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[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] [captioning made possible by cbs sports, a division of cbs broadcasting, cbs sports, a division of cbs broadcasting, inc.] jim: we're back at ridgewood with the plate. martin laird and matt kuchar battling for the title. first hole of the playoff. there's martin laird on the left. kuchar. those lies look similar to me. nick? nick: they're sitting down, that's the tough built. they have to play some kind of bumble and run. >> kuchar will be the first to play. 192. has a lie that will allow him to keep the ball down. needs to keep it to the right but he has no chance of going towards the flag. >> meanwhile, on the other side, not a terrific lie but again, one that martin laird can keep down. however, he has a much more difficult angle because the slope is right to left in front of the green. he'll do rellrell -- well to stop it from breaking left and going to the bunker. will be a very tough shot to get it on to the green. 182 yards for laird. >> kuchar selected a 7-iron. exactly the same yardage and club that he had in regulation. although he was in the fairway last time around. >> go get it, man. jim: easy. nick: he might get the turn. it does. look at this. jim: my goodness. look at this. can you believe this? this is the best 7-iron we've seen at the end since john mckeel. nick: wow. jim: man, that was about a -- it was so hot it was about a foot away from being in the rough just over the green. he curls it in there. he's about two feet away at the most. >> that kind of narrow's -- narrows martin laird's options. jim: wow, look at this. nick: how about this for a stat. only one player has hit the green from the right hand rough today. that is unbelievable. how about that for timing? jim: right now, laird. i'm sure he can tell back there, david, this one is snug. >> he doesn't know how close it is but he knows it's close and he has 7-iron. he'll try and punch it out low underneath the limbs. boy, he's hit a heck of a shoot if it's enough. jim: keep galloping. >> oh, it kicked to the right. jim just didn't quite have enough gas either. so he's got one. 50 feet. kuchar, two feet. nick: it was certainly from that angle but it's a really tough read over that hump on the green. jim: maybe we'll have a turnberry moment, nicklaus-watson-like. the two scenarios were the same. two feet and 50 feet. it was make and make. laird hit an exceptional shot but when you match it one what matt just threw in there. my goodness. this is one of the best shots of the year, the whole year, in go. and he's steering it home. nick: most definitely. jim: he's always got that golly gee whiz look about him. doesn't he? martin, are you kidding me? nick: he could probably from the high side see it curling all the way around, and obviously from the crowd reaction. jim: that is chorus for matt kuchar. kuch is the call. corey pavin has got to love this action. he's one of the players on his team. just qualified on his own after that consistently solid season. he hit all those questions about -- but, hey, some of these guys haven't won. and that could be -- that could vanish here in a minute. that talk on the kuchar side of it. "60 minutes," "big brother coming up tonight. by the way, the u.s. amateur final. it's in. and peter uihlein has won it over david chung. both of these young men will be at augusta next year. peter stars at oklahoma state. all-america there and the son of wally. incredible story there. one guy out there is beaming with that announcement is our peter kostis, who taught little peter how to play the game. first time he ever had a lesson in his life. how old was he, peter? >> he was about 9 years old. jim: he's 21 years old today. he wins the u.s. open on his birthday, peter. nick: well, good luck reading this one, boys. >> i'm going to wait for it to come out in paper back. [laughter] jim: give us the cliff notes version, though, of the read. >> it's got some right-to-left in the first part and then it goes over into a part that i'm not familiar with because i'm not going to venture into that arena, into the lion's den. he has to give it a run. i got to tell you, the shot that he hit to get here was every bit as good as the one that matt kuchar had just -- he was just in the wrong spot off the tee. nick: yeah, it's actually more difficult to hit a hard cut running shot. anyway, should break right to left. maybe a couple of times. miles out. he needs to hole that to at least get matt's blood pressure up. jim: you know, i'm thinking of that second shot that laird hit in regulation at 18 and that, with just a little less hit, could have curled in pretty close like matt's did here in the playoff. it was a similar shot from that left rough. some to have drama we've seen on the last hole this year. whether it be that memphis finish and garrigus and westwood eventually winning. dustin johnson and that whole calamity at the pga. appleby, as we showed you in our review piece. the 59 with birdie at the end. jason day and his victory on the last hole of the nelson. now laird has to make it to keep any pressure on kuchar. he made a lot of those today, except the one that would have given him the victory. he's got to sighing. that's a hard-earned four from martin laird after that tee shot with the limbs and the rough he had to deal with. one thing is going to happen here. it's exactly two and a half feet. you can just see you're going to have to putt through your shadow. that is always something that's a little distracting for some of us. nick: well, he, as i said, parallel to the hole pin high either side is the straightest putt so really shouldn't be anything to worry about. jim: this for the victory. matt kuchar! has the title at the barclays! he's had the kind of year that really deserved a moment like this. stellar performance by martin laird. although it does not end in victory, kuchar, the winner. he's number one now in the fedexcup standings. his third all-time victory. wife sidney coming out with the kids. he's a great young man. what a moment to share. in a year that's been his best ever. for nick faldo, lance barrow, steve milton, the whole crew at cbs golf, good night and god cbs golf, good night and god bless. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. reporting tonight from new orleans. >> mitchell: and good evening from new orleans. august 29th, 2010. it has been a cloudy, rainy day here but no match at all for what this city saw on august 29th five years ago when hurricane katrina rolled in with a ven sense-- vengence. in the next 30 minutes we'll look at new orleans past, present and future but we begin with the news of the day. president obama ended his vacation this sunday and came here to new orleanss to pay his respects and to make some promises. here's senior white house correspondent bill plante. >> reporter: fresh were their vacation on martha's vineyard the obama's family first stop was for lunch. >> i'm going to try alligator sausage. >> reporter: like most of the city this popular restaurant was underwater after katrina roared through. an historically black xavier university another successful rebound story, mr. obama hailed the city's renaissance but admitted new orleans still has a long way to go. >> there's still too many people unable to find work. nd there's still too many new orleans yan folks who haven't been able to come nome. -- home. i wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly, my administration is going it to stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done. until new orleans is all the way back. >> reporter: the president also touched on the latest gulf disaster, promising to monitor b.p. until the damage from the oil spill is reversed. a cbs news poll shows that a large majority believes the government is not prepared to deal with another hurricane as powerful as katrina. visiting a public housing development later, the president met with maude smith rescue ready from her home in the projects by boat, smith went to the superdome and to houston before returning home. the president promised today to finish building a new levee system for the at this by next year and also to restore the wetlands damaged by katrina in the oil spill. historian doug brinkley says the administration is not moving quickly enough on the wetlands and the levee system. >> we've got to figure out due to replenishing the wetlands and improving the levee system, we have to continue doing this at a faster rate if we're going to actually save this city in the long run. >> reporter: and it is a long haul, indeed. but the president's visit today was about more than just the anniversary. it was about showing that his administration has accomplished something down here as opposed to the spectacular failure of the federal government five years ago. russ? >> mitchell: now the president head backs to washington and back to work right. >> reporter: back to work after his vacation. >> mitchell: bill plante, thanks a lot. of course hurricane katrina took a huge tomorrow taking the the lives-1800 people, leaving new orleans underwater and costing $135 billion in damage to home, businesses and infrastructure. but today new orleans celebrated its survival as we hear from mark straussman. >> just as katrina tried to bury new orleans, people here tried to bury katrina. ceremonially. in dozens of ceremonies this weekend katrina survivors remember katrina's dead and their own true grit. katrina was the near death of a major city. americans elsewhere watched spellbound and outraged. the desperation. >> and they will not give us nothing. >> they're shooting you for water. they're raping you. >> reporter: the martial law. >> hey! >> reporter: the air sea rescues. for days thousands of people, scared and scarred were cut off from hope itself. (cheers and applause) >> mitchell: joyce is the face of this city's never say die spirit. on katrina's anniversary weekend she finally got her house back. rebuilt by volunteers. >> this is my hallway. ah! a tub, a bathtub. >> reporter: she's earned a good, long soak. for almost five years this was home. a fema trailer on her front lawn. >> and i'm forever grateful that i can get back in my house today. this is my friends forever. >> reporter: that gratitude and resilience also mark this march through the city's lower ninth ward. but three fourths of the homes here were never rebuilt. 100,000 people who fled the city have never come back. and almost 1,000 families here still live in fema trailers. >> these are people who own homes, they made it. in america it's hard to own a home. and if they are not back w what about those were who were in a changed city, joyce represents the march of progress, day-by-day. >> now that i have a house, oh my. >> good-bye to katrina! >> reporter: despite this mock funeral t will be years before new orleans truly buries the ghosts of katrina. then again by now some people here are tired of even talking about katrina. er their attitude, move on. but for most people here, getting past katrina is easier than getting over it. russ. >> mitchell: okay, mark straussman, thanks a lot. and still ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news", the humidity at ground zero for katrina still has a long way to go. but we found seeds of hope. no oil has flowed into the gulf for weeks, but it's just the beginning of our work. i'm iris cross. bp has taken full responsibility for the clean up in the gulf and that includes keeping you informed. my job is to listen to the shrimpers and fishermen, hotel and restaurant workers and find ways to help. that means working with communities. we have 19 centers in 4 states. we've made over 120,000 claims payments, more than $375 million. we've committed $20 billion to an independent claims fund to cover lost income until people impacted can get back to work. we'll keep looking for oil, cleaning it up if we find it and restoring the gulf coast. i was born in new orleans. my family still lives here. bp is gonna be here until the oil is gone and the people and businesses are back to normal... until we make this right. she starts at dawn and so does her back pain.om. that's two pills for a four hour drive. the drive is done. so it's a day of games and two more pills. the games are over, her pain is back, that's two more pills. and when she's finally home, but hang on, just two aleve can keep back pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is rachel, who chose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. ♪ and get the all day pain relief of aleve in liquid gels. ♪ honestly, i'd love to do this for the rest of my life so i have to take care of myself. 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