To you, everybody, on this wednesday. Were going to start with an emergency session set for today at the United Nations over whats being called a war crime in syria. Dozens of civilians have been killed after government warplanes dropped suspected toxic gas on their own citizens. We warn you, the images of the suffering can be very difficult to watch. Abcs lana zak has the latest. Reporter the horrific brutality. The Syrian People the victims of a suspected chemical weapons strike by their own government. Young children and babies among the victims of one of the worst attacks in the history of this civil war. The death toll continues to rise. The injured struggle to breathe. Rescue workers racing to rinse a toxic substance from the skin of victims. The assault unrelenting. Even as this local activist reported from one of those hospitals, it was hit with another air strike. The suspected sarin gas attack follows two chlorine gas attacks over the past week. The gas attacks are continuing
An ad outrage. The new pepsi commercial featuring Kendall Jenner sparking a huge firestorm. Using protesters and police to sell soda. Critics calling it tone deaf. Social media having a field day. Will the ad be pulled . Good morning, america. It is a busy wednesday morning right here and, boy, you got to say if Kendall Jenner and pepsi wanted some attention, they got it. Yeah, theyre getting a lot of it this morning. A lot of backlash this morning as well as being compared to this famous image of a black lives matter protester and a lot of people taking exception. Perhaps not the attention pepsi was hoping for. Well have much more on that coming up. First President Trump facing one of his first major challenges overseas, the crisis in syria. The white house is condemning that chemical attack that killed dozens of people. The worst there in years and the u. N. Security council is now holding an emergency meeting about this today. Our chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here
Buzz. Here we go again. Cant wait. Beautiful day today right david and karen. Beautiful day t nice to see allen has a sense of humor. We have clearing going on, clouds farther north and east you go of philadelphia. Expecting lots of sunshine today. Temperatures treating us pretty well early. 60 degrees on the bus stop in philadelphia, 56 degrees in allentown, 58 in wilmington, 54 in cape may. These numbers may drop a little bit but its going to be a fairly comfortable start with winds on the light side and karen has been talking about fog right now and visibilities we do have it around trenton and over toward the airport in Atlantic City and towards toms river. In philadelphia though it looks like were in for a nice bright start. 53 degrees by 7 oclock, by noon, 60. By 3 oclock, 67. And this is one of those little unusual days i guess where that high of 70 is probably not going to hit until very late in the day, say, around dinnertime tonight but still pleasant as we build up toward th
An ad outrage. The new pepsi commercial featuring Kendall Jenner sparking a huge firestorm. Using protesters and police to sell soda. Critics calling it tone deaf. Social media having a field day. Will the ad be pulled . Good morning, america. It is a busy wednesday morning right here and, boy, you got to say if Kendall Jenner and pepsi wanted some attention, they got it. Yeah, theyre getting a lot of it this morning. A lot of backlash being compared to this famous image of a black lives matter protester and a lot of people taking exception. Perhaps not the attention pepsi was hoping for. Well have much more on that coming up. First President Trump facing one of his first major challenges oversea, the crisis in syria. The white house is condemning that chemical attack that killed dozens of people. The worst there in years and the u. N. Security council is now holding an emergency meeting about this today. Our chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with all the latest. Goo
Bill oreilly is gone from fox news and this week a third figure left the network, copresident bill shine. Fox says it has cleaned house amid the Sexual Harassment scandal, it has diversified the leadership ranks, reformed its hr office. But the wild part now is this justice investigation of the networks practices back during the ailes era. There were big new leaks about the probe this week including this wall street journal story reporting that prosecutors have interviewed Network Executives and on air talent asking about Sexual Harassment settlements. Lets go to joe flynn in l. A. , hes a media reporter for the wall street journal. So, joe, youre reporting people who have been brought in, some subpoenaed, speaking with investigators, prosecutors, and even a grand jury. Whats the most important new information you learned this week . Well just to correct, we didnt report about a grand jury. I cannot say that a grand jury has been summoned yet to this case. But some former onair talent,