Evacuated over fears of tsunami, but that alert was canceled after over 90 minutes. Japans Prime Minister, shinzo abe heads to hawaii today for his last visit with president obama. He will visit pearl harbor, the first leader of japan to visit the site of the attack. Those are our top stories on this monday, december 26th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everybody, on this monday morning. We are going to start with the shocking news, 2016 has taken another legend. This time, George Michael dead at the age of 53. Michaels manager says he died of Heart Failure yesterday at his home in glntd. Many have tape to twitter to honor him. Michael rose to fame as part of the duo what happens in the 80s before a solo career selling more than 100 million albums. Well look back with the bbc. Reporter he burst into the scene in the early 80s when he formed wham with andy ridgely. The duo had number one singles around the world and conquered china, and they were the first pop band
Start of christmas as we look live at the Christmas Tree at the blue cross river rink on pens landing. Merry Christmas Eve and happy hanukk hanukkah. It has been a full night of celebrations and it is not over yet. Nbc 10s drew smith joins us live at the cathedral of saints peter and paul. And people are heading there now for midnight mass. Sfwlr reporter that will begin in just an hour. Right now there are people heading into the cathedral and weve been speaking to people all across the city of philadelphia. The start of christmas and hanukkah off to a good start. Its a south philly tradition that never gets old. The lights shining bright this Christmas Eve and bringing out the best in these neighbors. Just bringing out candy ka canes. Reporter kids got to visit with santa. God bless all our troops, fire, police, everybody who protects this country and ill be there tomorrow. Reporter another tradition brought out a strong turn out for the feast of seven fishes in davios in center city
Reporter tonight members of a north Beach Community are bringing their own to remember the miracle of hanukkah where they lit a menorah for eight days. Were going to continue bringing light to our community and not letting hate or anti semitism have its way. And theyre lighting that third candle right now. Reporter police are asking anyone with information regarding that missing menorah to call their anonymous tip line. Also asking recyclers to lookout for anyone trying to recycle large pieces of brass. Sharon, seems highly unlikely that no one saw this huge piece getting stolen. I mean, cold this menorah could have been breaken into segments . Do you know . Reporter well, we do know that the menorah itself can be broken into two segments. The top with the lights and bottom with the lamps which is three by six feet. They would have to take it into a van or some kind of truck even if in two pieces. Hard to believe no one saw it. We know across the street, acouple of buildings, they do h
Police investigating but so far no charges filed against the driver of a tractortrailer that hit and killed a man this morning. The 22yearold was killed while walking on i95 near woodbridge. Police say the truck hit the victim while he and two other friends were walking to get help after the car ran out of gas. The other two people were not her. A family of a 29yearold man shot and killed by dc police speaking out and raising questions about yesterday morning shooting. We go live now where the shooting took place with new information and you have your hands on the Police Incident report. Reporter all of this new information is from dc police and i jotted down the series of events according to them. It shows it was a very complicated situation. They say it sta keys to the home and came back Christmas Morning and a fight broke out. He started lighting paper towels on fire and turned on the gas on the stove and eventually a knife was pulled up. The person who lives there got help from som
Charlotte, north carolina. Reporter theyre in the middle of an 11hour drive with two young children. All the bathroom breaks and food breaks. Screaming. Reporter the track to philadelphias airport wasnt easy either. A steady stream of brake lights filli filled the exit light. It took me about 45 minutes to get here. Reporter fliers like the crow family was forced to tack on more time to their already lengthy travel day. Four hours for a bus ride from disney World Resorts to the airport. And it took probably two hours to get there. Another hour for security. Flight was delayed and were finally here to wait some more in traffic. Reporter at the 30th street station, the big board spelled out more headaches as police investigated a pedestrian hit by a train in newark. Im guessing thats my train too. Weve been here for a bit. Were holding out okay. Our dogs, not as much. Reporter still, most people are expected to travel by car. It hasnt been bad. Reporter getting around today was difficult