he should be going to the line with the free throw. that is contact on the right hand as he elevates. >> mike: nene badly misses the first free throw. >> jeff: roberson back in fact the game. for this ufsioffensive possessi which to me is some what surprising. >> mark: if he touches the ball, if i'm houston, i'm fouling him. even if he goes the set of screens. >> mike: westbrook has it. beverley on him. >> jeff: you could have fouled him on the screen and it's not away from the play measure shot clock down to five. back to westbrook, and tied up and throws it up and throws it away. excellent defense from nene and beverley. >> jeff: absolutely. superior here. >> mark: he is comfortable with making plays. he is not looking to get him

ball like he is not qualifiequa. >> mike: oladipo is on harden. three on the shot clock. harden on the drive. pulls up and just gets it off in time and nails the jumper. a five-point lead for the rockets as the shot clock was expiring. >> mark: good defense, better offense. james harden. incredible on the offensive end, extremely comfortable. no panic, just me and you. allow me to have this dance. elevates, the bearded one does it again. mama, there go es that man. ♪ ♪ ♪

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abrines will inbound right now. frp oklahoma city. plenty of time. both teams in the penalty. thunder are down to one time-out remaining. westbrook, nears a double-team. finds adams right back. fires a three. rebound, knocked loose out of bounds. last touched by gordon. he couldn't corral it and okc will get it back. not a great shot there. >> jeff: now that is an under statement right there. look at the limited w eed weapot have on the floor. roberson, adams. >> mike: roberson back to westbrook. tries to draw a foul, way ouch the mark, and this is what happened in the end of game two. he was taking a lot of those shots, contested, difficult shots. harden gets away

gets into the front court. pass deflected by westbrook, picked up by adams and a foul on n nene with 21.7 remaining. >> jeff: that is poor clock management. you are not going to go to score. >> mark: force them to foul you. >> jeff: why do you foul 90 feet away from the basket? >> mike: am dams is not a very good free throw shooter. this would make it a three-point game with 21.7 remaining. >> jeff: it's a free throw rebound. if i'm westbrook, i'm dwigoing get involved in the play. this is how you create an extra possession. and i think adams is talking to westbrook about missing the free throw. >> mark: to me, you make the free try. >> mike: gets the rebound. back out, westbrook, bang!

inside half court and it's a one-point game. >> mark: you got foul. >> mike: goshden throws it ahead to ariza. down to nene. lays it in and one. >> jeff: i just don't understand the softness of that foul. you have to foul earlier and you got to foul harder. >> mike: this free throw now enormous, a three-point game. nene 3 for 6. he's now 12 for 12, that ties a nba record for most makes without missing a playoff game. >> mark: shut have happened way before that, if you get in position, it has to be strong. >> mike: huge free throw there to make it a four-point game. what a crazy, chaotic finish. adams executed the miss perfectly off the free throw.

the time line, nails the three-pointer. you couldn't ask for anything better. and that cut it to one with still so much time remaining. but instead of fouling there and ariza has it. ariza got rid of it and wrap up nene, allow them to get the shot off. what a finish here at okc. hey you've gotta see this. c'mon. no. alright, see you down there. mmm, fine. okay, what do we got? okay, watch this. do the thing we talked about. what do we say? it's going to be great. watch. remember what we were just saying? go irish! see that? yes! i'm gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote.

>> mike: the thunder need to score quickly. out of time-out, down by four. westbrook launches a three-pointer. short, rebound up and in. abrines tips it in, 7.8 remaining. they throw it and stolen by westbrook, taken by gordon but a foul. >> jeff: harden guy away with a push off to try to get open. mike, this is absolutely awful basketball by both teams down the stretch. a great tip by abrines. but now watch the push off by harden. i mean, that's blatant. >> mike: and westbrook nearly had the steal. but he had to foul him. >> jeff: i don't understand how that's not called. i really don't. >> mark: the history of the game, we witnessed it. i have a friend who made a play against michael jordan and shoved him.

and 6.2 remaining. the thunder rer oare out of time-outs. and gets that one to go and it's back up to four. westbrook tries to get free. lost the ball, picked up by beverley, beverley's going to dribble it out and the rockets will win and now take a commanding 3-1 lead in the best of seven series. a crushing defeat for the oklahoma city thunder in a bizarre finish here in game four. and the rockets will go back home with a chance to clinch this series on their home floor. nene, a career playoff high 28 points, 12 for 12 from the field and ten rebounds, a sensational performance for the veteran and a disappointing ending for the okc

of the night. he is with lisa. >> lisa: thank you, mike. james, how do you describe the way the game ended? >> terrible. the mistakes in the end of the game. but credit my teammates. they stepped up big and showed up here in game four. now we have to take care of business. >> lisa: what was going on with you? >> just rolled my ankle the last game. didn't have the zam burst and explosiveness like i usually do. i don't make excuses. they teammates stepped up big time. we had a big win. >> lisa: the ankle injury, how do you think it's going to affect you going forward? >> i don't care. i just have to get rehab like i have been doing and focus on the win. >> lisa: nene, 12 for 12, what impressed you most? >> he

he is the reason we bonn the game. >> lisa: what is the key to closing it out? >> get off to a good start and we wish we would have done that in the last couple games and put it away. >> lisa: congratulations. >> mike: the development of the rockets team. harden has an off game, 5 of 16 from the field. 0 for 7 from downtown and they get the playoff win on the road and now lead three games to one. san antonio and memphis, tied at 2-2. golden state is one win away from advancing. final score in a bizarre finish. the roblgts defeat the thunder 113-109. abc "world news" or local news is coming up. nba playoff continues on tnt tonight. celtic and bulls and clippers and jazz. for the producer and director, the outstanding abc crew, for jeff, mark and lisa, mike breen saying thanks so much for watching here on abc, home of the nba finals.

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good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with the showdown on the wall with

president trump demanding congress put up the money. but that could trigger a government shutdown. president trump with a 42% approval rating. but 96% of the people who voted for him would do it again. president trump tweeting about the poll as he faced a friday night deadline to keep the government running. here's david wright. >> reporter: donald trump may be the least popular president since the great depression, at this early stage. >> doing a good job for the workers. >> reporter: but if the election were held today he would win the popular vote. that's the conflicting message of this new poll. and it's a reflection of two things, first, the president's core group of supporters stand by him. second, the democrats have a popularity problem too.

more than half of americans say trump is a strong leader. he gets especially high marks for pressuring american companies to keep jobs here in the u.s. >> we're going to defend our workers, protect our jobs, and finally put america first. >> reporter: three out of four voters, including many liberals, approve. but 61% disapprove of the high-profile jobs he's given his daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner. and 45% say trump is off to a poor start. >> in the grand scheme of things, it's a marathon, not a sprint. >> reporter: this coming week, some major challenges including a tax reform package that's sure to get picked over by both parties and the threat of a government shutdown, midnight friday. the budget battle may hinge on trump's border wall. democrats say they'll refuse to pay for it. >> when the president says i promised a wall during my campaign, i don't thin

he'd pass the billions of dollars of the cost of the wall on to the taxpayer. >> i can't imagine the democrats would shut down the government over an objection to building a downpayment on a wall. >> reporter: today trump insisted the wall is in the budget, just "so we can get started early," insisting, "mexico will be paying in some form." >> the president, busy on twitter today. david, we also know the president loves to talk about polls, and he's tweeting about the new abc news/"washington post" poll? >> reporter: that's right. cherry-picking a few favorable details, details,. tom? >> david, thank you. we move overseas to the results of the landmark election in france. they're in. a far-right nationalist candidate, one step closer to becoming president. her message, an echo of

alex marquardt, in paris tonight. >> reporter: it may be a french election, but the reverberations are being felt around the world. >> voters have been turning out in force. >> ripples could be felt across europe and around the world. >> there are candidates that would like to see france pull out of the european union. >> reporter: the fierce brand of far-right nationalism touted by marine le pen, who is often compared to donald trump. tonight, carrying her into a runoff election. before the results, trump tweeting today, "very interesting election currently taking place in france." but cheers erupting as this crowd learns that le pen is edged out by fellow outsider 39-year-old emmanuel macron, who never held elected office. starting his campaign from scratch a year ago, campaigning on a pro-europe message full of hope and optimism. he also married his former schoolteacher, who is 24 years his senior. >> this is a big loss for marine le pen after leading in the polls for so long. now, many of the anti-le pen

make sure that she loses in the second round. these new york-based macron volunteers motivated by trump's victory to come home to try to prevent le pen from doing the same. >> we wanted to do something and trump gave us the energy we needed. >> reporter: le pen voters are drawn to her anti-immigration, anti-globalist, anti-islamist stance. while macron voters, responding to his youth and uplifting tone. >> he stands for hope and in these tough times people want hope. >> reporter: this race is far from over. the candidates now have two weeks before the final round. no doubt, this is a blow to trump style populism and polls for this head to head matchup have le pen eventually losing out. >> alex, thank you. back here to a deadly fire in new york. two homes destroyed, five dead,

including three children. adrienne bankert is at the scene. >> reporter: flames shooting through the windows, as a fire kills five, three of them children. the first call for help coming at this house in queens, new york. firefighters arrive, as the blaze spreads to a second home. >> all visible fire has been knocked down. >> reporter: neighbors in shock and in tears. >> incredibly difficult to see a family destroyed before their very eyes. >> reporter: we're told the youngest casualty is a 2-year-old. at least one person got out

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back now with an abc news exclusive. the father of the 15-year-old allegedly abducted by her teacher speaking out for the first time. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, the father of the missing tennessee teen speaking for the first time since being reunited. >> sometimes she'll be happy and laughing and back to the same old girl and then sometimes she'll be in a fetal position crying. it's a rollercoaster for her. >> reporter: 15-year-old elizabeth thomas missing for over a month. her former teacher, 50-year-old tad cummins, in fbi custody facing federal charges for kidnapping the teen. what did she l

through a lot and she was very talkative to us but you could tell, that something wasn't quite right. >> reporter: you said she had lost some weight? >> yes, apparently they had, he had not been feeding her. she said they had been eating flowers and things and just the things they would find. >> reporter: the family now saying getting her back is just the first step in a long journey ahead. >> she's going to actually need trauma therapy. she's had to spend over a month getting ready to just, you know, bolt from wherever she is and she still feels very uneasy. >> reporter: to see her struggling with this now as a dad. >> it's very heartbreaking and i know i'm going to have to really brace myself for things that i'm going to hear and i'm going to hear some things that are very hard and they are going to hurt. >> reporter: the family habe

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>> it>> is amazing how fast that fire spready. >> tonight, scrabbling to survive after a fire ripped through a fort washington apartment building. plus, it is only a draw. responders.c. first test their skills for a fire and smoke incident in a tunnel to make sure it never happens again. nearing 100 days. new polls showing favor for president trump. we are breaking down those numbers. 6:30, onc 7 news at your side. through anips apartment in fort washington. we are hearing stories of survival and rescues. a mother lowering her baby from a balcony as others jump to escape the flames and smoke.