Mostly sunny wednesday and cold. Highs middle 40s, overnight lows in the lower to middle 20s. Keeping an eye on our next storm system that fight for the College Football National Title. As both teams take the field at university of phoenix stadium tonight. Theyll be lining up to play their 15th game of the season. When the tigers won the 1981 crown. They played only 12 games. Now with the addition of conference championship games and a four team playoff. That adds three more games to the schedule. That means more wear and tear on the student athletes. We finished the season playing 10 in a row, and the last stretch of that was a challenge because this is obviously a physical game, and its mentally taxing, and the balance of school and all those things, but our guys did as good a job as they could handling that. We were able to really get our team physically and mentally and emotionally think the timing of this has been excellent because its almost like weve got ready for the opener aga
Background. Hes a guy thats overcome a lot. Hes done a great job of extending that belief to his players. And i think he has a good vision for what a good Football Program should be about. Coming up at 5 30. Napier will tell us that dabo didnt just start dancing this season. Ill see you a little bit later. Back to you. Thank you rick. Its now time to size up the match up between the tigers and the crimson tide. We bring in joe gorchow. Who breaks down two of the featured stars in this National Championship showdown. Joe. One of the most talked about players heading into this title bout. Heisman trophy winning running back derrick henry. Hes a force on the ground when the rocks in his hand. By the numbers. He rushed for 2,061 yards this season. And set the sec single season record with 25 rushing touchdowns. Heres the thing. Clemsons sophomore too. Wayne gallmans the wayne train for a reason. He averages almost the same yards per carry as henry. He set the clemson single season rushing
Arrived in arizona to continue their preparations for the coverage of all the events Going National championship game. Well also be airing a live special monday after the news at 7. Live coverage continues tomorrow on wis saturday morning at 9 am. The trip to the National Championship brings back thrilling memories for one tigers fan who was there on the sidelines the last time. Thirty four years ago. Pat cassels was a sophomore and a cheerleader for clemson when the team won the 1981 National Championship. Now pat and her husband tobin are making the trip to glendale for the big game on monday. Pat says, she hopes the tigers can beat the oddsmakers just l le they did in 82. Back in 1981 they didnt give us a snowballs chance of winning the game. The announcers didnt even know where clemson was and they had to put up a map on tv to point out that it was located in the state of South Carolina. And most this year either, so hopefully well be going in as the under dogs and pull it out just
Jurors reached the verdict after only a day and a half of deliberations and it left no doubt. Reporter kris van cleave has a live report from boston on this guilty verdict. Kris. Reporter jurors distributed for less than 12 hours finding the defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts relating to the Boston Marathon bombings and the violence that followed. A jury convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the bombing attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed 3 and injured more than 260 as well as the violence that followed. Jurors reached their verdict after the federal judge answered questions about two legal concepts that went to the heart of the case, conspiracy and aiding and abetting. Johar then 19 helped his 26 yearold brother tamerlan detonate two bombs near the marathon finish line. The attack killed an 18year old, a 23yearold and a 29 yearold. More than 260 others injured. Four days later the brothers killed a cop and carjacked an suv leading to a shootout with police in wat
This is the cbs morning news for thursday, april 9, 2015. Good morning. Im alison harmelin. This morning millions of americans in the heartland are under threats of dangerous weather. Forecasters are warning about second day of hail and high winds and strong tornadoes could form in Oklahoma Kansas and missouri. Residents got a preview wednesday as severe storms lashed the plain states. A huge funnel cloud darkened the sky over southern kansas. A tornado was reported just over the state line in oklahoma. Also in kansas, a storm chaser was rolling video wednesday when massive chunks of hail smashed into his windshield. The impact destroyed the glass, leaving cracks in the patterns of spider webs. The rumble of thunder filled the air in dayton, ohio, wednesday as an electric storm lit up the sky. Lightning struck at least one person. A College Student hit in the parking lot is hospitalized in serious condition. Our boston stage says theres more violent weather ahead. We saw quite a bit of