Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm 20151226 : vimarsana

WUSA Wusa 9 News At 6pm December 26, 2015

All right, welcome to the ram postgame show. Im adam zucker. Tonight on cbs begins with hawaii 50 followed by 48 hours presents. Tonight only cbs. In the game you just saw Washington State over miami 2014. Their first bowl win since 2003. Despite not scoring in the second half as im joined by houston nutt and Brian Jones Mike leach pulls it out. Miami helped out quite a bit. The turnovers in the fourth quarter. Joseph yearby, you have to hold onto the rock when you get close to the end zone. He doesnt do it here and then coach, i dont understand this play. Youve got it there close to the red zone and you go for a little trick, yearby short with the pass. Receiver was open. I question the play call in that situation. You have to win the turnover margins right here and give coach leach a lot of credit. All year long coach leach, theyve been on the same page. I want to Say Something about larry scott. He has done an outstanding job to take over a problem like this. The players said he kept us together. When you lose your coach and you keep a Team Together its a difficult situation because assistants, players, everybody starts looking who will be my coach . Who will be the next coach . You could lose them. He has done a good job to get them to a bowl game. Well see what happens with him. Miami lost six straight bowl games. Lets get to the scoreboard starting with Washington States appearer of rival. Washingtons offense still going. Miles gaskin right here will add to the 580 yards of total offense for the huskies on the day. Set a record for freshman rush yards on the season. 86 yards. That one in the heart of dallas bowl in the original cotton bowl. Also in the state of texas but not in the blizzard area as washington gets its first bowl win under Chris Peterson there. Hey, marshall going for their first throws for six. We saw gaskin in the previous highlight and doc holiday doing it with the defense. 1610 the final. B. J. , back and forth in the bronx. Two hot quarterbacks in the game today. Here is thomas sirk, 10 yard jump pass to duke an top here 2724. When we come back well shine our spotlight on some of the big new years bowl matchups up next. Im former United States Army Sergeant jason lessard. Out of nowhere i get a call from bud light inviting me and a friend to boston. Its time for the coin toss. Heads, you meet a pats offensive legend. Tails, defensive legend. Tails. Yeah woo meet ty law, one of my favorite patriots of all time. To go out there and do what you guys do, youre a lot braver than i am, man. Please join bud light in welcoming Sergeant Jason lessard. Greatest day of my life and i cant thank bud light enough for everything theyve done to make this possible. The the road trippers,ers, earmasked riders,rs. Passionate tailgaters. The whiteouts, blackouts, fans going all out. The hootin and hollerin, footstompin, halftime bands rockin. Every team has a tradition that inspires superior performance. And for the last 60 years, were proud to be the one they all have in common. Let it snow. A lot the day after christmas as Washington State celebrates its win in the hyundai sun bowl over miami. We welcome you back to the ram postgame show. At halftime represent viewed the National Semifinal matchups and shine our light on the bowl game that make up the new year six. Stanford and iowa in the rose bowl. The cardinal earned a trip to pasadena with a route of usc. Iowa makes a run for the roses after their quest for that undefeated season ended against michigan state. There are a lot of nice matchups in this one. How about the scs defense of iowa against hogan. Hitting 70 of his passes as the quarterback of stanford and allpurpose wonder christian mccaffery. A dynamite ball game. Oklahoma state and old miss in the sugar bowl. Two teams heading in opposite directions on the field. The rebels come in consecutive wins over top 25 teams. The cowboys drop the last two after the 100 start. A throwfirst offense. Rudolph is healthy. He has watson. This guy will get the football fast. On the other side chad kelly. He has a bunch of weapons. Nfl there are six pro scouts. Watch this. That will be a battle. No kim for old miss in this one. Next number 8 notre dame and number 7 ohio state. Fiesta bowl. Hard to believe these programs have only met five times before. The last meeting was in the fiesta bowl in 2006. The scouts will be watching it. He may be the best running back in the nation. No offense Derrick Henry and jalen smith the linebacker for notre dame is one of the best linebackers in all the land. Two teams, then on new years eve houston and Florida State squaring off in the peach bowl. Florida state quarterback wont play due to personal issues effectively ending his college career. As for the cougars they have 12 wins for the second time in school history. Thats houston. Outstanding year facing an unbelievable tailback in cook. Theyll have to run to the football to stop this guy. Houston, though, greg ward, this guy has thrown the ball over 2500 yards and can also make people miss, running the football with 1,000 yards rushing. They have their hands full with ward. Youll take Florida State. Ill lean to houston. Im leaning Florida State. Coach, great having you in the saddle with us today. We loved having you. You cant do that. Next year will be our 12th season together, b. J. Happy holidays, buddy. Oh, thank you. An even dozen. Lets do it. Come on. Enjoy watching basketball. That will just about do it for this week. Thank you for watching the ram postgame show. A look at what is coming up tonight on cbs. And a reminder, it is tops tomorrow morning at 9 00 eastern. That other pregame show covers everything from the field through fantasy. Next saturday a College Basketball triple header tipping off at noon eastern with a womens top 10 matchup ohio state, maryland. And ending with number 23 baylor add number 2 kansas. Tune into nfl network at 8 00 eastern for a special edition of thursday night football with the redskins and eagles. Tomorrow regional action. Many will see the patriots and jets at noon eastern with the nfl today. For all of us, have a great evening and a happy new year. Peyton check out our new epic meatz pizza. Its loaded with five meaty meats. Wow, its really heavy. Come on. Get the new epic meatz pizza. Just 12 for a large. With pepperoni, italian sausage, meatballs, bacon and canadian bacon. And get a free large 1topping pizza when you buy 25 in gift cards. Better ingredients. Better pizza. Better football. Papajohns. Com its the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. So hurry and get verizon fios. Only fios has the Fastest Internet and wifi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, for only 79. 99 a month online, you get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus, with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all the premium movie channels for a year. So go online or call now for this great offer. Get out of the past. Get fios. Linda macdonald is captioning for you in real time. You are looking at lincoln financial field in philadelphia where the redskins have a chance to win the nfc east crown tonight. Hello, im deb alfarone. The hype about tonights game off the charts the redskins can clinch the division if they just beat the eagles. Diane roberts is in philadelphia where its about two hours to game time. So whats the atmosphere like there . Reporter what i sort of feel like is that this is the calm before the storm. Players and coaches are getting ready for the pregameel game prep. They have a chance to win this game to clinch the nfc east. Standing in the way are the struggling eagles. Its never a gimme whenever these two Division Foes face each other. Back in october, it looked like philadelphia would beat washington and then kirk cousins had a 90yard drive leading to a game winning touchdown. Nothing was at stake in week 4 but fans and player know whats on the ryan tonight. Is the nexttothelast game and for us to the fighting for the Division Title right now, its amazing because, you know, we control our own destiny. Doesnt matter what anybody else does. If we go out there and take care of business, its over. Its done. Reporter everybody i have talked to, fans, players alike, everyone is very pleased that theres meaningful football in december for the washington redskins. Havent seen that in a while. The players want there to be meaningful football in january and february, as well. Live from lincoln financial field, diane roberts. Thank you. Cant wait to see you later. Fans are gearing up to watch the game on wusa9. Stephanie ramirez is talking to some excited fans. Whats going on . Reporter we found a few folks here getting dinner a little earlier so they could give all their attention to the game later on in adams morgan. Its not as crowded as normally for a saturday night in dc because of the Christmas Holiday but thats where you find the real diehard fans who tell me they are so excited. Cant wait for tonight. One person told me its been a heck of a roller coaster. Take a listen. Captain kirk all the way. We gonna win last week and tonight too. Im enthused because they actually have a chance to win the division and be in the play offs. We need a super bowl win. We gonna win today and win the super bowl because kirk cousins is going to take us to the promised land, i believe. Its about time we hey, you know, gave the city a little cheer, thats automatic. Reporter a little cheer, captain kirk, everyone is talking about kirk cousins. He is the man a lot of folks are also talking about Desean Jackson people looking forward to see how he will play tonight against the team that let him go in the game on channel 9. Back to you. Im sure you will have a lot of friends around later. A just released movie about the nfl tells a story of a nigerianborn doctor who took on the powerful league hoping to make it safer for the players. We have a report from chinatown where we talk to some people who watched the movie concussion. Reporter the movie came out yesterday a day before the redskins big game and in it will smith plays a doctor who alleged the nfl tried to cover up his findings linking repeated head hits to longterm brain injuries. We want to you say you made it all up. I have heard its a true story for once and its simply about a doctor who is trying to clear things up as far as the nfl and their covering up of the concussion issue. Reporter protein sludge because found in mike was found in mikes brain. Its called cte. It affected other players. As i saw how they were suffering in silence, in obscurity. Reporter webster was ruined financially before he died in 2002. Doctors say it was from repeated hits to the head. The nfl disagreed at the time. To stand by the truth to it the americans. I made it up. They are accusing you of fraud if you retract youll be fine. In all goes away. Reporter the nfl now acknowledges that there is a link between hits to the head and brain injuries. I think its kind of dangerous. My son wants to play football. Im like, no. Reporter the nfls 2015 health and Safety Report showed there were fewer concussions than in 2012. Nothing to risk, nothing to gain. Just keep watching football. They knew about it. Reporter he said the players are getting the attention they deserve. Roger goodell told 60 minutes the game is safer than its ever been. He added that those rule changes he says are working. Well, moving on to weather, some late fog tonight but another potential record breaker tomorrow. Lets get right over to first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. What do you have . Deborah, cool and damp now. Only the low 50s and 40s and a lot of rain in pennsylvania and ohio, west virginia. Most of in is north of us but to our friends in the shenandoah valley, maryland, virginia, showers. Locally drizzle and light mist out there. Coming to leesburg, we have showers. More so up in west virginia. We want to zoom in briefly here. Northern Fauquier County tracking toward dickerson, clarksburg then this other area of rain showers that im watching charles town through inwood, toward hancock toward hagerstown and northern frederick county. Fog could be an issue later on. Right now we have some drizzle, lower visibilities but the only place with the real fog is in oakland quarter mile. Ill come back in a few minutes with the sevenday forecast. We have record potential tomorrow on the high side but looks like winter may be coming back next weekend. Coming up on wusa9 the pope with a special message for a crowd in s tens of thousands of people gathered in speed square near the vatican today st. Peters square near the vatican for the feast of st. Stephen. Pope francis told the crowd about the importance of forgiveness saying the first catholic martyr was camable of forgiving his persecutors. The pope said forgiveness is the key to beating evil. In the jerusalem, police used stun grenades and rubber bullets today to disperse dozens of protestors who gathered to demand that israel hand over the bodies of several palestinians killed in attacks with israeli troops. Those protestors joined hands to form a human chain around the walls of jerusalems old city. Since september, 127 palestinians and 20 israelis have been killed in the clashes. An earlymorning shooting in clinton, maryland leaves two people hurt. Prince georges county police are releasing very few details. They say a man and woman were shot in the 6200 block of parkview lane. The couple drove themselves to the entrance of the park where they called 911. They were taken to the hospital for treatment. That incident still under investigation. We are whos the rebel now . No way. Yes way savor an egg mcmuffin any time you like. A fresh cracked egg, melty cheese, canadian bacon and an english muffin with real butter. Mcdonalds all Day Breakfast menu. Yeah its time to start breaking some rules. [ pause ] so howard, stephanie had that umbrella up. What are we going to have . A lot of drizzle and mist. Some areas have showers. We showed you radar a few minutes ago with the showers. Shenandoah valley towards leesburg, frederick, upper Montgomery County in the next couple of hours and temperatures now in the low 50s in town with the mid to upper 40s in the shenandoah valley. Temperatures wont drop off that much more. You can see on the camera the drizzle and mist and fog that is out there. 53, humidity is high, and i am expecting some fog to be thickening up later tonight. But tomorrow is going to be a whole different story. The warm air jumps back toward us. So in the afternoon, potentially recordsetting temperatures. I think that 65 in baltimore is going to fall and we are going to get close or break records of 72, 73 here in town. Big dip in the jet stream out west. This is causing a tremendous blizzard across parts of eastern new mexico, texas, ice storm for oklahoma and then snow by monday over there. On the warm side of the storm and we have had a lot of warmth, we have had tornadic thunderstorms. We have flooding rainfall. And this mess is going to keep us on the warm side the next couple of days but finally getting colder next week toward the weekend. 48 to 55 tonight. So temperatures not moving much. Isolated sprinkles, drizzle, areas of fog. 50s and 60s by lunchtime. The afternoon partly sunny, breezy, 68 to even 76 in our suburbs. Monday cooler late showers possible 48. Rain monday night into Tuesday Morning so yellow weather alert early tuesday. But tuesday 62. By wednesday, a late shower 60. And theres your 40s returning which is normal temperatures by friday and saturday. Well, stay with wusa 9 we have game on at 7 00. Then we are going to air the game tonight at 8 25 p. M. Get your drinks and snacks. Set until for a night of football. I know ill be doing that. And well see you after the show. Good night. Take care. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com its here, the first gummy multivitamin. From centrum. A complete, and tasty way to support. Your energy. Immunity. And metabolism like never before. Centrum multigummies. See gummies in a whole new light. Axelrod the death toll keeps rising following those devastating tornadoes in the south. Millions are in the path of the next round of storms. A familys desperate escape from a raging wildfire. Its the day after christmas, and fedex is still scrambling to deliver delayed presents. Fight and flight the selfdefense class training people what to do when a gunman opens fire. If you have absolutely no choice, then we get into fighting and what we train six days a week. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. The bodies of three more storm victims were found today in mississippi and alabama, the 16th, 17th, and

© 2025 Vimarsana