Good morning, new york city and good morning america. Today is a centennial new york city veterans day parade. For 100 years, americans of come together on this day to honor americas veterans and their families. On veterans day, we start the conversation with thank you for your service. We continue the conversation with a friendly how can i help . How are you doing . Tell me about yourself. Today is not about charity, its about honoring the best and brightest talent has to offer. Veterans have a Proven Ability to lead. We are highly trained and skilled workers. We know how to collaborate with our peers and deliver positive outcomes. As chairman of the United War Veterans Council and the producer of today centennial parade, i welcome you. They say freedom is not free, well it is not. 80s hard to achieve and its even harder to maintain. Today, youaudience know this is youve lived at. On behalf of the city of new york, the United War Veterans Council, are assembled via sows and corporate
At a veterans day ceremony and parade in new york city. Pres. Trump thank you very much, stanley, and thank you for your tremendous support of this wonderful parade. Today, we come together as one nation to salute the veterans of the United States armed forces, the greatest warriors to ever walk the face of the earth. Our veterans risked everything for us. Now, it is our duty to serve and protect them every single day of our lives. It is truly an honor to come back to new york city right here at Madison Square park to be the first president ever to attend americas parade. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump to every veteran with us, to the thousands preparing to march on fifth avenue, it will be something, and to the 18 million veterans across our country, the first lady and i have come to express the everlasting love and loyalty of 327 million americans. I want to recognize the department of Veterans Affairs deputy secretary, james byrne, for joining us. Thank you, james. Thank you, jam
Im liz kreutz. Following the american fire. How neighbors came together to help firefighters put out the flames and save their homes. Were watching our winds very closely because they will be ramping upstarting on wednesday and this will prompt a fire width weather watch for higher fire danger. Well have the latest details in the accuweather forecast. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Its fleet week. The ships have arrived and our military is getting ready for multiple events throughout the week. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. Tonight firefighters are still working to extinguish a brush fire burning in napa county, the socalled american fire has burned more than 500 acres. It prompted an evacuation advisory and some neighbors rushed to keep their homes safe. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. Abc7 News Reporter liz kreutz is live near American Canyon with the latest on this fire. Liz . Reporter eric, the fire is burning
Our exploratorium camera at pier 15. Dont worry, no rain is coming. Well have above average temperatures, already nearing 80 around the bay. Well stay in the 70s at the coast. Well hit 80s to 90 by 4 00. A spare the air all day today with the air quality usually getting worse as we head throughout the day into the evening hours. In the east bay valleys and the south bay, unhealthy for those most sensitive. Talk more about the commute with frances. The commute is looking great. A live shot of the bay area, you can see the only sloei ingslowi seeing is through tracy. There was an accident on westbound 580 through tracy that has been cleared. It is slow on 280 approaching the tracy area. And 205 heading through the altamont pass. The drive time on this stretch is yellow at 42 minutes. Southbound 680 looking good, dublin to mission boulevard south. We have a live shot of 680 in walnut creek, that southbound traffic on the right near geary, looks good towards highway 24. No problems in the
Custody. President obama was in fact inside the white house at the time having just returned from Arlington Cemetery for the memorial day ceremony. Police are hoping a witness may come forward after a deadly shooting at a Shopping Center in woodbridge, virginia. Police got calls for shots fired in a parking lot. When officers got there, they found shell casings and no victim. Friends of the victim drove him to the hospital where he died. Someone saw something. When we arrived, a lot of people scattered. What we need is those people to come forward and give us that information that they know. Investigators say that shooting happened as a bar was letting out. Only on 4 tonight. A maryland state trooper hurt in a bad accident on new years eve back on the job. The trooper himself says he survived the crash on i95. The trooper is actually eager to get back on the helping a couple whose car was stranded here on the side of i95. He says cars were zipping past him at 70, 80 miles an hour while