watermelon haul, which you can picture. oh, boy, yes, i can. hey, go big or go home. that s what i say. thanks, jeff. okay. all right. at 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west, i m kyra phillips. thanks for joining us. wall street just minutes after opening, only hours removed from the gut-wrenching plunge, u.s. investors seem to be shrugging off some of the concerns, at least for now. riots erupt across great britain. dozens of police officers hurt. hundreds of people arrested, and a government desperately trying to tamp down public rage. 61-year-old diana nyad back in the u.s. after abandoning her attempt to swim from cuba to miami. she was halfway on the 109-mile journey when she became too sick, and too sore to continue. well this morning, millions of us are waking up to smaller nesteggs, and, of course, looking at that big board on wall street and watching the numbers very closely, we re covering all the angles from new york to london and wall stre
the support that i m you know, i don t know where to go. i don t know who to turn to. once again, you came through. this time not with cash, but with pressure, with angry phone calls. enough pressure that we can tell you now the surgery is back on. a lot of people called a lot of different people in the last 24 hours since they found out about this. all of the way from i got a call from a senator s office i m sorry, congressman s office in washington and she said that they ve been calling the governor down here in florida and a lot of other people. diana herself is too weak to talk now from medical tests at jackson all day long, but thank you, everybody, for saving my mommy who has hair that s going to come back. we re reporting from wsvn and we ll let you know how diana s surgery goes. school bullies have been in
of outrage. a dying mother not even 30 years old denied life-saving surgery gauze of government red tape. a community said we can t let this happen. the outrageous beginning and the just ending of our miami affiliate wsvn. this is what i have to take every day to kind of keep infections away. diana smith needs a bone marrow transplant to survive cancer otherwise she will die. reporter: what s all this stuff over here? it s medicine for mommy because she needs stuff and she has no hair. reporter: the hair loss is due to chemotherapy and her body cannot take any more. ouch. i m used to it by now. reporter: first her insurance agreed to pay for her bone marrow transplant, but not for the operation to remove it from the donor. so channel 7 viewers joined
watching in through dallas. it will move through arkansas and eventually in through louisiana and mississippi as well. so that s the latest from here. we ll keep you posted as these storms roll across the u.s. thanks so much, rob. i know you spent a little bit of time in florida, as have i, especially in south florida. lots of draw bridges, intercoastal waterways, et cetera. well, trouble on this one right here. images from our affiliate wsvn. this is pompano beach. and this is the east atlantic boulevard draw bridge. a little difficult to see here but you see that crane to the right, a ladder from the fire department. yeah, those are workers right there. they re actually stuck. live pictures right now, stuck at the top of the drawbridge. the service people were doing some work on the bridge, somehow it got stuck there and they are stuck very high above the intercoastal waterway there and now a rescue is under way. it looks like they re all calm, cool and collected but you see the fi
through parts of louisiana. all the while this is happening where temperatures are pretty cool back towards the west. 33 in denver, 38 in seattle. speaking of, they had a record low yesterday dipping down to the 20s. here s our camera there. kiro thanks for that shot, looking at the space needle. if the skies were more clear you could see mt. rainier in the background. so another chilly day in the pacific northwest. chicagoan hour delay, atlanta 30-minute delay. dallas-ft. worth seeing 30-minute delays as well. teterboro is seeing 30-minute delays also. all right, very good, rob. remember last time we spoke i was telling you about an incident in pompano beach, florida. yes. a drawbridge kind of stuck in the upright position there with some workers who were on the bridge stuck as well. you see the pictures right here from our affiliate wsvn. some good news here. while you saw the fire truck ladder that was kind of