get the latest in sports from my colleague, betty nguyen. >> good morning, mara. let's start with some baseball. the new york yankees lose a tough one 12 hours after a-rod's appeal is filed by the players association. in chicago, a game winning triple to help rally the sox to a 6-5 whip. the yankees have lost 14 of their last 20 games. >>> jets quarterback can't seem to catch a break. first, coach rex ryan asked fan toes be nicer this week. now he is getting slack because he will be starting on friday against the detroit lions. he is taking the high road after reading this week saying f-u, hope you break youracl on friday. >>> andrew mccutchen, not only did his mother sing the national anthem, but he goes his 16th home run of the season. >> must have been mom being there. >> exactly. you know mama looks very proud. >> look how proud she is. i love it. >>> now to big plays in the little league, jacob garza and his team won a spot in the little league world series. garza w pitch perfect and did not give up a single hit during the game. not only that, he hit a home r

i'm betty nguyen, thanks for watching. >>> good morning, everybody. time 4:30. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> breaking news is a 1-year-old shot to death in oakland. police at a home on ghormley, from the exit of interstate 880. >> another body found inside of that home. you're on the scene. what is happening? what are you hearing? >> reporter: good morning. this just a disturbing scene. a 1-year-old baby shot, also a 20-year-old man shot. i'm photog step aside so you can see what's going on the house that has the porch light on. both of them killed. just a few minutes ago, a man and woman wal

i'm betty nguyen. secretary of state john kerry says the evidence is clear. the man mouth human suffering undeniable. >> it defies any code of morality. let me be clear, the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral on sce obscenity. >> ayman mohyeldin is live in cairo. >> reporter: the u.n. inspection team will head back out into the eastern part of damascus where they completed their first day yesterday. now as we were talking about it earlier, they did meet with eye witnesses, interview some of the patients that were being treated for alleged chemical weapons symptoms. they were also able to collect samples from in and around the area. it's not yet clear whether or not they're going to make their findings public, but a lot of people are going to be watching very closely what they do conclude as a result of it. they're not minute to determine who used chemical weapons, just simply if chemical weapons were used at all. meanwhile, the relationship between russia and the unit

i'm betty nguyen. while many of us are preparing for the weekend, firefighters in northern california are battling a rapidly growing wildfire near yosemite national park. it is called the rim fire, and it grew overnight covering about 64,000 acres up from 16,000 just 24 hours earlier. the park remains open and mostly smoke-free. on thursday, governor jerry brown issued a state of emergency. the declaration frees up money and resources for the 1800 firefighters on the ground. so far, nine structures have been damaged, 2,500 remain threatened. >>> let's take to you syria where more horrific images are servicing from what syrian rebels are calling a mass chemical attack but the claims are still not verified. >> if these reports are true, it would be an outrageous and flag grant escalation of use of chemical weapons by the regime, so our source is on nailing down the facts. >> more than 100,000 are dead and nearly 2 million refugees from that. nbc's yousef gamal el-din is in cairo. yousef, what's the lates

nest sports from betty nguyen. >> happy friday, mara. we begin with football. the raibing champions baltimore ravens blew out the tampa bay buccaneers 46-16. pierce dashes for a touchdown but comes up limping. yeah, right there. and later, a blocked punt in the end zone, recover for a touchdown by ravens brendan trawig. >>> next, the broncos playing it safe. payton manning and colin kaepernick each only playing one series in the game. colt mccoy came in for the niners, he had a beautiful, long pass straight to denver. an interception. broncos win, 10-6. >>> the bengals made it look easy, beating the falcons, 34-10. >>> to baseball now, can someone hand the tigers a broom? detroit is on a 12-game hot streak. they swept the cleveland indians in four games. next up, the tigers play a-rod and the yankees in in, new york tonight. looking forward to that. >>> on to golf, the 98 pga championship off to a great start for jim furyk. check out this birdie putt on the 16th hold. all the way in. he shares the lead with adam scott. >>> miami tweet start james tweeted this s

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. >>> and now let's get the latest in sports from my colleague, betty nguyen. >> good morning, mara. first of up, a historic moment in baseball. ichiro suzuki becomes the third person in baseball history to reach 4,000 hits. he smacked that line drive in the yankees dugout. they went wild. the yanks beat the blue jays 4-2. >>> beat rose and ty cobb are the only other players to achieve this feat. suzuki's 4,000 hits are a combination of his playing time in japan and his playing in the majors. he has 2,722 hits in the u.s. and he is gunning for 3,000. i have a feeling that he will get it. >>> and you cannot keep this tiger out of the game. after straining his groin, hip and abdominal area tuesday, miguel cabrera was down but not out. he steals. the tigers win over the minnesota twins with a double and clearing the bases. tigers took the twins, 7-2. >>> this hurts to watch. check it out. oh! max of the houston astros gets beamed in the fast by rangers pitcher right here. watch it, watch it, right there. a 96-mile-per-hour throw. stassi gets hit near the left check and was taken to the

. >>> good morning, everybody, i'm betty nguyen. >>> senior u.s. officials tell nbc news a u.s.-led military strike against syria could be launched as early as tomorrow. momentum for action against the alleged chemical attacks appears to be building globally. british prime minister david cameron called his parliament back to debate a response. an emergency vote will be held thursday. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel will respond with force if syria does anything to harm israel. the arab league is blaming the syrian government, demanding international trials. but venezuela president nicolas madura, a close ally of president assad, says military action could essentially be the beginning of a great international firestorm. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engle has the story. >> reporter: washington says this is not about regime change, that the united states doesn't want to get involved in syria's civil war. they said this will simply be a punitive action so that the use of chemical weapons does not go unnoticed and unchallenged. >> there is no doubt

. >>> good morning, everybody, i'm betty nguyen. >>> senior u.s. officials tell nbc news a u.s.-led military strike against syria could be launched as early as tomorrow. momentum for action against the alleged chemical attacks appears tobu

i'm betty nguyen. while many of us are preparing for we