To make is trihistory at wimbledon. Her biggest rival under fire for her behavior on the court. The call for a crackdown on all that racket. Snow. We do say good morning, america. On this wednesday morning. A huge win for serena at wimbledon but is not the only one making headlines. Making noises. Is sharapova. Absolutely with the grunting or the groaning or whatever you call it. Were going to get into that later. Youll hear it up close. I am. Im on my way to wimbledon. Ill be bringing it to you all. Well begin with that dangerous weather. More than a dozen states on flood alert. Ginger tracking the rain and wind. You can see right here this is from arkansas the street covered, someone this their car watching this happen. You know theres going to be dozens of water rescues and there were including all the flooding reports. Check that out from oregon to massachusetts. The bulk abilene, texas, 8. 26 inches of rain the most theyve ever recorded in history. One of the members of the ground
Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night and we begin with the chaos and confusion that had a whole nation holding its breath today. Two computer scares and a meltdown at airports across the country. Thousands of flights cancelled or delayed, stranding passengers from california all the way east to boston. United airlines now apologizing, blaming computers. Later today worries on wall street, the New York Stock Exchange paralyzed for hours, blaming a computer glitch. For a time real concern, could they possibly be connected . Tonight we know they were not but those computer malfunctions sent many scrambling. We begin with abcs jim avila at Reagan National airport tonight. Reporter gates overflowing, ticket counters jammed, checkin kiosks dark, delay boards bleeding red, some totally blank as lines of passengers snake across the United Airlines curbsides. When we came in we could barely get into the door because the lines were so long. Reporter the nightm
As we heat up this afternoon, well see scattered showers and thunderstorms redevelop by the afternoon and into the evening. So temperatures will be a little bit lower today in the upper 80s. Still warm and sticky through the afternoon. Well talk about more thunderstorms for tomorrow. Larry, over to you. Thanks, allyson. Everything still running on schedule. Buses and trains, good news there. Its 395, the northbound side that we have some trouble. For those of you going through that area, want to let you know two thru lanes on the northbound side of i395 are closed as a result of an accident. One of our web producers is actually making her way up this area. She took a picture for us that she posted on twitter to show us the situation there. So you can see not only emergency crews, tow trucks but the situation. Were seeing delays all the way from shirlington circle. Heres a live look from our camera now. You can see all lanes pretty much crawling for the most part. You can account for th
The songs written by english musicians. Tom veidman being quoted. Here are the top headlines. Vonnie the New York Stock Exchange at a computer glitch that knocked out trading for three hours and theyre looking at a software update. They must verify the calls and reports to regulators. The president of the nyse said trading was suspended because he didnt trust the exchange system. We chose the least disruptive option for customers which was wrote out the problem and put up plan and place to fix it, fix it, and reopen and there was no work for customers to do to connect to the exchange. Vonnie trading was halted but shares still traded on other venues like nasdaq. Greases under the gun today to come up with an economic reform plan to stay in the euro area. European leaders are giving greece until midnight tonight to present his proposal. They want more spending cuts before agreeing to a new bailout. The imf chief Christine Lagarde says the fund is ready to help in greece might get specia
Yellen speaks at 10 30 12 30. The best showing against the yen in a couple of years. China got an update but showing there might get you arrested. You see shipments suffering. The steepest decline in almost two years. And facebook also higher premarket. How the company is looking to crack into the Music Distribution business. First up stocks on track to open strong. We have this morning on the hopes of a new proposal in greece will end the impasse and result in a bailout deal as we get ready to wrap up a volatile week for the market and week with hacks and glitches. Its been a difficult to watch question now is what happens with this deal and even if it gets done sunday what happens then some. This deal is not as good. Merkel should hate this deal even more. The Greek Parliament the right in merkels party and the left of tsiprass party cant like this but maybe theyre not loud enough. The one thing i would point out. Yesterday i said i didnt like it. Now i said listen this rally, you kn