: and 13-year-old had everyone cracking up after this little ditty. >> but it was 14-year-old sriram hathwarnent, 13-year-old ansun sujoe who stole the show. >> alganfillogi. >> reporter: after 22 rounds, they faced off where they were able to correctly spell so many words, the list of words ran out. >> correct. >> reporter: forcing bee pronouncer jock bailey to declare -- >> ansun sujoe, if you spell this word correctly, we will declare you and sriram cochampions. >> okay. whatever. >> however you say it, just spell it. >> f-e-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n. >> correct. >> and the cochampions of the scripps national spelling bee, ansun sujoe and sriram hathwar are "outfront" tonight. so you guys are sitting there together. and i know when you went, in you weren't even sure if you would win, right? but you were both hoping. now here you are. ansun and sriram. how does that feel? is there a part of you that goes i like that guy sitting next know, but it would have been nice if it was just me? >> well, not really. i may have liked to, but it wasn't -- but i didn't really want to just win by myself. i really

. >> in the end, it came down to anson sujoe of texas and sriram hathwar of new york.went head to head in more than two dozen rounds. finally with just four championship round words remaining, sujoe needed to spell his word just right to force a second tie in go years. >> no more questions. get the letters out there. >> whatever. >> however you say it just spell it. >> s-i-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n? >> correct. >> the two co-champions will each get $33,000 in cash and prizes. and by the way the final word is the name of the feature section of a european newspaper or magazine. >>> when we return, out on a ledge. tourists at willis tower get a scare of a lifetime after glass observation deck cracks beneath them. gets a scare of the lifetime after the glass on the deck cracks underneath them. jim's hair is perfect. so's his serve, and his mandarin [speaking mandarin] xieúxieú, hou chiú but like up to 90% of americans, jim falls short in getting important nutrients from food alone. making jim more like us. add one a day multivitamins, rich in key nutrients you may need. so say hello

ansun sujoe of texas and sriram hathwar. it was a tie, the first tie since 1962. >> holy cow. >> pretty good. >> good for them. >>> even though she didn't win an eighth grader from cupertino made the bay area very proud. >> she made it to the finals in the national spelling bee. she did get tripped up with this word. >> t-a-g-l-i-o-n-e. >> so close. the last letter there. so, if you're not quite familiar with that word, which is all of us. an italian word for an old overcoat. a standing ovation as she walked off the stage. finished 11th, earned $1,500 prize but made it to the finals and we are tremendously proud of you. >>> want to check the morning commute. >> i thought it was pasta. looking over here and only a few folks on the roadway north 101. i use the numbers because i can't spell very well. there it is at the top of your screen. san jose and there is your live look and your live map sensors show you green through the area. construction typical 880 right around coleman and alameda off ramp and 101 through palo alto in

national spelling bee turned out to be a real nail-biter down to the last second. 14-year-old sriram hathwar and 13-year-old ansun sujoe, ended a riveting final-round showdown after exhausting nearly 25 championship words. >> whatever. >> however you say it. just spell it. >> f-e-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n. >> correct. >> the two boys became only the fourth co-champions in the spelling bee's 89-year history. the first since 1962. they will each take home a trophy and nearly $33,000 in cash and prizes. >> congratulations to the both of them. >> very cool. >>> time, now, for a check of weather across the nation. scattered thunderstorms in the rockies, dakotas and nebraska. heavy rain and thunderstorms along much of the gulf coast and the mississippi valley. showers from upstate new york into new england. >> mostly 70s in the northeast and midwest. 80s across the south. 70s in the pacific northwest. a sizzling 105 in phoenix. >>> and coming up, worthless wine. why that fancy bottle of wine may not be what you think. >>> and knocked to the ground by a powerful paw. a bear attacks a victim. she talks about

ansun sujoe of texas and sriram hathwar each get $30,000 each and the trophy. the boys exhausted the list of the 25 designated championship words, most of which no one had ever heard of before. they had no problem with them, though, and they did have a tie. the first time since 1962. >> so they ran out of words. >> they ran out of words to torture those poor boys with. >> amazing. >> even though she didn't win, an eighth grader from cupertino made the bay area very proud. >> she made it to the finals in the national spelling bee. she did get tripped up with this word. >> taglioni. >> t-a-g-l-i-o-n-e, taglioni. >> painful! >> she came so close! right until the very last letter. an italian word for old overcoat. and yes, we had to look that up. fellow spellers gave her a standing ovation as she walked off the stage. >> all those kids deserve a standing o., very impressive. we'll be right back. >>> well, proud parents and staff presented the first penguin chick at the kansas city zoo. >> take a look at this little guy right there. oh, my goodness. a face a mother

it came down to 14-year-old sriram hathwar of painted post, new york, and 13-year-old ansun sujoe of fort worth. >> corpsbruder. >> brennan: it looked like it was all over for sriram. >> then ansun took his turn. both boys got every word right after that. >> polos? >> bot but the rules say there are only 25 words in the final round, and when they run out, the competition is over. so a tie was declared. both sriram and ansun each won $30,000. we'll be right back. excellent source of fiber an to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber. from phillips. purina pro plan can help him drachieve it. ♪ epic classical music stops ♪music resumes music stops ♪music resumes [announcer] purina pro plan's bioavailable formulas deliver optimal nutrient absorption. [owner] come on. [announcer] purina pro plan. nutrition that performs. apples fall, but the apples of your cheeks dodefy gravity. juvÉderm voluma® is the only fda-approved injectable gel to instantly add volume to your cheek area. as you age, cheeks can lose volume. voluma adds volume creat

here we go. 14-year-old sriram hathwar of new york and 13-year-old ansun sujoe of ft. worth, texas.red a final riveting showdown after nearly exhausting the 25 championship words. >> okay. >> whatever. however you say it. just spell it. >> f-e-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n. >> correct. [ cheers and applause ] >> wow, oh, wow. the two boys became the fourth co-champions in the spelling bee's 89-year history and the first since 1962. they will each take on a trophy and $33,000 in cash prizes. wow, oh, wow. >> you hate to see one lose when they get this far. it is great. >> wonderful for them and their families. you know how nowadays any kid that plays a sport every kid goes home with a trophy. you are like oh, come on. this time they both worked hard for it. >> both will be able to put the money towards college. the winning word, by the way, feuilleton. you know what that is? >> what is it? >> i know what that is. it's a section of a european newspaper or magazine. >> i knew that. >> is that with the crossword puzzle i can never get? >> all right. here's a look at the weather. >>> heavy rain, thund

. >> ansun sujoe and sriram hathwar they are the 20014 national spelling co champions. the first since 1962. plus the answer that's going viral not the one you would expect. >> cabaragoya. >> i know it. i know it. c-a-b-a-r-a-g-o-y-a. cabaragoya. >> what? oh. >> jacob williamson he captured hearts during the competition with his epic celebrations, but he was ousted with seven spellers remaining. still a good job, though. >> oh. >> the time is 26 after the top of the hour. we told you about the outrage over this novelty of the 9-11 museum. the plate th>> /* /- the cheese. >> see how they were eventually caught by the cops. >> let's take a live look outside of the plaza. the charlie daniels band is right now setting up. they started setting up last night for the "fox & friends" summer concert series. hello! i'm a kid. and us kids have an important message for our grown ups. three grams daily of beta-glucan... a soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. and where can you find beta-glucan? in oats. and, they're yummy! i'm going back

at one point, sriram hathwar and ansun sujoe each misspelled a word in the same round but the two boys made no errors after that and the spelling bee simply ran out of words so all right, they both get like $30,000 in scholarships. >> you're all winners. you watched it? >> i did. it was on espn. i was glued for a while. >> it was a good effort for a local student out of cupertino. >> t-a-g-l-i-o-n-i -- -- italian italian --t-a-g-l-i- o-n-e. >> that was the end of the run for 14-year-old neha konakalla who was among the dozen national finalists. kpix 5 sponsored the regional spelling bee that she won to get to the nationals in maryland. >> i watched it for two hours. you kept waiting, come on, i see it -- i think i got one word right out of like 1,000. >> right. i would imagine. [ laughter ] >>> let's check in with liza on traffic. >> reporter: first, can i tell you? i was in the solano county spelling bee. you know what word i missed ? platinum. >> oh!! >> i spelled it without the n! the morning commute, the friday commute looking great. we are going to kick off "kcbs traffic" with hea

ansun sojoe of texas and sriram hathwar get $2,000 and a trophy. championship words with no problem, so, it was a tie. t-i-e. the first tie since 1962. >> good for them. >>> even though she didn't win an eighth grader from cupertino made the bay area very proud. >> neha konakalla made it to the finals and she did get tripped up on this word. >> t-a-g-l-i-o-n-e. taglione. >> not the e. she came so close. the word right until the very last letter. italian word means old overcoat. fellow spellers give neha a standing ovation. as she walked off the stage, she finished 11th earning a 1,500 prize. >> we never got to that round of the spelling bee. >> yes. >>> 6:20 right now. still ahead on "today in the bay" escape from alcatraz. a few of the those taking the plunge in the chilly waters of the bay. gridlock. teacher layoffs. and a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. that's what john perez faced when he became speaker of the california assembly. so he partnered with governor brown to pass three balanced budgets, on time. for the first time in thirty years.

anis yansun sujoe and sriram hathwar were so good, they had to be claimed co-champions. the winning word meant alternating lines of dialogue, like in a play. and hathwar got -- >> feuilleton. >> that's a feature section from a newspaper. basically, they were human dictionaries. so good, they beat the humans. >> they beat the dictionary. >> well done, gentlemen. >> it had to be done, at last. >> a half hour ago, berman said spelling's overrated. all these people on twitter are hating you. >> i came out against spelling in our last half hour. i have now reversed course right now, flip-flopped, just in this one hour of "early start." >> for the record, i'm very pro-math. i like math. >> you're not antispelling, you're just pro-math. >> i'm just pro-math. >> 48 minutes after the hour. that's a brave, brave stance, christine romans. >>> new details this morning on the abuse a u.s. marine says he suffered at a mexican prison. jail for months for carrying his registered weapons into mexico. what he's already gone through so far, next. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that dra

it was the first tie in 52 years, and it came about last night after 14-year-old sriram hathwar and 13old ansun sujoe used up the entire list of words. >> ansun, if you spell this word correctly, we will declare you and sriram co-champions. >> feuilleton. now, no more questions. >> feuill-whatever. f-e-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n?" >> correct. >> woodruff: each winner gets a trophy and more than $33,000 in cash and prizes. >> woodruff: still to come on the pbs newshour: secretary shinseki resigns as head of the embattled veterans affairs department; we get perspective from mark shields and david brooks, on that and the rest of the week's news; plus, the $2 billion bid to buy donald sterling's l.a. clippers; and how opera legend jessye norman learned to "stand up straight and sing." >> woodruff: the storm surrounding the embattled veterans administration reached a crescendo today. heeding a steady drumbeat of criticism and calls for his ouster, eric shinseki, the 71- year-old retired general who had been the president's first and only secretary of the v.a., offered his resignation this morning at t

. >> in the end, 13-year-old ansun sujoe and 14-year-old sriram hathwar, they were competing againstctionary, not each other. they spelled so many words correctly, john berman, the judges ran out of words. all right, for the record, sujoe's final-round word was -- >> stychamethia. >> what's it mean? >> like alternating lines of dialogue in a play, obviously. >> and hathwar got -- >> feuilleton. >> the feature section -- >> i have no idea how to say that. i just slew a lot of letters together. >> they're hard, very hard. john berman and i, neither of us are eligible for the spelling bee or ever were. were you a good speller? >> i was second in my class in spelling in fourth grade, but because i lost, i was so bitter, so i gave up. >> so you're a soar loser. >> spelled l-o-s e-r. i gave up completely. >>> another big set of winners from new york. king hinrich extending and giving new york a chance to play for lord stanley's cup. no one in new york is talking about this, and by that, i mean everyone is talking about it. it is really annoying. joe carter with "bleacher report" next. here

beat the egg dictionary. 13-year-old ansun sujoe spelled fueilleton correctly and 14-year-old sriram hathwariled the word stichomythia. in fact, as i said, the boys spelled so many words right, the judges just ran out. i didn't know there could be a tie in a spelling bee. they go to every language in the world. they have to find more words somewhere. the two winners will tell us about their big wins in the next hour of "new day." n-e-w-d-a-y. >> two words, by the way. >> are they real words? >> you can make them up and they will spell them right. how can you run out? >> fueilleton is not a word, i tell you that right now. >> how do you end in a tie? they should sue. >> we had two people on the show that had a tie. >> that was in a regional, state competition. >> and they ran out of words as well. isn't that crazy? are we not creating enough words or are the kids just getting smart sn smarter? >> is it a big government problem? >> big government. >> what happened to the country when they can limit the amount of words you can spell. >> spelling bee reform. there's my platform when i run. >> se

and 14-year-old sriram hathwar from new york. they beat out 281 contestants from across the world.u wanted to know. i didn't just assume anything. feuilleton is part of a magazine or newspaper devoted to fiction, criticism, or light literature. did you know that? >> i've been reading my feuilleton a lot lately. >> i thought that was a bed. >> the guest comes over, you throw it open. >> everybody slept on a feuilleton in college. >> here is the moment, i've got to show you. it's gone viral. i actually saw it with you earlier. 15-year-old jacob williamson. take a look. >> i know it! i know it! i totally know it. okay. c-a-b-a-r-a-g-o-y-a. what? >> it is spelled k-a-b-a-r-a-g-o-y-a. >> oh! my heartbreaks for that little boy. >> i feel so bad. >> he's a legend now. >> come on. >> i know it! i know it! >> oh, no, you don't. >> and he goes back to school on monday. >> they're just going to look at him and go, what? >> he's a legend now. he's going to have product placement by willie. >> safelite maybe? >> safelite's going to call him. i love it. anyway, our co-winners were super cute. th

that's 14-year-old new yorker sriram hathwar and 13-year-old texan ansun sunjoe.ever. >> whatever. >> share them with milk shakes in there. >> let's go to katty kay now. she's going to explain the lyrics to that explicit song in a bit. but first let's do the news. >> those poor kids. i was terrified for them. the nba's donald sterling nightmare may be over. steve ballmer is reportedly set to purchase the los angeles clippers for $2 billion. the proposed sale of the team now goes to league officials for final approval. espn reports that experts have declared donald sterling mentally incapacitated which makes his estranged wife shelly sterling the sole trustee of the franchise. but donald sterling's attorney says, quote, he is not selling the clippers. donald sterling has not agreed to sell the clippers at any price. so watch that space. >>> in business, the u.s. economy contracted in the first quarter for the first time in three years. the commerce department revised down its growth estimate to show gross domestic product shrinks at a 1% annual rate. analysts repor

hathwar and ansun sunjoe are sharing the title. they nearly exhausted the 25 designated championship words. sriram opened the door to an upset when he miscalled a word meaning close comrade. ansun couldn't capitalize. he missed on spelling a lot meaning waterproof leggings. they both get a trophy and $30,000 in highlights. one of the highlights is when this contestant thought he had kabara kabaraga oya. >> c-a-b-a-r-a-g-o-y-a, kabaragoya. >> it's spelled k-a-b-a-r-a-g-o-y-a. >> what? >> we've got our own spelling test for you. see if you can guess which word is spelled incorrectly? embarrassing, assassinated or fluorescent. if you want to join the conversation on "worldwide exchange," get in touch with us, e-mail worldwide@cnbc.com, via twitter @cnbcwex or direct to me @jchatterleycnbc. >>> twitter's senior vp of engineering christopher frye is stepping down. in his s.e.c. filing the km says he'll keep an advisory role but gave no reason for the move. he's the latest exec to depart after michael sippi left in january. frye was one of two senior employees who filed to sell part of their stake in tw