Happens, then i wont complain. This is a special edition of abc7 mornings starting now. Breaking news. Breaking news at 7 00 this morning and lights out and thousands of pg e customers are waking up to discover they are in the dark and more outages are looming. Pg e are implementing these in phases. In the bay area, about 70,000 customers in the dark. And set two beginning at noon which could impact 141,000 more customers in the bay area and talking about primarily in the east bay and the south bay. Welcome to the special edition of abc7 mornings, and right now, there are School Closures because of the Power Outages, and they are scrolling at the bottom of the screen, and you can find them at abc7news. Com. And right now, we want to go to meteorologist mike nicco with the Severe Weather that is prompting the outages. And the worst is not here yet. Good morning, kumasi and reggie. Let me give you an update. The red flag warning, and the watches and the danger, who it is not for santa cl
Washington to honor the civil rights leader and reflect on how far weve come today, wednesday, august 28th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on a wednesday. Im matt lauer. Good morning everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie along with tamron hall. This is where dr. King said those iconic words back in 1963 where president obama will deliver a speech of his own in a few hours and take a look at that very spot 50 years ago today where Martin Luther king had that poignant statement thats been a call to action so many generations afterwards. When you read about the history of this and think of the preparation, a quarter of a Million People gathered on that day 50 years ago in a violencefree protest against a lack of civil rights and jobs. A moment that means so much to so many. Al is there. Hes in washington. Hell speak
To Chris Mcdaniel saying are you going to challenge the results and the response was stay tuned . A nasty finish to a tough race. Mississippi Tea Party Candidate Chris Mcdaniel with a not so conciliatory speech after losing to incumbent senator thad cochran. There is something a bit strange. There is something a bit unusual about a republican primary thats decided by liberal democrats. Thank you all for being here to help celebrate a great victory. This is your victory. Reporter cochrane, who trailed mcdaniel in the republican primary june 3rd spent the past three weeks courting voters outside the gop base, including africanamericans, pointing to federal funds he secured throughout his 36 years in the senate. And to those who say, you know what, you have been reelected time and time again, your opponent says its just too much. Youve been there too long. Well, im the choice the people have made freely and openly. Reporter in the largely africanamerican precinct we visited, turnout was u
didn t know about this secret child. so it s just so ugly. apparently not. clearly a difficult time for maria shriver. she s lost her parents, both of her parents in the last year and a half, and now she s struggling with what appears to be the end of her marriage. and on friday before this news about the child became public, she sent out a tweet saying thank you for all of the kindness, support and compassion. i m humbled by the love. thank you. t as for schwartz neglect zeneggen reported that he s hoping to revive his movie career and there s website schwarzenegger.com that shows a picture about of the former governor sitting at a chess table and the text says stay tuned for high next mo ed fod f. it s clear this is not the next move he was talking about. casey, thank you.
phillips. the state of mississippi s governor says 25,000 homes could be lost in the flood as well as millions of dollars in farm products. a historical first in dublin, ireland. queen elizabeth becomes the first british monarch to step on irish soil. a security scare of a bomb hours before her arrival. pakistan is returning the tail section from the stealth helicopter that went down in the raid on osama bin laden s lair. coming as they hold a hearing on u.s./pakistani relations. have he heard? we all know why maria shriver and arnold schwarzenegger called it quits. the former governor has a ten-year-old child and the mother is not maria but a household employee. when he was running for office and denying allegations of sexual misdone kukt, he would have had a secret child with another woman. let s go live to los angeles and casey wian. fill us in. it is hard to believe that schwarzenegger could become more controversial after his two terms at california governor th