This morning al qaedainspired militants are pushing deep into southern iraq headed toward baghdad. In about 48 hours the insurgent blitzkrieg has overrun cities once controlled by u. S. Forces during the nearly nineyear iraq war. First to fall, iraqs second largest city, mozul, then tikrit and this morning militants have reached the outskirts of samara, just 70 miles from baghdad. Iraqs u. S. Trained forces are offering little or no resistance. Many are laying down their arms and hundreds of thousands of iraqi citizens are on the run. Susan mcginnis is in washington where the Obama Administration is plotting its next move. Susan, good morning. Annemarie, good morning. The white house says the situation in iraq has deteriorated over the last 24 hours or so and is quickly becoming a humanitarian issue. Now the white house is considering sending help. Some iraqi troops abandoned their posts and were seen walking in civilian clothes near the city. Of kirkuk. The retreat comes as the Obama
Ohare. A little over two for the month but basically all of it fell in the last 48 hours. To look, were in between systems early on. A mix of sun and clouds with average High Temperatures in the upper 70s and in some cases low 80s. Widely scattered showers are possible as a cold front comes through. 57 degrees at the lakefront. 61 at ohare. 62 in joliet. The remnant of the grain we saw, ipod is an issue. Kirk visibility is half a mile. Only three at ohare. As to get further out to the counties, we have more fog. The careful today. The good news is we are dry. Cold front makes its way through northwest wisconsin it arrives this afternoon with a potential for showers and even thunderstorms today. 76 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Tonight were down to 53. Tomorrow we make 73. Fairly nice on friday. Saturday 82. Good morning. We have a few crashes to start off. One of them near diversity. 2650 north to south of diversity is serious crash. More details as to get that spirit of the other is the eisen
Hook at what we have, a line of showers and thunderstorms thats moving into the area. Th stormstr i those storms are moving to the showers like we did yesty. Pennsylvania at thishooror northeast at now 20 to 25 miles nowyono t fn 68 70 an hour and within that line some heavy downpours. Just approaching the harrisburg area, the rainfall coming down yesterday morning. Apromhe. Fog was a little thicker no showers in the cape may area at a rate of close to three yet. Or in phiderhat matter. But look at this line of very inches per hour. That rainfall very heavy along heavy showers and these are on the front line of that shower the move too. Qukly moving into activity that is pushing toward elphiasard hielf inhil harg aa. Just a few minutes away from the philadelphia area. There are a few showers to our arriving in harrisburgy 45 north this morning. This morning. There are showers that are scattered and light in the nc arriving withrms pocono mountains, the showers he may bard. And thunders
All by myself anymore were you trapped in an airport with nowhere to go . The lipsyncing on the wait for a flight to las vegas. He made it himself. And he joins us live, on gma. Maybe it was a rain delay. Rain drops we saw on our cameras with that passenger, facing the dreaded cancellation, the last flight out. Cant get it. You will not believe how she was able to do this all by himself. Just him and his ipad. Just incredible. Thats one way to pass the time. That is. We will talk to him later this morning. We have a lot to get to. Beginning with the stunning election rocking washington. Eric cantor, beaten by a longshot tea party candidate. The first house leader to lose a primary like that. Abcs jon karl is following the fallout. Good morning, jon. Reporter this is a political earthquake. Eric cantor was widely considered to be the next speaker of the house. Now, she stands defeated, beate by a virtually unknown tea party challenger. Thank you. Reporter a stunned eric cantor, one of t
Good evening on a very busy wednesday night. Diane is back tomorrow. We begin with the massive upset in washington. The republican leader suddenly out. No one saw this coming including hip. Eric cantor once a rising star in the Republican Party defeated by an underdog. Cantor, less than he spent eating out. How did he explain his loss moments ago. Abc leading us off. Reporter House Majority leader eric cantor said tonight hes stepping down. Not in disgrace but in a defeat he saw coming. Im going to leave the political analysis to yall. He lost to dave brat. An unknown College Professor on a tea party wave. He orchestrated from his tiny virginia headquarters with only two staffers. How different were their campaigns . Cantor 5 million, 50 times more than brat. Candor wrote 9,000 checks for private jets brat spent at walmart. When we talked to brat last month he pulled up outside the capitol in his chevy. A stark contrast from the motorcade that made his rival seem unstoppable. I will be