Poison. Gamecocks fans are crowing this morning. South carolina, capturing the First National championship in Womens College basketball. North carolina and gonzaga meet tonight. For the mens title. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, april 3rd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you everybody on this monday. Well start, this halfhour, important week in store for President Trump putting his foreign and domestic policy skills to test. Yes, the president sitting down with his egyptian counterpart. All eyes on mar a lago, later thursday when he plays host to the chinese president. Meantime, the president s soninlaw, Senior Adviser, Jared Kushner is in iraq visiting at invitation of the joint chiefs chairman. More on the president s busy week. Reporter some welcome news for President Trump. His nominee for the supreme court, picked up a vote from across the aisle. As the senator joe donnaly of indiana said he will support, judge gorsuch. The third
Northbound lanes at country club. We have a crew on the way to this scene and we will bring you updates as soon as they come into the newsroom. One of the busiest intersections in the valley is shut down at this hour. We are talking about scottsdale road and shea. Repaving truck struck a traffic light last night and the update this afternoon is that all northbound, east bound and westbound lanes are all blocked. Southbound scottsdale is reduced to just one lane. This is a very busy part of town. This is going on eight hours now. They hoped to have it open by now. You are asked to avoid the area. Police are saying it was a distracted driver who pulled out of a starbucks this morning driving this red bmw. Then crashed into a motorcycle and this afternoon we learned the motorcyclist has died from his injuries. He collided at chandler and gilbert at ocotillo road there. The motorcyclist was not wearing a helmet at the time and was rushed to the hospital. Again didnt survive and so its not
Did we notice this before . Reporter the last days before opening a High School Play are always about putting pieces together, but at Santa Rosa High School this week those pieces were literal and broken. Pieces of theater all over the theater. We found our columns had been knocked over. We found broken swords. We found broken lances. Reporter drama teacher victoria carpenter on the vandals who trashed this auditorium on halloween night. They almost turned their greek tragedy trojan women into a real one. This matters to us and its important to us and the hard work we put into this is real and it just absolutely broke my heart thinking that someone could just look over that. A song for troy. Reporter the play tells with trojan women banding together after losing their husbands in war. After the vandals smashed their set and parts of the auditorium, this cast banded together to make things right, backed by overwhelming support from the community and across the country. I dont think that
Moines, iowa. Officers called it an ambush stile attack. Scott greene was on the run overnight but caught after allegedly flagging down a state the attacks happened just 20 minutes apart. The first officer shot while sitting in the patrol car alone and then in minutes another officer found shot to death also in his car. Imagine that you lost a friend or family member. Thats the only way you can describe it. Very helpless feeling at times. The sorrow that comes with it is as you lost someone close to you. These were our friends, our coworkers. One was a sergeant on the force since 2005. Right now at 11 02 lets give you a live look outside. Definitely a change in weather today if youve stepped outside. Still blue skies, lisa, but its a little bit cooler. Nice change this morning. It was good to get rain for maybe 15, 20 minutes. It was something at least. In the mountains you can see fresh snow from loveland. Not going to be much for the mountains but we did have a few showers and we cou
Break down this fourth wall between us and the crowd. Its like okay, now were on a whole other level. And for me, too. Then as baby boomers retire at the rate of 10,000 a day well introduce you to the 29yearold whos disrupting the American Health care system with a great idea, and an ipad. I think were building an incredible product, a transformative product and its able to grow quickly and serve a lot of families in the highest quality ways. Plus tom brokaw in paris with the gripping story of a survivor of the attacks there six months ago. What he saw and how he and his city are doing today. Has it changed the way you want to live the rest of your life . Of course. In what way . I want to live. For the moment . For the moment. Lets begin with some breaking news overnight. The u. S. Launching an airstrike saturday against the leader of the afghan taliban. Today, top afghan officials and the taliban are saying he has been killed. Jim miklaszewski is at the white house for us. Mik, who i