The beatdown that had the suspect sprinting away. Captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The race for the republican president ial nomination exposed some very public divisions within the party. But this may be the topper. The partys highest ranking elected official, speaker of the house paul ryan, is refusing to support donald trump. This is a turn around for ryan who has said for months he would support the gop nominee. Hannah daniels is here in new york. Good morning. Reporter presumptive gop nominee donald trump is struggling to build unity within his own party. On thursday, House Speaker paul ryan declined to support trump while likely democratic contender Hillary Clinton focused on winning california and securing her partys nomination. Donald trump pressed ahead wit his campaign thursday, urging supporters in West Virginia to save their energy for november. Save your vote for the general election, ok
President , john f. Kennedy. For a generation of americans the death of president john f. Kennedy was a touch stone, every one know where they were in dallas 50 years ago today and the shooting and aftermath viewed by millions and carried the news around the clock and a half century later the nation is marking the moment that changed our nation and al jazeera will have continuing coverage of the somber anniversary all day long and later in the hour we will look at the final days of jfk and how reporters captured those moments. Plus we will focus on an unique photography exhibit that has snapshots of his presidency from beginning to end. Very good friday morning and welcome to al jazeera and stephanie si has the morning off. We begin with a historic power play in congress, Senate Democrats passed the so called Nuclear Option, the landmark vote limits the use of filibustering to block president ial nominees and democrats say the move will engridlock in washington and allow president obam
We have your look at proposition 30. Yes, governor jerry brown was in town yesterday. And you visited him. And we might be sitting and talking with republicans. Yeah. A rare thing to happen in the bay area. We have a lot coming up. If youre making your way around the bay today, the reminder the san mateo bridge was closed and a 5. 3 earthquake that a lot of people are talking about this morning and sports going on today. Ritwade with the raiders and giants. Yes. First, the biggest story in the nation or coming out this morning is George Mcgovern. He was known probably best for losing the president ial race to Richard Nixon in 1972. In that election, he won two states and had a long career. He died this morning in his home state of south dakota. He was 90 years old. He was a lawmaker who served the country more than two decades. Susan macinnis has more on his passion for people and the world. Reporter senator George Mcgovern from south dakota was the democrats choice for president in 19
Has been named the new miss america. The third year in a row a candidate from new york state has walked away the winner. Those are some of our top stories today, september 15th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you. We begin with the nation divided by weather extremes. In the west, scorching temperatures, tinder, dry conditions fueling wildfires there, including this fire in oakhurst, california Near Yosemite National Park triggering up to 1,000 evacuations and threatening 400 structures. Elsewhere the mercury is plunging. Heres abcs rob marciano. Reporter in california, a fierce battle hundreds of firefighters attacking a Massive Wildfire in close to triple digit heat. Dozens of houses threatened. Hundreds without power. Were probably going to lose everything in the refrigerator and freezer. Reporter all as temperatures are set to climb higher, possibly reaching 105 degrees in the coming days. Meanwhile it may still be summer, but the big chill came early. Snow i
Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. Im reena ninan. Im dan kloeffler. Talking about the talent competition from miss america last night. The big winner crowned. Well have that later an. Were kind of surprised because we might be able to one up this talent on you think so . Possibly. We may be stopping in the kitchen if thats a hint for what this talent may be. Im curious. A lot to get to. We begin with the growing scandal surrounding the nfl. Yet another pro Football Player has been benched amid an expanding controversy over domestuc violence. Finding himself in the red zone. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell, this banner flown over Metlife Stadium yesterday by a womans Rights Group Says it all. Goodellmust go. Heres abcs ryan smith. Reporter another nfl star player sidelined. Just before kickoff, the Carolina Panthers deactivating defensive end greg hardy. Hardy convicted of assaulting his girlfriend in july. This chilling 911 call came from a neighbor. We need