. it is over, the last american combat troops to serve in iraq have now left the country. what police just released about an early morning shooting in menlo park and the people

now in custody and the weapons recovered. and multiple agencies are gathered for dui checkpoints and the concentration is right here in oakland. complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. good evening, i'm ken wayne. >> i'm heather holmes. >> the last u.s. troops in iraq left the country today, crossing the border into kuwait, ending nearly nine years of war. ktvu's claudine wong shows us the historic journey for this final american convoy. >> reporter: as the gates along the border of iraq and kuwait this morning, shoulders shook hands and closed the final chapter on a war that lasted nine years and cost 4500 american lives. >> to see what we have accomplished in the last 8.5 years and to be part of the last moment out of iraq is hard it put words to right now.

>> reporter: there were approximately 100 most life us military armored vehicles and 500 u.s. troops in this final tactical road march. the convoy trundled across the southern iraq desert from adder, the last u.s. base that only one month ago housed 12,000 american troops. the trek lasted to daybreak to the kew wait border. for iraqis there were many emotions. >> this is a jubilant moment, and we in iraq that we own the country now. the sense of belonging now is skyhigh. >> one thing is very important to understand, iraq's future is primarily up to iraq, just as it has been for several years and as we have seen in other countries that we have left, sometimes friendship develops better if you are not too heavy a presence inside the country. >> reporter: there will still be an american presence in iraq that includes

diplomats, security contractors and nonmilitary personnel. but today, for the first time since 2003, the soldiers are gone. many leaving on the same road that brought america in more than eight years ago. claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. this morning we asked people here in the bay area what they think about the end of the war in iraq? >> i'm glad it's over. i feel for the families that have made big contributions and i have a friend who lost a nephew. and so, i'm glad it's over. >> if iraq becomes a true democratic country, than it's worth it, but we'll have to wait and see. >> the research center reports almost three-quarters of americans began with the iraq war when it began in 2003 and that view dipped to 50% in 2004 and reached its low of 36% in 200. today three-quarters of americans say they support president obama's decision to end the war. there is still some

division among lawmakers about the ending of the us military mission in iraq. house speaker boehner expressed his concerns this morning on "meet the press." >> i'm concerned about our very quick and rapid withdrawal from iraq. we have sacrificed a lot of lives, a lot of soldiers injured, a lot of our treasure to free the iraqi people and help them build a democracy. >> bohn wantt later this evening more than 160 local soldiers will return from afghanistan. they are part of the california national guard's 870th military police company. they spent the last ten months in afghanistan, helping protect a us military base there. the troops will arrive at various times this evening at all three major bay area airports. we'll have more on those homecomings tonight at 10:00. it has been a long night

and day for residents of a menlo park neighborhood. police conducted an exhaustive search for suspects after one of them opened fire. maureen. >> reporter: ken, in the last hour menlo park police gave us an update and told us three east palo alto men have been booked for parol violations and released photos of five weapons recovered after an early morning officer-involved shooting. law enforcement with guns drawn swarmed the area of meno park after police say a group of men opened fire on officers at 1:15 this morning and one officer fired back. >> first i heard one shot and then, like, 15 seconds later i heard two shots. and then i heard the cops coming. >> reporter: police were responding to a call about a group of armed men gathered outside of a home and say when they arrived the suspects fired at them and ran. >> really scary, because that never happens in menlo park, a

lot of police and swat and helicopters. >> reporter: it didn't take lock for police to recover this rifle and catch two suspects. but it would take hours and s.w.a.t. teams conducting backyard searches before four other suspects were taken into custody and two other handguns and two rifles were recovered. this family got an early morning automated call from police. >> the police said said they were serving for somebody and we looked outside and there was a cop car with the dog and flashlights and everything. >> reporter: several roads were shut down for more than ten hours while teams gathered evidence from the crime that covered more than two blocks. the closures kept several families from returning home. >> it was late. we didn't have no other choice, but to wait. >> reporter: police tonight say they are looking into any of the armed suspects are linked toy apossible retaliation for two shootings in nearby east palo alto, but tonight say it's too early to say if there is a

correlation. reporting live in menlo park, maureen naylor, ktvu channel 2 news. we first brought you this story during last night's 10:00 news, s.w.a.t. teams surrounded a home on olive street following the shooting of a 25-year-old man late friday. that victim suffered major injuries. no arrests were made during last night's operation, but three men were detained, although it's not clear request. police say friday's shooting appears to be gang-related. as raider fans pour out of the coliseum in oakland they are being greeted by law enforcement looking to crackdown on drunk-driving. ktvu's jade hernandez is live at tonight's dui checkpoint. >> heather the checkpoint is behind me and we have seen officers pull over drivers, we're live in to be of the oakland coliseum, here in the city. alameda county's avoid the 21 organization dispatch a 25- officer dui strike team this

afternoon. officers used this checkpoint as a base, where anyone suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol or other substances is brought by. we're live at 66th and coliseum way, in front of the coliseum where the raiders just wrapped up play against the detroit lions. today officers focused on raider fans who haven't designated a drive to get home safe. multiple agencies are involved, including anleandro, fremont and livermore. officers warned braves about not risking a ticket or even worse an accident of mixing alcohol and getting behind the wheel. >> having everybody recognize it's a holiday season and a lot of people are drinking and d- raying and shouldn't be doing that. we end up getting a lot of smiles and thanks, actually. >> reporter: the officers are concentrating their efforts between hyde

street and 98 avenue. reporting live in oakland, jade hernandez, ktvu . the dui crackdown can be seen all over the bay area as police work to keep drunk drivers off road this holiday season of the crackdown is part of the avoid campaign that started friday. it sets up dui checkpoints at locations all over the state. >> the purpose of sobriety checkpoint isn't to take dui arrests, but to deter someone who has had too much to drink from getting behind the wheel. >> 150 checkpoints will be set up around the stated until the new year. a lit cigarette is the possibilities cause of a deadly fire in oakland. allie rasmus talks to friends of the victim. >> reporter: the building on arthur and 79th avenue were a close-knit group and hugged and cried when they learned their friend and neighbor, 56-year-old benny

wakefield didn't survive a fire that started here at 7:30 this morning. >> we smelled the smoke of the we didn't hear any alarms. we heard a man yelling, really frantically. >> reporter: it was their neighborhood, jerry davis, who also tried to warn wakefield about the fire. >> i ran back in there, and couldn't save him. i feel like it's my fault. >> it's not your fault. >> you did what you could. >> reporter: vores say they know the fire started in wakefield's room upstairs. >> the report we have is that he was a smoker and that could be a possible cause. we're reluctant to say what it was at this point because it's under investigation. >> reporter: after the fire, officers were called in to go through the scene of the fire and officials say that standard procedure anytime there is a fatal fire. >> from what we could tell at this moment there is no obvious signs ever foul play. >> reporter: his family says wakefield worked for the city of oakland's maintenance department before retiring recently. >> he was children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews and when they got the

news it was so sad. it's so heart-breaking and's hard for me as well. >> reporter: a sense of loss felt by wakefield's neighbors, the people who shared this home with him. >> i'm going to miss him much. he with as a good friend of mine. >> reporter: alallie rasmus ktvu channel 2 news. police say 49-year-old jimmy jinter was speed on esmond when he crashed. there is no word if alcohol was involved in the crash and no one else was hurt. just minutes later about a mile away firefighters responded to a car in flames. it happened just before 3:00 a.m. at cherry street and stanford avenue. investigators believe that the fire was set by a group of young people. so far no arrests have been made.

fortunately no one was hurt. air quality officials have declared yet another winter spare the air alert for the bay area tomorrow. it will be sixth winter spare- the-air day this season of the at lert means burning wood or solid fuels in fireplaces, woodstoves, pellet stores or outdoor fire pits is banned, of course unless it's your only source of heat. tomorrow it's expected levels of fine particulates will be fine and unhealthy with those with breathing problem, the very young and the elderly. >> you can tell it's it's a spare-the-air day when it's hazy out there. meteorologist mark tamayo with a look at today's temperatures. >> this year, if you look at a column of smoke go up, it reaches a certain level, a couple thousand feet and spreads out and all of that particulate matter is trapped. upper 40s for napa and santa rosa, 49, san jose lower 50s

and livermore in the upper 40s, 48 degrees. a few rain showers and, in fact, quite a bit down towards southern california. a few high clouds moving into northern california and false echo return on the radar. but a rain-free forecast forever us and the stormtracker heads way up to the north and as a result, when whenever you get a stable weather pattern, fog is a concern. we have some real dense fog forming and that was the case this morning and we should have a repeat performance for the central and southern san joaquin valley. as a result another dense fog advisory begins at midnight, lasting until 11:00 monday morning. visibilities could be around 500 feet or approaching zero visibility. so that will be an area of concern heading into monday morning. in the bay area, around delta, once again, starting off pretty chilly for your monday. coolest locations will be in

the lower 30s towards napa and fairfield you been antioch around 33. san francisco mid-40s at 45. can you see our forecast model will run this into the evening hours and also tomorrow show you dense fog in the central valley and scattered low clouds in the bay area. this will be changing in the afternoon and coming up, we'll run the forecast model into your monday afternoon and i will let you know if we have rain clouds showing up in the five-day forecast. occupy wall street protesters are back in front of san josi city hall with tents. however, the protesters say the tents are merely symbols of free speech and do not intend to camp at the site. instead they will take down the tents at night, but return in the daytime to draw attention to what they say "is the inordinate power and greed." they broke up the encatch after city leaders refused to grant

the protesters a permit. the average price of a gallon of regular stands at $3.24 and in the bay area prices continue to be some of the high. in nation. san francisco a gallon of regular goes for $3.62, $3.56 in oakland and $3.52 a gallon in san josi. san francisco police got in the giving spirit for a tree giveway. officers from the tenderloin station spent the afternoon at the park giving away christmas trees to anyone who wanted them. today's event seemed to help put people in the christmas spirit. >> i want to find the right size to put it in. >> trees were done neated by the guardsman charity for at- risk youth. also ahead, low carbon fuel standard is critical to help transform the way people get around in california. >> why supporters of greener fuels say it will not only help

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. highway patrol investigators looking into the death of a person on a south bay freeway. it happened just before 7:00 this morning on the capitol depressway off-ramp of interstate 680 in san josi. officials say the person was a pedestrian hit by a car. there is no word on why that person was onramp or if any arrests have been made. a pair of shoot in oakland yesterday left one person dead and two others injured. police say that first shooting happened at 3:15 in the afternoon on the 2600 block of fruitvale avenue. one person was shot and taken to the hospital and then later died.

the second shooting happened just before 10:30 last night on the 1200 block of 7th street. two victim were shot and taken to the hospital. both of them are expected to survive. no arrests have been made in either shooting. there is a knew push to make california's roads greener. the california business alliance for green economy presented a plan on friday to the air resources board to bring the biofuel business to the state of the group says the change would create green jobs and technology and also improve the quality of life. >> the low carbon fuel standard is critical to help transform the way people get around in california, to move us away from dirty, polluting pet role umfuels that contribute to our air quality problems. we have thousands of people dying every year because of air pollution. >> this comes as the state air resources board works on its plan to produce a lower carbon fuel standard. a bay area company has created a new home thermostat

that works and look an ipod. it uses smart technology to sense when you are home and how much heat you need. as claudia cowan reporteds it will slash your bills. >> reporter: with its shriek design, the $250 net learning thermostat aims to revolutionize home heat and cooling and lower energy bills. >> if you look at the herm statste look like 90 beige box computers way back when. what we have done is brought a little bit of magic and said maybe you should think about this differently. >> reporter: the nest isn't just hit with glowing colors and built-in wi- fi, but over time determines comfort levels. >> it learns your patterns and replays it back to you, so you don't have to program it. >> reporter: lick wheel technology made sense to those former apple executives who helped to

develop the ipod. they thought the thermostat was due for an overhaul. >>currently my thermostat is at 62 and i believe i'm conserving. the leaf shows up relative to what you normally like. if you like 72 degrees in the cooling system, the leaf will show up at 73-74 to nudge you out of your comfort zone slightly. >> palo alto architect patrick everett sayss it's too soon it know in he lowered his energy bill, he is paying more attention to his thermostat. >> i interact with it almost on a daily basis now. it has an iphone app. so i can pull out my iphone and check those same features, the schedule, and settings, anywhere i am. >> reporter: at stores and online, the nest is off and flying as the humble

home thermostat is transformed into a cool way to save money. claudia cowan, fox news. the battle over the payroll tax cut extension continues on capitol hill and, in fact, tomorrow the house will take up legislation passed by senate yesterday. top house republicans say it's not good enough. >> it's pretty clear that i and our members oppose the senate bill. it's only for two months. the president said we shouldn't go on vacation until we get our work done and frankly, house republicans agree. >> house republicans say they hope to either amend the senate bill or pass a motion to make it "responsible and in line with the needs of hard-working taxpayers and middle-class families." senate ." the latest poll shows newt gingrich losing

a point and mitrollney holding steady in second place. romney focused on president obama, criticizing his handling of the economy. >> he made the recovery more tepid. i get the chance to speak with business leaders of big and small businesses, largely small, and i say to them, to do any of you behalf that the policies of this administration have helped you be more successful in your enterprise and hire more people? i don't see a single hand go up when i ask that to an audience. >> the des moines register praised romney's sobriety, 'cuz w- wisdom and judgment." the iowa caucuses take place january 3-d. meanwhile newt gingrich called today for the subpoena and even arrest of so-called activist judgeses away for congress to control them. >> you have an elite that still has an enormous amount of power and they would point very radical judges. you have the vast bulk of the american people who are opposed to that, but they don't have enough power to stop the elite and one of the key questions in

2012 is simple, do you want to reassert the constitution? >> the constitution requires federal judges to be appointed for life, but does allow for impeachment on evidence of bad beaver. as he campaigned in iowa, conserveovs have cheered gingrich's call for those who ruled against prayer in school and gay marriage should be thrown out. >> police have trying to figure out what led to the shooting that left a bay area boy wounded? also ahead he was known as one of the world's great dissidents and a look back at the life of vaclav havel. >> but officials are actually closing down several charter schools including some right here in the bay area. we'll tell you what is behind the closures, next.

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. the former president of czechoslovakia and one of the world's greatest political dissident has died. vaclav havel led the velvet revolution that turned country in a full-fledged democracy. he was a playwright and international leaders including president obama are praising havel's peaceful, but effective resistance to communism, when his country joined nato, havel urged global unity. >> this is a world of a single global civilization, which

makes us all participants in one common family. >> havel was nominated several times for the nobel peace prize and received the u.s. presidential made of freedom. he died today at his weekend home in the czech republic. havel was 75 years old. in other news of the world, police in egypt savagely attacked protesters as they demonstrated against police brutality. >> protesters are demanding an end to military rule. instead a third day of violence has rocked cairo. police have conducted beat eggs right in the open, but other beats having taken place under tents evected into tahir square. the u.s.s. secretary-general called for the government to uphold human rights. russian teams are searching for missing worker after

a storm that caused a rig to topple. the government is launching an investigation to see if safety regulations were violated. there are no reports of environmental damage. the platform was not drilling for oil when it capsized. and in the philippines, that country is trying to recover from this weekend's violent typhoon. the storm killed 650 people in mindanao. and another 900 are missing. thousands of homes were washed way. the pope prayed for the typhoon victims today at the vatican ? >> he was one of if not the biggest story of the year. arab spring uprising and of course social media played a huge roll in in a moment. mohammed jamjoon spoke with act is visits activists. >> even before hosni mubarak stepped

down, they were hailing the role that social media played. >> this is the internet revolution, and i will call it "revolution 2.0." >> as the arab spring uprisings started to take root, egyptians weren't the only ones using those sites. tunisians, syrians, libyans, on-line activism even reached yemen, the poorest country in the middle east, where few have access to the internet and 50% of adults are illiterate. many activists said one of the most important aspects of social media it could be used as a forum of advocacy. >> some would be post it on twitter and retweet it and it's like a tree with branches spreading around the world. >> reporter:

using technology to get the word out in countries with extremely strict media control. some countries cut internet and phone service, attempting to shut down communications, but it was never completely effective. months of revolt have produced posts and images from citizen journalists. police in east palo alto are looking for leads in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy. it happened before 7:00 on friday evening. investigators say right now they have no suspect or motive for the shooting. police have investigating the first homicide in almost six years. officers found a mail victim inside a home on waterbury name. investigators are not release nid more details on the victim or how he died, but say they do believe the man was targeted. no word on a suspect or motive. this is the first homicide in foster city since 2006 and the

second since 1996. >> two bay area charter schools could soon be shut down, the california chart school association says san francisco and richmond are not meeting the state's minimum academic criteria and should be closed. that means that the students at these two schools and other underperforming charters in the state will have to find another school to attend. >> charter schools are about higher levels of freedom and autonomy in exchange for higher levels of accountability. officials say it's notice unusual for charter schools to close and that they will work with the families of the students affected to make the transition easier. bay area charities are in the homestretch before christmas. >> we are in antioch, where you can see behind me hundreds of kids are getting christmas gifts as part of the gifts for kids program, in a year where

many charities say the need sup. the cdc is changing its recommendations for whooping cough shots and hear who is now advised to get vaccinated.

. >> it's one week from christmas eve. ktvu's ken prismett joins us live from antioch where hundreds of families lined up to receive donated toys. >> reporter: i just talked to someone with

the salvation army and say 379 kids received toys and gifts from the chips for kids chp. donations this year are healthy, but demand is up. these will be will be familiar scenes this week. the chp handing out toys to children in need as they did in antioch today. the marines still taking in toys for tots this afternoon, tapping fans outside of the raiders game and all this week st. anthony's welcomes much- needed donations. >> these are things that we need immediately and turn team round and make sure all folks have the basic feeds. >> reporter: st. anthony's says they need more donations to meet those basic needs. warm colonials are needed and she is seeing donations pick up. >> monday they brought in

three bags of brand-new jackets they brought in at macy's and that's great. >> reporter: st. anthony's say donations are good, but the need is up between 7-10% this year. lines for meals are long everyday. >> we're seeing a little bit more of the newly unemployed, folks who just lost their jobs. >> reporter: at the chips for kids toy giveway, hundreds lined up outside of the salvation army hall and the chp expected to give away toys everyday this week. >> the requests for the increase are up without having an official count, but on the other hand i think the generosity is up as well. >> reporter: the chp's chips for kids program is giving away toys burb still taking away donations and for more on the st. anthony curbside dropoff you will find days and times at

ktvu.com. in antioch, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. on-line sells this holiday season are up this year following what may have been the busiest shopping weekend of the season. com score says shoppers have spent $31 billion on-line between december 1 and the 16th. total sales climbed 15% to $6.3 billion. the holiday shopping season can make up to ho% of retailer' annual revenue. san francisco police are set to hold a meeting regarding last week's deadly officer- involved shooting. this is cell phone video taken of the scene. police say a man shot at police after run from a traffic stop. officers shot back, hitting the man in the head. he died on thursday night. tomorrow's meeting starts at 4:00 p.m. at the northern police station on fillmore and turk streets. a one-day nurses' strike is set at sutter facilities in the bay area. the california nurses association says 4,000 nurses

are getting ready to walk off the job on december 22nd. that is exactly three months after their last strike. the action is expected to take place at eight sutter facilities. sutter health and the nurse' union are in the middle of contentious negotiations for contracts. the centers for disease control is expanding its recommendations for whooping cough vaccinations. anyone who comes into close contact with infants is urged to be vaccinated and including those 65 and older. it comes after a nationwide surge in whooping cough infections last year. a cell phone and quick- thinking might have saved the life of a teenager in michigan. >> i'm 13 years old and i don't know what to do. i'm in my room upstairs and i'm on my cell phone listening to them downstairs. >> listen to how calm she sundays. that is chloe symington who managed to stay calm as two

burglaries broke into the family's home. the teenager was hiding under the bed and called 911 and stayed on the phone 15 minutes before help arrived. >> well, i was shaking really bad. i didn't want to make too much noise, so i kind of sat there. >> chloe says her dad''s advice about staying calm during emergency situations is what helped her. >> horses is brewing and hear why a group is suing to stop the sterilization of hundreds of wild stallions. >> meteorologist mark tamayo has your complete bay area forecast. ok, you guys wanted a space for entertaining your friends,

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. >> a coalition of conservatists and wild horse activists is now suing the government. the lawsuit is an effort to block the government's plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern nevada. several groups filed the lawsuit, including the western watershed project challenging the plan calling it scientifically unsound. the bureau of land management says the project is another way to reduce growing horse herds that damage the land. let's check in with meteorologist mark tamayo and kind of gloomy in the north bay. >> those clouds took some time to clear, especially near parts of the bay and immediate coastline. this was the time-lapse looking out towards the bay, the low clouds have been increasing. and they will be a factor as we head into late tonight and early tomorrow morning. in fact, it shows up nicely here on live stormtrack 2. those clouds will be pushing back into the region as we head

into the overnight hours. you can see the timeline, the first two weeks were pretty dry out. there a few weak systems producing a few rain clouds burb again we're heading into another destroy streak. dry streak. morning cloud coverage and temperatures, bundle up. i guess we're use to that pattern with temperatures wack down to the 30s and low to mid- 40s. clearing skies and readings back to 55-60 degrees. here is the updated cloud forecast model. i'm expecting the clouds to increase overnight tonight into tomorrow morning and once again, here is that nasty fog for the central valley. you want to be extra careful with that with near zero visibilities. in the afternoon hours, clearing skies. we'll have a bit more of a northerly wind setup and as a result i'm expecting mostly sunny skies to work their way

into the region for tomorrow afternoon. that is all reflected in your forecast, beginning at 7:00, most areas start the day and hazy sunshine by 3:00 and those reads back up into the upper 50s. these numbers up a touch, santa rosa, 60 degrees and san francisco at 56 and hayward in the upper 50s. san jose around 59 and morgan hills checks in 60 degrees and we have of a football game to talk about tomorrow night at candlestick park and no raindrops expected. in fact, mostly clear skies. definitely want to bundle up with temperatures around 50 degrees. your extended forecast and notice this with just cold mornings for tuesday morning. coolest locations around the 30- degree mark. hazy sunshine. the holiday weekend in view, you

will notice just partly cloudy skies and fair skies as that dry weather pattern remains in place, heather and ken, a area of high pressure keep a good portion of the state dry. if you were to push me out of the the way. >> am i low pressure? >> . [ laughter ] >> you are scaring me. >> i love the weather. >> that will not happen over the next week or so. possibly after christmas, we'll see. >> okay. it's been dry. thank you, mark. coming up, we have a wild week 15 around the nfl, include something major upsets. >> you saw it right here on ktvu channel 2 news, a tough loss for the raiders coming in the final seconds. sportswrap is next.

. good evening everyone and welcome to this early sunday night sport wrap. until there were just 39 seconds left in the game it looks this afternoon that the oakland raiders would pull back into a first place tie with the denver broncos in the afc west, but the raiders saw detroit score the last 14 points of the game and lose by a point. ndamukong suh back after serving a two-game suspension. to murphy, strolls into the inboard for pay 12-yard score, 7-0, oakland. but every team that plays the lions knows calvin johnson can strike and strike quickly. stafford to johnson for 51 yards and just like that, it's a 7-7 game. carson palmer to heyward-bey. oakland with the 17-14 lead to

the locker room. midway through the 1st quarter, stafford deep in his own territory has the ball stripped by kelley and picked up by aaron curry. oakland in front, 27-14. lions closed it, but palmer shows for chaz schilens who couldn't haul the ball in the. if schilens had made the catch, oakland could have ran out the clock. instead they punted from their 2. stafford lets one fly for john'n, who is behind the secondary. he has to come back for the ball, a 38-yard play. and then they go to who else? johnson, 39 seconds left, raiders got close enough to allow sebastian janikowski a lot at what would have been an nfl record field goal, but suh got a hand on it, blocking the

kick. the lions put a dagger in oakland's playoff hope. they finish 7-7 and one back of the denver broncos. >> the challenge that faced tebow and the broncos was the new england patriots. tebow refuses to go down and putting the first points on the board himself. the broncos led 16-7 at one point. but they couldn't keep up with new england's hoy powered high-powered offense. new england wins 41-23, but tebow is still 7-3 as a starter. 203 yards rush as rushing for reggie bush.

internal kansas city coach romeo crennel. driver with the touchdown pass, no. 40 on the year for rodgers, breaking brett favre's single season record. it was a field goal battle the rest of the way. kansas city ends with the win. green bay had lost last in december of 2010. green bay, 13-1. >> cincinnati with a win over the rams. pete carroll and the seahawks still with something to play for. seattle and chicago, going in front, 7-0 and marshawn lynch hammers in. the seahawks outscored the bears 3 1-0 in the second half. this was the game's capper. caleb hanie picked off by browner. browner takes it back 42 yards the other way. seahawks 7-7, on the outside of the wild-card race looking in. seattle with 38-14 winner. arizona the winner of the bruns in overtime and also in the

playoff picture at 7-7. >> the 49ers looking for some help from the vikings against the red-hot grew brees and drew brees and the saints. saints 1-3 after the 42-20 win. texans have already made the playoffs, but they went do you mean today to the panthers, ending their win streak at 7. >> . and the hardest team to figure out this year might be the team that played rex grossman and the redskins against the new york giants. giants barely in the playoff picture at 7-7, 23-109 final in that one. the eagles still with playoff life after taking jet as part. jets have never defeated the eagles in nine tries. on the same day that it the packers lost for the first time, the colts got their first

win at expense of tennessee,. the sunday night game is baltimore and san diego, scoreless right now. and the 49ers challenges against the steelers and the warriors tweak their roster with opening game a week away. we'll be right back. ok, you guys wanted a space for entertaining your friends, so, open your eyes and check out your new living room!

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. tomorrow night's assignment is clear for the 49ers, they must beat the powering steelers to hand on for the first-round bye. a much discussed problem is the niners inability to get into the end zone after reaching the red-zone. 49ers are last in the league in that category and now face the steeler team that figures to be much more difficult to move the ball against making touchdown opportunities even more crucial. >> big game, big game, you know, and we so put points on

the board. we have to get down to the line and don't get touchdowns and get a lot of field goals burb we need to get turnovers. >> warriors today made a deal with the indiana pacers that exchanges depth in one position for depth in other. forward lou amundson is out and brandon rush is heading to the bay area. he was considered at one time a core of joining players in indiana. rush also found himself somewhat out of favor, suspended for five games for violating the league's substance-abuse policy. >> another report,, the and that will do it for this early sunday night edition of sportswrap. we'll is he you again tomorrow night at 10. >> good game.

it won't be easy for the 49ers. >> the playoff pictures, if you have this muddy picture heading into the last games of the season. there are a lot of teams still alive. >> thank you, joe. coming up tonight on the 10:00 news, the same day the last u.s. troops pull out of iraq, a special homecoming tonight for hundreds of service members and their families here in the bay area and we're there for that special reunion happening, coming up on the 10:00 news. thank you so much for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> our coverage continues tonight on the 10:00 news. we'll see you then.