immediately after the game except on the west coast. four three-and-outs last five drives. >> phil: within five yards at the line of scrimmage. >> jim: rodgers to rogers, look at the tight end go. down by wilson picked up 24. >> phil: they worked so hard. then they run out with the snap they get caught by play action fake. that was direct result, that play from, the starting play of the last drive with the blitz caused the fumble. okay, want to be impressive against the run they run the play action to put themselves in good position.

>> jim: to starks. for a couple. >> phil: how did san diego get back into this game this this is the biggest reason of all. the pass rush, zone players aaron rodgers move out makes all the plays. i think this least i've seen him move around maybe this year. even though it's early he made some big plays overall it's been good job. >> jim: saw wettle on the sideline. rodgers able to escape. the touch back to the middle, taken down at the 20. >> phil: he gets away unblocked.

aaron rodgers makes the move to get outside. >> jim: jeff janice has caught a couple of balls today both of them big. one for 46. this one for 33. one of them was first one went fo on the packers opening drive to start. plowing ahead to the 15. you're looking here about how you can hold them to a fieldgoal, you got three timeouts left. >> phil: this is a must. he's looking up at the play clock, realizing aaron rodgers doing a good job taking time off the clock.

>> jim: second and five. look at that pass, lost it just over out stretched arms of starks. rodgers a little upset at himself he expects to make every throw. >> phil: yeah. he had it. connor on starks. starks is not a featured downfield receiver with this football team. >> jim: pear man is out. third and five. time out. did not get the chargers to jump. have this third down snap come up in a minute. it will be a big one.

>> phil: it's a big one what do do you. put the pressure, if you want to win this game, hold it to fieldgoal, you're going to have to blitz. if you're the san diego chargers. jim: look at >> jim: look at time of possession here. 470 for san diego. philip rivers told us yesterday afternoon, we put up a lot of yards just not matching number of points that we have to get. he goes, this league, he even said it. that's not enough. got to get more than that to give your team great chance to win. >> jim: love to see his defense. john pagano's defense make the stop right here. >> phil: they had melvin in gap best pass rusher within the

middle. now he's back outside. they changed their defense after that time out. >> jim: alongside rodgers. here is third down play. rodgers, flag is down. brandon flowers is furious. >> phil: great defense. they were going to make aaron rodgers get rid of it. coming all the way around from the center. aaron rodgers got rid of it. >> referee: prior to the pass, holding, no. 24. defense. five-yard penalty automatic first down. >> jim: second penalty of the game against flowers. >> phil: a lot of contact. even put his arm out with the

arm bar. tough being a corner. one on one. just cab put your hands on him. especially more than five yards down the field. >> jim: first and ten. where he got hand off. no gain. next sunday the nfl cbs features regional action for those of you in buffalo and jacksonville, you'll see the bills and jags at 9:0 a.m. eastern from london. then later you'll have likes of the jets against patriots. steelers and the chiefs taking on dolphins. another regional action all gets started with the nfl today. next sunday here on the home of super bowl 50. f.m. the two minute warning three timeouts. hold him to a fieldgoal.

>> jim: rodgers rolling rolling. throwing it away. melvin ingram. >> phil: coverage down the field. they got it. by this time aaron rodgers james jones double teamed by the time bob comes open, aaron rodgers moving out of the pocket chased by melvin indram. >> jim: third and goal. throws it. incomplete. richard rodgers tried to reel it in. now green bay will have to bring it out mason crosby.

>> phil: three-man rush this time. extra defensive backs are there. they're lucky. because it looked like safety that time -- >> jim: darren stuckey in for weddle. >> phil: almost too late. a little too careful with the throw. >> jim: 28 yards for crosby. marge is in now seven. green bay with five snaps inside the 20. but only managing three. announcer: this is iphone 6s. not much has changed. except... it responds to the pressure of your finger. which changes how you read a text. read an email. read the news. wait you read the news? kid: yep of course you do. the camera shoots 4k video now. and selfies have changed. now your screen is the flash. that's gonna get, like a million likes. selena: thanks. actually, photos themselves have changed. they move now. so yeah, that's what's changed.

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jim: well, the chargers >> jim: the chargers have all three timeouts plus two-minute warning. plenty of time at 2:37. >> phil: what i'm going to look for, they could be conservative green bay last couple of plays but san diego does not handle the pressure great.

>> j tim:hrew the hands of jones. the touchback. both games have been the order of business for san diego t year. week two at cincinnati. the cleveland game chargers on lambeau fieldgoal. and again last week against pittsburgh. that game against cleveland i mistakenly said earlier over time game. end of regulation when lambeau won it for them. give it a second chance. a toss. waiting for that blocker. great drive. hardest thing about two-minute drive into the game just getting it going.

that's what you do as a coach. do what i call a grave drive started pick up first down. >> jim: mika hyde is back in at strong safety. the blitz. looking for a lane he's got 11 more. that will bring us to the two-minute warning. they pick up a good chunk on each play. >> phil: double blitz up inside. perfect play the screen outside. doesn't it seem like the wireless world today could use a smile? at cricket wireless, we think so. that's why, prices for plans are all in taxes and fees included. and we've got more 4g lte coverage

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operate, so many ways to get it done. >> jim: been quite a show. rivers has just franchise record with his 38th completion next pass will be also a san diego record. it's caught on his 59th throw. picks up five. again they have all three timeouts. >> phil: not like this defense. six man on second play. up the middle. somehow caught by gates. gates never saw the football coming. philip rivers anticipates.

across the formation. >> jim: look at the one-handed catch. >> phil: seen so many of them. the anticipation by rivers. pressure was there. he let's the football go at the last second. gates sees it. how about mika, he's been so close so much so many times. >> jim: rivers just rewritten the chargers single game record book most yards most attempts, most completions. he's up to 467. just used their first time out with 1:19 to go.

over to woodhead. he steps out of bounds to stop the clock at 1:14. another 11-yard gain. >> phil: they do it again. out of bounds is great. watch the two blitzers. this is why pittsburgh under years ago everybody in the league copies it. once again san diego ready for it. the quick pass to danny woodhead. >> jim: time for five on this drive. 500 yard gain. all he cares about finding the end zone. first down. hat 14 yard line with gates. >> phil: green bay is doing everything. i think every snap has been a

different defense. so far this drive none of them have worked. >> jim: hold on to the time out. wondering if that was a catch. first down throw. it is caught by green for another 11 but flag comes out. >> phil: beautiful throw. makes the flow. he stuck in the ground because he knew he couldn't step up. >> referee: illegal hands hands to the face, no. 95, defense. penalty is declined. result of the play is completed pass. first down. >> phil: watch him as he there's this outside. never really turns just kind of stops. throws it out there. like a baseball pitcher that has about seven different deliveries. >> jim: that gives philip rivers 500 yard gain for first time in his career.

>> phil: everything is at their disposal of course, still have two timeouts. 3 seconds. got to be alert if you are inside player on defense for a draw play. >> jim: 3 seconds. first and goal. woodhead. met by mathews who shoves him back. time out with 28 seconds. >> phil: in situations like this. you've talked about weapons the tight ends running backs all that. but also this is where you like a big running back, jim who can smash it in there with some big offensive linemen. we've talked about it. the reshuffled offensive line of the san diego chargers when do

you all that, hardest thing to do is to run the football. >> jim: melvin gordon was shaken up in that first half otherwise you would think this would be the spot for him. >> phil: nothing else to fool the defense. >> jim: lost gordon and keenan allen who was off to fantastic start and weddle the story coming in. one time out to go. second and goal from the two. gates. looked like woodhead might have been open. >> phil: he could have been open if gates gone over and under. philip rivers if he had looked ahead could have walked into the end zone. nobody looking at the quarterback. >> jim: look at woodhead. >> phil: he was wide open.

you are right. go to the right side. the deep receiver, he picked the wrong one. >> jim: another heart stopping finish for san diego. coming down to the final seconds. trying to tie it here at lambeau field give it to woodhead. especially jones. now have to take their last time last time-out and fourth and goal is coming up. phil: so many times it's about the guess. in other words feel, what do you think you're going to do? if they'd have run it the play before with the defense we saw where rivers threw it incomplete, it would have been a touchdown. jim: we have the same thing going on here that happened at the end of the first half. a fourth and goal. in that case they were about a foot away. here the ball is marked at the 3

and again tough last-play scenario on monday night. phil: you could just about pick which guy you want to throw to. it's going to be man-to-man coverage. which matchup does philip rivers like the most? his first priority usually is gates but he's going to be double covered. jim: rivers throws and it's knocked down incomplete by randall! and the packers are going to survive san diego's best punch. phil: well, it was a great learning experience today for randall. out of the backfield reads the quarterback and wow, what a break on the football. and antonio gates couldn't get into the pattern because he was

contacted so far at the line of scrimmage. jim: 503 yards passing for the game but he needed three more. aaron rodgers and the packers are going to go into their bye week unbeaten. phil: well, he was looking for antonio gates. green bay was ready for it. what a play by randall to end the game. jim: what an amazing game it was. well the rookie was taken in the first round out of arizona state. he won a game ball in his very first game when they opened up at soldier field in chicago and he may be receiving another one after saving it there. rivers and rodgers two of the

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seekers doubled, then tripled. how is europe dealing with this wave of desperate people? to find out, we started where most of the new arrivals first set foot in europe-- the small greek island of lesbos. they begin to arrive in the delicate light of dawn, war- weary and desperate, packed into rubber boats never meant to cross such a sea. the boats are supposed to hold just 12, but 40 to 50 men, women and children are squeezed on board. most have traveled for days or weeks from syria, iraq, or afghanistan just to reach the turkish coast. then, for the six-mile journey across the aegean sea, they've paid turkish smugglers a small fortune-- as much as $1,500 apiece, half-price for kids.

when they finally land on lesbos, scared, exhausted, many have no idea where they are. we noticed one of the first things they do is unwrap cell phones protected in plastic. they want to call their relatives to let them know they didn't drown. ahmed dosum and his wife and son left syria just six days ago. where are you hoping to go? >> ahmed dosum ( translated ): germany. >> cooper: why germany? >> translator: his nephew is there. >> cooper: this your son? you hope he gets a new life in germany? >> dosum ( translated ): we hope a better life for him, and to never suffer like his father. these marks are from the bomb, the barrel.

>> cooper: barrel bombs. so, you feel safe now? >> dosum: thanks to god. >> translator: he just kissed the ground. >> cooper: in the hour and a half we were on this stony stretch of beach, 15 dinghies arrived. and elsewhere on the island, there were plenty more. some 4,000 people land here each day. nearly three quarters are syrian, and they don't stay on the beach very long. >> kirk day: they have an internal clock. and they are desperate to get to europe as quickly as possible. >> cooper: kirk day is the emergency field director for the international rescue committee on lesbos. >> day: what they leave behind first and foremost is the lifejackets. >> cooper: i mean, this is the kind of thing a child is... you know, wears in a swimming pool. it's not what you wear crossing an ocean. >> day: no, and it says right here, "not for use in boating." and i think our main concern is that you're going to continue to

have high numbers of refugees coming. and i think, unfortunately, what we're going to have is more capsized boats and more drownings. because this is not going to save anyone's life. >> cooper: while we were on lesbos, four people who drowned and washed ashore were buried. no one knew their names. more than 3,000 people have drowned trying to reach europe so far this year. engines often fail and overcrowded boats capsize. that's how this three-year-old syrian boy, aylan kurdi, drowned in september. after these photographs of his body on a turkish beach were seen around the world, volunteers started showing up on lesbos to help new arrivals make it onshore. but for months, it's been private aid groups like the international rescue committee doing what the greek government, hobbled by its own economic crisis, was not able to do. governments aren't giving you money? >> day: no. and it's as if there's been an

attrition strategy put in place. make it as difficult for people to come. make them risk their lives. make them live in unsanitary conditions, and fewer and fewer people will come. and nothing could be farther from the truth. >> cooper: who are the people who are coming? >> day: in the beginning, it was mostly syrians. and mostly they were men, and everybody was saying, "they're all young men, they're all young men. where's the families?" over the course of the past three months, you've had a higher percentage of women and children come. male members of families went first to see that it was safe and to get settled into europe and then are calling for their families to come. >> cooper: syrians and others have to get fingerprinted and registered before they can leave lesbos. the process used to take up to a week. now, it's so fast that when we went to the port where a ferry departs daily for athens, we were surprised to see ahmed dosum and his little boy. just ten hours after arriving on the island, they had their ferry tickets and were ready to leave.

so, you got registered? oh, you got the ticket, okay. their journey won't be easy. the route to germany keeps changing as borders open and close along the way and greater controls are put in place. from greece, most now travel through macedonia, then serbia croatia, slovenia, then on through austria. at austria's border with germany, we found hundreds sleeping in tents waiting to be allowed to cross. german authorities had just slowed down the entrance process. only a handful at a time were being allowed in. not far away, at salzburg's central train station, hundreds more waited in an underground garage. >> heinz schaden: the maximum capacity here in this shelter is 800, but we've had nights where we've had 1,300 here. >> cooper: heinz schaden is mayor of salzburg.

he has no idea each day how many people he will have to find shelter for. do you get advanced notice when germany decides to slow the number of people coming through? >> schaden: i don't get advanced notice but i notice right away. >> cooper: can you even imagine what would happen if germany closed its borders? >> schaden: i don't want to imagine that, because then we have a situation which will be a humanitarian catastrophe. >> cooper: do you worry about security? do you really know who a lot of these people are, where they're really from? >> schaden: i'm not worried about security. and if a terrorist really wants to come to our country or to germany or anywhere in europe, they find their ways, they don't need the refugees. and they certainly do not march along with the refugees all the way from turkey through southern europe. >> cooper: when a train for germany is expected, many who've waited for days rush to line up, hoping their chance has finally come.

but while we were there, just one train left salzburg for germany. on board, we found mohammad pathlavay and his mother. they left baghdad two weeks ago. do you know much about germany? >> mohammad pathlavay: germany? not that much, no. >> cooper: what do you think it's going to be like? >> pathlavay: i think better than anything. >> cooper: better than anything. what are you most looking forward to? >> pathlavay: i just want to have a good life, like, with my mother in peace. >> cooper: it was oktoberfest when we got to munich. there was music and bratwurst and plenty of beer-- a culture shock for anyone, but for muslims from a war zone, it must seem especially strange. do they have a real sense of what life in germany is going to be like? >> katharina el masri: i often hear germany is a jannah, and a

"jannah" is an arabic word for "paradise". and obviously that is not the case, you know... >> cooper: the streets are paved with gold. >> el masri: yeah. >> cooper: katharina el masri runs save me munich, which helps new arrivals learn to adjust to life in germany. they think it'll be easy to find a job, find housing, get... >> el masri: sure, sure, but the relatives who are already in germany, you know, they would call home and tell them, "oh, it is amazing here. you know, i'm having a good life, i'm very successful." obviously, in most cases, that is not true. >> cooper: more than 500,000 new arrivals have already crossed into germany in the last nine months. the german government expects half a million more by the end of the year. they're placed in shelters throughout the country where they have to wait for months to be granted asylum. if they are, they get free language classes, full government benefits, and can start looking for a job.

what are the biggest challenges? >> el masri: the biggest challenge definitely is to find housing. at the moment, we're having such a huge influx that the community shelters are completely overcrowded, you know? people are sharing rooms with five, six, seven other men, you know? there is no space for privacy. >> cooper: in berlin, fights have erupted as frustrated asylum seekers wait days in lines in order to register. and smaller cities are struggling to find shelter for so many people. wolfgang panzer, the mayor of unterhaching, a town of 24,000 has been told to expect at least 1,000 new arrivals. he says he welcomes them, but for now, can only put them in temporary shelters like this. so do you have other spaces, if more people come? >> wolfgang panzer: no, that's our problem, we have no spaces.

>> cooper: is germany being asked to do too much, compared to the rest of europe? >> panzer ( translated ): from my point of view, yes, especially when it comes to the amount of people. what our government did is what led to all these masses coming to us. >> cooper: many germans now agree. chancellor angela merkel's approval rating has dropped, and while germany, with its aging population, needs new workers, absorbing so many so fast is a $6 billion burden, with no end in sight. a lot of people don't want them here. >> el masri: they would say, yes, we have to take them in, we have to integrate them. but please not in my neighborhood, you know? and that is not because these people are racists. this is often that idea stems from the fear of the unknown you know? >> cooper: one of the syrians katharina el masri is trying to help is bassam al tarifi, a doctor who has been in a shelter in munich since august.

he gets about $160 a month from the german government. it'll take him months to get asylum, and it could take him more than a year to be allowed to bring his wife and five daughters from turkey. so, it's much harder than you had realized. >> bassam al tarifi ( translated ): when it became a year, a year and a half, that was something i did not expect at all. >> cooper: dr. bassam is desperately lonely, but won't allow his family to take the dangerous journey by boat, as he did. >> al tarifi: i might risk my own life for my children, but there is no way i could risk my children's lives. >> cooper: the number of new arrivals may drop in the next few months because crossing by sea in winter is especially dangerous. but come spring, a new wave of asylum seekers is once again expected to wash up on lesbos'

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make-a-wish became famous by making dying children's final wishes come true. a child doesn't have to be terminally ill anymore to get a wish. last year, the organization granted more than 14,000 wishes. they cover a broad range-- some children get to meet famous athletes; one had much of san francisco pretend he was batman for a day. another chose to jump from an airplane. we wanted to find out what leads to these wondrous moments. make-a-wish is a growing organization that spent more than $200 million donated on wishes last year. it's headquartered in phoenix, has more than 60 local chapters across the country, and almost 40 more around the world. to see how wishes become reality, we spent time with some of its most dedicated volunteers in one of its most active chapters, in the northeast corner of arkansas. there, despite persistent poverty, we found inspiring

generosity. >> you're fine. appreciate you so much. >> whitaker: they begin at dawn. one day a year, hundreds of volunteers fan out across northeast arkansas to raise money-- at street corners... >> good morning. thank you all. >> whitaker: ...in schools. >> $5,000... >> whitaker: their goal? >> thank you so much. >> whitaker: to get enough money on this one day to grant every wish for the area's sickest children. volunteers christie matthews and danna johnson have run this fundraiser every year since 1999. >> christie matthews: i mean, it literally just exploded. every year, we would add another town. >> whitaker: but this is small town america. they're very small towns-- 600 700 people. >> matthews: a handful of change at a time. >> whitaker: as this day's donation deadline approaches groups of volunteers race to the local radio station to announce their town's total down to the

penny. >> give me a number. >> $8,468.62! ( cheers and applause ) >> $25,301! ( cheers and applause ) >> $12,054.55! ( cheers and applause ) >> golly! the big finish is just moments away. stand by! >> whitaker: the total tally from northeast arkansas is the big story on the 7:00 news. >> what do we have here? $323,000! ( cheers and applause ) >> whitaker: that's $323,000-- enough to grant more than 30 wishes donated from places with little to spare. in harrisberg, 40% live in poverty, but this town of 2,000 still contributed $25,000. the wishes were going just to children who were dying. and that's no longer the case?

>> matthews: we talk about it not being a last wish, but we create lasting wishes and memories that these families can take on forever. hi, kaden! >> whitaker: kaden erickson is fighting a deadly type of leukemia. at his interview as a potential recipient, he thought his wish was a long shot. >> kaden erickson: my number one wish choice is to go to australia. >> whitaker: folks here make granting the wish a big surprise. months after his interview kaden thought he was getting this plaque just for being a make-a-wish volunteer. >> erickson: "make-a-wish, october 11, 2014. kaden erickson, your wish has..." ( applause ) "your wish has been granted!" >> hey, kaden, you're going to australia! ( cheers and applause )

>> whitaker: his mother jeanne. >> jeanne erickson: he was just shaking the plaque. and his little legs were just doing a little happy dance in the chair. and it was... it was something pretty special. >> whitaker: you must have been surprised? >> kaden erickson: i was the most surprised i've ever been in my life. >> kendra street: i'm so excited for you, you know it? >> whitaker: kendra street choreographed kaden's surprise. when not playing fairy godmother, she's teaching at marmaduke elementary school. everyone at the school chipped in to pay for kaden's wish; many turned out to share the revelation. >> kaden erickson: i get to go to australia! i get to go to australia! >> street: he was excited. he was grateful. and he knew what it meant for him and his family. >> kaden erickson: thank you everybody. >> whitaker: kaden had endured two excruciating bone marrow transplants.

when he, his parents, and four siblings hit the beach in australia, they hoped he'd beaten the cancer. the highlight of his trip? >> kaden erickson: got to hold a koala. >> whitaker: did he, like, put his arms around you? >> kaden erickson: he... it was like a hug. it was about as heavy as a baby. and it would put the claws here and the claws here, and so it was like you were getting hugged by a koala. you kind of get attached to the koalas. >> whitaker: did it make you forget for a while that you were sick? >> kaden erickson: yes. it made me feel a little bit normal, more normal than i've been for a while. >> whitaker: feeling normal didn't last long. shortly after returning home kaden learned his cancer had returned for the third time. as we settled in for our interview, his mom jeanne adjusted the medication he needs. it's pumped into his body next

to his heart. you're in quite a struggle with this disease. >> kaden erickson: there are some bad things in my body that are kind of stubborn. >> whitaker: i think you're kind of stubborn yourself. >> kaden erickson: thank you... i think. >> whitaker: kaden is so stubborn that, after deliberating for a week, he decided to undergo a third agonizing bone marrow transplant. the previous two were so difficult, his parents didn't want to force him to go through it again. how did you make that decision? >> kaden erickson: would i rather just die or would i have a chance of living? it was a tough decision to make. >> whitaker: because the therapy makes you feel bad? >> kaden erickson: it can make me feel bad. it can hurt me.

it could do more harm than help, so i'm just hoping this time it will get rid of it for good. >> whitaker: kaden's wish- granter, kendra street, was devastated when she learned his cancer had come back. >> street: you have an attachment with your kids, and kaden's one that i've really attached to. and i've gotten to keep in touch with him, and so, seeing him have to go through that again, it's... it's just painful. he's just a really amazing kid. >> let's give kendra a round of applause. ( cheers and applause ) >> whitaker: you see, kendra had survived her own fight with cancer. back when she was in high school, she had her wish granted. >> make-a-wish foundation is sending you to the atlanta braves. ( applause ) >> whitaker: getting to meet the atlanta braves was thrilling she says, but...

>> street: not to underestimate what my wish was for me, but if i had to sacrifice having my wish to be able to give it to someone else, i would definitely be willing to give it to someone else. >> whitaker: being the granter of the wish is the better end of the deal. >> street: absolutely. you get to give that joy. you get to pass it on to someone else. >> whitaker: the same chapter passed it on to gavin grubbs. he suffers from debilitating muscular dystrophy, and his wish was to meet race car champion joey logano. the day we met them outside charlotte, joey took gavin for a spin. they met five years ago, and have become so close, they call or text each other every week. >> joey logano: can you see anymore? >> gavin grubbs: i can't see. >> whitaker: gavin was a groomsman at joey's wedding. it all began back when gavin was eight.

>> make-a-wish is sending you to the daytona 500! ( cheers and applause ) >> whitaker: at a school assembly, gavin learned he'd get his wish to go to daytona and meet his hero. then, it got better. logano had flown to arkansas to be part of gavin's surprise. ( cheers and applause ) gavin may have a serious disease, but, as you'll see, he doesn't take himself too seriously. so, gavin, tell me, you are fighting a rare form of muscular dystrophy. >> grubbs: yes, sir. >> whitaker: how does it affect you? >> grubbs: main thing is i don't have the strength of a normal kid my age. obviously, i mean, i'm in a wheelchair, but it's not all sad because, i mean, you're... when you got a disability, people give you free stuff. ( laughs ) people let you do cool things.