Dday was a pivotal Turning Point in world war ii. Dday was the beginning of the end and thats where we are today. Make no mistake, it was not the end. Months and months of hardfought battles occurred and it took diligence, courage, and strength to eventually achieve victory. Trace the North Korea Post has another word for it vday. Team fox coverage with analysis from dr. Marc siegel. John roberts at the white house. We begin with mike tobin live in portage, michigan. Good morning to you. What is happening at the pfizer plant today . You can see the trucks are back in place. After yesterdays historic days with the first boxes of vaccine leaving the docks the followup today is more boxes of vaccine when leaving the docks. Yesterday 189 boxes were shipped out of pfizer plant here in portage, michigan. That worked out to more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine are scheduled to be shipped out of here. Within hours of the first Shipment Leaving Up
and in the 90s in the southwest. emergency crews have pulled off a dramatic rescue in colorado. plucking a stranded climber to safety. samuel frappier was stuck on a ledge 13,000 feet in a rugid part of rocky mountain national park. the 19-year-old from canada was airlifted and taken to the hospital by ambulance. before help arrived he had to spend the night in the freezing cold wearing only cotton clothing and tennis shoes. i imagine people saying i m stupid. and they are right. it was stupid and i m never going to do that again but i m lucky it ended well. frappier was uninjured. he used his cell phone to stay in contact with park rangers. they say he is an inexperienced climber and had no technical equipment. nsa leaker edward snowden says he wants to come home if the american government decides he will get amnesty. he said he was acting as a patriot when he decided to leak
park of longs peak early wednesday, but the snow-covered peaks and melting ice proved difficult. communicating with frappier by cell phone, the rescuers brought in helicopters to assist. it was just turning around and never come back and 30 minutes later he came back but never got too close. so i wasn t sure if they wanted to help me. reporter: frappier, who s from quebec, canada, was taken to a local hospital and is in good condition. he was hiking with a friend when they were split up in a place the national park service says is meant for experienced mountaineers. he is lucky to be alive. he came down through the notch in an extremely it s so hard in pictures and even in my words to describe how steep we re talking. reporter: josh haskell, abc news, new york. it s not easy to wind up in a spot like that. he was trying to get up there. like he said it is optional to go up and mandatory to come down and he s lucky with only cotton clothing and tennis shoes. what was he th
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flavored ice cream on this thursday, may 29th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good thursday morning, everyone. we begin with growing pressure on v.a. secretary eric shinseki to step down. five democratic senators have joined republicans that are calling for shinseki to be fired or for him to leave. a hearing on the crisis at the v.a. lasted well into the night on capitol hill. this comes as a scathing new report is released about the arizona v.a. hospital considered to be ground zero in the scandal. here s abc s jim avila. reporter: it s official. the president and v.a. secretary got the answer they did not want to hear. cooking the books with secret lists that hid long delays to see doctors at the nation s veterans hospitals is not just a phoenix problem. the inspector general finds the corruption is systemic, throughout veterans hospitals and worse because of the long waits to see v.a. doctors, veterans are at risk of bein