Speaker 1: New Yorkers.
Speaker 2: Taxi. I'm tanning.
Speaker 3: This is the seventy seven WABC mini.
Speaker 4: Cast joining us tonight with some news gathering Insight is
Speaker 4: the Worldwide News Networks overnight anchor Grandon Iison.
Speaker 5: It's so good to be on tonight, Walter, Thanks so
Speaker 5: much for having me. This is really a good chance
Speaker 5: to showcase some of the hard work our Worldwide News
Speaker 5: Network anchors and producers are putting in to both news
Speaker 5: gathering and presentation. We can start with a few of
Speaker 5: the heavies that have been on people's minds Iran and Oman,
Speaker 5: of course, still in the final stages of a major
Speaker 5: bilateral maritime agreement. Here's one of our correspondents from News Nation,
Speaker 5: Cory Smith.
Speaker 6: Iran would control the northern portion of the straight, closest
Speaker 6: to its coastline and oversea inbound traffic. Oman would control
Speaker 6: the southern side and oversea outbound traffic. Now that southern
Speaker 6: side is the portion of the strait the US military
Speaker 6: has said is open to commercial vessels.
Speaker 5: Now on that routex are saying that President Trump will
Speaker 5: likely you need to make some compromises now, and that's
Speaker 5: something he's been unwilling to do in the past Iran
Speaker 5: has said that the Straight will not be a free
Speaker 5: international waterway as it had been before the war. During
Speaker 5: a heated exchange at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing,
Speaker 5: Chairman Rand Paul clashed with his fellow senators over his
Speaker 5: decision to hold doctor Anthony Fauci in contempt over his
Speaker 5: refusal to answer questions during testimony last week. Anthony Faucher
Speaker 5: refused a voluntary private deposition, and that's why he was
Speaker 5: brought in under subpoena, which was going to be one down,
Speaker 5: interrupt the chairs Down't interrupt the chair. The senator is
Speaker 5: also now sending the referral directly to the Justice Department,
Speaker 5: whereas typically the next step would be to put the
Speaker 5: committee decision to a full Senate vote. So we're watching that.
Speaker 5: Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has released another statement saying that
Speaker 5: he's now been released from a rehab center after a
Speaker 5: fall and a bout of pneumonia. He said that on
Speaker 5: adviceive to doctors, he'll be doing some physical therapy and
Speaker 5: be working from home now. President Trump has signed two
Speaker 5: new executive orders to narrow birthright citizenship and crack down
Speaker 5: on what he calls commercial birth tourism.
Speaker 7: Hundreds of thousands, okay, hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 3: You have.
Speaker 6: One man came in with a family, had said sitting
Speaker 6: in fifty six children.
Speaker 3: Another one came in, they said they had ninety eight children.
Speaker 5: However, the Supreme Court struck down a similar executive order
Speaker 5: in April, calling it unconstitutional. Now something we picked up
Speaker 5: on concerning the immigration beat. A Zambia national and asylum
Speaker 5: seeker legally working as a nurse at a hospital in
Speaker 5: Maine has now been released from ice custody and returned
Speaker 5: to her life in Maine after being detained in late
Speaker 5: July at Boston's Logan International Airport. Debora Kapecia's release came
Speaker 5: one day after a union rally in Portland and followed
Speaker 5: swift advocacy by the Maine and National Nurses Associations.
Speaker 2: We have learned that Dabora will not be transferred to
Speaker 2: Louisiana today good the direct result of the action that
Speaker 2: we have done in the past twenty four hours. It's
Speaker 2: every nurse coming up speaking out Camora.
Speaker 5: The hospital, confirming ongoing contact with her attorneys in the
Speaker 5: Congressional delegation, while urging sponsorship for her Green card ice
Speaker 5: agents are making up to forty arrests a day at
Speaker 5: US airports, but they are also now facing pushback from
Speaker 5: the airlines. Here's News Nation's Brookshaefer the.
Speaker 1: Plans already facing backlash. Newark's mayor said there's no correlation
Speaker 1: between the right of peaceful assembly and the orderly operation
Speaker 1: of an international airport. A group which represents many of
Speaker 1: our major airlines, Airlines for America, said the plans would
Speaker 1: have a devastating effect on the airline and tourism industries, with.
Speaker 5: The country facing more than twenty thousand cases of cyclosporiasis
Speaker 5: linked to lettuce. Our Afternoon anchor Bill Raykoff reports that
Speaker 5: authorities in Michigan say that it's now safe to eat
Speaker 5: salads again. State health officials are advising residents to resume
Speaker 5: eating the lettuce in salad green, citing a slowdown in
Speaker 5: new cyclosporiasis infections. The worst of the outbreak had occurred
Speaker 5: in Michigan, which reported the first two deaths associated with
Speaker 5: the outbreak. Both individuals had significant underlying health conditions. An
Speaker 5: FDA investigation linked the multi state outbreak, which has spread
Speaker 5: to fifteen states, to iceberg letters served at Taco Bell
Speaker 5: restaurants and sourced from privately held Taylor Farms operations in
Speaker 5: central Mexico. Bill Rakoff, Worldwide News Network, And if we've
Speaker 5: been keeping our eye on the western portion of the country,
Speaker 5: we do have an update on fires in eastern Washington,
Speaker 5: where now more than nine hundred structures have been destroyed
Speaker 5: since Saturday, including this woman's home.
Speaker 4: This was my childhood home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we lost literally everything, all the family heirlooms.
Speaker 8: You can see how close and how fragile life can
Speaker 8: be you when you look across the street and your
Speaker 8: house is gone.
Speaker 5: The update here in court facing arson charges related to
Speaker 5: the Spokane County fires that have still have tens of
Speaker 5: thousands of people evacuated from their homes. Aaron Farnacci has
Speaker 5: been served, who has already served time in Arizona for
Speaker 5: killing his father, confessed to igniting the Old Trails fire
Speaker 5: with along with twenty five additional fires across the Spokane
Speaker 5: area since July of twenty twenty five. He said that
Speaker 5: he planned the August first place two weeks in advance
Speaker 5: by monitoring weather conditions and deploying a time delay device
Speaker 5: modeled after a serial arsonist. Prosecutors have filed four new
Speaker 5: first degree arson charges against Farnaci. The Old Trails fire
Speaker 5: alone destroyed more than four hundred homes and scorched thousands
Speaker 5: of acres. Residents in the area still recovering in the
Speaker 5: fires aftermath.
Speaker 8: We sat in our car for three hours in the
Speaker 8: Safeway parking lot, you know, waiting it out, with our
Speaker 8: ten year old in the backseat, asking, you know, are
Speaker 8: we going to be okay? What's going on? So something
Speaker 8: that she's going to remember for the rest of her life,
Speaker 8: and you know, somebody cause that as horrible.
Speaker 5: So we do cover a lot of the disasters across
Speaker 5: the country and then continuing on with the crime beat,
Speaker 5: we follow all cities, all states, all countries, even with
Speaker 5: this one fifteen year old boycott on camera going from
Speaker 5: home to home in East Saint Louis dressed as a
Speaker 5: clown and now facing murder charges. News Nations Max de
Speaker 5: Knight has more.
Speaker 3: Chilly video shows the moment a teen wearing a clown
Speaker 3: costume rang Laura Palmer's ring doorbell camera. It happened just
Speaker 3: after nine pm Monday, as she was laying in dead
Speaker 3: inside of her East Saint Louis home. An hour later,
Speaker 3: down the Streety Saint Louis police say they responded to
Speaker 3: this bus stop to the intersection of seventy six and
Speaker 3: State Streets to a report of a body in the road.
Speaker 3: The Saint Clair County Corner is off its identify that
Speaker 3: man a seventy eight year old John Allen of Saint Louis.
Speaker 5: All right, and then Walter, of course, there's always the
Speaker 5: lighter side of midnight. We truly do take considerable efforts
Speaker 5: to show the world as it is today, even all
Speaker 5: the good things and all the amazing people. Worldwide News
Speaker 5: Network Nighttime anchor Cooper Lawrence churning out this story for
Speaker 5: us that is just utterly fascinating.
Speaker 7: Parents usually tell their kids not to play with their food,
Speaker 7: but butter sculptor Sarah Pratt never got that message.
Speaker 5: I grew up going to the Iowa State Fair from
Speaker 5: the time I was just very young.
Speaker 7: Iowa's longtime butter sculptor was commissioned to create an eight
Speaker 7: hundred pound butter cow for the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Speaker 7: State Fairs exhibition. She says, the beauty really is in
Speaker 7: the details.
Speaker 1: Details on the eyes and the face. That's really where
Speaker 1: the magic happens.
Speaker 7: The life size Buttercow called Curious Regard is currently on
Speaker 7: view at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC through September seven.
Speaker 5: And again, Walter, the news can't just always be that optimistic.
Speaker 5: We've got to get back to work over here with
Speaker 5: the Worldwide News Network. We've got disruption to the avocado
Speaker 5: supply and prices due to possible violent cartel activity in
Speaker 5: micho Con, Mexico. A full Senate vote it scheduled for
Speaker 5: today on whether Acting AG Todd Blanche will move on
Speaker 5: to take a permanent position in the role of US
Speaker 5: Attorney General. There's also been a school shooting in Thailand.
Speaker 5: The student there killed at least six More than a
Speaker 5: dozen others have been wounded at a high school, both
Speaker 5: students and teachers among the dead seven deaths total at
Speaker 5: the school if the student who turned the gun on
Speaker 5: himself as included. But now in another update, we find
Speaker 5: that he also shot and killed his grandparents before going
Speaker 5: on the school rampage. So that's two more dead we're
Speaker 5: just hearing about right now. Walter. Thanks, and maybe, as
Speaker 5: you might say, see you on the other side of midnight.
Speaker 4: Did you mention there might be a threat to our
Speaker 4: food supply line of avocado toast. Is that what you
Speaker 4: just said I.
Speaker 5: Was going to ask you. I thought you might take
Speaker 5: it a little bit personal, so I thought i'd include that.
Speaker 4: No, I'm really happy to report that I eat no
Speaker 4: cafe food. Avocado toast is a way too recent an
Speaker 4: event for me. I cause scandal by ordering sausage pizza.
Speaker 4: They don't want you to, you know, they used to
Speaker 4: have that. You could walk into a pizza and get
Speaker 4: a slice of sausage pizza, mushroom pizza, maybe peppers and
Speaker 4: onion pizza, and plain pizza. Now you're gonna have to
Speaker 4: order special the sausage pizza. This has changed my lifestyle.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll find out when this this disruption can be
Speaker 5: ended for you so you can get back to your
Speaker 5: regularly scheduled lifetime activities.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, terrific report. Look forward to you
Speaker 4: being here every night keeping us up to date. On
Speaker 4: the other side of midnight, Walter Stirling