10 out of 14 with 2 touchdowns tonight. heinicke can convert. >> cris: i bet you he brings the

house. >> al: a small house. and the pass is caught. for a first down by cayleb jones. he brought it up that time. five guys. >> cris: well, sent everybody out. that's one of the offensive weapons against that blitz is spread them out. and then you have to cover. >> al: rushed out of the pocket again. racing to the sideline. and that stops the clock with 1:13. and a flag is thrown in the end of the play. >> holding, offense number 76. ten-yard penalty, replay first down. >> cris: avion. i was hoping he wouldn't make a play too soon.

he was holding pita taumoepenu. say it fast enough. >> al: of course. that's the trick. on first and 20. that's caught at the 32 yard line. going to be about six yards shy of the first down. teddy bridgewater looking on from the sideline. boy, we sure hope he can make it back some day. four-man rush here. and a little short of the first down, rodney adams. that will stop the clock with 45 seconds. >> cris: sometimes you get unsung heroes in a drive like this, right? saving his quarterback one more time. you can see the eyes all the way across the formation all the way and heinicke saw enough of it to

opportunity now set up. >> al: third and two. this is the tenth play of the drive. all of them passes. yep. it will get automatic first down here. so forget what happens on the rest of the play. usually jumped off. that was aaron lynch. coming across. creating the freebie first down. >> offsides offense number 59 five-yard penalty, results in a first day. >> cris: not just an accident. heinicke had to go hard count there on a third and short knowing if he got somebody to jump he had the first down and saleh no

right off the right side. smelling that sack. >> al: 37 seconds. flushed out. and again stepping out of bounds with 30 seconds. so you got half a minute. you got a second down and nine. >> cris: these are great opportunities for tight ends in this moment. even if there is coverage. you don't have to worry about as a receiver getting hit underneath the chin. pretty much go up with unity now and see what pat shurmur dials up here. >> al: speaking of coverage, not much in play here. second down and ten.

flag is thrown, however. for what it's worth, vikings came in and favored by roughly 6.5. who wants to be that precise anyway, right? >> cris: you can be anything you want right now. >> the ball had left the quarterbacks hands. however, we have holding by the offense. number 68. ten-yard penalty, play second down. >> cris: missed it by one. i'm pretty sure it was collins out there who saw the blitzer coming off the edge. reached out and grabbed the blitzer. watch this right here on the tail end of it. he does his job. gets the first guy. sees the second guy. i think that's what ended up

being called. >> al: time off the clock on these penalty plays. we're down to 26. and so still has -- if they ever get to it. tries to control in the middle. that's caught. probably use one here i would assume and they will as the catch is made by cayleb jones. going to make it third down and eight. i know one thing i'm happy they put the two-point diversion in. aren't you? >> cris: i think they'll go for the tie here. we'll get a lot of action. >> al: i'll take that bet. >> cris: yeah. you know, it would be a nice finish for heinicke to get this

one in. clearly didn't practice much this week and he is just in pain sucking it up. trying to tie it up for al. >> al: yeah, sure. tie one on here. back foot is caught and seven yard line. did he stay inbounds? he did. they have to take a timeout here. they have one left and they do take it for the first and goal coming up next. >> cris: sore ribs and make this throw, watch this fadeaway jumper here. either heinicke sucking it up. making plays. ugh! that one hurt. get out of bounds! boy, if you have -- it's a totally different situation here, right? you have a timeout left. now you have nothing but throws to the end zone. don't really have to worry about the n

>> al: all he's left with. end zone or bust. first and goal. man alive. he is trying to do everything he can to stay together. gutsy, gutsy drive by this guy. who once passed for 730 yards in a division i game when he was at old dominion. so ten ticks remaining. first and goal from the five. seven-point game. four-man rush to the end zone and knocked down at the goal line. >> cris: luckily knocked down because he would have been short of the end zone and the clock would have expired. >> al: the clock shows five seconds and asa jackson who knocked it down. >> cris: really had to come out of the end zone to try to make

the catch and that would have been game over. >> al: yep. game would have ended on the one yard line. jackson is there. five seconds remaining. baltimore and detroit for asa jackson. n now trying to win a spot with the 49ers. likely the final play of the game. throws! no! the flag is thrown. and you have got interference on san francisco which would put the ball at the one yard line. keith reaser is the defensive back. you will have one play. stacy coley the intended receiver. >> pass interference. defense number 27. the ball was at the one yard line. automatic first down.

after the total juggle act. >> cris: did you see the jersey tug? that's what they call automatically. the hand hit the football without really looking at it. you can't tug on it like that. >> al: this is it barring a defensive foul in terms of regulation. and they're going to run it into the end zone! terrell newby to make it a one-point game. boy, that's some drive by heinicke. look at him. stay in and most likely go for two. >> cris: great double team here pushing right back into the end zone and then newby pushes it across. >> al: they will go for two so your prayer has been answered.

>> ready for play signal. please set the play clock at 20 seconds please. thank you. >> cris: interesting. you have a favorite two-point play and not see it here. so they'll come up with something that they don't love in this moment to win the game. >> second short timeout at the half. san francisco. this is a 30-second timeout. >> al: that scoring drive taking 3:44 but seemed like it took half the night. heinicke rolling out left and right and converted on a fourth down. he had two running plays including one for the touchdown. 12 passing plays. two penalties. make two out of three on third down. and then have a chance to win the game. grimacing throughout the whole drive.

gutsy. >> cris: good stuff. you run it for the touchdown. think about running it again. >> al: 6 out of 8. what do you got? >> cris: take a look at coley down here at the bottom. one on one. let's see what you have. >> al: little emotion to the slot left. heinicke chased back. can he get into the end zone? he can! and the vikings win the game. >> cris: ends just as it should. lock at that. preseason game and we got a walkoff home run celebration going on. fireworks. love it. >> al: that's the regular season. that's the game of the week. taylor heinicke.

wow. >> cris: they were trying to go quick screen with the line men coming out here underneath the wide receiver to coley. didn't feel good about it. and heinicke takes off and has to dive with the bad ribs right at the pylon. and here comes everybody. this is a heck of a celebration. this is everybody fired up and heinicke probably just made the team. >> al: or somebody's team. if he doesn't wind up here. that's pretty good. really good. >> cris: think he's thinking about the ribs here? no. he's going for the win. go get it. yeah! love it. >> al: adrenaline plus. 32-31. >> cris: welcome at the celebration. i love that. >> al: man oh man. 32-31, minnesota wins it. weeks from thursday, foxboro. the season begins.

and then sunday night football two weeks from tonight, the giants against the dallas cowboys. sunday night opener. our whole gang, saying good night from minneapolis and we'll see you on september 7th.

right now at 11:00, the damage being called indescribable as harvey soaks texas. we've got the incredible rescues and the stories of resilience. >> i'm storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper here in houston where we're finally getting a break from the rain. and that's a good thing. it's allowing those flood waters to come

but so many impacted here and displayed from homes. we're going to have the story of one woman and her young son here at the hotel. coming up. and we continue to watch heavy rain moving through houston right now. again, this is uncharted tear tear in this area and pretty much the entire united states. we'll talk about this and let you know exactly what's going to happen with the remnants of this that could impact your labor day weekend. the governor of texas says they are measuring the rain these days in feet not inches. and tropical storm harvey could dump an additional 2 feet of rain in the area in the coming days. we begin this evening in the storm team 4 weather area to get you caught up on the remnants of harvey. this catastrophic storm. two people confirmed dead including a woman in houston who died saturday night

first responders and volunteers making thousands of rescues. and we're hearing a lot of stories of heroism like the sheriff of harris county who jumped into 8 feet of water to rescue a man. the convention center in houston is being turned into a megashelter. they're evacuating the most critical patients at the hospital, ask it could take days to get everybody into a safe area. and gas prices are expected to rise. there's no word when the refineries in texas will be able to reopen. all right, so let's begin now. last time we saw at 6:00, we had this new track that's come in and pretty much put everything in a worst-case scenario. how does the new track look? >> same deal. the eye is going to

into the gulf waters, which is only going to pule it a little bit more. let's go ahead and take a look at our maps and show, yeah, this heavy rain. this dry air was circulating along this and rolling right into houston and pushing some of that heavy rain and the moisture just through the northeast. look at this. we still had some heavy bands and heavy rain moving through eastern parts of texas. and we could even some heavier rain lining up just along the area of lake charles and louisiana. of course they've got those flash flood warnings right there. but hurricane harvey continues to knock a punch through the region. these are the estimated rain totals sent friday. and you can see this bulls eye in houston over 15 inches. we had to call our weather service provider who makes these

we had a graphic to make sure it wept up 15 inches. because, again, this is water not snow we're measuring, obviously. so again lots of rain falling in that area. amelia draper has been down there since friday. she's been meeting some amazing people. earlier today she met a father who carried his son on his back and through those raging flood waters. listen to this. >> our family's lives was in jeopardy. >> why do you think your smile is so big today? >> because i'm happy that i lived. >> i'm happy you lived, too, buddy. >> and of course amelia draper continues now with our coverage with even more amazing stories of survival. >> reporter: here in webster, texas thankfully the rain ticking a bit of a break for the

that's going to allow some of those flood waters to recede. good news there. but earlier this morning it was still atrocious here. we ran into one employee lucy who was understandably beside herself. she her and young son had decided to wait it out at their home. we did what we could. we did a facebook live and you helped share the word. >> please come and rescue -- rescue my husband and my kid. >> lucy understandably distraught. her husband decided to wait out the storm in their one story home in houston with their 2-year-old son. their home started taking on water. adding to the angst is a terrible tragedy that happened not too long ago. >> i live next to the bayou. three years ago we had a flood. not as much as it is

lost my 9-year-old son. and now my husband is inside of my house with my son, 2-year-old toddler. and i just don't want to lose another son or my husband. it's very hard for me because i work in a hotel taking care of our guests, and right now they're coming in situations that, you know, they're going through the same thing. and we never, never thought that this was going to be getting worse. >> reporter: lucy told me the last time she could reach her husband, water was up to the mattress in the bedroom. >> he can't right now open doors because water would come in easily. we really need help right now. >> reporter: and thankfully the story has a happy ending. i did hear from lucy on facebook that her husband and son were rescued.

lot of this throughout the area. and of course amelia is going to continue to be down there. she's working really hard in houston. i talked to her by phone. she's going to be down there updating us. i know last time we talked to her she hasn't eaten in 24 hour. she found one place to eat and now she'll be getting some shut eye. keep it here because we're have historic flooding. as for our area tonight, we are looking at nice conditions, very cool conditions. but we've got some rain on the way. so we're going to be talking about that coming up. >> thank you, appreciate it. the power of social media doing some good work tonight. new this evening the governor of texas will be touring the damage. the president tweeted quote, historic rainfall in houston and all over texas. floods are unprecedented and more rain

spirit of the people is incredible. thanks. agencies across the country are heading to texas to provide relief. plus a fair fax county swift boat rescue left today, and they're going to help with rescues. truckloads of equipment and supplies are being taken down to texas. logistics communication and planning are handled at another plan center. the flooding conditions in houston are rapidly deteriorating tonight. a reporter from our sister station has the latest of the catastrophic flooding situation. >> reporter: the situation goes from bad to worse here in houston. take a look at south freeway. it looks like a lake. but it's not. take a look at that sign. it's supposed to be for 15'9"

but here is the problem. the people that need to shelters, evacuees, they're having a hard time getting there. we saw a truck stuck because they're having trouble getting to the city's biggest shelter. and it's not going to get better. and now houston, the city, tells us it plans to open two of its res voyeur reservoirs, releasing more water. >> stay with us as we continue to track tropical storm harvey and its devastating impact it's having. you're going to find some of these dramatic images on our nbc august app. just search harvey. and two people ending up in the potomac river noo near the key bridge. that's where we find our darcy

spencer. lots going on here. what can you tell us about the scene here, darcy. >> reporter: erica, i can tell you just a short time ago i was able to speak to a woman who knows two men who went missing here in the potomac river tonight. both of them have been found. she says that the two men who are very close childhood friends were hanging up on the aqua dock that's right over here. one of them decided to jump into the river, ran into trouble at this point. his best friend jumped into the river to try to help but also went under. that prompted a massive search effort. again, both of them have been taken to the hospital. one in critical condition, the second his condition is unknown. >> i was actually below it.

place on the deck to take pictures. and we didn't see anything but we heard a splash. and we saw there was a boat there and she was trying to hold onto the side of the boat, but he couldn't. and he kept trying to hold onto it, but he couldn't until we just saw him go under. >> reporter: and there were a lot of people here up until just a few minutes ago. some of them were crying, some hugging because they know the two men who went into the river tonight, very concerned about what's going to happen with them. we're waiting from an update on fire and rescue and police on the investigation. we don't have an updateddition on that second victim. but i can tell you that the medical examiner just arrived here on scene. >> thank you. a heads up about what could be a major commute health care in the morning. the roadwork that could start your monday off, oh, just all wrong. the redskins get their first

bangles and it wasn't easy. plus the nationals anthony ren done honoring his hometown as the tropical storm harvey continues to devastate houston. and we're going to go back to texas where first responders are struggling to keep up with calls for help. the message from housn's mtoay

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a live look at storm team 4 radar, and you can see tropical storm harvey just stalled over texas roads

her update in just the next couple of minutes. stay with us for that. a heads up on a few things happening for tomorrow first for computers in the district. beach drive will be closed. drivers will be detoured around the construction zone. we've got more details and the work around in our nbc washington app. just search beach drive. and the long awaited purple drive reaches a milestone. the ceremony is at the purple line operations center in hitsville. it could be ready for rides by 2022. yellow school buses will be hitting the streets. drivers are being urged to pay special attention and allow a little extra time for students stoobe able to head back to class. and we hope tha

great day tomorrow. all right, i want to switch gears and go back to tropical storm harvey. the situation dire as surrounding serb,s as more rain is forecasted for over night and for the next couple of days as nbc's jay gray reports, the state's governor is now sending in 3,000 national and state guard troops to help. >> reporter: communities cut off. homes isolated, islands and neighborhoods swallowed by flood waters. as the race to save thousands in houston grows more desperate by the hour. >> i would have been asleep-in that water if no one would have weet the door down. >> reporter: a helicopter pull these redsdants to sate. while on the ground, despite the warnings drivers still challenge the rising waters. this one rescued by bystanders who saw the dangerous situation unfold. >> i

and asked her did she need help or whatever. and she said yes. so i got one of my rescue team buddies and asked her to stay calm and we were going to get her. >> reporter: many stayed safe with only the things they could carry. and today people in the fourth largest city are struggling to find room. >> because of the widespread flooding that has taken place over the last day or so, there are a number of people that don't have a place to go. >> reporter: the convention center downtown has been converted into a massive shelter. but there's concern it just won't be enough with more rain on the way. jay gray, nbc news, houston. >> all right, we want to go back to storm team 4. with this new track not helping.

going back out to the gulf for next couple of days? >> that means it reintensifies for just a little bit, which they don't need. this thing it's just sitting there and spinning at least through next week, or amid this week, wednesday, thursday. so these heavy bands are going to continue to feed from the really warm gulf water. we're talking 89, 90 degrees is that water down there. so only fume for the fire. they've got tornado watches up, flash flood warnings obviously up there. we have some dry area trying to circulate in here and pushing this up to the north and east. but, again, we're going to have to deal with more flooding. these are the rainfall estimates from friday at noon. again, a lot of heavy rainfall in that area. we're talking about over 15,