Shes miss georgia, betty cantrell. Vanessa williams who won in 1984 also welcomed back and got an apology from the pageants for the scandal that ended her reign. Those are some of your top stories on this monday, september 14th. From abc news, this is world news now. Great moment after so many years for vanessa to come back and be welcome back. Were talking about the miss what did you think . Actually, i did kind of watch it from start to finish. Feed. Blushing a little bit. I am blushing. No, it was fun. Vanessa sounded great, looked facts. Absolutely good. And you were rooting you said for miss iowa . She had the leg up going in. Going into it. How do we get to the fires . In the preliminaries. The real news of this day, shall we. Very serious situation out there in california. Were talking about the nastmoving flames that torching one house after another in Northern California. At least 1,000 homes and businesses completely destroyed. Its incredible. Just 12 hours, the wildfire blai
Ok to be easy. Here at the trump event, they had more than 3,000 supporters. Bush has yet to see crowds that size. Tom llamas, abc news, in New Hampshire. The former ceo of a West Virginia coal mine goes on trial today. Don blankenship ran the Upper Big Branch mine which exploded in 2010 killing 29 miners. He is charged with conspireing to break health mine and safety requirements in hundreds of violations at the mine. If convicted he could face 30 years in prison. Still no sign of a convicted than a week after he was released from prison accidentally. Clayton sandell reports it was all because of an error in the paperwork. Reporter convicted killer Benjuiel Johnson didnt escape prison, he was let go. Mistakenly released saturday by a Louisiana State prison official who apparently never doublechecked to see that johnson was supposed to be serving time for manslaughter. It was an oversight on the staff. But its something that should have been caught. Reporter johnson was serving 35 year
Talks at the vatican led to this. Embassies open and americans visiting in increasing numbers. And the people are so happy because they know that pope francis in some way intervened in this process. So i think the people are grateful and well have the opportunity of expressing this gratitude to the holy father in his visit. Reporter preps are already under way here for the popes visit where more than a million cubans are expected to attend pope francis mass under the watchful eye of che guevara a Freedom Fighter and atheist. Reporter more than half of cubans are catholic but during the cold war reg was all but illegal. Now new churches are being built for the first time in decades. With parishes seeing higher participation and more community outreach. But restrictions remain. That it was in the past is better moment now. Reporter cuba is releasing more than 3,000 prisoners in on the popes agenda, a possible meeting with fidel castro and current president raul castro who was raised cath
Field. We now know the type of injury that caused his death. We get more now from abcs clayton sandell. Reporter kenny buies family and friends say the 17yearold died going doing what he loved. Playing football. He was always smiling and happy. Hes a good person. Reporter bui, a senior, passed away monday. He was hurt during a tackle friday night in washington state. Hes the fourth High School Football player to die in just the last month. Roughly 1. 1 million kids play High School Football. Last year injuries on the field killed five players. 56 in all since 2005. It is a shocking number. Theres no doubt about this. It really has you scratching your head and saying what are we doing wrong . Reporter there is no easy answer. But sideline care may sometimes be lacking. High School Players may not have the same medical care as game is getting safer. Better equipment, safer tackles, and more focus on recognizing and treating concussions. But is that enough . Doctors have to be more vigila
Union members ratifying a new contract yesterday and voting to end the strike. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, september 21st. Abc news, this is world news now. And good morning. We begin this half hour with the popes ten day trip that will take him from cuba to the United States attracting a crowd in havana 300,000 strong. It was a huge and massive crowd there. Pope francis told catholics that they must serve others if they want to be great. And in a subtle jab to communism, he said service is not ideology. But he refrained from any direct criticism of the cuban government. The pope met with the president raul castro and also visited fidel castro at his home where they eng exchanged gifts. The pope has given to fidel books about the gospel, about humor in religion. Three protesters identified as members of the political opposition were detained after trying to approach the popemobile. The pope touching one of them on his hand and head. Before he was pulled away by se