just before that, there had been the jayson blair scandal where there was a writer that in the times to its great credit was seized by this feeling what have we done, we need to write this ship we can never let this happen again so they were vulnerable. contrast that with perdue pharma in 2007 pleads guilty and just keeps going but indeed pleads guilty to new criminal charges in 2020 so to me this was interesting. anyone can look atg the decision and feel that they wererk sort f bullied and manipulated on the other hand they were trying to behave in an institutionally responsible way which is a stark contrast that they've conducted themselves. >> you've written and reported about the country's most powerful opioid distributors. did they ever try to intimidate you? >> first congratulations to patrick. you should be congratulated for your courage and conviction. greatt work. i didn't have any black limousines stalking the house but there was a lot of threats for the attorney general west virginia. when i got some documents, i notified him that it was going to do a story about his role

d jayson egg nog water for drinking contest. the traditions essentially an old a pub crawl, that with worse for wear crowds now to get a little chaotic and rowdy at times parish the thought any but of fun is welcome amongst the covert glue. maybe that's the way things are pond outs in the news that we brought to over the last 7 days here without international life. my will do is h q. it's been kevin over the recap. thanks for checking in for me in the team. enjoy the rest of your weekend. well the panoramic no city, no borders, another piece and you as emerge, we don't have a charity. we don't have a vaccine. the whole world needs to take action to be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. every one is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great, the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. join me every thursday on the alex sal

elections. saudi arabia state medias has 2 people have been killed in a cross border attack, and jayson is blaming who the rebels for launching a projectile on thursday. the saudi led coalition fighting, and yemen said it targeted 9 locations. were rebels, restoring weapons and the capital some on pope frances as urged the world to embrace humility. and remember, the poor, the number of people who could attend was increased from last year, attend christmas mass. that is to spite concerns of a spike in cases in the vatican, and hundreds gathered from midnight mass and bethlehem and the occupied west bank. the leader of the catholic church of the region lead a larger service than was allowed last year because of close restrictions with some worship as attended the mass near the basilica of the nativity with jesus christ is believed to have been born. those are the headlines. allen, to the correspondent, the next. ah ah ah, my modem with just 60 years after the wright brothers man in the i, scientists and engineers will grappling with the next major challenge, putting a man in space and ke

his return for the 1st time since the pandemic with santa plaid party goes enjoying the jayson, even egg nog, waterfall drinking contests. can we say that? what does that look like? see these pictures 1st with you? well anyway that the, to the traditions essentially it all day, far the role was there was a way crowds know to get a little chaotic. and rosie was there any bit of fun amongst all the covert gloom? a will that so the way things are pounded over the last 7 days. and indeed today in the headlines and we brought you all the way clue, small to international law from world news h q. it's been kevin in here for me in the team. thanks for checking in on your weekend. ah ah, many of us hold the delta would be the sort of peak i get. i could well, you know, going to get a sure any more transmissible than delta and not what's happened. you got something which is popped up, weighs more than 30 changes in that spy protein that we're all interested in. it's accumulated, all the mutations we've seen in different varies all in one bar. and that raises some very interesting issues about,

and jayson is blaming who the rebels for launching a project on on thursday, the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen that had targeted 9 locations where rebels was storing weapons in the capital santa. the whole things have reportedly launched drawings and miss all attacks and to saudi arabia. since the conflict began in 2015. now at least 39 people had been killed in bangladesh after a fire ripped through a ferry carrying hundreds of passengers. please say it broke out and the engine drove in the middle of the night and quickly engulfed the boat. bernard smith reports this overnight, ferry was packed with up to 800 people heading out of docker for a weekend, away with friends and family. many would have been sleeping in these crowded cabins as the fire took hold in the engine room, or the engine had been running for about an hour while on fire. later, the fire probably spread from the engine to the earl tanker and his tub with a loud bang at this spot where we are standing right now about that. it was not as flames whipped through the fairy. many passengers jumped into the river t

jayson slidell jones us now. it is great to see you certainly, we have been getting signs if recent days, recent weeks, high frequency data that maybe perhaps some of the congestion at the west coast ports and where all this transportation bottleneck issues are concerned -- that it is starting to ease somewhat. is that what you are finding >> yeah. you know, we have seen that seasonality is being our friend right now. things typically start to slow down once we get beyond black friday i think the ports are having a chance the clear themselves up we are down to about 46 ships sitting to the coast of the port of l.a. and long beach chs that's down from a high of 77. remember, that's about same level we were back in february if you compare it to a year ago it was basically zero a year ago. i think that number is going to get lower in december but watch for it to pop back up in january. we don't expect things to get materially better from here until late next year. >> it has been a focus on the hill where the fed cha

jayson tatum scored, including four three-pointers. a game high of 47.is belt keeping it close with 16 of his 30 points coming in the first quarter. second half was all l.a. finally looking like they're getting some chemistry, roussel westbrook dominating the third including this vicious dunk. the lakers win 117-102 splitting the season series and getting their record a become .500 at 13 and 12. >> we had a lot of good moments torrent and we want to continue to build off of that. thursday we can clean up, but this is one of the best 40-minute games we've had so far. >> and looked like the first place nets were in danger of back to back losses for the first time this season. down by 17 to the mavericks and sharp shooting luka doncic in the third. doncic finished with 28, but james harden, kevin durant turned it on. beating doncic with a layup, 1:23 to go. seconds later k.d. hitting the faye away to put the nets away. that put them up by three for their largest lead of the night. brooklyn holds on to win 102-99. hands them their fifth straight loss. now to

jayson tatum, here he comes. 27 points.ead then the warriors jump out on top. three-point warriors lead, steph going one-on-one and think he's going to shoot a three but instead a floater, game high 30 and warriors hold on, win number 400 for steve kerr. warriors in toronto today. let's check out college hoops. santa clara hosting florida a&m down 10 in the first half. second half different story thanks to jalen williams. 18 of his team high 25 come in the second half as the broncos surge ahead. carlos stewart to the hoop. we call this throwing it down. santa clara wins easily and st. mary's lost to san diego state. well, the nfl originally said teams would forfeit games if they couldn't play because of covid and have walked it back. raiders-browns scheduled for today moved to monday. cleveland has 25 players out. washington-philly and rams-seahawks move to tuesday. 49ers-falcons remains sunday. kyle shanahan thinks postponing some of these games is the right move. >> i couldn't imagine playing a game with missing 25 guys.