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. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is the 10:00 on ktvu channel 2 news. fire rips through a house in pittsburg and there are injuries. being i'm ken pritchett in for ken waynes. >> hello, i'm haener holmes. three people were hospitalized and many in the neighborhood were forced to evacuate. kutv's deborah villalon is live at the scene where deborah, that house was completely destroyed. we're on valley drive, where
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they are boarding the place up. this-bedroom house a total lois tonight. a call came in as a fire alarm, those are often false alarm, but crewses could see smoke from a mile way and called for backup. the family that lived her got out. they called 911 when the fire broke out. the house next door suffered some damage, broken windows, melted blinds, but firefighters kept the main fire from spreading, very tough with the winds that were whipping it along. at its peak contra costa fire with nine engines here. >> the fire was fully involved and winds blowing flames into the explosion and the home next door and not only did we have to worry about the home on fire, but vehicles, the home next door and also the home behind it. the home had a pool, which was a hazard to the firefighters. so there were a lot of
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challenges with the fire. >> reporter: the couple and their child, who are the residents here were taken to the hospital to be checked for smoke inhalation, injuries not life-threatening. their house, a total loss. estimated at $400,000 for the structure and the contents. the cause undetermined, but investigators see nothing suspicious and they are leaning towards accidental. the take away for all of us here, the family did a lot of things right. they did have working smoke detectors and an alarm system, but officials say they wasted precious minutes trying to put the fire out by themselves with a bucket and a hose. the advice is always call 911 without delay. reporting live in pittsburg, debora villalon, ktvu, channel 2 news. at this hour a s.w.a.t. team is out in full force in a fairfield neighborhood. police say they have surrounded a home believed to be a hideout for a man suspected of making and detonating pipe-bombs. police are searching for 29-
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year-old daniel garcia. garcia is suspected of setting off a pipe bomb under a car in an apartment complex last month. neighbors say police showed up at a home on the 1600 block of quincy lane around 1:45 this afternoon looking for garcia. right now they are using a helicopter in the air to search for him. a police chase near down san jose led to a fatal crash and what could have been a disaster with a gasoline tanker truck. it happened on east santa clara just west of 101 earlier this morning. that is where kutv's eric rasmussen is live with two investigators happening tonight. >> reporter: ken, san josi police are investigating the crash that ended when when a pickup truck slammed into this building back here. you can see friends and family of the man who died have set up a small memorial and the santa clara county sheriff's offices is investigating why he ran from deputies. of the in an instant this pickup truck turned into a
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missile, threatening the people inside and anyone in its path, including a gasoline tanking truck turning onto east santa clara street in san josi. >> the truck actually went underneath the tanker truck, shored off the top half of the suspect vehicle. >> reporter: the pickup finally crashed into this building, kidding the driver and badly injuring his 22-year-old passenger. people who live and work nearby wonder if it could have been even worse. >>amazingly though, the gas tanker was empty, because it wasn't, it would have been a totally different scene. >> reporter: the santa clara sheriff's office confirmed deputies wering the vehicle and now santa clara is investigating whether the deputies should have chased the pickup truck that took o. we have the county's pursuit policy as part of the investigation. friends and family of the man who died came to see the screen
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of the crash for themselves, but did not want to talk about why he might have decided to run. the owner of this business will be cleaning up for weeks, was also at a loss for words. >> it's tough. it's tough. >> reporter: investigators say they don't know exactly how fast that pickup truck was going. however, it was certainly going fairly fast to create such a huge hole in that building there. there is still no word tonight about the condition of the passenger who survived the crash. we're live in san josi, eric rasmussen, ktvu channel 2 news. there are few delays reported at sfo after a massive computer failure at united airlines left thousands of passengers strand nationwide. the airline worked all day today, to rebook flyers. sfo request rebound because of more jets standing nearby. still the ordeal cost a lot of confusion and frustration for
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passengers. >> even today the ticket people, their computers were so slow they couldn't get the flights that they were trying to get to. >> after four hours we go to the count, and they say your plane just left with your luggage and we're still here without telling us a word. >> when you come here and see the staff counters are inadequately manned, it's pretty disappointing. >> united today described that glitch yesterday evening as "a network connectivity issue." . there is new trouble for united airlines the federal aviation administration claims united transferred 13 employees to safety-sensitive positions before it received the results of their drug and alcohol tests. the faa says their random drug testing is not valid. a man was killed in broad daylight by a hit-and-run
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driver in san francisco's mission district. police say a latino man his 40s was crossing mission street near 18th around 10:40 he was hit by a man driving a white van. witnesses say the chevy van may have front-end daniel. the man was driven by an african-american man who appeared to be in his 30s or 40s. a driver hurt in in suh crash in east palo alto faces charges. police say the 25-year-old driver rolled her suv when she tried to run away from police last night on pulgas avenue, killing a 22-year-old woman riding with her. an eldly san francisco woman with alzheimer's disease is missing tonight. more than 24 hours after she was last seen at her home in the outer richmond. she was last seen near california street at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. her family says she speaks
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mandarin and understands almost no english. if anyone has any information about her whereabouts you are asked to give police a call immediately. dozens of volunteers tomorrow will take place in a third day-long search for a nursing student michelle le. the park was the focus of today's search. the klaaskids foundation has helped to coordinate the search for le to disappeared 21 days ago. police have classified the case as a homicide and family members are hopeful she will be found alive. we're learning more about a shooting that killed an oakland teen late last night. they say christian daniel gars way was in this park, parked at seminary and bankcroft avenue. investigators say he died at the hospital. still no word on a motive and
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no arrests have been made. a susdescription has not been released. this father's day will be much different for the children of brutal beaten giant's fan bryan stow. tyler and tabitha stow will be visiting him in the hospital. the kids say it's been tough without their father around. >> he is really special and he is not like any other dad. it kind of feels weird not having him stay by your side. >> so that is the hardest part of it? >> yeah. >> i spent a lot of time with him, so it's like completely different not going with him every weekend or every thursday. so it's really tough. >> bryan stow is in a coma and remains in critical condition tonight. a video shows part of the saggy pants incident on a us ayeways flight that led to the
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arrest of a university of new mexico football play. 20-year-old deshon marman can be heard telling the captain his pants are up and he is rad to go. >> i'm not doing anything. i have paid my fees and i'm ready to go. i didn't do nothing to nro. nobody. >> the airlines dress code forbids indecent disposure or inappropriate attire. marman was released on $11,000 bail and prosecutors have yet to file any charges against him. afghan president karsay confirmed for the first time that afghan and us representatives are in contact with the taliban. the afghan president said there has been no physical meetings with the taliban, but he said contactswen the us, the afghan government and taliban have been established.
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people on the streets of kabul said they are ready for peace after nearly a decade of war. >> whoever tries for peace in afghanistan, we support them. either america or president karzai. we welcome peace talks and we urge them to end the bloodshed and killing of brothers. >> the white house would not confirm mr. karzai's remarks. the obama administration would only say "the white house continues to support the afghan- led reconciliation and reintegration process that would bring insurgents in from the cold." president karzai's comment came as violence claimed the lives of at least eleven people, including two international troops. in one attack, three suicide bombers stormed a police compound in kabul. the dead included four afghan security members and five civilians. nato offers few details about the deaths of the international troops other than to say, "they happened in southern afghanistan in a separate insurgent attack." more reports tonight of
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distrust and friction between the us and pakistan. the associated press is reporting that pakistan is sharing information that is allowing bomb-makers in the country to escape. according to an unnamed us official, the us has shared information about bomb-making sites in pakistan's tribble areas on four different occasions and all four times the suspects fled before the pakistani military arrived to raid the site. the official says it's unclear if pakistani government officials are tip off those operating the factories or if tribal leaders are the weak link. the pakistani government insists on telling tribal elders before raiding facilities in the tribal regions. we're starting to miss tony and vinny. >> our first chance to sit down with fighter station 26 since they lost two of their comrades. >> you heard of ping-pong diplomacy and how about golf
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. the firefighters of san francisco fire station 26 said goodbye to two of their own about a week ago in a ceremony that brought a massive response from the city. today ktvu's john sasaki was the first to visit the station
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since the community support continues. >> reporter: this was a quiet day for station 26 in san francisco's diamond heights district. they are reminders everywhere of the two men lost, vince perez and tony valerio. >> it's kind of still new and as can quiets down each person at the firehouse will discover, oh, i am missing tony talking about his bread acin the morning or vinny helping with the rigs. >> reporter: first there was shock and then came last week wheeze massive funeral, all with the daily task of being firefighter and these men saying now that everything is over, the full impact is hitting them. >> we're starting to miss tony and vinny we haven't had time to do that. we're starting to realize this they are gone. >> reporter: the only action came from the crew drove to another fire station to gas up. >> well, i want there of the day of the fire. i wish i could have been to help out a little bit. >> reporter: back home, the
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crews said support from the community is helping them heal. >> being a firefighter is a good thing. they call you and you come and you help people. and when they see that we're in need, you know, they really came together to help us out. >> reporter: it's clear that perez and valerio will be with these men on the job always. >> not only in tactics and courage and in our approach and so yeah, they will be in our minds and hearts. >> reporter: officials tell me that the third firefighter hurt in the accident just went back to work. san francisco, i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. a.r.s. senator john mccain toured damage from the wildlifes burning in his state. the senator got a close-up look at the damage from the monument fire near the mexican border. so far that fire has scorched more than 20,000 acres and damaged or destroyed 50 homes. firefighters say they have not yet determined how the fire started. but today mccain said he is concerned it might have been started by illegal immigrants
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crossing into the u.s. >> if set fires because they want to signal others and think set fires to keep warm and they have set fires in order to divert law enforcement agents and agencies from them. >> and from the front lines of wallow fire, in eastern arizona, fire crews say it's now 38% contained. that fire, the largest in arizona's history, has burnedded more than half a million acres and destroyed two dozen homes and cabins. the republican leadership conference choose a familiar name in its presidential straw poll. at the conference today in new orleans texas congressman ron paul easily won the paul and utah govern jon huntsman was a distant second. republican front-runner mitt romney did not attend and was not part of the poll. the us open golf tournament had some competition today. president obama and republican
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house john boehner hit the limps, teaming up against vice president biden and ohio governor kasich. the president and speaker won the match on the 18th hole and each pocketed a $2 bet. besides being a photo op, the game was aimed at given the president and senator boehner a chance to talk about the upcoming federal budget. president obama delivered his weekly address today and spoke about families and father's day. the president said his father left when he was 2 years old and since then, he had learned a few things about what children need from their parents. >> first and foremost they need our time and more important than the quantity of the hours and the quality of those hours and maybe it's just asking about their day or taking a walk together, but the smallest moments can have the biggest impacts. >> president also said that children need our unconditional love. police tonight are looking for a man who attacked a jorge in rohnert park.
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they say the victim was on five creek path yesterday afternoon when the suspect grabbed her and slashed her face and arms with a box cutter before rung off. he is described as a white male in his 30s, standing at 6'2" with a lean build. he also has a 2" round tattoo on his forearm. the victim was treated at a hospital and released. a san mateo county judge has declared a mistrail in the competency trifle 9-year-old dr. william ayers. dr. ayers is a psychiatrist accused of molesting seven boys who were his patients. the trial ended last year with a hung jury. prosecutors decide retry the case, but ayers' lawyers argued his dementia and memory loss make him incompetent to stand trial. thousands ever people spent the day in san francisco, celebrating history. this morning marked the
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beginning of the 61st annual juneteenth feast on fillmore street. the event featured food, music, art and activities and commemorated what some call an often forgotten day in african- american history. >> many aren't aware that the reason we're here is that texas was the last state that was freed that from slavery. >> organizers say the festival is the biggest gathering of fathers in northern california. the event ends tomorrow. new billboards in the east bay are getting more than just people talk. ktvu's allie rasmus tells us some are calling for them to be removed, claiming that they are racist. >> reporter: across the street from the west oakland bart station is a billboard with a picture of an infant with the title reading oblack and beautiful." >> i have never really paid attention. >> it kind of disturbed me, but i didn't know why. >> it's kind of subliminal. >> reporter: walter hoye is the man behind the billboards, the found of the non-profit group
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called issues for life foundation. the group held a press conference this morning. >> i'm looking to raise awareness and to create an environment of dialogue. >> reporter: they are in congresswoman's lee's district and she is not happy about them. >> they stigmattive african- american women. they are not a positive message. >> everybody should make their own decision without anyone interfering. >> reporter: billboard supporters fired back. >> what about saying that our children are saying about black and beautiful is an attack on black women? >> reporter: the group says the message is targeted at african- american women. >> we should have to look at this issue without getting caught up in the rhetoric of pro-choice and all the another nonsense, something is wrong and we're sounding the alarm. >> reporter: some west oakland residents interpret the message
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differently. >> i think it's an attack on black communities and reproductive rights, especially for women of color and i think that billboard needs to come down. >> everyone has opinions. >> reporter: the issue for life foundation says the billboards will stay up until julyson. in oakland, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. the international tribute at the lgbt festival. concerns with the fate of a member of a famous swan family living near a san francisco landmark. i'm track more fog tonight, but some changes on the way, coming up, a temperature shift you can expect for tomorrow and why 90-degree heat returns in the bay area forecast.
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. the annual san francisco international lgbt film phoenix kicked off this weekend, premiering today at the castro
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theater is a move called "with you, about mark bingham, one of the heroes of flight 93. bingham was a bay area native and mong the passengers who tried to regain control of their aircraft on september 11th after was headlined by terrorists. the plane crashed in the fields the pennsylvania. also in san francisco tonight, more problems for the swans living in the lagoon at the palace of fine arts. a volunteer swan keeper believes that the missing three- week-old hatchling was killed by a hawk. just yesterday another swan was relocated to a bird refuge because she was being attacked by her older brother. bellia just returned to the lagoon after being treated for a foot injury. >> from from syria comes word that government forces you been leeched helicopter fire on the village near the turkish border where thousands ever who were displace had had sought refuge. the attack sent more people
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across the border into turkey. they are reports a baby in the village was the sole source of bread for some 2000 people. the village was also supplying medicine to those forced from their homes. human rights activists say more than 1400 syrians have been killed and 10,000 detained as president bashar assad tries to put down the uprising. nightcast is accusing moammar gaddafi of using mosques and children's parks as shields for his military rations and also nato admitted it mistakenly struck a column of rebel vehicle obvious an airstrike on thursday. nato offered no numbers on casualties, but said it regreeted any loss of life. in argentina, police found nearly 1,000 pounds of cocaine anyway us-flagged yacht. authorities were tipped off something was amiss when the yacht diverted from its route.
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they found the drugs with an estimated street value of $2 million. they also found weapons and ammunition. but as for the crew, they were nowhere to be found. five inmates testified today in the american student's retrial in italy. two of them said knox was not involved in the 2007 kill of heifer roommate while studying abroad and one convict says he knows because another prisoner told him so. another inmate testified and claimed it was his brother who was responsible for the murder during a robbery. knox was sentenced lasted year to 26 years in prison. tributes from fans and fellow musicians are pouring in for sox phonist clarence clemon. the legendary musician died today after a week after suffer a stroke in his home in florida. known as the big manager the 6'5" clemon was a driving force in bruce springsteen's e street
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band for almost 40 years. 69-year-old had suffered from poor health in recent years, but still performed and recorded. bruce springsteen called the loss of his friend "immeasurable, ". father's day comes early for some dads who time with their children is short and precious. that story is still to come. no ordinary picnic at the park. the record that might have been set in san francisco.
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. a visit from a child to celebrate father's day. that is not unusual, unless that visit takes place behind prison walls. ktvu's mike mibach found just that this evening at san quentin. >> reporter: outside san quentin will was silence, yet on the inside, there was laughter.
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fathers holding sons, daughters drawing for dads on this day, both parent and child, some for the very first time had a chance to embrace and reflect. >> for her to overcome what she had to endure by me not being in her life, i'm proud of her for that. >> reporter: for years troy williams only had a picture anded to he had much more, his daughter eye-to-eye. >> just to touch and hold your family is something that we don't really get to do. >> a lot of kids don't have their dads, you know? i'm blessed to know mine and i'm thankful to know that i even have one. >> reporter: how many children actually have parents inside prison? 200, according to the department of correction 200,000 children are a parent either inside here in san quentin or another prison in the state of california. >> they look at their dad, trying to see themselves reflected in their father's
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eyes, in his features. >> reporter: she founded "get on the bus, "providing free transportation for children of innates. carter is stalking about his dad, a man who could spend the rest of his life in prison. a man who says he is proud to still be a dad. >> some of my family members share with me how lucky i am that i have a son like him. >> reporter: smiles behind the walls of san quentin on this father's day weekend. mike-banff, ktvu channel 2 news. mexican drug traffickers are getting creative. the us border patrol says smugglers are using ultralight airplane as to drop hundreds ever pounds of marijuana at a time into the usment agents say the number of aircrafts illegally crossing into the us nearly doubled last year with 228 cases reported. health officials confirm the first case the e.coli virus being spread through human to human contact in the deadly german outbreak. german officials say a woman at
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a frankfurt catering company became sick by eating infected sprouts. the oust break has killed 39 people and infected thousands. it was traced to contaminated sprouts, but there is no word on how that contamination happened. german health officials say the number of new infections is diminishing. senator feinstein is sponsoring legislation that would ban the use of human antibiotics in farm animal feed. farmers often give low-dose antibiot yikes to cat thing chicken and other animals to prevent them from becoming sick. biologists say the practice is spreading anti-bacterial preciptant to meat, milk and eggs. federal regulators have given microsoft the green light to buy skype for $8.5 billion. it's microsoft's largest deal
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ever. skype is a web chat and call service and is own by a group led by private investor firm silver lake of menlo par . 600 people took part in today's fifth annual aids walk in oakland. the three-mile walk around lake merritt raised tens of thousands for aids service organizes in alameda and contra costa county. congresswoman barbara lee says the money is needed more than ever with cut backs in state and federal funding. >> it's outrageous that we don't have the federal resources to provide the care and treatment that people so desperately need. walgreens contributed $50,000 raised from its stores in the east bay. san francisco was brimming with italian pride today. today marked the beginning of
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the 57th annual north beast festival in little italy's washington square park. it features live entertainment and gourmet food and live art. locals say it was a perfect day to celebrate italian culture. >> i think it's fantastic. it's a beautiful day. people come out and socialize. we love when people come here and as we say in italy, take a nice walk. the festival is put on by the north beach chamber of commerce. well, just about everyone had a seat at the table today in san francisco. that is if you were at the marina green. where safeway put together in 305-footlong picnic table in a bid to win the guinness record. celebrity chef tyler florence stocked the table with all the fixings for safeway employees and invited guests. for a list of events take
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place this weekend in the bay area, go to ktvu.com and click on "the weekend extra" tab near the top of our homepage. well, all they wanted to do was sell lemonade and the troublesome kids ran into because of the us golf tournament. a warming trend on the horizon? i'm meteorologist mark tamayo will tell us if father's day is the start of summer-like weather.
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. we have been dealing with fog and cooler temperatures over the past few days the weather pattern now changing and as a result we're expect a big change over the next few days of right now on the maps you wouldn't think so with all the fog. plenty of clouds heading into
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the bay, but what is happening? we had more of a northerly breeze developing. that will help clear out the clouds rapidly as we head into your sunday morgan you been and as a morning, and as a result that will lead to a warm-up. wear going to warm thing you for your sunday. the extended forecast, more sunshine and we're talking about mid to upper 90s for the warmest locations of the bay area. overnight lows most areas in the low to mid-50s. satellite, you may have noticed high clouds across the bay area today, but a big area of high pressure developing and strengthening offshore and this will be the key factor, at least resulting in our warm-up. you can see the temperature trend for sunday, monday and tuesday and bytund, the warmest locations, 95, 96 and possibly 97 degrees. so tomorrow just the beginning
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of of our warming trend. with those offshore winds in place, that will warm up the beaches, primarily in the low to mid-70s. here is our forecast model showing you some of the fog right now. we'll put this into motion tomorrow morning, 5:00, 6:00, the clouds hugging the coastline and some patches in a the bay. this clears out rapidly with a big bounce in the temperatures. for father's day, 7:00 tomorrow morning, you can see temperatures low to mid-50s. areas of fog out there. by 12:00, clearing skies, 68 to 80 degrees. there is the eventual temperature range with the micro climates resurfacing. santa rosa, 85 degrees and fairfield at 88. oakland in fact, around rim of the bay, mainly in the 70s. so a good day for the ballgame as they wrap up the series with
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the a's and giants. fremont at 79 and san francisco just beautiful and lower 70s. call it 70. with temperatures checking in around 3:00. here is a look ahead, your five- day forecast, more sunshine for monday. tuesday will be the hottest day of the period and it's also the beginning ever summer that begins tuesday morning. you notice temperatures cool off wednesday and cooling off the entire bayer by thursday. heather and ken, looks like a great day for all dads out there with increasing sunshine. >> thanks. well, the us open seemed like the perfect place for a group of maryland kids to sell lemonade to raise money for pediatric cancer research and that is what they did, offering sweet lemonade to those who watched the golf tournament. the problem is that the kids didn't get the proper parent and the county supervisor had the kids close up the stand and fined them $500. >> $500. >> that just terrible. >> coming up next, cot giants
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rebound after stumbling last night? also tiger who? the new face making mystery at the us open k. his record- breaking day, next in sportswrap.
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. good evening everyone and welcome to this saturday night edition of sportswrap. for better than a decade, tiger woods was the dominant plaitner the game of golf and during that time, the golf world wonder who would be next and the answer might be 22-year-old rory mcilroy. mcilroy suddenly getting plenty of recognn

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