lovie just might. >> reporter: they did okay without tommy harris on monday. n sunday. >> tommy's always motivated. no complaints about how tommy harris has done anything this offseason. what he's done of the practice field. we just thought based on performance and where we were at the time that someone else deserved an opportunity. >> reporter: on the other side of the ball, the offensive line gave up three sacks early but settled down. switching from a right tackle to left tackle in the past two day games. >> you can do it but it isn't pretty. but i'm just glad that i do have some experience on the left side and that's what helped me out so far. >> especially at left tackle we're not complaining. webb coming in. no one mentioned that moving from right guard to left guard. that was a big switch for him. excited to play with these guys. >> reporter: bears offensive line once again will have their hands full sunday night. make the bears the four point underdog. rich king, wgn news. >>> and the road to the big ten championship starts this weekend. good luck. they

he comes in and spell tommie harris from time-to-time and gets into that rotation and does a good jobecause the cowboys are trying to set up a screen. both of these defense came out playing hot today. they are doing a good job of getting some pressure here on the quarterback. >> joe: third down and 20. underneath, it's choice. he has got a long way to go. he can only take it out to the 41. a gain of six for the dallas cowboy offense. except for three early runs by marion barber, who hasn't sewn anything, especially through the air. >> troy: well, you're not going to get much when you're looking at third and long against this defense. really, any defense. but because they will play coverage, they will play that two safety deep shell, it's very hard then to get the ball down the field against those looks and you've got to come underneath. the bears understand that and they come up and make the tackle, well short of a first down. >> joe: mcbriar punts it. devin hester who was once one of the most dangerous return men in the league, lets it sail out of bounds. for mcbriar, a 37-yard punt.

harry thomas jr. faces a host of challengers in ward 5, tommy wells with two in ward 6.licans, by the way, have candidates in four ward contests and areup opposed in this primary. the four republicans will challenge democrats, however. in the elect. >> will that name confusion you mentioned be enough to unseat mendelson? >> reporter: it's always up to the voters to know who they voting for. in this case, doesn't appear they do. mendelson started take the challenge seriously when the polls finally came out. "the washington post" polls showed the shadowed center, who is white, polling extremely high in areas like ward 7 and 8 where he rarely campaigned and in fact, his numbers mirror the current council member. the man running, michael d. brown has a strong support in anacostia, where he has a 51% of the black democrats say they would vote for brown compared to 11% for mendelson who usually scores high there and it's a significant threat that we'll be watching tonight. for the record, though, michael brown and jack evans are not up for re-election until 2012. >> one more q

. > harry stomach as was victorious in ward 5. 62% of the votes. >> let's ta a look at ward 6. victory for tommy wells. defeated binson, getting 75 oers of the vote. >>> we can now declare baker the winner in the race to replace retiring executive jack johnson with 97% of the votes counted. >> baker won the democratic primary with 44% in a five-way race. jackson is second with 33% of the vote, followed by samuel dean, levi and henry turner. >> repoer: baker, a form or state delegate said before the numbers came in tuesday night that if he didn't win on his third try that he was done. well, despite the low voter turnout, baker doesn't have to worry about that anymore as he has won the prince gorge's county executive race. >> baker, baker, baker! >> the 51-year-old addressed the raucous crowd in six flag last night. this w a hotly contested five-way race at times was overshadowed by voter fraud and fake ballots around the county. jackson believed he was the most experienced person for the job, serving as sheriff for the past eight years. as of this morning he has not conceded defeat. he is excited

harry thomas was also victorious in ward 5. he won easily over mcduffy, hunter and turner with 62% of the vote. and in ward 6, big victory for tommy wells, 75% of the vote. stay with us for more election results. view all t results on nbcwashington.com. >>> 5:06 is the time now. still ahead, tea party members are declaring victory after several big wins. what it cld mean for democrats. >>> after months in an iranian prisoner, an american is released. >>> another cool morning. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's luxury with fire in its veins. bold. daring. capable of moving your soul. ♪ and that's even befe you drop your foot on the pedal. ♪ the new 2011 cts coupe from cadillac. theew standard of the world. >>> 5:09 is your time now. still dark out there. twinkling stars in the night sky. it was a nice, cool, refreing morning when you step out. how is it looking, tom? >> feeling like autumn here in mid-september. and we have a clear sky this morning. still an hour and a half aw from sunrise. the bright spot in the western sky is the planet jupiter. constellation orion. it's certainly feeling chilly in the mountains. many locations in the 40s