but every real sports fan has had a moment when an athlete has failed and said, i can do better than that. on your mark, get set on this episode, you re about to find out all the reasons you can t do better than that. going for a touchdown, sharpshooter from this court. you re looking at the spirit of america. i grew up resenting sports. when you re a black kid who everybody knows is going to be over 6 feet tall, every conversation goes to, you play basketball. i only did it in eighth grade. i went the whole season without scoring a point, like dennis rodman, but without the rebounding and hair. when i lived in chicago, i discovered michael jordan. now i m the guy who quotes the last dance like it s a new book of the bible. i took it personally. but that s the thing about sports. we often take it personally. i m somehow a grown man and hate the dukes for no good reason. john starks! sports gives us a place to release all our unchecked f you to everybody invo
failed and said i can do better than that. marks get set on this episode, you re about to find out all the reasons you can t do better than that. woo! for a touchdown, a sharpshooter from the midcourt. we re looking at the spirit of america. i grew up resenting sports. when you re a black kid who everybody knows is going to be over six feet tall, every conversation goes to you play basketball. i only did in eighth grade. i went the whole season without scoring a point, like dennis rodman, but without the rebounding and hair. when i lived in chicago, i discovered michael jordan. now i m the guy who quotes the last dance like it s a new book of the bible. i took it personally. but that s the thing about sports. we often take it personally. i m somehow a grown man who hates adults for no good reason. john starks! sports give us a place to unload all of our unchecked f-u on everybody, from little leaguers to hall of famers. and if there is one city that revels in
dangerous heat and a state of emergency. the oak fire explodes near yosemite national park in california. it is 0% contained. blistering temperatures adding to the danger creating health concerns. under heat alerts. some cities like boston and newark seen triple digits. camilla, what s the situation there right now? reporter: hey, pam. we just got back from the mountain here behind me. cal fire took us there to see what the fire has done and i think the number of structures destroyed will go up. it was ten last report but seeing the destruction you can tell it is likely going to go up. we are waiting for the next report but firefighters just looking at the fire and the flames and the smoke telling me they don t think they made that much progress but seen plane after plane dropping that fire retardant doing everything they can to put the flames out but there s things that are making the fire fight more difficult. the first is the drought and the we weather. the temperatures
assault charges, video of the incident there. the 43-year-old man is charged congress with a dangerous weapon. cnn s evan perez is following this and other developments for us. evan, what do you know about the suspect? reporter: jim, we know he was facing, first, a state charge. he was released almost immediately after he was charged with a second-degree assault at the state level and now federal prosecutors have decided to charge him on a federal charge. that charge is for assaulting a member of congress. of course he is running for governor in the state of new york. obviously the justice department looks at this in a different lens. they view this as part of, frankly, a lot of these types of incidents around the country attacking not only trying to threaten members of congress, members of the supreme court, other public officials. there is serious focus on this at the justice department. he is 43 years old. on top of the state charge for which he was immediately released
impact anxiety-wise and emotionally when you read the things that have been said. you pay attention to it. you notice it. it s hard not to notice it. grant williams is the power forward for the boston celtics and at just 22 he was elected one of the youngest vice presidents of the basketball players association. he s also a former chess champion with a mom who works at nasa. oh, come on, you guys. it s not that people shouldn t talk trash, not that people tell uh-uh suck and everything else. it s when you it goes off the court. it s about your family, what is you re doing. there s times people will question peoples intelligence, peoples character and not know the person. especially when it is a white person, white media outlet doing it to a black person. right zblflt used to be if you were an athlete, the outliers were the ones who paid attention to the events of the world. think about muhammad ali and bill russell. now it s the point if you re not