The u. N. Secretarygeneral is shocked hungary used tear gas and water cannons. Serbia has protested the refugees are trying to reach safe zones in the european union. We move on to admission from the top u. S. Commander in the middle east about the number of u. S. Trained Syrian Rebels currently fighting isis. Thousands were supposed to be ready for battle by years end, but as one senator says, those fighters can be counted by on fingers and toes. Abcs Martha Raddatz with the details. The figures are jaw drop ipi. Take a look at the numbers. The goal of this 500 million program, 5,400 trained fighters in the first year. So far, we have spent 42 million on the program. And we now have you just four or five trained rebels still in the fight. Thats about 10 million per fighter. Vetting and training is extremely difficult. And there are no u. S. Troops with rebels once theyre inside syria. But clearly, the training is not working. One senator causing this a total failure. The military says
To dither with quotas and things like that, refugees are voting with their feet. Reporter croatia now pushing refugees out through neighboring nations. Theyve busted thousands of refugees here to the border saying they simply have no more room. And in a surprise move, hungary is reopening their border. 35yearold haipha is overcome with relief. Its okay. Reporter hungary is taking them in and moving them through and this man, has been traveling for ten days. How about for the baby . Any food, water, formula . He says theyve had nothing today. His journey so difficult, he tells us he would rather go back to syria than face this crisis. Mary bruce, abc news, on the serbian croatian border. Mary, thank you. The suspect in those phoenix freeway shootings is being held on 1 million bail. Leslie alan merit junior is accused in four of the shootings that have terrorized the region. He denies hes the gunman. One of his victims says he doubts merritt is the right guy. Ive worked as a detention o
Reports indicate yeah, get this. That twitter is working on a new product that will allow longer tweets. Twitter has been debating for a while what to do with its unique limit on messages, and theres still actually no consensus within the company. The possibilities, though, range from raising the limit by 10 characters to creating a new product entirely. But the whole point is only 150 characters. Youve got to exactly. Keep it simple. Or abbreviations. I like it. Abbreviations, yeah. Or else its too long and i cant read it or understand it. Well, a really incredible find to show you. It happened in the waters of the south pacific. It was spotted by National Geographic divers, who believe its the first ever glow in the dark sea turtle. Yeah. It was discovered during a night dive in the solomon islands. The guy who saw it first described it as looking like a bright red and green spaceship. More scientifically its a critical endangered hawksbill sea turtle that is exhibiting whats called
It was a sad day on dancing with the stars. It was very emotional. I started the show and felt like whew, that took a lot out of he employee. It was draining. Reena ninan with kendis gibson. Theres actually another anxious night for families of those missing from the cargo ship el faro. The huge ship sunk in Hurricane Joaquin. A vigil was held last night in maine where several of the crew members lived. Friends and family Still Holding out hope. Abcs linzie janis is tracking developments from miami. Reporter new images of this empty lifeboat with a giant hole in it belonging to the el faro. Weve modified our search efforts to focus more on potential people in the water, lifeboats and life rafts. Reporter also spotted, a life ring and several emergency survival suits. In one of the survival suits, we did identify human remains. Reporter an abc news crew was on board this c130 flight as searchers discover a 300 square mile area of debris, the ship making a distress call as it was getting
Giving state and local authorities more say in education thanks to the white house. President obama yesterday signed a sweeping rewrite of the often criticized no child left behind law. Local groups now have more say in how to fix underperforming schools. The new version had very wide support. A day after yahoo s board rejected a failed strategy by the ceo to turn the company around, maier had a happier personal announcement. Shes given birth to identical twins. She and husband zachary already have a 3yearold son. Shes taking only two weeks of maternity leave. Sparking debate among some parents who say shes setting a bad example for other working mothers. Yahoo offer up to four months of maternity leave. Didnt she only take two weeks . You know, when she got into this job and she was pregnant with her daughter and excuse me, her son and people were kind of focused she went back to work too soon. Its up to every mom. I remember, richard, i started at abc and didnt tell them because it w