you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm ted rowlands in tonight for don lemmon. it looks like the abbreviated season will happen after all. the players and owners have agreed to end the 149-day lockout. it will be 66 games instead of the usual 192, and it will start

christmas day. a lot has to happen in the next month for this to go off as hoped. training camp would start december 9, free agency begins and trades will start happening fast and furious. that will be exciting for fans to watch. then, as we mentioned, december 25, the regular season would begin with a television triple header. the miami heat versus the dallas mavericks, the boston celtics at the new york knicks and the chicago bulls at los angeles lakers. we explain how this deal finally came together. >> the second longest work st stoppage in nba history may finally be over. they reached a tentative deal with regard to the lockout. >> we reached a tentative understanding which is subject to a variety of approvals, but

we're optimistic that that will all come to pass and that the nba season will begin on december 25, christmas day. >> details of the agreement have not been released, but the league is saying teams likely will play 66 games instead of the usual 82. >> the most important key here is thour fans and the support fm the people and patience through a large part of this process. you know, that's where a lot of this credit goes to. you know, the efforts that have been made have been largely within my mind. >> reporter: but more work lies ahead. officials must formally construct the new bargaining agreement and players must recertify their union. >> we're happy we were able to resolve and reach a tentative litigation settlement with regard to many issues that are

pending before the various courts. >> reporter: team owners had locked out players in early july and games had been canceled through december 15. >> let's bring in john worth and he's a senior investigative reporter for sports illustrated. owners and players being pretty quiet about the terms of this deal. what are you hearing about the deal that hopefully will be ratified? >> well, i think everybody is being a little bit coy until this gets ratified on both sides. it has a little flexibility built in. it will be about 49 to 51% to the players which obviously p preempts the first 57. this was pretty much the deal that was on the table nine months ago, so it's pretty confusing why we had to go through this lockout, why we had to miss a month and a half, two

months of games to get terms that aren't particularly creative or revolutionary. >> so you're saying basically this is a game of chicken. if this is the deal on the table that the owners have put on the table, did the players lose here? did they give in? >> well, i mean, part of this is that both sides are going to try to treat this as a victory. you know, realistically it looks like the players gave a little bit. obviously a big comedown from the previous agreement that they knew was coming. the players will say they've done this decertification move and that put them on the defensive, so it pressured the owners, and the owners can say, look, we got some of these points down on this. but i think you're absolutely right. what it was was the nfl had this game of chicken. they were smart enough to cut it

off before. >> a couple groups really suffered through this, the folks who made a livelihood out of it, and the fans. do you think 80% of the season is enough to win the fans back. >> yeah, i see them getting so much. we missed many more games 12 years ago during the lockout of '99-2000. i don't think anybody was that dissatisfied that there was only about basketball in november or december. if you started the on christmas day, that's probably plenty. >> that's when a lot of people

watch their first complete home game, is on christmas day. basketball's all fan in chief, president barack obama. he was asked about the tentative deal today after he finished playing basketball at fort mcnair. this is what he said. >> what do you think about the nba strike? >> good deal. >> that pretty much sums it up. good deal, says the president. he can't get enough basketball, apparently, this accident. he was watching townsend fall to oregon state coached by his brother-in-law. investigators searched their home of syracuse university, as ant basketball coach, who has been accused of sexually molesting ball boys. police faised measures. it's not clear what exactly they were looking for, but the nbc

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black friday mayhem, shoppers going wild and getting violent, trying to get their hands on holiday bargains. it happened in at least seven states, including california, where a woman allegedly pepper sprayed fellow shoppers to get ahead in line. at several other stores, fights broke out. what is the psychology behind this type of behavior and what triggers this kind of frenzy? joining us live from los angeles, human behavior expert dr. wendy walsh who is co-host of "the doctors" and in atlanta, expert al dewuan tarp. let's start with you.

>> we have limited supplies and we create a demand, people get in competition with one another for what they want and need, and they think other people there are the competition. >> wendy, what do you think? >> i think i would add to what dr. tartt said and say there is actually some more political reasons. in a more socialist country, people are more conditioned to line up politely in queues and wait their turn, but americans are more conditioned to their rights and that is to be first in line. more important, we're talking about a bad economy where people are hurting, but that doesn't mean we're not still consumers and we want to consume, consume, consume. because of this, people can get a little frantic. >> do you think people have a plan that they think they're going to get x, y and z, and then they get there and realize they're not the only ones there and they start to panic? >> absolutely. we don't like to lose money, we don't like to lose resources, we don't like to lose power, and when we see people in our way,

we try to eliminate them. in an economy stricken session, we need to make that dollar stretch. if you're getting in the way of my son, i need to eliminate you. >> people coming out at 4:00 in the morning to hit those stores actually creates a frenzy in the sport of shopping. do retailers hold some responsibility in these incidents in that they're bringing more into the game than they have actual sales items to sell? >> absolutely. they have a huge responsibility in this because they're upping the ante. they're taking a limited quantity of items and selling them only in limited amounts of time and allowing masses of people to go for it. but we have to remember, though, that overall, human beings are becoming less violent than ever. in the middle ages, if somebody upset you, you clubbed them right there. so these few incidents that we have video of really don't reflect all the orderly people who did have a happy shopping

experience. millions of people on black friday. you have to remember we are becoming more people. >> the video, they told people get in line in an orderly fashion, and they brought people in every two minutes, and that way you see orderly progression of people going in, and they will stop people. so you knew before going in the store you weren't going to get that big-screen tv because you are weren't in there. is this what more stores should do? >> if they create the products, they're going to see more people. they would probably do it again, to be honest. >> both of you guys, don't go anywhere. when we come back, we'll talk more and we'll talk about another chaotic scene. this one was in a nail salon. we'll tell you what happened and what led to this no holds barred thrall by this customer. stay with us.

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a peaceful day of pampering rudely interrupted at a nail salon in snelville, georgia. take a look at this. a brawl broke out among customers this week. it all started when a mother and

daughter reportedly starts yelling about the salon's pricing. when a customer yelled back, the fighting began. a third woman reportedly got into the mix and threw a ceramic bowl which injured a bystander. >> and from there, it was off the chain. glass was flying, hair was flying. >> we're only human. >> joining us again, psychologist tartt, and from los angeles, wendy walsh, who is the co-host of "the doctors." wendy, we'll start with you. what do you make of this whole scene? >> did i mention earlier that as a species we're becoming more peaceful and less violent? well, in order for that to take place, you have to actually socialize out violent behavior. every two-year-old starts by hitting and every mother says, no, no, we don't hit. but in plenty of families, this

anger management, if you will, is not socialized in people. so when they're feeling fight or flight, when they're having a fear response, violence will come out and aggression will come out of them before an ability to negotiate with words, apparently. >> what triggers the others to get involved? you're watching a fight and all of a sudden i'm involved because i'm so angry as well. >> it depends on the aggressive script. if someone disrespects me, i'm going to jump into it, say this or say that. it depends on your mood, how you're dressed, whether you feel one person is the victim. but i thought that pedicures would be messed up by fighting. >> a hockey game is one thing, but -- >> what about the hair? >> wendy, i guess this argument was about pricing. is financial stress at play here, likely? >> i don't think the contt of the argument is really what we should talk about here, because

obviously human beings have conflict all day long. they certainly do with their spouses, their ex-spouses, their teen a te teenageres. conflict exists all day long. it's a point of learning these anger management techniques and using negotiation and verbal language instead of hits. >> certainly the holidays are more stressful, there's relatives at your house that normally aren't there. how do you keep from losing your cool in a situation like we saw there? >> you have to realize tough times pass. you have to focus on the silver lining from the dark clouds. i'm out of work but i'm spending more time with my kids. if you don't do that, the slightest little thing will set you off. >> wendy, advice this holiday season? how do you maintain a stress-free environment. >> try as best you can to bring

a higher self to the holiday table. when we all meet up with a family of origin, it seems we all become ten years old again. all the sibling rivalries happen, we're like an angry teenager with our parents again, but we have to remember who we are as an adult and bring that higher self into our family, and also this is a great opportunity for forgiveness. this is a time where wick let go of the victim hierarchy type we may carry and say it's time to forgive some of the trauma that may have happened in our earlier life, as hard as that is. >> and we are evolving. thank you, wendy walsh from los angeles, and alduan tartt in atlanta. checking some of our headlines, a body buried in a shallow grave in ohio may be linked to the so-called craigslist killer there. the fbi is working under the assumption the body is of a man who has been missing for more than a week. he answered a fake craigslist jobs ad. one man who responded to the

same ad was found dead. another escaped after being shot. two people are in cushion todto. one of them has been charged with attempted murder. the family of a former a&m drum major died last week. the family may be preparing to sue the school. they think he was a victim of hazing. the school fired the band leader this week and he is suing to keep his job. it appears the players and owners have reached a tentative agreement to end the 149-day lockout. there are still things to be worked out, but if this deal does hold, the season will start on christmas day with a television triple header featuring the league's hottest team and market. check out this snowy mess that slammed parts of newfoundland, canada. folks there are still digging

out more than a foot of snow. the record-breaking snowfall shut down roads and closed schools and businesses. meteorologists there say they haven't seen this much snow in almost 40 years. well, meteorologists here, including karen maginnis in the weather center say we've got travel problems coming probably tonight, and i guess tomorrow will be the tough one. >> tomorrow is the really big travel day. we're seeing about 42 and a half million people, most of those using the highways. no problems there. but as far as the airports go, it looks like at least over the next 24 hours, we will see that problematic area across the deep south. chicago right now, some delays being reported there. we've got a frontal system right across this region, and on the back side of this, this is where we've got that cold air that's spilling in out of the north. as a result, very gusty winds, but cold air is going to be in place, enough moisture that could produce a little bit in the way of some snowfall over

the next couple of hours. i think for the most part, though, the accumulations are going to be light. however, it does look like memphis, nashville, extending on into cincinnati and columbus, ohio, you could get some snowfall there. we're looking at major delays at least in the short term, possible right around chicago. maybe some minor delays off and on in dallas. we had that rainfall move through. now it's going to be windy. i don't mean just a little windy, i mean wind gusts up to possibly 50, 55 miles an hour. memphis, minneapolis and miami, windy conditions prevail there as well. coming up for sunday, it is across the deep south if you're going in and out of atlanta, hartsville, jackson international airport. it could be slow going. >> could be spending an extra day or two at grandmother's house this weekend. coming up, we'll show you

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be abundant. >> the number is large enough, so there must be many billions of such planets in our galaxy. that's been a very happy surprise. >> how many are orbiting at just the right distance from the sun to support life? more than 50 candidates found so far where life might be possible. what kepler can't do is detect life, so for now, that will remain just a guess. we've talked a lot about the size of this rover. now, the very first ones like sojourner was about this big. take a look at this. this is a mock-up of a wheel off curiosi curiosity. the wheel is as big as the sojourner rover was. there are six of these on curiosity. so this really is the cadillac of rovers and scientists believe it's going to help them answer those age-old questions, was life possible on mars then and

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florida a&m long-time band director is fighting to keep his job after the death of a drum major in the school's marching band was linked to hazing. police say 26-year-old robert champion died after a performance last saturday. he reportedly vomited and complained of not being able to breathe. later he was pronounced dead at an orlando hospital. holly hughes is here, criminal defense attorney. holly, this is an interesting case. they've put the band director on administrative leave for a time. it appears they're going to go ahead and fire him later on december 22nd. he's officially basically been dismissed. they're blaming the band director for allegations of this conduct. investigations into champion's death continues, though we don't have a lot of details here. what we do know, is this a case

where the school and supposedly this band director may be facing criminal charges? >> it's possible, but we need the autopsy report, first of all, to find out exactly what this young man died from, and secondly, we need to know if this band director condoned either by silence or kind of a hands off approach, or if he did go to the administration and ask for help in stopping this. if he has taken all those steps, done everything reasonable, he himself won't face criminal charges, but, of course, if it's a hazing incident, the students who were directly involved will be facing them. >> in fact, his attorney has said publicly many times since this broke last week that this band director, in the attorney's words, had exemplary leadership, and if he was not involved, he

should not lose his job, and what the director created would be anti-hazing. >> exactly, and we've seen some of the students' parents come out saying, i went to him, meaning the director, mr. white, and complained, and he did address the issue. he did try to stop the hazing of my child. he sat other students down and said, don't do this. so there seems to be some evidence, some proof, even if it's a low threshold that, this band director did in fact try to stop the hazing and some of the students just went rogue off on their own. >> we don't know exact details of what possibly was alleged, but you have a sneaking suspicion likely that somebody is talking here. >> somebody is absolutely talking. they may play an instrument but they're about to start singing, okay? think about it. they're not going to come out and say this is due to hazing if somebody has not put the idea into their head. if somebody hasn't given them at least some credible evidence. you have to figure there's probably more than one student

involved, so more than one student is getting a deal. graduate college, go to prison, graduate college, go to prison. somebody is going to start telling what happened to get a deal. >> right. second case we want to talk about is the lawsuit filed against the band sugarland, remember that video of the stage collapsing in the wind. should the band have a final say on whether that concert should go on, they've been named in a lawsuit. but this is a band, they're not experts in scaffolding and integrity of a stage. should they be held responsible in any part, in your opinion, here? >> the other thing we have that plays into this is what we call acts of god. a lot of times insurance companies won't pay out because of an act of god. and when you're talking about the weather being involved in this stage collapse, i don't know that ultimately sugarland will be held responsible, because again, they're not technical engineers, they didn't put the stage together themselves. was it reasonably foreseeable is the question that a jury is

going to want to know, that given the weather and the building of the stage together that this thing would collapse and, in fact, kill and injure so many people, up to 40 injured folks. so it will come down to does sugarland really want to drag this into lawsuit or do they want to settle quietly and not have this bad publicity. >> thank you, two very interesting cases. cnn's hero of the year. nate berkus introduces us to one of the top ten finalists, chef bruno sevano. >> hi, i'm nate berkus, i'm committed to emergency preparedness, disaster response and lending a helping hand to those in need. now i am thrilled to help introduce one of this year's top ten cnn heroes.

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cause of the crash. >> the federal government is veging the chevy volt over fears that electric car's batteries may pose a fire rit being. the national highway traffic safety administration says the volt's battery could catch fire in a crash. so far there are no accidents and no recalls. gm insists the car is safe. >> this alabama skydiver took to this jump and then he did it another jump and he's going to continue to jump 100 times in one day. in fact, he did one better, safely jumping 101 times. he did it to remember mike spawn, first american killed in combat in afghanistan in november of 2001. money raised in the event will go toward a trust fund for spawn's children. pro-democracy syrians are a hailing the possibility of sanctions against their government by the arab league. finance ministers agreed today that the assets of the government and its officials should be frozen.

they also want to punish the regime for travel with travel restrictions. arab league foreign ministers will decide tomorrow whether to adopt these sanctions. >> pakistan has cut off two supply lines into afghanistan after a deadly strike by nato forces on pakistan's own troops. trucks carrying vital supplies are now sitting idle at the border. pakistan says it will reassess its relationship with the united states and nato. 24 pakistani soldiers were killed in the attack. nato hasn't accepted blame but is promising a full investigation. >> gary will be free tuesday in aruba despite prosecutors objections. a judge jekt rejected their req to hold the citizen. he has been in custody since august. he denies any involvement in gardiner's disappearance. i'm ted rollins at the cnn center in atlanta. "the