Legend and philanthropist jerry lewis but the big story on action news is final could down to the eclipse, first total Solar Eclipse visible in north america in 38 years. That is right, celestial event has a whole lot of people very excited, all across the country. So, folks every where are getting what they need while they can before the heavenly show begins. Lets look at the video posted on twitter. Traffic mess in organ but first lets go to adam joseph along pass of totality and very interesting, in missouri. Adam, good evening. Good evening, to you guys. Hey, atmosphere above is sunny way we want it. As more fear on the ground is electrified here, were in the festival called total eclipse of the arts and we have traveled 1400 miles to what he they called saint joes here for locals because it is a very rare celestial event here in the path of totality. Now if you have not witnessed totality in this spot in 214 years. Although it is a very small town about the size of wilmington, the
For manipulating lotteries in five states, earning millions. Tonight, how he rigged the numbers. And good evening. Thanks for joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. We begin tonight with the clock ticking down on the eve of this historic cosmic event. The moon completely blocking the sun, turning day tonight. A sight no one has seen in america in nearly 40 years. Anticipation growing as millions get ready. What you need to know to stay safe. The path cutting across america from the northwest to the southeast. Abc news correspondents are standing by along the way, including matt gutman, starting us off tonight in oregon. Reporter tonight, spectators from around the globe scrambling to witness history. Small towns with big views like prineville, oregon. This is all heading into prineville. Reporter teeming with crowds vying for a clear shot of the Great American eclipse. The 70milewide shadow cast by the moon will speed across a ribbon of the country stretching from oregon to South Ca
Telethon. And millions are heading to the path of totality to view the total eclipse, the first total eclipse seen in america since 1 1979. Well have more on this cosmic event on this monday, august21st. From achbc news, this is world news now. We want to get started with the breaking news from southeast asia. Ten american sailors missing after their vessel collided with a tanker. Injures are not believed to be life threatening. The damaged warship is heading back to port on its own power as search and rescue efforts continue. President trump initially responded by saying thats too bad. A couple hours later he tweeted thoughts and prayers were with the sailors. And john mccain followed with a tweet. This follows a collision of the uss fitzgerald. President trump is set to unveil his longawaited plan for afghanistan from ft. Meyer, virginia. The backlash continues over his response to the violence in charlottesville. We get more from abcs david wright. Reporter President Trump returns t
Stability in washington and any hint i mean, any hint that the growth agenda could get done. And perhaps overshadowing, pun intended, all those headlines today, the Solar Eclipse. Many are wait what many millions are waiting what many are calling a once in a lifetime event. Varney Company Begins right now. Ashley we begin with sad news this morning, the search continuing for ten u. S. Sailors missing after an Early Morning collision between a Navy Destroyer and a tanker or near singapore. What on earth is going on. Whats the latest . Yeah, search and rescue underway. It happened east of singapore. It hit an oil and chemical tanker three times its size. So basically this is the second serious collision in about a month. The uss fitzgerald collided with a freighter off the coast of japan, seven sailors dead there. Sailors are being evacuatedded, and so the search is on right now for the ten missing, five injured as well. Ashley all right, thank you very much. Lets bring in colonel ralph
Guest i was trying to come up with a label for the peculiar variety of libertarianism that says if you get sick and cannot pay for it, that issue are a tough lockett is unjust for government to tax somebody else to pay for your health care isnt there was a revealing moment in the oracle oral argument argued on behalf of the mandate that it is fair to require people to buy Health Insurance because if they get sick and they cannot afford to pay for it were obligated to give them health care and Justice Scalia said then dont obligate yourself. That is extraordinary thing to say and it shows the moral culdesac the conservatives got themselves into because it was driven by politics once the bill was passed the only hope to shut it down was the constitutional challenge to the on the constitutional theories that were out there was extreme libertarian theories that were morally repellent for those people who dont believe this stuff i dont think scalia really believes it is okay to withhold hea