154game season and the intense concentration involved in hitting a rocketing round ball with a round bat. And when in the field, tensing in anticipation on at least 120 pitches every game. Robinson had to excel at the most difficult game under the most difficult of conditions. With the attention of black america focused on his every at bat, he succeeded in in spite of excrew chaiting excruciating tension. He became the perfect model for black americans and for white americans too. His style of play was everything that blacks were then rarely allowed to be; confident, aggressive, dashing, aristocratic. In a 1947 game with the archrival giants with the score tied and one out, robinson doubled. When he tagged and went to third on a flyout, a giant official complained thats bush league stuff. With two occupants hes just outs hes just as valuable on second as he is on third. Whats he going to do now, steal home, i suppose . On the next pitch, he stole home. [laughter] some called him uppity
Roadways. The new regulation that went into place and the carmaker taking advantage of it now. And a new Earthquake Safety Program in San Francisco. The unusual plan to put pressure on Property Owners. Mornings on 2 begins right now. 7 00. You are looking at an apartment parking lot in campbell, where multiple cars went up in flames early this morning, prompting a frightening wakeup call for 40 people. Ktvus janine de la vega arrived on the scene shortly after the fire broke out. Coming up in two minutes, she will el she will tell us what was leaking that caused so much concern that 16 apartments had to be evacuated. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic and steve, i know you are saying we may see some wet stuff but you are not jumping up and town. We have increasing clouds here. It will be mostly sunny in the morning unless you are north and then turning mostly cloudy. The low clouds are here. The hig
The nominee to be the next f. B. I. Director. Then the privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board i wanted a representative look at american life, so i eeded politics, business, entertainment, food, finance, art. I also was interested in this recurring pattern which you see and oprah and with jayz and sam walton. Begin very eally humble places and are not unlike characters, but who reinvent themselves as something new and find a new idea that is new riveting to americans. Hrough that they build an empire. And they cant stop building it. Almost like imperative like with a corporation you have to keep growing. As a person or brand you have to going but then the language becomes a parody and they no to be producing something good. They are just continuing to produce. Gingrich writes book after book. Oprah is on the cover of every issue of her magazine. So, they become the celebrities hat we are familiar with who are dominating our imaginations and in a way have come to the institutions t
But i do not blame your leader. I do not blame president obama. What did you make of it . Reporter well let me start with this poppy. Breaking right now cnn learning that president obama and president castro are sitting in the same room meeting, speaking. Im getting some quotes from inside that room. I want to read a few for you because these are from president obama. Him saying this is obviously a historic meeting. The history between the United States and cuba is complicated, he says after 50 years of policy that has not worked, it was time for us to try something new. And that is the atmosphere poppy. We actually have a few photos. Im going to try to show them to you. This is happening now as we speak. These two leaders very much sitting next to each other. Its described to us as a meeting like you would see at the oval office for example. It gives you an idea of what these two leaders are doing at this point in time. Theres a small pool of reporters thats in there. And so we will b