putle dear prize winner journalist george lardner reminded us that the skins fight song nearly didn't happen. in 1959 the men who aimed at bringing the dallas cowboys to dallas, the cowboys to dallas, bought the rights of hail to the redskins out from under the team. and he said he would only give the song back if redskins owner george preston marshall would lift his veto on n.f.l. expansion to dallas. thus the cowboys were born and they were in dallas and d.c. got the song back. lardner calls it basically legal extortion. >> yes, it was perfectly legal. >> reporter: it's just business. >> yes. they bought the rights. they had the rights. they threatened to gettage -- get an injunction if the redskins played that song again. >> imagine if it was not happening. rights to the song came back in 1959 and traded hands for $2500. again, the promise that he would lift his veto on the expansion to dallas. >> hail to the cowboys just doesn't -- inextricably linked these two teams are, whether it's hatred or legal extortion. >>> 4:53, time for the question of the morning. >> women tend to run l

lardner calls it legal extortion. >> yes, it was perfectly legal. >> reporter: it's just business. >> yeah. they bought the rights. they had the rights and they threatened to get an injunction if the redskins tried to play that song again. ♪ hail to the redskins ♪ . >> the rights back in 1959 to hail to the redskins, they were worth only 2,500 bucks. >>> caught on tape tonight snow may be pretty, but too much of it builds up and well, it will cause problems. this is surveillance video from turkey on a pedestrian bridge which just collapses. it collapses under its own weight and the weight of the snow. a high school student suffered minor injuries when it went down. the student is expected to be fine and they're still trying to figure out why that bridge collapsed, but they're already in the midst of repairing it. >>> money to rebuild in the aftermath of hurricane sandy was the hot topic at the white house today. as emily schmidt reports, emergency emergency's governor made a house call to make his plea for more aid. >> reporter: it didn't take long to see hurricane sandy's damage was