Amid growing concern that iran is planning to attack israel in retaliation for the bombing of its consulate in damascus, syria, earlier this month. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley and im dionne lim. Tensions are escalating in the middle east as the world braces for whats expected to be a direct and unprecedented attack by iran on israel. Now, this comes as the us military moves additional assets to the region in the hope of deterring iran from a large scale attack, as well as bolstering protection for us forces already in the area. We are certainly mindful of a very public and what we consider to be a very credible threat made by iran in terms of, potential, attacks, on israel, and that we are in constant communication with our israeli counterparts, about making sure the, that they can defend themselves against those kinds of attacks. But were watching this very, very, very closely. We are devoted to the defense of israel. We will support israel. We will defend he
September 21st, more than two weeks ago. Family and friends have been desperately searching for her this whole time. Yesterday a hospital worker finds a body in an exterior stairwell on the fourth floor. If this body is lynne spaldingss, as i said repeatedly today there are a lot of questions San Francisco general will have to answer as to why that person was not found for 19 days. San francisco general not saying much right now. Only that the situation is distressing and that finding out what happened is top priority. To that end, police are investigating, talking with staff and combing through surveillance video. Also investigators have cordoned off the stairwell where the body was discovered calling it a crime scene. Live in the newsroom, abc 7 news. Thank you. This morning a Stanford University professor is one of three researchers whos won this years nobel prize in chemistry. This morning the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences honored the work of Michael Levitt along with scientist
Of how long it would be closed. All theyll say right now is its going to be a while. They havent released any details yet on the driver. Their investigation is still under way. Live in richmond, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Amy, thank you. A check on the morning commute. Its definitely affecting you if you are going to be traveling through richmond. We are getting folks reporting bumper to bumper traffic. It looks like berkeley is also starting to slowdown significantly. Weve got plenty of red as you come out of East Richmond and towards el ser rcerrito. Traffic building up. Give yourself an early start. Right now we know the off ramp Central Avenue to westbound 80 going to be shut down until further notice. As we talk about drive time traffic, 101 slowing down into San Francisco. Across the golden gate, quite a few extra headlights in the southbound direction. Across the bay bridge, its actually going to be about 15 minutes now. Looks like more traffic is heading away from the maze acr
Im kristen sze. Im eric thomas. A sig alert could make a mess of the morning commute after a fatal accident on interstate 80 involving a suspected dui driver and the chb. Abc News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in richmond with the latest. Amy . Reporter eric, look at the car behind me. It flew off of the freeway, rolled down that embankment and landed right there. This is on the exit ramp for central here in the richmond el serrito border. The driver did die. The off ramp is closed. He was westbound on interstate 80 passing a construction site when a chp officer who was at that site saw him passing and noticed his front tire was so flat he was driving on the rim. The officer was going to pursue him to see if he needed help. To see if he was drunk. Just to see what was going on with this guy. But investigators say they dont even know if the officer had time to turn on his lights and siren. That this all happened so fast. They put out a Little Information over the radio. All of a sudde
Now hes charged with espionage. Whats the paper doing about it this morning . Well talk about it live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning, im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. For Hillary Clinton the question never seemed to be if she would run, but when. That answer came sunday. Everyday americans need a champion and i want to be that champion. So you can do more than just get by. You can get ahead. And stay ahead. Because when families are strong, america is strong. Now fising the first full day of her new campaign she is on the road and in the flesh. Even surprising motorists at a gas station in pennsylvania. It was a pit stop on the 1,000 mile drive to her first event in iowa. Later today, senator marco rubio tries to wrestle away the political spotlight with his own announcement. He will become the third republican to formally join the race and what is sure to be a jam packed gop field. Were covering both candidates and their impact on an election thats still a year