0 extension of men has already started. pass the gin and tonic. fox & friends starts right now. steve: if today is the last day, i m going out with a bang. gretchen: there s a lot of stories in our headlines that i can hardly wait to hear about, including the one brian is going to be doing with lou holtz coming up about whether or not college sports players who are on scholarship getting a free ride completely, should they be paid? brian: i haven t gotten yelled at in a while so it will be tkpwhraod to good to have lou holtz scream at me at 6:50 in the morning. the e-mails went crazy in the morning. lou holtz should weigh in. he s grabbed a few guys by they passed some of the toughest gun regulations in the nation. so did colorado. in colorado you can no longer have high-capacity magazines. you have to have a universal background check on gun transfers. that is prompting a lot of gun manufacturers there to say they might leave the state and take away business. number two, a lot
0 we are going to go drink and talk about a basketweaving firm. donny is buying for us tonight. we re going to start a basket weaving company because jason thinks it s a good idea. a college coach crossing the line. the abuse of his boys. the sad song of dr. conrad murray singing the blues in a cnn interview, saying he s a scapegoat in the king of pop s death. a stolen cab with the cops in hot pursuit with speeds totaling over 100 miles an hour. and watching the bid for history slip right through his legs. oh, so close. good morning. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. and i m john berman. zoraida is off today. we re going to start with this video that has the university facing tough, tough questions this morning. it shows rutgers head basketball coach mike rice physically and mentally abusing players at practice. you can see rice grabbing, shoving, even kicking players. he hurls basketballs at their heads, and you can hear him shouting obscenities, in
the american build-up in the korean peninsula continues this morning. the pentagon is now confirming to us the u.s.s. decatur has been sent to the region, a warship has been sent to respond to any military threats. yesterday the u.s.s. mccain was sent to the western pacific. lieutenant colonel ollie north is worried about the obama administration s actions. what s this administration doing? ratcheting up the rhetoric. there was a president by the name of teddy roosevelt who gave us a great axiom for how to deal with this. ronald reagan said peace through strength. teddy roosevelt said speak softly and carry a big stick. the top u.s. commander in south kor has never seen the region as tense as it is right now. concerns prompted a federal prosecutor to case in texas involving a white supremacist gang. the gang is being investigated for the murders of the mcclellands and mark hasse. jay riley was working on a case against 34 members but sent a letter to defense attorneys s
but first let s check outside with john collins. stars, clear skies. felt like summer yesterday. beautiful day yesterday. been so long. we got a baseball game today. it s exciting. here in baltimore! things are going downhill. not for sports. weather wise. we re going to see a big change here coming. one, there s some rain out there that s headed in with a cold front. and the cold front is really gonna change the complexion of the weather over the next 24-36-48 hours. the front, you can see the rain. most of it in pennsylvania and up in new york state. becomes rather scattered when you get farther south down into the ohio river valley. look at the numbers on the screen. 58 baltimore. pittsburgh, 49. ft. wayne, 36. much colder air coming in behind that cold front. it all happens this weekend. i ll detail it all in just a minute. thank you, john. well, the cinderella story continues for the baltimore orioles who took down the texas rangers last night by a final
evanloevan longoria gets ahold of one, early lead adrian beltre comes through and brings up a couple of runs. rays come back to tie it in the fi. beltre again. this time, a single to left to bring home the go-ahead run. that was enough for the rangers. sorry to report to people, rangers win, 6-5. with that loss, the rays find themselves the odd man out for the moment, a half game back of the a s and orioles. try their luck against hugh darvish and the rangers later tonight. yankees host the blue jays trying to close them out in the ninth. colby rasmus goes second deck off raphael soriano. yankees needed one more out. rasmus three-run home run gives the jays a one-run lead. derrick jeter trying to answer for the yankees. he drives one the other way, just enough to get over the wall