Actresses echoed the theme of female empowerment and that a new day is on the horizon. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, january 8th. From abc news, this is world news now. And that was such a powerful speech by oprah winfrey. There were so many people saying that was her opening speech for president ial run in 2020. Oprah has said since that she has no plans to run for president. Thats what they all say. Thats what they all say. Yes, exactly. But were going to start this half hour here on the east coast and the cold weather nightmare moving its way east. Right now were liking at a live radar, this new storm is moving in as we need another one moving our way. Temperatures are climbing above freezing in many parts for the first time in a week or two. Many for the First Time Since the new year. Well have that forecast in just a moment. You see the storm there over atlanta, Atlanta Metro schools are closed for the day because of the possibility of ice. In the meantime, the
They put 8 goals past them to set up a 5th round tie Sheffield Wednesday. And meet the ancestors dna analysis of the oldest skeleton found in britain shows he had dark skin and blue eyes. Carol has the weather. Good morning. Its a cold start to the day. Cold gcioss its a cold start to the day. Cold across parts of Northern England but across parts of Northern England but afair bit across parts of Northern England but a fair bit of sunshine. There is also going to be some snow in the forecast. As you can see, my spanking new graphics. More in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The worlds most powerful rocket, the falcon heavy, has successfully launched for the first time. American billionaire elon musk, whose Company Space x is behind the project, has called it a game changer for space travel. Keith doyle reports. This is Ground Control to major tom. This is not a scene from a film. This actually is a car and an astronaut dummy in space with david bowie playing on its musi
Lauren is chilling, enjoying little time off. Welcome to the program. There is a lot going on. Yes, there really is. A lot of event taking place. In and around center city. We have some rain head in the our direction today all courtesy of whats been happening in the tropics. Take a look right now at the infrared satellite perspective. It is new Tropical Storm. But take a look at some of the images along the gulf coast, along the biloxi, mississippi area, a lot of high water rises there, due to the storm surge, and also, damage there, with power outages, et cetera, all courtesy of nate t made two landfalls, the first, yesterday evening, along the mouth of the mississippi. And also, the second one around biloxi, mississippi. We focus in on whats been happening, here locally, we have the humidity, the temperatures theyre well above average for this time of year. Lets take a look whats happening, the latest on Tropical Storm nate, maximum sustained winds zero seven Miles Per Hour moving to
Good afternoon, everyone. My name is jennifer, im a curator here in the Smithsonians National air and space museum, and i want to welcome all of you and send a quick thank you to our sponsor boeing. Im hoping all of you are excited as i am. As somebody who watches a lot of things on its about space, Jeffrey Kluger is a familiar face to me, certainly. He is the editor at large for Time Magazine, and hes also a local. Hes also the author of multiple books on topics on everything from narcissism to polio to siblings. Notably for today, at least in the context of this museum, hes the author of two books that well bring up, i think, other the course of this time. First, lost moon which he published in 1994 which is the story of apollo 13, of course, the inspiration for that movie. And today hell be not only talking about his new book, but also signing the book afterwards just outside the gallery if youre so interested. The book is apollo 8 the thrilling story of the First Mission to the moo
Erin 7 00. A lot of volume, take a look at 66, Prince William parkway, not the only air area with major congestion, big problems on 210 as well. Well take a closer look at that, allison and steve. Is starting off with headlines in california. Crews still investigating the cause of a deadly plane crash. A family of five, man, wife and three children. Authorities say three people dead, two survived. The family took off from riverside headed home to san jose after a cheerleading competition. It crashed into a residential area. Two homes were destroyed. Minor damage to other homes. Nobody on the ground hurt. Police investigating a deadly shooting. Gunshots rang out. Melanie is all over this one. Shes live for this one. Reporter what were hearing from neighbors theyre saying 30 to 40 heard. So frightened by the sound, they grabbed their family, and loved ones and just went to safety in the back of their homes, heres the ally right here and as the sun is coming up, you can see even more of t