Back to normal at the airport. Also, breaking right now, a shark tack forces a delaware beach to delay its opening tomorrow. This happen at cape hen low penn state park Authorities Say a 1684 old boy was swimming he was bitten on the arm by shark this afternoon the teen used his other arm to break free. He was then taken to hospital and interested for gashes on his forearm. Also tonight, flash flooding. Drivers stranded when fast rising waters overwhelmed some roads. Even trapping this van in Montgomery County. Good evening, im chris may. Im jessica dean. We have team three coverage top nights flooding well begin with meteorologist kathy orr busy tracking this run of unsettled weather weve been seeing kathy. It was wild afternoon as a flood advisory turned into a Flood Warning. Weak boundary set and late this afternoon focus mechanism for showers and thunderstorms and some heavy downpours right through montgomery and northern parts of Philadelphia County and it blew up creating signifi
Im betty nguyen. All eyes on congress as they return to a hard sell of military intervention. President obama is gearing up for the sixth Network Interviews that he is going to be taping this afternoon. Very busy man all part of his fullcourt press strategy and ahead of the nationwide address tomorrow night. A new moveon. Org commercial is urging congress to reject the proposal and its apparently how congress is leaning right now as it returns today from a fiveweek recess. In the house, 227 are against military action or leaning towards a no vote. 25 are for military action. 181 still undecided. Now, in the senate 27 are against it or leaning no. 23 are in favor, with 50 undecided. We have Team Coverage with nbcs tracie potts in washington and nbcs jim maceda in turkey. We begin with tracie. Lawmakers facing a momentous vote there in washington. What do you know about that. Reporter that process starts this afternoon, betty, good morning, everyone. Thats why the obama administrations m
Secretary of state john Kerry Holding a press conference right now but British Foreign secretary william hague, it comes on the heels on a weekend spent lobbying european and arab partners. Were looking at live pictures right now. Only france has publicly called for air strikes and while kerry says saudi arabia backs them, the saudis have stopped short of saying so publicly. Israel has reinforced their iron dome Missile Defense system. The u. S. Would notify israel, quote, hours before a u. S. Strike. The country fears damascus could fire missiles at them in retaliation. Pope francis made an impassioned plea before 100,000 during a global day of prayer and feasting for peace. We have Team Coverage with jim maceda in turkey. Tracie potts is in washington. Lets start with jim. Jim, good morning. What was secretary kerry able to accomplish . We just saw him speaking moments ago there in london. Reporter hi, veronica. Well, there are lots of diplomatic moving parts with meetings in vilnius
Its been almost three weeks since hundreds of school girls were abducted by islamic terrorists in nigeria, and now the u. S. Is sending a team of technical experts in the country to help bring the girls home. Demonstrations continue to take place in cities across the globe. U. S. Lawmakers brought attention to the situation as well with a moment of silence. At least two senators are asking the president to place boko haram on the National List of terror groups. Nbcs ann curry has more. Reporter a first glimpse of one of the school girls who escaped an attempt to hide her identity describing the night she and her classmates were kidnapped. We were sleeping at night. Suddenly there were some soldiers to come in and asked us all to get ready because we were being attacked by boko haram that night. We were happy to be in safe hands but they werent safe, the soldiers turned out to be the very militants who thought they were saving. Secretary of state john kerry called nigerias president for
Theyre also weighing in on the issue. Democratic senator kirsten gillibrand. I think the way the nfl handled this was awful. It was outrageous. They had all the facts they needed. That player should have been fired immediately. So we are now looking to the commissioner to enforce a zerotolerance policy. But given the recent debate, you know, if hes lied, if he lied to the american people, then he has to step down. Because he wont have the force of authority to change how they address these issues. The leagues initial twogame suspension of rice and its overall response to the case also led to powerful statements from sports broadcasters on sunday. Its the biggest mistake of Roger Goodells career. He should have never been in the Court Process because then you have to be the investigator. Then you have to look into all the details. He has other things. Too many inconsistencies. He should be concerned with. He should be the Supreme Court justice. There should not only be a trial court, an