A special sleep study for all of you insomniacs with tips how to get the rest you need to succeed on this monday, april 25th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. Im diane macedo. Im ryan smith in for kendis gibson. Oh, we can all use more sleep. But theres a lot going on. Dont sleep just yet. And we dont want to lose the viewers, so we dont want to give them too many tips on good sleep. Maybe sleep after this. We begin with the race for the white house. A new strategy to stop donald trump. Ted cruz and john kasich have agreed to join forces to deprive trump of the delegates needed to clinch the republican nomination. Their campaigns announced cruz will focus on indiana and clear the path for kasich to compete in oregon and new mexico. Trump fired back on twitter calling his rivals mathematically dead and totally desperate. Its your voice your vote. Abcs mary bruce is following the Trump Campaign as voters in five states prepare to head to the polls. Reporter
They describe some grueling conditions on their threeday flight from hawaii. Well have more on that and the rest of our top stories on this monday, april 25th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. We begin this half hour with a major development. More u. S. Military personnel are heading to syria to fight isis. President obama is expected to announce the increase later this morning in germany. Battling isis has been a main focus as the president wraps up a week long trip overseas. Abcs Arlette Saenz joins us from germany. Good morning, arlet. Reporter good morning, diane and ryan. President obama today is expected to announce hes expanding the u. S. Military presence in syria. All in an effort to accelerate the campaign against isis. President obama is ramping up pressure on isis in syria. Obama will announce hes sending up to 250 additional military personnel to syria to help local forces combat isis. The new deployment brings the total of u. S. Forces in the country to 30
Well look athiehead to your ea sunday forecast. Im katy zachary. Thanks for joining us. Lets get a look at your first alert weekend forecast. I hope everyone has a jacket on if youre heading out early. We have a 10 to 15 degree cooler temperature out there this morning than we did this time yesterday morning. Well be warming up as we do await upon sunrise. Were looking for full sun for a good portion of our saturday and looking live now at the beautiful skyline. The lights are out. Its a gorgeous crisp morning and were anticipating mild conditions as we move on through our saturday. Cold in the 20s up in the poconos. 41 degrees in philadelphia. Down along the shore not doing too badly 43 in atlantic city, 46 in wildwood. Heres that 24 hour temperature change. 23 degrees cooler in philadelphia than we were this time yesterday. And thats pretty much the case all across the region. But warming up just a bit. 58 to 61 for High Temperatures across the area today. Were looking for mostly sun
Cowed by trump than energized to defeat him, and they look more willing to accept the man whose man offer appears after the word never. President ial is easy. With stop trump going nowhere, signs republicans are tip toeing toward sundacceptanc. Sign one, evidence of surrender by the partys leaders. At the rnc Spring Meeting in florida, Reince Priebus warned, stop trump sympathizers to get in line. Politics is a team sport. And we cant win unless we really around whoever becomes our nominee. And the party went out of its way to disprove trumps charge that its rigging the game. It rejected changes to convention rules. After Mitch Mcconnell seemed to relish the idea of trump losing a multiple ballot convention. Im increasingly optimistic there may be a second what i said somewhat inartfully is that well have a nominee once we get to 1,237. With republicans, including former nominee john mccain threatening to skip the convention, House Speaker paul ryan urged his party to be there. I think
This is the guy remember who was sure that i was born in kenya. My interview with donald trump at a critical moment in his candidacy. Ted cruz and John Kasich Join me as well. Plus, the democrats, Bernie Sanders win in michigan gives him new hope. And the Clinton Campaign new reasons to worry about the midwest. And brand new polls out of florida, ohio and illinois. Theres a lot more uncertainty about tuesday than you might think. Joining me for insight and analysis this sunday morning are republican strategist alex castillanos. Influential radio talk show host hugh hewitt. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Students in history know how familiar chicago is with in 1968 antivietnam war protesters clashed with police at the Democratic National convention in chicago. Ultimately what played out ultimately became known as a police riot, the chaos tarnished the party and led to hubert that fall. And