Athletes of the decade. 23time grand slam champion Serena Williams acing the competition on the female side. And lebron james was crowned king on the mens side. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 30th. Good morning, everyone. Great to have andrea here. We do begin this half hour with the monster storm covering much of the eastern u. S. The weather radar shows snow from kansas to canada and along the border. Theres rain falling now from the great lakes all the way down to the coast and down into the southeast. Its making the return from christmas or the trip for new years a misery for many. Abcs rob marciano reports. Reporter a major winter storm now reaching east across the country, bringing winddriven snow, ice, and rain as millions continue to travel this holiday week. Weve got to make sure that we Pay Attention to the everchanging road conditions. Reporter 32 million under weather alerts from kansas to maine. Heavy snow, low visibility, and high winds making
Were back with this big mess on interstate 75 south of tampa, florida. It happened when a truck carrying mail advertisements sideswiped another truck that was on the side of the road. The driver of the truck hauling those ads suffered serious injuries. It took hours to clean it all up. Once that was done, the highway was reopened. And this morning, were remembering the life and times of one of the defining legends of hollywood. Robert evans, a former studio executive behind some of hollywoods biggest films including the godfather and chinatown, has died at the age of 89. He suffered a stunning fall from grace back in the 80s. In 1994 he sat down for an abc interview on primetime live. Were opening up the abc news vault with sam donaldson. Imagine for a moment youd lived your life in hollywood, sat at its glittering corridors of power, romanced major movie stars. Oh, the stories you could tell. The man youre about to meet has done all of that and lots of it. When our judd rose paid a ca
Cemented in history. Im ellee pai hong. And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its superheroes, through the decades. As kids we all aspire be one of these. Not bird or a plane but a superhero. With abilities far beyond those of mere humans and as we grow up our fascination with superheroes doesnt go away. In fact, by judging by the box office reciepts of the past several decades, it only grows bigger. Today, were taking the hour to look at some of our favorite superheroes through the decades, from the caped crusader to wonder woman to your friendly neighborhood spiderman. But we begin with one of the most instantly recognizable superheros and the grand daddy of them all superman. Cloaked in blue and red and branded with a bold letter s, an icon that helped shape all the superheroes to come. Up in the sky, look its a bird, its a plane, its superman superman. The preeminent superhero was born from the minds of two teenage boys living in cleveland, ohio; jerry siegel and joe
Cars were good enough to win. But you get dale up front, hes so good controlling the race and hes got a fast car, as well. But he does an excellent job. Congrats to those guys. The restarts, everything. He just did it right. Came away with a great victory for him and hendrick motorsports. Final run at Daytona International speedway. Dale earnhardt, jr. , his 10th career restricter plate win. Hes won three of the last seven plate races. Great runs for casey mears, landon cassill, all these guys look forward comeing to speedway races. We saw kyle busch in 17th. Averaged a 14th place finish if he wants to get in the top 30. The top 27 when that race ended, only three out of the top 27 were not involved in that wreck. We look back through the remainder of the field. Carl edwards, a tough night for him. Now only nine races to go before the chase. Jimmie johnson with four wins. Multiple wins for dale earnhardt, jr. Clint make sure to let you know any updates we get from the track on the well
What police say happened during several attempted abductions. And hurricane jose heads north. But were already feeling the effect down the shore. Today is saturday, september 16, im scan car barrow, right over to meteorologist, Matt Peterson with eyewitness weather. Good saturday morning, matt, we are tracking jose, now a hurricane possibly headed our way. Three days away from when it will be offer the coastline hereof new jersey, so keeping an eye on it. Right now, kind of depends, it was tracking little bit further west, which means it was getting little closer to the coastline, at times yesterday, but overnight, as it strengthened, it is now pushed out little further back so thats some good news for us. We hope that the trends ask are hoping less and less as we get into next week. We need to talk about this morning, as well, thats dense fog thats developed. On this saturday morning, you take a look at the Neighborhood Network camera here. This is up from broadheads ville, 65 degrees