From abc news, this week with George Stephanopoulos begins now. And we begin with that emotional homecoming overnight for the last two americans held prisoner in north korea. Kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller touched down in Washington State on an air force jet. Their release secured when americas spy chief James Clapper hand delivered a secret letter from the president to north koreas leader kim jongun. After hugs from his family, bae reflected on two years in captivity. I learned a lot. I grew a lot. I lost a lot of weight, in a good way, but i am standing strong because of you. All of this happening as president obama heads to asia this week leaving behind a capital shaken up by that Midterm Election earthquake. The gop now in solid control of congress. The president s team scrambling to salvage its final two years and were going to analyze all the fallout this morning beginning with jon karl at the white house. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. The president depar
Now. And we begin with that emotional homecoming overnight for the last two americans held prisoner in north korea. Kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller touched down in Washington State on an air force jet. Their release secured when americas spy chief James Clapper hand delivered a secret letter from the president to north koreas leader kim jongun. After hugs from his family, bae reflected on two years in captivity. I learned a lot. I grew a lot. I lost a lot of weight, in a good way, but i am standing strong because of you. All of this happening as president obama heads to asia this week leaving behind a capital shaken up by that Midterm Election earthquake. The gop now in solid control of congress. The president s team scrambling to salvage its final two years and were going to analyze all the fallout this morning beginning with jon karl at the white house. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. The president departed overnight and will spend the next week on the other sid
and good morning. welcome to today. 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on a monday. i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. your heart goes out to everyone in joplin affected by that monster tornado. the skies have turned ominous yet again this morning as another powerful storm system rolls in. what a few hours it has been. when we first got to work this morning, we were told the storm was severe but about 25 or 30 people had been killed. that number quickly rose to over 89, and as you can see that, weather is not going to help any in the recovery or search efforts. among the buildings that took a direct hit on sunday, the town s hospital, st. john s. doctors and you are ins had just moments to scramble patients into hallways. to give you a sense of the twister s power, x-rays and medical records from inside that hospital building have now been found more than 60 miles away. president obama called missouri s governor a short time ago to offer his condolences, while promising th
see the wedding. they ll tell you why, next on ktvu channel 2 news at noon. good afternoon. we are following a breaking story of a rescue in the oakland hills just 15 minutes ago. fire rescue team pulled a victim up more than 100 feet a hillside along claremont avenue near grizzly peak boulevard many the injured person was taken from a silver suv that appears to have gone off the road and down the hillside. you can see these pictures from news chapper 2 as the crews worked hard to bring the victim up from the steep hillside where you can see it looks like some of the tracks of the car wept down the hill. we will update you on the condition of the injured person as more information becomes available. the final launch of the space shuttle endeavour has been delayed because of a mechanical failure. commander mark kelly and his crew were on their way to the launch pad just a few hours ago when nasa stopped the countdown. engineers say they could not get two heaters working on