tribute to the fallen on this memorial day. we remember the sacrifices of our troops and their families. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. it s going to be a wet and soggy memorial day across parts of the north florida and southeast georgia. tropical storm beryl is to blame. you re looking at a live picture from jekyll island, georgia. the storm moves up the coast. we learned a short time ago beryl caused major damage at the jacksonville airport after making landfall and canceling 12 outgoing flights and forced jacksonville officials to cancel holiday activities and thousands are without power this morning. meteorologist rob marciano is tracking beryl. oh, darn! bad timing. but good news to this and get to that in a second. the damage in jacksonville is where it made landfall last night shortly after midnight and came on shore with near hurricane force winds. it was almost classified a hurricane and some folks may argue that. 73-mile-an
clock. it is showing you we are just three days, 14 hours, 59 minutes and so forth until the deadline. now it s the democrats turn to put together a plan to keep the government from running out of money on tuesday. abc news tells you how both sides of reacting after accomplishing nothing. speaker john boehner vehemently described what he sacrificed in order to produce a debt ceiling plan that he says will save the economy. i stuck my neck out a mile to try to get an agreement with the president of the united states, and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the isle, put something on the table. tell us where you are! a short time later. ayes are 218, nays are 210. the debt ceiling passed. boehner s bill passed along party lines. it raises the debt ceiling $900 billion for six months while cutting in government spending without increasing any taxes. it includes a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. senate majority le
and villages causing untold damage and misery. ktvu s janna katsuyama is live in san francisco s japan town where this natural disaster is on almost everyone s mind. well, this neighborhood has been the community and the heart of the japanese people here in san francisco. of them have that on their mind as they watch this natural disaster unfolding. the wall of water 23 feet, seven metres high that came crashing down on north eastern japan pushed people s homes and buildings off foundations and swept cars into a swirling tide of tsunami debris. today people are still feeling shock and waves of after-shock. more than 110 of them, larger than 5/0 with the largest registering 6.8. tokyo s modern efficiency which had ground to an uneasy standstill with high-tech train systems immobilized are slowly coming back online, as are the mobile phone networks. experts say yesterday s 8.9 quake is the fifth largest worldwide in the past century. near the epicenter a piles of car burned l