roger clemons's best friend at the time, andy pettitte, even said that roger clemens told him that roger uses steroids. andy backed out at the last minute. the other thing that pete said, that numbers matter in baseball more so than any other sport. baseball has been around professionally since 1869. you've got these steroid users going against willie mays, hank aaron, is not fair to those guys in the past when you lump these knuckle heads in with them. >> the steroid era happened for a while? >> it did. >> could it happen next year? >> the good thing is next year, we're here in atlanta georgia, two former atlanta braves heroes, tom glavine and maddox, they'll be first round hall-of-famers. no steroids there. this will become a moot point. >> it is an unusual hunting contest even for florida. they're looking for pythons. our john za ril la tells us why the state is holding a month-long contest to kill those snakes. >>> people are hunting pythons in florida, and they can win prizes doing it. it's part of a month-long contest called python challenge. there is an exploding python population

enough votes to make this into cooperstown. 37 names were on the ballot including barry bonds, roger clemonsall embroiled in that steroid scandal and two of faced perjury charges. former red sox and oral pitch curt schilling was on the ball -- orioles pitcher curt schilling was on the ballot. >> there's a difference between getting in on the first ballot o. getting in. >> craig b ijio led the pack. >>> forget about the hall of fame, we have fan test on the way. you can get your tickets. it starts at 11 on saturday, january 19th. there will be interactive games. so get out to the convention center on january the 19th and support your baltimore orioles. >>> coming up all new at 6:00, after the shooting at sandy hook elementary, a cecil county deputy worried about the safety of his children. how they're taking action. >>> this creditor's flu season has claimed the lives of 18 children. we'll tell you how to keep your child from getting sick. we have those stories and whole lot more coming up at 6:00. before copd... i took my son fishing every year. we had a great spot, not easy to find, but wor

barry bonds, roger clemons and sammy sosa left out in the vote. fact, voters didn't elect any baseball candidates. none got enough votes to clear the bar. only the second time in more than 40 years that happened. bonds, clemons, and sosa have 14 more years to make it in. >>> lance armstrong will speak out the first time since being stripped of his world titles in response to doping allegations. he will open up to oprah winfrey on her show's "oprah's next chapter." it will be a no-holds barred interview. and it will air a week from tomorrow on the oprah winfrey network and streamed live online. >>> coming up tonight, a lottery winner poisoned to death. find out who police questioned hours after he died. >> plus, this could be one of the worst flu seasons in nearly a decade. find out how researchers at a local university are tracking the viruses. >> and what about this one? temperatures in the 60s? >> yeah. that's right. >> gary's going to tell us about that next. you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. so

they discovered the coroner that oversaw the inquest was not properly qualified >>> barry bonds, roger clemons and sammy sosa will find out if they have made it into the hall of fame. the first time they have been eligible. allegations they used performance-enhancing drugs could hurt their chances. >>> the inauguration of venezuela president, hugo chavez is scheduled. he has been in bad health and it could be called off since his fourth cancer operation three weeks ago. >>> you can also find me on facebook. that's it for me. deb feyerick in for don lemon. have a great week! >>> hello, everyone. i'm deborah feyerick in for don lemon. a big announcement expected in you go wa. sources tell cnn that president obama will announce that chuck hagel is his nominee for secretary of defense. hagel has his share of critics, even within his own party. we'll have more on his expected nomination a few moments away. >> president obama signed into law today a $9.7 billion sandy relief package. the first legislative action. some were outraged after house speaker boehner canceled a vote on a much larger aid bil

but no one is sure what to do with him yet or roger clemons.s a baffling vote for a lot of people. maybe nor baffling than it needed to be. it was what it was. barry bonds not getting in this time, probably not next time, but at some point he'll be in. >> the 49ers welcomed the green bay packers on saturday. the niners defeated the pack in week one let by frank gore's rushing yards. gore has been quiet lately. >> offenses look to avoid third and long. for this saturday frank gore needs to have that same kind of production. recently he's been nowhere near close to that. >> going to turn, gives it to gore. driving in, touchdown, 9ers. 49ers. his role will be what it's been. >> but frank gore became much less prominent production wise for the 49ers the second half of the season. gore had more carries the final eight games but four yards. his average yards per carry dropped more than a full yard. it's a difference that core relates to the change at quarterback and more use of the read option. >> it's different but that's it. >> the main difference

we had a pitcher in roger clemons who won, at the time he retired, more games than any right-handed pitcherince 1920. we didn't elect him. we had a guy hit 600 home runs in sammy sosa. had a guy in craig piggio that had more than 3,000 hits. we didn't elect him. it shows you how confused the voters are about a narrative that was so controversial. >> on the sports page in "new york times," welcome to cooperstown, no one. there is going to be a problem around next time too? >> next year, it gets worse. everybody who we had to deal with yesterday is still going to be on the ballot with the exception of dale murphy. next year, we have tom glavine and greg maddux and jeff kent and mike macino. five more great candidates. we are going to look at a ballot that has 20 bonafide cabbndidat wech . we can only vote for ten. we have to make decisions not based on whether we think they were a hall-of-famer or not but trying to play guessing games on mo morality and steroid use. >> you said maybe we should throw out gaylord perry. what he did seems charming compared to what barry bonds supposedly did? >>

and these guys that were 'roided up and cheated are now up for -- barry bonds, roger clemons, sk sosa way i could ever vote for barry bonds or roger clemens. they're cheaters. one's a felon. they're liars. roger clemens' testimony in front of congress where he just lied through his teeth, i believe, my opinion, and so do a lot of other people, that disqualifies him right there. >> i don't think many people disagree with you, joe. the question is where do you draw the line? do you want to bring marist back? ruth's records back? do you just wipe out 25 -- 20 years of records? >> well, it depends. do you want it to mean something? >> i do. i agree. i just don't know how to play every play. there's so many players that did steroids and hgh who never got caught. >> the thing is, people are talking about mickey mantle being a drunk and babe ruth, you know, having crazy, off-the-field antics. that actually hurt their performance. this was soc calculated where they brought in doctors. this was so calculated to cheat. >> i don't see how you let these guys in. it's like everything in life. you