this right. i shot 65 and tiger shot 69. he gets a check for $10 million and i get a check for -- no, i'm just kidding. i really enjoyed playing in the four fedex cup events. i thought they were really well run. i didn't play well in the first three to give myself a good chance. that's what's cool about the playoffs. you've got to play well throughout the playoffs. for me, even though i didn't win the fedex cup, i won the last event of the year. i feel great about my game. i want to thank butch harmon and dave stockton, dave pells, guys that helped me get through it. butch has helped me strike the ball better than ever, but i wasn't getting anything out of it. last week spending time with dave stockton helped me on these greens. i've putted these greens phenomenal this past week. i feel so grateful. >> will this motivate you more to win the fedex cup next year? >> it's a year away. i enjoy this event. i enjoy the fedex cup. i'm looking forward to the presidents cup, the off-season. spend a few months with some down time and get ready for next year and make 2010 a special year. this was a -- this wasn't a banner year. this certainly makes it a much better year than it was. i'm looking forward to the off-season, but more than that, i'm looking forward to 2010 because i think i have direction in my ball striking as well as my putting. >> congratulations on a great win. >> thanks, mark. >> dan? >> jimmy? >> mark, thanks very much. a little flash of humor there from mickelson as we take a look at the final fedex cup bonus distribution standings. tiger woods with the $10 million paycheck. phil mickelson with a performance today comes in second. let's go down to dan hicks. >> thank you very much, jimmy. for the second time, the commissioner of the tour mr. jim finchum will give the fedex cup to tiger woods after sitting out last year with a knee surgery. i'm turn it over for the presentation. >> thank you, dan. tiger, you did everything that the cup design of the program is supposed to make you do. you played really consistent in the regular season. you won five times. you played great in the playoffs with that -- including that incredible win at chicago. and then you did what you had to do this week here at the tour championship. congratulations on your second cup. >> thanks, tim. >> tiger, what does this mean? it represents a body of work during the course of a long, long season. lots of rounds, lots of golf normally at a time when you don't play this much golf. how does it feel to lift this cup for the second time? >> the who idea is to be consistent. you know, the entire season and try and position yourself the best you possibly can for the playoffs. this year i've played well. you know, i was very consistent. when i didn't win, i was in the top ten. so i kept accumulating points. and then, you know, i'm in the playoffs. i played pretty good actually. you know, i was very consistent. as i said. but only thing is i wish i would have gotten a few more ws this year. >> put the cup up here for a second. we've got johnny miller who's moved into the scene here. tiger, you can just stand right here. you don't need to bother to take a seat. johnny, fire away at tiger. >> a couple of months coming back from that right acl right on the left leg and worked hard to reh that and won 6 out of the last 17 events, which is not too bad. surely you would have liked to have won one of the four majors. but you've got to be pretty proud of this year. >> absolutely. the whole year was an unknown going into the year. i didn't know anything. i didn't know how the knee would respond. a lot of unknowns early in the season, and to have played as well as i have and as consistently as i have the entire year is something i'm very proud of. wish i could have got a major in there. but, you know, i was consistent this year, and hopefully next year i can put together at the right times. >> i noticed this year i thought you're almost like a virtuoso, hitting a lot of lower fades, hooks, working the ball all over the place. you have really worked on a lot of trajectories, haven't you? >> yes, my game feels much more comfortable. i'm able to shift the ball both ways and shift my trajectory. that's something hank and i have been working on. now i have a leg to do it on. i couldn't do it before because my leg was limiting what i can do. now i feel so much more stable on my left side. >> i know you got one guy that's real confident right now. you know, phil, 20 birdies this week, number one in putting. all of a sudden h's got a lot more distance and a lot of confidence. that's going to be a good year next year, i think. >> yeah, you know, phil played well, and you know, he did the things he needed to do this week. unfortunately, i didn't putt well. and consequently, i didn't really push him. today was a perfect example of that. i had plenty of looks early, and i didn't make those. phil ran off and got away from us a little bit. >> it's not too often you have phil and tiger winning in the same day. >> it's certainly different. >> tiger, you got presidents cup coming up in a couple of weeks. it's the last really bi huge event, international competition. sb besides that, though, give people a sense of what you do in the off-season. do you actually take a look, close look, you and hank haney get together and assess what you liked you did, assess maybe what you think you can improve on. i know you're one of the guys who likes to look at it closely and improve in every phase of the game. what's one of the things in your mind to get ready for or look forward to in 2010? >> i'm very pleased with what we've done the entire year. the entire year i've gotten a little bit better. that's what you want to do. the leg's gotten much more stable. i feel confident in it now. it's starting to feel much more explosive again like it used to be. it's one of those things where i still got some tournaments to play. presidents cup and then shanghai and australia, then i've got my t tournament. i've still got plenty of tournaments to play in and a lit traveling. but like we always do, look back at each and every event, how we can improve, what we need to work on and get better. now we have a whole body of work to look at. we'll make some adjustments going into next season for sure. >> you played a lot of golf. i know you're looking forward to going home to elin and the kids. have a good homecoming. tiger, once again, congratulations. the fedex cup champion of 2009. and on sunday next week. the third round of the senior players championship. coverage begins at 1:30 eastern time. sunday on nbc, sunday night is football night as the colts take on the arizona cardinals. bob costas hosts "football night in america" live from arizona. the coverage begins tonight at 7:00 eastern time. it's been a great week at east lake. for our entire nbc crew, for johnny miller, gary koch, bob murphy, roger murphy, mark rolfing, dote pepper, and jimmy roberts, dan hicks saying so long from east lake, where phil mickelson wins the tour championship presented by coca-cola for the second time, and tiger woods puts away the fedex cup for the second time as well. so long from atlanta and the tour championship. full display in the motor city today. his redskins, our redskins went to detroit and lost to what had been the losingest team in all of football. i'm craig melvin. the hot seat jim zorn was on got hotter this afternoon. redskins nation watched in disbelief as campbell and company could not generate enough offense to beat the lowly lions. league's laughing stock. no way to overstate just how bad this is for the redskins. >> it's sheer disbelief for redskins nation because i think that everybody knew that we needed to beat this team or they said, we fwheed a win. there's this big problem. the nightmare is over for detroit. the nightmare just beginning for the redskins. the lowly lions that lost 19 straight games experienced a dream come true today. winning their first game since 2007. we're in detroit. this is where ma that you stafford had a huge late game. staff ford, a perfect pass to bryant johnson for a 21-yard touchdown. stafford led the lines on a 12-play, 99 yard drive. detroit, 13-0 at the half. santanna moss gets it back to antwaan randle el and that's it. the lyons beat the redskins, 19-14, their first win since 2007. jim zorn, do you have an explanation? >> i never really thought about the streak. when you watch this team on video, their capable of any other team in the national football league and we are, as well. i think that the disappointing thing was a loss, not to a team that had that record. >> here's what i would say to that and what most redskins fans say to that. that's not just another loss. this has bigger ramificationtion than jim zorn may think because losing to the detroit lions inexcusable. bottom line. >> we'll talk more about it in a few ments. >> meanwhile a lost team in football as you might imagine, not sitting too well with the redskins fans. we call up to these folks at espn in northwest d.c. and they told us what the problem is. >> zorn is questionable on his play calls. he should have taken the field goal instead of fourth down. the lack of confidence from the team. >> another example of, in my opinion how the colts is -- the coach is in over his head. the only time the skins have moved to ball to get out of a no-huddle situation like they did last week. >> jim zorn seems to be the focus of a lot of us from separation. more on the coach, specifically, coming up a little bit later in sports. we're following a developing story in prince george's county tonight. a gas leak forced about a dozen businesses to evacuate. this is the same strip mall where gas leak caused a massive explosion a few months ago. darcy spencer is live with t latest. >> good evening. krig. >> reporter: this is the same strip mall but a different section. the gas leak emanated from this marshall store behind me and fire officials are telling me, we were minutes away from another catastrophic explosion. the penn mar shopping center in forestville evacuated for the second time in four months because of a gas leak. >> a representative from washington gas alerted us to readings on his meeter the and we subsequently evacuated about ten stores in the strip here. we're now in the process of digging up the gas line in the rear to crimp it off and hopefully, we'll be able to isolate the gas leak there. >> the fire officials got the call around 1:00 in the afternoon. the leak originated from the marshall's department store and the america's best contacts and eyeglasses store next door. >> they smelled the gas next door and the fire department came and asked us to evacuate. so we just did that. >> back in may, a gas leak caused a massive explosion that flattened another section of this same shopping center, injuring nine firefighters. >> it sound like the same exact set of circumstances as the occurring now as it did back in may, why is this occurring again? we have to look at this and make sure it's fixed and doesn't happen again. >> washington gas and pepco shot off the utilities to roughly a dozen businesses and the gas company is in the process of closing off the gas line. fire officials say the gas readings inside the build things were extremely high and there could have been a repeat of the may explosion. how close were we okay having another catastrophe? >> probably very close. >> it is a little bit concerning. i don't know what to say. they should have checked everything when that happened down there. i mean, at this point we'll have to wait and see what happens next. >> we have an update just about within the last ten minutes. mark brady from the fire department said they've been able to isolate the gas line and shut it off so gas is no longer coming into the buildings. as you can see the businesses are clouds. i'm told -- closed and they will remain closed for a number of days while this investigation continues. darcy spencer, news4. >> thanks. still ahead on this broadcast tonight, famous fugitive caught! roman polanski skipped out on bail and fled the country 30 years ago. today he was arrested. and we'll tell you when conan o'brien will be back at work. he hit his head and was taken to the hospital on friday. plus, theottest ticket in town. where you can get your hand on a ticket. chuck, the forecast? our gray skies are turning more blue as we get through the evening. i'm optimistic a real taste of roman polanski was a fugitive for more than 30 years until today. he was arrested in switzerland. the 76-year-old made the trip to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival. he's wanted on a 1978 warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. the director of "rose mary's baby" pled guilty but fled the country before he could be sentenced. he's lived in france ever since. pulitzer winning prize winner, sapphire, a speechwriter and assistant writer for nixon. he spent more than 30 years writing a column for the "new york times" that was considered a "must read" for beltway insiders. many have credit you had his flair for language to helping to pave the way for the revolution. he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. he was 79. this is it. after days of camping out, michael jackson fans got their shot at the tickets to the king of pop's final performance. and folks, we're in for a cooldown. chuck will tell us all about i back to work tomorrow for conan o'brien. he hit his head during a stunt on friday and they couldn't finish taping so they aired a rerun. he was taken to the hospital but he's fine. for many die-hard michael jackson fans the moment they were awaiting for arrived overnight. conducts for the documentary "this is it" went on sale at midnight and it shows the king of pop preparing for his summer shows. he died in june a few weeks before his first show was set to happen. in los angeles people were camped out since friday to be first in line. the film opened october 28th for a two-week run, including many in our area. go to nbc4.com to see where i had showing locally. and there's other michael jackson stuff on our website as well. we're in for a cool down. here's chuck with more. yes, indeed, bright sunshine back in our skies but temperatures are about to start taking a tumble so if you like it mild like we are now in the 70s we'll be there one more day. the real taste of autumn will settle in. it's 74 in downtown well. 71 in prince george's county. 74 in fairfax county, virginia. upper 60s from martinsburg and winchester. the last little showers we had and we had them come through washington about 4:00 this afternoon. they are pushing out on to the eastern shore. we'll be rain-free around the washington area from this point looking forward through the rest of the overnight hours tonight. the heavy rain we had last night is long gone. a nice bit of dry air coming in as high pressure settles in. we're clear out tonight and the next weather front will be the express, bringing in chilly weather for the middle parts of the week. starting off with clear skies and is she sb and the clouds will race back in and a quick shot at a shower tomorrow and then some blustery westerly winds move in for the rest of the day. wind watches and advisories are up from high winds from western pennsylvania no the great lakes. gusty winds coming. clear and breezy tonight. the morning, low 50s in the western suburbans and near 60 on the chesapeake bay. in the morning, cumulus clouds coming in late tomorrow. highs back into the0s one more time. here's your seven-day forecast, and you can see here that it is going to feel a lot like autumn around here for the rest of the week with highs only in the 60s and overnight low temperatures back down into the 40s by thursday. craig? >> there's your weather. coming up in sports, we'll head back to detroit for some still trying to get our head around this thing, man. >> yeah, that's good. >> i'm puzzled. >> yeah. understatement of the day, puzzled. >> i'm shocked. >> the phrase "lion's win" hadn't been said for more than 20 months and today that's all you'll hear in detroit. in d.c. it will be "are you kidding me?" the redskins lost to the detroit lions. the response, your buddy stares at you with diss belief. a miracle in detroit causes disaster in d.c. lindsay has more from motor city. >> hakim, you could feel the energy building inside of this stadium as the redskins gave hope that the lions would get this win. the redskins showed up way too late on offense and on defense they were generous on third down. the redskins players said after the game it's one thing to get the loss but today they became that team that gave the lions' their first win in 20 games. >> there's not many words to say. we talked about going into this week. we did not treat this team lightly. we knew that they were good. >> any loss was tough to take. you know, in the nfl. but you only got 16 games, and to lose two already, you know, that's huge. especially to lose to the lions. we just didn't step up to the challenge. as a defense or really, as a team. >> at the start of the second half the redskins thought they would get a spark from santana moss and it took three plays, 72 yartds were less than two minutes for santanna moss to score a touchdown. it was too little too late. >> we've got to make it happen. tomorrow, it will be forgotten to me. and probably -- after i watch the film it's forgotten and then we move on. >> there's a lot of guys running around here who think that they've arrived. and hadn't made a play in this league but think they've arrived. we got to do something to get them going and get them working hard. but it just -- no matter what you see. this wasn't great team. it was good team. but it wasn't great team. we didn't play at all and then when we decided to play we ran out of time. >> for the players this loss was embarrassing and say that now there's a sense of urgency more so than there's ever been and know they'll be answering questions about the future of this team as soon as tomorrow. from detroit, lindsay back to you. more reaction to this unbeevable loss to detroit. >> in this city, i would imagine tomorrow on all the sports radio shows that exist in this city, lots of folks are calling for jim zorn's head. >> yes. they will be pointing fingers. he's on the hot seat. >> it will be interesting to see how this all turns out. folks, see you back here tonight after the game. of course, we have sunday night football here on nbc. join us after the gram for all the latest news, weather and sports. until then, that's the news. good night. get online payroll and put hours back in your day suntrust. live solid. bankolid.