particularly in and for berlin, dialogue and cooperation are important. there must not be eastt populations leaving berlin aside. berlin must always be fully included. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the fight for cooperation can never be for us the full profession of our convictions and values, no one in europe is more interested in reducing this conflict is we germans, and especially berliners. tension very place, the brought about in the past are forgotten. on the basis of continued defense readiness, we are offering to the other side dialogue and constructive cooperation, this particularly for those under control, after the reduction of acute tension it is long time to reduce our armaments as well. mr. president i am confident , that you the leader of the united states, will succeed together with the soviet union, this year to achieve the great breakthrough in the arms control field, which will build confidence and open the way for openness in other fields. we want to provide for the worldwide elimination of chemical weapons. we want a reduction of conventional weapons and

[applause] [cheers] to open berlin still further to all europe, east and west, let us expand the vital air access to this city, finding ways of making commercial air service to berlin more convenient, more comfortable, and more economical. we look to the day when west berlin can become one of the chief aviation hubs in all central europe. with our french and british partners, the united states is prepared to help bring international meetings to berlin. it would be only fitting for berlin to serve as the site of united nations meetings, or world conferences on human rights and arms control or other issues that call for international cooperation. [applause] there is no better way to establish hope for the future than to enlighten young minds, and we would be honored to sponsor summer youth exchanges, cultural events, and other programs for young berliners from the east. our french and british friends, i'm certain, will do the same. and it's my hope that an authority can be found in east berlin to sponsor visits from young people of the western sectors. [applause] pres. reagan: one final

berlin wall. the news spread like wildfire, east german citizens headed to budapest and product, hoping to --budapestnd prague, hoping to make it to the west. at the time it was unthinkable that the berlin wall could fall. but the people of east germany kept up the pressure with mass peaceful demonstrations throughout the country. [clapping and cheering] >> event snowballed in november 1989. >> we have decided today to draw up regulations allowing every citizen of east germany to cross-border points to the west. >> it was the ninth of november, within hours, the symbol of the divided germany no longer struck fear into people's hearts. [cheering and singing] >> at the time, helmut kohl was on official business in poland. in the bundestag, delegate spontaneously sang the national anthem --delegates spontaneously sang the national anthem. ♪ >> the following day, helmut kohl address of the people of germany in berlin. >> long lives a free german fatherland, long-lived -- long live a free and united europe. >> it was above all the east germans who celebrated this chancellor of the german unity. primarily

east germany. and in west berlin. i learned an important historic .ow lesson being close to a situation does not message daily mean you understand it. 1987 or really 1988 or thought that there was going to be some kind of popular uprising in the east. itre was a commitment to process of trying to find ways to increase interaction between .he two germany's to try to somehow ignore it on the one hand, try to ease the pain and the feeling of the , andrical inevitability that is what made the reagan remark so refreshing. he stared head-on handing in front of the berlin wall and challenged the east to bring the wall down. >> i would now like to know, how much of that do you know? tell us how the whole process works and when were you told you would write the speech? how did you start piecing together the elements of what goes into it? >> i will. let me begin by taking the ambassador. let me just i have wondered about the >> -- correct pronunciation. finally cared i spent years practicing. word, you brought me here after thr

counterpart, the russian ambassador to the federal republic, when i was in berlin, i was in regular meetings with the ambassador to east germany. i was talking to two different russian ambassadors, given a very chillier and unique situation of berlin being occupied city. why that is important for the reagan speeches, one of the things we had to do, and we always talk about the allies and we talk about the allies in those days, we met the united states, britain, and french cut -- and france. and our collective responsibilities. all we recognized that we had to get political support from home. it was not just enough that west germany in the westermann parliament would support us financially, which they did. we needed public political support from the united states, britain, and from france. the leadership needed to understand why we were still hanging around defending berlin. somebody, probably the governing mayor, came up with the idea that we should commemorate the 750th anniversary of her length. i think that was probably phony date. the first step was to berlin. but it gained traction. give us an opportunity to one o

seeing the humidity drop, mid-80s there and mid-80s in the i-95 corridor, and spots closer to the east in berlin and wrightstown only in the low 80s and a light wind and at the shore mid-70s at the coast and more humid there for longer and in general everybody is getting better today. >> it's nice to have a little precipitation this morning. a little sprinkle. >> we continue to follow our breaking news story from alexandria, virginia. where a baseball practice turned into a shooting scene. four people were injured including a congressman from louisiana. abc news is getting reaction from people on the tv and walter perez will be live coming up later at 4:00. >> and a dangerous stun. a viewer sent us video of a young man hanging out the window as the driver sped down the atlantic city expressway. what we know about this reckless ride. don't forget to join us today for "action news" at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. >> i'm rick williams have a nice afternoon we'll see you right here later tonight. carrying out a letters from tom to the letters to the editor, he >> announcer: today, summer is just around the

. >> london, england, east france, berlin, germany all hit since march. >> all target of new wave ofer is terror. how likely is d.c. to be a target. live on the national mall. fitz every time we see an attack whether concert could this happen at the verizon center or -- or somewhere like that. >> sure. >> well you know it's a natural human thought when you see things around the world like that you bring it back home and you wonder if it can happen in your own backyard. let's remember d.c. the d.c. area was a target on 9/11 we were hit on 9/11 a lot of this moderner ra of islamic ext extremist terrorism started here literally in our bone backyard at the pentagon. the question is can we be the expert we spoke to said the answer is clear, yes. despite the fact home land security officials are working the intelligence or working sources they're working behind the scenes to stop all this stuff the problem here is in the latest manifesttation of the stuff the so-called low tech attacks they're not talking about the al-quida style catastrophic attacks and teams of people taking over aircraft

ever since the failure to establish reelections throughout the whole city, berlin's situation between eastest had grown steadily more uncomfortable. now the soviets felt strong enough to take action. their efforts to starve the western population were frustrated as all the world knows by the same berlin airlift. commission -- in a few short years of peace, the soviet era of domination had spread ultimately over europe. how could the brussels power alone hold? of warr old europe, talk yet again. what hopes now for the marshall plan? it wasn't surprising that the europeans read their paper with cynicism and despair. then they read how 12 nations in washington side what came to be known as the north atlantic treaty. and if they had doubts about the new organization, nato, the need for it was proved at once by the communist reaction. was driving a rift between east and west. this was an affront to all peaceloving peoples. they permitted the -- paraded, and peace was their slogan. was this the piece for which so many had died? and int of stalingrad the streets of paris? was this the aftermath t

berlin where it was all smiles earlier as angela merkel played host to le keqiang. he is the second eastan leader to receive the red—carpet treatment in berlin this week after india's prime minister on tuesday. the more positive mood, a change on last week when the g—7 countries meeting in sicily saw a split with the united states taking a different position to the rest on issues such as climate change and free trade. the bbc‘sjoe mellor has been following the events in berlin. it's tempting to read a lot into this, there have been two east asian leaders here and this comes after a week where tensions between the us and germany have never really been higher. of course these visits are planned a long way in advance and it's true to say press officers of either delegation if you take a look at the trade numbers between china and europe they are improving as years go by. this visit could not have come at a better time politically. if you look at the trade numbers between europe and china they are really improving as years go by, you have europe, the number one export market for china and ch

this races to the east at 40 miles per hour. it is pulling out of berlin. it is this area here, let me go over and switch over so you can draw on this a little bit here. all right, there we go, let me switch this over to white. what i was talking about earlier what you're looking at, see how this boeing out a little bit right -- bow out a little bit right here. the straight line winds are pushing this cell ahead of the rest of the line because the straight line winds are so powerful. they start to move ahead and they kind of pull back like that in a little eddie. here's another one, this is not as pronounced earlier it was. the same thing is happening here as it starts to bow out here, it starts to pull back almost like a little eddie, you get the circulation in through here, the bottom portion of this top cell and the northern portion of this southern cell where we could see the dangerous rotating winds. let's take that off for you here. what i am going to do is push this a little bit farther off to the south here there's the storm track right here. here's

president reagan challenged soviet leader, midically gorbachev to tear down the ball that divided east and west berlin 1961. two years later the wall did come down. and two germanys reunited thanks in part to the interesting part about that line, is that several of reagan's speech writers did not want him to say it. they thought relations between him and gorbachev were pretty good thought the line was too extreme, forceful, kept trying to water down the speech. he and a speech writer kept putting it in. taking it out. putting it in. that day went up there and decide to say it. >> wonder itch that was in the prompter or ad-libbed. >> ad-libbed. >> stuck to his guns. wanted to say it. there he did. >> part of the brief visit the president did to west berlin. first five years scheduled so he could also take part in the city's, 750th anniversary celebration there. first in five years, the trip there. >> turn now to a new warning abut hidden dangers at the lake. after two girls were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes. while outside swimming. >> take a look at what you can do to keep your family safe as we h

he became chancellor of west germany in 1982 and guided the rejoining with east germany, after the berlinl fell and the soviet bloc collapsed. helmut kohl ultimately served as chancellor for 16 years. he was 87 years old. and, los angeles temporarily turned into gotham city last night in memory of adam west, who played batman on the 1960s tv show. hundreds of fans gathered to watch as officials flipped a switch and flashed the iconic bat signal on city hall. adam west died this week at 88. still to come on the newshour: my conversation with david petraeus on the fight in afghanistan. new travel and business restrictions between the u.s. and cuba. and, much more. >> woodruff: wars in afghanistan, syria, and iraq. tensions within the gulf states. and, a new administration trying to manage an exploding region. all topics for retired general david petraeus. he commanded american and coalition forces in the wars in iraq and afghanistan, and served as overall commander of u.s. military operations in the middle east. he later served as director of the c.i.a. in 2011 and 2012. he's now with a glo

we have berlin, voorhees under this, turnersville, washington township, pitman, east greenwich. so a good location here across several counties under this warning. we are watching for any rotation that may be indicated on radar. we see two boundaries trying to come together. that's when you can have the rotation fire off. not seeing any reports yet of any tornadic activity, but we are watching very closely on our radar for any information that may pop up. if you are in this area, you need to go to the lowest level of your home. if you have a basement, that is best. if not, go to the central part of your home. maybe a bath room, a closet. those are the areas that you need to be in away from windows because when this kind of wind force moves in, it can blow out a window. don't worry about trying to lift windows up. that is an old myth. at that point you're putting yourself in danger. just get to a safe location, take cover. again camden and gloucester county specifically and then clipping into about your are link ton, this is in effect through 7:00 a.m. for the possibility of a to

east, has died aged 87. the current chancellor, angela merkel, has led the tributes, describng him as 'a great german and a great european.‘ from berlin germans hailed him as a saver from communism, the cold war was over. as a child, helmut kohl saw his country destroyed by world war ii. it inspired or a lifelong ambition to unify germany and europe, and put an end to war. his christian democrat principles and his giant physique proved unstoppable. first he was the leader of rhineland then leader of opposition in west germany. and when schmidt's government collapsed, the cold war. he was mocked for his appetite and accent. his time might have run out were it not for a political earthquake. the fall of the berlin wall. now helmut kohl with the history man, the reassuring figure who convinced the soviet leader mikhail gorbachev to reunite germany which would pose no threat. 0n the day of reunification, helmut kohl with the father of the nation. but in eastern germany, the economy failed and brilliance lost their jobs. helmut kohl felt dearly. he had ignored the costs of unity and germany paid the price. helmut kohl turned to his other b

berlin wall in 199. the country had been divided into east and west after the second world war. george hw bush called cole a true friend of freedom, cole was 87 years old. >>> coming up, a woman turns to social media to help find a stolen wedding dress. >>> up next, why some day soon, the only thing you may need to pro tip for fruit lovers: giant has unbelievable produce prices. so you'll never have to choose between your favorites. take a fresh look at giant's produce prices. pro tip: gianraspberries for prices on produce. john... strawberries for amy... what's a jicama? thanks! take a fresh look at giant's produce prices. >>> ment next time you fly out of reagan national airport, your face may be the only thing you need to board the flight. some airlines are testing facial recognition. >> some people are concerned it could violate a person's privacy. >> so you can board without presenting your boarding pass, or other travel documents. >> this is a trial of facial recognition technology by u.s. customs and jet blue. the airline wants to see faster. >

we've had many, stockholm, of course, the christmas market in berlin, that terrible episode in east france, just the pictures of the crushed strollers. how do we in this country protect against vehicle attacks? in new york, there was just an attack in new york. it wasn't a terrorist, but still, there were fatalities. >> the average consumer vehicle in the united states weighs 4,000 pounds, 2 tons. unless we want to regulate it to the point where we're going to go in and make sure that that vehicle can't go above 10 miles an hour, which is not going to happen -- >> what about pedestrian safe zones? for london bridge, for example, maybe is there something they could have done? there was another bridge attack in westminster two weeks ago. >> look at new york. i used to work at 26 federal plaza in lower manhattan, right in the shadow of the towers. look at how every major building, whether an iconic building like the empire state building, or the federal building, have concrete barriers placed around it and layered security. layered security is the secret. what happened in nice, france, where

people killed running for freedom from east to west berlin, the soviet union's gulag designed to crush dissent nd the human spirit, and mao's brutal rule in red china that killed millions. the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house needs to come to order. take your conversations into the hallway, please. you are recognized. mr. ruth fuss: this week a new generation of americans witnessed the bar bear -- bar bear i haddy of the evil of communism. i extend my condolences to the family of otto wambier. hey -- the speaker pro tempore: can we please have order in the house. take your conversations off the floor, please. you are recognized. mr. ruth fuss: i extend my condolences to the family and friends to otto wambier. the north korean thugs may believe his torture and death empowers them. they are wrong. president reagan foretold communism will end up on the ash heap of history and that is where kim is headed. but otto has a different legacy. one of otto's friends told me his spirit could not be crushed and unlike the communist thugs of north korea, auto's spirit will l

east. see the pine hill area right around 644, berlin, new jersey, 6:48. the lowden area around 6:52.ine hill, 6:44, well, it is 64:00 it, so basically on top of you at this point specially moving at 45 miles an hour, extremely fast moving and dangerous situation now developing in south-central new jersey, one more time back to the velocity, try to give you an idea once again where that maybe upper level rotation is at the national weather service was indicating could potentially have the potential to maybe form a tornado. so again, right around gloucester, just now past gloucester, south of us30, circumstance tell for you, casino every right in here, is where we are looking for that rotation. the reason we're looking there is when you have a green and red next to each other on this velocity image, what we are looking at is he winds upper level, moving away from the radar site, of course fort dix is our radar site. right now seeing green and red touching together she we could be upper leveled some rotation potentially there. that's why this tornado warning still in effect for another

the longest surviving section of the berlin wall - the east side gallery - serves as a historical canvas of sorts. select street artists were invited to create their piece of what the gallery claims is the longest open air gallery in the world. and because it runs alongside a city sidewalk and road, it's always open. next hop, helsinki, finland . in early june, finnair launched three weekly direct flights from sfo to helsinki, that will run through september. it's just a hair more than 10 hours to make the trip.cg1= helsinki, finland helsinki is an easily walkable city, and no matter where you are, you're never far from water. in winter it may be covered with snow, and as one local put it to me, as cold outside as a freezer, but come summer helsinki oozes a coastal charm, and sunny days bring folks out to get their fill of vitamin d. market square is home to

rain within the past hour just to the north of berlin here, about two and three-quarters worth of rain also about 4-inches of rain just to the north and east so a lot of rain in a short amount of time. keep in mind our entire region is underneath a flash flood watch until later tonight. so, this is a very active system that we're tracking as it continues to work its way eastward. you can see the moisture moving into south jersey for salem and cumberland county, pressing out of middletown and townsend and pressing off towards the north and eventually the east. coming up we'll time out the specific location and let you know what follows behind it for tuesday. those details, monica, coming up within the seven-day forecast. >> sounds good. thank you melissa. >>> with stormy weather expected you can get the latest including detailed updates as well as storm track sticks life radar any time on your phone or your tablet. the 6abc app sap free download for your mobile device. >> and now the latest on the federal probe into russia's meddling into the 2016 presidential election. a member of president trump's outside legal team is now strongly denyin

east. and i am a former speech writer for president reagan. and i was there. i didn't write this speech. but i was there when he gave that speech in berlin telling gorbachev to tear down this wall. a speech that made history. not just reflected it, but is now seen as a pivotal moment in changing the direction of what was going on with the cold war. i might say i didn't write it but did i make sure i was one of the people who smuggled that speech into the president's hands. because after the president gave -- was given that speech and said he was going to say that, all of his senior advisors tried to convince him not to say tear down the wall, and mr. gorbachev , tear down this wall was a phrase in history that made history and ronald reagan stood up against all the people on the left who were attacking him, and even all of his own advisors. that made a huge difference in the world, in the world that we live in. now let me just note this. that we have a president now, president donald trump, who went to saudi arabia and went to a meeting with the leaders of that part of the world and he talked to them and these were muslims, of course. an

east to the west, it would just impact on them so strongly. >> yeah. the material wealth was overwhelming, you know? the couple of trips to west berlin i didn't get to see much. but when i spent time in canada, montreal particularly and there's, there's a big store, department store that i spent hours and just, like, totally blown away by the rich assortment of things you can buy. and i wanted some of that. and already this was the beginning of a dichotomy that we, all of us lived through. we coveted the goods that came from a society that we wanted to destroy. that's something that we all buried. we didn't want to think about it, right? so it didn't make a dent with regard to my perception of capitalism versus socialism, because the rationalization behind the thinking was that america and west germany were rich because they exploited the third world. they got all their wealth out of, you know, south america and africa and so forth. that's what we were taught anyway. >> sean? right up here. >> hi. i'm christopher from the german pie museum. i -- spy museum. i have two small, little questions. the first one, why do you think it is tha

a temperature only 69 in berlin, san ramon 68, san jose 66, 63 in oakland, 55 in san francisco, but it is inland easta heat advisory until 9:00 tonight. this spare the air day also. much cooler this weekend, alexis. >> yeah, so it's a great day to take mass transit. no issues there this morning. a few trouble spots on the roads, but overall friday light. here's northbound 880 near davis. we've got reports of some debris in the roadway. you're slow from 238 and a little beyond at that point. and a live look outside at golden gate bridge. still thick fog, so make sure you're driving for conditions. natasha? >> so thick. thank you, alexis. little big town performing live in "good morning america's" summer concert series, next on "gma." we'll have another update in 30 minutes and always on our free abc7 news app. join reggie, mike, alexis, jessica and me for "abc7 mornings" weekdays 4:30 >>> good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. tornadoes tearing across the south causing devastating damage. one twister hitting 120 miles an hour as the aftermath of tropical storm cindy causes misery from texas to new york

markets: middle east" we will hear from a mumbai billionaire and talk about the shakeup in saudi arabia, isolation of guitar, and oil prices. yvonne: peter smith also joins us from berlint 3:00 hong kong time. very early in new york. betty: on bloomberg "surveillance," we will hear from robert schiller. 6:00 p.m. hong kong time, it :00 in sydney. this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. merkel is jumping as a push into the cloud picks up momentum and sparks a fourth consecutive quarter of revenue game -- gain. the cloud business grew in the fourth quarter as sales topped estimates. the ceo says the cloud hypergrowth in expanding oracles profit margins and the company expects earnings per share growth to accelerate i. atty: toyota has tumbled in rating of quality. buyers reported 98 problems per 100 vehicles in the first three months of ownership. south korea's kia motors took top-quality honors for a second straight year. this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: 8:30 and singapore, looks a lot nicer there than in hong kong. we are seeing more sunshine here in the morning. half an hour from the open of trading in the lion city. i'm yvonne m

starting to heat up, 422 east we have an accident on the shoulder there , so it doesn't seem to be impeding traffic too much but watch out for that and one more in new jersey in berlin, route 73, northbound approaching taunton road all lanes are blocked in that part have the route 73. police are on the scene and hopefully they clean that up quickly. >> do you have an update on the traffic as far as the food is concern, that is most important thing, right now, sue. >> we know i-95 southbound is very slow on that route but it doesn't appear to be taking that route so we will be okay. >> i think they have run into a snag because it is still three minutes. >> okay. >> do you see, see. >> maybe sometimes that app can be delayed with the updates. >> well, the car ace approaching, it is still at girard, is what going on. >> morning traffic, man. >> it might be a red light. >> now it is on the move again it is on leopard street. >> it is probably delays. >> leopard is one of the faster animals but one of the slowest street. >>> lets get out to this 7:05. jurors in the bill cosby sexual assault trial returns to court this morning for day to of the deliberations. >> defense a

east falls looking at some of those showers west philadelphia university city getting wet moving toward center city as well into parts of south jersey the lawns are getting some moisture here as we move toward berling looking at some steadier rain. weather by the numbers scale of one to ten. yeah, today not no bad. we had give it what about an eight? so that planner morning clouds some sprinkles and showers out there. but afternoon sunshine turning into a pretty nice saturday. 77 degrees for the high temperature in center city. mid 70s down the shore. 76 for the lehigh valley. temperatures right now we have 55 in pottstown. 57 in atlantic city. 60 in philadelphia and wilmington. so once again, by 10am we're still looking at some clouds and showers. but most of it's out of here folks by lunch time. that entire forecast with the seven day coming up. lauren? >> scott, take good look at this sketch. police say this is the man responsible for stabbing city councilman david oh outside his home wednesday night and this morning police working very hard to try to track him down calling him a fugitive. steve keeley life at southwest detectives following the new details with this story. hi, steve. >> reporte