he said betty, we love you, trust us.nd we woke her up, she did the work. >> as many of you probably know, 16 years ago this april, i participated in a treatment program for prescription drugs and alcohol depends. -- dependence. today i'm a very grateful recovering alcoholic. and i know firsthand that treatment does work. >> we see her talking about her successful treatment. her command of speech making versus the other clips is markedly different. after she became sober. >> that's true. it may surprise people, seing this confident, commanding figure from 1994, at the end of her life, she had butterflies before she went on stage. she was terrified. and part of that is the perfectionism that i think was bred in her by her mother. one thing we talk about is, we talk about a genetic disposition to alcohol. there was in some ways an emotional disposition as well. you know, she writes, particularly in "a wide awakening," about the emptiness and low self-esteem. she was sensitive about the fact that she didn't have a college de

betty?> we'll be watching. tracie, thank you very much for that. >>> we want to shift gears now and go to my friend, richard lui, with the latest in sports. they're heating things up down under, in australia, that is. let's not get that confused. >> that's right. good morning to you, betty. how hot is it in sdwral? well, it is so hot, australian open players are fainting, so hot, ice packs were scarcer than hen's teeth. >> ah. >> yeah, they do have teeth. the 105 degrees not too hot for serena williams, though. her straight-sets win tied a record 60 wins in the open era, so hot here, i had to show you this, though, betty. bikinis and speedos, they were everywhere. >> you had to show the bikinis. >> if it's that hot, 105, just to make us all jealous. more heat news. >>> president obama welcoming the nba champs, miami, to the white house. he got a traditional team jersey and he joked a little, too. >> this group has now won twice, but it's gone to the finals three times, and sometimes it feels

. >> did the betty ford that the country came to know accurately reflect the betty ford that was your mother? >> yeah, yeah. for some reason, just the way her life unfolded she was challenged with two major issues. first, breast cancer and alcoholism. within the first 30 days of dad's administration, you had the resignation and the economy in shambles. mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. you have to remember at that time in 1974 people do not talk about breast cancer. you literally did not say the word "breast." it was a closet disease for women. here you have an image of mom and dad standing there in front of the press holding hands saying we are going to take the shame of the disease and be very transparent. -- take the shame off of this disease and be very transparent. that was important to her as a person to be able -- she did not choose it but to be that role model and she did well. of the hundreds of thousands of letters she got, women who said thank you for helping to take the shame of the disease. -- shame off of this disease. and saying i went in and got the exam and we cau

there are enough of those, but betty doesn't. she measures success in a different way. >> getting from a very slumped over immature, uncooperative, to somebody who will just walk right up, shake your hand, just going and taking it and running with it. >> reporter: this is one of those programs you go down the list of people it helps. the restaurant owners, who get the labor in there. but also, and this is really how betty started, when you own a restaurant, you spend 80, 90 hours a week there, not a lot of time to do community work outside. which she said, okay, i won't be able to do it. let's bring it in. so she brought it in the restaurant. that's how the whole thing started. >> what an ability to give somebody a passion to find a passion in their life. >> reporter: exactly. >> that's impressive. thanks. we have big wave surfing coming up. let's check in with our chief meteorologist he has our forecast. >> the mavericks waves beginning to ramp up a little bit more today. we are tracking two storm systems down the pacific. right

[laughter] betty's chin dropped to her chest. it was out of the bag.t's how it started. >> david kairys, as the attorney who has worked on this case for so long, could you talk about the significance of the statute of limitation on the case as well as what you saw as the illegality of what these documents exposed about what the fbi was doing? >> the statute of limitations by any fair reading is 5 years. the fbi themselves close the file in 1976 because five years had elapsed and there was no charges. there are arguments one can make, but there's really no legitimate or good faith basis to bring any legal charges at this point. as for the illegality of the fbi, they're supposed to enforce the law. here they are imposing themselves as almost a political counterforce to stop certain movements. it had a direction to it. they were stopping left liberal movements. thatwere using techniques we usually associate with state police in countries and systems that we usually think of as alien. >> how did you come to become involved in the case? >> i was vaguely doi

they all know betty liu. good morning, betty. >> scarlet fu is off. i am here with tom keene.ohn malone at liberty media has made it clear that he hopes to consolidate the nations time warner cable, the number two cable operator. there are some wrinkles in this complicate it story. every time he is involved, it is very complicated. >> he is a financial engineer. at the core, he buys himself companies. that is what he does, in the most tax efficient way possible. let's not forget what the news is. he is offering to buy, liberty media is offering to buy siri us. they already own a majority. what is going on is that he is hoping to take full control of sirius to leverage the cash flow. he wants to raise money to make that bid for time warner. that is the second-largest cable operator out there. it is a big fish for liberty media to swallow. that is why they are using charter and sirius assets. >> they have been a cash cow. they have been lucky. they bought it and watched it grow. >> cash cow for everyone but the shareholders. does he give a care about the shareholders? >> he is p

betty? >> tracie, thank you for that report. >>> now to the rare winter blast paralyzing parts of the south. 140 million americans are under some sort of weather watch or warning. the carolinas, georgia, alabama, louisiana and mississippi are under a state of emergency. and this morning, nearly 1,000 flights are already canceled. the weather forced more than 1,000 kids in alabama and georgia to spend the night at school. there, staff and students had access to meals and blankets. >> we have several major areas of concern because some of the schools had not released their students early enough in the day for them to be able to get home in the normal fashion before the roads became icy and the school buses could not run. >> just a few inches of snow fell in atlanta, but commuters came to a standstill. it took some more than five hours just to get home. the gridlock was so bad, a baby girl was actually delivered along i-285. thankfully, officials describe the birth as flawless. now remember, th

betty? >> thank you, courtney. >>> this crop circle, check it out, in california, managed to confuse and mystify the curious, but actually a ruse by the company novidia to show off a new processor making its debut at ces. >>> just ahead, nfl action and how silence can actually cost you. >>> plus, taking the scare out of catching air. that's next. >>> well, coming up this morning on "today," the squadron behind marine one. a rare inside look at the exclusive handpicked team responsible for flying the president of the united states. >>> all right. let's get to some sports action. it was just five degrees at kickoff and felt like minus ten with the windchill. but somehow the fans didn't seem to mind. yeah, they took their shirts off anyway. milwaukee's colin kaepernick in the fourth, packers leading when kaepernick connects with vernon davis to take back the lead. tied 20-20 with three seconds left. it is good. the niners win 23-20. the chargers capitalizing on cincy qb andy dalton's multiple m

i'm betty nguyen. we're begin with a major prostitution and cocaine crack down ahead of the super bowl. they were selling party packs of drugs and sex in new york city. they were accused of advertising on public access cable tv and taking credit cards and using texts to market their services. police have been watching the ring for 11 months but they decided to act now just in case anything was brewing for the super bowl. >> we have identified in the last year more than $3 million in credit card charges related to this enterprise and keep in mind that most johns pay cash. so that's a staggering number. >> 18 people are charged and more than half have already been arrested. >>> and now that super bowl weekend is here, the crowds and the excitement, they are building as the performers and the players prepare for kick off. nbc's sarah dollof is live in times square that's actually been transformed into super bowl boulevard. sarah, what's it like out there this morning? >> reporter: well, betty, we're going

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the awards. >> betty looks great. >>> happy monday everybody.finally have some changes in our forecast, after 14 days of near or record warmth, right here in the bay area. good morning to all of you. stepping out the door this morning, a subtle change. mostly cloudy conditions and temperatures as a result in the upper 30s and low and mid-40s. except san francisco, pacifica now in the high 40s. this is quite different than what we have experienced the past couple of f mornings when we started off into the 30s. later today, the numbers coming down slightly, but still, above average for this time of the year. typically we should be in the mid-50s in livermore, and the extended forecast, we have a light chance of some light rain tuesday morning, north bay, otherwise a san francisco chance of rain showers by thursday right here -- san francisco chance of rain showers by thursday in the -- significant chance of rain showers by thursday in the bay area. >>> and 280 heading to and through the peninsula, redwood city, san mateo, you can see a little bit

with steve ford, son of both betty and president gerald ford. your mother is one of the , if you turn around she is in the artwork for our series. she represents someone who did have influence and image. as a mother, talk to us about what she was like. >> you could say that about so many congressional lines. the more -- majority that time he was the house majority leader. he was on the road maybe 200 nights a year. for othergning republicans, trying to get a majority in congress. >> wrestling practice, all those kind of things, the glue that held the kids together while dad was out. i spent 25 years in film and tv business as an actor. i have to think what ever that calling was for me came not from dad's side but from mom. >> how successful was she -- you did have a typical -- how did going to the white house change that at all? >> looking back, we were fortunate. if you were a member of the bush or reagan family, there was almost an expectation that at some point, your father was going to run for president or be president. not with gerald ford.

i'm betty uyen. we're begin with a major prostitution and cocaine crack down ahead of the super bowl. they were selling party packs of drugs and sex in new york city. they were accused of advertising on public access cable tv and using texts to market their services. police have been watching the ring for 11 months but they decided to act now just in case anything was brewing for the super bowl. >> we have identified in the last year more than $3 million in credit card charges related to this enterprise and keep in mind that most johns pay cash. so that's a staggering number. >> 18 people are charged and more than half have already been arrested. >>> and now that super bowl weekend is here, the crowds and the excitement, they are building as the performers and the players prepare for kick off. sarah is live in times square that's actually been transformed into super bowl boulevard. sarah, what's it like out there this morning? >> reporter: well, betty, we're going to describe it as the calm before th

. >> we called that clothing, clothing betty, betty. >> betty, betty bye, bye.etty, betty, bye, bye, wake up jie. i will say goodbye to all of you. jo ling, that guy, buck, later. talking on the effort that's all about your buck, fbn. see you in three hours. >> i'm dana perino along with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, e.g. e. eric bolling and greg gutfield. it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." tonight, a string of new provocative comments from president obama in a 17,000 word profile piece in new yorker magazine. the president talked about race, marijuana, terror, and more. we begin with the race remarks. the president's poll numbers have been in freefall since his re-election, especially with white voters. he has a theory as to why. he said, quote, there are no doubt there are some folks who really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president. now th

after we left the white house, betty nine would go to washington. she would get republicans and i would get democrats. we made some progress. >> did you and betty ford have the same relationship? >> we were we went to the funeral after we left the white house. that is when jimmy and gerald ford began talking a lot of times and saw how much each one they thought similarly. and then betty and i started working and we developed a wonderful relationship. >> there are several first lady still living. is there a sorority of first ladies, in a sense? >> i had a good relationship with betty ford and lady bird, as long as she was alive. that is about it. there has never been -- we see each other at events and a library dedications. but there is never been a closeness that i had with betty ford and lady bird. >> when you are first lady, unity weekly luncheon with your husband. what was the purpose of that? >> well, there are always things i wanted to ask him and some was about the family and finances and things going on back home. we also talked about issues.

. >> we called that clothing, clothing betty, betty. >> betty, betty bye, bye.betty, bye, bye, wake up jie. i will say goodbye to all of you. >>> hello, everyone. i'm andrei bekh along with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, greg gutfield, and dana perino. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." >> for some reason, president obama just can't get us off his mind. it's almost like we live rent free in his head. >> i've got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration. >> just in case some of your friends or neighbors or, you know, uncle jim who is a little stubborn and been watching fox news -- >> if you talk to somebody who said, well, i don't know. i was watching fox news and they

our betty liu is out with a new book. asked some of the biggest leaders in business what they think got them to the top. all this week, we are hearing from them. toms shoes. blake mycoskie started his business with just $5,000. >> it tells our customers what is most important, giving as much as it is running our business. i tried to look for new opportunities to grow our business and meet new people, i never get complacent. i spent about 200 days a year on the road. which my wife does not love. it allows me to understand what is going on in the markets. i try to sleep about eight hours a night. on the weekends, 10 hours a night, i know that is not typical for a ceo. for me, if i am tired, i am worthless. the biggest mistake people make is they analyze things so much. i call it paralysis by analysis. you have got to keep taking risks and trying new things, that is the only way you can continue to be a market leader. one skill that every leader needs is to be a great listener. if you are not a good listener, you are never g

betty ford, then betty bloomer, knew she wanted to do something with it. fascinated.she went to different camps. this was her trunk she would where she putsin, on skits and plays, danced with and that led to vermont, where she studied at the school of dance. these are some of her notecards where she kept notes, so each of these is dedicated to a different subject. you would find names of her tookers and the notes she about the different things she was studying, much of it about choreography. some of them have dance figures she has drawn with diagrams that how the stage is supposed to be organized. material includes her and she collected music and collected popular tunes from the time, and these are some of the records he would find in her record album. i'm a big girl now. cap by aero. she shared her dorm room with a tober of girls, so she had leave notes. mrs. ford was an organized person. back in thehese same folder. thank you. it is very important. this is her organizer. she carried this with her to york, where to new she worked for the powers toeling agency, then b

betty liu with me. cristina alesci.h us as well. >> we have to talk about one of your favorite topics. usa hockey board of directors meeting this month to consider a ban on fighting for all levels of amateur hockey. the good news, fighting has decreased 20% this season. >> an interesting debate. something we will address immediately. then we will move onto the bigger issues of hockey. he simply changed the game. drafted in 1964. you did not go to college. ken dryden said no. went on to a famous career at cornell and ran than said what it meant to be an nhl goalie. i remember-- boy do this. what do you mean he is going to law school? played seven season and was the first inductee into the hockey hall of fame. with ken dryden. wonderful to have you on the program. let's get out of wave the fighting issue. john ferguson you played four years. is the fighting another time and place of john ferguson and the battles? will it be something of the past? >> it is moving that way but moving that way in a different way. what happen

i know betty will be hurt, not only her but the community. >> betty is in the hospital in fair condition. >> the suspected drunk driver, 56, is in the hospital with major injuries. >> san jose state university, campus police are warning female students to be alert after two assaults over the weekend open campus saturday night. a man on a pick -- bicycle groped a woman outside the recreation center and the second incident happened at 9:20 near the hoover hall dorm. witnesses say the attacker was a white man in his 20's with a must tack wearing a black hoodie and pants the many students learned of the assault since text messages were sent by the university. students are encouraged to call for campus police escort at night. >> counselors are on hand at a benicia school where a first grade teacher has been arrested on poisoning charges. she teaches first grade at matthew turner elementary school in benicia and arrested on friday on suspicion of poisoning school district staff at an after hours potluck back in november. a victim was admitted to the hospital for treatment. tests found thc, a s

let's go ahead and get the latest in sports from my good friend betty nguyen. big, big weekend in football. >> oh, tell me me about it. in fact, we're going to tell you about it. it was 5 degrees at kickoff, and it felt like minus 10 with the windchill somehow, though, the fans didn't mind. he doesn't even have a shirt on. neither did milwaukee-born colin kaepernick, though. they had lee when kaepernick connects with vernon davis to take back the lead. and then tied, the win, it is good. the niners win 23-20. >>> the chargers capitalizing on andy dalton's mistake. dalton runs for the first down, untouched but fumbles the ball. chargers get it near the end of the third almost pick six by dalton. then san diego's philip rivers seals the deal to ronnie brown. chargers 27-10. >>> and now the fans facing the elements in philly. that's one way to do it. tailgaters were relaxing in a hot tub. saints won it. >>> next week's game, seahawks host the saints. and sunday, the panthers host the niners and the broncos host the chargers. >> you know they say silence is gold. b

our betty liu is out with a new book. asked some of the biggest leaders in business where they think god then to the top. all this week on the thing" -- tot they think got them the top. all this week, we are hearing from them. started hisie business with just $5,000. what tells our customers is most important, giving as much as it is running our business. look for new opportunities to grow our business and meet new people, i never get complacent. i spent about 200 days a year on the road. which my wife does not love. it allows me to understand what is going on in the markets. i try to sleep about eight hours a night. on the weekends, 10 hours a night, i know that is not typical for a ceo. tired, i am am worthless. the biggest mistake people make analyze things so much. i call it paralysis by analysis. you have got to keep taking risks and trying new things, that is the only way you can continue to be a market leader. one skill that every leader needs is to be a great listener. if you are not a good listener, you are never

. >> betty liu is out with a new book," work smart."ll this week on "in the loop," the biggest names in business answer a different question every day in today's question -- what is the one skill every leader needs? >> credibility, both in the way he deals with people and the way he deals with numbers and the way he deals with the realities that are around him. >> good listener. >> listening, your team your people in the market, customers, suppliers, they have a lot to say and the best ideas will not come from you your cell. they will come from other people. >> great people skills is the ability to be intuitive about people and hire people that are different than you. >> i think we have to listen, learn before we can lead. >> you have to be personally responsible and recognize that you are responsible for the lives of the people around you. they depend on you. you have chosen to be responsible and therefore you cannot forget those people. >> listening is the most important skill by a country mile. probably most important is the ability

betty asks bill gates if he has any advice for mr.loomberg. >> mike has been super generous on malaria research. i hope you will feel good going in and seeing that the death rate is down, seeing -- we have been talking to the people on the ground for which tools to deliver. africa is fantastic. the city sees that city needs a lot of help. that is why both of us are drawing more of our philanthropy to help those countries that have great means. >> one of the places melinda is has 50,000 people per doctor. we have 500 people per doctor. if you need an emergency operation, you just die. we have been training people to do appendectomy's, which turns out to be relatively simple operations. you are not going to cure everything, you are not going to be able to do open heart surgery but you are going to do things that can be enormous. >> what do you hope to do or see their? >> the organization i am participating in is a group of sharing best practices. they all have the same problems. the all have to educate and protect and improve the health

good morning, richard. >> good morning, to you, betty. as bill was talking about, those high gusting winds, reports of areas south of boston, up to 55 miles per hour. what we're seeing around here is about 20-25 miles per hour. and when we check our little thermometers here at the site, it's about 3 or 4 degrees, but you've got to deduct 20 degrees from that. when the wind chill hits us, well below zero. so the kind of snow we're seeing is very light. and you can tell when you look at just some of the plowed snow, it's fluffy, it's like that. beautiful champagne powder that you get when you're in states such as colorado. and what they've been doing all night is keeping the plows working. over 3,300 of them working at midnight at that time, according to the massachusetts department of transportation. and that's why they've been able to keep the roads clear. so when the businesses start to open, people start to get to work, we'll see how it works out. for people themselves, it's doggone cold, take a listen. >> it's cold, it's very, very col

betty is in san jose. she spoke to some of the victims. betty. >> reporter: i'm standing in front of a home that was completely destroyed by the suspected serial arsonist. the couple lived here for almost 50 years and as you can see, the windows have been boarded up. this couple is thankful they are alive, but like police, they have a lot of questions. >> to me, it looks like some kind of war zone. >> there's as much heart ache as there is relief at the place they used to call home. since san jose police arrested and charged patrick william brennan for a frightening arson spree. >> i think this person needs to be put away for a long time for creating such evil and heinous acts. >> i just don't understand how anybody can cause so much destruction. >> police don't know the motive, but they are certain 48- year-old brennan was the firebug. responsible for 12 fires. evidence ties him to last week's massive warehouse fire near the highway. >> quite honestly, the work of one hard working midnight sergeant who took it upon himself to conduct some

i'm betty nguyen. the polar vortex is right here, right now and it's sending temperatures plummeting to the lowest levels in decades. here in new york, readings fell 55 degrees in just a matter of hours. and it is similar across the country. it's all life threatening, record breaking and travel tangling. for many, the worst is just beginning. brave tracie potts is live in washington. how does it feel where you are, tracie? >> reporter: it feels cold. but feels cold pretty much everywhere around the country. we woke up to single digit temperatures with windchills at 5, 10, 15 below. that's nothing compared to what they're seeing in the midwest. it's actually warmer in minneapolis this morning. minnesota has some of the coldest temperatures in the nation today. the midwest frost comes on top of record snow that closed indiana's major interstate. several counties there are in a state of emergency. in milwaukee, power crews are out, in it, trying to keep the lights on. >> just got to do your job. that's wh

i'm betty nguyen. >>> we begin with breaking news overnight. three people including the gunman are dead after a supermarket shooting in northern indiana. police say the man walked into a supermarket late last night and used a semiautomatic handgun to kill two women and the gunman killed by police as he pointed his gun at a third person. >>> a story you will want to keep your eyes on this morning. in "the washington post" air force investigates dozens accused of cheating on nuclear proficiency exams. now, air force chief of staff mark a. welsh has tried to downplay the issue saying, quote, this is not about the compromise of flenuclear weapon but about our airmen. >>> outlines the details on that brazen september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi a killed four americans and puts the blame squarely on the state department and cia. nbc's tracie potts is live in washington. what is new on this report. >> reporter: the report echoes what we heard from the review board that the state department ignored red flags that warned of trouble. th

in los angeles, betty yu kpix 5. >>> same love is trending right now.s trending -- also trending, casey musgrave, the singer beat out taylor swift for best album. a commercial in the grammies, asked viewers to tweet the phrase for free cook keys. >>> angela jolie showing her darker side in a new movie. follow us on twitter. >> now yacht go in my head. >>> happy monday everybody. we're going to talk about the morning commute. i-80 is looking great. we have snot -- spotted slow traffic. leaving the berkeley area, bound for the berkeley curve and the bay bridge toll plaza, both directions of i-80 through east bay. heads up for the accident, just came in from the chp. southbound 880 from the stevensson boulevard. involving a few cars. one of the cars is facing the wrong way. a chp may decide to shut down the right lane as they work to clear up that accident. the 882/37 interchange, as you pass the accident in fremont, and traffic does okay. you can see the headlights there. that would be the southbound 880 drive making the transition to west 237. it's all g

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our anchor of "in the loop," betty liu, asked him how involved he is day-to-day. >> the foundation ishe biggest part of my time but i put part- time work in to help as a board member. >> how involved are you with the search for the new chief executive? >> the board is working on that. there's nothing new to say. it is a good board. >> do you feel a sense of urgency at all on this front? >> i feel that way. then again, you want to pick the best person. they will move at the right pace. >> we had the fortune of having the mayor come back to this company and we are very happy to have him back at bloomberg. bill, has that ever hit your vision in the future of ever going back to microsoft's full- time? >> my full-time job will be the foundation for the rest of my life. melinda and i are enjoying it. i will not change that. i will help out part-time. >> that was betty liu with the founder of microsoft, bill gates, as well as the founder of bloomberg lp, michael bloomberg. he was a little bit away, not totally straightforward about his role. you think that categorically made it clear he's no

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betty. >> that's right. creators of these smart phone apps use, for example, social media to try and keep you healthy and avoid a trip to the hospital. here at regional medical center, doctors have been treating patients in these tent bes hind me with flu-liefk symptoms's an overflow in their er. >> we've had an epidemic. >> san rafael pharmacist and ucss professor paul says this is the most brutal season he's seen in the last ten years considering the number of healthy young people who have died from the h1n1 virus. >> february is the worst month for bay area folks. >> and this might push you to get a flu shot or at least alert you that your neighbors are coming down with something. it's an app called sick weather. it pinpoints where sick people are in your area by filtering tweets and facebook status updates. the flu near you app is a crowd sourced system. each represents someone in the area who shared symptoms down to the very street. for example, right now, there are two reports of the flu in fremont and

betty yu is in san jose. she spoke with some of the victims. betty? >> reporter: allen, the couple who lived in this home behind me, pretty much lost everything. you can see the windows are boarded up. their entire roof collapsed. three of their cats are missing and they don't have insurance. so this arrest ended a very tough week for arson victims but for this family, rebuilding their lives won't be easy. >> it looks like some kind of a war zone. >> reporter: there is as much heart ache as there is relief in the place they used to call home since san jose arrested and charged patrick william brennan for a frightening arson spree. >> i think this person need to be put away for a long time for creating such evil acts. >> i just don't understand how anybody couldn't call this destruction. >> reporter: police don't know the motive but they are certain 48-year-old patrick william brennan was the firebug. evidence ties him to last week's massive warehouse fire. they used surveillance video, a sketch, and good old fashioned police work to track him down. >>

good morning. >> reporter: right there betty, exploding. all right, let's get to sports. he becomes the fifth highest paid pitcher in major leak baseball. he comes all the way from japan. masakhiri tanaka the 2005-year-old has only played in japan where he went 24-0 last season with a 1.27 e.r.a.. celtics were all money, score tied, seconds left, that, celtics sinking 2 in the paint. celtics 113-111. oh, yes, the paceers can lose. winners of five straight. the top team in the central division get scorched by the sun, phoenix ahead by 13 at the half. former pacer joe green, he was scoring. he led all scores with 18, phoenix wins 124-100. smile a little, would you. number nine rankled wisconsin badgers lose their third straight. austin hollands delivers this one arm dunk, watch it, wait for it. wow! minnesota 87-108. number 21 michigan looking good versus number 10 i, what leading in the half. later iowa's erin dunking. >> zumpging all over the place. >> well, look at that 3. beauty! michigan wins it 70-67. go blues. vince young, the former titan's quarterback filed for ban

betty. >> liz, this woman had gotten out of the car with her baby because of a family argument. tonight at her memorial, people have been coming by writing messages and bringing flowers reflecting on this young mother's life while her baby boy fights for his. it's not the kind of text anthony had planned on making to his younger sister. the 19-year-old mother was killed on new year's eve after this pickup truck slammed into her. she was carrying her son salvador in a car seat and crossing the street with her teen sister. >> it's an ugly feeling. it's like, oh! >> the three month old baby was tossed several feets and in very bad shape. ashley's sister reyna is expected to recover from her injuries. police say the group got into a family argument in their car before the sisters decided to get out. >> my sister would protect that baby with her life anyhow anyway anywhere, and i know she would never put that baby in danger. >> family members say the new moum was studying to become a nurse. she was just starting a life together with the baby's father. >> the last time i talked to her

evan bettis,perez, i want to br back in.push back a little bit on the fact that this -- they're saying it is not fact yet that this was a domestic situation. but certainly the preliminary information that you are hearing is that it is. was there anything else, though, in that press conference that stuck out to you? >> well, you know, again, the way they respond to these things as mr. palumbo has been saying is really remarkable and the quickness at which they were able to get in there, you know, is very reassuring for people. i'm very familiar with that mall. i've been there many, many times. it's up in the northern suburbs between d.c. and baltimore. not far from the nsa headquarters, for instance. it's very sbrising that they say that they have trained in this mall for exact li thly this typ situation. you can tell they were very quickly able to determine what had happened, what this was very limited to just this three victims. obviously it's going to take a lot more work to establish exactly what happened and the howard c

betty. >> juliette, it seemed like he had it all planned out. this pot club behind me because he's actually a customer here, but he wasn't prepared to run from police. that's why he ended uptaking an elevator out of service. >> he was in the elevator shaft because he was refusing to come out. >> this is how police officers confirmed a pot club burglar was indeed hiding for at least two hours this morning. they broke through the wall to find him trapped between two floors on top of the elevator car in west san jose. >> that was the hard part. we needed to force open the elevators and then convince him to come down. >> it was apparently a small, cramped space. >> so this is the stuff he was after, marijuana from the haze dispensary about three doors down in the strip mall on hillsdale avenue. police say he broke in through the roof and tripped the alarm around 2:15 this morning. >> so he got up on his tiptoes, and he broke. >> 30 minutes later he made his way into dance boulevard through the window. this isn't exactly the work of a criminal master

betty >> ken, the sant hose police department made this announcement in the last hour. this serial arsonist is accused of setting 13 fires in under a week. this is a sketch of the suspect police released over the weekend. it's based on witness description and surveillance video. right now, we don't know the man's name or whether he resembles the man in the sketch. the circumstances that led to tonight's arrest are also not known at this point. he will be booked in the santa clara county jail much to the relief of fearful residents who have been on high alert this past week. this happened in neighborhoods east of downtown san jose in the early morning hours. the san jose police department's covert response unit located the man tonight. they made the arrest, again, in the serial arsonist case, and the police department will have more details on this investigation tomorrow morning. for now, live outside the san jose police department, betty yu, kpix 5. >>> and now tonight, fremont police are looking for two suspects in a home invasion robbery. the homeowner told police two

well, they want a-rod out here, betty.lex rodriguez is suing the league and his own players union over his 162-game suspension. during conference call, players and board members, players angrily calling for rodriguez to get out, kick him out of the union. there's a problem. it's not allowed in the rules. let's get to the court for you. kansas state at unranked texas. tied score, two seconds left. texas shoots, it is good. texas upsets 67-64. a great record. they were sloppy but they got it done. number three ranked michigan state comes from behind to beat unranked indiana 71-66. get out those suits. billionaire investor warren buffett adding madness to march madness. he wants to give you, my friend, $1 billion. >> i'll take it. >> here are the details. pick all 67 winners in this ncaa men's basketball tournament, be one of the ten million households that can enter and if you win, 40 payments of $25 million or lump sum, $500 million. the odds, 1-9.2 quen tillon. look at all those numbers. yesterday we told you about this an

kpix 5's betty yu reports, los gatos police are wondering if it was all part of a dangerous "knockout game." >> i screamed, ah! >> reporter: that scream came from a woman outside this los gatos dance studio. she may be the latest victim of a disturbing "game" that's gaining popularity across the country. just watch the surveillance video. they try to knock out unsuspecting people at random with one punch for the sheer thrill of it. >> like a big punch [ inaudible ] >> reporter: police say a man in his mid-20s clocked the woman in the face. dance instructor says the woman had just dropped off her daughter at the studio. >> it was in the middle of the day. it wasn't even dark yet. it was full of people. so obviously, they are trying to look for attention. kind of scary that someone thinks that it's a game to punch people. >> reporter: the woman will be okay but across the country, some attacks have been deadly. >> one head hitter quitter. >> reporter: in pennsylvania this teacher was hit so hard he collapsed head first on the concrete curb. this new york man was knocked out cold. >> peo

problem.stly a human >> bill gates and michael bloomberg talking there to betty liu. have weekly employment numbers at nine: 30 this morning. john is here to take us through what we are expecting. will that number get close to the 7 -- 7% target? not really a target, more like a threshold. inching ever closer to that threshold. what a difference six months makes. we could come down to 7.3%. we conducted a survey at bloomberg news just last week and 60% of responders think that forward guidance could be challenged with next month's inflation report. when the imf comes out and upgrade our growth forecast to 2.4% for this year, a lot of are asking if it can come sooner. >> had you keep interest-rate expectations down if you don't reassess forward guidance? >> lucky bank of england. what is happening on the inflation side, you will see it come back down toward its target and the bank of england is starting to look a little more like the federal reserve. you look less at the unemployment side and more on the inflation side. whether they would actually move to change the th