and here's part two of the pepsi max add starring jeff gordon. he posed as an exconvict cab driver that's fleeing from the police. the passenger's response is priceless. >> i can't go back man. i can't go back. >> stop, stop. please, no. stop. >> unlock the door and let me out. >> come on out, buddy. i'm jeff gordon. >> i think he was pretty composing. i would have been freaking out. the jury gets kerry kennedy's drunk driving case. plus oscar's take center stage this weekend. transferred money from his before larry instantly bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an "underserved season". and before he quit his friend's leaf-raking business for "not offering a 401k." larry knew the importance of preparing for retirement. that's why when the time came he counted on merrill edge to streamline his investing and help him plan for the road ahead. that's the power of streamlined connections. that's merrill edge and bank of america. i cthis year aloneore place

>> how did jeff gordon hang on to that car that loose off turn four? man. >> i don't think we got him. >> 29 car, you got him, buddy. harvick, you got him. >> .006. >> my god. yes! >> look at this. >> man. >> for the win. >> that is -- .006? >> that's a replay of a year ago with dale earnhardt and bobby labonte. >> that's an incredible finish. >> what a job for that young man. >> look at dale earnhardt's car and team, kevin harvick, the young man who considers him -- >> listen to the crowd. i mean, that was incredible. >> look at kevin harvick as the fans saluted dale with the number 3 on the third lap. kevin harvick slualutes him on e way to victory lane. >> if i was him, i would run that out of gas riding around here. >> what could be more fitting. what could be more special. [ cheers and applause ]. >> number three, the 2007 daytona 500 was a race dominated by kurt busch and tony stewart, but when they crashed into each other with under 50 laps to go, it became a survival of the fastest. crowd favorite, mark martin, looked like he was in position to

nascar's jeff gordon's latest prank may be his best yet. and the statue commemorating a tech icon has many people scratching their heads. it is friday, february 28th. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning. i'm page pahopkins. drought stricken california is getting hit with a one-two punch. two storms in two days. that's too much rain in too little time. and now there are fears of possible landslides, which prompted officials to close a ten-mile stretch of the pacific coast highway and evacuate some 1,000 homes near l.a. here is nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: on ridge view drive, the order to evacuate just before the next big storm rolls in. 65-year-old ed highline, a retiree, had has been working around the clock. but now he's out of time. >> the water will come over first and it rains. this whole thing will be full of mud. >> reporter: he knows it won't take mountain to slide into his backyard. >> we need the rain. we don't want the mess. you can't have both. so we'll take the rain, we'll clean up the mess. >> reporter: onl

i'm jeff gordon. >> can you imagine? i think i would have been a little more freaked out, but that reaction -- that reaction get me out of here is what everyone is feeling with all this cold weather brsh get me out of here. >> yeah. three weeks from now is the first official day of spring. >> really? let's hope it starts to feel like it sometime soon. >> yeah. a lot of areas, this is not what you needed. one more big winter storm. the west coast, they needed it, but the problem is any usually big storm that comes from the west coast has to move across the country, and the rest of the country is still freezing cold. that's just a recipe for another big winter storm. a little circulation and swirl in the middle of your screen. this is as advertised, the big storm for the west coast in a long time. the rain is really coming down hard now along coastal areas of california, and even in l.a. in the last ten minutes or so we've picked up in the intensity of the rain, and it goes from san francisco all the way to san diego. exac

logano, earnhardt, jeff gordon, mark martin. there's 25 cars can still win the daytona 500. >> yeah. they might be running 25th, too. right now. >> be hard pressed to tell any of the 25 drivers they can't win. ♪ ♪ >>> we welcome you back live to this quick update on what has been a frustrating afternoon at the daytona 500. went through 38 laps with kyle busch your leader. rain -- now this is one of the lengthiest in daytona 500 history. we're coming up on 3:30. they're drying the track. the rain has lightened up after severe weather warning earlier. much of that -- at least at the track has been cleared. so we're hoping to clear here and try to get at least halfway to make it official or complete every mile in the daytona 500. and there is a current look at the weather map. good news is, as you can see, those showers, those little xs are lightning strikes moving out to sea. and heading away from where we are. jimmie johnson, dale earnhardt jr. battling in the final laps. we'll return you to the conclusion of the 2013 daytona

you talk about keselowski, jeff gordon, logano. denny hamlin this week as overshadowed these other drivers. >> bobby labonte has something going on or he is trying to get out of there. >> kyle busch, kasey kahne, brian vickers,

we continue now with nascar great jeff gordon pulling off a high-speed prank in his new pepsi max ad. in it he gives a vocal critic the ride of his life. this is gordon getting back at a guy who was convinced that the previous pepsi ad he did was a fake. nick watt shows why the naysayer may now be convinced. >> okay, go back. >> reporter: that's nascar legend jeff gordon pretending he's just a regular cabbie. well, almost regular. >> i'm going to be playing an ex-convict cab driver. >> that is travis, an auto enthusiast and writer who thought he was on his way to drive a top secret corvette. here's a peek of what happened. >> you buckle up your seat belt for me. >> oh, yeah, sure. >> oh, man. why is that cop running all over my [ bleep ]. oh, what -- ooh! no way is this happening. i can't go back, man. >> please. no. >> oh. >> i can't go back, man, i'm sorry. >> no. >> no! >> continually called him sir and said please because i figured if i showed that man some respect maybe he'd let me out or he wouldn't kill me. >> reporter: but why did jeff gordon pick on poor travis sikulski? beca

joining us on the phone right now first sergeant jeff gordon, the public information officer for the north carolina state highway patrol. sir, how bad are things out there? moo the roads especially in the raleigh-durham area are in pretty bad shape right now. basically what we saw here is we've been promoting this storm for probably the past three days. and here in the raleigh-durham area we could see precipitation this morning and probably around 12:00 when the snow started to fall, and as a result we had a large influx of people that have commuted into work and various other locations and then trying to leave. as a result we had vehicles that would get stuck on the highway. >> first sergeant, how strongly did the city advise businesses not to open today? >> be've been basically educating the public on the dangers of this system. as you may or may not know, this system was actually a two-punch system. we had a low that came through proktly one to two days and this is the second low that came through. so we've been promoting this and educating people to be on their ps and qs and take

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i'm jeff gordon. >> all right. this is a reporter that actually criticized gordon for a stunt like that. gordon had performed that, and his critics said he didn't do his own stunts. they told him that they got him in the back of the cab and -- >> he thought it was real the whole time? >> he thought it was real. he was being chase bid cops. >> somebody had already called it out before. >> you saw that reaction shot from the back. he is screaming. let me out. let me out. anyway, let me out of this winter. what do we have going on? >> we have about three more weeks. yeah. california this morning is getting it, and this is the storm that's going to go across the country. it's going to provide an ice storm for some areas, and another snowstorm in the areas that have been hit so hard all winter long. indianapolis, chicago, pittsburgh area, philadelphia, new york city. that's mostly sunday and monday. now the storm, this huge circulation spinning off the coast. they're getting much needed rain that they've been begging fo

jeff gordon on one crazy race. >> i don't know what happened when the rain went away and the track dried. everybody's brains flipped over to this is a shootout. it was unbelievable the kind of race two wide, three wide and bump drafting. craziness. >> it was awesome. we showed all nightlong what kind of car we had. >> nascar lingo, bum drafting. this report is brought to you by riverwalk casino. >> colin, thank you so much. that is it for tonight. i'm ama dates, abc7 news continues tomorrow morning at 4:30. for leigh glaser and mike shumann who is off and colin rush, thank you for joining us. the news continues on-line on twitter, facebook and on your mobile devices with our new abc7 news app. have a great night, everyone and a great week ahead. [suspenseful music] [male narrator] child abduction by a parent or family member is a crime. get involved. if you have any information concerning a missing or abducted child, please call 1-800-222-find or contact your local law enforcement. you might be the one who saves a child's life and their future.r th e same roof. but it might seem like you

jeff gordon on one crazy race. >> i don't know what happened when the rain went away and the track dried. everybody's brains flipped over to this is a shootout. it was unbelievable the kind of race two wide, three wide and bump drafting. craziness. >> it was awesome. we showed all nightlong what kind of car we had. >> nascar lingo, bum drafting. this report is brought to you by riverwalk casino. >> colin, thank you so much. that is it for tonight. i'm ama dates, abc7 news continues tomorrow morning at 4:30. for leigh glaser and mike shumann who is off and colin rush, thank you for joining us. the news continues on-line on twitter, facebook and on your mobile devices with our new abc7 news app. have a great night, everyone and a great week ahead. [ male announcer ] fact: the 100% electric nissan leaf... is more fun than ever. sees better than ever. ♪ charges faster. and will charge. cool. and heat. from your phone. fact: leaf never needs gas. ever. good for the world. built in america. now, leaf's an easier choice than ever. ♪ shop at choosenissan.com. ♪ shop at choosenissan.com. pr

i'm jeff gordon. >> [ bleep ]! >> so that is nascar's jeff gordon as the taxi driver there. the passenger in the car was one who criticized gordon's previous stunts as being bogus. while that reporter was completely trolled, jeff gordon was completely behind his own stunts. that was a little set up. >> i think that a little bit of an extreme way to prove that. >> the whole thing looked a little fake. >> do you think it's fake? >> it was for pepsi. >> a lot of camera angles set up to film that thing for a supposedly just like a little stunt. >> no, listen. i believe that. i did that one time with one of our guests a couple of years ago. rick stengel. remember that? i was driving through the ozarks. turn around and did everything. ilg. >> stop! stop! >> that is when he was crying like a baby. >> stop it. >> like a little girl. >> you can't kidnap somebody and drive them around at a hundred miles an hour. >> it was a taxi. he called for a taxi so gets in the back of a taxi but they saw him just going for a taxi ride to the place he wanted to go. the cops started chasing him and

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. >>> well, nascar driver jeff gordon is at it again. he's made another pepsi max video where he drives like a mad man. this time, the prank victim is an automotive journalist who thought his first prank video was a fake. >> oh! >> can't go back, man, i'm sorry. >> no! stop! stop! [ sirens ] ♪ >> sir, sir! >> i have to lose him. i can't go back! >> ends the video by driving into a terminal, where they then surprise the guy with pepsi max. oh, that's just what you want after the video. you can see the entire police chase prank at bleacherreport.com. i don't know, guys -- >> is that real? >> i'm calling fake on that. i think it's fake. i think the guy's in on the joke, just like last time. he's in on the joke. there's no way it can be real, no way! >> if it's real, it's the most amazing thing i've ever seen. even if it's fake, it's funny. >> i bet my insurance that's not real. he has to be in on it. what happens if they crash? anyway, good video anyway. >> joe, appreciate it. >>> 26 minutes after the hour now. breaking overnight, armed g

. >>> nascar driver jeff gordon took a car dealer on a crazy test drive. he's actually a blogger for a commercial. that commercial went out but some folks like the blogger out there thought it was fake, so jeff decided to teach that guy a lesson and prove it was the real deal. he actually pretended to be a taxi driver and picked up the unsuspecting blogger. watch what happens when jeff gets pulled over by the cops with the blogger in the back. >> no, sir. >> i can't go back, man. i can't go [bleep] -- >> sir, please stop! please stop. please! no! no! >> i can't go [bleep] back man. >> no! stop! >> yeah, that's not fake. look at that guy. >> you don't think i'm real, buddy? >> i'm amazed that real-life blogger allowed his image where he's screaming like this, to be used like that. >> he was terrified, really terrified. >> by the way, jeff gordon excellent disguise. who knew he was working for a taxi company. >> i guess the cops were in on it as well? >> apparently. everybody was in on it. >> let's talk sports for a second. most of you you can participate, t

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jeff gordon, jimmie johnson, dale jr., it takes all these people to put this show on. danica is a huge part of our show. she has a great following. she's a good race daughter driver. she weighs 100 pounds, she's five foot tall. she gets out there and mixes it up with these guys every sunday. i would never count her out of any race. >> absolutely. and i know you have fox sports 1 going this year and it starts -- all the coverage starts earlier and then you have your actual race with the prerace. they're going to be working you guys hard. everybody is talking about jimmie johnson. he won this race last year, won the points title again. carl, what makes him so good and is he vulnerable? >> well, last night they ran out of fuel and clint bowyer did a back flip in the race car. i'll tell you something about jimmie. there's a couple things. number one, he will work hard and do whatever it takes to win. two, he really likes competing. my first win came at the atlanta motor speedway. he was the first guy dumping gatorade on me, high fiving. he really loves to compete. >> you k

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