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steph curry or draymond green in the lineup. dre rocking the new valkyrie's jersey. and steph watching carefully. andrew wiggins had 24. plays in the second quarter. warriors up six at the break. he had 23. and you already know who likes that. the shefs second half jonathan kuminga dialing in from distance. the warriors go up by 15 but the dubs only made nine threes. as expected, houston made a run late, but the warriors had an answer and it was kuminga gary payton. the second leaps for the steal. gets it to kuminga races to the hoop that gave him 30 points. one off his career high. under 20s to go. warriors up three. kuminga to the bucket and one that would do it. and look who's first off the bench. to him it's dre and steph. the warriors snapped that five game losing streak with a 99 to 93 win. no time to rest hosting minnesota on friday night. the golden state valkyries revealed the uniforms for their first ever season earlier today. the cool purple bridge spanning logo prominently featured throughout both. and
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tomorrow they're finally get some players to wear those new jerseys. the expansion draft is tomorrow afternoon on espn, and after the valkyries pick their players, we'll bring you a special version of toyota. after the draft right here on abc seven. i'll be at the draft with interviews and insight. larry beil is going to be here in studio with valkyrie's head coach, natalie newcastle, around 8:30 p.m. following the afc championship game thursday night football. lions fan grating some cheese as they host the packers. green bay down ten at the half, but come back former raiders running back josh jacobs with three touchdowns. packers up 2824 early in the fourth. skip to the final minute, now tied at 31. lions go for it on fourth and short. check this out. already in field goal range. marine kid and cal alum jared goff trips on the handoff but gets it to david montgomery. and he gets the first down. the lions keep the ball. and jake bates just kicks the game winner through the uprights. lions win 3431. they've won a new franchise record 11 straight games. sharks head coach ryan
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warsofsky not happy as the san jose sharks entered tampa bay with a three game win streak. they didn't leave with one. sharks goalie vitek vanecek allowed five goals to the lightning in the first period before he was pulled. san jose gave up eight goals total, tied for the most they've allowed all season, and they lose this 181. sports on reversing course, saying there has been significant widespread misinformation about an update to our anesthesia policy. as a result, we have decided not to proceed with this policy change. it did not elaborate on that misinformation. the company says its policy will always be to cover medically necessary anesthesia. >> coaching legend bill belichick has the football world buzzing once again with word. he's interviewed for the head coaching job at the university of north carolina. belichick won six super bowls with the patriots, but has never been a college head coach. last night,
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he likely checked out the world's most expensive dinosaur, which just went on display at new york's american museum of natural history. the 72 year old belichick attended a gala there with his 24 year old girlfriend. we could have just said girlfriend, but we'll point out 20. >> i think when there's 50 years between them, you point it out, i guess. coming up. live and let live, i guess in this instance. coming up, our friday polka. >> but first, the tapes that are breathing new life into the investigation of how whistleblower karen silkwood really died 50 years ago. you're watc , worn out bath or shower? now you can have a new one installed in just one day with a new limited time offer from jacuzzi bath remodel. we're waiving all installation costs with no interest and no payments for up to one year. hi, i'm art edmonds. jacuzzi has been making water feel great for over 65 years, and now you can get a gorgeous custom bath remodel at
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own words. >> i'm contaminated. i'm dying >>eryl streep, of course, in one of her most dramatic roles, playing nuclear whistleblower karen silkwood. >> silkwood was killed in a car crash in 1974, and now her son, michael meadows, is hoping to finally get some closure. >> investigative journalist mike boettcher and bob sands are breathing new life into the investigation, into her death, unearthing never before heard audiotapes. here's abc's aaron katersky. >> michael was just five years old when his mom died so young that when he closes his eyes to remember her, it's not always her face that he sees. instead, it's meryl streep. streep played karen silkwood in the oscar nominated 1983 film based on the story of a 28 year old oklahoma woman trying to expose secrets
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some wouldn't want revealed. >> they're killing me. they're trying to kill me. they want me to stop what i'm doing. >> it all came to a head on this two lane stretch of highway in oklahoma. >> there's no circumstantial evidence there to indicate that somebody may have another vehicle. >> may have hit the car in the rear. >> karen started at the kerr-mcgee plant back in 1972. it was designed to make the fuel rods that powered a new kind of nuclear reactor, which meant processing uranium and plutoniu. steve wadkar first met karen in the early 70s, when he was a young staffer working for the labor union that represented karen and other workers at the plant. the oil, chemical and atomic workers union, karen volunteered to gather evidence about the safety concerns at the plant and report back to union leaders. wadkar and karen decide it's time to go public. he sets up a meeting with the new york times reporter on november 13th, 1974, but she never made it. on the drive over her small honda
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civic ended up smashed on the east side of the highway, jammed into a concrete culvert. karen was declared dead at the scene. in recent years, bob and mike have uncovered recordings about what may have happened in those final weeks of karen's life. >> this could become very dangerous. and that my life could possibly be in danger if we got deeply involved in this. >> the voice on those tapes, larry dellinger. >> that young lady was murdered as far as i'm concerned, in the early 90s. >> dellinger recorded those tapes while he was a state trooper. in his investigation, he says he was told that some local police officers had been working off duty for the kerr-mcgee company, and the crash that killed karen silkwood didn't happen the way authorities said it did. >> he advised that they had run her off the road and killed her. >> dellinger says an attorney told him that a former oklahoma city cop said he and three other
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off duty officers were tailing karen, the night she died. >> he is one of the four said they had been drinking a little bit and they were following her. they bumped her, knocked her off the road, probably with no intentions necessarily of killing her, but she runs off the road and hits this big concrete abutment and kills her instantly. and he says that he's scared to death that he knows someday somebody's going to come in with a warrant and arrest hi. >> eventually, larry got names, and he says he took them to the fbi and the oklahoma state bureau of investigation. but soon the investigation went cold and nothing ever happened. when abc news reached out, the fbi and oklahoma city police did not comment, and the other state agencies also declined to comment. >> i wish the truth would come out. i wish names would come out. i don't have any doubt that
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it occurred. and she was murdered. >> to date, there has still been no official confirmation of these allegations. wow. >> our thanks to aaron katersky for that. for more, you can watch what happened to karen silkwood, the lost tapes, that is now streaming on hulu. very interesting coming up about some bathing alligators where this is happening. >> our friday mix and polka and a sp more time making memories. introducing bartesian premium cocktails at the touch of a button. >> get our best holiday deal now only at bartesian. com slash drinks. >> this is poof! the fastest growing pet odor eliminator in the world. oh, it's safe for people, pets and the planet. powerful enough to eliminate the stink from any organic odor. yet it's safe enough to use on pet toys. their beds, even on them.
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kissing? yeah. >> he just kissed a wild animal. >> i mean, i'm sure they're all behaved until they're not. >> polka time. >> our first world news polka from melbourne, australia, presenting lucy riddett.
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>> and before we go, we'd like to bid a fond farewell to a member of our world news now family. >> we are so sad to see her go, but we are officially launching you into the real world. this is vivian martel, our wonderful intern. she has been so good the last, what, six months? how long have you been here? six months. 11 months? 11 months. oh, gosh.
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>> flown by our gen z correspondent, right? she's been on the show a bunch of times. we took her to the subway to look at rats. her first week in new york. >> and tell everybody where you went to college. >> i went to the university of miami. >> yay! >> i'm the only non three out of four of us graduate here. >> we got our
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