one day, berthe asked manet for his opinion. not only did he give it, he worked for four hours on the portrait of berthe's mother. she was annoyed, but could do nothing. a messenger was waiting to take the picture. it's useful for us, though. in one painting you can see two artists' work and compare their use of light, color, and shape. morisot was an impressionist. she was fascinated by the play of light on objects. so was auguste renoir. he and morisot were good friends. impressionists had a special philosophy of life as well as a theory of light. "the earth as a paradise of the gods-- that's what i want to paint," was renoir's view. and this is how he painted light-- small strokes of glowing colors to catch the changing sunlight. this picture makes me feel good right away. it's spontaneous and innocent. colors always affect your response to a painting. these are direct and simple. they take your eyes right to the action. i also love the way the bareback riders seem to float in the air. the horse, too. and look at the marvelou

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with their super bowl xlviii berth on the line, some had quirky signs, bruno in the mission district off erred four big screens and two bars. and in this bar, a projection screen and a dj. >> go niners! >> not all 49ers fans were looking for libation to celebrate. i met these women out of st. andrews episcopal church in san bruno. >> san bruno is full of 49er fans. >> i'm native san franciscan so 49er fan since the kezar days. >> this is a big game. we're invested in the outcome. >> the outcome matters to muni, too. >> we're just trying to make the city as safe as possible when it comes to transit. >> in an effort to protect its street cars from vandals they're taking most of them out of operations, repolice street cars with buses like these that can be redirected at the first sign of trouble. >> a safety precaution to ensure our riders, employees, and the people of san francisco taking muni are as safe as possible. >> after the world series last year a handful of fans smashed a muni bus. along mission street, parking restrictions are in place and sfpd is deploying additional resourc

[cheering] >> with the super bowl xlviii berth on the line, businesses sought as an opportunity to getattention and cash. this company used quirky signs, field marshal harbaugh and colin kaepernick will counter the pacific northwest. brunos had four big screens and two bars. >> go niners! >> not all 49er fans needed cocktails to celebrate. i meet these women outside of st. andrews church in an bruno. >> san bruno is full of 49er fans. >> i'm a native san franciscan so 49er fan since the kezar days. so i'm still a niner familiar. >> this is a big game. we're invested in the outcome. >> the outcome of the game matters to muni, too. >> all we're trying to do is make the city as safe as possible when it comes to transit. >> in an effort to protect the street cars from vandals they decided to take most of them out of operation. replacing street cars with buses like these. that can easily be direct -- redirected at the first sign of trouble. >> a safety precaution to make sure our riders, employees, and the people of san francisco taking munis as safe as possible. >> after the giants won the

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the niners play the panthers on sunday for their quest for consecutive super bowl berth.n along the way there. >>> just ahead, a huge night for the people's choice awards and britney spears. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this thursday morning. the next storm will come into the northwest, as we go through the day today, just light scattered showers. and more significant weather event happens friday afternoon, friday evening. this is a warm front coming to the north, a good slug of moisture with that. some gusty winds too. and then as we go through friday night to saturday morning, the actual storm isself and the cold front will move all the way down along the coastal areas. with that, we see higher winds. we'll see higher -- lots of snow at the highest of elevations with the moisture available. some areas could get two inches of rain, three inches of rain and gusty winds, power outages. good storm from the northwest. >> all right. thank you, bill karins, for that. >>> the people's choice awards kicks off the 2014 season of hollywood's best. hosted by t

[cheering] >> with the super bowl xlviii berth on the line, businesses sought as an opportunity to getattention and cash. this company used quirky signs, field marshal harbaugh and colin kaepernick will counter the pacific northwest. brunos had four big screens and two bars. >> go niners! >> not all 49er fans needed cocktails to celebrate. i meet these women outside of st. andrews church in an bruno. >> san bruno is full of 49er fans. >> i'm a native san franciscan so 49er fan since the kezar days. so i'm still a niner familiar. >> this is a big game. we're invested in the outcome. >> the outcome of the game matters to muni, too. >> all we're trying to do is make the city as safe as possible when it comes to transit. >> in an effort to protect the street cars from vandals they decided to take most of them out of operation. replacing street cars with buses like these. that can easily be direct -- redirected at the first sign of trouble. >> a safety precaution to make sure our riders, employees, and the people of san francisco taking munis as safe as possible. >> after the giants won the

thanks, berth that. some stories making thus this morning.ruise ship will be returning to port early after more than 300 people fell ill from a possible neural virus. passengers and crew members on board roy caribbean's "explorer of the sea exquisite" prompted the ship ton sanitized before returning to new jersey. the cdc says the cause is unknown. >>> the u.s. military carried out a missile strike in somalia on sunday against a suspected military leader with ties to the al qaeda. >>> in an interview with a network nsa leaker edward snowden said there are, quote, significant threats to his life and they would love to see him assassinat assassinated. leading the news, the ukrainian justice building was stormed on sunday adding another government building to the list of those occupied. >>> italy's mount etna erupts. it erupted with smoke and spectacular lava streams. the eruption temporarily closed a local airport. >>> check this out, more than 500 hungry runners took part in the krispy kreme donut dash. participants had to run the race while e

in every berth there is a charge bed.n drive without charging around four hours. >> this is exciting! oh, wow! is it ok if i touch the screen? >> you can get some information, what is the prt. >> i did not do anything and it is moving. it is like magic. >> you don't need to drive it. it can run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year without a driver. >> so all of the city is above us? >> the design for masdar is that all transportation is underneath. everything is above that. all the service things on this level. >> in your opinion, what is the most unique element of the prt system? >> our system is free-ranging. heathrow prt system is riding between concrete walls. >> i don't see a concrete wall here. >> we don't need it. every two meters we have a magnet in the floor. if you have a whole grid with magnets and you put all the magnets in a database, you can just draw on the computer a new route, and it just follows. that's why we navigate and can drive automatically. >> what is the reaction you normally get? >

the niners play the panthers on sunday in the quest for a consecutive super bowl berth which they willo. >> all right, you're confident about that. we'll see. >>> now that polar vortex that froze the nation seems to be heading back north to canada, it's time to assess the damage. the big chill is projected to cost the u.s. economy, listen to this, up to $5 billion. thanks in part to the 11,000 canceled flights this week. it wasn't just the airlines that had trouble, though, new york's hudson river was so frozen a ferry had to actually be carved out of the ice. but some good did come out of this polar vortex. scientists say the subzero temperatures will slow invasive insects that are killing off different plant species. all right. i don't know what the invasive insects are, do you? >> i don't know. apparently we don't want them. >> i'm not a big fan of the insects. especially the insects. we were adding up the numbers. it's not going to rank in the top 25 coldest outbreaks in the country's history. it barely makes the list. it is pretty incredible that it wasn't all that bad compared to

year later thousands of tons of chemical that a mix of water and oil were spilled when a pipeline berth in another alaskan oil field this track record was of special concern to greenpeace an arctic campaigner who we spoke to and he told us that greenland should think twice it's very important to green only government and the green only population is aware that the risks taken with you have been moments of consequences but also have is a spill happens when a spill happens have massive consequences for for example the fishery state so you agree it is just to be your wrist say the conditions are extremely harsh. like on a collision course almost on a daily basis women can scottish oil company that exploration drilling spot in two thousand and eleven they had to show what we around two hundred icebergs over a period of just a couple of months because they were on a collision course with the oil rig if one of these all these bearings on so we can actually hits it hits the oil rig there will of course be environmental consequences and at the same time there is no technology to clean up the sp

the military's biggest industrial employer with an annual wage bill of forty million euro and a four berth for the millions spent on service companies and contractors. heber is critical to the county's economy. when a four year dispute over a two and a half percent pay rise has become increasingly bitter the key is whether the pay rise should be tied to other cost saving measures proposed by the company. here you are to be set to confirm that the majority of its three hundred members of the lever plants and for that rejects leave report proposal is deemed as ending the dispute critically however set to lift the door opened to a resumption of talks with the company. let me begin a process of consulting the things he has heard the outcome of the comments abt the right to call me today and popped them up to disrupt the balance and augustine taught them that we aren't they. and as ever for a trade discussions. ledley will go back in the mid seventies it was just up the spinning a slight behind the end is when your mayor of minardi had the court he worked as a contractor for lever and can arnie

berth, a wide range of activity. i know you are based in the cayman.th that stack luxembourg, where i know there are a lot of funds? >> the cayman -- cayman is the leader in the pack. you will notice a few figures that we have for the fund set up in cayman. it really is the leader of the pack. >> and obviously, has better weather, of course. looking smaller firms, to india, i've been told that was a growing trend as well. one of the areas staying global that you told me in the past has been setting up hedge funds, which are essentially sponsored by japanese institutions. what kinds of institutions are these investing? are they banks, other private entities? >> a lot of them are single investor funds. you will have a large japanese bank that will typically be managed by a u.s. fund manager. been a strong trend with the number of funds we have nearly one012, and quarter of them set of last year were aimed at that market. that is sizable. why the change? >> and number of things have stimulated that market. the economy has done well, and that has contribut

second straight 4-12 season both under allen oakland has gone 11 straight seasons without a playoff berthg record >> gary: johnny manzell has turned his last collegiate heroic. >> gary: manziel going to nfl >> gary: texas a&m quarterback. and last season's heisman trophy winner. johnny manziel announced he will enter the nfl draft today. forgoing his last two seasons in college station >> gary: manziel became the first freshman to win the heisman last season a feat repeated by jameis winston this year as he led the aggiest to an 11-2 season and a win over alabama >> gary: this past season he threw for 4,114 yards and 37 touchdowns he could be drafted as high as #1 overall by the houston texans or could be the 3rd quarterback drafted going somewhere in the top half of the first round according to the drafte xperts >> pam: he is amazing! >> pam: (laughter) >> gary: three new plays are going into the baseball hall of fame. >> gary: maddux, glavine & thomas in mlb hall of fame three players elected to major league baseball's hall of fame today >> gary: greg maddux the 4- time cy young award w

is the middle and the end of the diplomacy and it will show us how political this game was from its berth which is something nobody knew in 1971 or has spoken about since then. that first young boy who becomes a communist revolutionary is the honorable i've been montagu. said two chinese men is the future premier at that time the american is a young free spirit born in california not doing much of anything besides getting into ping-pong somehow is invited to join the american team for the zero world champions in japan then two days later he is a spontaneous diplomat who is roped into beijing and is front-page news on every loose paper in the world in the '70s. i will talk about this. i don't think we have to concentrate very hard to know that china has come a long way as a sign of this relationship is more important than ever. is the only country with the template. they have been there before up until the 1800's china was the richest nation in the world and had done for a long time. it is hard to imagine other empires recovering any time soon. you cannot see athens getting itself together

. >>> nations in the northern hemisphere are preparing for the six nash championship berth on saturdayengland will be in paris to take on france. and the coach has named jack on the wings, and luther has been named outside center. >>> champions will take on their opening match also on saturday. the national team has had unprecedented success in recent years, but it has not stopped the decline. >> these welsh rugby players have become the first to win the six nation championship three consecutive times. but while the national team is reviving past glories for a nation that lives and breaths the sport, the communities are in decline. it's a community in wales whose population is just under 40,000, suffering under th the decline n steel. but the rugby club, their heroes, taking on south africa and australia. but a strong club system was replaced by a regional rugby system that some people didn't want. they were hit so hard that peter jefferies kept them alive. >> i see it as a town has heavily dependent and relying on it for the future. i think that the role of the rugby club gives a comm

super bowl berths are on the line.ark morgan is here to talk about it all. >> it's manning versus brady in denver. as the broncos host the patriots. the seahawks 49ers rivalry is renewed in seattle. >> ross shimabuku is denver. and jessica taff standing by in seattle. ross, what is the mood in den fer. >> you have to love it. you have two living legends. you might want to enjoy it. these two could be the last time they meet in the play-offs much this will be the 50th needed. brady has the edge with 10, manning threw for more yards and touch downs. brady has three super bowl rinks, manning just one. the winner of sunday's game gets another shot at super bowl 48. >> he's a great leader for the team. this is about the broncos and the patriots. i know they have a great quarterback. we'll have to score points, and they scored all year. i think they set a record for scoring points this season, more than any in the history of the league. it will be challenged, because they have a good defense, they play well at home. we have

mankind i think that it has figured out a system where these guarantees, and these are guaranteed berths most diverse immigrants and its oldest immigrants i think our challenge as muslims in other parts of the world, do not have and i often feel that we need to rescue god from the hands of the humanities of the abuse of political power. god is in service as man as opposed to demand service in god and many most the majority countries. fortunately, in america was lost because we don't have to worry about that and got his rescue from the vanity of man and we can thrive in the beauty of our diversity on this journey every day striving towards the beauty of god. >> host: let's go a little deeper into this diversity issue. islam is very diverse in the sense we have so many nationalities. manhattan is unique because manhattan is home to the entire diversity. every ethnicity, every nationality, every school of thought that i know of i call this the annual mac. year-round. we have muslims from every conceivable part of the world and all the shapes and colors. so, what do you feel when people tell

iowa will host the berth of the caucuses for the next president, and jason chaffins of utah was invitedcials to frame the issue. >> please, iowa, we've got to get this right. we have got to get organized and not just -- not just to defeat somebody, but to make the case that republicans are the right people for this job. >>> president obama's low job approval create big opportunities for the gop in iowa and nationwide. iowa u.s. senator chuck grassley. >> as much respect you have to have for the office, you still can't respect people that will shred the constitution, and we have to get back to those basic principles of defending the constitution. >> first in the nation gop caucusgoers also want something from the growing field of 2016 contenders to take back the white house in two years. chris christie's controversies in new jersey are big news in iowa where many never got over his conduct with president obama after superstorm sandy before the 2012 election when mitt romney needed christie's help, but new jersey did, too. >> a lot of people are upset because they thought he wasn't as sup

she's the first of 76 cruise ships booked to berth this year, just shy of the record 85.officials say the ships bring in major tourism dollars and pay fees that help fund local projects. a new $100 million terminal is under construction at pier 27. >>> looking for a new best friend? the tri-city animal shelter is a good place to start. it's offering free adoptions through 5:00 p.m. today. since december 3rd, the shelter has adopted out 59 pets to new owners. another 44 have been placed with animal rescue groups and 35 others were returned to their rightful owners. >>> at kickoff at tomorrow's niners game in green bay, technically, it will be zero degrees. but with the windchill, it's going to feel more like 25 to 45 below. hard to imagine here in california, right? we sent abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman into the deep freeze to experience it firsthand. >> reporter: it is a hot topic around town among niner fans, the cold about to hit your team in green bay this sunday. >> gametime, 0 degrees. the windchill factor is going to be minus 20 to minus 25. >> reporter: ever w

i wonder if the house authorities would like to buy it to berth alongside the palace of westminster toccommodate the huge number of new peers being created? [laughter] >> in fact, the worship can accommodate up to 700 people and has a bank, laundry, and shop. the death of nelson mandela was a moment that parliament could not ignore. the first black president of south africa and father figure for his nation came to parliament back in 1996 and spoke in westminster hall. he was fully aware of the anti- apartheid campaigns that ran in britain throughout his long time in captivity. when his death was announced, tributes were many and moving. >> when nelson mandela took his first steps to freedom, he made no call for vengeance, only forgiveness. he understood that dismantling apartheid legacy was about more than just removing the most explicit signs of discrimination and segregation. >> the man most responsible for the destruction of what people thought was indestructible, the apartheid system, the man who taught us that no injustice can last forever. >> my mother was often alone in the earl

>> on friday, the supreme court said the little sisters of the tour do not have to comply with the berth control mandate as long as they continue to pursue their legal challenge. does the white house insist that the nuns must sign a waiver even though they say that this violates their religious beliefs? >> this is a matter before the courts. the courts will hear the case. we believe that our rules have struck the right balance here. >> but the little sisters say and the court has fielded enough support that they have stayed the birth control mandate. they say that little sisters do, that even signing the certification, saying we're not going to do it but the third party, the insurance company can do it, that violates their religious beliefs. >> well, the court specifically says in the order that this should not be read to have any view of their marriage. >> let's see what the court has to say. >> but you're going to continue to insist on this. >> right. there is a court -- there's a case before the court. they're going to rule. we made our position clear and we think we struck the right

that but i think you know what was interesting more recently was when donald trump before he became a berth or when he first came out and said i'm seriously thinking of running for president and it was on c.n.n. it was even on fox he said why and he said because i want to stop the. you know the exporting of all these jobs we need to bring terrorists back and he explicitly said tariffs and immediately the republican party started applauding him you know and there was serious talk about and then when he went on birth of the new nose but i really don't want that you could take a donald trump column from nineteen eighty eight and change every mention of japan to china and you'd have a column from two thousand and four to see i think whichever party becomes was perot adopts this and repudiates what both parties have been doing is going to never again lose an election because i think americans get it that our trade policy is is and then which brings us back to these budget deficits we're now in this in this new this new budget it's one point one trillion dollar budget but it's still an austerity

if the ghost 4 and 12 next year but the raiders had 11 straight seasons without playoff berth or winning his last record. i >> : received a when out in style and in fact a story about it next rider health jasey. >> : this guy does a moot mercedes. his allotted don't disguise ready for the pros just great talent heisman trophy winner. >> : he will air the nfl draft to get to season eligibility. he registered one year. three new players are going in the baseball hall of fame here they are greg maddux for time award winner 350 wins. with an and his selection was than 97% this. >> : greg man and injured 58 wins. his own in the hall of fame. >> : frank thomas to end of his career hang it all out with the nba's hundred ndp maggiore majority good with the chicago white states. the line top get at top guy at 97.2. >> : his long ago craig biggio 75 percent of votes 74.8 he missed by two votes of hall of fame induction. first we have scores might question what runs more night on one of our specials. if you had a vote would you put by clemens and the hall of fame why or why not. again the call to j

all for a berth in the superbowl. >> pam: kron four's rob fladeboe brings you up to date on the actionom 49ers headquarters in santa clara. >> reporter:as he presided over practice wednesday, coach jim harbaugh downplayed any percieved animosity between his 49ers and seattle, telling a packed media tent that it's just a >> we have had a football. competition. when he winning! >> reporter:and winning, says the coach, will mean solving seattle's vaunted defense, something that has eluded the 49ers the past. >> great turnovers in any situation >> reporter:following their coach to the podium.players echoed their coaches words about the challenge ahead. >> they have a good defense so there are times that they may play. if we can make plays on our sod of the ball and eliminate that the better. >> take care of the small things that protect the ball, definitely. it could cost you the game. >> reporter:often more responsive to non football questions.harbaugh was asked to comment on reports that his wife has been after him to upgrade his wardrobe from the usual black sweatshirt and khaki pants.

he is going to give speaker baper and the republicans in the house as wide a berth as possible in thees they can come up with not full of what he wants but a half flow in terms of immigration restorm. >> the republican response to the state of the union will happen in just about five minutes, our understanding, the timing is five minutes after that door closes, and we'll bring that to you in its entirety. first i want to go to whendell goler. your thoughts? >> he really hit it when he talked about the president giving house speaker john boehner a lot of space on immigration reform and on other matters as well. remember when the president talked about income inequality and how america allows people to rise up as they do nowhere else in the world, he drew the example of a factory worker now the woman heading general motors, mary barra and pointed also to the son of a bartender,@ now speaker of the house, and the son of a single mom, now president of the united states. mr. obama was determined not to, if you will, offend john baper in this state of the union address, and he took care to

the obama administration gave utin a wide berth. we probably were happy, i mean, i was not privy to discussion at the white house but i'm pretty ure that the syrian gambit was greeted on the highest level and the support we saw to it indicates it was greeted at the high level by the white house. plus proach that g5 germany took on iran indicates the white house is willing to work with russia as well as our european allies on bringing -- trying to bring iran back into limited and we are very minimalist policy on the ewe crane and other former soviet countries. the question is, is this policy working? is f -- if -- ukraine eventually going to -- going by way of the customs union, if this is going to be the end of the road or beginning of a new road. usually, in foreign policy and strategy, if you successfully -- to use senator cruz's chess metaphor you eat one piece you get your appetite whetted and you want to eat another piece and then another piece. and i'm surprised nobody mentioned here the famous say big mr. putin that the colla

saddam and south sudan, the united states has about $12 billion of peacekeeping in darfur and the berthing of south sudan. important constituencies have been involved in the move to independence. we can't turn back on this. it's going to take a lot of time and effort. but we've recognized the fundamental weaknesses in these institutions. we and our partners can start to address this over the next several years. >> thank you. thank you mr. chairman and ranking member corker. this defeat could you have been important to the development for now years even decades. and i think that having this hearing right now it sends an important signal to the people of south sudan that we care and we are watching very closely. >> i want to move right to the solutions on page four of my testimony i want to propose for ways that the administration and congress can help right now to stabilize a broad peace process that many of you talked about. the first way that the u.s. can help i think is to help expand this peace process beyond just a deal. this goes to the heart of what you were saying, senator menendez.

a 24-year-old skier, anthony sigh berth was -- seibert was killed. snow with three other people. he is the grandson of the man who co-founded the vail ski resort. >> no developments in the case of the stand your ground mom. they want to put her back in jail. they say she's been running errands and driving around family members when she's supposed to be on home confinement. alexander spent time in jail before her release in november. her attorney says every trip she has taken has been approved by the local sheriff's officer. >>> and a bit of an embarrassing hot line mix gyp. parents calling for arn explanation on child safety seats reached an adult talk line number instead. it's still posted on the state's information brochures. >> infortunate. >> one of those oopsies. >>> an interview became something much more as dennis rodman went off from north korea. a rant echoing all the way from "new day" to late night. we're going to unpack it with the former nba star and a u.s. ambassador. >>> plus accused of faking injuries related to the 9/11 terrorist att

are well aware of the exploits of cam newton and the carolina panthers, having clinched a playoff berth, but it was actually in my district, the 10th district of western north carolina that really was the epicenter of north carolina football in the month of december. first, there was crest high school in cleveland county representing the boiling springs. crest is a prerenial powerhouse in high school -- perennial powerhouse in high school football. it was under the coach of coach mark barnes. they rode a 14-game winning streak on their way to win the north carolina high school thletic association a.a.a. title. it was another impressive season for coach barnes and his great team. all was not lost for cleveland county. as another traditional power, shelby high school, also played for a state championship. the goallines went 12-4 this year capping a season with a victory to win the north carolina 2-a western football championship -- i'm sorry -- state championship. coach lance wear and his team -- lance ware and his team continued the proud tradition as this marked the school's 12th state

we are reversing supports because of the lack of medical care women are dying in child berth. there are reports of widespread malnutrition, children, women, the elderly reduced to eating anfall feed, spices mixed in unsafe water. >> before the war it was home to 160,000 palestinians. it was set up in 1957. it grew to include schools and health centres. the camp has been under rebel control for more than a year and has been surrounded by government forces. act fists say the camp has been under medical siege. >> in order to get to the areas you need permission from the government and security assurances from the fighting groups that you can allow or get the aid inside this particular spot without any - with the relative safety to the convoy. >> the u.n. relief agency called urgently for the humanitarian corridor. there has been no electricity or heating and the water supply is unreliable. food is running out. without it more will die. >> there are now fears that the camps will become incubators of islamic extremism. >> the thailand government played down talk of a coup ahead of

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butch his comments after clinching a berth in the super bowl have made him a rising topic off the fieldnd now sherman himself is speaking out. >> if i would have really known it was going to blow up like that, i probably would have approached it differently. >> and the seahawks are going to the super bowl. >> what blew up was sherman's temper, unleashed minutes after the seahawks won the championship game. the play he's talking about, this one, a game saver, when here blocked a pass intended for 49ers receiver michael crabtree. >> picked off! >> that ended the game. sherman said he tried to shake crabtree's hand and was pushed away. sherman now apologizes for the comments and said he got caught up in the moment. the 25-year-old football star went on to compare his style to mohamed ali and deion sanders. both well known athletes and trash talkers. but it's the word used by sherman's critics that are getting a lot of attention. some calling him a villain. >> i don't think i'm a villain. >> others calling him a thug, which he says he takes offense to. >> the only reason it bothers me is be

title game berth. that auburn took care of that.on bowl thriller, the tide settled for a shot in the sugar bowl. last season, he said calling the s.e.c. the best conference was propaganda. sooners up 31-24 as we pick it up second and goal fo. sooners up by 14. completed 32 throws, under seven minutes to play, alabama trying to come back, the swing pass. he is a freshman, running away from everybody. 61 yards for the score, the tide down 38-31. under a minute left. first and 10 from the alabama 18, lasted chance for the tide, hit, ball is loose, picks it up and leans over the goal line for the touchdown, oklahoma upsets alabama. he gets a bath. yeah, oklahoma wins the sugar bowl 45-31. >> the nfl playoffs begin tomorrow, three stadiums still short of sellouts for the games. the push is on to sell the games out and avoid t.v. blackouts in those markets. taking a look now at the action, the chiefs and coats kick things off to really on wildcard saturday, the early game. the night cap should be a good one in philly. eagles host the sain