John boehner offered up his own plan to avoid the fiscal cliff today. Does it add up . And the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, susan rice comes under fire again. This time, its over rwanda. Lets go outfront. Good evening, welcome, everyone. Outfront tonight breaking news, president obama puts the syrian president on notice. The president is reacting to new evidence that assads regime has started mixing chemicals to make deadly sarin gas, adding to its massive stockpile of chemical weapons. And today i want to make it absolutely clear to assad and those under his command, the world is watching. The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. Assad is on the edge of president obamas socalled red line against syria. The president said this summer that syrias use or movement of chemical weapons could mean u. S. Intervention. So outfront tonight,
Good evening. Big problems tonight for muni in San Francisco. Woman in a wheelchair was hit by a trolley at market and church street. We are told she either leaned over or fell in front of the trolley. Witness say the trolley kept going dragging the woman for almost a block. Emergency crew had to use air bag and wooden block in order to raise that trolley. Thats what you see the firefighters rescue crew doing there. Sadly the woman has suffered life threatening injuries, we believe. But we are checking on that of course. Now to a separate incident. Blown transformer has shut down all metro muni lines downtown. Thats the k, l and j lines. Bus bridges in effect to get people around. Very bad night for muni. We have more open both of these stories on 7 news leather 00 over on channel 7 and of course updates here as need be. Well now to the weather. Much of the bay area continues to dry out and clean up after trio of storms. The sky 7 hd video shows some of the toppled trees around San Fra
With us. Eric thomas is off today. Boy, it was a hot one yesterday, want it . We will check with mike nicco to see if the change is coming. I had fans on trying to cool down the house. It was 75 in the house. Live doppler 7 hd shows it will be cooler at the coast and around the bay and to a lesser extent inland because of the marine layer clouds. Notice, we are not sighing seeing any rain but a possibility of drizzle at the coast. We will talk about this afternoon, the first forecast, it will be warm with high clouds and sunshine this afternoon, around the bay and 74 to 83, and it will be pretty warm inland at 67 to 78, and it will be cool at the coast, lowtomid 60s for you. Now the out the door commute information with leyla gulen. All right. Good morning, everyone, we are looking at mass transit that is all on time right now and we have thrive bart trains looking clear and everything is moving along without a pitch. As we take a look behind me we have a stalled vehicle. If you are he
La toe in antarctica, is in the middle of their summer which means you can leave in, say, october or november which is their spring, go there as fast as you can and then come back, and he made it back before it turned really cold, made it back to his base. He went in through south of new zealand. He sailed down. The place you can get closest to the pole by ship and you can only get there in the antarctic summer because its frozen with just sea ice over the top and so a ship cant get in, but it opens up in the antarctic summer. The sea ice open toes up, and you can sail in quite close because you think of antarctica as a plate or as a dish. But actually it has a peninsula sticking way out on the side under the americas, and its got a big gouge cut out of it almost like a piece of the pie taken out which is the raw sea south of new zealand. And so if you sail in that way in the summer, you can sail in a hot further. So what hed done is hed sailed in the previous summer, that would be the
And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america reporting from washington. Ceasefire is holding but the cost of war is high. Parents are morning children caught in the crossfire. Iraq swears in a new more inclusive government. And Prince George will soon be a big rather. The duke and duchess of cambridge have announced that they are expecting their second child. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television here and around the globe. Petro poroshenko made a surprise itp to the city today, that is, was, and will be ukrainian. The truce is fragile, and 3000 people have already died in this conflict. We have a look at the human cost of this fighting. This is where war leads. To the coffins of her children. To the neighbors who watched them grow up. Story ofy wants the carol lina and her disabled brother to be known. Both the daythem the ceasefire was declared. We met their grandmother who was the day they were killed. They lived in no mans land. Nikita was warned disabled, h