Metfield, brookfield, and grandy. a top seed falls in a major upset at the u.s. open. the fourth seed and defending wimbledon champion simona halep stunned by american taylor townsend, the 116th ranked qualifier from atlanta, had never won a set against her in three previous meetings. and another american, coco gauff into the third round, after a thrilling win thursday, the 15-year-old, the youngest woman to make it this far at the open, since anna kournikova in 1996, and up next for gauff is a showdown with the world champ and world number one naomi osaka saturday night. exciting. jeopardy host alex trebek is back at work five months after being diagnosed with pancreatic
Upset at the u.s. open. the fourth seed and defending wimbledon champion simona halep stunned by american taylor townsend. the 23-year-old townsend, 116th ranked qualifier from atlanta, had never won a set against halep in three previous meetings. another american, coco gauff, is into the third round after a thrilling win on thursday. up next for gauff, a showdown with defending champ and world number one naomi osaka. jeopardy host alex trebek back at work five months after being diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. in a video message from mopromoe 36th season, trebek says he s completed his cancer treatment. i ve gone through a lot of chemotherapy and, thankfully, that is now over. i m on the mend, and that s all
he was treated for in 2010. he ll be joined by an iraq veteran who suffered a similar injury. and what is george clooney doing in handcuffs? we ll tell you. this morning, the soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians in a house to house rampage is back in the u.s. the suspect is identified as 38-year-old army staff sergeant robert bales. he s now in custody at ft. leavenworth by himself. this was his first tour of duty in afghanistan, but he had done three tours of iraq. neighbors say they only knew bales as a family man who was the life of a party. i was blown away. i was devastated, heart broken, completely shocked. i would describe him he was super fun to hang around with, kind of the life of the party kind of guy. super loving, friendly to everybody he met. great with his kids. i just i don t i don t see how this has happened. i never saw any signs of marital problems. they always seemed pretty happy. cnn s sara steiner has been following this story sin
There. it s wild and crazyiest march madness you ve seen. put it in perspective, the teams in there now are virginia commonwealth universities and butler and kentucky a fourth seed and never in the ncaa tournaments have there been a final four without a one or two seed. the first year it s ever happened. harris: and you say that actually the viewership has been up and people wanted to see the big guys taken. who doesn t like the cinderella story and a shocker. and butler head coach, they re booting up duke and beating up they could almost play, knock out the teams. one last stat, 5.9 million people filled out brackets on espn.com in this tournament and two in the entire world have the right final four. that s how wild this is. harris: i wonder how the president s brackets did. he was doing pretty well, but i don t think he has it. harris: quickly with a few seconds. baseball season almost here,