A breakthrough in a brutal war. Ethiopian government forces, antique brian rebels agree to stop fighting. Ah, hello there, im laura kyle. This is alex. Is there a live from dough also coming up. Canyon trip saw deployed to democratic republic of congo to counter armed groups operating in the east. U. S. Federal reserve increases Interest Rates again as it tries to fight, storing inflation and thousands protests to ensure lanka. Angry about the governments use of terror laws against demonstrators. Ah, its a war thats killed thousands of people, but the Ethiopian Government and rebel forces from the tig ry reach and have agreed to end fighting. Following talks in south africa, lemetre miller reports from pretoria. After 10 days of talks in pretoria Ethiopians Federal government and the t great Peoples Liberation front, reached an agreement to in the fighting the talks mediated by former nigerian president alyssa gun oper, sonco, and former kenyan president who kenyatta. Today is the begi
About his Controversial Health care law that goes into effect in less than a week. This is happening in a packed novak fieldhouse in prince georges college. October 1st, tuesday, the Health Insurance market places are going to be open and that means and sign up for insurance on one of the exchanges. There is a lot of confusion about who is eligible. How is it going to happen . How will it affect people . What will it cost. President barack obama is speaking here. He is explaining the Affordable Care act. Take a look here inside the packed novak fieldhouse. You can see that he just started to speak a short time ago before a full house there. He is going to be breaking it down. The president will be speaking in simple language, explaining the care act and how it will affect the middle class. The president is going to tell people what to expect when they go online to enroll. He is going to discuss what the Affordable Care act means if are people who have insurance. Take a look at this vid
This is abc7 news. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, august 25th. Im Carolyn Tyler. Lets start with a quick first look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning to you, carolyn. An interesting shot from the east bay hills camera. Normally we would see mt. Diablo in the distance, but with less of the low clouds ehave operating and we are looking at mild temperatures this morning. 67 in concord, livermore and napa. You have started out warmer due to the blanket of low and midlevel clouds. Now we are looking to burnoff and mostly sunny skies for just about everyone today except right along the coast and in the north bay you will see the partly cloudy skies. 80s, yeah, there will be a few of them in our inland east bay. But whether or not the 90s march closer to us in the final days of august, ill let you know about that in a few minutes. Carolyn. Thank you, lisa. We continue to follow the wildfire burning near yosemite. The fire has burned
Thunderstorms from the south. Good weekend shaping up. Thanks for joining us at 5 00. Leicester holt joins us with nightly news. We will be back at 6 00. Hope to see you then. Buy. There is breaking news tonight. A passenger plane has just crashed in mexico. Y. E. The plane going down shortly after takeoff. Over 100 people on board, smoke and flames coming from the cabin. Emergency crews racing to reach the scene right now. An urgent last minute fight to stop socalled ghost guns, made of plastic, 3d, printed at home and instructions how to make them could be legally posted online. Lawmakers and Law Enforcement sounding the alarm. Its a killers dream, its a hitmans dream, a terrorists dream, a highjackers dream. Somebody who wants to hurt you can make their own gun. Ect e ne election less than 100 days away. Is russia behind it . A woman went to police with allegations of sexual abuse against cbs chief les moonves before that bombshell report. Why authorities declined to file charges. A
Timing here is important as it is coming while so Many Americans get ready to attend christmas and han ka services. What is important is yesterday, according to officials there is no credible, no specific threat against any particular target in the United States. This them basically trying to get ahead of things, trying to issue that alert to local, state, federal Law Enforcement agencies, perhaps pastors as well who are leading congregations this weekend as families pour into the houses of worship to celebrate. That is really the main message that officials wa nt to stress here. They want the public to take this seer krusly, but at the same time not let this loom over their celebrations, weve heard this before. Its a reason not to be afraid but be aware of your surroundings, whether in new york or in americas smaller towns celebrating with family members. I heard on the radio on my way in this morning they were putting up some metal barriers around st patricks cathedral. It talked abo