From abc news, this is world news now. A lot to get to on this friday. But we begin with the stunning downfall of a man once a political powerhouse on capitol hill and second in line to the presidency. Now possibly headed to prison. Were talking about former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert. Hes agreed on a plea deal in a criminal hush money case linked to accusations after sexual misconduct. Abcs brian ross has details. Reporter the decision by 73yearold Dennis Hastert to plead guilty means there will be no trial and none of his dark secrets will be exposed in open court. Mr. Speaker. Reporter but in exchange, the former speaker of the house, once second in line to the presidency, may spend time in prison, the first speaker ever to do so. The charges against hastert grow out of his role as a popular Illinois High School wrestling coach in the 1970s. Authorities say hastert sexually abused several teenage boys on the team, and then a few years ago, began to pay one of them more than
Lets end this. Is your iphone battery running down too quickly. Theres an app for that. The facebook app continues to run in the background even if the background refresh is turned off. Facebook acknowledges theres a problem and says that it hopes to fix it soon. One fix may be to delete the app and access facebook from the web until the app is fixed. And netflix wasnt available for about 90 minutes yesterday. But it wasnt just the video streaming service. Hbo go, chase bank, uber and the bbc were also down here in the u. S. All in all, about two dozen sites were not available. Many major sites use the same Cloud Service which admits it had a problem but denies that it was a cyberattack. Everything should be back up and running now. Walmarts stock dropped more than any single day in almost three decades. The retailer expects to take a hit this year as a result of increasing competition. But walmarts problems may be good news for you. Heres abcs rebecca jarvis. Reporter bad news for inv
His estranged wife Khloe Kardashian along with his previous wife and children are by his side. Actor randy quaid and his wife are free this morning after vermont jail. A judge released the couple and dismissed they were judgetives from justice in california. They fled to california five years ago when accused of trespassing and vandalizing a santaarbara home they once owned. Another state could extradite them to california. A terrifying ordeal for a florida man recovering after coming face to face was an eightfoot allitor. Doug brown was fixing a backyard pump near orlando when the huge gator jumped from a canal and chomped down on his arm. Brown managed to yank his arm away and the alligator fell back into the water. His injuries, thankfully, are not serious but hes, of course, still rattled saying that i felt like a horror movie. And a group of migrants hoping to get a free ride from france to england got quite a surprise when they opened the back of a truck only to find there was a
Get back to 66 and try to get bowl eligible here. And the heat, perhaps, will be turned up on kyle flood after a lopsided loss against the Number One Team here tonight. Final ticks, seconds tick away. One final cannon shot. And its 497 for urban meyers team in his first visit to this stadium. All the buckeye playmakers got involved, including thomas, who had a big night. Elliott, another 100yard game. Braxton miller had a big catch. Touchdown run for jalin marshall. Mentioned the sack for bosa. 528 yards total offense for urban meyers team and hes with heather chris, thank you so much. Urban, all week, really all season, everybodys been talking about your offense. So, lets shine the spotlight on your defense a little bit. Minor blip in the last minute, but 59 minutes of some pretty great football. I thought they played great. I thought its been coming. Because our defense has been playing well. You look at the last few games, other than a couple big plays and we eliminated the big play
Lived in arizona and wisconsin. Officials say he communicated on social media with numerous individuals about his intent to return to syria to fight for terrorist organizations. He left the u. S. In 2013. Authorities believe he traveled to syria to fight alongside several terrorist organization organizations. He returned to the u. S. In 2014 and settled in sacramento. When interviewed later that year federal Authorities Say the man lied to them saying he had been in turkey visiting his grand father. Today he was arrested and charged with making a false statement involving international terrorism. He will appear in federal Court Tomorrow afternoon in sacramento. We are learning more fit about a history of police calls at the world school in antioch one of those campus is where video taken on tuesday shows a teachers aide abusing a 9yearold student. Authorities sent us this mug shot of the aide 26yearold the the man of antioch arrested yesterday for felony abuse. Heres more now from Laur