real tight. oklahoma city thunder against the grizzlies, kevin durant looking to bounce back after game six. drains a long three there. these are not real people. durant pouring it on? what are you doing, willie? does oklahoma city have a basketball team? they do and they re damn good. drains a three right there. i saw them play the globetrotters once. beautiful pass here. 39 points, westbrook had a triple-double. they move onto the western conference final. oklahoma city has a great team. really good team. where do they come from? seattle. great team. team of the future. and memphis, joey tells me these things but said memphis had a great series. they were the eighth seed, knocked off the spurs. red sox versus yankees sunday night in the bronx. got to go to a break here.
it s interesting to hear his attitude about it. he says, we understand. he s not upset about them opening that spillway. it s a reality they have lived with and they don t expect it to come. hadn t come in a long time. my goodness, interesting perspective from him. ed, great to talk to you this morning. we ll talk to you, once again. to our viewers, memphis was one place that got so much attention, it has been getting a lot of attention because of the flood waters there. finally, the river started to crest there in memphis, i believe it s starting to recede now. the president is actually going to be in memphis on monday giving a speech there to some high school kids for their commencement and also visiting with some of the people who have lost a lot. a lot of people still dealing with that loss. the president coming to help out, but another group coming to their aid, the memphis grizzlies. the nba team. the team that s not supposed to still be in the playoffs right now. the eighth
they re going to have to sacrifice some homes and businesses in order to save many, many more. the army corps expected to open louisiana s huge morganza spillway when the river flow hits 1.5 million cubic feet per second. what does that mean? all you need to know is that rate continues to go up and getting closer and closer to that point. the spillway was last opened in 1973, but we are expecting it today and maybe in the next few hours. now, doing that, what does that do? it takes the pressure off levees in baton rouge and new orleans and it will also flood seven louisiana parishes west of the river. the national guard is out. you see them here, they have been working around the clock filling sandbags in morgan city. that s a community of 12,000 that is expected to be just flooded out when this water is released. can you imagine this, folks? people just standing by and waiting on the water to come and destroy everything. it s worse than we thought. it s really worse than w
and yelling at him and they finally arrested the him. the her is nicolas cage s wife. cage is out on bond right now, has to appear again in late may. he is in new orleans filming a new movie. first round of the nba playoffs tipped off yesterday, chicago bulls, team with the best record in the league this season had a tough time with the eighth seed indiana pacers. the chicago bulls didn t lead until the final minute, finally pulled ahead and beat the pacers. it was an ugly moment tie low hansborough took to the head. looked like he was knocked out cold, had to be taken back to the locker room but returned to the game. the chicago heat, hawks and mavericks won their playoff games. the lakers, spurs, celtics and knicks in the action today. 12 months later, tar balls are still washing up on some
bulldogs. they are an eighth seed here at this final four, but butler is one of only nine teams in ncaa history to return to a final four after losing a national championship game the year before. remember last year, in indianapolis, butler, the bulldogs, coming to within a whisker of beating duke in the national game? well, butler s back and their baby-faced coach will be the first to tell you that it was not easy. it s hard because people get tired. it becomes a long season. and i understand why teams don t always play their best at the end, because there s a lot of dynamics involved. but if you have a team that s committed to one another that will work through it, then your chances of getting better are pretty high. and i think that s what we have. and that coupled with the perspective that our guys kept was probably why we re here. last year, it felt good to be there, make it to the national championship and fell a little bit short. when you taste it and you know what it s like