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you go ouch. >> clark: those really sting. because you have got what you wanted. time off the clock and a chance to cut further into the deficit. >> verne: 0 for 2. >> clark: barton comes up with it and maintainings possession for memphis. wow! will barton finds a way to get to that offensive rebound. >> verne: that's something. crawford will inbounds it. 55.3 to go. kuric. >> [cheers and applause]. >> [crowd noise]. >> verne: crawford with the answer. and a timeout called by memphis.
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josh pastner wired. >> [shouting]. get up! the retiring athletic director walking out of the building. joshua in a car where he was going to join john calpari at the university of kentucky. and johnson called him and said come back and talk to me. he did. he said i really don't want to stay in memphis as an assistant. he said i am offering you the head coach job. >> clark: at 31 years old. 5 points down. 42 seconds left. if you are memphis, you have 2 or 3 seconds to force a
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turnover. then you have to foul. you have to try to get cooperation from the foul line from louisville. memphis i am talking about. >> yes. >> clark: you get good pressure. try to force a turnover. you have to foul immediately. louisville on the other hand, they want to mike sure they execute. come strong to the ball. and don't turn it over. >> verne: siva. >> clark: you've got to foul. >> verne: jackson fouls him. 39.4 to go. that's the 10th team foul so siva shoots 2. his first time at the line
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tonight. >> clark: i am impressed with this louisville team. figure how banged up they have been. they have not been as smooth offensively as they would like to be. they are gety healthy, this team will be one to be reckoned with. >> verne: jackson. rejected. gorgui dieng out of senegal. he speaks 5 languages and rejected in all 5. >> clark: yeah. i would agree with that. >> [crowd noise]. >> verne: kuric out of bounds. it will be memphis ball. 26.5 to go. and a 7 point louisville lead.
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senate approved a two month payroll tax cut by the fight between the white house and congress over the cuts long- term jobless benefits is likely to resume after the holiday break. hello. i'm bryce johnson. more on that rare saturday session in a moment. first, breaking news. three people in a dog overboard in the bay where their sailboat goes under. there have been a couple rescues thus far but the search continues near sandy point park. lindsey has been out there for hours and is live now. what is the very latest. >> reporter: the very latest is
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they're still searching for one man in the water, starting around 2:00 today when a 20- foot sailboat capsized. there were three people onboard, all together. this happened in the bay. but what is going on right now is that rescuers have launched their search from sandy point state park. that's where they have been able to put their rescue boats in the water. right now they have two people that they've been able to pull out, one is a 25-year-old woman. she was suffering from hypothermia. she was taken to the hospital. they also found a 40-year-old pan, they say he has serious life-threatening injuries. unfortunately, he was not breathing when they pulled him from the water so they were doing cpr. he is in the hospital as well. they're still searching for a third person, a 25-year-old man. and they say that they are still hoping that they find him. right now the captain, james
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rosstech, with anne anne arundel fire, describes how they were able to find out where these people were located from the 911 call. >> it was the female 25-year- old female who made the cell phone call, who was at that time in the water. >> how did you know where they were? >> there's a way in our 911 center you can triangulate the position and come up with a pretty close estimate of where the cell phone call came from. >> rescuers believe the 20-foot sailboat sank. they have to the been able to find it so they have divers in the water with equipment that's called a side scan sonar unit that allows them to see the bottom of the bay and try to find out where this sailboat is. but they're hoping that this 25- year-old young man had his life vest on. they're doing a surface search. they have a help helicopter, boats, they're looking on the water, hoping they find him. they also have an ambulance on
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standby. reporting live, back to you. >> thank you for that report. reporting live from sandy point, update at 11 tonight. flurries around this evening, what should we expect tonight and again sunday morning? less go to the weather center. >> bruce, we have colder air in place and along with that disturbances. we're seeing some light snow and flurries on radar. here's a look at the doppler radar. we're kind of at the owned of the system. this on the southern end of it. and show what is happening in our area. here's a look at live doppler 9000. this is overdoing, it but show you generally north of town, we're seeing some reports of flurries, light snow falling. you can sigh the areas in blue around westminster, mount airy, maybe some light rain around columbia and reports of clarksburg, gaithersburg, seeing flurries as well. and we'll see this continue through tonight and into early tomorrow morning. right now temperatures around
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downtown still mild and the sense we're in the low 40s. but colder in gaithersburg at 34. leesburg 34. and in the lower 30s up north hagerstown. tonight doing last-minute shopping, going out to dinner, parties, bring your coats out and a scarf. cloudy and cold, again flurries are possible north and west of town. maybe around the immediate d.c. metro area. more on that coming up later. but first, bruce, back to you. >> thank you. the top of the newscast we said a rare saturday session, u.s. senators voted to extend a payroll tax cut for two months. it's a temporary fix, that avoids a tax increase for mills of workers in the new year. drew levinson reports tonight the deal also requires the white house to decide quickly whether to allow construction of a controversial transcontinental oil pipeline. >> reporter: senators arrived on capitol hill. >> goat it done. >> for a rare saturday session
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to avoid a government shoutdown. they approved a $1trillion budget bill that funds the government through next year. >> the amendment is agreed to. >> the senate also passed a temporary extension of the payroll tax break. that means at the beginning of the year, 160 million americans won't see their paycheck shrink. >> we stayed in session to present some issues to the american public that were extremely important. >> senators couldn't find the money to pay for the tax cuts for a whole year, so they opted for just a two-month extension. president obama praised the vote but demanded congress do more. >> it would be anker in ex kaiserrable for congress not to further extend this middle- class tax cut for the rest of the year. it should be a formality, and hopefully it's done with as little drama as possible when they get back in january. >> saturday's compromise requires the president speed up a decision on an oil pipeline from canada to texas. he wanted to delay a decision
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on the controversial project. but republicans say it will bring much-needed jobs. >> everybody in washington says they want more american jobs right now. here's the single largest shovel ready project in america. it is literally ready to go. >> the house still needs to pass the revised payroll tax bill before it goes to the president's desk. that is expected to happen on monday. drew levinson, cbs news. the senators also agree to extend long-term unemployment benefits through february giving millions of americans without jobs a little more relief. that young private army private who allegedly gave wikileaks u.s. classified materials has become a hero to some people. demonstrators rallied today outside the base where the 23- year-old is tried for treason. >> reporter: there were several hundred protestors outside fort mead on saturday. >> why wouldn't all of america be here today?
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every one of us out to be here because this kid got a raw deal. >> demonstrators called army private bradley manning a whistle blowing hero, not a traitor, for leaking the largest amount of classified material in american history. >> he's persecuted for just letting out the truth, and this is what the country is about is freedom of truth about some came by bus. others used less conventional methods. >> it's my country that was doing these horrible things. and i'm so grateful that he exposed it. >> but marched outside and inside the second day of a pre- trial hearing that will determine if private manning harmed national security by publicizing classified materials and giving it to wikileaks. his defense attorney claims much of the leaked material posed no breach to national security but it was denied by
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the presiding officer, who has become an object of protestors' scorn. >> it's very clear that he is under the influence of the state department, that he's not impartial, not a real judge. >> the hearing is expected to end next week, and the presiding officer can issue a recommendation as to whether or not he will be court-martial el dorado. but it will only be a recommendation. the general in charge of the military district can accept that recommendation or instead dismiss some or all of charges or decide to issue an administrative punishment. presiding officer now has but eight days to make his recommendation once the hearing ends. we're back in a minute. stay with us. [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices...
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overseas at least nine. and are dead and hundreds injured in two days of clashes between egyptian forces and protestors. soldiers swept in the cairo square today, chasing and beating protestors and tossing journalists tv cameras off balconies. police went under protest as retaliated against military police throwing stones and creating barricades for protection. if you plan to take metro this weekend, be prepared for lots of delays. the transit agency says it will be doing maintenance work on all five metro rail lines until midnight tomorrow night. the red line trains will leave every 10 minutes from shady grove and glen stations.
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but every other train from shady grove will turn back to dupont circle. all of the times trains will leave every 20 minutes. riders should allow extra half hours for their journeys. go to wusa9.com for the complete update on the work and expected delays for this weekend. back in in a minute with the weather.
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westminster, also around east of woods borrow. that trend will continue tonight. temperatures are falling around 40 in downtown, but mid-30s in bethesda, 33 in laytonsville so for the rest of the evening, again, flurries north and west of town. really light stuff. no accumulations expected. but temperatures definitely another chilly one for your sunday. here's your 7-day outlook. near mid-40s for tomorrow. early morning flurries possible, becoming partly sunny. then on monday, a little mild, temperatures back into the lower 50s seasonal for this time of year. we've got showers tuesday, i think wednesday will be a wet day as folks leave town for the holiday, and a milder day also on wednesday in the upper 50s. so no major worries about the flurries, just light stuff. >> thank you. dave is up next in sports.
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welcome back. georgetown had to be wondering what it felt like to play a basketball game. it's within a week since we've seen them and it was a 14-point stroll over howard. today the washington, d.c. tour continuing. au visiting chinatown. there's jeff jones, coughing. there's jt3, hollering. there's charles hinkel, dropping it like it is hot.
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eagles with 16. he averages 22 at on the season. tied at half time until mcgee steals the flush. another steal, hollis thompson and finger roll. georgetown pulls away, 81-65. tough news for alight athlete, jeff green will miss the entire season with the celtics after doctors finds an aneurysm during a routine physical. the good news is they found it. he'll have surgery and resume playing next season. lazy, selfish, disappointing, that's how flip saunders felt about his teaming's perform angst last night. it was only a preseason game but a 25-point butt kicking, enough to send the coke on a diatribe in the press conference. here's why. checkouts all the easy buckets. wizards gave up to guys line spencer hawes. who? he nearly had a career night and on the offensive end washington built a lot of houses with bricks.
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33%. here's more of coach's post- game description. >> how hard we played in practice for the six or seven days of how we competed, that didn't translate over and that's the one thing i was waying to hoping i would see. we came out almost too cool like. >> not work. cal making their first trip to denver to face the avs. caps goaltending dropped off this year from fourth last year to 23rd this year. we'll have highlights tonight. redskins for the meadowlands tomorrow taking on the giants. and ilan dry and jamal brown won't play, hoping to recapture the magical week one when they won 28-14. and finally, big day of football tomorrow on wusa. 1:00, bengals-rams amount the big one. then at 4, patriots and broncos. that's a big one. we'll have highlights at 6, wrap-up at 11, and sports plus
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at 11:35. >> the teebo magic continues. >> i don't think so. >> want to recap? >> sure, flurries, north and west of town tonight. cold night, chilly, and then temperatures for tomorrow near mid-40s, and then we'll see generally partly sunny conditions, back into the 50s though for monday, tuesday. milder with some showers on wednesday. >> at 11 i want to know what you really think of the busy ards last night, horrible. back at 11. bye! >> awful
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