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joe flacco and the ravens moved the practice indoors because of thursday's snow.hey get ready to take on a team that is playing really well. as well as any team in the league. the saints have not lost since the cleveland browns beat them in new orleans. last year they won the super bowl, beat the colts. they wrapped it up on this interception by tracy porter. now joe flacco looking to build but monday's win over houston and beat the saints. >> we have played 13 games and our teams is kind of undecided. we know kind of team we are now. they are an aggressive defense. we know they are a good team. there are coming to our house. is going to be a good match appeared i do not know how much the super bowl plays into that at this time of year. >> it is a long time ago. game time, 1:00 p.m. on sunday. the ravens route will be sunday night at 11:30. james franklin could be the new head coach at vanderbilt. it is expected to be announced later today. he would receive a $1 million bonus if he does not replace ralph friedgen as head coach. franklin is 38 years old and should

joe flacco, a bullet to derrick mason. he keeps his feet down. we will see it again after the chest bump with anquan boldin. he had dropped 80 pass early in the game when he was wide open. he had two touchdown passes. joe flacco likes that one. david reed in the second half. the third quarter kickoff. he runs through three defenders and alludes another one and then he is gone. 103 yards and a 28-7 ravens lead. you think this baby is over. wrong. texans come back. matt shaub to jacoby jones. six minutes left. 21 seconds left. the owner looking on. matt shaub hits andre johnson in the back of the end zone. he tiptoes in. the two-point play is good. we go into overtime. texans. matt shaub from his own end zone. jacoby jones reads it and scores the game-winners. the ravens win. wilson with a much-needed big play from the defense. >> it was strange, strange, strange. you know, the defense to come up with a place like that. it is a great feeling. a win. that is all that matters. at the end of the day. it is a key win. >> that is what they did as jacoby

joe flacco and the ravens looked to win their sixth game at home. >> we have played 13 games and ouream -- with no kind of team we are now. they are an aggressive defense. that is what we are paying attention to. we know they are a good team. we feel like we are a good team. i think it will be a good matchup. i do know how much the super bowl plays into that. >> joe flacco is the eighth- ranked passer in the nfl this week. drew brees is ninth. philip rivers is one of the best. the chargers dominated the 49ers in san francisco current vintage jackson, number 83. this route is on. jackson missed much of the year on a contract dispute. they combined for three touchdown passes. 34-7, the chargers when paired they are a half-game back of kansas city in the afc west. ravens and saints on sunday. dressed warm. that is what you want. >> we have that advantage. >> we do not need a nail biter. >> thank you. it is 23 degrees on tv hill. much more to come in the next half-hour of 11 news today. >> water main break in the city causing headaches for some. i will have the story, next. >> there are

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let's listen to joe flacco after the game. >> it's a lot of joy when you see josh pick the ball off and go into the end zone. was a huge play. you don't rice to have these kind of -- like to have these kinds of games when you are up and to be able to win that after giving it up is pretty big for us right now. >> can you qualify something as tough win? that's hard. ravens improved to 9-4 and moves them into a tie with the jets for the two afc wild card slots. coming up. >>> it's been a daily rue phene for eight years. for one pharmacy delivery truck driver, he would drop off the drugs and do it every single week. except it took a different turn. yesterday, crooks robbed and kidnapped a pharmaceutical deliveriy driver and they took him his truck on west pratt street and dropped him off on ford avenue. this is a map of the area we are talking about. sherrie johnson is live at police headquarters in downtown baltimore with more. sherrie. >> reporter: good morning, megan. that's right. this morning, detectives with the baltimore city police department, they are investigating a very different

polamalu sacking joe flacco. ball loose. that's lamarr woodley.10. ensuing drive. roethlisberger hits isaac redman. former boise state star. one more chance for baltimore, fourth and two, flacco, no-go. steelers hold on to win, they take a one-game lead in the afc north. >>> meanwhile, colts at home. taking on the cowboys. dallas up 17-0 at one point. now a six-point game in the third. peyton manning, pass tipped and picked off by sean lee. the rookie from penn state, two interceptions. this one, a pick six. manning threw four interceptions. late fourth, colts down 7. gentleman jarvis james punches it in just like that. we're tied at 35-35. going into overtime. in o.t., david bealer. be true. cowboys hold on the first game losing streak in 2002. >>> how about the nfc south matchup. michael jake and the falcons win their sixth straight. longest streak since 1998. that's 84 espn news update. for everything else, check out the highlight express until 3:00 p.m. even on espn news. back to you in new york. >>> well, now, to a college mascot behaving bad

joe flacco, 180 yards passing. they move ahead of the jets in the wild-card race.he double header thanks to the collapse and minnesota. the metrodome roof collapsed sunday morning. even more deflating is the likely end of an era for brett favre. yeah, and everyone had to go to detroit to play the game. brett favre just a spectator. eli manning was one when his streak began. manning, great throw. 14-3, giants in front. up the middle. scoop that. a 48-yard touchdown. the vikings offered no offense. giants. he is innocent -- and suspended for the remainder of the season. he has been suspended. carol limped off the field. malosey apologized in a press conference saying that he would accept any punishment that comes. the orioles make it official. they re-signed him to a one- year, $3 million deal with an option for a second. he is the first japanese born player for the orioles. a 2.86 e.r.a. he might take the role of closer again. word that cliff lee, the most saw after free agent may be heading to the philadelphia phillies. they have a tentative deal in place. that's g

four games by a total of 16 points, and these are the points we'll hear tonight from ray rice and joe flacco and ray lewis about the game, coming up on sunday afternoon. >>> and the bare halves of those guys are doing great things for 10 families. six ravens wives scored big with the community as they help the salvation army with a adopt a family programs. it pre-selects the families for give there. a better christmas. then the ladies hit the aisles to shop for the families at sam's club and have $200 each. >> it was such an amazing event, it was so get to shop for niece families. we were able to pick out dream touches, television, stereos and meet some of their basic needs, diapers, towels, things that sometimes some of us take for granted because we have in our house. >> there's a big surprise for the families because they'll get all their gifts tonight, around 7:00. >>> and it's still not too late to donate toys. drop them off at any cfg community bank, police department, police, shops at kenilworth and any wal-mart, and drop toys off here too at our studios, 6400 york road, here in towso

. >> ron: that's an incredible play by joe flacco. that's what 6'6", 240 pounds can do for you.ll over your body and able to muscle the football out. look at the formation. a lot of big bodice right up the middle. look at flacco. that's a remarkable play. >> jon: that's one of the greatest throws i've ever seen. texas continues to pound away with blitzes. >> mike: second and four, great penetration. by the safety ber narnard bowl . houston being so aggressive on defense second half in overtime. >> jon: at least the fifth or sixth time bernard pollard rocketed off the corner. they're lucky that wasn't a fumble. if you don't account for a strong safety blitz. that's when a lot of the bad things happen. texans are rocking the ravens with blitzes, ron. >> mike: 16 overtimes this year. only once the team scored on that very first drive jets at detroit early they are year. third and five. flacco, caught by boldin at the 40 first down in front of glover quin. >> ron: that time flacco had more time in the pocket. allowed anquan boldin to work up the field against glover quin. it was a d

joe flacco and ravens offense looking to rebound facing the heart breaker last week at hands of the steelers. ravens offensive coordinator said friday he is not naive and knows what his offense has to do to get the job done against mario williams and the texan defense. >>> five minutes after five right now. it sounds like a rip-off. 50 bucks for a broom. 50 dollars for a shovel. >> the cost for a accident in some communities are costing you more than repairing your car. >>> for a check on trains and bus if you are heading out, hang on, we will send it over to mark jones. good morning. >> reporter: geed morning. commute start is a good one on light rail and metro subway operating on time. if the ride is on the marc train good for travel there. on the buses wet roadways slowing things up. allow extra time for getting this if you travel by bus. look for helpy -- heavy volume with the 13, 7 and 22 bus lines travel this morning. for the mta transit team, i am mark jones. ♪ hey! wait up! ♪ [ female announcer ] you see a mud stain. but new wisk sees a particulate stain. with our breakthrough stain

joe flacco against sam cook. he has taken the first two games in the best of five series. title will be determined later today after practice. that is sports. have a great day. >> it is 22 degrees on tv hill. coming up and our next half-hour -- >> i'm a george lettis. the big fire on baltimore's block -- officials now say they are closer to finding it would cost it. >> we track snow showers heading to our area. >> a couple of problem spots on the >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today in hd. >> good morning. welcome back. i am sarah caldwell. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. we do have some snow to talk about. >> we have a winter weather advisory through tonight. we should see the first snowfall started about noon and persisted throughout the afternoon. 1 inch around the city. then maybe heavier amounts well down to south of the city and the lower eastern shore. in the meantime, snow right now is still to our south and west, over west virginia and virginia. the low pressure will be skirting to our south. we will see some

joe flacco and the offense will have their hands full. if the ravens -- things should improve across the board. the defense had such a second- half collapse. they just ran at of gas. they were exhausted. texas told full advantage. the ravens came away with the overtime win. they also can what with a clear idea that they need more big lson like the joed wils wi game winner to put away the game. >> when we get up like that, like to finish them off and play good football for three and a half quarters. it just has not happened. it didn't happen today. we will work on that. we'll be happy as long as we win football games. >> the ravens look to win 10 games. if they win two of the last three, they will for sure lockup a playoff bid. the ravens stand fifth in the seedings. i'm gerry sandusky. i hope your day is of toy fantastic start. >> it is 19 degrees on tv hill. -- i hope your day is off to a fantastic start. >> we have an update on the fire that killed three adults and three kids in east baltimore. >> is bitterly cold again this march -- it

. >> the last time the ravens travel to houston divide was the rookie campaign for joe flacco and john harbaugh ended when well. gerrie sandusky has more -- and it went well. gerrie sandusky has more from texas. >> last time they had to do a work around because of hurricane ike and they are back in houston and it is another work around as ravens try to work around the playoffs nafud they'd put themselves in last week against the steelers. -- the playoffs snafued they put themselves in last week against the steelers. this is a playoff game because one more loss and they are out of the playoffs. >> they put themselves in a tough spot as far as the a.f.c. south is concerned. but you're absolutely right, december is when you're playing your best football. >> we talked a couple of players when we got here and they had different opinions. rice said this is as big as stage as there is in the regular season. chris carter says you have to play that game for that games merits. what do you think? >> i think you have to have a lot of merit to that. monday night is a great opportunity to go out the

troy polamalu knocks the ball loose from joe flacco and the steelers are in business. the 3-d and 9, ben roethlisberger throws a little slant to isaac redmond and the steelers hang on tonight win and take over first place in the north by a game over the ravens. >> dallas not going anywhere in the playoff burb trying to make life tough on the colt's hope. peyton manning didn't help his cause. intercepted four times, twice for touchdowns and this one picked off by orlando scandrick. it went to overtime. tied at 35. david bueller with buehler is good with the field goal. the giants tied with philly at the top in the east after winning big over the redskins. >> atlanta comes from behind to beat turn to 10. new orleans the winner over cincinnati. >>> bears win over the 2-10 lions and 186 yards rushing for maurice jones-drew. cleveland a field goal better than miami. >>> well, the big day on a couple of counts for stanford coach jim harbaugh. no. 1 he was offered a contract exception that the eightic director says harbaugh "plans to accept." no. 2, the cardinals found out wh

of the ravens could not have done it much better in the first half building a 21-0 lead when joe flacco fines on a back corner fayed. the lead was 21-7 at halftime. a 28-7 in the second half, and read with care for 103 yards. 21 unanswered points by the texans. andrea johnson's two-point conversion was good. the ravens in dire need of a hero. it was josh wilson, the former seahawks, who steps into the role and takes this to the end zone and the game. the ravens survive winning 34- 28. there were all kinds of holes in this game, but it is a lot better to be 9-for-8-5 is close to the playoffs. -- 9-4 than 8-5 disclosed to the playoffs. >> it does not matter with the score is as long as we keep winning. >> jos will shun -- joshua wilson was the key player of the game. in december a playoff hunt, we have nine wins now. we have the world chance coming in and we will deflating them on a short week. it will be tough. -- we will be playing them on a short week. >> if you have been in a relationship with someone you love that you find maddening, that is the relationship the ravens have with this

i asked joe flacco whether it's possible to make significant changes this late into a season. >> i'm that likes to change things. i think you play with what you have and you do what you're good at. and you're 13 games in the year, you should know what you're good at. and you should run those things. and you shouldn't change your offense or what your identity is or what you feel it is. i think we have played, like i said, 13 games. we're 9-4 football team. and we should feel good about that. and we should continue to go out there and play the football we have. and have confidence that that's going to win us football games. >> receiver derrick mason missed practice with an ankle injury. todd heap and lacause key also sat out. >>> coming up next, the ravens get a surprise visitor today. you have to see how willis mcgahee responded to a challenge, in a sport other than football. i'll explain. plus, more movement in the baseball off season. detailptailp -- details ahead in sports. >>> in tonight's healthwatch, the government has issued a warning to dietary supplement makers. the fda sent

i asked joe flacco whether it's possible to make significant changes this late into a season. >> i'mlikes to change things. i think you play with what you have. and you do what you're good at. and when you're 13 games into the year, you should know what you're good at. and you should go out there and run things. you shouldn't need to change your offense, and change what your offense is or what you feel it s. i think we've played 19 games. we're a 19-4 football team. and we should go out there and play the game we have. >> we have some bumpy roads here and there. but i think as an offense, we have gradually gotten better each and every week. for us, if we're getting better each and every week. but if we're staying stagnant, or we feel that we've reached our point, then that's bad for us. because we still got, you know, three games left. and hopefully some play-off games. >> now, mason missed practice today with an ankle injury. edtodd heap and mcclane also sat out. >>> the ravens had a special visitor today. basketball legend, curlyne, still a member of the harlem globetrotters. the t