but the cavs go on a 19 zero run to bring it within two. the rockets alperen sengun gets a layup to go with a minute to go. he also gets away with shoving cavs jared allen. no foul is called. let's go 10s left. game tied. cleveland's donovan mitchell misses the go ahead shot. this time refs did blow the whistle saying allen fouled sheng thao. and he makes both free throws. so the rockets take a two point lead. cavs have a chance. darius garland fouled as he's taking the three a flagrant one on tari eason. so three free throw attempts for garland. but he misses the first two of them. he does get the third to go to bring the cavs within one. but donovan mitchell's desperation three pointer is no good. rockets hold on for the win 109 108. okc superstar shai gilgeous alexander did it all against the jazz. first player in franchise history to score 50 plus with multiple steals and blocks in a game. the mvp candidate averaging 32 a game this season. well, last night he was on like, lionel richie all night. a career high 54 points, tied for third

that was the largest deficit the cavs have faced all season. gilgeous alexander leading the way for okc with 40 points. thunder win 134 to 114. here was sga on avenging last week's loss. >> yeah, it's the cream of the crop. obviously you test yourself against the best to really find out where you are. and obviously they had the best record in the league before tonight and we tested ourselves and i think we passed it all right. >> meanwhile, in college hoops, we had a pair of fantastic finishes. michigan unbeaten in the big ten, tied with minnesota, who was winless in big ten play. but not anymore. dawson garcia from nearly half court at the buzzer. that wins it for the golden gophers 84 to 81, was the final there. elsewhere, northwestern and maryland were tied at 74 in overtime, just 0.7 seconds on the clock. the wildcats, running the inbound play to perfection, and nick martinelli the buzzer beater to win it. he got that shot off just in time, gets mobbed by his teammates. northwestern wins a fun one. 7674. in the nhl alex ovechkin scoring in

cavs lead evan mobley muscles, his way in for the shot. 21 points and 10 rebounds for him. cavs pad the lead to 5.30, seconds to go. same score darius garland driving. the floater is good. now dagger 18 points for garland fav outlast the thunder one. 29 to one. 22. so cleveland extended winning streak to 11 a that thunder franchise record 15 game winning streak. comes to an end. could see those 2. >> back at it in the nba finals. who knows, guys, we'll send it back to you. >> and several fires burning in southern california as we have been reporting. but the one that started just over an hour ago is causing a lot of concern. it's in the hollywood hills. this is a live look courtesy of our sister station, ktla. it's being called the sunset fire started in runyon canyon and it has prompted mandatory evacuations. and crews are also battling the 8 and fire in altadena. >> as well as the the massive palisades fire in the pacific palisades in total, tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate from their homes. at least 5 people have died more than 1000 structures hav

. >> after last night's loss to the cavs, the warriors entered 2025 at 516 and 16 overall, but it feels worse. remember opening 12 and three. they've gone just four and 13 since steph curry limited to 11 points. jonathan kuminga scored 18, but cleveland pulled away in the second half to secure an nba best 28th win. here's steph on being 500 entering a new year. >> donovan had a kid say we're very mid right now. we're just very average. we go in a56 game run. to us that sounds like a lot. but it is like the numbers. you can make up a lot of ground pretty quickly understanding, you know one good week you're kind of back in it. that's where we are. >> sharks hosting the fliers. macklin celebrini playing rock, paper scissors with a young fan. core memory unlocked. down one nothing. after one second period. philly scores two goals in 95 seconds to take an even bigger lead. so the sharks playing uphill all game, celebrating now. trying to get the sharks on the board late but access denied. sharks lose four. nothing. eight straight losses, one shy of tying their season high nine game losing st

on sunday, the cavs improved their nba best record to 34 and five. finally, tiger woods is back.of. the 15 time major champ making his debut in the tgl, the indoor golf league he helped to create. even though he has more majors than everyone else on the course combined. tiger couldn't rally his jupiter links golf club to a win, falling to l.a. golf club 12 one. that's his son charlie there. tiger said he was having fun, even if charlie looked like he was a bit embarrassed. >> we were entertaining and we hit. >> we hit a lot of shots. >> i think the people here, they got to see how bad pros can be. um. it was just a boat race. oh my goodness. but we had a great time. they're all like standing in that pose. >> did you notice that, casey, you know reviews are kind of differ on this. some people are loving it, some people still learning it. we'll see how it goes. >> it's amazing. >> coy wire thank you so much for that. really appreciate it. all right. coming up in our next hour on cnn this morning confirming a cabinet, fiery moments on the hill with pete hegseth in the spotlight. don

. >> desi: moving on, if you missed the big nba game last night between okc and the cavs, don't worryt alone. >> the nba is in trouble. tv ratings for pro basketball games have flopped this season. viewership is down nearly 20%. what's to blame? according to many, the three-point shot. critics accused teams of becoming excessively reliant on the deep ball in recent years buried. >> the ratings are down because of three pointers? hard disagree. in fact, i got three pointers for you right here. yeah, and you want to guess where the third one is? >> desi: for giant boil on your back that's growing eyes? >> [laughs] correct! what is happening to my body! but but they are so fun! i love these three-pointers. so why would fans stop watching because of three-pointers? >> desi: jordan, just because you only date 3s, doesn't mean they are fun. but that's not the real reason the nba is bleeding viewers. >> woke destroyed the nba. ratings have collapsed. >> some say it's that, some say it's dei kind of stuff. what the heck is going on? >> desi: bingo! it's dei! i'll say it! there's too many east

. >> ainsley: they grow cav caddos in california, as well.y are still american. >> brian: i know, they are having problems. >> steve: they are. >> ainsley: buying from a country that does not support us. >> steve: most come from mexico. >> lawrence: my favorite part about this, liberals were freaking out on social media. what is he doing? within an hour, they caved, the president released this dossier blaming america, saying we're raceively, blah, blah, blah. minutes later, he recanted. the president is saying that when trucks come across, whether it is by ship or truck, he's going to slow down cbp and inspect all places until they take migrants back. >> ainsley: several things, colombia is socialist south american country. colombia, as soon as donald trump does this, colombia caves and donald trump wins. colombian government accepts the flights. the president says, i don't want them trans ported on your planes, it is inhumane. the foreign minister is traveling to washington for meetings and marco rubio isful haved. >> steve: i read this morn

colombia's president quickly cav caving after he did not accept deportation flights. 45% tariff on all goods and increase to 50% after a week. trump proposing travel ban and visa revocation on government officials and all allies and supporters. col colombia officials said the presidential plane is ready to facilitate return of compatriots today on deportation flights. they are expected to travel to washington today to hold high-level meetings today. >> todd: can we be clear on what happened? they went back and forth, trump's demand was met and colombia president, here, take my plane. >> carley: heading to a trade and are wa now president of co col colombia have met all demands. thank you, brooke. >> todd: president trump will attend a retreat in florida. gop expected to layout plans on border, energy and tax cuts. >> carley: madeleine rivera is live in washington with more. >> madeleine: president truchlt is expected to encourage house republicans to stick together. house speaker mike johnson want to leave this retreat with plan on budget reconciliation request. johnson wants to pass o

we'd be living in cavs without technology. >> it's the cumulative inflation that rates and not goingas prices have and that's why you're seeing a lot ovmachinists and a lot of wage concessions and not consist with 2% inflation. and this is something you can't buy your way out. larry: sorry to interrupt. this is another reason they have to get the big package through before mid year. it'll include the tax cuts and include the deregulation and a lot of growth measures and as rich properly pointed out, i don't know why i'm surprised and supply side growth will curve inflation. lower tax rates and deregulation and more goods on the market, more productivity. >> raise interest rates to kill inflation and you're hurt ago lot of people and getting more expensive and more productivity is good for everyone. larry: have you done your christmas shopping yet? >> i have, yeah. larry: because there's really good bargains on amazon prime. i debility know if you've seen these bargains and one is greenland. the other is panama. and the third one is canada. they're running very cheap. >> we don't want

a five-point lead over the cavs. his 13th double-double, leading all d1 players. up big, 21-point big, and watch out for jalen thompson, snatching souls. stanford wins. cardinal 11-5, now 3-2 in conference play. >>> cal coming off its first acc win over virginia. back at home hosting virginia tech trailed by 19 at the half but end up making this game close in the second. lay-up with under eight to play made this a two-possession game. down three with three seconds to play. puts up a three to send it to ot. rims out. no good. he finished with 24 but not enough. virginia tech wins 71-68. >>> tim miles and san jose state on the road facing air force, looking for their first conference win this season. under ten to play, will mcclendon, crossover, finishes it by knocking down the jumper. finishes with a game-high 2 t points. the spartans win 69-62. . >>> no surprise, negatives outweighed positives most of this 49er season. but if there was one silver lining it was the rookie class and all their success. >> a lot of the people -- >> the 49ers rookies will put it on the

fell apart, and everywhere you look, whether it's the economy, open border, inflation, overseas the cav afghanistan mess, whichd to ukraine, and israel when they responded october 7, his obscene cow towing to the iranians not rebuilding the military in the face of a chinese military build-up. everything you look at and spending bills which he's so proud of actually made the economy worse. took real sources from productive people, and put in the hands of politically motivated bureaucrats. liz: let's see , please get your reaction to joe biden's final interview on msnbc with larry o'donnell. again more falsehoods including claiming republican-led states "screwed up their state economy so badly" that biden just had to spend more taxpayer money on those states to fix them. you know, how about not shutting down and smothering them with mandates and hyper-regulation after the pandemic lockdowns. how about doing that in the first place. please watch this. listen. >> look the other thing, lawrence. i've got a lot of criticism, understandably. we've invested more in red states than blue states f

weakens, gets the rebound and the cavs in the end when 16 to 15, next, going to take on the wizards atith tip off at 5, 30 in the evening or 19. well in the east bay step curry and his wife are stepping up now to help oakland schools that have been facing elevated lead levels in their water systems. >> through their nonprofit, eat, learn, play. the couple donated $650,000 to install water filtration systems at 60 schools. the initiative comes after tests revealed high lead levels in nearly 200 drinking fountains and faucets all across the oakland unified school district. the currys are partnering with kaiser permanente and talk at foundation to do this work. their aim is to provide safe drinking water for the thousands of students in that district. and this is just one of the many programs that the currys have donated too. in order to help out kids there in the oakland unified school district. >> in the east bay, the oakland athletics are honoring the late great ricky henderson. they're going to have a celebration of life for him february 1st at the oakland arena, where fans will have

but curry has bragging rights with three nba titles over lebron and the cavs back during that four year steph, easily one of the most recognizable athletes on the planet. and earlier this month, he gave back to some of his biggest fans in unique steph style. what? >> go and state warriors. yes, sir. >> it's christmas day in hurricane, west virginia and a scarborough family has unwrapped the gift of warriors basketball. the january 10th game against the indiana pacers. >> on the back to back, they will not have steph curry or draymond green. >> the bad news stephen curry is out of the lineup. the good news senior vp of communications raymond ridder is about to deliver the news of a lifetime. >> he got really close and he said hey steph's really upset about not being able to play tonight and he wants to meet some kids before the game. would you guys like to go back? and i think all of our faces were like. >> courtney scarberry along with her children, nine year old micah and six year old moriah are escorted to a private room in the pacers arena, where they await steph's arrival. >> i'm me

. >> the cavs look to roll with the thunder. >> both of these teams don't want to give an inch. >> then the kings and rockets clash. this young team is starting to mature. cavaliers. thunder. rockets. kings. coverage begins thursday at 7:00. presented by state farm on tnt. >> six days ago here in altadena, i was standing at this exact spot at the corner of harriet street and glenn avenue and the house behind me right here was ablaze. it was still standing, but it was ablaze. there was a house. the car over there was ablaze as well. take a look. what happened? >> this house has been burning now for quite some time. we've been watching. it has just spread to that tree. i don't know if you can see the entire tree is just incinerated within seconds. >> but the important part is look at all these embers. all these embers in the trees. they're now going through the air. they're now flying down the block to a number of houses which have not yet burned. and those embers. now, look, those embers have caught in that tree and that cascading effect. >> there's a lot of trees on this block. >> there

the cavs look to roll with the thunder. >> both of these teams don't want to give an inch. >> then theings and rockets clash. >> this young team is starting to mature. >> cavaliers. thunder. rockets. kings. coverage begins thursday at 7:00. >> presented by state farm on tnt officials here in the u.s. >> and in the middle east say israel and hamas are getting very close to a gaza cease fire. and hostage deal. cnn's mj lee is over at the white house with an update for us. mj, what are you hearing from the biden administration about this potential deal? >> well, as you said, wolf, every sign that we are getting is that a deal is on the cusp of being reached. >> we've heard israeli officials saying that they are ready for a ceasefire. >> hamas has indicated that the talks are in the final stages. qatari officials have said that the talks have been at the closest that they have been in a number of months, and here in the u.s., two officials have been expressing a level of optimism. and i actually just asked president biden here at the white house whether he believes that hamas is about to a

when spurs won their championship, when the cavs won their championship.th both of them when i'm really- [applause] young. >> joshua dent is a true freshman and the 25th australian player to suit up for saint mary's. he's mindful of the rich tradition he has to uphold to be a point guard in this system. >> just consistency, taking care of the ball. if i want to be a point guard here, it's a pretty tough place to write your name in the history books along with the other greats. so definitely consistently look after the ball and win. it's a main, main thing. make sure we get some winning teams. [applause] russell. >> harry wessels could be the next big thing out of saint mary's. the seven one center surpassed jock landale for best career field goal percentage in program history at 62.7%. wessels was a late bloomer when it comes to hoops, but one thing is for sure, becoming a gale means a little more in australia. >> it's kind of late to basketball, so it was kind of once i started playing basketball and getting into that scene. that was when i sort of heard

the cavs look to roll with the thunder. >> both of these teams don't want to give an inch. >> then thend rockets clash. >> this young team is starting to mature. >> cavaliers. thunder. >> rockets. >> kings coverage begins tomorrow at 7:00. presented by state farm on tnt. >> so wind gusts are expected to pick up today again for los angeles and ventura counties after what became a welcome change in the forecast yesterday, bringing relatively calm conditions. the national weather service has now reinstated the particularly dangerous situation. red flag warnings for the area and now more than 6 million people are under a critical fire threat. the death toll stands at 25 people killed from these fires, nine killed in the palisades fire, 16 in the eaton fire. both of these fires are now among the most destructive wildfires in california's history. and the fight is not over very clearly. let's get an update. joining us right now is cal fire battalion chief once again. david acuÑa, it's good to see you again, chief. thank you. yesterday seemed to be not as bad as predicted in terms of the wind