first, an excerpt from mr. churchill s speech. mr. churchill: from stettin in the baltic to trieste in the adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe. warsaw, berlin, prague, vienna, budapest, belgrade, bucharest and sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what i must call the soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from moscow. an attempt is being made by the russians in berlin to build up a quasi-communist party in their zone of occupied germany by showing special favors to groups of left-wing german leaders. at the end of the fighting last june, the american and british armies withdrew westwards, in accordance with an earlier agreement, to a depth at some points of 150 miles upon a front of nearly four hundred miles, in o
pakistan s only elephant sets off for a new life in cambodia and in sport formula. one driver ramen grows shot has survived a horrific crash at the bahrain grand prix. the frenchman escaped with just minor burns after his car burst into flames. on the opening lap, begin in ethiopia, and a day after the government announced it had completed its military operation in the northern region. the leader of the 2 grand forces says they ve shot down an ethiopian military plane and captured the pilot. the rebel leader told reuters news agency the pilot was on a mission to bomb when the plane was shot down to ground forces also say they ve retaken the northern town of x. some from the ethiopian military. meanwhile, ethiopian state media says at least 70 graves, some individual or some mass of been found in the to green town of america. claims from both sides of the conflict are hard to verify as phone and internet links to the region with cut 3 weeks ago. government said it launched a m
last weekend in march, a lot is going on. reerry blossoms going to be a big draw for a lot of folks. nice to get out there, you think? it ll be an excellent time to get out there. i think a leo ofe were heading out early this morning before the sun comes up. sun is coming up a little before 7:00 i think 6:57 is the official sunrise in d.c. it ll be beautiful, as well. we have a little cloud cover out there. it ll be a spectacular sunrise once che sun doese up. let s go to the maps and show you what s going on outside. we have cloud cover around the area, and that s go tg to continough a lot of the day. we ll have peeks of sunshine but not a full blue sky out there today. temperatures today are fairly mild 52 here in the district. 50 in gaithersburg. 40s, a little cthlly out i shenandoah valley. again, for the most part, we are looking at dry andd nice, m conditions. if you didn t know t cherry blossoms reached stage five in the last 24 hours. they re at t puffy white stag
weekend. the u.s. is looking for a fair trade relationship with china. and the referee in last night s cowboys/raiders game used a folded piece of paper to measure for a down. dallas went on to quick what was the winning field goal in a victory. those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 18th. from abc news, this is world news now. couple of weird calls in the sunday games yesterday, but uh, it is how it is. a lot on the line right now, too. exactly. we again this half hour with the third largest wildfire in california history. some multi-million dollar homes in montecito have been leveled. one firefighter recorded flames and smoke surrounding his truck. we get m are your fi . reporter: fire crews waging an all-out war. crews climbing the california hills with chain you saws, axes and shovels, desperately trying to get the upper hand. the inferno now burning for two weeks. the wall of smoke to thick it blocked out the sun. nearly 800 homes
night s game used a folded piece of paper to measure for a down. dallas went on to quick what was the winning field goal in a victory. those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 18th. from abc news, this is world news now. couple of weird calls in the sunday games yesterday, but uh, it is how it is. a lot on the line right now, too. exactly. we again this half hour with the third largest wildfire in california history. some multi-million dollar homes in montecito have been leveled. one firefighter recorded flames and smoke surrounding his truck. we get more from marci gonzalez. are your fi . reporter: firall-out war. crews climbing the california hills with chain you saws, axes and shovels, desperately trying to get the upper hand. the inferno now burning for two weeks. the wall of smoke to thick it blocked out the sun. nearly 800 homes destroyed. several more lost over the weekend as wind gusts topped 60 miles per hour. it brought the flames