To drown out a farright gathering. President trump first denouncing and praising the protesters who he eventually said were speaking out against hate. Later to one of the men who participated in the rally in charlottesville. Also this morning, a sunday sitdown with adam driver, the marine turned actor broke through on the hbo series girls and became a household face after he played the villain kilo ren in star wars the force awakens. If you walked down the street in new york city probably mainly because of star wars the experience is different than it would have been two years ago. And that kind of it just sucks. It kind of sucks. A sunday sitdown with adam driver a bit later in the show. Lets begin this morning with the protest held on saturday in cities across the country. There were some arrests, but were largely peaceful and a large cry from what we saw last weekend and Morgan Radford was in the middle of the biggest rally on saturday. Morgan, good morning. Reporter willie, good mo
And also looking for a mysterious religious leader gone missing. Did he radicalize the young men who carried out this mission . And remembering a comedian with a conscience. The legendary dick gregory. The activist breaking barriers. When they say this show features living color, you Better Believe it. Fans and famous faces remembering his legacy this morning. Good morning, everyone. We want to welcome you to the show on this eclipse eve. Were counting down the total Solar Eclipse. Just one day away. The first in the continental u. S. In nearly 40 years. Were all over this thing. We have a team spread around the socalled path of totality. Including rob in oregon and ginger in nashville. Will cloudy weather eclipse the eclipse . The forecast and more coming up. Protests across much of the country. One week after the deadly violence in charlottesville, virginia. At that White Nationalist rally. The largest gathering this weekend in boston, where tens of thousands utterly overwhelmed what
Less than ten minutes. New developments in the return of a san jose state professor accused of sexual huh racement. That professor was supposed to come back to the classroom this semester and now it appears he will not. Matt keller live at San Jose State University. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, natasha and reggie. The fall semester has begun at san jose state, but some students are finding out there is one class that is canceled and another that still needs a professor. Thats all because of this lingering Sexual Harassment controversy. Last year, University Investigators found professor lewis aptakhar from the department of education sexually harassed a student. He stepped down as the department chair, however, he was still set to return to teach this fall. Some students questioned the decision to allow him to return. Now we confirmed overnight from a san jose state spokesperson, he will not be teaching at the university this semester. He was set to teach two chances. One
Troops on active duty. Lets go outside to david murphy with accuweather and matt pellman in for karen rogers with traffic. Reporter we have cloud cover popping up through washington and coming into parts of delaware that could cross into south jersey for a time this morning. Generally speaking were looking at overall bright conditions today. 67 degrees in philadelphia. As expected some suburbs like allentown and reading have slipped into the 50s, lancaster 59. 60 in millville. 66 in cape may. 61 in trenton. Your dewpoints for a change are down into the 50s almost everywhere thats an indication of low humidity and thats where were going to stay not only today, but over the next several days, heres where numbers are going today. 66 degrees by 7 00. Noon, 78. 3 00 p. M. , 82 thats the high today. 82 degrees a few degrees below average, low humidity and 80 degrees by 5 00 p. M. , 78 and 7 00 p. M. Tonight. Matt pellman when we step inside well have more good numbers and good news as whe ac
For catastrophic flooding. Tornadoes and a massive surge from the biggest storm to hit texas in more than 50 years. Our team is on the ground in the storm zone with the very latest. Good morning, everybody. Paula is off. Glad to have Abcs Amy Robach alongside me as well as abcs chief meteorologist ginger zee as were tracking the big breaking news on this saturday morning. The monster storm. Hurricane harvey and its tortuously slow march along the gulf coast. Satellite image of where it is right now. It is a category 1 hurricane about 30 miles southwest of victoria, texas, but it came ashore overnight as a ferocious category 4 storm, winds of 130 miles per hour. It made landfall around rockport where the high school we know was heavily damaged. This is the strongest to hit the United States in 12 years and already dealing a devastating blow. Heres what makes this storm so extraordinarily dangerous. Its not a normal hurricane that come as shore and whips people up and buildings up with h