Is fighting back blaming the cruise line. Plus, two famous women. One important cause. Lorena bobbitt and amanda knox tell us why theyre teaming up. A change at the breakfast table. How an iconic cereal is changing shape and a sign of the times. Oh. And forget the mall or the mail. The new way to reach santa on the final days before christmas but itll cost you. Good wednesday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We do begin with a nasty morning commute for millions of americans right now. Snow and rain are falling in the northeast. Take a look. This was the scene a few hours ago in painesville, ohio. Tough to see there. About 30 miles from cleveland along lake erie. Light snow is possible during the morning commute today from washington, d. C. Up to philadelphia where its not expected to accumulate on the roads but could create slick conditions. Some areas around new york city and into new england could see a couple of inches this morning before the bitter cold arrives. Meanwhi
Honoring america with dazzling displays of fireworks across the bay area tonight. Legal and illegal. Good evening. Happy fourth of july. Were going to start with the illegal fireworks in many communities still going off now. In some cases the fireworks are as good as the ones the pros use and officials are cracking down. Abc 7 News Reporter live in emoryville with the danger they pose. Reporter a lot of official fireworks displays across the bay area wrapped up. We have been watching illegal fireworks displays for several hours. Over the skyline of oakland there are some going on right now. Before the sun set on this fourth of july the unofficial fire work displays went off. This is cell phone video of illegal fireworks in oakland. Police and fire across the bay area have been concerned. We urge people with the dry conditions that fireworks can be very damaging. This is why theyre concerned. Crews spent hours battling a brushfire in the Oakland Hills. Justin graham noticed smoke before
Team usa clipped japan in last nights world cup final. Reaction coming up. Those are some of our top stories on monday, july 6th. Captions paid for by abc, inc. From abc news this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. We start this half hour with a financial crisis in greece. Voters overwhelmingly refusing the strict terms of the international bailout. Greeks celebrated in the streets following the 6139 vote. Siding with their new Prime Minister hoping to negotiate a better deal with creditors on the country. Greece is in danger of having to stop using the euro. And maybe forced to introduce its own currency. In the end, a lot of this is political. You have a european elite able to say we know what were doing, trust us. Instead, its starting to look more and more like they have no idea what theyre doing. The European Union called a summit for tomorrow and greeces finance minister announced his resignation. The decision is having an impact on world Financial Markets and o
With t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Good morning, everyone. Good to see you. What a game. I decided to give the kids a bath was like the first 15 minutes of the game okay, i was livid when i came and it was four goals by the 16th minute, there were four goals. You missed it for bathtime . Let the kids stay funky for just a few minutes and catch the game. I wish the women had told us this was going to happen. 16 minutes in i thought, wait, did i miss the timing of the game . Was this last 16 minutes left . It was real. Let me tell you, carli lloyd, you know her dees are only going to skyrocket. Her agent was popping champaign three minutes in. She could sell me depends this morning and i would buy them. Anything she sells, i dont need i would buy. She is a rock star. Something a little inappropriate of all products. Were going to start with team usa. They are once again world champs of the world cup. The victory lafferty night against japan was quite the memorable one. The americans came
Continuing to be gracious host. This is our fifth year producing this series, and your attendance is testimony to its success, said thank you very much. It is my distinct honor to introduce dr. Faulkner, one of the primary historians of the American Experience in world war i. He is a graduate of that other university of kansas that i will not mention, but as the author of two books of the American Experience in world war i, the first call the school of hard knocks about, experience and the second, which was just published called pershings crusaders, a detailed examination of 1917 and 1918, and you are about to get a presentation on some of the challenges they faced when they arrived in france about how to get across that protected area so they could get to the enemy and force a decision. Please join me in welcoming dr. Faulkner. [applause] show less dr. Faulker good afternoon. I would like to thank the Dole Institute for providing me an opportunity to lecture and for their continued su