chris crawford from horsham ne needed to make this 40-foot putt in a qualifier last monday in summit,ew jersey, and he made it! close to 10,000 non exempt players failed to qualify but chris crawford is in one of 10 amateurs in the field. >> i do remember taking the putter back and looking up and seeing the ball was halfway there and praying it was going to catch that left side of the hole which it did and after that i it was just a blur. >> at age 22, chris will live out a dream. this week and play in the us open in his home state. >> honestly a big part of what i'm looking forward to is just being around the clubhouse. being around that locker room, you know, the history that oakmont has. almost unparalelled in this countri' golfing history. so that's a big part of for me. going and taking all of that me. i've been lucky. .i've had rah lot of people that supported me and consider myself fortunate. >> what a dream. first and second round coverage of us open starts this thursday at 10:00 a.m. on fox sports one. we'll have coverage here on fox 29 starting at 5:00 o'clock on thursday. 4

ground breaking, i mean, there have been a lot of firsts in the chris crawford era, this just is anotherne, you know, to add to the list, by far the biggest one. >> crawford also preparing to see a lot of friendly faces in the crowd this weekend. and he hopes to put on a good show. >> got a lot of great support from a lot of different people. i'm sure there will be people going that i don't even know about. you know, i won't know until i'm there. so, you know, i am happy to make, to represent the philadelphia golf community, and hopefully go out there and make them proud. >> and the leader board had chris crawford 11 over par, when play was suspended due to darkness. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, finding nemo, finds a sequel. new mission, new at the movies, when we come back. >> now back with new mission, the stars finding dorey now open, in theatres, and daniel nottingham has a preview. >> something about a -- >> we first new her as theme a's adorable sidekick, starve her own adventure. >> ellen degeneres returns as the voice of the friendly, but forgetful, fish, wit

ground breaking. >> there have been a lot of firsts in the chris crawford era and this is just anotherne. >> reporter: crawford is preparing to see a lot of friendly faces in the crowd this weekend and he hopes to put on a good show. >> great support from different people and i'm sure there will be people that are going that i do not know about. i won't know until i'm there. i'm happy to represent the philadelphia golf community and hopefully go out there and make them proud. >> crawford's u.s. open round will start at 2:42. he is part of the final trio to attempt to figure out an extremely tough oakmont golf course but he is just looking to put on a decent enough show. you guys golfers. >> are we golfers. >> i have never golfed in my life. >> there is putting? sometimes i get suck in the four some with my parents and my husband but i don't know if i call myself a golfer. >> i'm's sure that would be a blast. >> u.s. open t's off near pittsburgh but one guy showing off, during practice. buba what the on gives a tutorial how to deal with the craze i rough at oakmont. you have to throw th

chris crawford from ben salem and holy ghost prep. he's 22, just graduated from drexel.alified for the open. sometime dreams come true. >> i'm not sure there's a better place to play your first or any u.s. open than oakmont. the fact it's only a 4.5-hour drive from home is nice. but just the fact that it's at oakmont makes it special. >> reporter: his family on the broadcast. tough break. look at his caddy, broke his ankle falling into a bunker. chris' coach at drexel will take over the duties. >>> yesterday we told you the story about former eagle walter thurman. last year while playing for the birds, also played in faily softball league in disguise as a character named dick mahoney. take a look at the pictures here. in the spot shadow, there he is, his girlfriend tweeted out a pic of walter on auto -- or is it dick? he wore a wig and none of the players knew until he was gone. we tracked down mahoney's agent. he joined us on comcast sportsnet's philly sports talk. >> just an athlete. so it's not -- not his first rodeo. you know, he's been in a couple of softball league

looking at chris crawford from bensalem holy ghost prep, graduated from drexel. he qualified for the open at the age of 22. a tough break for him. his caddie broke his ankle falling into a bunker. chris' coach at drexel will take over. >>> and we told you about the story of former eagle walter thurmond while playing for the birds he also was playing in a philly softball league in disguise. as a character named dick mahoney. take a look at the photos. see him in a spot shadow. he wore a wig. none of players knew he was walter thurmond and played for the eagles until he was gone. we tracked down mahoney's agent, walter thurmond. here he is on "phillies sports talk." >> mahoney, he's just an athlete. it's not his first rodeo. he's been in couple of softball leagues and other sports as well and it was something he wanted to do while he had some time and unfortunately, that time was short. >> dick mahoney's name will live forever. it's epic. i'm john lark. we're right back. one american park is larger than yellowstone, yosemite, grand canyon and glacier national parks

chris crawford is 11 over. that's sports. i'm danny pom lz.6 ps >>> it's a celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the u.s. tomorrow the philadelphia community of leaders and music legend kenny gamble will host a p parade and festival ll host a in philadelphia. it begins tomorrow morning at 8 30rk9s in washington square. get out there if you can. >>> some little ones in south jersey got quite a gift for their preschool graduation. free college tuition. look at that face. ê2m the early learning research academy at rutgers university camden received the promise of a full tuition paid college]i%s scholarship to rutg. but the students must graduate from leap academy university charter school with a 3.5 gpa or higher. i have a feeling they'll have no problem doing that. they are adorable. >> and you know what? at that age you havebúsq no ide really what a full paid college, you know, tuition is. so as they get older hopefully they'll appreciate it. >> the parents know. they're like -- >> parents know. they're like you better geth& t 3.5. h

. >>> last week we told but drexel's chris crawford. he represently qualified f t u.s. open but he suffered a setback today. during a practice today, his caddy, billy hennigan, fe io a bunker and broke his ankl crawford has asked his college coach ben feld to tend his bag this week. >>> finally tonight, ane has ever held a golf club has dreamed of holding one from the fairway. this kind of counts, i think. a professional disk golfer, disk golf,a5 with a blind shot and howbo this? about 400 feet away. right into the basket. >> a trick shot. >> it's an albatross. >> no, it's a trick shot. >> it works for me. [ laughter ] >> 2 out of 5. >> okay. >>> finally, hundreds of people enjoyed an evening of fine dining for a worthy cause in south philadelphia. they attended the 11th annual great chefs charity event. more than 45 acclaimed chefs from around the world served up all kinds of dishes. "action news'" alicia vitarelli helped emcee the event tonight. money raised tonight goes to fight childhood cancer. "jimmy kimmel live" next on channel 6 followed by "nightline." "action

amateur chris crawford broke his ankle yesterday during practice and he slipped on the wet grass aroundr. official place at the open starts on thursday. nicole: poor caddie. coming up, the wife of terrorists that one could soon be charged to accessory to murder. she knew of his plan to kill. meanwhile after president obama rips into doubt trump, the republican nominee fired right back. >> i watched president obama today and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter. >> a live report from orlando coming-out gate investors focused on the federal reserve policy meeting today. while both said sherri jennie gallant made by a possible from the european union. how could that affect investors here. we will tell you what to expect. you are watching reporter, if your first lack of morning markets. congratulations. you made it through half of your week. ♪ nicole: break-in is this morning. the wife that terrorist someone could be charged at 49 counts of accessory to murder as soon as today. she apparently scattered target by disney world they knew of the attack plans. a live report from or

the caddies ended up breaking his ankle, laid out on the course, ended up on the ground, golfer chris crawforddrexel graduate and pennsylvania native was playing a practice round with jason day. that is a big de. when crawford's caddy, bill heinikin, fell along a bunker's edge, and broke his ankle. >> oh, no. >> on a bunker. >> you are running and then you fall down and get injured. >> like jen fred. >> yes, it happens. >> yes. >> hi, jen. >> you know, chris went to holy ghost prep in bensalem and i have spoken to the coach of drexel's golf team and says he is doing well. obviously billy, the caddy feels awful but still doing well and believe it or not people know who the heck chris is now because he was playing with jason when the whole thing happen. rebecca is here, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we are at fdr, we are up side because of the weather but people wonder if you have a bad day what do you do for golf camp this is what you do. >> this is what we do we are inside. we have putting drills, we have skee ball, we have full swing in our net. we are fortunate enough to have two

chris crawford from horsham needed to make this 40-foot putt in a qualifier monday in summit, new jersey made it! close to 10,000 non scam players failed to qualify but risque crawford is in. one of 10 amateurs in the field. >> i do remember taking the putter back and looking up and see the ball was halfway there and praying it was going to catch that left side of the hole which it did. after that it was kind of a blur. >> now at age 22, chris will live out a dream. this week and play in the us open in his home state. >> honestly a big part of what i'm looking forward to is just being around the clubhouse, being around that locker room. history that oakmont has almost unparalelled in this country's golfing history. so that's big part of it for me just going and really taking all that in. i've been lucky. i've had lot of great people who have supported me, and, you kn know, i consider myself from fortunate. >> all right. sometimes fans get bored in the stands at a baseball game. they have to amuse itself. still playing and a fan in san diego had him down pat. let's go to san diego. that's

followed by george spieth at 8: 35, jason day at 2:20, and the local guy, chris crawford, from drexel 2:42. that's sports in a minute, i'm howard eskin. >> looking forwards to. that will should and lot of fun. >> covering breaking news this morning, commercial building on fire in lansdale. the reason this fire is taking firefighters more than four hours to put it out. the worst thing about toilet germs? they don't stay in the toilet. disinfect your bathroom with lysol bathroom trigger... ...lysol power foamer... ...and lysol toilet bowl cleaner. they're approved to kill 50% more types of germs than leading competitors. to clean and disinfect in and out of the toilet... lysol that. >>> firefighters battling massive fire, the fire now burning for more than four hours, what's inside the building that may put a hamper on that to put the fire out. >> more breaking news, five people rush to the hospital after late night shooting in wilmington. the breaking details on this story live. >> and, also, braking overnight ... a parent horror unfolding right before their eyes. a toddler missing dra

mcelroy at 8:24, jordan spieth will be at 8:35, jason day tees off 220, from drexel, the kid, chris crawfordnd i'm howard eskin. >> okay, so delaware man accused of throwing that beer bottle at ryan howard has appeared in court. >> his name sydney minute. charged with disorderly conduct, turned himself in last week. he is just 21, he must complete a class next month and pay a $200 fine. his record would then be expunged. >> good he didn't get kicked out of citizens bank park for good for something like that. >> should have. >> later in the show, a christian charity, sending group of comfort dogs to orlando where a community is grieving the death of 49 people. the good news coming up after the break. >> starting off with a ultimate look, satellite picture here, you see few clouds around, look out to the western part of the state, there are few showers, most of this seems to be moving in a southeasterly direction, which means it, should skirt by the philadelphia area. but we will keep an eye on it throughout the morning. tomorrow, sorry, friday, tomorrow is thursday, getting ahead of myself, w

followed by jordan spieth at 8: 35, jason day at 220, and the local guy, chris crawford from drexel.t's sports in a minute, i'm howard eskin. >> all right, we will do it again, just when he says sports in a minute, we'll add another minute, howard? >> you think it is another minute or more like 30 seconds? >> we'll see. time it. sin city could soon be getting it first major professional sports teams. >> associated press just announced nhl, national hockey league, has chosen las vegas for future expansion. doesn't that sound like a good flyers road trip? come on, alex. the team would likely play in that t-mobile arena which already hoses events on the strip. the earliest the team would be in place, pretty soon. that would be the 2017-2018 season. the nhl's board of governors all set to meet in vegas on june 22. at which time an official announcement will be made. now, i have a question for hockey fans out there. this would be a whole new group of humans, or have they take then team from somebody else? >> i should know that. but you got to put whole new team together for vaguest. >> we

crawford 2 run double off chris archer. inning. 4 nothing game t.romero the the bell. 9th÷l of the year. complete game 4 hitter. struck out 4. 8 and 4 on the year. let's eva on grounder anden the games. giants win sixth in a row final score 5-1. tim just called up he will start for the angels tomorrow. quite a scene at the coliseum. a's in the fourth. high deep and goodbye. 16th of the year. kendall pitched very well. bullpen can't close top nichbility daniel flys to righ right. jake thought he had it and threw to first what seemed like game inning double play. upon further review cunningham to third and score on sac. fly to 2-2 game. this is the game winner. 2 outs with runners at the corner for burns and drives in marcus. drive home safely. we have ourselves the some time app a's win it. warrior fans just as rocky is a curry last night. talking about normal rational people he running in rage over the way game 6 of the nba finals was officiated. some people think the whole thing is rigged. come on. 115-101 loss in cliff la

first inning, brandon crawford, two-run double off chris archer. buster posey score, 2-0 giants.ero gets the belt, his ninth of the season for brandon belt. a solo bomb and it's 5-0. jeff samardzija goes the distance, wanted the shutout but a complete game four-hitter, allows a run, struck out four. 8-4 on the year. evan longoria on a grounder to end it. >>> a's and angels, the freak, tim lincecum, just called up, starting for angels today. last night the a's took a lead in the fourth. chris davis, what a season he's having with the long ball, 16th homer, comes off of matt shoemaker, two-run eighth. top ninth, ryan madsen in relief, flies to right, jake smolinski thought he had it, throws to first appeared to be the game ending double play. upon further review, it bounced. bottom ninth, two outs runners at the corners for billy burns. base hit. marcus simien scores. good night, game over, drive home safely. had to take a shower as well because it's pie! a's win 3-2. >>> a lot of warrior fans are using the word rigged describing the officiating game six of the nba finals. keep in

first inning brandon crawford a two-run double off chris archer. score 2-0 giants.romero gets the belt, his ninth of the season, solo bomb. jeff samardzija goes the distance. allows a run, strung out four. evan longoria on a grounder to win it. 5-1 the final score. tim lincecum is going to start for the angels today. last night the a's took a lead in the fourth. chris davis, what a season he's having with a long ball, 16th homer, comes off matt shew maker. kendall grave en was great. daniel nava flies to right. thought he had it. throws to first what appeared to be the game ending double play. upon review, it bounced. bottom nine, two outs, runners at the corners for billy burns! base hit. marcus simeon scores, good night, game over. drive home safe. he had to take a shower as well because it's pie time and the a's win 3-2. >>> a lot of warrior fans are using the word rigged, describing the officiating in game six of the nba finals. keep in mind, the refs are not blocking harrison barnes' shots. the warriors need him to play better. they can't fall behind by 20 and

first inning, brandon crawford, a two-run double off of chris archer. buster posey both score, 2-0, giants. seventh, 4-0, game, ramiro gets the belt, his ninth of the season for brandon belt. a solo bomb and it's 5-0. jeff samardzija goes the distance. wanted the shutout. allows a run, struck out four. evan longoria on a rounder to end it. a's and angels, the freak, tim lincecum just called up with start for the angels today. last night the a's took the lead in the fourth. chris davis, what a season he is having with the long ball, 16th homer. kendle was great, but top nine ryan madison in relief, daniel nava flies to right. jake thought he had it, throws to first would appear bo to be the game-ending double play. nava said the ball bounced. bottom ninth, two outs, billy burns with runners at the corners, base hit. marcus scores. good night. drive home safe. he had to take a shower as well because it's pie time. and the a's win, 3-2. >>> lot of warrior fans are using the word rigged describing the officiating game six of the nba finals. keep in mind, th

crawford finds a home and buster posey scores. 2-1 giants. a miserable outing for the a's here. tony kemp and watch chris coglin. it is on the wall. jesse haun went one inning and gave up 7 runs. 9-0 astros as they play houston in the 4th inning. >>> guys, when do you know that an athlete has transcended sports into pop culture? well, i give you this. this was from my son, cody's prekindergarten assignment. this is what he had to draw. all of the five-year-olds had to color in steph curry. >> how did he do because the blue seems a little ... >> well, you know, the greens are not back yet. >> but he is within the lines. >> yes. >> we encourage them to do this. >> i would give him an "a" plus. >> i don't know. >> his two hand dribble is good. >> i have seen that. he is not joking about that. his son is super talented. >>> scott, thank you and thank you for joining us. our coverage continues on ktvu plus and ross and keba what are you working on. >> a bomb scare happening at the dna lounge on 11th and folsom. we will bring you the latest. >>> a frightening experience for four tourists in san francisco mugged in 48 hours. we will have