And former Vice President joe biden getting tighter. The abc News Washington post survey of registered voters is a virtual dead heat with biden favored by 49 , trump by 47 . Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 30th. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We do begin with help on the way for new york city. The u. S. Navy hospital ship comfort is set to arrive today in new york harbor equipped with 1,000 beds and a full medical staff. It will be used for noncovid19 patients to free up space in overwhelmed hospitals. The Javits Center in manhattan is opening its doors today with 3,000 beds on hand. In california the Los Angeles Convention center also serving as an overflow hospital as President Trump pushes back the deadline for social distancing. Abcs rachel scott has more. Reporter President Trump, who had hoped to get things back to normal by easter, now extending the voluntary National Guidelines until april 30th. Nothing would be worse than declaring vi
Lets find out more about that with david murphy with your accu weather and Karen Rodgers is taking a look at traffic. Good morning. Every day this week has a chance of some rain and we are starting out with some rain on radar this morning. Couple sprinkles and showers around Delaware County out of New Castle County delaware and parts of the south jersey close to 295 and turnpike. Little will bit more off the coast of cape may. Just about anywhere we could see drizzle this morning and at times we will see those showers. Later this afternoon we will be on the look out for heavier rain to pop in at least in areas south and west of philadelphia. There could be a strong thunderstorm in delaware, south jersey and southern Chester County. 48 degrees right now. Nothing but showers around in a couple spots and upper 40s every where across the region. On the bus stop this morning look for mainly cloudy skies, spotty shower is possible but most of the kid can do without an umbrella and temperatur
Ive got the eye of the tiger thats right, mone davis is ready to roar again. The 13yearold baseball sensation has the whole country cheering her on. Shes a cover girl this morning. Her teams jersey totally sold out. Get ready for monementum. And good morning, america. How about that mone davis . Loving that on the cover of Sports Illustrated this morning. She is the star of the summer. Were going to get to her in just a moment. But we do have a lot of news ahead, starting with that chilling story from iraq. We expect to hear from president obama about this some time today. The video is so graphic. Of course, were not going to show it but it does appear to be the execution of american journalist james foley by isis. Abc news chief investigative correspondent brian ross has been tracking this all night and joins us this morning. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, robin. The u. S. Government has not confirmed the authenticity of have video but the barbaric scenes leave little dou
Photojournalist thiingesy, fo but stillho hope freedom and seeing my family once again, he said but that ship has sailed. It shows another hostage, identified in the video as. O the oobama, feb posting like jim, they are jnts, robin. There are more americans out there. We are told there may be as many as two or three other americans in syria being held by this terror group. Thank you, brian. Okay, guy, thanks. More from the white house and jon karl is traveling with the president at Marthas Vineyard this morning and, jon, the president first heard about this on his way back to Marthas Vineyard from the white house. Reporter thats right, george. This went item to the president. He was briefed aboard air force one on his way to Marthas Vineyard shortly after the video went online and, george, this comes just after the president had congratulated u. S. Troops on some of the heaviest bombardment we have seen on isis targets in iraq that for the first time forced them to retreat and give up
And took the world by storm. Good morning, vietnam his comic genius made us laugh. Masterful dramatic role won him an Academy Award. Williams described by his wife as beautiful human being dies at age 63 of an apparent suicide. Robin williams died at his home north of San Francisco this afternoon parently from suicide caused by a fix ya say investigators fans and fellow actors and medians are devastated by the news and of course his family. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im he yann page. Williams one of the most beloved entertainers of all time. Foxes toes Trace Gallagher takes a look at his career. Reporter he was a pioneer in his field showing his verse at a will the by tackling dramatic roles and being a king of com deem Entertainment Weekly even dubbed him the fun yesterday man alive in 1997. Now Robin Williams has been found dead at the age of 63. They fond respond to do a report of a man unconscious and not breathing and found hill william dead inside his home. His representative