Wrapping up last night in rhode island. Second tour end later this month. Those are some of the stories on this monday. It is may 8th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you, everybody. The start of the workweek. Going to start this halfhour with former president barack obama, looking to defend his legacy as the Republican Health care bill heads to the senate. The former president chimed in overnight accepting an apart in boston. He urged congress to look beyond party lines as they consider the future of health care. House leaders insist their legislation will protect people with preexisting conditions. Senate republicans say they plan to come up with a bill of their own. Abcs Richard Cantu has the more. Awe you are a fraud. You are a phony. And your days are limited. Reporter a tough sell back home for republican lawmakers, pushing the house gop version of heal you are victimizing even more those who are ill. Reporter the main constern what about preep ex
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Chicago police will explain today how they plan top hire a new superintendent. That one day after mayor rahm emanuel called for far reaches reforms. Demonstrators are this morning holding a diein over the shootings deaths of Laquan Mcdonald and ronald john within, demanding that the mayor and top prosecutor resign. I should have given voice to the publics growing suspicion, distrust and anger. Rahm emanuel said he should have done more to change policies that tie his hands on how he is allowed to respond to police shootings, specifically that Police Videos cant be released while an investigation is ongoing. I own it. I take responsibility for what happened, because it happened on my watch. Earlier in a rare address to the chicago city council, rahm emanuel gave a slow angry burn of a speech saying the City Residents deserve answers and corrective action and will get both. He said restoring broken trust will take a long
[ gunfire ] at least 27 iraqi soldiers have been killed today trying to push i. S. I. L. Out of ramadi. As the u. S. Calls for help in the fight gains the group. Welcome to your world, im stephanie sy. And im del walters. The pentagon wants others to step up. Lawmakers question the wisdom of a campaign focused on the air. Dictry Ash Carter Says hes been working to form a larger coalition. I wish that the sunni arab nations of the gulf would do more. They are willing to do so. I had lengthy conversations. So have i. Lets go live to imran khan. Iraqi forces, as we have been forting out fighting to take control. How closer they . What they are is theyve taken over the southwest of a key neighbourhood. That is a number of bridges taken directly to the center of ramadi and the stronghold of i. S. I. L. Fighters and surrounded the city on three sides. This is key. One of the big ways that i. S. I. L. Had to defend, and in ramadi. They had a bridge that was collecting them. Once the Iraqi Sec
Youll see the costumes and the celebrity superheroes as we say good morning, america. Hip to be square hip hip so hip to be square hip hip any morning that starts with megan fox, totally fine with me. Yeah, i agree with you. She is a pretty woman. Well said. Good morning, america. So much more that could be said. Im holding my fire. Coming up, inside comiccon, the pop culture mega event going on in san diego. The place looks a little bit like the bar scene from star wars. Only time youll see thousands of geek groupies uniting. Its become a marketing boom for hollywood. Well get to that later on in the show but we begin with a major scare in the air. U. S. Fighter jets launched into action and a s. W. A. T. Team storming a passenger plane after a man on board makes deadly threats. Its a scary time to fly right now after so many Airline Incidents and accidents just this month alone so lets get right to abcs linzie janis here at jfk with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning, dan and
Secretly left behind. Its hard, still to get up in the morning but this is what does it. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Vladimir putin appears to be doubling down on ukraine stepping up russias role in the fight between ukraines government and rebels there. Tonight, the u. S. And ukraine are accusing russia of firing artillery on ukrainian troops from russian soil, and preparing to move more heavy weapons over the border. It is a dangerous escalation in the most serious tensions between russia and the west since the cold war. David martin begins our coverage coverage. Reporter not every video can be verified, but u. S. Officials say half a dozen times over the past two weeks russia has fired barrages from its own territory into ukraine shell which russian soldiers have been bragging about on the internet, lasts about a half hour and appears to be aimed at Ukrainian Military units fighting the separatist rebels. Joint chi