hokeys fans headed to blacksburg.lemson and virginia tech kick off is at 6:00. 48 degrees with a northwest wind at 15 to 20 miles per hour. hold on to your hands. if your headed out to navy marine corp. memorial field. the air force academy coming in to try to beat our u.s. naval academy. i don't think so. navy's only loss was to your carolina gamecocks. pack the slickers and umbrellas. >> that was a close one. >> if you want your game on send it to me. >> thanks, chuck. >>> the time right now is 6:52. >>> coming up, the upset win in high school football. it's our game of the week after this short break. this short break. so stick around. oh, i see. a throne for the tv... room for movies... your workout gear... non-stop football... it's a man cave! the boys next door will never leave. who says we want them to? >>> you're watching news 4 today. >>> all right. we previewed the redskins game against those rams. >> it's going to be a biggie tomorrow. we check out the action on the diamond. we have your morning sports. >>>

hokeys fans on their way down to blacksburg hosting the hurricanes from miami today. a 3:30 kickoff. 75 degrees perfect weather for college football in blacksburg. >> i'm sure a lot of fans are there. >> a huge fan base commutes from here every weekend. >> thanks, chuck. >>> new overnight, a dramatic rescue is caught on tape. after a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the ocean. the pilot was flying his twin engine plane from california to hawaii when he road for help. he said he was about to run out of fuel. a coast guard crew had their camera rolling as they guided the pilot down for a safe yet very bumpy landing on the water. this was about 13 miles short of the big island. the pilot was hoisted into their rescue helicopter and flown to a hawaiian hospital where he is expected to be okay. >>> there's an unusual recipe brewing downtown. right now two very different groups there setting upside by side. >> on one side frustrated americans protesting for change. on the other, foodies who just want to eat. derek ward is live in northeast where it is all goi

there's a 3:30 kickoff in blacksburg. be ready for perfect football weather. 75 and sunny. maybe the lack of humidity will help the home team. >> let's hope. >> hoping for a hokey win. >> that was a tough loss last week. >> thanks, chuck. >>> today protesters will gather for the third straight day of the occupy d.c. demonstrations. yesterday protesters marched from freedom plaza to the world bank calling for the end of the wars in afghanistan and iraq. u.s. park police say yesterday's march was peaceful and they didn't make any arrests. the demonstrations have gotten so large police were shutting down streets so protesters could cross. the protesters have a permit to stay at freedom plaza until sunday. many say they're planning to continue their demonstrations well beyond that. >>> you might want to rethink your travel plans around d.c. this weekend. >> the occupy d.c. demonstration is one of many on instructions. close to the demonstrations the taste of d.c. is back after being gone for almost eight years. it features hundreds of local restaurants as well as beer tents and

in blacksburg, homecoming for virginia tech. third quarter, hokies trail by one. to david wilson, he's a speedy fellow. you can't stop wilson, dives in for a 42-yard touchdown, finished with 134 yards rushing. very next possession, thomas throws up for marcus davis, and he hauls it in for a 20-yard score, number 12 virginia tech defeats boston college 30-14. hokies improve to 7-1. >>> let's go to charlottesville, cavaliers hosting mike lennon and the wolfpack. second quarter tied at 7, play action. perfect pass to brian underwood. 33 yards scoring. he finished with three touchdowns, nc state up 14-7. uva trails 31-14. back to pass, off the hand of tim smith, and into the hands of david anderson, the cavs have four

frank hanging out in blacksburg, hoping to get a win for his hokies.nd this is not what the hokies like to seal. punting from their own 26. michael brantover goes just nine yards. leaving bc with a big opportunity to capitalize. and capitalize they do. first and goal, chase redick keeps it and rushing in for the two-yard score. hokies defense, just letting them walk right in. easy touchdown. 7-0 boston college. third quarter, bc down 7-6. logan thomas pitches to david wilson. check out david wilson. he can fly. 42 yards for the score. virginia tech now takes the lead 13-7. same score later in the third. thomas, to davis, 20 yards scoring strike. hokies up 20-7. right now virginia tech leads 30-14 in the fourth quarter. we'll have the final for you at 11:00. >>> in charlottesville, second quarter, no score. michael rocco scrambles and throws back for clifton richardson. nice grab. six-yard touchdown. 7-0 lead. later, tied at 7. wattford in for a quarterback. not a good decision here. it was picked off by damned amerson. leads the nation in interceptions

the tigers came into blacksburg looking to be the first team in a krm acc history to beat three rankedms in a row. things jumping. the tigers would quiet the crowd. up 10-3. a virginia native recruited by tech burns the team. hits dwayne allen 32 yard touchdown. same score in the fourth. handoff goes to mike and he's rumbling. 31 yards to the house. bellamy combine for 323 yards on the ground against hokies defense which was ranked fourth in the nation. check out that bath. virginia tech snaps their 12 game acc 12 game winning streak as clemson goes on to win 23-3. >>> the terms hosting in-state towson. first quarter, maryland possession. terms drive down the field. o'brien hands it off to d.j.. nice tackles. 15 yards for the touchdown. maryland goes up 7-0. third quarter towson with the ball. down 7-3. towson's quarterback -- right in the hands of kenny tate. terms linebacker comes up with an interception, capitalize on the drive later as justice pickett goes in for a five yard td. still leading by that score in fourth, third in goal, o'brien finds dorsey who pushes his way into the e

and clemson went into blacksburg and beat virginia tech. >>> baseball playoffs now. game one between the yankees was suspended due to rain. tonight, they picked up where they left off. cici kicked back and watched robbie cano. >> deep right field, it is high. it is gone. grand slam. robbie cano. don't you know, the grand slams into the second. >> cano drives in six runs total and the yankees take game one, 9-3. >> they are going with the playoff stash in texas. the rays jumped out to an early lead. a two-run blast to make it 3-0 rays. 5 homers in the series so far. the rangers fought back in the 4th who didn't exactly live up to the big game nickname. mike with the two-run single. texas scores five runs in the inning and they g on to win 8-6 to even the series at a game a piece. >> miller park was very good to the brewers this season. they led the majors with 57 wins at home. bottom of the 7th, milwaukee up 2-0 on arizona. a two-run homer off kennedy. kept bernie brewer busy lately. the diamondbacks didn't have much success against milwaukee. he gives up just one run

back towards blacksburg and shenandoah valley. watch what happens through the night and into the day on saturday. this is 11:30 in the morning. very cold air. a lot of snow back towards western portions of virginia and west virginia, western maryland. but then rain. and i think this will be mostly a rain event for most of us. i'm talking about a lot of rain. maybe an inch to an inch and a half of rain around the washington, d.c., area and points to the east. it will be rainy. it will be cold on saturday and it will be rather windy. the snow. when do we have a chance to see that snow? as the storm system intensifies and pulls away. look how close the snow gets to the washington, d.c. area. around 6:00, 7:00 at night and i think even toward the east you may see a few flakes. on sunday, it's just going to be cold and we will see some sunshine. who is going to see what? again, a very tough forecast. but this is my early call right now. i'm thinking 3 to 6 inches around i-81 to the north and west. maybe more here. this is what we're re

so long from blacksburg, virginia. a true legend of the game guiding the oakland radars look at ups and downs. sometimes crass, always controversial but he had a true love of the game. tonight we remember the owner of the oakland raiders. al davis. >> good evening, i'm animal wong. the bay sear and the nfl across the country lost a football icon today. long time raiders owner al davis died at home this morning. for more than four decades he was the heart and soul of the raiders franchise. mike schumer interviewed his countless times. he was up there with george halas, the steelers, art rooney. >> he's the last of a breed and we're going to miss him. al davis was the godfather of the modern nfl and did things his way from the logo to the silver and black colors. he passed away this morning at 82 at home i in piedmont. >> commitment to excellence was the phrase al davis lived by. willing to take chances on coaches and players no one wanted and groomed them to perform. george atkinson was stunned when he got the call. >>

blacksburg, homecoming for virginia tech taking on boston college.hokies trail by one. logan thomas avoids the hit and pitches to david wilson. and he's a speedy fellow. races down the sidelines. you can't stop wilson. gives in for a 42 yard score. he finished with 140 yard rushing. thomas throws it for for marcus davis. hauls it in for a 20 yard touchdown. number 12 virginia tech defeats boston college, 30-14. hokies improve to 7-1. let's go to charlottesville. cavaliers hosting westfield high school standout and the wolfpack. second quarter, tied at seven. glennon, play action. perfect pass to underwood. 33 yard scoring is strike. he finished with three touchdowns, 19 for the season. n.c. state up 14-7. fourth quarter, uva trails, 21-14. david in at qb from their own four yard line. into the hands of amerson. dives in for the touchdown. four turnovers. two interceptions in the game. he leads the nation with eight. wolfpack down the cavaliers 28-14. in annapolis. navy against east carolina. midshipman chris proctor knocked out. in comes trey miller.

blacksburg, virginia tech. one minute to go. hurricanes up 35-31. hokies with the ball.. logan thomas keeps it himself. right up the gut. 19 yards and the game winner. five touchdowns. three passing. two rushing. 21, virginia tech comes back to win it, 38-35, improving its record to 5-1. also yesterday, southern miss beats navy, 63-35. and howard defeats florida a&m, 29-28 on a last second field goal. that's your sports minute. i'm hakim dermish. have a great day. >> always good when local teams win. >> hokies and hurricanes combined over the years for some amazing games. 21-7. >> incredible. >> i thought the hokies were going to run away with it. they ended up having to come back to save their lives. >> i had friends there and the twitter feed was going nuts. >> we have covered that dartmouth didn't win. carolina did. >> you decided to throw that in there. >> and oklahoma managed to squeak out a winner. i actually went down to the texas watch party. a friend of mine said, oh, come down and watch the game with us. i was the only guy with an ou hat and 300 people in orang

here are today's contestants-- a graduate student in rhetoric and writing from blacksburg, virginia..nsation consultant from chicago, illinois... and our returning champion-- a college physics teacher from somerville, massachusetts... whose 3-day cash winnings total... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!"-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. it's good to have you with us once again. a bit of a scare for joon pahk on yesterday's program. it was very close at the end of double jeopardy! but a bi

blacksburg, logan thomas and virginia tech taking on miami. thomas rolls out.perfect pass to boykin. wow. 60 yard touchdown connection. virginia tech in front, 31-21. back come the hurricanes. harris out to dorsett. he throws to a wide open lamar miller. 16 yard touchdown. miami cuts the lead to three. one minute to go. hurricanes now up 25-31. hokies with the ball. fourth and one. thomas right up the gut. 19 yards and the game winner. are you kidding me? he threw for 310 yards, five touchdowns, three passing, two rushing. number 21, virginia tech comes back to win it, 38-35, improving its record to 5-1. in annapolis, navy hosting southern miss. no score. navy attempting a field goal, but it's blocked. watch the left side of the screen. wheaton with the football. no one in front of him. he takes it back 79 yards for the touchdown. not a good start for navy. golden eagles take a 7-0 lead. midshipman, 35-7 trailing until this. 43 yard scoring strike. but navy just couldn't keep up. southern miss with trickeration. off to lampley. off to quintin price up to jarvo.

boston college, the eagles playing the hokies in blacksburg today. 62 degrees there.orth carolina state, the wolfpack and cavaliers kicking it off at 3:30 in charlesesville. 61 degrees and good weather for the howard homecoming right here in d.c. >> new developments in the certainly for a missing baby in kansas city. police say a cadaver dog reacted to the scent of a dead person inside the home where lisa irwin disappeared. a police affidavit says the fbi dog picked up the positive scent in her parents' bedroom. investigators also discovered soil in the backyard that had been recently disturbed. lisa's mother told police she didn't initially look back there because she was afraid what she might find. >> the trial of michael jackson's doctor could be in the hands of a jury as soon as next week. conrad murray's defense team finally got a chance to cross-examine the prosecution's prop paul expert dr. stephen schaefer who maintained that swallowing propofol would have no effect on the pop star. the defense is expected to use one of their witnesses to dispute that claim. >

a chance of a shower, 40% chance of rain in charltsville, the hokeys a big one in blacksburg, clemson's a 6:00 kickoff. 47 degrees again with a blustery northwest wind and a 30% chance you're going to get wet. have the umbrellas and the slickers ready to go if you're going out to support your team today. >> thanks, chuck. >> thank you, chuck. >>> flu from overnight this morning police have partially identified a man found dead on tracks near rockville. police say the man is 37 years old and from gaithersburg. he was found around 3:00 this morning a couple hundred feet from the rockville metro station. there is no evidence of foul play and no trauma to suggest the man was hit by a train. >>> also new from overnight d.c. police were called out just after midnight to the 5300 block of dix street northeast on reports of a shooting. when they arrived on the scene authorities found a man shot multiple times. he was pronounced dead a short time later. right now they don't have a suspect or motive in the shooting. >>> happening today, a new texting law is now in effect for drivers who live in

the hokies hosting the boston college eagles in blacksburg, a 3:00 kickoff this afternoon. plenty of sunshine but cool. highs into the upper 50s and low 60s down there. whoops, i thought i had my addresses. there we are. if you'd like to see your game on the 9:00 hour of the show today, send me an e-mail chuck.bell at nbc.com to get your game on. it's who's playing, where they're playing. we'll get on as many games as we can. my sooners are hosting texas tech today. >> chuck can you be, where do you like to go leaf peeping? >> i don't like that word. i'm thinking trees and peeping. i don't know. >> where is your mind at this morning? >> i was trying to be eliterative. you can follow the foliage. how is that? >> a lot more formal. >> it will be easier to say. if you've got a better wa i to say it, we'll say it. >> shenandoah valley. >> all perfect. >> all right. thanks, chuck. >>> a weekend of big college football games kick off with a big upset of one of the nation's top ranked teams. >> and one of the best local high school teams tries to stay undefeated in a huge rivalry

hokies fans in blacksburg pumped up for the top 15 matchup.g at lane stadium. taj boyd and the tigers would quiet the crowd. boyd, a virginia native recruited by tech. byrnes team again hits allen, 32 yard touchdown. clemson goes on to win big, 23-3. snapping virginia tech's 12-game acc winning streak. tigers coach sweeney gets a nice gatorade bath. >>> all right. navy at home looking to avenge last year's loss against air force in colorado springs. we pick this up late in the fourth. navy comes all the way back. down 8 with 25 seconds. now only down by two. chris proctor finds green. two-point conversion good. now we're in overtime. midshipmen start with the ball. proctor punches it in but says a few choice words, gets penalized. p.a.t. is backed up and it is blocked. navy is up 34-28. air force just needs a touchdown here. and the p.a.t. to win it. here we go. air force with the p.a.t.. here's the snap. the kick. and that's it. air force steals one at navy, wins by one. >>> maryland in college park. daniel o'brien and the terps hosting in st

and fans going to blacksburg 75 degrees as they take on the miami hurricanes tomorrow.rm with highs near >>> we are back on "today" on a saturday morning. it's october 8, 2011. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm tamryn hall. >>> cycled week of the trial with jurors hearing in dr. murray's own words what happened on the day pop star michael jackson died. coming up, we'll get more of what he told detectives including jackson's final words to him. >> then a secret from the happy marriage from a wives perspective. 200 wives of he age, space and status. all of them offer advice of saying happy while staying true to their man. >> they probably say things like let the man lay on the couch and watch football. >> i read it and i don't recall that. >> not at all? >> football was not a chapter. >> they call it happiness, huh? go figure. >>> plus, a precious video that had a few of us in the office in tears yesterday. it's a little girl getting a birthday present from her mom and dad, one that she really, really wanted. her reaction was everything it should be from everything from a littl