I have the sport including its an emotional day for one australian golfer and the financifinal majors in the pga with a recordbreaking score. The death toll from a Syrian Government strike on a marketplace in duma northeast of damascus has risen to more than 100, the worst single incidents of the war and humanitarian chief on a threeday visit to syria says he is horrified and the war has raged more than four years, almost a quarter of a Million People have been killed including at last 70,000 civilians and another 30,000 people are missing, many of them are thought to be inside syrian jails. The u. N. Says more than 12 Million People in syria need some sort of humanitarian assistance including the basics of food and water and many of them around 7. 5 Million People have been displaced from their homes because of the fighting. And there are more than four million Syrian Refugees that fled to other countries to leave jordan, turkey and lebanon and dana is live now from beirut in neighbor
Tapping in a putt to seal his first pga championship victory. Day finished at 20 under par, the first ever player to win a major with that low of a score. Those are just some of our top stories on this monday, august 17th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. We begin this half hour with the west up in flames. Dozens of wildfires blazing across eight states, turning homes into smoldering shells. The flames driven by erratic winds and scorching heat took a toll on firefighters and forced the evacuation of campgrounds near los angeles. And theres even more damage in the pacific northwest. More now from abcs kayna whitworth. Reporter the view from the air over washington state. National guard crews navigating smokey skies over scorched ground, helicopters making water drop after water drop. But theyre battling conditions that grow worse by the hour as the temperatures heat up. The allout air assault is key to keeping residents and firefighters on the gr
To have beens said feeding your information straight to the feds. Now abc seven news 00, on your side. Kellye the shawl neighborhood in northwest d. C. Dealing with another deadly shooting, this one happening in broad daylight feet from a metro stop. That makes six people shot in that area and barely over a week. Roz plater has the developing story. Today shooter is still on the loose . Roz yes, shooter or shooters. I got an email from the police in the past minute telling me about the car they are looking for. Witnesses said that it sounded like a driveby shooting with multiple shots, a car peeling off, one man gunned down, everybody else ducking for cover. The brace in broad daylight shooting happened just outside of the f street entrance of the shawlhoward metro. At, this man heard the shooting. Rapidfire . It was like boom, boom, boom. You could hear the reverberations between the buildings. Just walkeduple had past the metro and heard the shots ring out. There was like eight strai
First pga championship victory. Day finished 20 under par. The first ever player to win a major with that low of a score. Some of our top stories on this monday, august 17th. From abc news, this is world news now. We begin this half hour with the west up in flames. Dozens of wildfires blazing across eight states turning homes into smoldering shells. The flames driven by erratic winds and scorching heat took a toll on fifrths and forced evacuation of camp grounds near los angeles. And theres even more damage in the pacific northwest. More now from abcs kayna whitworth. Scorched ground. Helicopters making water drop after water drop. But theyre battling conditions that grow worse by the hour as the temperatures heat up. The allout air assault is key to keeping residents and firefighters on the ground safe, but resources are stretched thin. In some parts of the state, the only way to survey the damage is by boat. Oh, my god. These homes sitting right on a lake now just blackened, smolderi
Plunged to the ground. The navy jumper suffered a broken leg. Investigators are trying to determine what caused the deadly midair collision between two small planes in Southern California. The planes were approaching the airport when he this he crashed killing at least five people. Candice crohn reports from san diego. Reporter smoke poured from the remnants of two planes after collided midair, the crash so violent, debris scattered everywhere. I see that black smoke. My god, its terrible. Reporter Authorities Say a saber liner and cessna 1 2 were both approaching brownfield when they somehow collided. The witnesses reported seeing the midair collision and the aircraft hit the ground and we had numerous reports there was fires in the area. Reporter moments after they crashed they burst into flames. You can see charred brush from where a small twoacre fire started. Investigators are working to determine who the planes belonged to to learn more about the people killed. We cant confirm wh