and a few miles away when the phone rang at jason thompson's house, the news was worse. much worse. the call was from the county coroner. >> he said, jason, your family was in an accident. he said, i'm sorry to have to tell you this on the phone, but they were just killed. and my whole world just dropped out from underneath me. >> jason's wife, 35-year-old erin thompson, was four months pregnant. her son caden, the boy who just played the drums at his school concert, was just 13. and just like that they were gone. the crash was head-on. and in school counselor jason thompson's life, the lights went out. >> that night that realization i'll never forget, that news. >> nor, of course, will erin's mother diana. >> we were both just bonkers, just ugh. >> or his sister amber who with her husband david missed erin so much they planned to move to montana to be close. not possible now. >> that was the hardest piece of news we could fathom. >> and to lose both of them and the baby, it just didn't even seem like it could be real. >> and here in the little house he shared with the love of his li

a no-look pass from jason clark there. thompson with 19. georgetown up 24 at the half. fast forward to six seconds to go. hoyas up by 39. they come up with another steal. he puts the icing on the cake. georgetown wins 86-45. next up a meeting with kansas in maui on monday. >>> down in blacksburg, fiu in the pre-season n.i.t. early on. pearson with the steal and the dunk right there. pearson with the dunk. a nice spin move in the lane. right now mason is up 2, late in the game. >>> virginia tech downs monmouth 91-46. the hokies and patriots play for a spot in the semis tomorrow night if the patriots win and advance. >>> mike shanahan says he is staying with rex grossman at quarterback against the cowboys. last week he said that john beck was his quarterback. the skins will be without rookie receiver leonard hankerson who is done for the year after being placed on injured reserve. another name to the lengthy list of injuries this season. he had a breakout game in the return to his hometown. he was the first redskins rookie receiver to go for 100 yards in a decade. he was

senior jason clark and junior thompson leading the squad.his year's roster consists of 10 freshmen and sophomores. anxious to finally see what the guys are made off. >> a bunch of new faces in there. a whole different feel, a whole different chemistry. a whole different set of things we are probable hurricane probably going to try to do. >> i think they have gotten a lot better and i think a lot will be surprised. >>> time to vote for this dc highschoolsports.net game of the week poll. your last chance. this week's poll. lake braddock. thom jefferson. you can vote at dc highschoolsports.net. we will announce the winner. >> thank you so much, kristin. >> thank you for joining us. the cbs evening news is next. good night. captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com

senior jason clark and thompson are leading the squad but hoyas youth movement is in full force. this year's roster consists of ten freshmen and sophomores and coach john thompson iii is anxious to finally see what his guys are made of. >> we have a bunch of new faces in there. whole different feel. whole different chemistry. a whole different set of things we'll probably try to do. >> going through the ups and downs, every freshman does. i think they've gotten a lot better. i think a lot of people are going to be surprised. >> they open their season on saturday. last night, virginia tech, georgia tech in action, we'll pick this up fourth quarter. logan thomas throws a 14-yard touchdown pass. hokies hold on to win 37-26. >>> all right, that's going to do it for your morning sports. i'm kristin berset. have a great friday. >> we'll have the latest on the search for nationals catcher wilson ramos who was kidnapped in his native venezuela coming up in a live report. >>> plus, the bell ringing officially kicks off today. to remind us to help those who will be struggling through the h

it will be different but junior forward hollis thompson is back along with jason clark and henry simmsthe team is young, but they are eager to step up. >> we will go through some growing pains, but they all understand this level. i think that will happen. preferably it will happen quickly. >> the capitals are on the road tonight in new jersey. this defenseman has lost games with a right ankle injury, but good news is that he participated in today's morning skate and he feels ready to go. it will be a game time decision. if you are waiting for the nba lockout to end, get some popcorn and wait longer. espn is reporting the players' union is not likely to accept the new proposal which includes a clause for player of the motion. -- player dmotion. >> coming up tonight, the mystery man of the potomac. here it is that buck naked man. this evening, the naked and the truth about -- legend and the truth about naked ned. >> will you be running this weekend? it is cold out there. >>> upper 50's with sunshine tomorrow and a few clouds and at least 60 on sunday. wjla.com i just posted a blog about

thompson gets the easy layup. 25-13. then jason clark helps the hoyas. clark 14 points.yas lead at half. the washington capitals snapped their four-game skid last night with a comeback victory over phoenix and considering they had a game every other day for the past two weeks, the coach decided to give his guys the choice to take the day off. of course; most of them took advantage. only nine players showed up. gabby benched for last night's game. one day later, simmons seemed okay with the decision, smiling during practice, signing autographs. he explained that the benching was nothing personal. >> i don't have to go up every time and say this is why you're doing this. this is why you're sitting out? sometimes it's just a numbers game. he's the odd man out sometimes. >> all right. thanks kristen for that report. we're going to check in with our icc challenge reporters. >> delia and scott broom left montgomery mall at 5:05 bound for bwi airport. scott took the new icc while delia was stuck with the beltway. guys, how are you doing? >> we're doing great. listen, i traveled

thompson was driving home from a school concert with her 13-year-old son. just like that, they were gone. >> jasonmily was in an accident. my world dropped out from under me. >> reporter: the driver of the second car, 16-year-old justine winter was still alive, barely. even as she fought to survive, flathead county determined justine caused the crash on purpose. >> she drove head-on to the other vehicle. she should have known her actions could have killed somebody. >> reporter: justine drove straight into oncoming traffic to commit suicide and committed murder instead. she's charged with homicide. how did he know it was a suicide attempt? investigators pulled the black box out of the pontiac and found she took off her seatbelt and was accelerating. officers found a minute-by-minute event of the narrative in text messages. >> my last words, i love you, ryan. >> reporter: she was having a spat fight with boyfriend, ryan. s the defense team told the jury they had it all wrong. >> what happened was an accident. >> reporter: her texts should not be considered a suicide note at all. >> it was a way of e

coach thompson watched his team jump out to the early lead because of sharp shooting from deep. first half, henry simms in the paint kicks it out to jasonlark. clark in the corner taking care of business. first of three straight three-pointers for the la jollas to start the game. clark had a hot hand in this one. later in the half, georgetown up 33-20. lubick off the glass, he had five points. quiet game. 58-41. starks to jason clark and he throws it down. 23 points for clark so far. georgetown up 80-54. with about six minutes to go. >>> capitals head coach bruce boudreau got his 200th win faster than any coach in nhl higz but the talk continues to be about his russian stars. semin was a healthy start without semin the caps got a much-needed win against phoenix. coach bruce boudreau in the capitals went down early in this one. caps on the power play and off the faceoff and off to the races and you got to feel for the goalie here. can't do anything about it. just a bad pass by carlson. 1-0, coyotes on top' after that, just can't do anything there. and the caps giving up short-handed goals in back-to-back games. earned some redemption and

jason clark doesn't get the ball on the left wing. he curls to the other side and hits the three ball. plays up by six. georgetown freshman coming up. he's running with thompson and gives it back to the freshman for the dunk. georgetown is down by three, 78-75 with two minutes to go. that's a huge upset if they can pull that off. >>> good news on the redskins front. a full practice today. unless there's a setback, he's expected to play in seattle on sunday. it's santana's first game since breaking his hand against the panthers. another guy is even roster. he's had success in the preseason. he came in as the leading rusher in penn state history. he's a hometown kid who plays high school ball at westfield and anxiously awaits his first real nfl game. what i was trying to say was success during the preseason. during the regular season he hasn't played >>> before you fly, you have to fill them up. the macy's thanksgiving day balloons are being inflated tonight in the streets of manhattan ahead of tomorrow's parade. we have a look at the annual tradition. >> reporter: here on the west side, a thanksgiving tradition. the balloon inflation night where all the hard w

other car were not so lucky. 35-year-old erin thompson was driving her 13-year-old son home from a school concert. erin was four months pregnant. her husband, jason>> i'm focused on embracing life but i didn't fear death anymore. there's times i would have welcomed it. >> reporter: jason and many others would be stunned to learn that in the remains of justine's car investigators found what they believe was an explanation in the crash in text messages from justine to her boyfriend. >> this is the last thing i wanted was to have to take a double fatality and have to not treat it as a homicide. >> reporter: homicide. justine had been fighting with her boyfriend. it was over, he told her, and she texted that she'd crash her car that, she'd kill herself. and minutes later, according to her car's black box, she accelerated to 85 miles an hour, then turned straight into erin's car. but when justine recovered, she didn't apologize. >> all right, district court is now in session. >> reporter: and when the trial was held, they claimed the crash was erin's fault and that although justine threatened suicide in those texts, she didn't really mean it. the jury