Big Bertha Blocked in Seattle
FLORES: Are you ready for some football? The NFL's regular season ends tomorrow and the primetime game features two rivals, the Eagles and the Cowboys. One game, one spot in the playoffs. But the Cowboys will take the field without their biggest star quarterback, Tony Romo. Who will win and the bigger question, which team deserves it the most? Cowboys fan, Ben Ferguson, and Eagles loyalist, Marc Lamont Hill, join me again. I love that you guys have your jerseys.</s>HILL: Yes.</s>FLORES: I want to know who feels --</s>FERGUSON: Hey, you know what --</s>FLORES: -- like their team is due? Who has suffered more? Ben, 30 seconds.</s>FERGUSON: Let me tell you. Let me tell you. Tony Romo -- this jersey I've got on right now, OK, is not a Romo jersey because it's sold out. Because everyone wanted to support Tony Romo since he had the season ending surgery. I think the Cowboys are due. I think Phillys are going to come in, they're going to be in Jerry's world, they're going to be terrified of this other quarterback they have not been planning for. I think the team is going to be playing for Tony Romo. The guy had serious surgery. I'm just saying, if I'm a Philly fan, I'm not sure I'd watch the entire game tomorrow. That's all I'm saying.</s>FLORES: Marc, are the stars going to align for you?</s>HILL: There's not going to be a need to watch the entire game. By halftime, we'll be up by five touchdowns as you'll see. But let me be clear, I wish -- I wish Tony Romo were playing because Tony Romo has a remarkable ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. He always loses the game for the Cowboys. I'm -- I was actually sending him get well cards.</s>FERGUSON: Except last week.</s>HILL: To support him for --</s>FERGUSON: Except last week. Hey, all right, I'll make you bet on national</s>TV. HILL: He beat the Redskins -- he beat the Redskins, Ben.</s>FERGUSON: Here's the deal.</s>HILL: That's like beating</s>FERGUSON: All right. This is what I'll say. It's my team, when my team beats your team, OK, you've got -- I'm going to ship you this jersey, FedEx it to you, and you've got to wear it on TV next time we are on.</s>FLORES: For the next segment.</s>HILL: Fair enough. And you've got -- you've got to wear -- I'm going to send you a Nick Foles jersey, my quarterback is playing this week. You're going to wear this Nick Foles jersey on TV. We're going to win and we're going to win big in Dallas.</s>FERGUSON: Hey, Marc?</s>HILL: There's only two things we do in Philadelphia, we've been -- we boo Santa and we beat Cowboys. And that's what's going to happen.</s>FLORES: I love the trash talk. Thank you so much for joining us. And we will talk about it later for sure.</s>FERGUSON: Go Cowboys.</s>HILL: Eagles. E-A-G-L-E-S. Eagles.</s>FLORES: All right. Thank you so much. And we move on to this. In Seattle, Big Bertha, the underground drilling machine has hit something it can't get past. Stephanie Elam has the story.</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): No doubt, Bertha is a behemoth. At five stories tall, she's billed as the largest diameter tunneling machine in the world. And she was put to work grinding a tunnel under Seattle for a planned highway. But Bertha was only a tenth of the way on her nearly two-mile journey when she suddenly encountered something large enough and strong enough to stop her in her tracks.</s>KADEENA YERKAN, WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: We're being really cautious. We want to make sure that we don't damage this $80 million machine.</s>ELAM: But what is it? The mystery is fueling lots of speculation. Geologists point to how Seattle's watery edges were filled in with just about anything by the city's pioneers.</s>DAVID B. WILLIAMS, GEOLOGIST: You find old shoes, newspapers. There's a boat buried in downtown Seattle. So, you name it, it could be down there.</s>ELAM: Another theory is it's a massive boulder left during the Ice Age. Residents have their own guesses.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Some kind of burial ground, maybe?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes. She's taking a Christmas break, you know what I'm saying? Merry Christmas, Big Bertha. You know what I'm saying?</s>ELAM: If that's the case, Bertha's Christmas break started two weeks ago. Since then, the $3 billion tunnel project has been on hold as workers drill wells to alleviate water pressure in front of Bertha in hopes of sending workers to the front of the drill to see what she's up against.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can't back the machine up. You got the segment aligning in behind you. So all you can really do is proceed forward.</s>ELAM: But the Transportation Department says Bertha won't be moving forward until at least early next year after the mystery is solved. Stephanie Elam, CNN, Los Angeles.</s>FLORES: You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosa Flores. The FBI is on the hunt for a man they say shot one police officer to death and badly wounded another. The officers were shot in Tupelo, Mississippi, when they faced off with the man reportedly trying to rob a bank. On the phone with me now from an FBI command post in Tupelo, Mississippi, Special Agent Daniel McMullen. Agent McMullen, tell us about your suspect. What led him to Tupelo and where do you think he might be right now?