the kings in third place in the western conference behind the first place denver nuggets and the memphis grizzlies. to phoenix, kevin durant was rusty in his home debut for the suns. he finished with 16 points in 29 minutes on the court during his first game back after a ten-game absence. the suns improve to 4-0 with durant in the lineup. 107-100 win over the minnesota timberwolves. minor league baseball players have reportedly reached a tentative deal on collective bargaining agreement with major league baseball the first labor agreement between the two sides and comes after last year s successful push by minor leaguers to unionize under the mlb players association. the deal will last for five years will more than double players salaries and represents the largest ever gains in the rights of minor leaguers.
reporter: with upwards of a million football fans flocking to phoenix, tonight the stage is set for the super bowl, which comes with super sized security there is 360-degree mapping of the stadium. reporter: quarterbacking this national special security event at least eight federal agencies who are teaming up with 42 different jurisdictions including state, county, and local police, the law enforcement blitz using cutting edge technology scanning, processing, and evaluating threats in real time the risks can be simple and they can be sophisticated. reporter: with these officers spread across their own playing field and ready for an audible the teams here can respond anywhere within seconds we can pop from one spot to the next reporter: a small fleet of aircraft, including three blackhawk helicopters, at times flying in tandem, are the eyes in the sky, working
weather offense that they knew a major i storm was coming across the u.s., airports like dallas-fort worth shutdown, airlines canceled thousands of flights, preemptively. what help them is that people did not get stranded, the problem with what has happened now is we also know again that the weather event was coming, and it was going to be almost nationwide. but the airlines did not cut too many flights, southwest, refused some had a few cancellations, but they try to maintain those holiday schedules, for the obvious reason that the one thing passengers want forgive you if you don t get them where they want to be. so that kind of hit, they also have a point to point network, they are not have been spoke like american and delta. you are more of a short haul, short medium haul. so that means when those pilots leave only given they like minneapolis, they go to midway, to kansas city, down to houston, to dallas, to phoenix, switch cruise, and off to lake ontario for the night. the issue wi
want to be. she goes on to say southwest flight operations and outdated systems have made navigating the issues even more difficult. they also have a point-to-point network. they re not hub and spoke like american and delta. they re more of a short haul, short and medium haul. when those pilots leave on a given day like minneapolis. they go to midway, kansas city, houston, to dallas, to phoenix, switch crews and then they re off to ontario for the night. the issue with that is it s very difficult once those crews, once those planes get out of position to rejuggle the whole system. it s a little bit easier than a point and spoke. that s different than how southwest operates. one of the things southwest said they recognize they ve had technological challenges with what is their crew scheduling
you were among the people that cherelle griner thanks for her efforts. you were the second or third person she named. you ve become friends with brittney griner over the years, i understand. when did you learn she was coming home? how did you have the opportunity to speak to her again? i was on air force one when the president was flying from washington to phoenix for the big i talk to him directly and made another i m a big basketball fan. as the mayor of phoenix, that was my job before i got in congress. i had seen her develop into a great leader in our community, a social justice leader who was using her voice and so many positive ways. it s such a tragedy what occurred. i asked him about it. he hinted that something big was going to happen at the end of the week. he didn t break any confidentiality but he did hint that a very positive thing was going to happen. that made me very optimistic. look, you mentioned cherelle griner, she is a hero. we should all have a spouse or