Then coming up though a daily look behind the days headlines in inside story which starts now. The taxi in question in israel for the holiest in christianity of the church of the holy city. Has close stalls is a tax dispute the reason for the own most precedents of protest or is it because the christian presence in the holy city is and this is inside a story. About welcome to the program churches in his where have long been exempt from paying taxes but the proposed lol may soon scrap sentrys of president the whole interest of faces bank tens of millions of dollars in back taxes its one of the worlds most visited religious places considered by many questions to be jesus christ was crucified buried and then resurrected the chest closed its doors indefinitely on sunday in protest and what religious leaders describe as an attempt to weaken christians in jerusalem how to force it has more. So for a third day now the door to the church of the holy several remains shut people many of them fro
What . Out sports was started many years ago because being a sports fan realized people did not want to talk about sports and sports did not want to talk about them gay issues but we did we knew there was a large group of people. So we talk about the issuesou of homophobia or athletes coming out on their team and so the we became the experts in the area we were the only ones talking about it. And slowly as professional athletes started to come outut of the closet for the Mainstream Media started to pay more attention with the professional athletes those highschool athletes in the smaller athletes the media does not talk much about them but their stories are in trouble to what we tried to tell about sports. Host in your book fair play you talk about the big five correct. Bid big five sports leagues a lot of people say for the nfl even with declining ratings still the most powerful Cultural Institution that we have the nba baseball and Hockey League the big five would add majorleague soc
The pentagon is investigating the circumstances of the strike believed to have been carried out by a u. S. Aircraft. A new report says the fees we pay to use an outofnetwork atm are new record highs nationwide. The average 4. 52. Also at record highs are Overdraft Fees. They now average 33. 07. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, october 5th. From abc news, this is world news now. Hey, good morning. We begin this half hour with the stubborn storm still lashing the carolina coastline after a weekend of historic flooding, even more rain still on the way. Can you believe it . Hundreds of stranded drivers and families had to be plucked from their cars in South Carolina. In fact, so many. Officials say they lost count. At least seven people have died and more doortodoor Search Operations are planned for today. Abcs rob marciano is there. Reporter a stubborn system battering the east coast for nearly four days. And it wont give up. This is deep. Reporter historic rain. For char
Dublin, pleasanton, 580 towards livermore its wet. The fog is really causing a problem. Less an a quarter mile visibility from santa rosa. Just better than two miles in livermore and at the coast. Later on today the ceilings will lift slowly. Its going to take the next several hours and partly to mostly cloudy conditions. Cool in the mid 50s. Straightly stronger system heads our way midday tomorrow. The rain has certainly been enough to keep some people inside. But during yesterdays afternoon commute, pouring rain pelted the bay bridge, which made for dangerous driving conditions. Abc 7 News Reporter allen wong shows us how the storm impacted some last minute Holiday Shoppers and retailers. Retailers in the north bay say everything was going well on the friday before christmas, until the storm rolled in. Its pretty much starts dying when the rain came. I think its like around 4 00. Reporter the Christmas Shopping spirit took an immediate dive as rush hour traffic seemingly ignored the
This morning the fitting farewell to one of baseballs greatest players. And byebye bachelorhood. Americas most eligible man George Clooney could be hours away from tying the knot. Were live in venice where preparations are said to be well under way friday, september 26, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a friday morning. 7 00 out on the west coast. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb, and we have al roker and Natalie Morales as well. Remember when i cried watching the movie the notebook on the plane . Very well. It was nothing compared to last night watching the yankees. Handed you a tissue. Bawling like a baby. Derek jeter this moment here. Wow. Like he has done so many times before. He comes up clutch, bottom of the ninth, gamewinning hit. Yankees win, and jeter goes out a hero. Amazing. Incredible moment. Much more on that with willie geist. Meanwhile, what a mess in chicago