Hello, Friday…

Weather: Cool and wet. We’ll see rain throughout the day – a 100 percent chance – with highs only reaching the middle 70s; in fact, Birmingham may set a record for the date for the lowest daytime high temperature. Showers and thunderstorms continue tonight with lows in the upper 60s. Rain chances taper off through the weekend, but there’s still a chance both days with highs in the middle 80s and lows near 70.

“We just shot down a plane.” That’s what the Ukranian security agency is claiming that a Russian military intelligence officer is saying in an intercepted telephone conversation about the crash of a Malaysian airliner Thursday. The crash killed all 298 people aboard the Boeing 777. A transcript of the conversation, published in the Kiev Post newspaper, shows that the attackers first thought it was a Ukranian military transport plane. No word yet on why the flight was going through the area, which has been marked by conflict between the Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists.

Sports: Saban, Malzahn muzzled. The Auburn and Alabama football coaches did plenty of talking at the SEC Media Days, which wrapped up a four-day run yesterday in Hoover. But they will not be permitted to speak to football coaches and administrators at the Alabama High School Athletic Association Summer Conference, thanks to a new NCAA rule. The conference is held at the same time as the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Game, which Division I coaches are specifically barred from attending; the AHSAA appealed, saying the conference and game were separate events, but were denied by the NCAA. Malzahn and Saban will be replaced by Division II and juco coaches… Golf: Tiger Woods is in good position today going into the second round of The Open Championship. In his first major since coming back from back surgery, Woods was tied for seventh early this morning, three strokes behind leader Rory McIlroy. Woods was scheduled to tee off just after 8 a.m.