and then there were four maria sharapova secures the last semifinal berth papias trillian open. pitch dreams a lower league side cardiff city make it through to the men's part in cup final where they'll meet either monk chester city or liverpool. and hefty home luggage team russia returned home happy from their norgrove use the olympic winter games in innsbruck. but we get underway on the hard courts of melbourne where maria sharapova quest for a second history in open title remains very much on truck the russian booking her place in the semifinals of the ground a few hours bonk the world number four dominating her quarterfinal the competitor at the academy at mccarver shrunk by taking nothing for granted against her own seeded opponents who had not done it serina williams in the previous draw and six two six three eventually and stop up next for the two thousand and eight champion petra defeated by. the world number two could face of earning her place in the semi in the days surly macho but expensive to tell you the ceremony that second see the czech winning in two sets but spe

reporter: jordan led the wizards to four straight playoff berths. he was fired in 2008 after winning 197 games, third on the franchise's all time list. >> they allowed me to have some tough times at the beginning through some of the other times even though we made the playoffs. there were tough times, but they al lopped my to keep coaching and it was great -- allowed me to keep coaching and it was great. i have no hard feelings or something was left out, just part of the game. reporter: following his stent in d.c. jordan was hired by the -- stint in d.c. jordan was hired by the 76ers. the nba's loss has become carroll's gain. jordan is now running a different game coaching the freshmen team at carroll, his alma mater. he's not getting paid. he has no 6-footers or nba all- stars and his lessons have become a lot simpler. >> it's not about passing, dribbling, shooting. it's about behavior, how to work with your teammates, how to be competitive and yet keep your composure. >> people know i play basketball at carroll, so they ask me what's it like to ha

the raiders have gone nine seasons without a winning record or playoff berth. he will be introduced at noon at the training facility in alameda. >>darya: here is a live look at the james lick in san francisco. traffic is moving well. we will be right back. toch have harmed when cox >>darya: let's check in with air cutting in to get a look at the weather. any rain on the horizon? >>erica: we saw some sprinkles around half moon bay, some really random hit or miss spring rolls because of the storm system that was situated to the north. cox fog developing on the golden gate but it is not having any effect on a visibility. 47 in redwood city of 49 for those of you in a mountain view. future cast 4 critics by 10:00 a.m., dedicates everyone in the '50s. it will be cruel crafted over night. check out the highs this afternoon. some places like half moon bay will stay in the upper 50s. as the turn our attention to the north bay, a mixture of a upper 50s and low 60s. if you are heading up to the sierra, no problems getting their along interstate 80. looking ahead to the w

giants winner plays the 49ers next week for the nfc championship and a super bowl xlvi berth.iting georgia tech on this given sunday, highlighted by this steal by freshman guard nick faus. he gives the terrapins an advantage. sean moseley came out firing. he led everyone with 18. in the acc third winning scorer. crafty sophomore left-hander. the terps win. they are now 12-4. 61-60 tonight's final. they will face florida state on the road. and florida state is tough. they just handed carolina a whopping that carolina hasn't seen. they looked good though. >> you can catch wjz evening news at 11:00. here's what's coming up at 11:00. 11:00. we'll tell ,,,,,,,, li s id li s m ba llral,was id unl m ba llral,was vet.veou on the 4g lte devices you love. like the droid bionic by motorola for $199.99. or the pantech breakout for $49.99. our lowest price ever. get the technology you love, on the network you deserve. now get twice the data for the same low price. hurry in, this offer ends january 15th.

the raiders had a chance to win a playoff berth if they could only beat san diego. we're next.he forty niners and saintse on track to meet in the secd round of the playoff >>> the new year got off to a good start for one bay area team. >> jim harbaugh was saying he wasn't sure how to quantify what this win meant, right? new orleans has not lost at home all year, and had they had to go to new orleans it would have been difficult. but now on their home turf, it's huge. pretty easy to quantify. on the line today for san francisco was a first round bye and a home game instead of a likely trip to the superdome. patrick willis back after missing three games with a ham strict injury. the rams have scored the fewest points in the lead. keelkellen clemens got the start here. he shows sam bradford, anything you can do i can do better. that would tie the game at 7. niners are going to see a lot of re. norwood shows everyone why he's got a running back and not a quarterback. an easy reception for terrell brown. the offense capitalized. smith with the quick pass to michael crab treatment he

back. po the college game...after a 9-3 season and an ncaa tournament berth, towson's tigers are feelingetball...and an interesting matchup in college park..maryland's terrapins hosted wake forest, which was the worst team in the acc last year, but came in tonight 10- 5...a good yarstick game for mark turgeon and his terps... terps... wake coach jeff biz-delick, a former umbc oach, was looking kinda grim early on...and with good reason...turgeon's terps are on a roll.....maryland was pounding his team...sean mosely out of st frances with the three...terps led it by 16 at the break......second half....a veri different story..here comes the deacs..look at travis mc kye baatle inside...lead cut to 12......later, ty walker with 3 straight baskets..feed from mc kye for the dunk...wake within just 3......but the terps hung on...ttrrell stoglin...two of his team high 20...terps win it 70- 64...they;re now 11-4 on the season it's now time to announce the candidates in our higg school game of the week contest... brought to you by varsity sports network dot com...you can vote for the game you'd li

>> it would integrate the new train berthing location. i to be very helpful. right now, there are two of relocations -- there are two locations. they would have to look at the platform. this is the area above the boarding area. we will integrate them together. those are the immediate improvements they will see. on the back end, it would be providing a much safer environments to monitor the alarm system. from a central control point of view, because we are adding the controls, it means they could see the power circuit status. when there is a breakdown of the power circuit, they would be able to respond quickly. commissioner campos: thank you very much. colleagues, unless there are questions, why don't we open up to public comment? is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is an action item. we have a motion by commissioner david chiu. can we take that without objection? the item passes. can you please call item 6. >> item 6, introduction of new items. commissioner campos: any

. >> a win for denver -- broncos lost and the raider nation playing for a playoff berth.ders on the board first. palmer to darrius heyward-bey. rivers answers on third and nine. gates on the slant. 38-yard for the game. now 14-10 chargers. kickoff an janikowski field goal. no raider touches him. 105-yard return. san diego's first kickoff return for six since 2008. raters down 24-13 at the half. still no answer for rivers. jackson, touchdown, 31-16 bolts. fourth quarter, raiders not done yet. boss takes the hit to make the play. 31-26 chargers, we got a game. the chargers answer. on a drive from their open half yardline. rivers to floyd. shakes off a raider for the touchdown. rivers 310 yards, three tds. >> raiders 8-8 on the season after a loss, eliminated. >> i tell them all week, always put it on me but i'm pissed at my team. when you have those opportunities, you have to do it, and we didn't do it. >> mike: the raiders lost. mccluster. fourth quarter, last chance for tim tebow. pass picked off by carr. despite losing 7-3, it's still playoff time in the mile-high city a

. >> for nearly half a sent -- century, herr -- herr berth hoover's scholar george nash. at 10 eastern. also this weekend jeff charlotte on religion in america from sweet heaven when i die. tonight at 8. and sunday night at 8:15, jay we canler on understanding our -- wexler on understanding our constitution by looking at the odd clauses. booktv, everything weekend on c-span2. >> up next, historian george daughan recounts the naval battles between america and britain during the war of 1812. he examines how the american navy, a fleet of only 20 ships, outmaneuvered their opponent and supported the u.s. army's ground forces. this is just over an hour. >> good evening. my name's dan, i'm the owner of water street bookstore. thank you all for coming out tonight as we continue the celebration of our 20th anniversary with a reprieve of george daughan's appearance here for his first book, "if by sea." when he first came here, it was a revelation to all of us to have someone of george's caliber talking about the birth of the american navy. and now he's gone on to write a book call

hasn't won -- who hasn't defeat me in two of the elections so far to let him, you know, have a wide berth. i wouldn't be so arrogant as to suggest that anybody get out of this race and i won't suggest that anybody gets out of this race. these are character issues. >> sounds to me like santorum is not going to follow gingrich's plan. nancy pelosi, meanwhile, trying to capitalize on mixed feelings within the republican party about this field. arguing the party is not rallying around romney because voters don't think he can beat president obama. >> so-called right wing of the republican party, describing evangelical and others are not supporting romney, at least not yet, because they don't think he's going to win. so they're, like, why should we compromise who we are. let's be for who we want to be and get ready for four years from now. if the far right thought that romney could win, they might be more enthusiastic about him. but they don't share -- they question what he stands for and they don't think he's going to win, so what, you know, what is the sell? >> leader pelosi speaking at a pol

for the temporary berthing, for the event in 2013, there would still be some limited birthing within the ring conn -- rincon open water basin. the breathing would be essentially north and south of the pier 13 public access here. for the long term marina development rights, there would be none in the ring kind of open water basin. more to the northern and, again to free up the views, debate the use -- the bay views. and the provision for long-term marina development rights down at the waterfront area that was just announced by the event authority. in all, that really is pretty much paralleled by what is -- from an environmental impact analysis perspective, represented in the reduced development sub-alternative in chapter 11, which is one of the two environmentally superior alternatives identified. i think that, through all of the work with the community and the event of authority, we have come to a point where this is a project that has really of held a very high standard of environmental sustainability. given those changes, there are a number of edits and revisions that unfortunately

this it relocates the berthing at risk on -- at rincon. there is a new table, 12.11-2 that provides a reference to where in the september 2011 people planned transportation elements of each of the mitigation measures are discussed in more detail. this table will also be included in the final. the eir does disclose the number of impacts, including those that would not create significant finding the facts and those that could create some of the impact but whether which it would either precluded or reduce it to less than significant with implementation of mitigation measures. there are some impacts of ever which would remain significant and unavoidable. transportation, noise, air quality, and tim wood impacts on air quality, and we did anticipate a long-term development impacts -- air quality, and other impacts on air quality. the significant impacts include noise and air quality. so, again, the december 15 planning commission certified the eir. on december 16, the port commission approved the project and adopted a statement of overriding con

european flavor to the women's singles final this year and that is after maria sharapova booked her berth at the expense of patrick give each of us a few hours back the twenty four year old russian involved in a tough old tussle against the czech shot for the eventually wrapping up the win six two three six six four that means the world number four will now take on victoria azarenka fellow whose side are the winner also set to take over the world . of course i was there. so much to be back in a grand slam final stage and then before a few years ago here in it's nice to get that far again after losing quite a couple of years so that means a lot to me and played some moments just results in his being near the last couple of times and i still really wanted today. to herself seeing off defending champion kim clijsters of belgium also in three sets to qualify for her first major finals the minsk nation seeing at the time six four one six six three meaning it's the bottle of the screamers russia versus valorise and salvage winner takes all and conquer. running like a marathon out there but i'm

billy cundiff misfiring on a relatively easy close range kick ending the patriots a fifth super bowl berth since two thousand and one the new york also involved in a close championship game over in the n.f.c. decider the san francisco forty nine ers constantly looking to vernon davis who burned the giants for two touchdowns in the forest and third quarter cuts to the united giants quarterback eli manning a seen his star rise to brother peyton's level after great season with a thirty one year old finding mariel manningham late in the fourth for seventeen to fourteen the both kickers on their game in this contest with david acre stein proceedings at seventeen of these. a special teams mistakes all the forty nine er scow williams lose the ball and upon return in the ensuing over time allowing the giants to set up shop in enemy territory was. lawrence tynes short field goal in the extra session sending the giants to the big games so a rematch of epic proportions is brewing as both the patriots and the giants have eight players on the roster who still remember that two thousand and seven super

are the side with the new york giants claiming the final berth at the expense of. no mercy one of the favorites for n.b.a. glory this year chicago. rushing the grizzlies. forty point. when you think of milan's sport images of football and undeniably come to mind but could ice hockey. to the mix. we'll get to grips with that shortly but we begin with some sad news day one of the prestigious off road event the car rally has been marred by the death of a rider horror game martinez seen here at the start line in mortal plata argentina died after running off course tragically crushing the open sewer line where a local was thirty eight years old the trunk to be overshadowing a memorable day for. winning the opening stage by five seconds from veteran polish christophe how off chits while in the bike francisco lopez is them on the couch after the chilean up thriller rider holding off reigning champion mark of spain. we now know all twelve squads in the n.f.l. the last of the dozen to replace the new york giants doing so thanks to a no nonsense display against dallas after

of the under twenty world championships the red machine though had already playoff berth earlier in the week the fourth time last week meaning russia finished second in group eight had it all been going swimmingly income of that for the russians leaving three zero. but the swedes did not give all leavening managed by the end of the third period before a punter named meets goal. make the czech republic and choose day in the knockout stages. now the man who guided the all blacks rugby team to world cup glory has been country's new year's almost list graham henry led new zealand to their first world cup title in twenty four years last october the noro eight seven win over france in the final sixty nine year old former schoolteacher. served graham henry is the latest in a handful of former players and coaches to receive new zealand's highest honor the all blacks captain rich mccall was also approached by prime minister john key but he had done stating he was too young to receive such an act that henry was delighted with his own. daughter. feel very humble about. reflection on what people ha

they won the final wild card berth. and with that, here is the playoff schedule.ext saturday, cincinnati plays at houston. and detroit is at new orleans. on sunday, atlanta travels to met life stadium to play the giants. and pittsburgh is at denver. new england, baltimore, san francisco, and green bay earned first round byes. >>> when we come back, another look at this morning's top stories. >>> and lucky to be alive. an amazing rescue in the frigid waters in a utah river. for several years now. i really can't see myself not taking it. osteo bi-flex is a great product. i can go back and do gardening with comfort. [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex, the glucosamine chondroitin supplement with 5-loxin advanced. shows improvement in joint comfort within 7 days. [ jill strange ] since taking osteo bi-flex, there's nothing that i can't do. [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex. the #1 doctor and pharmacist recommended brand. the #1 doctor and pharmacist [ growling ] captain, one step at a time.keep going! come on, snowy. look! did you ever see a more beautiful sight? captain!

stage of the under twenty world championships the red machine know how to read the book their playoff berth earlier in the week but for three overtime loss to sweden means finished second in group eight it had all been going swimmingly and counted for the russians leaving three zero to be opening third for the swedes did not give op leveling matters by the end of the third before the meets goal handed them the victory make the czech republic and choose date in the cards to. them on account of the all blacks robey team to world cup glory has been united in his country's new year's almost list graham henry led new zealand to their first world cup title in twenty four years last october the narrow eight seven win over france in the final segment of the sixty five rule former school teacher cannot call him self serve remember he's the latest in a handful of former players and coaches to receive new zealand's highest honor the all blacks captain rich mccall was also approached by prime minister john key but he turned the night. stating he was too young at thirty to receive such an auckland henry

so remember, endangering a child has a wide berth. that doesn't mean he physically hurt the child according to the d.a. in this case it means the child was present when these actions took place. >> so domestic spousal battery, endangering the child and the witness. all right, joe, thanks very much. big question, can mirkarimi still perform as sheriff? here's what the law sauce. mirkarimi would be automatically removed from office if he were convicted of a felony. as joe just reported, he faces three misdemeanor charges. however, the mayor has the authority to charge him with official misconduct and then suspend him. then it would be up to the city's ethics commission to make a recommendation to the board of supervisors. they could either reinstate mirkarimi as sheriff or remove him from office. we will, of course, as joe said continue to monitor developments with the story. we'll have much more reaction from city hall ahead tonight at 6:00. >>> in other news, a special team of investigators is looking into a brutal attack that left tw

cruise ships that berthed there will use their engines for power instead of using the facility on the pier. the draft eir said there would be seven ships -- 17 ships, and the final version increased to 40. the was already a significant amount of affected terms of air quality. now it is more than 100% higher of a severe impact. when you have a more severe, significant impact a after you close public comment, you have to recirculate. it is a classic requirement, he is closing to the public this impact is now more severe -- twice as severe than it was. the answer the planning department gave is that the increase is going to be offset by two things. one, we have fewer spectators. if you are talking about a different methodology for talking with inspectors, or different assumptions that came up after the draft eir, which is what happened here, and use that as a justification for talking about environmental impact not being as severe as otherwise, that triggers recirculation all by itself. the rationale for not recirculating is a rationale that would require a circulation. the other rationa