis of alleged discrimination. while awaiting a written proposal from mr. vilsack sherrod continues to maintain a strong broadcast presence. she did the today show and good morning america today both for the second day in a row. she is appearing on the view today and she has perhaps logged more hours on cnn this week than wolf blitzer. she has repeatedly declined fox news request to come on this network. we have renewed those requests today. jenna. jenna: thanks very much, james. jon
change and the water temperatures in the gulf of mexico extremely warm. advisories, tropical storm watches and warnings for parts of the keys and south florida where they could see wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour, 2 to 4-inch rainfall across the region with 6 inches locally. as we head out in time that s where we ll see more uncertainty. the gulf of mexico waters 85 85, 86 degrees. it s the upper winds that are taking the storm apart. as we get into saturday and sunday we ll have to continue to watch everywhere along the gulf coast. jon: if it spreads the oil around it makes the cleanup more difficult. what a mess. reporter: a mess is an understatement. jenna: urgent warning for parents to take extra safety precautions after the body of a missing teenager is found in southern california. police believe 17-year-old norma lopez was kidnapped on her way home from school last week in moreno, east of los angeles.
want you to know they re doing everything they can to be green. jenna: does that mean other ato makers might do the same thing because hybrids cost so much more than the typical model. for the first thaou thousand buyers, they ll give a tax credit so it may reduce the cost more. not for everyone, though. but it s very important, ford is doing everything right. jenna: they have a lot of momentum, right? they didn t take bailout money, they didn t do any of that. they didn t take bailout money and today they announced they re paying down debt, $4 billion, they re paying off debt early. remember, they were the first to borrow money before the financial crisis, it enabled them to continue operating through the financial crisis without taking bailout money, now they re paying down the debt 4 billion early. you know who they re paying 3.8 billion of the money to? the retirees fund. back to the union. they re getting out of that union stranglehold to a certain extent. jenna: you going