july 24th, 1944, bradley will launch what's called operation cobra. he has coordinated with the 8th air force back in england to basically bomb in front of his lines, to saturate the german lines, primary the panzer lair divisions, going to be bombed heavily by the four engine bombers and relentlessly, to create such a swathe and path of destruction, that the germans will not be able to stop the approaching combined arms advance of the u.s. army. basically three divisions with infantry mounted on tanks. troops of the big red one, the 1st infantry division will be mounted on tarngz. like a mobile task force under general collins to exploit that hopeful breach in the german lines and then, you know, basically create a mobile campaign in normandy. well doesn't quite work out that way. the coordination by bradley with the air commanders is not good, ridden with miscommunication. the air commanders had told bradley very clearly, though he'll deny this later, that they could not basically bomb horizontally to the american lines. so this is the u.s. line her

and why wouldn't the raccoon be on you instead of bradley? >> bradley voices rocket raccoon.dley. >> jimmy: very adorable there, bradley. >> that is a sweet and darling little raccoon. it was very much like a little baby or puppy. whatever you call a baby raccoon. >> jimmy: yeah, puppy, i think you call them. >> they had another one there that was big. and they said, oh, this is pepper. and pepper's feisty. i'm like, oh, good. it was climbing on my back. and pepper fell off of me and grabbed me by the eyeball. there's actually a picture. they should have put that on the cover. it was like this. it was me going like this. the first friging fist in my eyeball. >> jimmy: it seemed like there was a lack of concern for your safety on that shoot. >> it seemed that way. >> jimmy: do you know enough about the comic book "guardians of the galaxy" to compete with this young lady? this 5-year-old girl we're going to bring out here. >> absolutely. >> jimmy: you do? >> i think we do. >> jimmy: you do? all right. zoe doesn't seem so convinced. >> i'm just thinking that you should have told

general bradley the first army commander, the u.s.first army commander that's this ultraintelligence. he knows he has tanks available to deal with them coming from the second armored division. they landed hastily. will enter the karatan fight. they are going to stave off that counter attack allowing two american beach heads to link up. obviously this is important. this is significant. so from there where do the allies go? well they are each dealing, two distingts audiotape lied force americans and their allies from britain and canada are dealing with different points of resistance. different obstacles. well on the british side and canadian side, closer to canne the most potent adversary you got is the german units converging on you. they are forming around canne to deal with the british and canadians there. that means 12 ss panzer. you got pretty good rolling ground around canne, rolling plain, plateaus, and farm fields that are right there in the summer time, you know, getting close to harvest. good tank country. good roads. the brit

so bradley has t

bradley lines up three u.s. army divisions up in the peninsula and speends them toward there i the second half of 1944. you will have the 9th division on the western coast. in the middle you will have the 79th infantry division, known as cross of lorraine division. they found in world war i. it is new to combat in world war ii. one of the things that's interesting is if you've seen many photographs of u.s. army soldiers from the normandy campaign is that during this phase of the normandy campaign you can instantly recognize a 79th division soldier. in most cases, u.s. army soldiers have a very tight pattern netting on their h helmets. they had very wide netting. when you see this kind of wide netting in any picture, you will know that's a 79th division soldier probably in the latter half of june of 1944 on the right side or really the original landing coast near utah beach is the fore4th instantly division. this is a regular army new to combat and will soon earn a reputation for significant brafrp bravery and co

it's garnered a small but growing following for charles bradley. supported by a group of funk all-stars called the mennahan street band, he's been on tour for a year to promote his album "victim of love" packing intimate venues across north america, europe and down under. fans who come to witness and preach the gospel of soul. >> when i get on that stage, i open my heart and let the spirit run free. i show the love that god gave me. ♪ we've got to change our evil ways ♪ when i scream, i scream because it's like 30 words coming to me at one time. how can i say those 30 words? i can't. i scream it. ( screaming ) ♪ >> brown: the intensity comes honestly. after a life of hard knocks, bradley got his first big break at age 62, when dabtone, a record label helped him bring about a resurgence of soul music helped him release his first album "no time for dreaming," rolling stone named it one of the best albums of 2011. but for bradley his success is the accumulation of life marked by adversity. ♪ ♪ nobody wants to take the blame ♪ >> brown: bradley grew up

general bradley, the first army commander, the u.s. first army commander, had the ultra intelligence and knows what panzer grenadier is going to do and has tanks available to deal with them coming from the second armored division. they have been landed hastily and will enter the town fight alongside the paratroopers who are lightly armed to deal with tanks and armored personnel carriers and will stave off the counterattack, successfully, by june 12th and 13th. allowing the two american beachheads to link up. obviously, this is important. this is significant. so, from there, where do the allies go? they are each dealing, the two distinct allied forces now, the americans and their allies from britain and canada are dealing with different points of resistance. different obstacles. on the british side, canadian siesh side, closer to cannes, the biggest add vary you have are the german units, some of the most powerful units in the german army are forming around cannes to deal with the british and canadians there. that means 12th fs panzer,

bradley in 1970. the bradleys at the time were living outside hollywood and he was retired. and bradley kind of hobnobed and elbowed with other hollywood stars. so he was well-known in that circle and certainly in the army circle. he was well-known, he was the army's last serving five-star general, still today is actually. and so he had met certainly had met elvis presley before on a number of occasions. and elvis presley being a former service man certainly respected omar bradley and likened him as a friend. he decided to give bradley this 1911.45 caliber automatic pistol as a christmas present. and i would say in the past we have had just as much excitement, not only over the pistol but all the over elvis presley's signature and card. the card states to general bradley, with love and respect, elvis presley. >> this is the most amazing flag here, this is the confederate flag that as captured at the battle of an teeth am, and of course what happened here is you can see it's got this marvelous six-sided folk star, which was somewhat rare. and it is on silk. during that battle

keegan bradley, you're on the 16th hole making a bogey.nplayable lie on the left-hand side. now it's just about gone. it's gone. ine under is gone. listen. gary: hit low on that stick. you see a divot just on the right edge of the hole. yeah, hit about a foot up then took a divot right on the edge of the hole. tough game, this golf. fickle. 18. jim: henrik stenson close out his round of 7 1. playing with yachts llama today. matsuyama shot 68. to 16. gary: reset, reset. nick: yeah, if rory birdies, if sergio birdies, different story with two to play. you have the pivotal hole, gary. gary: oh, excited. you know, nick, honestly, this hole can play 6 88. i wish they would put it on the front tee today, move the pin back and let these guys take a shot at this on the last day. nick: i agree. gary: it's a par 3. two shots, lay it up short of the pond and hit it on the green. scott way back here. peter: 225 back,goer. gary: wow. in trouble off the tee. peter: kind of grabbed it up in the rough and barely -- i don't know, did that get over and stay

as i said, we are all very proud of david bradley.he's highly uncomfortable with the attention he's received. i think he would put other people at the forefront before himself of what happened. >> what do we know about bad guys? is it greasing the skids with friends of friends? what do they want? what would they rather have that they would trade for? >> it's hard to know. i don't know what happened here in the qatari officials who played the key role here. i don't know if there was a covert operation where they got hold of the o. there was something in the story about having agents that located him. they want something. they held him for two years. they spent a lot oh of time. a lot of guards. they spent money on food. qatar has influence with this group. people questioned the relationship. al nusra is aligned with al qaeda. there are concerns that qatar is funding jihadi groups. we tried sending jihadi is s to send soviet soldiers. that's a terrible strategy. how was qatar able to pull this off? >> how did you get out? >> an afghanis

bradley telling the public be mindful of the thousands infected. the world health organization says more than 2400 people in west africa are infected. over 1300 of those patients have died from disease. >> the pants are speaking out this midday. they're pleading with the gun and shot their son to turn himself in. >> live with the latest on the investigation. >> good afternoon to you. as police continued to search for the killer of the nine year-old we are hearing from his grieving parents for the first time. you'll hear how proud they are of their son. they also talk about his killer and issuing a plea. they want justice for their son. >> at the you're at home or his house. a newer outside summer hanging up.summer hanging out. >> he is 9 years old. he did nothing to nobody. i have been in this city all my life and i survived. he took in nine year-old boy. you heard me chicago.you heard me chicago. >> he left out of the house. >> turn yourself in. what you did was wrong. there are no intentional acts against. yet the heart of a conscience turn yours

ta manl bradley abc news -- taman bradley abc news, napa, california catch. >> "action news" is talking to some people from our region who were in the quake zone. one traveler told us she never experienced anything like this before and called the tremor surreal. >> it was scary, everything started shaking. it was the longest 25 seconds of my life. >> is a -- sanoma wine maker, said the wineries are trying to restore power to save their product. >> police in hatfield say a driver lost control and slammed into a utility pole. the impact of the crash broke the car in half. it happened before 1:00 a.m. in the 1600 block of north broad street. crews closed down the roads so police could investigate. >>> philadelphia detectives need your help in tracking down a an armed robber. this is brand new surveillance. the man walked behind the counter of the dunkin' donuts and threatened the worker with a handgun and ran away with cash. the suspect is armed and dangerous. >>> detective dervets -- are trying to figure out who murdered two women inside a home on vista street yesterday. you will hear fro

. >>> abc taman bradley has the latest on the if it straight day of trouble. >> reporter: another night of violent protests in ferguson, missouri, tensions simmering days after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager last saturday. demonstrators threw molotov cocktails at police, officers responded firing tear gas. were you in the front line up there. >> yes. and is they started shooting. >> reporter: some of the protests got out of hand, during the day, palaceful demonstrators walked with their hands up, can chanting don't shoot. the chief of police meets with the family of michael brown, but with death threats coming in, the chief is refusing to identify the officer who shot and killed. the officer was injured. >> his face was swollen, he obviously was hit or punched. >> reporter: saint louis county prosecutors involving a full investigation and the fbi has opened a civil rights inquiry. two-thirds of ferguson's residents are black. the virtually all white police force is working with the justice department on community relations. taman bradley, washington. >>> "goo

i want to bring in here professor steffen bradley. professor bradley has been working with youth here, organizing, protesting, and what do you make of what just happened? >> i hate to say this. the police force was antagonizing in this situation. there's no other way to put it i've been out here for a while now, and everybody was tense but nobody was going crazy. i hear the sirens from the police and everybody starts the attitude changing entirely, and so it's a situation where there's occupations -- the ferguson occupation is driving people crazy. >> i should note i don't -- we don't have police spokes people here to say anything. i did not lay eyes on never. in responsible fairness to them, it's possible that something happened. there was some act of provocation. we do not know that. we can say we just talked to -- craig was interviewing four or five people who were saying, just changed on a dime. and that would not be unprecedented. there's been lots of situations where that happened. >> you're absolutely right. one thing that peop

had access to a pentagon computer system, which is the same computer system that chelsea manning, bradley manning had access to. that as you remember caused the leak of hundreds of thousands of classified documents which the u.s. says caused a lot of damage to national security. so far we don't know how serious the damage is. they're obviously very concerned, anderson. >> didn't the government improve security after snowden? do we know how this happened

i can't believe that this happened. >> reporter: bradley adler lived on fourth street six years, but he's now getting evicted by the earthquake. he was in texas yesterday but raced back. >> from what i understand from the neighbor, some of the neighbors that were home, the house shook violently back and forth and then rested and then almost sank like into a sunk hole. >> reporter: the damage is remarkable, even bizarre. the earthquake didn't just knock the house off its foundation. it shifted it into weird angles. officials now say this house is uninhabitable. city inspectors spread out across the area red tagging homes that are just too dangerous to go inside. they will likely be torn down. between cracked roadways and walls and broken gas lines, fema says the earthquake destruction could cost $1 billion to fix. most homes don't have scenes this dramatic. still plumber bernie bishop believes the damage is more widespread than has been reported. >> coming to work today it's like every other house looks like it's off its foundation. every other street has a river of water going down i

northboun megan telling us just one lean g getti by at bradley. taking a look at a crash just in, 66 west at nutley street. we understanit has been moved over to the shoulder. a wider look at thing, we look pretty good everywhere. d.c. 295 past 50, a little bit slow. 270 into and o of town, no problems there. a live look down at branch avenue coming up. >>> it's 6:03 right now. developin in virginia, search crews ha been looking all night and all morning for a pilot who d fighter jet in augusta county. the f-15 pilot was heading from massachus t new orleans. he went doea small town of deerfield yesterday morning. crews are still searching on the ground and from the air. the air national guard says the pilot reported an in-flight emergency then lost radio contact. it's not clear whether the pilot ejected. >>> t sis for the driver whh someo and took off in silver spring. montgomertye a looking for black four door honda. thcawi hav front end and wi shld damage. the driver hit someone on piney branch ro lg around 9:00. the honda was last seen on garla

. >> taman bradley has more. >> reporter: 20 seconds of terror waking up residents from their sleep. everyone here we talked to said this is the worse earthquake they can remember. the 6.0 earthquake hit in the heart of california's wine country, the strongest quake to hit northern california in 20 years, it jolted thousands from their beds. >> there was explosions, it was burning and everybody was out in the street. >> the tremors were so powerful, they ruptured gas lines and sparked fires in this mobile home park. four homes were destroyed as firefighters struggling to put out the blaze. >> we had a major water main break outside the mobile home park which complicated the fire fight. >> reporter: roads buckled. business owners are assessing the damage as after shocks continue. >>> napa is best known as wine country, one winery managed to escape unscathe, but their entire 2014 vintage is in these tanks and without power it could be a total loss. governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency as hundreds spent the night without power or water. officials say the impact could have

now, this is general omar bradley who is a pretty good core commander and pretty good core commandersicily and then he's over he is head in normandy. when he's promoted two grades above where he has been comfortable, he becomes an army group commander in normandy in the summer of 1944 and overmatched in my opinion. he's talking incidentally to terry allen who commands the first infantry division in sicily and will be relieved of command by bradley. and this strun iing one, pattons the senior american commander in sicily. patton is a special case. he looms very large in the campaign as the commander of the seventh army but he disgraces himself by slapping two soldiers on two consecutive sundays in august 1943, soldiers he claims are cowards. in fact, they're both sick and hospital for reason and he is disqualified for further command in the mediterranean. patton will spend the entire campaign in perg toir until he's rehabilitated sufficiently to be wisked back overseas to take a command in france. had that not happened bradley would have continued to be a subordinate to patton and pat

now, this is general omar bradley who is a pretty good core commander in tunisia. he's a pretty good corps commander in sicily and then he's over his head in normandy when he's promoted two grades above where he has been comfortable. he becomes an army group commander in normandy in the summer of 1944 and he's overmatched in my opinion. he's talking incidentally to terry allen who commands the infantry in sicily and will be relieved of command by omar bradley. and this strutting cock, you may recognize as george patton, and patton is the senior american commander in sicily. and, of course, patton is a special case. he looms very large in the sicilian campaign as the commander of the seventh campaign, but then he disgraces himself by slapping two soldiers on two consecutive sundays in august 1943, soldiers he claims are cowards. in fact, they're both sick. they're in the hospital for a reason, and he is thus disqualified for further command in the mediterranean. patton will spend the italian campaign in purgatory until he is rehabilitated sufficiently to be whisked

bradley needs to call me because i'm the person that has the unlock password. >> why bradley hates his on the next -- only parents' contacts appear on the child's phone. they can get the password to unlock it. love this. the ignore no more app is only available on android phones right now. >> kids groaning everywhere. >>> there was a lot of buzz when amazon released its first smartphone, the fire. >> consumer reports completed testing and michael finney is here with the results. >> the good news for amazon is they did get a good rating, not a great rating. the experts weren't wowed. it didn't score high enough to earn a recommendation. experts at consumer reports were impressed with its 3-d display and they liked the firefly technology which identifies objects by scanning them. they can even recognize songs and movies. however, for voice quality, they found it not a standout. it takes good pictures but the battery life is much shorter than other phones. >> the amazon fire's bells and whistles are interesting but it doesn't make it a great phone. there are better options. >> testers kno

up. >> not bradley cooper but anybody. >> that shouldn't happen. there should be certain protocol always followed. known should be able to get around them. now, when you write about individual presidents. raw conservative or a liberal? do you have a political bent? >> i lean to the conservative side but the book is totally nonpartisan. it reveals on the one hand that hillary clinton is so nasty to her agents that being assigned to her detail is considered a form of punishment. on the other hand it says that barack obama and michelle are very respectful of agents, concrete treat them with consideration. the book reveals negative material about everyone. every republican were agnew to jenna bush to senator ted cruz. >> most talking to you did not go on the record. a few of them did. >> two thirds of the book is on the the record. >> no, no, i'm talking about the agents themselves. >> but now they can't talk to you because since 2012 they have to sign nondisclosure. >> they still talk to me and the reason they have to sign that is because i broke the

abc's tahman bradley is in ferguson with the latest. >> reporter: with the national guard withdrawing and businesses re-opening ferguson appears to be returning to normal. but the nightly street protests over the death of michael brown continue. >> there's no getting rid of us. >> no, it's not going to stop. we got to keep going. got to keep going. >> reporter: mixed in with the crowds clergy and community leaders working to keep the peace. >> we also are here to make sure everybody stays safe. >> reporter: 11:00 the street. that's captain ron johnson talking to demonstrators as he does every night, thinner crowds and peaceful demonstrations tonight. order may be restored but captain johnson says the local police force must change. >> the police have to get out and be in touch. if they don't take heed to what the law enforcement are doing and all of this week, they will fail. >> reporter: the cause for a new prosecutor in the case tips. they're demanding robert mcculloch who has deep family ties with police recuse himself. >> people have made a statement to bob mcculloch and back and

take similar safety measures caring for bradley and a second aid worker who is to arrive in atlanta soon. medical workers will wear full body bio suits. >> our intent is to keep this contained. >> i am worried about him. we will be ok regardless. the to work for a missionary group called samaritans purse. there is no cure for ebola that escalates to severe fever and other problems. doctors can only make the patient comfortable and hope the body fights off the virus. reid, abc 7 news. >> it's important to note that ebola is not always fatal. thank you for that report. coming up at 6:00, an update on a huge water main break the turned a local road into a river. what we are learning about the repairs. >> police have not released the name of a man who was struck and killed by a metro train last night. they say he was trespassing on the tracks when he was hit. impactident did not train operations because the system was closed. crews have repeated -- completed inch water main that burst thursday afternoon, , spilling 6 million gallons of water. full water service has also been -- been restored

ben bradley, the editor of the paper. there were surprisingly few people in the newsroom because we knew what was coming. and catherine actually said to the group of us, no gloating. >> how did that work out? >> and there was no need because my feeling was one of absolute total awe that it had come to this. finally, the country was going to be spared in an office and also recognition of the fact that those in the room had some real role in what was happening. but awe, total awe. and the fact that the system had worked. >> bob? >> i was sitting on the floor of howard simon's office. he was the managing editor watching this speech, and this was before the bezos era. it was the graham era. they handed out sandwiches that night. i remember the very bad bologna sandwich i was sitting there eating, and not only did catherine graham issue the no gloating rule, but ben bradley did. and he was kind of going around the newsroom slowly, not showing any emotion. and ben and i went to the elevator because we were going to go down to g

eisenhower, montgomery, omar bradley, george patton, tedder ramsey, doolittle spot, alan kirk, beatle smith. it's a very long list. and britain preparing for normandy call themselves the med trainites. eisenhower speaks for all of them when he says the mediterranean theater will always be in my blood. this is eisenhower on the ee of normandy, june 6th, 1944 with his senior subordinate comma commandecomman commanders every one of them except for the man standing behind him has come from the mediterranean. the guy behind him, air marshal lee trafford is -- mallory is not a mediterraneanite and it's a problem for him. so john updike called world war ii the 20th century central myth. he called it a vast imagining of a primal time when good and evil contended for the planet. a tale of troy whose angles are infinite and whose central figures never cease to amaze us with their size. their thee atricality. i use the epigraph of the day of battle about the italian campaign and goes like this. muses, launch your song. what kings were fired for war. what airplanes at their orders throned the pla

. >>> a diferencia del doctor bradley nancy r.pronostico mÉdico es bueno bu. >>> hace una semana estÁbamos pensando en un funeral para nancy, hoy tenemos razones reales para tener esperanza dijo bruce jhonson, presidente de la organizaciÓn cristiana sem. la enfermera de 59 aÑos que contrajo el Ébola atendiendo pacientes del virus en liberia llegÓ a la base aÉrea poco antes del mediodÍa, seguidamente personal mÉdico con mÁscaras, guantes y trajes dobles la trajeron en ambulancia a la unidad de aislamiento. Él continÚa mejorando y agradezco com pasiÓn del equipo mÉdico afir firmÓ Ámbar bradley. >>> luego de la segunda dosis de una droga experimental la fiebre ha bajado, la reacciÓn al mismo remedio no ha sido tan satisfactoria, en new york mÉdicos del hospital estÁn en alerta, en aislamiento un hombre que tras viajar a africa llegÓ ayer a la sala de emergencia con vomitos y fiebre, posibles sÍntomas de Ébola. >>> cuando sospechamos que alguien tiene Ébola lo separamos completamente y utilizamos uniformes de protecciÓn afirmo la comi

i called ben bradley

i called ben bradley at home and told him what mitchell had said in response to the story and bradley said, he really said that? [laughter] and i said, yes. yes, do you have good notes? i said i had all of my notes. it all in the put paper but leave her tit out. [laughter] [applause] which we did. graham next day, mrs. came up and said carl, you have any more messages for me? [laughter] i think we can all go home now. [laughter] that is incredible. up to we have a minute for one more question? right there. thanks. >> i'm going to turn the tables a little bit. one of the most billion political moves in the last 20 years was embedding reporters in iraq and probably the biggest failure in journalism was to embed those reporters in iraq and i am wondering what you might think about that. if you think that the rise of social media and online medium is because of those institutional reporters that were embedded and did not report what we all know now, which was there were no wmd's there. >> i don't think the wmd question came up with the reporters. i think that is apples and oranges. >> the

aviÓn con el aislamiento sÓlo tiene capacidad para una persona por lo que el aparato que trajo a bradleyo. >> muchas gracias, lucÍa. como les hemos venido informando, en los Últimos 10 meses, al menos 57.000 niÑos centroamericanos han cruzado solos la frontera. las reacciones a esta dramÁtica situaciÓn han sido diversas en la opiniÓn pÚblica norteamericana. ahora se conoce una encuesta sobre lo que pensamos los hispanos de quÉ manera se debe enfrentar el fenÓmeno. tenemos los datos que pueden resultar sorprendentes para muchos. >> llegÓ a los estados unidos arriesgando su vida. lo hizo, segÚn Él, porque en su paÍs, estaba expuesto a la violencia hasta dentro de su propio hogar. >> Éramos maltratados en mi casa. y mis padres nos golpeaban, nos ponÍan a trabajar desde pequeÑos. ¿no? >> pero ese maltrato llegÓ a su fin cuando este joven mexicano llegÓ de forma ilegal a los en estados unidos para reunirse con su hermano. desde ya, asegura estar listo para empezar a buscar el llamado sueÑo americano. >> entrar a high school, poder sacar una carrera. >> para la abogada norma, esto demuestra cÓ

abc news reporter tahman bradley is live with the latest. good morning, tahman. >> reporter: good morning, tam. the demonstrations were peaceful until around midnight when according to police, violent people threw bottles. >> come on. >> reporter: overnight authorities in ferguson again changed tactics trying to keep a lower profile hiding tactical units but peaceful demonstrations got out of hand. >> all media you need to return. >> reporter: officers drew their guns and made arrests. >> the agitators, the criminals embedded themselves and hid behind media. they began throwing bottles. they threw urine on officers and that's what caused officers to take action and begin to make arrests. >> reporter: an outside -- and outside ferguson yesterday afternoon there was this angry demonstration after another police shoot,. >> no justice, no peace. >> reporter: officers in saint louis shot and killed a 23-year-old black man they say was coming at them waveing a knife. >> officer's safety is the number one issue. if you're the family of a police off

more from abc's tahman bradley. >> reporter: overnight a peaceful almost festive scene on the streets of ferguson, missouri, the community rallying to demand answers after michael brown, an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a police officer last saturday. it was a dramatically different scene than wednesday night when ferguson police looking like a small army with tanks and heavy weapons clashed with demonstrators. >> the people that's been violent is the police. >> reporter: after that violence missouri governor jay nixon ordered a change in tactics and stripped local police of their authority, replacing them with the state highway patrol. >> i know that ferguson will not be defined as a community torn apart by violence. >> reporter: last night, crowds cheered the trooper in charge captain ron johnson who lives in the community and marched alongside the protesters. >> so as the old saying i've got a dog in this fight. i'll got a big dog in this fight. >> reporter: other americans sharing similar feelings. >> i may not be the same nationality as them but it's close enough

brandi and dan. >> tahman bradley, thank you so much live in washington for us. >>> disturbing new detailsbout the cap tippett of hostage james foley. "the washington post" reports this morning that foley was tortured during the two years he was held by islamic militants. "the post" reports he and three others were waterboarded several times. waterboarding is the notorious technique used by the cia in questioning suspects after 9/11. >>> now to the other major crisis facing the white house. ukraine has accused russia of invasion entering its territory with tank, artillery and troops and nato says at least 1,000 russian troops are in the country. abc's hamish macdonald explains why the russian move is such a threat to ukraine. >> reporter: russia already annexed crimea back in march and if rebel forces push further west, russia might secure a strategically important land corridor all the way to the black sea. >> in response to that president obama is blaming vladimir putin for lying about those military moves. >>> comedian joan rivers is said to be resting comfortably in a new york hospital

abc's tahman bradley leads off our coverage. >> overnight, hollywood mourned the loss of legendary actor robin williams. from the iconic comedy club, the laugh factory to the hollywood walk of fame to the premiere of "expendables 3," shock and sadness. >> we are mourning the loss of such a great man. you know, he was such a fantastic actor. >> he was awe a unique guy. he was just a force of nature. >> reporter: the academy award winner died monday at his home in northern california. they suspect he took his own life. williams representative said he had been battling severe depression of late. online fan, celebrities and williams' family grieved. i love you, i miss you, i'll try to keep looking up his daughter zelda tweeted. >> he was one of a kind. he arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of our spirit. as an oddball alien in the television classic "mork & mindy." >> be free. you must revolt against your oppressors. you nothing to lose but your shells. >> reporter: entertainment weekly called him the funniest man alive but many of his roles were mixed wi

abc's tahman bradley has the details on what is causing it all. >> reporter: dangerous rip currents and high surf on both coasts, treacherous water and sand. overnight marie spinning in the pacific was downgraded to a tropical storm, but large waves, 20 feet in some areas, continue pounding the california coast. for daredevil surfers, bodyboarders and spectators, this is heaven. >> i try to surf all the best waves everywhere and this was the best i've ever had. >> this is amazing. this is huge. this is like nature's show for us. >> reporter: it may be a great show, but it's dangerous with the towering waves expected through friday, lifeguards remain on high alert. >> the people that go in there are definitely risking life and limb, and our guards are very careful about who we let go in the water. >> reporter: on tuesday a malibu surfer died after he was dragged from the swell. yesterday another was rescued by surf legend laird hamilton. >> laird grabbed his fins, swam out to him, and they brought him back in. >> reporter: on the east coast, hurricane cristobal is whipping up turbulent a

abc news reporter tahman bradley is live in ferguson with the latest.d morning, tahman. >> reporter: good morning, tam. the governor lifted the curfew and sent in the national guard to protect peaceful demonstrators but overnight things again spiraled out of control. at least two people were shot and there were more than 30 arrests. overnight the streets of ferguson again looked like a war zone. the missouri national guard assisting state and local police but there was little order. angry demonstrators lobbed molotov cocktails and other objects. police fired back with tear gas. there were multiple arrests. >> i want to encourage the good people of this area to come out and protest tomorrow during the daytime hours. make your voices heard when you can be seen and when you're not the cover for violent agitators. >> reporter: at the heart of this unrest, the death of 18-year-old michael brown. officer darren wilson shot and killed the unarmed teen. preliminary autopsy results confirm brown was shot multiple times including twice in the head. >> at least si

here's abc's tahman bradley. >> reporter: a two-star american general, harold greene, gunned down by an afghan soldier. his northern virginia neighborhood is stunned. >> it's a shock and it's awful, the way that happened. somebody pulled a gun that was supposed to be on his side. just terrible. >> reporter: this morning, we're learning more about general greene and his mission, he had just been sent to afghanistan after being promoted to deputy commander of training. it was supposed to be a routine visit to an afghan military academy tuesday, the general there to check on the progress of afghan troops in training. from an elevated position, the shooter, a member of the afghan security forces strikes using an automatic weapon. general greene is hit and more than a dozen others wounded. within seconds american soldiers so-called guardian angels fire back killing the gunman. >> any form of trust between the afghans and the u.s. trainers has now been fully broken. probably an inside job set up by the taliban. >> reporter: greene is the first u.s. general to die in a war zone from hostile

tahman bradley is live in napa with the latest. good morning, tahman. >> reporter: brandi and dan, good morning. take a look at what this quake did. this is a building that has been red tagged as too dangerous to go into. despite all this devastation, businesses here are re-opening because it is after all the all-important grape harvest season. in wine country, the hard cleanup work continues after the powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake sunday. the damage could top a billion dollars. >> probably the most severe earthquake that's happened to the napa wine industry maybe in decades. >> reporter: dozens of homes and buildings were destroyed or have been ruled too unstable to enter. >> we want to make sure the safety level increases and people aren't going near buildings that have -- where there's a threat debris may fall. >> reporter: have surveillance video from a music store captures that terrifying moment the quake struck. >> honestly i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: more than 200 injured including 13-year-old nicholas dil

here's apc's tahman bradley. >> reporter: this morning doctors are fighting to save the lives of tworicans infected with eastbound remarks nancy writebol is said to be improving after receiving a dose of an experimental drug. the 59-year-old missionary from charlotte was in liberia helping to dee contaminate doctors and got sick. >> she was eating a little bit, able to take in fluid. so, you know, we're cautiously optimistic. >> reporter: according to the president of writebol's missionary group, nancy's condition has improved enough to make special requests. >> she asked for her favorite liberian meal of potato soup and coffee. >> reporter: dr. kent brantly who arrived in the u.s. on saturday in a full bio suit is also taking the experimental drug and we've learned his fever is lower. it's not clear if the experimental treatment is the reason the americans are improving. ebola has already killed almost 900 people in three african countries, only 44 percent of patients survive. the scare has u.s. health officials on alert. at new york's mount sinai hospital a male patient who had rec