anyone at baylor or tcu, they're not happy. >> i guess so. >> they shouldn't be. left out. it's kind of like me half the time. left out. >> well, there's reason for that. there's reason we keep you on that side of the room. go over there and check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill. it looks ugly. >> it will be. saturday was an ugly day in the northeast. another rainstorm come. not a lot of snow. that's the saving grace if you don't want a blizzard. one of the coldest morning yet. when you walk outside this morning, it's 5 in hartfohartfo. brutally cold. but they are going to get rain in 24 hours. here comes the storm. kind of develops off the coast. the only areas getting rain today, maybe virginia coastal area, north carolina. the heavy rain starts tomorrow morning. through maryland, washington, d.c., and then quickly shoots up the coast. the blue on the map shows you where we're dealing with the snow. that's areas of western new york, central new york, the adirondacks, maybe around scranton and the poconos. flights will have difficult time getting out of the new

if you fans of baylor or tcu, i'm sorry. a lot of fans are excited. >> tcu beat my team this weekend. >>> the saints crushed at home on sunday. 41-10 by the panthers. the first quarter touchdown celebration by the carolina quarterback cam newton setoff a huge brawl. this fight between players burst through a gate behind the goal post and into a tunnel. come on, guys. newton chalked it up to a lot of testosterone on the field at one time. that's called sunday. it doesn't always end in a brawl. >> i'm alone. >>> protesters in berkeley facing off with police over a grand jury decision not to indict an officer in eric garner's chokehold death. the reports this morning and attempts to set a car on fire. a lot going on. we will have the details ahead. my name is karen and i have diabetic nerve pain. it's progressive pain. first that feeling of numbness. then hot pins. almost like lightning bolts, hot strikes into my feet. so my doctor prescribed lyrica. the pain has been reduced and i feel better than i did before. [ male announce

with where are tcu or baylor? i would stay tcu deserved that four spot that ohio took. horn frogs should have been there. >> this is an outrage. this is an absolute outrage. what is going on? >> jesse, what do you have for us today. >> sir elton john was so charable attending an all-star event, and did what we call a crocodile flop. >> uh-huh. >> down goes sir elton john. >> that 's terrible. >> very upsetting. >> that's your one more thing? >> he had explain himself. listen to this. >> are you all right? are you all right? >> i'm not standing, no. >> we were very worried about you. >> i'm not standing, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> so everybody's glad elton john is okay, he's fine. >> one more analysis. >>> so how many of you have done that and then you just want to cry for your mother. apple has got some of the patents developed, apgd it's got matrix technology, so if it censures the iphone technology, it's like to flip to land. i think it's very cool. now i'm wondering if i should have waited instead of buying the iphone 6. pretty cool technology. >> can we s sdz>> a a fox ne

there was question going to the final weekend if it was going to be ohio state, tcu or baylor. ohio state had a win in the big ten championship game with a new quarterback, and i think that is what got them over the hump, ended up getting them above both tcu and baylor. so you have the best four teams in the country at the end of the year. >> when we have a clear winner, will it settle arguments in living rooms and sports bars across the country? >> no, never. we have subjective analysis with a 12-person committee. it's very, very different than the nfl. you will always have big, strong opinions from fan bases around the country. when it works out, it's a great system. when it doesn't work out, we need a new system. there's a lot of passion with college football. but at the same time there are people that get very frustrated with it because of the subjective allalnalysis that we have. >> kirk herbstreit, thank you. >>> and espn will cover the games back-to-back on new year's day at 5:00 p.m. eastern. >>> now to a different type of sport. royal watching. william and kate now here

they're especially mad in you are a tcu or baylor fan.r-team bracket. ohio state got in. those two teams did not get in and -- they're mad about it. >> here's the difference from college to the nfl. in college, it's subjective. you have a committee that's deciding who should go to the playoffs. in the nfl, there are rules. if you tie in the afc north, there's a set of rules. in college football, it's up to the committee. and nobody knows what the committee is looking at. is it the eye test, the metrics, so, people are very passionate and very angry and very opinionated. so, when you say good things about them, they love you, when you say bad things about it -- >> very personal. >> they take it personally. >> jimmy: i was looking at your twitter and you got very upset because people call you a homer because you went to ohio state and when you talk positively about ohio state, people think oh, he's just saying that because he went there. >> yeah. what i've learned is, when i say things just, again, my job for 19 years has been watch games,

preparing for the first ever college football playoffs are out, alabama, ore ghosn, florida state and ohio state are in, baylor and tcu left out. crimson tide battled the buckeyes on new year's day and will play in a rose bowl and will advance to the championship game on january 12th. she arguably the best american soccer player ever and today landon donovan played his last game. it was a big one, donovan, galaxy beat the new england revolution in extra time, few-1 to win the mls title. and an unusual evacuation at aok today, a while the 2014 midwest fur-fest was taking place. many guests were wearing costumes when they were told to leave. >> we have a lot of costumes out here. costumes that will keep people warm so at this point we are not at all worried. >> police say the leak appeared to be deliberate, 19 people were sent to the hospital, but all are expected to recover. >> glor: still ahead here new york city gets the duke and duchess of cambridge a royal reception. >> new aleve pm the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. man when i got shingles it was like being blindsided by s

tcu? would it be baylor, or would it be ohio state. but ohio ohio state blew out wisconsin.o that suede the judges. i think this is huge for the game. some people think it's a little bit overboard. before it's been a long time coming. so we'll see how it turns out. algorithm. i'm becoming interested. today marks the anniversary of fdr asking congress to declare war on japan after the attack on pearl harbor. attack that launched our nation into war and we honor the lives that were lost. bill: house lawmakers gear up for a grilling tomorrow. jonathon grouper will be in that committee. will he be able to explain away comments like these? >> they will no longer get a 40% tax break. what if we put a 40% tax. >> lack of transparency is a great political advantage. call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever. but it was critical to get it passed. it's the exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the american voter. the american voter is too stupid to understand. by jonathon gruber make himself a household name by comments like that calling the american vote

baylor or 5 and 6. we've been talking about this all week we thought ohio state might leap frog. turns out tcu over florida state. what about you? >> that is just a comparing. >> its true, it's true. >> now get jumped by oregon, alabama and tcu. i'm almost as ought raged as you are. >> yes. alabama, missouri, 2 and 9 iowa state team. >> do you think there is a way florida state if they win against georgia tech and ohio state win was a third straight quarterback there is no way the team can go to five, right? >> if they feel unimpressive, that could happen. but hard to believe. >> you know what? we have bcs computers. >> right. >> we can get osh robot. >> right. >> to play. >> all right well, it's all decided saturday at 9:00 a.m on abc7. third rank horn frogs take on iowa state. and then we wrap it up for foster farms bowl to be played at levis stadium. >> this abc7 sports report has been brought to you by orchard supply hardware. how can you win 28 games in a row? >> never lost a game? >> never. >> we'll see. >> all right. >> thank you. >> join us tonight there is a new lawsuit against bill c

baylor or 5 and 6. we've been talking about this all week we thought ohio state might leap frog. turns out tcur florida state. what about you? >> that is >> its true, it's true. >> now get jumped by oregon, alabama and tcu. i'm almost as ought raged as you are. >> yes. alabama, missouri, 2 and 9 iowa state team. >> do you think there is a way florida state if they win against georgia tech and ohio state win was a third straight quarterback there is no way the team can go to five, right? >> if they feel unimpressive, that could happen. but hard to believe. >> you know what? we have bcs computers. >> right. >> we can get osh robot. >> right. >> to play. >> all right well, it's all decided saturday at 9:00 a.m on abc7. third rank horn frogs take on iowa state. and then we wrap it up for foster farms bowl to be played at levis stadium. >> this abc7 sports report has been brought to you by orchard supply hardware. how can you win 28 games in a row? >> never lost a game? >> never. >> we'll see. >> all right. >> thank you. >> join us tonight there is a new lawsuit against bill cosby tonight. >> and a

issue affecting both tcu and baylor, the big 12 which now only has ten teams, i know it sounds crazy is prohibited from holding a conference championship game. only a conference with 12 orre teams can hold a championship game. tcu fell short. >> we don't deal with hpts so thehypotheticals. >> the previous rankings only matter a little bit. it's about your full body of work acknowledge yesterday is what mattered not a week before or two weeks before. this is the only thing that matters. let's get to the actual game. number one seed alabama takes on 74th seed florida state. winners play for national title on monday january 12. alabama is the favorite to win it all, but get this the team that has won it all has now won 29 straight games. florida state is poor betting choice. >> next on al jazeera america. >> the u.s. launched a hostage rescue attempt only when they figured murder was near and as a process may have precipitated a killing of a prisoner close to be released.

or lithium ion drill for $99 at lowe's. >> gus: nine minutes to go in the fourth quarter. if you're thinking that, you know, the flipping could come between ohio state, tcu and baylor, are youg at three, tcu could potentially be moved out of the top four? >> charles: they're the only one that has the chance of vulnerability. baylor's loss was head-to-head in their own conference to -- tcu's loss was to baylor. that could potentially happen. but i think you have to weigh what the conference strength is going to be, too. the committee has a very difficult job. >> gus: derek watt, the fullback, the intended receiver. >> charles: i would be surprised to find out that the conference strength rankings wouldn't favor the big 12. >> gus: what a lot of people are talking about in college football, is that this is a great idea this, playoff format. but you're going to have to move it to eight teams. >> charles: they start calling for eight quickly. one of the top conference commissioners floats it out there before the season's over, john swafford of the acc, it will gain traction quicker than what people believe. >> gus: wisconsin going for it on fourth down and four. stave. with pre

or lithium ion drill for $99 at lowe's. >> gus: nine minutes to go in the fourth quarter. if you're thinking that, you know, the flipping could come between ohio state, tcu and baylor, are youg at three, tcu could potentially be moved out of the top four? >> charles: they're the only one that has the chance of vulnerability. baylor's loss was head-to-head in their own conference to -- tcu's loss was to baylor. that could potentially happen. but i think you have to weigh what the conference strength is going to be, too. the committee has a very difficult job. >> gus: derek watt, the fullback, the intended receiver. >> charles: i would be surprised to find out that the conference strength rankings wouldn't favor the big 12. >> gus: what a lot of people are talking about in college football, is that this is a great idea this, playoff format. but you're going to have to move it to eight teams. >> charles: they start calling for eight quickly. one of the top conference commissioners floats it out there before the season's over, john swafford of the acc, it will gain traction quicker than what people believe. >> gus: wisconsin going for it on fourth down and four. stave. with pre

tcu shared the big 12 title with baylor, but lost the head-to-head. i think that's going to be big when it comes down to it. no matter who finishes five orix after today, they're going to be upset and have reason. >> there's going to be a little bit of controversy. final question for you. who's going to be hoisting the national championship trophy? >> i think it's going to be alabama. the most complete on offense, defense. most talented top to bottom. they've got a lot of depth. we're in the midst of a dynasty with head coach nick saban. they're looking for their fourth national championship in the last six years. >>> college football fans, send angry tweets his way. and don't miss the college football selection show coming up on our sister network, espn. jesse palmer, thanks for joining us. >> jesse, you don't have to wait long for the angry tweets. ron claiborne was jumping out of his chair disagreeing with you. >> we have to talk about this. florida state shouldn't be in there. you know that. you know that. >> break it up. break it up. >>> and time now to discuss -- you're a good sport, jesse, thank you. >>> and new york city preparin