they follow turkish football they ll be loud perhaps not as loud as usual as they won t all be concentrated in one area which is often the case of the followed by a need to be wary visit tasha s are no pushover and they thrive in a big match atmosphere the question is can they pull off a shock in munich. the russian delegation to the punk chang the winter olympics says that the beast sample from a russian a curling medalist has also tested positive for alexander crucial netsky who won a bronze medal with his wife in mixed doubles events a tested positive for the banned drug mel don t of the delegation has expressed its a sincere regret over the incident. all right before i let you go want to remind you of our main stories there right now a new battle has opened in syria as pro-government fighters confront turkey they re hoping syrian kurds defend the region of africa against the turkish offensive that
news. we ll start with china russian medalist they went to a lympics has tested positive for a banned substance the international olympic committee is currently awaiting the results of the big sample while the court of arbitration for sport has launched what they call a doping procedure crucial in its case who won a bronze medal with his wife in the mixed doubles curling as tested positive for mel dhoni and if confirmed it would be a major blow to russia s attempts to emerge from a drug cheating scandal crucial netsky is reported to have travelled to seoul and will be sent home if he s failed test is confirmed. so let s go through the latest then from up on chatting with that they do sports knocks merrily welcome max let s start with this is that doping mel don t you know what is it it s actually a hot medication it s widely available in russia it increases blood flow but what
thanks very much for this. joining me by phone is st. john barnard smith, houston chronicle, law enforcement reporter. what s it looking like to you? is this much greater than people expected? reporter: certainly very surprising. pretty incredible. i was just walking around in my neighborhood to get to my car and got swamped out and there are just cars everywhere that are flooded and very high water. what is you just heard what bill was saying, police are saying don t call 911 if your first floor is flooded. you heard stephanie gosk saying a lot of people went to bed last night thinking houston may have dodged the worst of it and now waking up to the worth of it. reporter: you re absolutely right. full on missile right into houston. what happens now? it school is back in session in texas, but obviously delayed
area. then the big rivers have record breaking floods in the days ahead. and here s the worst part. we said this is a five-day event. today s day three. two more days of rain. our computer models, one still says in the next couple days another 25 inches of rain in the houston area. newer 15 in victoria. it is saying san antonio not too bad or corpus christi not too bad. this is one of our other computer models still saying another 7 or 13. you get the picture. some of the worst things that s ever happened in the city of houston happening right now. just when they send out the message this morning which told mel don t call 911 if the water is only in the bottom floor of your house. think about that. the telling people don t go in the attics because we learned from katrina. go to the roof top.
of opening statements that will be live when things get going. well, another high-profile trial is winding down. attorneys for amanda knox will make their final arguments. they are hoping to overturn her murder conviction. knox is expected to speak as well. prosecutors claim that knox slit her roommate s throat during wild sex. libyan fighters say that they have seized the port of sirte today. moammar gadhafi controls most of the city. this is one of the areas not under the control of libya s new leadership. washington dodges a government shutdown. lawmakers have a deal in hand to pay the federal government s bills through mid-november. a final vote expected next week when the house returns from break. the spending bill is upheld because they could not agree on funding for fema. president obama is pitching his new jobs bill in denver at a hollywood fund-raiser last night he refinded republicans that they were in charge in the run-up to the economy s big meltdown. we