that's what life is about. >> extraordinarily candid with diane sawyer in 2006. extraordinary when you think of his accomplishments despite his struggles beyond the scenes, nominated for four oscars winning just one time for "good will hunting," his role that he played with matt damon and ben affleck. his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction were well known throughout the years. he talked publicly with diane and used those speeches and candid interviews in his effort, his battles to stay sober. i want to bring in david wright who joins us from california as well. this was a very open struggle robin williams had. >> reporter: absolutely, david. it provided fodder for his stand-up and he would have admitted that it provided the energy that it took to inhabit all the characters that he improvised in rapid fire in any of his stand-up routines. he famously struggled with his addiction. his first wakeup call came in 1982 when his friend and fellow partner john bell ushy died of an overdose. in fact, he was there the day belushi died. that sent him into his first r

sawyer passed away two weeks later in nigeria.ecoming the first american to die from the virus. >> patrick and his sister loss of their lives is a great blow to our family. >> sawyer's widow started a foundation to educate the international community about ebola. more than 1400 people have died from the virus since march. >>> american war planes struck isis targets near the mosul dam in iraq as the obama administration weighs taking the fight to syria. relatively little is known about the structure and leadership of the terrorist group. so before taking action, intelligence officials are working behind the scenes to determine how exactly how strong isis is. u.s. officials tell nbc news though isis has gotten a lot stronger, it is believed they are not capable of pulling off a 9/11-sized attack but they could still do damage on american soil. >>> demand for justice coming up. >>> and underwater, tropical weather brings flooding to puerto rico. >>> it was a gloomy start to the weekend. but tomorrow plenty of sunshine but i'm trackin

he really was within one plane right away from potentially putting other americans at risk mr sawyer was en route back to minnesota after a business trip in west africa at some point he contrasted. and felt ill just five days later he took a plane ride to nigeria where he died very shortly after he got off the plane nigeria was meant to be his last meeting location before coming home to his wife and three little girls all under the age of six from mr sawyer he experienced probably one of the most aggressive cases of ebola because the time between can. traction and his death was only five days typically the incubation period is around eight to ten days before symptoms even begin to show and it usually takes weeks for victims to die now ebola symptoms are often mistaken for the flu which could be why many people go on diagnosed and unwittingly spread this disease the symptoms are virtually identical to the flu fever chills headache sore throat and later vomiting and diarrhea now when the vomiting and diarrhea kicks in that's when the victim is most contagious basically all of their bod

brian is here to talk about diane sawyer.e say why it was lovely it was very long and sometimes, you know, that gives you kind of a hint into what people are really feeling. do you think she has regrets? >> i actually thought maybe they would do a prime time special or something that would send her off the way barbara walters was sent off this year when she semi retired. i guess the difference here is diane sawyer staying at abc and going to be doing big interviews and specials. i don't think she has any regrets. it's notable she decided to leave a couple days earlier than we were expecting her to leave. nobody knew until wednesday she was going to sign off last night. contrast that to the other big anchor departures of the past where there's been weeks and months of hype ahead of time, maybe she wanted to go quietly and not make it about her. >> that's very classy. it is curious she leaves at this time because the ratings are high. >> she came into the job for five years ago, vast majority of the time brian williams was the

. >> viconte sawyer is spreading the word about ebola. broadcasting to minnesota's african community and she's been personally hit by the ebola outbreak. >> he was such a loving father and has been. but his passion for liberia and making a change in liberia and being a part of a systemic change in liberia took him over and he died with that cause and i respect that. >> her husband, patrick sawyer, was the first american to die from ebola in this recent outbreak that is now claimed more than 1,000 lives in west africa. sawyer was working in liberia on a government project. he lives behind three young girls back in minnesota. his older daughter deaf aat this timed and scared. >> she knows daddy is in heaven and trying to put the pieces together. she's here in liberia and here in minnesota and she's piecing this together in her six-year-old brain. she asked me sometime recently if it's her daddy that's killing everyone. >> what do you say to her when a section-year-old raises these fears? >> it broke my heart. because she shouldn't have to h

sawyer. he's here with you guys all day every day in those units. let me see what he has to say and we'll go from there. okay? stay in here, cool out for a little bit, but don't worry. all right. >> you're saying he's a level two and he's thinking -- >> he is now for sure. >> ewe hit -- unit reports were good. what did you do, demote him or continue him? >> mia and the counselor find a solution for edgar. they compromise and place him on level three. back in his unit, he seems satisfied with the outcome. >> you have to believe that you are making a change. you may not see it today, you may not see it tomorrow, but somewhere along the line you have made a change or a difference in somebody's life. >> even when a teen is close to getting out of pendleton, there's rarely lack of drama inside the walls. 18-year-old andrew huff has been locked up 14 months. today, he is facing one of the biggest days of his life. his release interview. >> what's different with you, personally, that's going to keep you focused and keep you from getting angry when you are

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patrick sawyer and princess, their mother lives in southwest philly. princess lived in liberia. her brother went to visit her on a work trip. she died the next day and he died later. >> patrick and his sister's loss of their lives is a great blow to our family. >> sawyer's widow started a foundation to educate the international community about ebola. 1400 have died from the virus was since. >>> now to developments in iraq, american warplanes continue to strike isis targets as the obama administration weighs taking the fight to syria where the leader is located. little is known about the exact structure or organization of the terrorist group. u.s. officials tell us isis has gotten stronger over the last months. they don't think isis is capable of pulling off an attack like 9/11. officials warn the terrorists could try something on american soil. there's no signs of violence stopping in iraq. three bombs went off yesterday killing 31 iraqis and wounding dozens of others. in baghdad a suicide bomber drove a car with explosive sboos the headquarters there killing six people and five

now a cause for concern, patrick sawyer, he died from ebola after flying on more than one plane. he got sick in liberia, then it's believed he got had a stop in ghana. now sawyer's case is sending local and international officials scrambling. >> the "world health organization" is sending two teams to both nigeria and togo to undertake contact tracing to try to trace the people who this gentleman may have been in touch with during his flight. we will insure that the virus does not escape. >> reporter: it's a disease that starts with flu-like symptoms and can end with victims bleeding from their eyes, mouth and ears. the "world health organization" said that once someone gets ebola the death rate can be as high as 90%. >> before the epidemic started people did not know what ebola was. now the situation is difficult. it is a crisis. >> reporter: ebola is not airborne and can only be caught through bodily fluids like saliva, sweat and blood. those who are diagnosed with it are immediately quarantined putting medical professionals at the front line of contagions. >> my family tell me

. >> the pay-off is delicious t terri sawyer has been farming shellfish on this bay for over 25 years. his company provides up to 3 million oysters a year to area. >> we've got water coming in bringing in all of the oxygen, the food, everything these guys need to grow. >> as you can imagine, people love their oysters. so the industry has been doing very well since the 1970s. unfortunately, in 2006, some problems began to emerge. >> what we are seeing is all of the larvae or the journal oysters, the entire populations are crashing. they are dying. it's alarming to say the least. >> farmers and marine scientists were able to eliminate the possibility of disease or low oxygen. cause. >> when you have the entire loss like that, that entire crash, that's the ocean asscidification that we are talking about. >> it's happening 10 times faster than any example we can see in the geologic record. >> ten times faster? >> alarming, i agree. >> desperate to save his life-long family business he started working with tessa hill and a team of researchers from bay. >> the ocean is a tremendous sponge f

one dead is a nurse in nigeria who treat american, patrick sawyer who died of ebola there. two americans are slowly improving. writebol's sons visited her today. she cried for joy seeing him walk out of the ambulance. lets go live to nora muchanic, she is in freehold, where a prn that travelled to west africa returned home with flu-like symptoms. this happened on monday and caused quite a scare and medics called the hospital from the ambulance and what the circumstances were and doctors and nurses suited up and prepared a special isolation room for when the sick woman arrived. >> it's right here in freehold and it's scary, on monday a female patient recently returned from west africa was brought to freehold with flu-like symptoms, the woman was brought through this door, a separate entrance and taken to an isolation room. >> scared the hell out of me. >> i have grandchildren, i don't want them to be near anything like that. >> following careful monitoring of the patient, new jersey state health officials say despite the woman's travel history, she has no known exposure to t

united-union game. >>> and "world news with diane sawyer" is next on channel 6.action news" continues tonight at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rodgers. and then please join us for "action news at 11:00" here on channel 6. for cecily tynan, jamie apody, ducis rodgers, the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. i'm m-a-r-y and i have copd. i'm j-e-f-f and i have copd. i'm l-i-s-a and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way of hosting my book club. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. and breo helps reduce symptom flare-ups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. breo is not for asthma. breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. it is not known if this risk is increased in copd. breo won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. breo may increase your risk of pneumon

we reached out via e-mail for reaction today from sawyer the widower of the victim but did not receive weapon that killed sawyer an elementary school rector has not been found. >> there were over 70 people out there on that street. so it was very difficult to know how many additional shooters there may have been at the time. >> reporter: prosecutors say the case is still under investigation with one additional defendant now facing prosecution. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> now to the south bay where police in san jose have made an arrest with a fiery collision. bryan cuellar was arrested for felony hit-and-run. 10 people were hurt and taken to the hospital including two passengers in cuellars car. he started to run away from the scene but was detained by officers. >>> police have stepped up patrol in a neighborhood where 20 vehicles have been vandalized. it happened on santa rosa avenue between sunday night and yesterday morning. the vandals spilled paint on vehicles as well as fences, sidewalks and even the road. investigators are also look

the -- i'm sawyer. the line that's hard to see on this, it's even hard for me to see, but it's the dotted green line at the top is where the federal minimum wage in 1968 would have been were it indexed to inflation. the federal minimum wage and the state minimum wage are not indexed it inflation. had the federal minimum wage gone up by inflation since 1968 it would be slightly, very slightly above what san francisco's minimum wage is today. another factor that affects the context around san francisco's minimum wage is that the state has already acted to raise its minimum wage. it went up to $9 effective july 1st of this month and will go up to $10 an hour in 2016. both of those state increases are higher than a typical minimum wage adjustment so that means that absent any local action the gap between the state and the city minimum wage will, will shrink in the next couple of years. this is a chart indicating the relationship between san francisco's cpi adjusted minimum wage and median rent paid in the c

. >> an emotional good-bye tonight from diane sawyer as she steps down as abc's "world news." sawyer is leading the anchor desk after a five-year run to leave a new team that will focus on original reporting and major interviews to be succeeded by david muir who anchors weekend edition of world news and "20/20." you can catch the last broadcast at 5:30 right after abc 7 news at 5:00. >> be sure to tune in. transition period. >>> well, call it the panda project. >> scheduled to star in her own reality show until whoo! mmm! ♪ ♪ oh, yeah [ male announcer ] discover your new orleans. start exploring at followyournola.com. >>> coming up new at 6:00, the i team investigates were y people are being allowed to work inside a quake damaged building that's been red tagged. >> the repair work under way and what's believed to be the spot where the earthquake originated. >> and michael finney shows you how to negotiate with your insurance can company after a natural disaster. that's critical information to have. those stories and a lot more on abc 7 news at 6:00. >>> right now listen to thi

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diane sawyer has more on the tensions in the middle east as well as the ebola ep dimmic. >> philadelphia detectives are looking for armed robbers, the suspect walks in and show a knife and demands money but the clerk refused and the man walked out and 30 minutes later, that same man walked into a wawa in the 3900 block of state road and did the same thing, this time he did get money from the clerk and took off. several people are out of their home tonight because of this fast moving fire in north philadelphia, the scene at 1:00 a.m. on north 17th street, the flames started on the second g.r, luckily residentthle ie b c fgitivnunf e doman c thehehe asolictia sec same b d a inor2 isatn.stly hsr i sexprehasveomhean ur adareng g campe >>m> itfep leplaf geet i>> ar budoze rck inet f a mwny smands ck, p hisn. eg i thet t pu. the t rain ata y.5co cradhgy nl aguaa o thi se they tis i rd hre coachingr he a spnsp it6: a b ffec>> tuer ingt il chna ue hfo rdoat ish rrf i icefm ishest>> wight, h gheot aeone aurstn i ,erwa-glow ninag wrl s sh ninag wrl s sh oplaat skeved fico itnsh w pa t it to annsd

we had people like ann northrop who used to be diane sawyer's producer at cbs.had bob ravsky who did pr for corporate america. from day one they told us how to talk to the media and how to get our message out. >> if the press didn't get a film camera there or didn't get a print photographer there, we started taking our own pictures and doing our own video then saying we've got great footage of that demo, do you want it? >> the situation worsens with each passing year. aids deaths skyrocket. by 1991, the number of people infected with hiv reaches 1 million. and there's still no effective drug treatment in sight. >> almost in step with the way the epidemic was exploding, the turnout to act up exploded. first it was a few dozen people planning, and then a thousand people or more showing up at a meeting. >> in january, 1991, around the 10-year anniversary of the epidemic, actup mounts a major coordinated protest, hoping to attract maximum media coverage. they call it day of desperation. >> we've gotten some progress in some things, but we still thought the media was

. >> there will be much more on the situation in missouri tonight on "world news with diane sawyer." that is tonight at 6:30 after "action news at 6:00." >>> people displaced by fire in south philadelphia. and chopper 6 hd over the scene near 7th street. the fire started in a laundromat. and the cause of the fire is not yet known. >>> from our delaware news ram what happened to the crash on 95 in the southbound lanes in wilmington north of the stadium. two cars collided causing the mini cooper to flip over. >>> the taney dragons are heading to the little league world series. keeping the dream alive. led by the female pitcher, and they play nashville in williamsport. and more on that excite the coming up at 6:00. >>> and we have live coverage the little league world series was we follow the taney dragons, look for live reports later this week on "action news." >> and a check of the traffic. >> hi, we're not exactly hitting a home run on the traffic front this monday afternoon. still have some big bucks county back-ups because of the overturned truck accident. the truck is upright but

sawyer's going to be working on in-depth stories and big interviews for abc.id will take over world news tonight. and if there's any lingering doubt about her feelings for her replacements. well, listen to this voice in the new commercial for him. >> he's been right there. >> our first reporters david meuer. >> near the front lines. >> david meuer leads our coverage once again tonight with that exclusive. david? >> connecting us to each other and the events in our world that matter most. >> with meuer at "world news," it is a new era in the evening news ratings race. for many, many years, brian williams has been number one. but lately, sawyer and meuer have been beating nbc in the all-important 25 to 54-year-old demographic. nbc says abc has gone tabloid. check out what the president of nbc news told the "new york times" this week. quote, if nbc started dumbing down and doing tabloid news, we would lose a large number of our viewers. interesting insinuation there. but it was a different quote from her that got the most attention. let me read it to you. and kee

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. >> sawyer from minnesota later died from it and now a nyjerian nurse who treated him is also dead. >> it is far from being controlled in that area. unfortunately -- >> but thanks to an scompeertmental drug nancy writebol and kent brantly appear to be holding their own. >> we kept our faith. >> the world health organization began meeting today to decide if the ebola outbreak amount to an international public health emergency. in recent years it's only done this twice, for swine flu in 2009 and for polio in may. >> police chase two bike riders and today one of those riders has died. >> more than a billion usernames and passwords hacked. we'll tell you how you'll find out if have been a victim. next. >> and d.c. tops the new list, thanks to all of the restaurants, the entertainment and diversity here. >> a security breach affecting more than 1 billion passwords can put your private information at risk. >> russian hackers are responsible for this we are told. >> the numbers are staggering. analysts say one in five people with accounts and passwords to anything may be impacted by the br

a memorial service was held in southwest philadelphia yesterday for siblings patrick sawyer and princesseir mother lives in southwest philly. princess lived in liberia and was sick. her brother who lived in minnesota went to visit her on a work trip. princess died the next day. her brother patrick died two weeks later becoming the first american to die from the virus. >> patrick's loss and his sister's loss of their lives is a great blow to our family. >> sawyer's widow you heard from has started a foundation to educate the community about the ebola. 1400 have died from the virus since march. >>> a mass is held for foley after he was killed by isis. a massive remembrance is held this afternoon for james foley. he was captured in 2012. isis posted this web video tuesday showing the brutal beheading. the u.s. launched a raid this summer to rescue foley and other hostages but were unable to rescue them. >>> the obama administration weighs taking the fight to syria where the group's leadership is located. little is known about the structure of the leadership of this group. isis has gotten st

and something that you have not heard yet from diane sawyer coming up about this guy.that later in the show. >> can't wait for that. >> what a way to say vacation 4:00 a.m. >> you know, you want to make the most of your day, amy. >> i heard robach was going to be here. >> yeah. >>> we do have a lot of news to get to. and we'll get to that right now leading us off that glowing threat from i.s.i.s. militants and the u.s. warning about those men joining the group now. president obama addressing the crisis in the last 24 hours and abc's martha raddatz is live in washington this morning with the very latest for us. martha, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, david. the president is toning down his threatening language substantially. i.s.i.s. released an alarming new propaganda video once again showing the utter brutality of i.s.i.s. which humiliates, kills and celebrates its barbarism. the captured syrian soldiers some 150 are stripped to their underwear forced to march across the desert after i.s.i.s. fighters, their black flags flying took control of a syrian air bas

patrick sawyer who has come down with the virus. always people around the infected, where the bodily fluids somehow gets into the healthy person and unfortunately it spreads into their body. tony. >> robert ray for us. thank you. a nurse with doctors without borders reefnlt returned from guinea. i askedder how you treat to ebola virus. >> how we treat the ebola patient, it is supportive care. to this day there is no particular treatment we can give to fight the virus itself. rehydrating the patients and giving them antibiotic, we need to rehydrate the patient snuches we expect. >> what -- as much as we can. >> dr. brantly was given the experimental serum that has been tested on animals but hasn't been given to human patients yet. do you see it being used in guinea and liberia and sierra leone yet? >> no it hasn't been used. >> are you aware of it? >> yes yes, i'm aware of it, we are not using it in our facilities in doctors without borders. it hasn't been part of the protocol. >> what are the protocols the information you're providi

. >> reporter: patrick sawyer fell ill flying from nigeria to liberia. 40-year-old consultant with the liberian ministry was enroute to a conference when he collapsed upon arriving. he died five days later. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: now, we are learning, patrick who lived in minnesota with his wife and three kids visited his sister in the hospital two weeks earlier while in liberia. mom says he rushed to his sister's side after she became sick. she lived in liberia with her feon say and son died a day after. at the time, no one knew she has ebola. the family says doctors only tested her remains after she pass zed away. now, this mother says she needs a sense of closure. she tells us, she doesn't know how two of her kids could have died from this deadly disease without a word. she is forced to grieve without closure and without having said good-bye. >> a death certificate. [ inaudible ] >> nigeria has four new cases of ebola reported over the weekend. all the people who had contact with patrick sawyer. >> it's spread to four countries and killed nearly 1

a memorial service was held yesterday for patrick sawyer and princess. their mother lives in southwest philly. princess was living in liberia when she got sick. her brother was on a work trip and visited her. that's when he got sick. she died after the day he visited. he died two weeks later, becoming the first american to die from the virus. sawyer's widow started a foundation to spread awareness about ebola. >> coming up, the return of young sports heroes. matt delucia is among those waiting for the taney dragons this morning. >> reporter: mo'ne and the dragons will get a lot of love this afternoon. we're live at love park. we'll have a report coming up after the break. >>> going to give taney dragons nice weather. blue skies outside now. that's going to stick around for sunday for sure. will it be around for the beginning of your workweek? i'll let you know when we come back. ♪ the world famous fries you love, plus a shake of three new flavors you add. introducing mcdonald's shakin' flavor fries. shake up something new to love at mcdonald's. >>> the b

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he had been in in contact with patrick sawyer who died. >>> security forces in mexico have captured a ton of methamphetamine and various chemicals to produce drugs. forces say four synthetic drug laboratories have been dismantled. they were housed in bedroom, living quarters and what local media call security points. >>> parents of young footballers in america are suing fifa to have the laws of football change to greater protect players from head injuries. the class action lawsuit filed in california calls for more safety rules and among them limiting the number of head injuries allowed for under age 17 players. >>> the food program has a taken food to gaza for the first time since the blockade began seven years ago. the convoy entered through the crossing following a ceasefire between israel and hamas. we are at the crossing in gaza. we can speak to him now. what's the state of play? a lot of traffic? a lot of movement? >> reporter: well actually we can say the movement start. we're talking 18 trucks from the u.n. agency, program for food. it is coming from egypt from the side to gaz

authorities are monitoring the 70 people known have come in contact with patrick sawyer. four of whom have already tested positive for ebola. meanwhile on wednesday a man suspected to have contracted ebola died in saudi arabia. if confirmed, this would be the first ebola related death outside of africa. and this spanish priest who worked in africa and tested positive for ebola is returning to spain for treatment. mt. sinai hospital in new york announced that the male patient with fever and are symptoms tested negative for ebola. world health organization in geneva, to determine what to do with the outbreak, while ministers discussed what might happen if ebola spreads against the continent. >> these health workers are overstretched and because they are overstretched they do occasionally forget to go through the normal routines that we encourage them to do in handling ebola infected cases. so some of them are errors that arise because of being overworked. others are because of the infrastructure challenges that they're working in. that promote transmission or hospital trans

. >>> an emotional farewell as diane sawyer stepped down as anchor of abc's "world news." >> i just want you to know what a deep privilege it has been to sit in the anchor chair at "world news" these years. the flagship broadcast of abc, where peter jennings created a signature of such curiosity and courage. >> sawyer is leaving the anchor desk after a five-year run to focus on original reporting and major interviews. she will be succeeded by david muir. >>> another 30 minutes of abc 7 news at 9:00 is straight ahead. coming up next, damage at the epicenter, the repair work under wap, and what is now believed to be the spot where the earthquake originated. >>> how the napa quake has brought out the best in people. we're going to take you to a dispatch center for earthquake volunteers. and there are a lot of volunteers. >>> waiting in line at food trucks, or waiting for a flight at the airport. why either one can be the secret to happiness. to happiness. that story can't say thank you enough. to happiness. that story you have made my life special by being apart of it. (everyone) cheers! gl

more on all of these still developing national stories coming up tonight on world news with diane sawyer at 6:30. >>> excitement is building as our taney dragons are gearing up tomorrow for their game at the little league world series, their own teachers are behind them. the action cam stopped by spring side academy today. apparently she brings that same laser folk taos class. >> there are so many parallels, her determination and not wanting to give up on something, she cecily tyn sets her eyes fo watch out. >> she has landed on the cover of the new "sports illustrated." chad pradelli will have live reports from williams sport tomorrow as the taney dragons take on las vegas. >> while the philadelphia school district continues to face enormous financial challenges, one local organization is making sure a school is ready for students when they start the new academic year, lisa thomas-laury has that story. >> more than 150 volunteers were busy at dunbar academy, making improvements to the school building inside and out. >> this is part a planter and we'll stack them in the pyramid shape to