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we re getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we ll be breaking down all 32 nfl t coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon s star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn t take any hits in friday s game well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now. captioning by captionmax welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they ll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild
it s friday. i m natasha curry in for robin meade. family and friends of michael jackson said their final good-byes. what his brothers and children did. kids are going back to school. hopefully they haven t forgotten what they learned last year. there s a new push to avoid summer brain drain. and a teen who says she s afraid her parents will kill her for convert to go christianity are in court. the court has something to give her and her parents. michael jackson has been laid to rest in california ten weeks after his death. about 200 people attended the burial at forest lawn cemetery in glendale last night. his five brothers, each wearing a sequinned glove, carried his bronze-colored coffin in. jackson s father, joe, and others spoke during his service and his three children place add crown on his coffin. deepak chopra called it a beautiful farewell. it s a magnificent, fitting, magical, mythical good-bye to a mythical human being who was very innocent at times, full of
bill. joining us to on the phone is democratic congressman woman lynn woolsey of california, the co-chair of the house progressive caucus. good afternoon it to you. good afternoon, alex. first thing, anything that you heard out of the gang of six meeting that pleases you, gives with you encouragement that public option will be held in the health bill? we were to on a conference call with the president while the gang of six was having their conference call. i have no idea what they were talking about. i m sorry. i can t respond to that. certainly know what you were talking about when you joined your cohort from arizona. you sent a letter to the president and said you look forward to meeting with the president regarding robust public option and any final health reform bills requesting that meeting take place as soon as possible. in essence, you are saying if you don t have a public option in this bill, you are not going to vote for it you will vote for nothing less. so,
fuel stolen air tankers. a suspected drunk driver involved in a deadly crash that took the life of a 2-year-old child and his grandmother. good evening, i m wendy rieger. i m jim vance. police sayhe t ri lvereft a concert at the nissan pavilion. he didn t make it very far. he crashed at prince william parkway and university boulevard. it was an alcohol-related crash that claimed the life of a grandmother and her 2-year-old grandson. it happened just before 1:00 a.m. at the intersection of the prince william county parkway and university boulevard. police say this man, william john mallory, under the influence, coming from a jimmy buffet concert. behind the wheel of an suv, smashed into a vehicle with four people inside. the force of this crash, incredible. the victim s vehicle was on the other side of the intersection. when they say it was hit from behind by the suv. it didn t stop here. they say that suv ran the victim s vehicle into this field. it went about 100 yards