Davis. Well have more coming up. A broken pipeline in Central California off the coast spilled thousands of gallons of oil off refugio state beach in Santa Barbara county. Anne makovec has the latest from the newsroom. Reporter the coast guard is going to send up a chopper at sunup to see how far this oil may have already spread. They estimate that about 21,000 gallons of oil spilled into the ocean when a pipeline broke. It stretched for four miles of beach last night and 50 yards into the ocean. A whale was spotted swimming in it yesterday. This is near refugio state beach as. The broken pipeline sent oil into a culvert that ran into the ocean. The cleanup has begun but the level of damage is unknown. We plan to do a first light overflight with a helicopter to determine if the oil has moved. There are wind projections that say that the oil could move two to four miles south down the coast. Reporter the company which owns the pipeline, plains all american, shut down that line and is pr
Morning. Starting off on the vine street expressway where were monitoring a disabled vehicle over in the right hand shoulder. You can see that not interfering at all with the roads. Two minutes headed eastbound from the schuylkill towards 95. Right around third street. Cant see the westbound lanes but they look pretty much identical to the scene as well. No problems heading into center city area. 95 or the schuylkill expressway and the blue route looking great southbound up towards 95. For mass transit we did have a rough week with mass transit. All normal Service Resumes for amtrak, new Jersey Transit and septa. More drive timescce to come and a check on new jersey roads. Chris. 5 31. Lets take you to breaking news. A flight out of philadelphia from europe was diverted to canada because someone died on board the plane. American Airlines Flight 700 was traveling from Philadelphia International to frankfurt germany. It was diverted as you see on the map to gandor airport in newfoundland
Human health and, of course, were going to continue to do this. At Stanford David louie, abc7 news. While police investigated a is crime spree that spanned several cities yesterday afternoon were learning more what happened inside the gas station in antioch where hostages were held for two hours. Laura . Reporter hi, dan. One of the hostages was the owner of the gas station. He said hes been here 23 years, probably held up about 15 times. Even still, he said yesterdays ordeal was out of the ordinary but to him not terribly frightening. With more than 20 years at this location, gas station owner has made a lot of friends, many who stopped by today to see if hes okay. Just 24 hours after being held captive for two hours by an armged man, he said hes not only okay, he has a message for his captor. I wish you the best in the life and thank you for not hurting us. Reporter as it turned out his station was the last stop on a spree that began with a car theft, a police chase, a crash and a se
Chemicals leaked into the elk river, leaving thousands of people without water. Sex abuse by the Catholic Church, a committee set up by the pope will meet with the United Nations tomorrow. Headlines, im John Siegenthaler, ill see you back here 11 00 eastern, 8 00 pacific time, america tonight with joie chen is next, you can always get the latest on aljazeera. Com. On america tonight losing ground. More of louisianas Bayou Community swallowed whole. Why the hole is from another crisis hundreds of miles away. Not a lot of us left here now. Also, still troubled waters, the taps are on but there are new signs of danger. Should more folks downstream be worried about West Virginias toxic wash . The industry is not regulated and it happened because these were old Holding Tanks which were not properly maintained. And faith in flux. The Catholic Church faces new reports, what a change in leadership may bring. Good evening im joie chen. Thanks for being with us. Getting there but its not over ye
West virginia violations the government report after the chemical leak raises questions about the Company Behind the accident and the facility holding the toxic material. Plus flight formation why do birds travel in v patterns. Tonight the surprising answer. We begin with what can only be described as hope, hope that an american soldier held against his will since 2009 is alive. He is Army Sergeant bo bergdahl, who vanished from his base in afghanistan more than four years ago. Hes believed to be held by fighters linked to taliban. Today word of proof of life, the military says it has video showing him. When and where it was taken is unknown. In a statement the military said this reacting to the video the bergdahl family released this statement def conversation susanna gomezservando joining us now to talk about this is mark lyons. The Truman National security project, and a retired army major. Welcome. Good evening. How does this happen . You know, a soldier gets away from his unit. Th