surprise move in greece that may delay or even derail the european debt deal and threatens the entire world economy. the greek cabinet ended a seven-hour meeting early this morning by agreeing to the prime minister s call for a referendum on the debt deal but also calls for the prime minister to resign. he faces a confidence vote on friday. the news that greece might reject the bailout sent stocks tumbling. japan s nikkei fell 2.2% this morning and that follows a big sell-off yesterday on wall street. the dow lost nearly 300 points and is up now just a half percentage point for the year. the nasdaq dropped 77. susan mcginnis is in washington with more on this. good morning, susan. reporter: good morning, betty. this announcement has hit the global markets very hard. the big fear is that a no vote by the greek people could completely unravel this european deal that took european leaders and banks so long to reach. ahead of tomorrow s g-20 summit, french president sarkozy and
abc2 news cheryl conner spent the evening with the family and many of their friends tonight. cheryl? reporter: and people are just now leaving this vigil to honor patrick ward. friends, family and people who barely knew the man came out to honor his life. lanterns are released into the night air drawing attention to the life of 29-year-old patrick ward. tonight is about his entire life. not his final hours. this is just it s amazing. i mean, he he has touched so many people just by being him. reporter: one week after patrick died the baseball field near his bel air apartment is lit up with friends and family sharing their memories. ward did not live the average life, he was born with medical problems which caused him to go blind five years ago. he was not disabled even though he was blind. he was a man and he stood on his own feet and lived his life. reporter: ward managed to give alone and it was in his apartment where the harper county sheriff s office says h
clinging to life but police say he isn t expected to make it. i got a call and it was like shaun, he has been shot. reporter: reality smith grew up just down the street from shaun. i had no words, i couldn t believe it. reporter: of course her whole life and shaun s have only spanned 12 years. he was someone is that everybody knew. that s one person that you would like to be in company with. reporter: friends say he was never in trouble, he played pop warner fought ball for the longhorns. they were playing football them, the little kids, they wasn t he wasn t into the streets. reporter: last night johnson was on the front steps of a home with three other boys. two men came up and started shooting. all four were hit, shaun s the worse. . he isn t expected to make it. my mother this block was never like this. reporter: this woman didn t want to be identified. she said if police got out and walked around and the surrounding creates they would know more pe
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tomorrow. its been a wild night of weather with multiple reports of tornados in the midatlantic and another may be on the ground just southwest of dc, that s a warning there, multiple warnings in western virginia, severe watch for the eastern shore. the radar, that s one intense looking cell there as we go 65 degrees overnight tonight look for muggy and breezy conditions. that tornado and thunderstorm watch continuing, that cluster in the dc to southwest of dc, we could get mornings and places like howard. we will see on that, showers and storms a good bet through the afternoon. some of them could be severe throughout the day. thank you. and as he mentioned tornado warnings have popped up just before 8:00 tonight. not much damage to be found around our area, here we found just some stray rain drops and dark clouds to go with the gusty winds. no real power outages to report in the area, just a few dozen homes without power after the storms came through. so far we have been