Tiger Woods Recovering From Car Accident On Thanksgiving Night
KEILAR: Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. I'm Brianna Keilar in for Betty Nguyen.</s>HOLMES: And hello to you all. I'm T.J. Holmes. We have a lot of questions this morning surrounding Tiger Woods' late-night accident right outside his Florida home. This is what we do know right now. Police want to talk to Woods today about that crash. The police report says charges are pending. Woods hit a fire hydrant and a tree at about 2:25 a.m. Friday morning. He was pulled from that car by his wife, who broke out a window of the SUV with a golf club. Woods suffered cuts on his face, but his publicist says the golfer is in good condition.</s>KEILAR: Now, Tiger Woods is, of course, more than just a sports superstar. He is a global icon. Joining us now on the phone from Orlando, Florida, is former CNN sports anchor and current golf channel reporter Inga Hammond. Inga, thank you for being with us. You also -- you're pretty good friends with Tiger Woods. Do you know anything about what happened? Have you spoke within him?</s>INGA HAMMOND, GOLF CHANNEL REPORTER: It's interesting, because we cover him, and he is so unbelievably dominant in our sport. I have not spoken with him. Basically, Tiger has kind of circled the wagons with his family and friends and advisers right now, and he isn't speaking and from what I understand home recovering a little bit, because it sounds like he got some sort of bonk on the head, as well. But I think the big thing with all the gossip and TMZ and, you know, the Internet kind of has given gossip this forum that it never used to have in the past. And the biggest thing I think is that everyone needs to give Tiger Woods the benefit of the doubt in this situation. He is not one of those athletes who has been in trouble before with either the law or his sport. He's really been a model citizen. And so I think until all the facts are out on this one, people need to kind of, you know, set aside what they're hearing. And I know they want the questions answered, but I think those kinds of things will come in time.</s>KEILAR: So then he is somewhat notoriously press shy considering, you know, how renowned he is. But, you know, I think it's sort of the interesting to people that what we got from his communications representative was a very simple statement about his condition and a very brief statement about the accident. But there really not any details about the circumstances of the accident. Even if Tiger Woods isn't feeling so well, you know, I guess conventional wisdom would be that his wife could lend some truth to whatever the facts are. Why do you think there has been no statement about the circumstances of this accident?</s>HAMMOND: Well, I also think you have to remember this is -- you know, Tiger Woods at the age of two was on the Michael Douglas show right in front of Bob Hope, hitting golf balls. So this is a young man whose entire life has basically been played out on television and in front of the media. So when it comes to his private life, that's the one place where he is able to have privacy. And Elin, you may have notices you've never seen an interview with her publicly. You'll see her at events with Tiger, but she really doesn't talk to the press. And I think that's the way the Woods' family likes it, is that Tiger is the one who does the speaking on behalf of the family and they try to keep private things private amongst them. So it's really not that unusual. I know in some people's minds it raises red flags. But in the Tiger Woods' world and his camp, things are always discussed. Remember, this is the guy who won the U.S. Open basically on a broken leg and didn't announce to the world until two or three days afterwards ...</s>KEILAR: Inga, let me ask you ...</s>HAMMOND: Yes.</s>KEILAR: Can you speak to this? Is there any sign that there may be trouble between Tiger Woods and his wife?</s>HAMMOND: You know, the way I look at it is, you know, any young cup that will has two children under the age of three that doesn't occasionally have arguments or disagreements -- but there have been no public signs whatsoever that anyone has seen. We saw them just a week ago Tiger was inducted into the Stanford hall of fame and Elin was there along with Sam, his little girl, right there on the sidelines with him. So I don't think there's been any outward sign of this.</s>KEILAR: But you wouldn't rule out that there is a possibility this could stem from an accident, a sort of domestic dispute between the two?</s>HAMMOND: Well, I just think any young married couple with kids that are that young, you know, will have disagreements. And when they have them it's usually at night when the family is in bed. But also Tiger Woods is well-known for not sleeping a lot. He sleeps four to five hours a night. He's talked about that. So the thought of him being awake at 2:30 in the morning is actually not as unusual as I think people would think it is. Sometimes he works out at 3:00, 4 a.m. That's not that unusual.</s>KEILAR: When, Inga, do you think we'll start to get some more answers here?</s>HAMMOND: Well, the big date to kind of look forward to is Tuesday. That's when he has a press conference scheduled for his Chevron World Challenge tournament, which is out in Thousand Oakes, California. And that tournament is really one of his babies. It has raised tens of millions of dollars for charity, for the Tiger Woods Foundation. And I would imagine, you know, barring what these facial lacerations look like, I would imagine Tiger would be there, because it is a cause near and dear to his heart. So we'll see if he answers those questions then or if this is deemed purely private matter. And who knows, maybe they won't answer the questions.</s>KEILAR: Inga, thank you so much for joining us. Inga Hammond with the Gold Channel, and we certainly will be looking toward Tuesday if there is going to be that press conference at the golf tournament.</s>HOLMES: We'll see if he shows, yes. Meanwhile here, a university for parents only. We're going to show you how it could help mom and dad help their struggling children.</s>KEILAR: And grab a pen and some paper. When we come back, we'll also give out some websites that are good resources for parents of schoolchildren.