ncaa finals. the final basketball game monday night here. louisville taking on michigan right here in atlanta. tipoff is at 9:00 p.m. we ll have coverage all afternoon right here on cnn. also on monday the funeral for roger ebert. services will be open to the public. a memorial is planned for april 11th. moving onto wednesday, there s a possible north korean missile test may occur that s according to to south korean news agency. this is one of the missiles that had been reportedly moved to the east coast of the country. moving onto saturday here. nra sponsors nascar race. my wall is not participating very well. nascar race in the texas motor speedway. the group says the sponsorship is not political, just marketing at sports event. and finally, come on, wall, you can do it.
74 degrees, well above average. the clouds, the cold, the rain it s all gone. tomorrow 78 degrees. beautiful conditions. maybe you re going to stay in town, how about this, hit atlanta and go east to augusta. masters, we re going to see it start on monday of course if you re out there for maybe the practice rounds gates open at 8:00 in the morning. 79 degrees, beautiful week, well above average temperaturewise. predominantly dry skies. it s the thursday into friday period we ll see a front pass, drive off showers no pun intended, drive off showers and thunderstorms. and then for the weekend, saturday and sunday of next week, we re going to have sunny and like 73, 74 degree temperatures. great if you re lucky to be out there for the weektd. high temperatures not only here in atlanta, washington, d.c. as well. d.c., new york in the 50s yesterday. we get to the 60s today. 70s next couple of days. so finally the spring warmth coming in time, right? finally catching up with the season. bu
the tiniest mvp when he carried the ball 69 yards for this very cool touchdown. sweet. he has been battling cancer for two years now. last year he befriended rex burkhead who became captain of his support network. when he made it to the end zone for his touchdown yesterday, both benches cleared. the players lifted jack above their heads. the crowd in the stadium went of course they went wild. well, there are only two teams left dancing this morning. louisville and michigan will tip it off monday night for the ncaa men s basketball championships. cnn sports rachel nichols was at the final four games here in atlanta last night. rachel. there have been a lot of blowouts in this year s ncaa tournament, but saturday night was all about close calls as top
glad you re spending the morning with us. we begin with thrillers here in atlanta. louisville and michigan fought hard and it paid off. with a place in the ncaa championship game, our intrepid carlos diaz was there. carlos, how d they do it? reporter: well, i tell you what, it was an amazing night last night here at the georgia dome. and it was rocking early on. start with wichita state against louisville. a game that a lot of people had previewed as the undercard. this was a tight game throughout. wichita state starts on an 8-0 run. looked like louisville was kind of exhausted early on. maybe the emotions of the week with kevin ware had been getting to them, but in the end it was louisville coming out on top. they were down by 12 points at some point. at one point in the second half. but then they finally began hitting free-throws. their pressure-trapped defense finally began paying off, rattled wichita state and louisville came out on top. it wasn t until the final
diaz-balart wrote letters. travel was banned in 1959 after fidel castro took power. and the holy grail of baseball cards sold for a whopping $2.1 million at auction. the 1909 card is about one of 50 in existence. the buyer is choosing to remain anonymous but being called a wealthy investor and baseball fan. i bet he is. $2.1 million is the highest price ever paid for a baseball card in a public auction. from baseball to basketball of course, the ncaa final is tomorrow night. and we have beautiful weather here in atlanta. meteorologist alex and ra steel is in our weather center. what can they expect? a million dollar forecast. i got a million dollars a day and even better for the masters. hi everyone waking up on this sunday morning. hope you have a great day. watching basketball late last night today in atlanta, sunny,