Calls for travel warnings. The u. S. Braces for a massive storm with record snowfalls predicted. Hello, the u. S. Is making ing a diplomatic push to end the war in syria. The secretary of state, john kerry is in soughted e arabia t meeting with leaders from the gulf. Kerry says he is confident peace talks scheduled for next week will go ahead but did not confirm the exact day it starts. The u. S. Vice President Joe Biden is in istanbul meeting with turkeys Prime Minister. The war in syria is in its 5th year, forced millions of people from their homes. Turkey has taken many of those escaping from the fighting. Our number of countries including the u. S. , france, russia and turkey have all been launching airstrikes inside syria. As we just mentioned, the u. S. Vice president is in turkey, joe biden saying washington is committed to helping ankara and ensuring that isil does not continue its advance toward turkeys border. Today, we discussed how we can improve the support of local sunni
Plus, in search of kim jung ung. North koreas leader hasnt been seen in weeks. The world is wondering where he is. We begin tonight with ebola. The first person diagnosed with the virus in america died today in a texas hospital after being treated with experimental drug. Same drug is being given to a journalist who is being treated in nebraska. Tonight, another patient is in a texas hospital with ebolalike symptoms. Heidi jo castro is in dallas with more on all of this. Heidi . Reporter hey, john. So the death of Thomas Eric Duncan has certainly shook the community here in dallas. There was a Memorial Service for him this evening at a church with his fiance. Although his death in no way augments the Public Health crisis, Public Health perspective, it does feed into the psychological fear in this fight against ebola. Thomas duncan passed away wednesday morning at 7 51. The liberian man was hospitalized for 10 days before becoming the first person to die from ebola in the United States.
And if you want to see how that stacks up against the democratic debates, even with the republican numbers dropping, the republicans are still sitting pretty in terms of the size of the audiences theyre reaching. The democrats of course this year have decided to hide their light under a bushel. So the republicans have done six debates so far. The republicans have only done three. The last two democratic debates with viewership down there in the 8 million range, those were both held on weekend evenings. Not a great time to get big audiences. That scheduling plan is also true of the next democratic debate, which will be this weekend on nbc. 9 00 on sunday. On the sunday of a threeday weekend. Its kind of amazing. The Democratic Party has done everything it can to ensure the smallest possible audiences for their candidates debates this year. But in terms of this next one, the race right now is so tight and its so increasingly snippy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, i dont think
Joining us this hour. Javy friday. The numbers are in on the Republican Debate last night. Turns out it was the least viewed Republican Debate yet. Which kind of surprises me. I mean, in the big picture theres still nothing to complain about. The numbers are still giant. But fewer people watched last nights Republican Debate than any of the others this past year. The first one youll remember was giant 24 million viewers. The second one 23 million viewers. The third one was 14 million. The fourth was 13 million. The fifth one went up a little bit. That was the las vegas one on cnn. That went up to 18 million viewers. Kind of looked like maybe viewership had gone down but it was coming back up. But last night it was back down to the lowest yet. It was 11 Million People watching the main stage sevenkidnap Republican Debate last night in South Carolina. And if you want to see how that stacks up against the democratic debates, even with the republican numbers dropping, the republicans are s
DOWNINGTOWN >> There wasn’t much not to like about Bishop Shanahan’s first foray into the boys’ lacrosse postseason Wednesday, except for one thing: the start.Seeded second in the District 1 2A playoffs, the Eagles looked a bit off at the start of quarterfinal action against visiting Holy Ghost Prep. But Shanahan regrouped to overcome the […]