Good monday morning. We begin with a big announcement from texas senator ted cruz. The president ial race is officially taking shape now. Cruz, a republican, announced his candidacy after midnight eastern title time becoming the first person to make it official from any party. Susan, good morning. Reporter good morning, reena and t. J. Just three years ago cruz was an underdog in his campaign for the senate. Now he has eyes on the white house. The official kickoff of the 2016 president ial race has begun with a tweet from ted cruz. Of texas. Tea party favorite. His appeal came with a video message. Its going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America Great again. Reporter cruz is the first politician to declare a run for president in 2016. He spent some of yesterday preparing to officially announce his bid later today at liberty university. Up until now, cruz has been best known as a divisive figure who spear headed the fight against obamacare that led to
Critical social programs such as wic which provides 9 million moms money for infant formula and baby food have been deemed nonessential. How am i supposed to get the extra 200 a month to pay for formula . Reporter head start is beginning to shut down across the country. In connecticut, there was no preschool program for geraldine bryants twin sons. Its going to impact them in a big way, especially academically. As far as them not being in school. Reporter trouble for military families too. Commissaries on base and post have been closed. This has a fwrood impact on the american economy. 12. 5 billion a week. 300 million a day and 12. 5 million every hour lost in productivity. Jim avila, abc news, washington. All right. That brings us to our facebook question of the day. What would you do now to end the Government Shutdown them political debate is heating up at wnnfans. Com. The shutdown has personal meaning for jodi and michael. They planned to be married at the gettysburg ampitheatre o
We are on the ground in North Carolina, one of the hardest hit areas. Good morning. Breaking overnight some good news, children who were thought missing during this tornado that touched down in poverty the trailer park behind me have been found, that makes two adult who died. The clean up in North Carolina is going to take a while especially in this trailer park where the tornadoes pulverized so many of the homes that are there. A number of houses caught fire is flooding and gas mains combined for a very combustible situation. All the harder for firetrucks to move around in 8 foot storm surge and 80 mile an hour winds. One thing made the storm so unusual is how quickly it moved south to north bringing flash flooding in philadelphia where one person was killed, a woman was swept away in her car in rising waters. All told, 3. 7 Million People from South Carolina all the way to Northern New York state are out of power. You could hear everything splintering, glass breaking. May be two or t
Decade since the Civil Rights Movement. This is just under an hour. We are pleased to partner with on many occasions. We also have an interesting timing of this today. Yesterday, one of our participants, dr. Harry edwards, who will i will who i will formally introduce, we formally announced we have a permanent lecture at the university of texas called the dr. Harry edwards lecture on sports and society. So [applause] we cannot possibly find a better person in the history of sports and civil rights than dr. Harry edwards. He was gracious enough to lend his name to that lecture. We expect we will have several presentations under that name in coming years. Today, we have a conversation that is going to occur on the area of sports and civil rights. I have been a part of many panels and many presentations over the years. Normally, you try and find the best panelist and the best people to make that presentation. Rarely do you have the people, the top people, who are presenting. In other word
A shift. This is a still from Surveillance Video taken from inside of the store showing the suspect holding an item in his hand. He then went outside and into red 2001 infi ti suspect described as a black male with salt and pepper hair, 165 pounds wearing a green shirt, blue jeans and armed with a knife. Dont usually have things happening here. Its sad someone has to steal food and its sad that innocent people are getting hijacked. Now this, is a live look at the safeway. We showed you images from inside of the surveillance cameras inside of the store. And we understand police are trying to look at video to understand if it might have captured this car jacking. There is an amber alert and police do not know if the suspect and victims are in oakland area or could have traveled outside of the area and anyone with information is asked to call 911. The man suspected of kidnapping and killing sierra lamar. Her body has never been found Police Arrested a suspect two months late yes, now, hes