After their engagement. Their hot air balloon proposal, a scare that is keeping them in each others arms. Monday, may 29th, memorial day. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. I like, i like the image of that proposal. The proposal. Not sure exactly if it, well get to it, because an interesting story. When it scares the bejeezus out of you. I do. Well start halfhour off with a serious note dmort korea firing a missile landing in the sea of japan. U. S. Officials say the latest test appears to involve shortrange scud missile. It flew nearly 300 miles before landing in japan socalled Economic Zone where there are active fishing boats as well as cargo ships there. There were no reports of damage. The ninth missile test conducted by north korea this year. It is trying to perfect a longrange Ballistic Nuclear missile capable of reaching the United States. U. S. Officials say everyone is in danger. Of this, this, regime is a threat to the region. To japan. To south korea. And in t
Hair day though. I know. Maybe pony tail. I know, i should have done that. Pony tail day. We will try to get you through this. There are a lot of parade. We will talk about them coming up as we are doing double duty to day. We will think optimistic for seven out of 10. Maybe even after the rain end the cloud may linger on, sort of like saturday was but it is definitely not a wash out. So, we will start off with a look at our number of the day which is a seven, the rain, the bulk of which is moving to our north, there is thunderstorms out in the western part of the state that should be staying there, and we have 59 degrees to get started in northeasterly wind at 9 miles an hour and sunrise time at officially 5 36, upper 50s to around 60 just about every where. Allentown 58. To the north of us hazel ton, 52, reading 58, trenton 57, and it is 59 degrees in Medford Lakes and in cape may this morning, 61 degrees, and very damp for your morning stroll on the beach, Rehoboth Beach, 60 degrees
Slightly. The Chinese Markets were closed for the dragon boat festival holiday. The nikkei ended flat. Down by 4. 5 points. In europe, some of the early trading, youll see right now it looks like things are flat for the dax. In germany the cac is off, and in london stocks down by a third of a percent. Crude Oil Prices Last week were all over the map. Ended up down 50. This morning down to 49. 57. Several headlines out of europe this morning. It is the euro moving following comments by mario draghi. Draghi signaling the bank is not yet ready to unwind simplus measures decemb s simplus st s measures. Lets look at the euro, at 1. 11 right now. A greek government spokesman denies that greece will opt out of the next bailout payment. Athens was weighing the option, but the greek spokesman said there will be a solution reached when european minute centers and minute centers and i sglooifrnlgts ministers meet. British airways saying Computer Networks are operating normally today after an outa
The use of chemical weapons in syria. And British Police released new pictures of the manchester bomber one week after he killed 22 people in the city. That, as Intelligence Services launched an internal investigation into whether they could have prevented the attack. Sarah i am sarah kelly. Thank you for joining us. German chancellor Angela Merkel has reiterated her warning that europe can no longer rely on some of its closest allies. Although she did not explicitly mention donald trump, other members of her government did. Her foreign minister chastised trump for weakening the west with shortsighted policies. This sea change in Transatlantic Relations comes after an eyeopening g7 summit in which trump refused to endorse the paratransit a court, would not sign a free statement in helping refugees. Reporter the german chancellor let off some steam after voicing her disappointment at the g7 summit in italy. She was clearly disappointed with u. S. President donald trump and reaffirmed he
Anniversary of the birth of president john f. Kennedy. Americas youngest president ever elected into office. The jfk library and museum beginning a year long celebration to mark the former president s centennial. Those are some of our top stories on this memorial day, monday, may 29th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. We begin this halfhour with north korea facing international condemination over its latest missile launch. The north fired a shortrange missile hours age flew 280 miles, landing in the sea of japan. It is the latest sign that the north is bent on improving its fire power that may one day be capable of reaching the u. S. Abcs correspondent has the latest from seoul. Reporter north Korean Leader kim jungun is making it loud and clear. Nine missile tests so far this year, he wants a variety of missiles that could threaten close neighbors and far away enemies like the United States. The farthest tipped with nuclear bombs. After carrying out two Nuclear Tests l