Russians persuaded syria to turn over their chemical weapons. Lets go straight to abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl. Diane, the president will make it clear in this speech that he is taking the russian proposal to have the syrians turn over their chemical weapons but they view it skep tickly. The phrase here is trust but verify, in fact, verify because there is no real trust in the syrians or for that matter the russians. Theyre going talk to be talking with the russians and the european allies. Secretary of state will be talking to his russian counter part on thursday. Thats when well really see what this russian plan is. Here now heading into the east room, the president speaking about syria and the United States tonight. My fellow americans, tonight i want to talk to you about syria. Why it matters and where we go from here. Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar Alassad has turned into a brutal c
Yesterday morning at this time especially around the bay and that is a reason why we are going to deal with possibly some flight arrival delays at sfo. There is hardly any drizzle compared to yesterday. Now, what will happen today as we look toward the ferry building, a beautiful picture from the camera. Below average temperatures this afternoon. Whether inland east bay at 79 to 83, the coast in San Francisco at 61 to 67 or the spread around the bay, 70 to 78, all the temperatures should be warmer. Energy the break from the heat. We have Traffic Building over the pass and you can see a patch of red as you make the drive from tracy and we have this slowing along the nimitz in the northbound direction headed into oakland because of a project that is in the clearing stays between high and embarcadero. At highway four we have more Traffic Building especially through antioch and it looks like the crash is cleared to the shoulder because the slowing we saw here is eases. 680 and 101, all run
Live in if the United States of america sees a dictator brazenly violate International Law with poison gas and we choose to look the other way. President obama had a threepronged attack tonight. First, he spoke directly to the american public. Second, he laid out the case for military action against syria. But at the same time, the president is vowing to pursue a diplomatic solution, from russia over syrias kem wachemical wea. Abcs news Karen Travers has more. Reporter tonight, president obama said america is not the worlds police. But this time, the nation cannot stand by on the sidelines. Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake, in syria. Reporter syria said today it would turn over its chemical weapons. President obama said these are encouraging signs. But its too early to tell if they will succeed. The u. S. Is now working diplomatic angles. But the president insists a strike option must stay on the table. But nearly twothirds of americans oppose m
With the coronavirus outbreak. As per at the time and officials in washington they do promise that testing will become widely available. The outbreak changes so much that we are doing American Life to empty bars, theaters, dr. Anthony fauci who has become a trusted person that we have been listening to in this nation, hes been part of the task force. He said that he should plan on things getting worse before they get better. I think we should really be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting. I think americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significant ly more than we as a country are doing. The hunkering has begun, Kristin Fisher has the latest. Hi, kristin. Kristin in washington, d. C. The major announced strict guidelines, all venues to close, bars, taverns, they are allowed to stay open only if they follow these new rules. No bar seating, no serving, standing patrons. Tables and booth separated by 6 feet. All of that for social distancin
Reporter so just in the last sort of 20 minutes or so, weve learned that the fbi is now investigating this as a possible act of terrorism because of some the nature of the attack and weve also learned that the suspect here shouted some words during the attack, you know, words other jihadi sort of like other terrorists use, allahu akbar. It was words to that effect that witnesses have told police they heard, which is now leading some to believe that this may have been an act of terrorism. The Police Officer that was hurt here, hes now in stable condition, expected to survive. Were told he was in the public area of the airport when the suspect came behind him and attacked him, stabbed him in the back and then was taken into custody. There were other people around this Police Officer, and they were able to subdue him and the man was eventually taken into custody. Police and the fbi are still working through his identity, trying to figure out exactly who he is and why he was at the airport