on espn. buccigross and levy at the controls tonight. >> jeff: i like this lineup for the rockets. ariza at the pseudo four but spreading the floor around, one big. >> mike: three to shoot for e e'twaun moore. howard on him, howard defends him well. here comes brewer. brewer drives, side steps dunleavy who fouls him and a chance to cut it to six with 1:49 remaining. >> mark: we got on dwight howard earlier for lack of effort. give him credit that possession, guarding the point guard with the clock dwindling down, got down low and defended at a high level. closed out, contested. beautiful defense by howard. >> mike: we've seen the last several -- that's a critical miss right now. we've seen wild comebacks recently. >> mark: so you can do it.

that's outstanding defense. you've earned the right to trot back offensively. >> mike:104-97. the bulls have led the entire second half. most of it by double figures. gasol stripped by beverley. picked up. another turnover. 25 turnovers now for chicago. harden guarded by dunleavy. puts up a three-pointer. way off. rebound comes out to moore. >> mark: bad shot by harden. let him off the hook. >> mike: dunleavy quick three. too strong. >> jeff: that's a bad shot too. >> mike: early on the shot clock, harden goes back door, gibson guarding him on the perimeter as we hit a minute remaining.

howard, howard out of bounds. 19 turnovers for houston. >> jeff: i think the better play there is to throw it up to howard. as gasol comes to help, instead of trying to find them with the bounce pass throw it up. >> mark: having moore handling the basketball tells me that derrick rose is not 100%. >> mike: fred hoiberg calls timeout before the double-team converges. we'll take a break. 44 seconds remain. bulls' ball, up 7 here in

>> mike: bulls trying to close this out. they have possession, up by 7. houston was down 18 earlier in the period. now trying to get back as the rockets currently in the 8 spot in the west. because detroit lost earlier tonight, chicago now tied for 8 in the east. chicago 22 games left counting tonight. houston 21. both these teams trying to turn around what's been difficult seasons and get into playoffs and make some noise in the post season. dunleavy has to call time. close to a five-second violation. we'll take another break. since when did experience become something to hide? i say we own it.

just let it go. it's just bad energy. oh, and lose those terrible black balloons they give you on your 50th. what's up with that? hey we hear you. that's why our members love aarp the magazine. it celebrates you. with fun and provocative content, from lifestyle and entertainment to in-depth reporting. and it's just one of the great benefits of membership. if you don't think "this is right for me" when you think aarp, then you don't know "aarp". get to know us at aarp.org/possibilities >> mike: houston rockets tonight starting a five-game eastern swing including in toronto where the raptors have been unbeatable recently. then philly, boston and charlotte as they try to secure a playoff spot. looks like they're going to fall short here tonight with 44.4 remaining. >> jeff: boston's been great at home. charlotte is playing outstanding

>> mike: howard will guard the inbound. 11 on the 24. >> mark: with moore, you got to find a way to create an open. >> mike: dunleavy lobs it in. knocked away. another turnover. beverley across the lane, kicks it out in the cosh rner. fakes, fires three, hits. it's a four-point game. chicago will inbound again. houston will not give up. to their credit, keep coming back every time you think this one is over. >> jeff: it's not the penalty. it's side out of bounds. have to have ways to get the ball in. sets to get the ball inbounds. >> mike: howard making the pass difficult guarding the inbounder.

guys who want to go get the basketball. >> jeff: that's more important. >> mike: rose breaks free. they get it to mirotic. fires a wild pass, gets to gasol and gasol is fouled. >> jeff: if howard had hustled, that ball would have been right to him. instead he's trotting. dwight howard just slowly trotting. that's his ball. >> mike: howard has fouled out. that's his 6th foul. gasol will go to the free-throw line. the turnovers, 26 for chicago, 19 for houston. howard fouls out for the third time this season with 8 points, 12 rebounds.

marvelous game, not only those 24 points but he's got 16 boards and six more assists. this is the 31st and 32nd free throw attempt. two important free throws there for gasol. back to a six-point game. timeout houston. 106-100, bulls in front, rockets ball when we come back, no more howard. sweetheart, don't look at me like that, it's gonna be amazing. this is a disaster!

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dropped four in a row and 8 in 18 in the last 26. here's their schedule coming up. against the bucks on monday and a quick one-game trip to texas in san antonio, miami at toronto at washington. after tonight 21 games left but derrick rose continues to play like this, jimmy butler now back, pau gasol, all three of them having strong games tonight with the exception of turnovers, everybody turning it over. ariza asking for some room as gibson trying to deny. inside to harden. harden launches it up. misses, gasol the rebound. fouled by capela. rebound number 17 for pau gasol. >> mark: mike, this is why you love the warriors or you love the spurs.

mistakes that everybody else makes. it does not matter who's on the floor. they compete at a high level. they execute. they have fun and they hold each other accountable. there's a reason why those teams have a small amount of losses during the course of a long season. >> mike: for the rockets it has been so inconsistent. this game a perfect example, as gasol hits another. gasol, 27 points, 17 rebounds, six assists. he's got seven turnovers though. james harden has nine turnovers. the two teams combined 45 turnovers. now an 8-point lead. bickerstaff calls timeout. some of the fans heading out of the united center which was

got a game tomorrow on abc. the sunday showcase presented by bbba compass, golden state warriors at the staples center against kobe bryant and the lakers. coverage begins with countdown at 3:00 eastern. the warriors' historic run just continues. 55-5. just incredible. so many road games --excusee, so many home games to finish, that record perhaps to be broken, set by the chicago bulls in '95-'96. 72 wins. it is within reach. those bulls won 72 and the next

timeout called as the rockets couldn't get it in. rockets now out of timeouts. how are you doing, jeff? >> jeff: i'm doing fine. wow. >> mark: the interesting thing, no team has ever gone undefeated at home for an entire season. spurs are still undefeated at home. >> jeff: who beat them in '95-'96 at home? >> mike: indiana. home? >> mark: we beat them twice. don't blame it on the indiana pacers. that's the rest of the league. >> mike: indiana once and charlotte once. you want. >> jeff: trying to think who they had in 95-96.

>> mike: mugsy? >> jeff: they had a good team. >> mike: inside to ariza. shot clock turned off. they got to shoot quickly. ariza takes a lot of time. puts up a three-pointer. that won't go. harden tips it to himself. go. rebound knocked loose. rose comes up with it and can dribble it out now. hopefully the rockets won't foul him. that will do it. the bulls end their four-game losing streak. pau gasol has a marvelous game and the triumphant return of jimmy butler, after missing 11 games he was excellent tonight with 24 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and good defense. derrick rose with 17 and 9. a food-goodwin

bulls as they move into the 8 spot in the eastern conference and go a game over 500 for the season. butler first game back plays 34 minutes, fouls out for the first time but was excellent on the court. he's with lisa. >> lisa: you fouled out for the first time in your career. what was up with that, watching pau gasol wrap things up? >> that's me being too thirsty for steals. coach is always telling me to stay solid. i'm glad we won. happy about that. >> how did the knee feel? >> good. i was winded a little bit. i need to get back in shape. my teammates have a lot of confidence in me down the stretch. it's a big win. >> you were saying before the game you thought lately your team defense has been soft. how do you think you played defensively? >> we did our thing tonight. in the end, we did what we were supposed to do. >> thank you. congratulations on the win.

>> mike? >> mike: they improve to 31-30 and moving to the 8 spot in the east. the rockets fall to 31-31. they're trying to hold onto that 8th and final spot as the bulls get another victory here at the united center. final score, the bulls 108, the rockets 100. for jeff, mark, lisa, our producer tim, our director jimmy moore and or outstanding abc crew, thanks for watching. up next, late local news except the west coast. we thank you for watching espn

. live from the station taking action for you, this is wfts action news tampa bay. now at 11:00, tallying up the results of super saturday. the big shift this could mean for the campaigns. first a young pilots quick action after something goes wrong during the flight. good evening, a small plane makes an emergency landing on a saint pete golf course. >> thankfully the teen age pilot and his dad are okay. >> reporter: this is not an airport one way but the fair

airplane made an emergency landing saturday. >> i realized it was a plane and i was like, my gosh. >> reporter: the 18 year old pilot and his dad who was the passenger survived without a scratch. no golfers were hurt either. >> from the damage you would think that someone got injured but nobody did. >> reporter: investigators said the plane took off from lakeland when it lost power. they were hoping to get to the airport in saint pete: . the pane's flight path was coming this way when it spun around. pilots are taught that golf course are good places to make

all of the empty space. golfers hitting the course this time did not know about the extra hazard but they still managed to tee off. >> we did not know if we could play but we did. >> reporter: the many was held for several hours as the faa continues to investigate and meanwhile these golfers have a memory to last a lifetime. tonight we are learning more about what grounded an allegiant airlines plane at saint pete airport. pilots canceled the takeoff because of mechanical problems.

she's glad this did not happen midair. >> i was towards the back back and i heard a pop. they immediately slowed down and turned and let us know that it was something in the engine. something had fallen off. >> officials told us they moved passengers to a different flight and all of them received a voucher worth $200. turning to a bug day in the race for the white house with five states casting votes. >> reaction is coming in from the results. heres a live look at west palm beach where donald trump is speaking. actually he's there mingling

he's had some brazen comments. tonight he's asking for marco rubio to drop out saying that he would like to take ted cruz on head on. it will be interesting to see if that occurs. we know with donald trump there is always a surprise: . >> lets look at the five states. both sides battled for kansas and louisiana. democrats weighed in in nebraska. ted cruz claimed kansas over donald trump bringing in 48% of the votes. among democrats in kansas bernie sanders takes the victory with 68%. on to louisiana, both front runners held on to their leads.

and clinton won as well with 67% of the vote. the maine gop primary goes to cruz and in kentucky trump was just declared the winner with a small margin. sanders and cruz pulling a bit of an upset. they suggested that the party nominations are still anyone's game. >> super tuesday was a great night where we convict ris all over the -- victories all over the country. >> on our worse day we are better than the republicans on

>> today's results drimp by huge turn outs. -- driven by huge turn outs. >> earlier today donald trump was met with passionate protestors in florida pt his rally in orlando was interrupted over and over again. here you see a man in a trump shirt getting physical with a protestor. trump called to have each demonstrator kicked out. >> marco rubio also appearing in his home state, holding an event in jacksonville. a loss in the sunshine state would likely crush his bid. right now he's trailing behind trump in florida. many in the bay area took advantage of early voting today, including the mayor. he told us he's throwing his

he said that officials have made the process as easy as possible allowing those with busy work weeks to vote on the weekends. >> in spite of how crazy and demeaning it's been on the republican side, if you do not vote you do not get a voice. >> more than 20,000 people have turned out for early voting. we have a list of all of the voting locations and times on our website, www.abcactionnews.com. now wfts action news tampa bay action weather. >> happy saturday evenings. nice looking night although if you look really closely at our satellite and radar composite you see a front pushing pushing through.

there is no rain associated with it and not much of a chill. temperatures around 60 degrees. 62 in north port. into the overnight we are going to cool down into the low to mid 50s by the time you kickback the covers tomorrow but we are back up into the 70s later on and then the 80s by the work week. we have the full forecast in a few minutes. a hulk hulk hogan business is evacuated and considered unsafe. a large crowd was there to meet

the closure also effects some other local businesses. some people living in madeira beach are fighting back against developers who are looking to build condos and hotel rooms. the group of opponents met today to voice their concerns. they said that the increased traffic would jam up evacuation routes and they think more people on the roads would bring more problems in general. >> it's going to dump 12,000 cars on the streets. it's going to cause public safety problems when you have huge crowds of people here. >> builders said they are working with f dot on traffic plans and developers said these

a protest against the interstate expressway. dozens protested to fight the f dot project. the group, stop tbx said it would force 100 homes, businesses and historic buildings to be demolished. >> a her nand oa county man wanted on three felonies is locked up tonight. we told you about the hunt. david dean had been on the run for more than a week. he was captured in hillsborough county. now we go to pinellas county. a man has been arrested for robbing the b and b bank.

want to know who set a fire in a two story apartment building leaving $2,000 in danch. -- damage. the arson happened in aable on north albany avenue. nobody was hurt. a florida police department warns that someone is calling people pretending to be an officer. they are an attempt to scam people out of cash. multiple people have reported these calls. it's called spoofing. callers claim to be from the irs and claim that people need to headache payments. if you get a call like this, call the police to see if it's

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