What do you remember about what happened and how all of this transpired over the next month . Alexis the senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it is called a trial, but it is not a legal proceeding and is at its heart very political. But it had so many interesting, dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd, senator byrd of west virginia, a stalwart constitutional scholar and not a supporter or friend of bill clinton in any particular way, he ended up at one point just throwing up his hands and saying that this should not even have happened, that the trial was misguided. He even told his colleagues that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators played different roles. The house managers were fascinating to listen to. The president s legal team was really interesting. He had a strong array of legal representation there. And he also tried to sort of, what would you say, to try to add, to put some english on the ball. His legalen
Cemented in history. Im ellee pai hong. And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its superheroes, through the decades. As kids we all aspire be one of these. Not bird or a plane but a superhero. With abilities far beyond those of mere humans and as we grow up our fascination with superheroes doesnt go away. In fact, by judging by the box office reciepts of the past several decades, it only grows bigger. Today, were taking the hour to look at some of our favorite superheroes through the decades, from the caped crusader to wonder woman to your friendly neighborhood spiderman. But we begin with one of the most instantly recognizable superheros and the grand daddy of them all superman. Cloaked in blue and red and branded with a bold letter s, an icon that helped shape all the superheroes to come. Up in the sky, look its a bird, its a plane, its superman superman. The preeminent superhero was born from the minds of two teenage boys living in cleveland, ohio; jerry siegel and joe
Singing and how some of the stars celebrated mothers day. They love their mothers. And Tommy Hilfigers daughter ali is here. Shes opening up about her medical diagnosis and how she fought lyme disease. Its something she had as a little girl, and was not diagnosed for a long time. And misdiagnosed. You can get a lot of false positives and positive negatives, however you want to say it. Well values dr. Natalie azar to help us out because it seems like so many people are misdiagnosed that people would say maybe its lyme. Right off the bat. Any way, the country cutie thomas brett is here. Love him. Were talking about video of the year. Hell announce those with us. The weather finally changed, hody. Finally yesterday. I knew what it felt like to live in seattle. Or london or any of those places, yeah. We had almost 10 days of just that raw, cold snap. And then the sun came out for mothers day. And so i went out side with bambino. You did . Little bam. Put him under a blanket and thanked eve
First visit to the u. S. Only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. What a moment at the vatican. Abc news there exclusive ly for an historic event getting ready for his first ever visit to the u. S. And maybe news on the issue of abortion. Big announcement coming up there. Right to the extreme weather making it a steamy start to september. The east coast set to bake in above normal 90degree heat and in the southwest, more rain, powerful wind. Ginger zee covering it all. Good morning. Good morning. Strong monsoon storms taking trees down, putting them on top of cars and sounded like this in phoenix. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Up to an inch and a half of rain. There were water rescues and power outages, 65,000 in phoenix to this in brownsville, texas, 4 to 6 inches of rain especially north of the city. A lot of the drains couldnt handle it and charleston, south carolina, had their fifth wettest day on record. Heat pushing on the east up into minnesota, some places enduring 10 to
By no means a wash out to end the weekend. I will have the full forecast coming up. We will talk beach forecast and potentially the second heat wave of the 2015 summer season. Andrea and diane, back to you. Thank you. Top story, broadway is mourning the death of the first africanamerican actor to play the lead in Les Miserables. The tragic accident has taken everyone by surprise. This is one of the last photos kyle jeanbaptiste performed online before playing the character jean valjean. Ilana gold is live outside the Imperial Theater in midtown with more. Ilana. Reporter his death is a tremendous loss to broadway. He made history at the Imperial Theater with Les Miserables. Todays matinee will go on without him. This you tube video posted on thursday shows the last time kyle jeanbaptiste under studied the lead role of jean valjean in Les Miserables. A star was born and he american and the youngest actor to ever play the role on broadway. His success ended abruptly late friday night. He