welcome back in to sports sunday. the 49ers could make the argument she should be 2-0, but a tough loss to the dallas cowboys last week. could they bounce back and do it on the road? 49ers and the bengals in cincinnati. 49ers managing just 92 yards of orchs in the first half. alex smith and the offense much better in the second half. third quarter, 3-0 bengals. vernon davis is the wide receiver. you go and find him. alex smith gets him on a 39 yard pitching catch down to the line, later the on the drive smith rolls out and finds michael crab stree. that a touchdown for 15? michael, don't celebrate so quickly. crabtree is calmled for the illegal touch.

on the sport it doesn't look out of bounds. the 49ers settle for the field goal. fourth quarter tied at 3 identify 3. the niners with the football on a first and 10. frank gore up the middle. he coughs it up. the ball is loose. the bengals recover with great field position, but they just get a field goal. they go 6-3, and frank gore to the sidelines. the 49ers' next possession, good drive of the orchs. smith to vernon davis on the throw-back screen. a gain of 20 on the a play. eight catch force vernon and 114 yards on the day. this is not frank gore. rookie kendall hunter is in the 7-yard touchdown run. 49ers take the lead, now 13-6, 49ers. andy dalton tries to rally the troops. the pass is picked of on by reggie smith. dalton throws two picks in the bengals final two possessions. 49ers win 13-8. the 49ers start the year 2-1.

vernon davis wanted more balls thrown his way, and he got his wish. kendall hunter with the td while gore went for 42 yards. the 49ers defense did the job. mindy was in cincinnati and tells you house adjustments were a key to a win. >> after cincinnati took a 3-0 lead on its game-opening drive, the bengals and 49ers exchanged 11 consecutive punts. the 49ers offense never crossed the the 50 yard line in the first half, but in the second half san francisco was able to do something difficult in their first two games makes the adj t adjustmen adjustments. >> i got into a rhythm. i moved the ball and made a couple big plays, and got some chunk plays. >> you're going to have downs and ups, and man, you have to keep going and keep pushing. you'll have dropped balls and all of that. you know how you overcome as a team. we were just making some mistakes we have to fix. we came in the locker room and

came together, and we knew what we all had to do. we went out there and executed it. >> alex drops the throw, and back stays in. >> down the sideline for vernon, who's got it. >> 84 of his 114 receiving yards came in the second half with this 20-yard completion setting up kendall hunter's go-ahead touchdown. >> we felt on that motion we'd get the safeties rotating down and get the coverage we wanted. to that's why we called it. >> just making plays, stepping up, doing exactly what i was told, whether it was blocking, pass protecting or just making plays downfield. you know, it was an honor to be out here to help this team win. >> the bengals quarterback andy dalton drew the attention in that game as he was 5-6 for 61 yards, but the rookie threw his first two career interception the in the fourth quarter. in the fourth quarter it was veteran quarterback alex smith who was 5-6 for 57 yards picking up a quarterback rating of 106.2 and the win.

in cincinnati, mindy bock for nbc bay area. time for the blank of the west play of the day. pga tour, 1 $11.4 million on th line. from the water, bill haas, unbelievable shot on the second layoff hole. he pars and wins on the next hole to take home the fedex cup and $11.4 million, splash. >> we look at ourselves as being best of breed academically as well as athletically. we have some of the most elite institutions academically in this country. >> how did academies play a role in expansion for the pac-12? commissioner larry scott fills us in next as xfinity sports

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we are now joined by pac-12 admissioner larry scott. let's start with that. ilts still the pac-12, right? why not expand now? >> we just expanded a year ago. the ink is still drying on the new logos of our new tv deals don't kick in until next football season, and that's when we'll launch our own tv network. we're thrilled where we got to with new tv agreements that put us at the top of the heap. we weren't looking to expand. thee discussions came to us. >> these discussions came to you, a few schools were bantied about. the longhorns have their own network. how much did the texas individual network play spew any discussions you had with texas? >> that wound out being central to our discussions. when the big 12 started to destabilize with texas a&m leaving we got contacted by oklahoma and texas schools and talked about the idea they could come to us.

it would be a blockbuster. if the texas schools and oklahoma schools came to this conference, it would be an amazing thing and provide economic and other opportunity for our existing schools, but we've got a structure of tv networks where all schools are treated equally. we share all revenue he'll squally, and those are preconditions for any discussion of what became clear to me. the discussion was it wasn't possible to fold in the longhorn network for all the heavy new fob put in. just wasn't going to work. >> in your statement you say the pac-12 has that culture of equality. is that definition strictly division, or are there other things that encompass na? >> it's an overarching principle that's are not important in this conference. not all conferences are structured that way. we only got to that pretty recently when i started as commissioner a little over two years ago. we were not sharing tv revenue

equally. the l.a. schools, usc and ucla were getting more revenue on the other skoolding being in the second largest media group in this country. i wanted to change that and get all schools to pool all their media rights and agree to share everything equally. we were successful in achieving that. i think that's the underpinning of a successful conference. >> is it safe tuesday texas won't budge? that's an essential item to texas? >> we fully explored that. that's a nonstarter for now. >> you mentioned oklahoma, oklahoma and oklahoma state. the pac-12 has a very high academic standard. is there concern among the pac-12 conference pred presidents that the oklahoma schools doentd meet the standard? >> our conference is unique in that we look at ourselves as being best of breed academically as well as athletically. we have some of the most elite institutions academically in this country, and that brand is

really important. so it factors into all the discussions. i wouldn't say there was any one issue that factors into this decision, but we really didn't even get to it because of the issues we talked about before, vis a vis the long horng network. >> why is this good for college sports? >> people can debate whether further consolidation is good or not. what i see is uf got three conferences that are very stable in very strong positions. they're magnets for some of these other schools that are in situations that are unstable. so i think that's where we're at at the moment. i think you'll see other movement in other parts of the country with conferences realigning but i don't think you'll see anything coming from the pac-12. >> in the horizon you don't have

a long-term view and short-term view that says super conference is essential to our survival. >> absolutely not. we signed 12-year agreements with espn to tox that take us to being the richest conference in terms of tv agreements. we have the largest contracts in college sports and we're being to launch a series of seven fv networks. for the next 12 years we're the leader of the class if i can say and we're happy for the world to stay as it is. >> keep it right here. our sunday sit-down with larry scott continues. find out why the olympics will play a big part in the future of

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two players stand out on sunday. run-d.m.c. goes for two scores a 1-71. vernon davis had 114 yards in a 49er win. if we use the word "expansion" a lot of people think it's more teams. i want to talk about expansion in the pac-12 and spreading your te tentacles. how long before they're in asia, japan and china? >> that's something we'd like to make happen. we have a vision for the conference as being the gateway to the pacific rim. our conference also touches canada and mexico in the south. some of the brands of our schools are incredibly wrong. this is where athletics help the missions of the university. our chancellors are keen to promote our schools overseas from a development standpoint, the joint research and faculty exchange and the athletic brands drive a lot of awareness. now that this expansion stuff is

behind us, as we're working to launch or networks and all that, i hope to turn my attempt to swernlts development. >> time line on that? >> in the next five years you see a lot more activities, a lot more competitions taking place overseas. once we get the tv networks up and running, we'll have media content we can expose overseas. i'd say since that time frame there's not immediate short-term. >> you've been open in the fact you think olympic sports are important to the pac-12. if the pac-12 were a nation at the olympics, you would be in the top five in total medal count. >> it is astounding. >> what is your goal for growth in the olympic sports? >> it's a gem of this conference that's been undervalues, so we have won our conference wins more ncaa titles than any other by far. yet some of our schools like ucla, usc, cal, stanford are

clearly in a class of their own in terms of their olympic sports prowess. as someone that's not a football guy, i come from tennis. that was my sport as a student eighth le athlete and spent most of my career of promoting it as low pressure sport. i want to give them unprecedented exposure and really showcasing. the way we do that is through our tv networks. we'll have 500 to low pressure sports events on the air for the first time annually. >> that will help get these student looets recognition they deserve. it will allow for coaches to recruit more nationally than in the west coast. the kids want to be seen. if we have a tv network exposing the olympic sports, you have a serious advantage. >> the pac-12 has its own network that will begin. the crux is it's olympic scores, correct? >> espn and fox have 34 football

games and about 35 football games for their tv network. that will leave over 100 basketball games on our network. but the bulk of the programming, 500 or 600 event spread across the networks will be olympic sports and even nonsports where we have an amazing opportunity to proceed approximate moat the school brands as well. >> a recent sports survey of the sports experts they were polled and said which commissioners were the best many sports? over all in the professional thesdz david stern was their answer. if they open it up, larry scott is killing it right now. that came from a professor at the university of pennsylvania? >> hard var. >> that was a big complement. the question for you is, what's your next challenge. >> we have plenty of challenges here. one of the exciting things i lived about leaving pro tennis and coming to the pac-10, i saw this huge opportunity working with the schools to gree what

they're doing. i couldn't be more r motivated about what we're doing, and i see a lot of chael electrics again. >> thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. good luck in your future. >> my pleasure. so some big decisions comes from the pac-12 commissioner in the very near future. that will do it for a very successful day in bay area football. both the raiders and 49ers clock in at 2-1 to start the season. we'll be back next weekh

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good now. tinchts. roux now on "nbc bay area news," he has arrived. president obama is in the bay area and he's making the rountds tonight raising millions despite low approval ratings. also, police are investigating the death of a patient at the medical center in oakland who is being treated bay replacement nurse during the strike. accusations are flying. we'll have a live report. and we'll show you the pg&e pipeline scare that led to

evacuations in the east bay. the news starts right now. good evening. i'm diane dwier and thanks for joining four this special edition of "nbc bay area news." tonight police are investigating the death of a patient at a hospital in the east bay that happened during the nursing strike, and the hospital is now acknowledging that a medical error is to blame and that a replacement nurse was caring for the patient at the time. monty francis is in oakland tonight where a candlelight vigil ended a short time ago. >> the victim was a 66-year-old woman from oakland who was a cancer patient here, and she died after receiving what police say was a nonprescribed dosage of medication. the tragic event happened during a labor dispute involving nurses here. tonight some of the nurses held a candlelight vigil in honor of the parent that died and to ask the hospital to end the walk

outon friday. the hospital has called in preplacement nurses, most of whom are from out of state. the replacement nurse admitted to her mistake, but they competent the economiance of all of the nurses. >> in mistake would not have occurred by anyone that, in my opinion, possesses a registered nurse license. >> the hospital released a statement don't that, quotes, this is a tragic event sxour heart goes out feechlt patient. while medical errors do exist in health care, we are constantly investing in ways to improve customer care. the name of the 66-year-old woman has not been released and an autopsy is scheduled for you tomorrow. >> all right. thank you, monty. president barack obama arrived in the bear area this evening for a series of fund raisers and a town hall meeting.

air force one landed at moffitt field at 5:30 theeng. 7 0e vips was there to greet him. tonight the president attended twoed fund raisers, one at the woodside home . this is his second fund-raising trip to the bear area in six nos fomplt a perspective on thshgs during the campaign in '08 the bay area donated more than $35 million to his campaign. tomorrow he's hosting tyne hall meeting at that time the computer history museum in mountainview. several employees will be there and you can get in on the discussion through the website. >> i think it's a great place to do it, because this is where, you know, the computer and computing and the internet is why everything lives together and technology is. it makes a lot of serchs to be

in the skrounding and toe try and promote what it is we're going forward in the 21th sent. >> it's a great play to show technology and how the important of the bay area to the rest of the world. >> president obama was in seattle earlier today forp more fund-raising, and after he's done tomorrow in the bay area, he's scheduled to move on to southern california to administrator for the campaign war chest. the suspected haul is at least $4 million for this west coast, three-day visit. a small earthquake hit the bay area just after 8:00 tonight. the strep was in east oakland very near theed border. people as far south as fremont he felt the shake. in pittsburgh this afternoon there was a miscommunication with pg&e and fire officials that led to a man to her evacuation. we're told p g & e crews were

venting a pipeline south of highway 4. they say they were preparing it to be replaced tomorrow. pg&e officials told the resident about the venting on friday and said it will last until the early evening. fire officials said they were told the woeshg would be done by 1:00 p.m. when they received a call about a gas he snell in the area at 2, they didn't take any chances sxa shelt for the other nochlt one was hurt tinchts right now we check in with ronmy yetta and i woke up this morning to the pitter-patter of rain. i had to grab all the cushions and stuff. >> it took our dogs by surprise, too. they did not appreciate the raindrops flying around today. remember friday we had temperatures near 100 degrees. today, only 70 degrees, 70 in oakland, 68 in san francisco, and it probably felt muggy

outside. you had that rain falling. in these temperatures in the 50s and low 70s for san jose, and we saw the highs in the low 70s this afternoon. what's left the moisture may be still enough out there with low clouds do get mist for tomorrow morning. the main event now has moved on by. you can see it's actually clearing the sierra. this system is a little early to see a weather system dropping out of the gulf of alaska bringing chances of rain for late september, but as we watch the system go on buy, now we see high pressure building in and it sends it off to the north. we will see a big-time warm-up over the next couple dates. the future cast showing the lou cloeds backing away from the coast, so even the coast will warm up. we should see those numbers in the 70s along the shoreline. tomorrow is 70s and 80 for highs, but i want to jump ahead to tuesday. you can see 90s coming back and some of the east bay valleys. tms are coming back up.

tomorrow morning, misty skies and possible for the morning commute. you'll see the temperatures in the mid to upper 50s, and around lunchtime tomorrow's temperatures around noon are warmer than today's highs. monday already transitioning to a warm day, and you see the numbers as we look at san francisco. 70 for tomorrow and 68 today. we're climbing into the low 70s around the peninsula. for the inland values these temperatures climb swu the '80s tomorrow. you can see it's been such a cool weekend, but notice what happens there. tuesday, wednesday and thursday, mid to upper 90s inland again. the coast is gorgeous. places like san francisco may get close to 80 towards when wednesday, but next weekend maybe more showers creeping back in. >> i know you warned me and it took my by sfris sxi forgot to turn off the stringles.

>> it's too early. >> i'm totally with you. thank you very much for watching this sfeshl edition of "nbc bay area news." we have 30 rock coming up next, and we'll have more local news at 11:00 in an hour as well including what the two uc berkeley graduated had to say after spending two years in an iranian prison. we'll see you at 11:00.

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