announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m rina ninan. i m john muller. solar flares, friday 13th and my last day. i don t know if it is coincidental or what. how do you feel? i feel excited about getting sleep. i feel sad because the great people here and out there that i worked with the last year and a half. bittersweet as they say. we are hoping for tears. some tears? i don t think i have cried since i was 12 years old but i can give you a long face. we have some serious news and begin with the crisis in iraq. islamic extremists are conquering large parts of this country. president obama said the u.s. will provide some aid to the iraqi government. reports say that may include air strikes by drones or u.s. jets, but won t include sending u.s. troops. iran, however, is sending troops to aid the shiite-iraqi government and as it loses
sportosexual. better built with less clothes. they are metrosexuals with better bodies. okay. i m not complaining. they are all over billboards, magazines, tv commercials and they just may spark a new interest in america in soccer. they have at least one fan right here. rina, i think you are with me. taking off. next up, hoping to spark a new love interest from an old flame. robin thicke is pulling out the stops to win back his estranged wife of nine years. paula patton. the 38-year-old baggage claim actress split from her high school sweetheart earlier this year and thicke s latest attempt to win her back, he confirmed to u.s. weekly he s naming his new album after her. that s pretty romantic. it will be named paula after his wife and include the single get her back. will it work? i don t know. you have to do more than that.
good morning. i m john muller. i m rina ninan. here s some of the top stories we re following this morning on world news now . president obama says the u.s. will provide some sort of aid to iraq but not saying exactly what yet. republicans say the administration was caught napping and shouldn t have withdrawn all u.s. troops two and a half years ago. the latest just ahead. the house hanging from a cliff in texas will be burned to the ground today. they decided to destroy it until the property falls in to the lake below. george h.w. bush marks a historic milestone with what s becoming a birthday tradition. his eighth leap from a plane. mr. bush has become the fourth american president in history to reach the age of 90. and the sun will deal us a big blow of matter.
still fresh along with fears of terrorist attacks at home. the next 9/11 is in the making. reporter: the radical fighters are coming from isis, short for the islamic state of iraq and syria. pure islam as they define it. puritanical and intolerant. sources confirm to abc news, president obama hold a national security meeting on iraq but the white house will not confirm who was there or what they discussed. john and rina. susan, thank you. a painful mosquito-borne virus infected 100,000 people in the caribbean made its way to the united states. 40 cases have been reported in the country so far. patients who had recently traveled there. a tennessee pastor who organizes missionary trips say it is important for travelers to protect themselves. we can be as safe in haiti tomorrow as in nashville. good and harm fall all of us as life goes along.
it is going to happen. you heard it from rina. update on a luxury house in texas that s been teetering for days on the edge of a cliff. we have been showing you it all week. the homeowners decided to burn it down. a chunk of the $700,000 home has fallen into lake whitney below and the deliberate burn is set to take place this morning before the rest of the home crumbles. it was built in 2008. they bought it two years ago. if you have an chance, take a long gaze at the sky tonight. the full moon happens on friday 13th. this shot over the world cup fans in brazil. a june full moon hanging extra low in the sky because it is close to the summer solstice and it is likely to look larger than normal. the june full moon is also called a strawberry moon coinciding with the strawberry harvest. the last friday 13th full moon happened three years ago and the next won t happen again until 2049. ever wonder what is in the bottled beer you are drinking?