bob kraft, patriot's owner. he is talking about deflategate. >> going to be disappointed in that decision. i hope they trust my judgment and know that i really feel at this point in time that taking this off the agenda, this is the best thing for the patriots, our fans, and the nfl. and i hope you all can respect that. you know, i would normally take questions, but my desire is truly not to continue the rhetoric. so i'm going to leave this discussion exactly here. thank you very much. >> all right. so listening there to bob kraft patriot's owner saying he's not going to appeal the $1 million fine and loss of a couple of draft picks. this is different than the appeal tom brady filed last week before the 5:00 deadline i believe on thursday. he was able to meet the deadline for the appeal of his four game suspension. hearing from bob kraft, as a team owner, they're not going to appeal the punishment against them which is interesting. you'll remember out of the wells report belichick and bob kraft were exonerated th

. >> reporter: at the super bowl bob kraft demanded an apology from the nfl if the investigation turned up no proof of wrong doing. >> i would expect and hope that the league would apologize to our entire team and in particular coach belichick and tom brady for what they have had to endure this past week. >> reporter: today bob kraft issued a statement reiterating his disappointment in how this investigation was conducted but said the organization will accept the findings and take appropriate action. lester? >> ron mott, thank you. bob costas of nbc sports joins me now by telephone. bob, so much was made of this at the time. in football, how big a sin is this and is the league now compelled to take harsh action? >> the league is compelled to take action. i'd be very, very surprised if tom brady was suspended for even a game, but he's going to be hit, i think, with a substantial fine and based on precedent for other violations by other teams, probably the patriots will lose a draft choice or two. but it won't be a first round draft choice. this falls into the category if you look at it o

tonight team owner bob kraft says the punishment far exceeded any reasonable expectation. it was based completely on circumstantial, rather than hard or conclusive evidence. by the way, the nfl believe the pats deflated footballs before the afc championship game, as well. >>> phillies are sending cody asche down to aaa to learn to play left field, switching from third base to left field. he'll have to be there at least ten days and this clears the way to call up mike el franco to play third, maybe even by this weekend. tonight, cody asche after the game says he's going to do what's best for the phillies. >> going forward as an organization i think it's better for me to play left field, so i got to go do that. i will never stop believing that i'm a big league baseball player so 100% i think whatever challenge comes my way, i'll handle it fine and i'll be back in this uniform soon. >> phils starting a series with the pirates tonight. phils up 1-0. williams giving it up to starling marte. 3-1 shot. pirates take the lead. ninth inning odubel herrera, how about this? first care

i think he lowered the hammer on him and everybody talks about his friendship with bob kraft, but he didn't hesitate there, but it always comes back to sit down let's talk about this and i think there will be an appeal process, and i think they will probably change some i don't know how much, but you know al when i was on your show before. i mean this is crazy. i played quarterback. i coached quarterbacks. half a pound or a pound here or there doesn't change how the guy is going to play although you can't break the rules. >> yeah but the -- the process in the nfl can be up predictable. i mean look at the assault case jim, of ray rice. at first the league suspended him for two games and then they increased the suspension to indefinitely and then he appealed. he was reinstated to the league. i mean if it's this crazy why do they do it? >> well in the ray rice situation, according to the league they didn't see that videotape. they just heard about what went on and once the videotape came out, well then they changed their punishment and came back and change it had again. now, that's beca

bob kraft, that is not his thing. i would never say never. kraft, everything he is done with a franchise has been about trying to do something to keep the team in new england, first of all. and secondly to give the people of new england team they could be proud of. that is why it hurts them. charlie: have you talked to him? peter: i have had a conversation with him but nothing on the record or nothing reportable. i am hoping in the coming days to speak to him. charlie: is there any idea of what brady is going to do? willie have a press conference or a conversation -- will he have a press conference or a conversation? peter: i do not know what he will do. it is incumbent on him to do something. charlie: does he have to do something? peter: he does. america is looking at him that tommy perfect is not perfect. charlie: did he know and secondly, how is he handling the questions about it after the fact? peter: it was very curious, she did one press conference where he talked about this. peter alexander, a correspondent of nbc news, when he talked

bob kraft, that is not his thing. i would never say never. craft -- kraft, everything he is done with a franchise has been about trying to do something to keep the team in new england, first of all. and secondly to give the people of new england 18 they could be proud. that is why it hurts them. charlie: have you talked to him? peter: i have had a conversation with him but nothing on the record or nothing reportable. i am hoping in the coming days to speak to him. charlie: is there any idea of what brady is going to do? willie have a press conference or a conversation -- will he have a press conference or a conversation? peter: i do not know what he will do. it is incumbent on him to do something. charlie: does he have to do something? peter: he does. america is looking at him that tommy perfect is not perfect. charlie: did he know and secondly, how is he handling the questions about it after the fact? peter: it was very curious, she did one press conference where he talked about this. peter alexander, a correspondent of nbc news when he talk

bob kraft, that is not his bailiwick. i would never say name for -- i would never say never but that is not his bailiwick. kraft, everything he is done with this franchise has been about trying to do something to keep the team in new england first of all. and secondly to give the people of new england team they could be proud of. that is why it hurts them. charlie: have you talked to him? peter: i have had a conversation with him but nothing on the record or nothing reportable. i am hoping in the coming days to speak to him. charlie: is there any idea of what brady is going to do? is he going to have a press conference or a conversation? peter: i do not know what he is going to do. it is incumbent on him to do something. charlie: does he have to do something? peter: he does. america is looking at him that tommy perfect is not perfect. charlie: did he know and secondly, how is he handling the questions about it after the fact? peter: it was very curious, he did one press conference where he talked about this at length. pet

bob kraft saying to say we're disappointed in it is fonds which do not include incontrovertible or hard evidence of deflation of footballs at afc championship game would be a gross understatement. >> he also said that they did their scientific studies and the report didn't do any scientific studies. there is 100 page addendum to the report filled with scientific studies that they did. i mean look, bob kraft will have to do what he has to do, has to say to defend the brand of the patriots, but you know look i would expect pretty severe punishment coming down from the nfl for this. melissa: is that bottom line, as a result of this report? what kind of punishment? >> that is the monkey in the room right now. but, i would certainly see game suspensions for brady and pretty hefty fine if not for him, for the franchise. melissa: you think he will get suspended from games as a result of this. >> i do. melissa: do you think he will fight that? because, it looks like, i mean, there sit necessarily any direct evidence. they're saying he probably knew. >> right. well look, unless they're going to

we get the statement from bob kraft, he's not going to push back says its futile. >> but the biggest risk would be losing draft picks and just had the nfl draft and losing significant draft picks for years to come and there could be huge monetary fines and the closest you could come in the nfl to some kind of death penalty like in college sports. that was the talk when this started breaking and they said if this report concludes that the patriots as an organization if bill belichick himself and bob kraft, who vouched and said i've got belichick under control, if he has to answer for how did belichick -- but the report is not saying that. people will be very skeptical about this i know. in terms of what's going to happen from now, the report is saying specifically not kraft, not belichick, not ownership. locker room attendant and we suspect brady. brady's reputation here is probably -- if there's a biggest casualty, it's going to be his reputation. >> you think they would have still beat the colts? >> yeah because it was 28-0 in the second half. >> i'm taking up with the colts fans, i

>> i think when bob kraft went to bed last night, he went to bed a guy who is carefully weigh wering had his options. i don't think he's making any decisions about whether he will appeal. my bet is he will go rogue on this, and head will try to appeal this penalty in a court of law. there's no way he can appeal this as an owner because owners have to take the sanctions that the league has set down. >> do you think that the suspension is ultimately upheld or do you think it changes? >> i think so the suspension of brady is probably going to be changed. he could win and it could be eliminated altogether. or it could just be reduced. >> and if brady appeals, does he thought then have to produce some sort of evidence to back up those appeals, potentially those phone records that he refused to turn over before? >> there's no question that if this ever gets into a larger court and away from the auspices of the nfl, that the nfl i'm sure would push for him to produce his cell phone and just say, hey, list he's not nothing to hide show us your fine. >> but the suspension is uphold when they

i think bob kraft is cutting his losses. this is dawging his quarterback, a super bowl quarterback. my guess is the business about the fines, that million dollars is nothing to the patriots. that's like 5 cents to everybody else. the question about the draft picks is a more serious issue. maybe he thinks it's a good enough team. tom brady has been suspended a number of games. of course tom brady is appealing it. that's the more important issue to bob kraft, not the money. >> he did not comment about whether or not he would remove himself, speaking of goodell, remove himself from personally hearing the appeal of tom brady. that's where it stands right now. it will not go to an arbitrator. >> the nfl has so many problems. i applaud them now that they are going to start paying taxes. that's a good thing. after all this business about domestic abuse, concussions, the one who imposes the penalty is the judge and jury i think it would be smart if roger goodell would farm this out to somebody else. he's been doged by so much criticism in the nfl. this may be a good way to share the critici

that's the punishment handed down by the league for deflategate good patriots owner bob kraft called the punishment excessive and you can bank on bready appealing it according to his agent. he claims the wells report was flawed. susan mcginnis reports. >> reporter: fans are reacting to the n.f.l. 's punishment for new england patriots star quarterback tom braidsy. some defending him. >> everyone does the deflategate. they all do it. he just got caught. >> he's done a wonderful job for the patriots. to hang him out to dry like this is not fair. >> reporter: brady was socked with a four-game suspension for knowingly using deflated footballs at last season's afc championship game after the league's investigation found breedy at least generally aware of a plan to deflate balls below the minimum allowed level. the legal also cited brady's failure to cooperate. the patriots will pay a million dollar fine and lose two draft picks. while some analysts say the league is sending a message players will be held accountable for violating rules, it's the league many fans are angry with who see bra

bob kraft added, tom brady has our unconditional support. our belief in him has not wavered. but giants' quarterback, eli manning, who calls brady his friend, was conflicted. >> it's about integrity. if someone's breaking rules i understand you're going to get punished for it. >> reporter: those two staffers jastremski and mcnally were suspended indefinite by the league without pay. the nfl says they cannot come back to professional football without the league's approval. >> peter king writes the monday morning quarterback column for "sports illustrated."." >> good morning. >> four games, the biggest team fine ever in nfl history, too tough? >> i thought on behalf of especially against the patriots themselves, i thought it was harsh. i thought it was a little bit of a sledgehammer killing an ant. i mean in the ted wells report there is the acknowledgement that yeah we find fault with brady here we find fault with two club employees but everybody connected with the patriots was cleared, and that's why i thought that the especially the two draft choices money is the money, but

this comes after bob kraft said he would not go ahead and appeal the decision against the team. now all the attention goes to tom brady. >> it does. that statement yesterday from bob kraft probably came as a bit of a surprise to a lot of people. the patriots have come out and said they disagreed with the investigation, and kraft yesterday himself said he thought the punishment was heavy-handed and unprecedented. he also said it is time for moving on from what he called the angry rhetoric of the last four months. he said it was his responsibility, he described himself as a man who measures nine time and cuts once. his decision it was his responsibility to the league to come out and say that they weren't going to appeal this. but is it really going to put things in the past? that's the question. and you touched on tom brady. he is appealing his punishment. so this is going to continue to be a story. >> he's a little about on an island now. what are we expecting from the news conference? >> well, goodell will definitely be asked about this. and we don't really know what he's going

. >> patriots owner bob kraft was very angry when this first came out and flanddemanded an apology. >> and he's still angry. >> but some of this stuff is real. and you can't really take back texts and e-mails that indicate that there is some knowledge. we'll get to this. but deflategate, yes, it's back in the news. also major developments in the political world. a state department official testifies yesterday that hillary clinton's e-mail practices were quote, not acceptable. and josh has a new piece where he speaks with clinton foundation donor frank giustra, the man at the center of one of the key examples in the book "clinton cash". and while we're focused on 2016 it's election day in england. did you know that is this? kind of exciting. >> did it you vote? >> no but you know who will be here who may have piers morgan. so we'll talk with him. but first, we want to begin this morning with the severe weather that still isn't over some 50 towards ripped truth throughhrough the southern 34r5i7bplains. at least 12 from an trailer park were rushed to the hospital. two with critical injur

patriot owner bob kraft said he does not believe it was in any tampering with the footballs and brady has the unconditional appeals of the court. >> thank you very much. we'll have much more on the brady appeal with your legal panel on. this will be subject of my commentary we're welcoming right back stay with us. >> coming up, senate democrat say no way to president's see call free trade deal. there is nothing free when the middle class is paying with their jobs. >> more massive earthquakes hit the roof of the world death toll rising in nepal and an american aid helicopter goes missing, the latest ahe you drop 40 grand on a new set of wheels, then... wham! a minivan t-bones you. guess what: your insurance company will only give you 37-thousand to replace it. "depreciation" they claim. "how can my car depreciate before it's first oil change?" you ask. maybe the better question is why do you have that insurance company? with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. locking correction

patriot owner bob kraft said he does not believe it was in any tampering with the footballs and brady has the unconditional appeals of the court. >> thank you very much. we'll have much more on the brady appeal with your legal panel on. this will be subject of my commentary we're welcoming right back stay with us. >> coming up, senate democrat say no way to president's see call free trade deal. there is nothing free when the middle class is paying with their jobs. >> more massive earthquakes hit the roof of the world death toll rising in nepal and an american aid helicopter goes missing, the latest ahead. lou: president's trade agenda suffering a setback on senate floor, blocking correction of legislation of president's fast track authority to complete a trade agreement with asia. senate voted 52 to 45 to begin debating the bill, 8 short of 60 needed. after that vote, president obama met with senate democrats to talk about i'm sure quietly a way forward. that sounds familiar. turning to the race for 2016, mainstream liberal media treatment of republican candidates. bloomberg politics

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patriot's owner bob kraft pushed back. "to say we are disappointed in its findings which do not include any inconvertible or hard evidence is a gross statement." still, kraft wrote that the team will accept the findings and any discipline levied by the league so now the fans must wait to find out if the nfl will punish nfl or tom brady. >> molly line live in boston thank you. there are obviously bigger fish to fry in the news but it did gain a lot of attention back then. >>> up next the pilot who crashed his crashed a plane into the mountains practiced before then. >>> aide to democratic state kamala harris is accused of impersonating a police officer. they are members of the mass sonic maternal police department which claims to have existed for 3,000 years in 33 states and mexico. with the testing of a new escape system for astronauts the exercise involved only a dummy as a passenger. a spokesman says it was unlike any test since the days of apollo. >>> a woman held hostage by her boyfriend sends a secret message for help

. >> very good friends with the patriots owners, do you think he called hey bob kraft, i will to have fine you a million. kraft says that is a a lot of cheese. that is good. but here's what is bad. they are all over the map. do you remember ray rice when he cold cocked his fiance, what was the original penalty for him. >> two games. >> you deflate your balls and it is four. that is a bad message. >> i think what they are doggies the nfl is changing. they are trying give people what they want. that is why you had harder hit on tom brady and other suspensions from now on will be more serious. i think what they are trying to do is address what the fans want. >> when it comes to the a a appeal there has been no hard core evidence that this was done. >> it is all supposition. >> it is probable, likely. >> you know brady will get cut down to two games if in the down to one. >> i agree good you will see that happen. they don't have conclusive evidence that he said yes, deflate those balls. >> let me tell you this, before the game, the quarterback wants the ball a certain -- >> without a doub

the ownership, bob kraft, head coach, bill belichick, even the equipment manager found not guilty of any participation. how does the nfl defend this massive punishment? >> circumstantial evidence isn't bad evidence, but it still has to be good evidence if we're requesting to deal with circumstantial evidence. here patriots would say you have circumstantial evidence of what. where is the evidence that there was tampering with the footballs on january 18 against the colts. and that's where the science gets a little bit fish which i for the nfl. because there were two pressure gauges used that day that had a spread of up to 0.45 pounds per square inch. and you're talking about not many differences in the footballs as it relates to what the weather would have predicted that day. so i think the patriots look at this and say there is no smoking gun, no clear evidence. and everything else is just conjecture. maybe it's evidence of things that shouldn't have happened in the past but no evidence that on january 18 this actually happened. and that's where i think a lot of the focus will come.

the most upset should be the patriot fans and bob kraft, the best owner in sports. >> i don't know whether he did it, but i feel happy because he has too much and i feel jealous of him. >> you resent happy people. >> super model, hundreds of millions millions millions, that gorgeous. >> i can make a prediction? she's retired now. that's not a prediction. that's just a fact. four to six games, i believe he's going to be suspended for. i think the team will be sanctioned to pick because they did not let mcnally go back. >> syracuse university just got killed for doing something that was probably less egregious than this. do you agree? >> that's the ncaa and this is the nfl. they took eight years to investigate. >> way too much time on sports. this is boring to me. >> you bait me and you move on. >> let's talk about the e female recruit after she failed the physical fitness test and going to be a firefighter. what's up with that? >> here it is. i did some work. a good friend of mine is a lieutenant. i said the stuff you ask these men and women to do during training s it too hard? he said abso

i guess there will be no apology for bob kraft. you remember when he arrived in phoenix and made his statement. he expected an apology from the nfl if the patriots were cleared which he thought would happen and it has not happened. the patriots' attitude drove up the price. you talk about the cooperation or the lack of cooperation. one of the thing that was really significant was the revelation that the investigators try get back at jim mcnally for a follow-up interview after they had conducted several interviews. he was interviewed early in the process. and the patriots would not make him available. that's a serious allegation on top of everything else involved in this. then with tom brady, you know, it is kind of sad that he had this when they first surface in the january. and maybe felt like he did not cheat to the level that he is being punished for now. he could have given us more insight into his role and those footballs. i don't know if tom brady told the equipment people to deflate them to theed point they were illegal. may

he's best of buddies with bob kraft, the owner of the pats. this is an incredible franchise within nfl. you have this squeaky clean, seemingly, quarterback, who maybe isn't so squeaky clean anymore. what does roger goodell do? he's had this year from hell. how does he handle this? >> my prediction is it'll be a slap on the wrist defined as a couple of game suspension for this and they'll try and move on. >> you don't think that's a big deal? >> no, in light of this i really don't. this was the afc championship game to determine who goes to the super bowl. there's a rule on the books, and as far as i'm concerned, there was a conspiracy among at least three individuals to break that rule. go ask the colts if they think it's a big deal. >> okay. i'll call them up when i'm done with you. michael smerconish thank you so much. watch michael tomorrow 9:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn. thank you very much. >>> coming up this incredible story of a doctor who was infected with ebola, was told he was healthy, the virus had gone away but then found out that w

. >> let me go back following up on that, rachel to bob kraft's statement. this is what jumped out at me. what is not highlighted in the text of this report is that three of the colts' four footballs measured by at least one official were under the required psi level. he goes on as compelling a case as the ted wells report may try to make i'm going to rely on the factual evidence of numerous scientists and engineers rather than inferences from circumstantial evidence. how do you read that? >> yeah look if you look through the report they talk about any deflation that happens with the colts' footballs was not nearly as significant as the deflation that happened with the patriots' footballs. weather, you would assume would affect all footballs the same way. there are hundreds of pages of this report that address the science. we'll go through those over the next day or so. report found nits executive summary that that wasn't the kind of factor robert kraft would like to make it out to be. and let's remember it was 51 degrees out that day. it wasn't 10 degrees,

the report found no evidence that pats' coach belichick and bob kraft knew any of this. and another story, coming up at 5:00 former eagle star mccoy is accusing chip kelly of getting rid of players based on race. we're going to get into that. we'll see you in about an hour. >> as renee mentioned earlier in the newscast we're watching some live coverage in southwestern oklahoma of what looks like developing tornadoes. and you can see some of the cloud formation coming down from the cloud. the wide view that i've seen shows that this entire storm is rotating. this is what's known as a supercell. and inside the supercell, you can get the rotation that eventually leads to a tornado. now, we're seeing rain on the left side, what looks like coming down from the cloud and, of course we'll keep an eye and see if it does indeed make it down to the ground. the radar that i saw shows a classic kind of tornado signature. so it would not be at all surprised if it does touch down. as far as our weather is concerned, we've got 80-degree plus temperatures returning, not today, but they

to a client because what happens is, that tom brady's had a pristine reputation, been a golden boy, bob kraft's an awesome owner, it's not like the commissioner wanted to do this, but every single time this issue is brought up, it's going to conflate brady cheating, brady, cheating, in every headline. it does more harm. >> i say you're right, don't go ahead and fight this or, you know, appeal. sue, tom brady. go ahead and sue in court, because then you're going to be compelled to turn over all that discovery and all those devices and texts. rachel, i need to ask you about the two guys who got fired. what happened to standing by your man, their little man? >> yeah. look, that's part of the domino here people saying if the patriots suspended these guys without pay, it seems like they may know that they did something wrong and then that kind of wrecks the rest of their case where they said they did nothing wrong. that's a lot of supposition. we don't know that. a lot of people around the league who say look, they had to treat the patriotses the same way they would treat any of the other 32

>> bob kraft, the owner of theÑi patrio@ between defiant andwm+ despondent. defiant he's been told by bill belichick and tom brady absolutely unequivocally we have no idea what's going on, we didn't do this and brady basically to his face said nothing happened i didn't do this. >> rose: and kraft saying i didn't know about it. >> that's not kraft's bailey wick. i wouldn't think never say never but that's not his bailey wick. craft, everything he's done about that franchise is trying to do something to keep the team in new england and secondly to give new england a team they can be proud of and that's why this hurts him quite a bit. >> rose: have you talked to him? >> i have had a conversation with him but nothing on the record, nothing reportable. i'm hoping in the coming days to be able to speak to him. >> rose: is there any idea of what brady is going to do? is he going to have a press conference, do a conversation with a print or television person? >> i don't know what he's going to do. i think it's incumbent on him to do something. >> rose: you understand

kraft the owner of the patriots. this report pretty much cleared belichick and craft of having any specific wrongdoing. brady a different matter. you look at this from two standpoints, when you're looking at possible punishment here number one there's going to be pressure on roger goodell, the nfl commissioner, from fellow owners who believe maybe he's been a little too chummy with bob kraft, the patriots owner, that the patriots may have gotten away with something like this before. of course, there was spygate episode years ago, 2006/2007. so there's going to be a lot of pressure on goodell to make a statement. the other side, though, when you talk to people around the patriots organization that they point to is there is no clear-cut definitive evidence in this report. i mean, there's terms here reasonable to infer, most plausible, most likely. i think they're hanging their hopes on that it's not definitive enough for the league to come down really hard on brady. >> but, steve, the fact that he had -- that brady had

patriots owner bob kraft ripped the report and says he was offended by some of the comments. >>> long troubled city college of san francisco will be the focus of a hearing today and protestors plan to show up. [ chant chant ] they took over an administration building for a few hours yesterday afternoon. the protestors are upset about deep cuts to classes and changes to the tuition payment system. community college has been in a three-year battle to retain its accreditation. >>> maryland's governor has richard the state of emergency in baltimore. the extra police officers and the national guard troops were called off yesterday. the state of emergency was lifted in baltimore. it was after the death of freddie gray. he died while in police custody with ensuing riots. the six officers involved are charged in the death. >>> it's election day in the united kingdom as voters choose a new parliament. prime minister david cameron's conservatives and ed millie band's labor party are running neck and neck if the polls. -- neck and neck in the polls. neither are get a majority, it z many voters a

but i don't know from the patriots' point of view, brooke, with bob kraft how much more they gain by continuing to fight this especially when it's only brady. as mike pointed out, absolutely they're focusing on brady. mr. clean, the boy next door. it's not belichick. it's not the organization. and i think in that way, maybe the patriots should cut their losses by not arguing anymore but just let brady take whatever medicine he's going to be getting. >> koyie, i don't know what that medicine may taste like for tom brady. i imagine not so great. what happens to him, i mean hearing mike say this could truly tarnish his legacy that's huge when i hear that. do you agree with that? >> well brooke i think absolutely it does. one, that it happened. two, that he apparently lied that anything happened. they just said he was generally aware. that may not be true. this is speculation. they said it's more probable than not. what we know is this 273-page report listed tom brady's name 378 times. they did their due diligence. we know they conducted a series of simulations and they found that 13 foo

it says something about the amount of ill-wil that bill bell achick and bob kraft and tom brady have accrued over time. ignorance is no excuse. if he applied that to himself, he would have committed harry cary on the 50-yard line entering the super bowl. if he wants to apply it to teams, he does have to do a real punishment here. >> do you think substantivelythey should take away the title? >> do i? >> oh, hell yeah, unless you want to give the little league title back to jackie robinson west. they either cheated or they didn't. if we think they cheated, let's erase the ted wells lawyer speak. seattle, get ready. >> can you imagine? that would literally, what davis saying, you would have riots, actually? >> you would absolutely have riots. what we are complaining about in baltimore would be 50 times worse in boston. i can't imagine that happening, not the least reason of which is the undue influence and power that patriots owner, robert kraft has, specially in roger goodell's inner circle. >> let's be clear. they did win the game. they destroyed the colts in that game. they scored a

pocket change for bob kraft. so far they've raised nearly $9,000. he doesn't need help. >>> now to the warriors and their fans are feeling more confident. >> including you? >> i've settled down after the warriors after the best seven playoffs after a cup ifl subpar games steph curry regained his mvp form last night and shot 50% from the field and green also with a nice bounceback and 16 points, ten boards and the warriors opened up a 26-point lead and then cruised to a 101-84 victory and the warriors regained homecourt advantage in the process. game five tomorrow night at oracle arena. and you can show off your warriors pride. we want to see your photos and videos. make sure you use the #dubs on 7 when you post to facebook, twitter or stain gram and i just saw ama daetz right there! they're all online at abc 7 news.com or you might see them on one of the news kafrts. >> the tip-off for game five is at 7:00 p.m. at oracle. it will shift to the grindhouse in memphis for game six friday night. you can watch that game on our sister station espn, and at

bob kraft could challenge it directly with the commissioner and then head to court if not satisfied. a route he might consider given the severity of the penalty. >> i think the loss of the first round draft pick is the most significant element of this penalty. i mean, if you look at the patriots' first round draft picks over the last six or seven years, those are -- that's the core of their team. those are key players. >> that was michael rosenfield reporting. for further analysis and updates on the scandal, tune into "nbc nightly news" tonight at 6:30. >>> it was a bus ride more than 40 passengers won't soon forget. they were on a bolt bus on a highway in massachusetts when it suddenly caught fire. witnesses driving behind the bus flagged the driver to pull over. everyone got out safely, then an explosion. the windows on that bus blew out. and in no time that entire bus was engulfed in flames. all 46 passengers are okay. another bus ended up taking them to boston. that fire is under investigation. >>> well certainly a warm day today, and, in fact, this has been the hottest day since

and we were just talking about the patriots yesterday because we learned from bob kraft the owner they will not be appealing the $1 million fine and the loss of the two draft picks. tom brady is appealing his suspension. >> robert made his decision. i admire and respect robert as you all know before we've had plenty of discussions over the last couple of weeks. and this was his initiative, something he wanted to do. and i certainly admire the step he took. we may disagree on things but that's not unusual. that happens. your second question was on -- yeah, i've been focusing on the meetings. i'm not up-to-date on that other than the fact that i'm aware of that. obviously when we get back tomorrow we will give it full due consideration and make sure we give it the appropriate thing. >> ian rappaport. will robert kraft's decision for the patriots to accept their penalties in any way affect tom brady's appeal and your hearing of it? >> no. >> you can address -- would you allow tom brady a second chance to show cooperation by say turning over e-mails and could that help and appeal appeal to

bob kraft said we will cooperate fully with the bob wells investigation and they didn't that will add layers on to the suspension and that will bring the patriots and the club and the ownership into the discipline arena, also. >> mike did the nfl set a trap for the patriots? i ask the question for this reason. when you read the report you find that the gm of the colts sent an e-mail one day before the afc championship game saying hey, you know word's out in the league that the patriots play loose with the inflation rule. and we want you to keep an eye on this and it occurred to me that the nfl did not then go to the patriots and say, we've got our eye trained towards this. instead the nfl sat back and then all hell broke loose. here's my specific question. do you think the nfl should have said something to the patriots in advance? we have an eye trained towards those footballs. >> no i don't think they should. the fact is is that there was an accusation that there was cheating going on. i mean when it's something like this that's deliberate with the equipment, i don't think you set a

this is the team where bob kraft said we will cooperate fully with the ted wells investigation and they didn't that will add layers on to the suspension and that will bring the patriots and the club and the ownership into the discipline arena, also. >> mike, did the nfl set a trap for the patriots? i ask the question for this reason. when you read the report, you find that the gm of the colts sent an e-mail one day before the afc championship game saying, hey, you know, word's out in the league that the patriots play loose with the inflation rule. and we want you to keep an eye on this and it occurred to me that the nfl did not then go to the patriots and say, we've got our eye trained towards this. instead the nfl sat back and then all hell broke loose. here's my specific question. do you think the nfl should have said something to the patriots in advance? we have an eye trained towards those footballs. >> no, i don't think they should. the fact is, is that there was an accusation that there was cheating going on. i mean, when it's something like this that's deliberate with the equipme

first you had this statement from bob kraft, owner, saying despite our conviction that there was no tampering with the footballs, it was our intention patriots organization to accept any discipline levied by the league. today's punishment however far exceeded any reasonable expectation, it was placed on completely circumstantial rather than hard or conclusive evidence. and kraft adding tom brady has our uncon al support. and don yee, the agent, said the discipline is ridiculous. it was break determined, no fairness in the wells investigation whatsoever. so that is the background. ted wells on this conference call in the last hour a couple highlights from what he said. first of all he pointed to jim mcnally. he's the locker room attendant patriots employee who had access to those footballs before the game potentially and who also in those text messages called himself the deflateor. ted wells pointed to that text message and said that is not circumstantial evidence, that is hard evidence. he said no one can ignore the implications of that text and he chided the pay chided the patriots for not m

>> bob kraft, an owner. he's a huge fan of yours and i feel bad. i don't want to step -- >> that changes everything. >> i want full disclosure. >> why didn't you tell me that? all forgiven then. >> you can play. >> they're being railroaded. >> she's cleared you. >> let's move on. apparently breaking news in the spring break story. who knew hannity was on to something because that panama city beach council now approved a ban on beach drinking. but only during the month of march. >> yeah. during the month of march. you have to not serve beer at 2:00. not go on the beach after a certain time and not booking bands. why? seven people get shot. they have this people having alcohol poisoning and gang rape situations going on. over the top. it's done and through. the first week i came on you gave me the story and did this thing called research. >> yeah. >> i should have stopped but i stopped. i don't know why. i talked to a lawyer in the area and a city council member. >> did you talk to the girls? >> no. i would have remembered that. i didn't know a funne

the league is specifically saying that bob kraft committed no wrongdoing the owner of the patriots, no wrongdoing no awareness of wrongdoing making the same specific statement about bill belichick. so it's really -- and even these two guys the locker room attendant and equipment manager, it's saying more likely than not. so it's not making definitive statements. >> okay. but luke if you read the report and you look at the text message exchanges, you look at the direct correspondence between a star mvp quarterback in the nfl and an equipment guy, i mean there are a lot of questions raised. there is a question about whether brady was giving jastremski noteworthy and valuable foblotballs after a cincinnati bengals game as maybe thanks or perhaps some would say that's some sort of bribe for his work on behalf of the deflation of footballs. there's brady's contention that he didn't even know mcnally's name before the afc title game. it seems clear that tom brady knew exactly who mcnally was. he was the guy in the locker room and we have that security footage of mcnally going into the bathro

and patriots owner bob kraft said he'll challenge the million-dollar fine imposed on his team, and the loss of two draft choices. and it's confirmed: president obama will build his presidential library on the south side of chicago. his foundation announced today the complex will rise on park land near the university of chicago. both the president and mrs. obama once worked at the school and while she is a native, he launched his political career there. still to come on the newshour: a second earthquake devastates nepal; democrats turn on president obama's trade deal with asia; teaching a supercomputer to diagnose cancer; new research shows more americans abandoning religion; hardships faced by afghan translators after arriving in the u.s.; and, a photographer's songbook for america. >> ifill: in nepal, a u.s. military helicopter carrying six marines and two nepalese soldiers has been declared missing. the aircraft is believed to have gone down while ferrying supplies to earthquake victims. this news comes in the wake of another devastating quake today, which killed dozens of people in