Champions. For the first time in more than 90 years the Boston Red Sox win the world series in front of the hometown faithful at fenway. Welcome to Al Jazerra America, i am stephanie sy. Nearly a month after the roll out the Governments Health care website is still causing headaches for people who are unable to sign up for coverage. President obama is on the defensive and his Health Secretary has apologized, mike sresreuviqueira is in washingtoh the story. Reporter the website launch was called a did he back the. But the president went on offense defending the new Health Care Law and drawing parallels with another highprofile launch that had its share of problems. Before there was obama care, there was romney care. The Massachusetts Law that was a model for the Affordable Care act, visiting boston, president obama says the comparison still holds. Because you guys had a proven model that we building the Affordable Care act on this template. Reporter the president spoke in the same spot
Good thursday morning, everyone. And happy halloween. Well, it took 95 years. But the Boston Red Sox have won the world series at fenway park. Yep. The sox battling past the cardinals in game six. Celebrating as world champions in front of their home crowd. Heres the winning team in the locker room. Muchneeded lift for that city that dealt with tragedy in the marathon bombings. Abcs rob nelson is in boston. Good morning, rob. Reporter well, good morning to you, diana and john. This may be the happiest halloween that boston has seen in a very long time. They last won the title back in 2007. But this is the first time theyve won it here at home at fenway since 1918. Lets go, red sox. Reporter this has been such a close series. Nothing short of a rout. Much to the delight of a jampacked fenway. Treated to a night of sports history nearly a century in the making. The sox dominated all night long. But the biggest moment in the game coming in the third inning when Shane Victorino hit a doubl
Announcer this is early today for friday, november 1st. Good morning. Im mara schiavocampo. We begin with the harrowing story of ten children who escaped a bus crash unharmed. Their bus toppled off a bridge thursday into a fast moving creek in douglas, kansas. It landed on its side half submerged in the water. All the children on board were under the age of 13, the youngest just 6 years old. The older kids are credited with helping the younger ones escape through a roof hatch. They were all screaming and stuff and me and my friend told them to calm down and stuff. I was scared but i really wanted my friends, i tried to put them first to get them out of the water. At the same time, the 64yearold bus driver called 911. He was later treated for hypothermia. This morning the kansas Highway Patrol is investigating why he drove on a water covered bridge. Officials say the rain caused the low rise bridge to flood the last couple of days. Heavy rains are also hitting parts of texas especially
This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on the thursday morning. This isnt even our halloween costm. Im matt lauer along with al roker. I am a yankee fan but you had to feel them good talking about all of what boston has been through and now they bring home the world championship. Good for them. Hard to take you seriously. With everything that boston has been through to. We are beard sox nation today. Can we get over it now . More on the win in a moment and, of course, this is halloween and we all know that. We have a lot in store for you. Two surprise concerts and our big costume reveal which might be our best yet. Let us begin with todays top story the severe storms that are impacting halloween plans for a big section of the country. Al, what do you have . We have a gotogepen well start in kansas. Massive thunderstorms, hail, damaging winds, it is really a mess there. Were going to take a l
Walnut creek this morning. We are looking at another cooler day today. We started the last hour of what was reported to be a minor accident. According to chp there were two separate minor accidents. It took them a while to clear and it has backed up traffic beyond the split. This is closer to carlos some boulevard. The drive time was just 15 to 20 minutes is now clot that 17 minutes. It is now coming in at 25 minutes. San palo alto is already jammed up. It is a 25 minutes commute time and that is what you can expect during the peak of the commute. All that means that the bay bridge is a pretty light and easy ride though this may change. We are waking up to clear skies and heres a live look outside from our roof cam. It is clear and cold outside. As we head into the afternoon and warmer weather is on the way and was the upper 50s. Coming up to my next report i will talk about whether or not we have a good forecast for halloween. Family and friends gathered to say their final goodbyes to