The bravest girl in the world. How she became globally famous after the taliban shot her and why she cannot, will not be stopped. Diane is here to give us a first look at the story. So moving. So inspiring. Cannot wait to get the rest. May just win the Nobel Peace Prize as well. We begin with the stunning racetrack crash that injured more than a dozen fans and sent the driver to the hospital. Ryan owens is there with the latest. Reporter a scary crash. Not just for the drivers on the track. Several fans ended up at the houston hospital behind me, along side a driver many of them had come the see at the track. And hes still here this morning following emergency surgery. Wow, that is a huge crash reporter it happened seconds from the finish line. One car goes airborne, slamming into the fence that is supposed to protect spectators. It didnt. Debris rains down on fans. Heres how it looks from their terrifyingly close seats. Debris flew inches from my head. It was a big chunk of tire. My f
The commander on the ground made the right decision to withdraw forces. Reporter a Delta Force Team moved into place in tripoli libya in broad daylight and captured one of the fbis most wanted terrorists. 49yearold abu anas al libi. This is highly risky but highly effective. Reporter the operation was carried out after months of surveillance with military precision and great surprise as the wanted terrorists recounted to abc news, pointing to his fathers car. One broken car window not a shot fired. Textbook to move, his car shows up and pull him out of there without any casualties or any of our own casualties is the art. Reporter tonight theyre being interrogated on the intelligence gold mine if he talks. Hes one of the founder fathers of al qaeda. Under indictment for the 1998 deadly bombing of two u. S. Embassies that killed 224 people. And an al qaeda computer and communications expert. With libis capture, 12 of the 22 top terrorists identified by the u. S. After the 9 11 attacks ha
To be able to beat adversity the way she did, is the example of a backtoback champion. Her emotional speech about family. What shes finding about her true strength, only on gma. And good morning, america. What a lovely, powerful night for robin. And, josh, you were right there, walking her up to the stage. Yeah. I was worried about getting her up those stairs, george. But what an honor. A humbling honor to be there for her, on a night when our robin was simply perfect. She was radiant in red and that speech full of hope and inspiration. Listen to this. I draw strength from you. You give me the courage to face down any challenge. To know that when fears when fear knocks, let faith answer the door. That is vintage robin. You can see her drawing strength all through that speech. And yet we think of her as a pillar of strength. Well have so much more of a that amazing night at the espy awards in california. But lets get right now to that raging wildfire, also in california, growing so fast
Wave thats gripping the nation as some 130 million americans continue to bake in some of the hottest temperatures of the year. While the heat wave may be more than half over, misery, yeah, has plenty of company on wednesday. Nbcs tom costello starts us off. Reporter tis the season but boy, is it hot outside. Add in the humidity and the heat indices are at or near 100. From the lakeshores of chicago to minneapolis. From the carolinas to new england. I come out thinking im going to run as far as i usually do, but then i hit the heat and think, let me scale that down a little bit. Reporter in new york two children and nine firefighters were taken to area hospitals after a fire in suffocating temperatures last night. It has vapor barriers that keep the heat in so we have to relieve quite often and make sure we hydrate them. We have this dome of High Pressure which means this air is sinking. Reporter 45 states experiencing temperatures in the 90s or above, many cities five to ten degrees ab
The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate ontinue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer i arrived at my office this morning to a politico on the front page head line blumenauers death panel bill lives on. Its actually a terrific article by jo ann kenan but a terrible headline about nonexistent death panels symbolizes why three congresses later we still have not helped families deal with the most difficult circumstances any of us will ever encounter. This issue hit me with full force 10 years ago in the midst of the Terri Schiavo case. Where we watched one familys tragedy turn into a National Media circus and a political spectacle. All because one 27yearold woman didnt have a conversation with her loved ones to make her wishes kno