junior from draper, utah. he's been at least the semifinalist for the grozo award all three years he's played football, period. didn't play until he got to utah. still a year of eligibility left for him. made from 43, he missed from 45. this from 36. right down the middle. to all but seal the deal inside for utah. >> brady: look at the overload on the right-hand side. credit utah, no penetration allowed. phillips, knocks it right through. >> joe: special teams won by utah tonight. and they just about cap it off with a field goal there to go up 11. while we have a moment here, limit's go to jenny for another game broke break. >> not near thely the battle we expected from l.s.u. and alabama. >> brady: derrick henry and the tide running away with it. his third touchdown tonight. l.s.u.'s leonard fournette, 13 yards rushing. 'bama leads 30-10 in the fourth quarter. >> joe: literally running away with it, 130 yards, almost 30 carries, three t ds. fournette on the other side, less than 20 yards, in the entire game.

junior from draper, utah. he's been at least the semifinalist for the grozo award all three years he's played football, period. didn't play until he got to utah. still a year of eligibility left for him. made from 43, he missed from 45. this from 36. right down the middle. to all but seal the deal inside for utah. >> brady: look at the overload on the right-hand side. credit utah, no penetration allowed. phillips, knocks it right through. >> joe: special teams won by utah tonight. and they just about cap it off with a field goal there to go up 11. while we have a moment here, limit's go to jenny for another game broke break. >> not near thely the battle we alabama. >> brady: derrick henry and the tide running away with it. his third touchdown tonight. l.s.u.'s leonard fournette, 13 yards rushing. 'bama leads 30-10 in the fourth quarter. >> joe: literally running away with it, 130 yards, almost 30 carries, three t ds. fournette on the other side, less than 20 yards, in the entire game. quarterback brandon harri

to all but seal the deal inside for utah. >> brady: look at the overload credit utah, no penetration allowed. phillips, knocks it right through. >> joe: special teams won by utah tonight. and they just about cap it off with a field goal there to go up 11. while we have a moment here, limit's go to jenny for another game broke break. >> not near thely the battle we expected from l.s.u. and alabama. >> brady: derrick henry and the tide running away with it. his third touchdown tonight. l.s.u.'s leonard fournette, 13 yards rushing. 'bama leads -10 in the fourth quarter. >> joe: literally running away with it, 130 yards, almost 30 carries, three t ds. fournette on the other side, less than 20 yards, in the entire game. quarterback brandon harris hadn't thrown an interception all year lon threw one tonight. tough secondary for abama. go to see they scored more points, too. >> joe: better than paint drying? >> brady: yeah, better 37b-0 at halftime -- better than 3-0 at halftime. >> joe: a bouncer that dies around the 25. mcclatcher juggles and takes it to the 35 yard line. th producer of t

junior from draper, utah. he's been at least the semifinalist for the grozo award all three years he's played football, period. didn't play until he got to still a year of eligibility left for him. made from 43, he missed from 45. this from 36. right down the middle. to all but seal the deal inside for utah. >> brady: look at the overload on the right-hand side. credit utah, no penetration allowed. phillips, knocks it right through. >> joe: special teams won by utah tonight. and they just about cap it off with a field goal there to go up 11. while we have a moment here, limit's go to jenny for another >> not near thely the battle we expected from l.s.u. and alabama. >> brady: derrick henry and the tide running away with it. his third touchdown tonight. l.s.u.'s leonard fournette, 13 yards rushing. 'bama leads 30-10 in the fourth quarter. >> joe: literally running away with it, 130 yards, almost 30 carries, three t ds. fournette on the other side, less than 20 yards, in the entire game. quarterback brandon harr

why the state of utah is coming to their defense. and students marching over the issue of race and how they're going to pay for school across the country. >> moscow has banned egypt from flying into the country. this follows putin's decision to suspend all russian flights from fly into egypt. >>> today the supreme court could decide whether to take up its first abortion case since 2007. it's looking at two cases from texas and mississippi. one says women should not be forced but a different panel from the same court came to the opposite conclusion taking a look at a texas law. >> the state of utah stepping into a custody case is speaking out against one of its judges who ordered a lesbian couple to give up their foster child. john henry smith reports. >>reporter: for the last three months, april and becky have been state-approved foster parents and this week a judge said no. >> he said he found out that kids in homosexual homes don't do as well as they do in heterosexual homes. but he would not show his research. >>reporter: now the

the state of utah will appeal the ruling >> i don't expect my caseworkers to violate a court order but also i don't expect them to violate the law. >> he made an uninformed biased decision based on widely-debunked research. >> the couple just wants to keep the girl who they consider their daughter. >> we've been told to care for this child like a mother would and i -- i'm her mother. that's who she knows. and she's just going to be taken away in seven days. to another probably good loving home. but it's just -- it's not fair. and it's not right. and it just hurts me really badly because i haven't done anything wrong. >> the couple has hired an attorney who says she's planning to appeal the judge's ruling at a hearing set for early december. >> i definitely relate to the university of missouri and stand in solidarity with them in everything that they're doing. >>reporter: at the university of michigan, she's one of the roughly 4% of black students on campus. she says her years' long fight took a turn and erupted at the university of michigan. >> do you think that could happen here? >> d

when they asked to show his research, he would not. >> the state of utah is supporting the couple.te argues the judge went against its recommendations. utah officials will people. >> i'm not going to expect my case workers to right invite a case order, on the other hand the law. >> lgbt parents groups say the judge was simply wrong. they say the research is not legitimate. >> he made an uninformed bias decision based on widely debunked research. >> they just want to keep the girl, whom they consider their daughter. >> we've, told to care for this child like a mothered, and i am her mother. i mean that's who she knows, and she's just going to be taken away in seven days top another good probably loving home, but it's not fair and it's not right and it just hurts me really badly, because i haven't done anything wrong. >> the judge has been controversial in the past. he got an official reprimand in 1997 after he slapped a belligerent teenage boy inside the courthouse. three years ago, he sentenced to teen girl who cut off her ponytail to have her own cut off. this latest ruling is unp

director of equality utah. troy, good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> so let's talk just a bit about the state of utah utah, a traditionally conservative state that even overturned the ban on gay marriage and passed an anti-discrimination law there. but things are moving in one direction, now this. talk to us about what's happening in that state. >> yeah. in a lot of way, utah is the epicenter of lgbt rights in america. and we've made tremendous progress. as you said, 2013, we were the first red state to overturn a gay marriage ban. we began the dominos where the bans would fall state after state after state. and then this past march, we passed historic nondiscrimination legislation. the first republican-controlled legislature in the nation to do so. and then also, we'll find out tuesday, but it looks like salt lake city will have elected our first lesbian mayor. so in lots of ways, we are taking great strides forward. but every time you have great success, there's also a bash lash, and we're experiencing

after she she was released from prison in 1869, she turned up in utah.like to to think she took the nearly complete transcendent railroad, that's, not sure but i like to imagine she did. although her son, the child she had she was reunited with her daughter, now grown with five children of her own. the next few years were bittersweet. once more, using her birth name lucy stanton, she was also reunited with her other daughter and and her son who had been estranged from the family for a number of years. sadly within the state of another two years, her father died. in march march 1873, at age 57, lucy stanton married the brother of her first husband oliver. again became a bassett, who she had been before she was lost the old tabby. by marrying the brother of her first husband. she began to work as a midwife, did her marburg friends in utah know about her experience of the 20 plus years since she had exceeding them question actually some of them had read the news of the escapades or noted the apparent bigamy in the news two decades be for. yes the news has s

in utah tonightht a lesbian couple is fighting a judge's ruling to remove their foster baby. carter evans spoke with them. >> reporter: beckie peirce and april hoagland have just five days to hold on to the baby girl they've nurtured for months. >> knowing that, that's what we've done and it's been taken away from us is heartbreaking. >> reporter: the couple is legally married in utah and plan to adopt the child. but tuesday, according to lawyers present in the courtroom for utah child welfare agency, judge scott johansen ordereded the couple to give up the baby for just one reason. >> he said he's seen studies that say children do worse in homosexuals homes than in heterosexual homes. >> reporter: the judge wouldn't tell you what studies he was troaferg. >> no, he told the lawyers t tdo their own research. >> reporter: hoagland and pierce say the judge also ignored employees from the baby's biological mother to grant them custody. they believe the judge, a bishop in the mormon church, is imposing his religious beliefs >> this is all about sexual orientation, not what is best

. >> a utah family is calling their miracle baby homecoming a holiday miracle. >> crowd was in cheersutah carrying the three-month-old hayden morgan born three months early when the parents were on a cruise and flown to a miami hospital weighing only one pound. doctors were not sure if he would survive were less if he would join mom and dad in utah for thanksgiving day. >> i prayed and asked for some kind of miracle to happen and the answer to a miracle. >> he gains several pounds and was able to make the flight home and now is in a utah hospital. the family hopes that he will be home by christmas. >> a year and a half later and still rebuilding, next, the work getting underwe today on the historic building in napa still suffering damage from the big earthquake. >> a deal just approved that means the commuter shuttles will keep on rolling. >> we will take a quick break but leave you with abc7, looking at a live picture in emeryville, i-80 just a little foggy at the moment. meteorologist mike nicco has been everyoning us about that been everyoning us about that and we key weather and t

in utah tonight, a lesbian couple is fighting a judge's ruling to remove their foster baby. carter evans spoke with them. >> reporter: beckie pierce and april hoagland have just five days to hold on to the baby girl they've nurtured for months. >> knowing that, that's what we've done and it's been taken away from us is heartbreaking. >> reporter: the couple is legally married in utah and plan to adopt the child. but tuesday, according to lawyers present in the courtroom for utah child welfare agency, judge scott johansen ordered the couple to give up the baby for just one reason. >> he said he's seen studies that say children do worse in homosexual homes than in heterosexual homes. >> reporter: the judge wouldn't tell you what studies he was referring to? >> no, he told the lawyers to do their own research. >> reporter: hoagland and pierce say the judge also ignored pleas from the baby's biological mother to grant them custody. they believe the judge, a bishop in the mormon church, is imposing his religious beliefs over the law. >> this is all about sexual orientation, not w

the news was carried on the way to utah.n springville and brought her back into contact, for instance had astonished him with a description of the indian profit and was now an elder. whether or not she had been forgiven is difficult to say. her marriage might have also raised eyebrows because he had been excommunicated from the church and because of the time he married her he had a wife and children in california. maybe her daughters married status helps shield her from scrutiny. she had been among the earliest mormon settlers in the world following in the footsteps and become known for promoting musical entertainment. when her brother in law turned 3rd husband left her in 1876 and idle traveling to philadelphia lucy stanton bassett was once more woman alone. perhaps seeking the support of the church she was rebaptized and reconfirmed as a member of the latter day saints church. her reentry into the fold was complete. but she was not well suffering from intermittent bouts of paralysis brought on by advanced diabetes and fina

in utah tonight, a lesbian couple is fighting a judge's ruling to remove their foster baby. carter evans spoke with them. >> reporter: beckie pierce and april hoagland have just five days to hold on to the baby girl they've nurtured for months. >> knowing that, that's what we've done and it's been taken away from us is heartbreaking. >> reporter: the couple is to adopt the child. but tuesday, according to lawyers present in the courtroom for utah child welfare agency, judge scott johansen ordered the couple to give up the baby for just one reason. >> he said he's seen studies that say children do worse in homosexual homes than in heterosexual homes. >> reporter: the judge wouldn't tell you what studies he was referring to? >> no, he told the lawyers to do their own research. >> reporter: hoagland and pierce say the judge also ignored pleas from the baby's biological mother to grant them custody. they believe the judge, a bishop in the mormon church, is imposing his religious beliefs over the law. >> this is all about sexual orientation, not what is best for the child. >> he

i don't know whether a judge in utah pounded the bench this week. i can say this, the judge in question, scott johansson, does not seem to have the law, nor the facts to support his heartbreaking decision to remove a 1-year-old girl from the home of her foster parents. those parents have been caring for her for three months now, since august, and they want to adopt her. becky pierce and april hogland were legally married 13 months ago. they were licensed by the state to take in foster children just a few months later. they've gone through all the checks. they have two biological children too. their foster daughter's birth mother is supporting their plan to adopt her child. get that? the mom wants this couple to adopt her baby. the utah division of children and family services is also supporting this couple. so why does judge johansson object? he is not commenting publicly but the parties in the courtroom say he claimed to have researched showing, quote, kids in homosexual homes don't do as well as in heterosexual homes. he would not provide that res

the utah parks and recreation posted this sign. you get the idea of the phrase. >> that message didn't sit well with some utah drivers who took to social media to complain. utah dot says they didn't offend anyone. it was first used by iowa. not sure, there you go. >> it's pretty creative. right? >> got the attention. millions if designer deep is dope is off the streets. . . . . $dwemp million in synthetic marijuana will never hit the streets in new jersey. instead, it is evidence against a crew prosecutors say was running a drug factory. >> the operation was set up steps from a school. police say this is the first time a k-23 manufacturing operation has uncovered here in new jersey. drug agents say the group that was working in this warehouse behind me here was working with volatile chemicals. right across the street from the home depot and down the block from a school. dismissal, parents and children here walking past the warehouse, police say was used to produce millions of dollars of the illegal drug k2 spice. >> it's

that he can't see what there is in utah law that allows the judge to rule this way? in the initial arrangements for this foster care? >> no. once we were able to get legally married, we were able to obtain a foster care license. and that has been really smooth and easy. >> and april, what about in your neighborhood. were your neighbors hostile at all towards you about this? >> oh, no, not at all. we've never had any sort of hostility or discrimination in our neighborhood. this is the first time. >> and becky, why did this end up in court at this point? >> this was just a routine hearing for the child. this actually had nothing to do with us. it was a hearing, a normal process for the child, and somehow this came up. >> so you actually thought you were just going in for a routine hearing, it's normal in these kinds of situations when you have a foster child, and it was just going to be that routine and you would go home? >> correct. >> did you have a lawyer with you in this situation? >> we did not. because we didn't expect that we would need one. >> we weren't on tri

. >>> a child custody case in utah. a judge takes a stand against a lesbian couple carrying for a girl. >>> rex ryan gets revenge on a team who fired him. he beats the new york jets but one is angered over both teams' choices of uniforms. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good on to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> morning the pentagon is trying to determine if a u.s. air strike killed the infamous executioner known as jihadi john. a vehicle was targeted in the syrian city of rock ka, an islamic state stronghold. johnathan vigliotti is in london with the details on this this morning. >> reporter: jihadi john was the international symbol of the brutality that is isis. he first appeared on an islamic state video last year wearing a mask dressed in black and holding a large knife. he spoke with a british accent. before executing american the beheading video provoked outrage. it was the first of several brutal skugs. jihadi john was identified as a british citizen,

when they asked to show his research, he would not. >> the state of utah is supporting the couple. the state argues the judge went against its recommendations. appeal. >> i'm not going to expect my case workers to violate a court order, on the other hand the law. >> lgbt parents groups say the judge was simply wrong. they say the research is not legitimate. >> he made an uninformed bias decision based on widely debunked research. >> they just want to keep the girl, whom they consider their daughter. >> we've been told to care for this child like a mother, and i am her mother. i mean that's who she knows, and she's just going to be taken away in seven days, to another good probably loving home, but it's not fair and it's not right and it just hurts me really badly, because i haven't done anything wrong. >> today there is new leadership at the university of missouri after weeks of protest that ousted the president and chancellor. >> this is a learning experience for us all. we must tighten our focus, improve our culture and climate across all of our campuses. >> law professor michael

vivian lee runs the university of utah health care system. >> when you compare us to other university hospitals across the country, while their costs have gone up, we have seen our costs go down. >> reporter: you've gone down? down a lot. 30%, through a software tool they developed to identify every penny spent. every bandage, aspirin, scalpel, iv, x-ray, how much it costs to treat patients down to the second. by drilling down on the costs, the university determined that patient care here in the e.r. cost 82 cents per minute. $1.43 per minute in the surgical icu. the biggest surprise came in the o.r. take, for example, dr. a, who performs hernia repairs. his choice of instruments and meds put his o.r. costs 23% below other surgeons. and his patients spent 14% less time in the hospital. >> what we found is that more often than not, lower costs come with better outcomes. >> reporter: really? lower costs come with better outcomes? >> absolutely. >> reporter: so the hospital went about standardizing procedures, meds, and instruments. it turns out the most expensive hip replacement wasn't

. >> a premature baby who was born while his family was on a crews is back home in utah.made his arrival 3 months early. he weighed one pound. he spent a few days in puerto rico. he was flown to miami, his mother stayed by his side, but his father and 3-year-old sister had to fly back and forth to utah. a company called air med stepped in to help. >> we asked for a miracle bring our family home for the holidays, it will be something that we'll never ever be able to repay them for. >> hayden will be staying at the hospital in utah for now, but the hope is to have him home in time for christmas. >> we're still a few days away from black friday, but we're hearing about cyber monday, find out which major retailers are starting discounts early. >> plus, it could be the biggest merger the healthcare industry has have seen. the tax discounts that's driving a deal of who major drug makers. approaching medicare eligibility? don't put off checking out your medicare options until 65. now is a good time to get the ball rolling. medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medi

. >> a child custody controversy in utah. the state takes a stand against a judge who ordered a foster child be taken from the lesbian couple carrying for her. >>> rex ryan gets revenge on the team who fired him. he beats the new york jets but group of fans is angered over both teams' choice of uniforms. headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> this morning, the pentagon is trying to determine if a u.s. air strike killed the infamous executioner known as jihadi john. thursday's air strike was carried out bay drone that targeted a vehicle in the syrian city of raqqa, an islamic state stronghold. johnathan vigliotti is in london with the details on this this morning. >> reporter: jihadi john was the international symbol of the brutality that is isis. he first appeared on an islamic mask, dressed in black, and holding a large knife. he spoke with a british accent. before executing american journalist james foley. the beheading video provoked outrage. it was the first of several brutal executi

cleveland against utah. utah is the team that drafted mo williams. out of alabama, 03. i think he's had a couple of stints with utah. i know this is his second stint with cleveland. and i know this is just mo working. >> travel. >> it'movember, okay. >> he's rorocking th'stache. >> yeah, exactly. it's notot as sweeas mine. >> if you do sayay so yourlf. >> thank you. mo williams hit his first eight shots, ended up 8 for 9, 29 points on 9 shots. lebron had a lot of points too and the cavaliers won. >> let's see that thing. >> full handlebars. >> you feeling me, america? yeah, yoare. >> back to you. >> n we're not. >> i think it looks good. >> you like it? >> i think it suits him well. >> we'll see how it works out for the rest of the month. >>> internet buzzing over what one of the debate moderators was wearing. >> the first big restaurant chain testing a no tipping and i said "and i bet you money you'll be able to do that senior walk". thatat day i sd "ok it's me and you girl, me and you!" i said "if y need to stop, there's a bench we'll just hang out in the shade." she

kurtis: is now spinning around utah. it is solely going to kick off to the northeast. heavy snow in the mountains of colorado, even some snow out in nebraska. heaviest rain across the northern half of the state, extending up toward the twin cities. our timeline -- quiet tonight, maybe a little drizzle overnight. thunderstorms erupted tomorrow afternoon. 3:00 p.m. temperature, 61.

. >>> a same-sex couple in utah is fighting for their family after a judge ordered their foster child to be removed from their custody because they're gay. nbc's mor began ratford has the latest. >> becky pierce tied the knot late last year. after the supreme court legalized gay marriage, they became foster parents to a bouncing baby girl. but tuesday a utah judge brought their happy world to a screeching halt. >> we never thought that this would happen. >> reporter: during a routine court hearing for their foster daughter, a utah judge asked becky pierce and april hogland a simple question. >> he asked us what our relationship was. and we told him that we were legally married. >> reporter: what happened next they never saw coming. >> he just dropped the bomb that she needs to be removed to a heterosexual couple. >> reporter: juvenile court judge scott johansson ordered the child removed in just seven days, that would be this coming tuesday. >> he did say he had research that proves that children do better in heterosexual homes than they do in homosexual homes. >> reporter: becky and

cleveland against utah. utah is the team that drafted mo williams. out of alabama, 2003. i think he's had a couple of stints with utah. i know this is his second stint with cleveland. this is mo working. >> travel. >> it's movember, okay. >> rocking the 'stache. >> not as sweet as mine. >> if you do say so yourself? thank you. mo williams hit his first eight shots, ended up 8 for 9, 29 points on 9 shots. lebron had a lot of points too and the cavaliers won. >> let's see that thing. >> full handlebars. >> you feeling me, america? yeah, you are. >> back to you. >> no, we're not. >> i think it looks good. it suits him well. >> see how it works out for the rest of the month. >>> internet buzzing what one of the debate moderators was wearing. >> the first big restaurant chain testing a no tipping policy. t named joyce,p and she kept complaining about all her aches and pains. p and i said "come to class, let's start walking together" and i said "and i bet you moneypyou'll be able to do that senior walk". p that day i said "ok it's me and you girl, me and you!" i said "if you ne

in utah tonight, a lesbian couple is fighting a judge's ruling to remove their foster baby. carter evans spoke with them. >> reporter: beckie pierce and days to hold on to the baby girl they've nurtured for months. >> knowing that, that's what we've done and it's been taken away from us is heartbreaking. >> reporter: the couple is legally married in utah and plan to adopt the child. but tuesday, according to lawyers present in the courtroom for utah child welfare agency, judge scott johansen ordered the couple to give up the baby for just one reason. >> he said he's seen studies that say children do worse in homosexual homes than in heterosexual homes. >> reporter: the judge wouldn't tell you what studies he was referring to? >> no, he told the lawyers to do their own research. >> reporter: hoagland and pierce say the judge also ignored pleas from the baby's biological mother to grant them custody. they believe the judge, a bishop in the mormon church, is imposing his religious beliefs over the law. >> this is all about sexual orientation, not what is best for the child. >>

tom costello takes us to a utah hospital that figured a way to get a handle on the problem and others are anxious to follow its lead. >> early morning at the university of utah med center, and robert garner is headed to replaces. a routine surgery performed every day in the country, but here, the surgery will cost less and he should recover faster. same true for the new mom having a c-section in o.r. five. university of utah health care system. >> when you compare us to other university hospitals across the country, we have seen our costs go down. >> you have dawn down? down a lot, 30%. through a software tool they developed to identify every penny spent. every bandage, aspirin, scalpel, iv, x-ray, how much it costs treat patients down to the second. by drilling down on the costs, the university determined that patient care here in the e.r. cost 82 cents per minute. $1.43 a minute in the surgical icu. the biggest surprise came in the o.r. take, for example, dr. a, who performs hernia repairs. his choice of instruments and meds put his o.r. costs 23% below other surgeons. and his patie

. >> reporter: the couple is legally married in utah and plan to adopt the child. but tuesday, according to lawyers present in the courtroom for utah child welfare agency, judge scott johansen ordered the couple to give up the baby for just one reason. >> he said he's seen studies that say children do worse in homosexuals homes than in heterosexual homes. >> reporter: the judge wouldn't tell you what studies he was troaferg. >> no, he told the lawyers to do their own research. >> reporter: hoagland and pierce say the judge also ignored employees from the baby's biological mother to grant them custody. they believe the judge, a bishop in the mormon church, is imposing his religious beliefs over the law. >> this is all about sexual orientation, not what is best >> he has no other grounds but that. >> reporter: child and family services say the couple passed rigorous background checks and state law is on their side, according to director brent platt. >> any legally married couple in utah can become ..ed as foster parentses, same-sex cowrnlings heterosexual couples. it