First visit to the u. S. Only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. What a moment at the vatican. Abc news there exclusive ly for an historic event getting ready for his first ever visit to the u. S. And maybe news on the issue of abortion. Big announcement coming up there. Right to the extreme weather making it a steamy start to september. The east coast set to bake in above normal 90degree heat and in the southwest, more rain, powerful wind. Ginger zee covering it all. Good morning. Good morning. Strong monsoon storms taking trees down, putting them on top of cars and sounded like this in phoenix. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Up to an inch and a half of rain. There were water rescues and power outages, 65,000 in phoenix to this in brownsville, texas, 4 to 6 inches of rain especially north of the city. A lot of the drains couldnt handle it and charleston, south carolina, had their fifth wettest day on record. Heat pushing on the east up into minnesota, some places enduring 10 to
By no means a wash out to end the weekend. I will have the full forecast coming up. We will talk beach forecast and potentially the second heat wave of the 2015 summer season. Andrea and diane, back to you. Thank you. Top story, broadway is mourning the death of the first africanamerican actor to play the lead in Les Miserables. The tragic accident has taken everyone by surprise. This is one of the last photos kyle jeanbaptiste performed online before playing the character jean valjean. Ilana gold is live outside the Imperial Theater in midtown with more. Ilana. Reporter his death is a tremendous loss to broadway. He made history at the Imperial Theater with Les Miserables. Todays matinee will go on without him. This you tube video posted on thursday shows the last time kyle jeanbaptiste under studied the lead role of jean valjean in Les Miserables. A star was born and he american and the youngest actor to ever play the role on broadway. His success ended abruptly late friday night. He
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And six years of age, they were fighting on the playground over my shoulder and that they were videotaped fighting and shared those videos were shared on snapchat, but the Prosecutor Says she has the videos and that these two women day care workers have been charged and fired. At light Bridge Academy here on southeast avenue and in cranford, new jersey, reps inside did not want to talk about this. We are covering the story about the kids. Reporter the Union County Prosecutor alleges kids were encouraged to fight by day care workers inside and then videotaped in the playground here in august. Do you hear the day care workers in the background or do you see them on the video encouraging this . You do. You see the day care workers encouraging and incidents gating fights instigating fights. Reporter two day care workers encouraged the people to kids to fight and one recorded it and sent it to friends via snapchat. They were fighting, throwing each other to the ground and the day care worke
A close family friend has known her for years and considers her family. In spanish, she tells me that shes a loving mother with strong christian faith. What was your interaction when you would see her . Hi, how are you doing . So very nice. So personable. Reporter her family has strong faith that shes going to make it out of this crash, out of the hospital bed and fully recover walking down the aisle in the fall. Were live in the belmont section of the bronx, im ray villeda. Ray, thanks so much. A Memorial Service was held this afternoon in virginia for two journalists shot and killed on live tv. Alison parker and adam ward were killed on wednesday by a former coworker during an Early Morning live report. Today, family and friends gathered to pray and even laugh in honor of these two young journalists. Adam and alison saw it as their mission to awaken us to what was good and fun in life. I want to play softball with adam again and i want to see alison dance. And i will in the wonderful