plan. >> i'm speaking with lauren goodrich for my senior eurasia analyst at stratford.did receive word today that german chancellor merkel and vladimir putin will meet on friday at the d-day ceremony in normandy. does president putin have some explain to do? chancellor merkel has criticized him for his actions in russia -- in group training -- in the ukraine and crimea. what will she likely say this week after >> german chancellor merkel will be meeting with putin in france, and also meeting with french president lalonde as well as -- and he will also be meeting with the french president hollande as leaders of the u.k.. that russiave said needs to de-escalate. however, they've also said that georgia will not be getting into nato anytime soon. germany has taken the hard line against russia and also taken the russian line in positive steps to keep a warm relationship, or at least a working relationship with russia. >> is the line in the sand here at russia says as far as ukraine is concerned, and you mentioned as georgiad as far is concerned as well, we understand there a

charles stratford has our report from the gaza strip. >> reporter: the hospital is survived seeminglysurmountable difficulties for years. conflict, lack of funds and raise reel's block indicate of gaza's borders but staff here say the new palestinian government is more than partly for blame for that are hardship today. this hospital struggles to meet the needs of patients that come here anyway but now the government is failing to meet the needs of the people that come here. they haven't received a reived l salary for nine months and they have received nothing since the end of march. abdullah tends to an elderly woman who has been admitted suffering from dehydration, she's close to losing consciousness, he treats up to 50 children a day. he has three children under five and a wife to support. >> i don't have money, it's having a bad psychological affect on me and my relationship with my family. i am educated. i prefer to leave my family alone. i come to work in a bad mood because i don't have my wages. >> reporter: the palestinian unity government is under a month old. but already isra

firefighters were called to stratford court near glen valley drive, at 9-30 last night. arriving to find flames coming from the roof of the home. eight other departments responded, and put out the fire. firefighters covered most of the first-floor furniture with tarps to minimize the damage. no one was injured. the family was allowed to return home. >> our neighbor went over and knocked on the door of the family had no idea at the house was on fire. >>investigators are working to determine if lightning was the cause of the fire. storms are causing delays of up to 90 minutes for flights at o- hare and midway. more than 660 flights have also been cancelled at o-hare. call your airline directly, if you plan to fly today. as islamist militants seize new territory in iraq, the united states is sending help. andrew spencer reports, the insurgent invasion is forcing entire families to abandon their cities. >> many have fled seeking refuge. >> all the people from mosul ran away because it's not clear anymore who is good and who is bad. >> food is scarce. >> this country is rich

. >> jennifer stratford never felt safe in school. a downward spiral that began when she was first kicked out in elementary school. >> i thought bringing in scissors would protect me. >> and dropping out of a high school known nor violence when he was just 16. >> and taking my niece to the school in the morning that would make me late. >> and ultimately he stopped attending all together. in 2009, 4% dropped off the school district roll. in 2011 and 2012 it jumped to 8.96%. >> we don't have that kind of support for families to do all the home visits as we did when we were rich with staff. >> and saying over the last several years truancy officers have been cut. >> they had almost 9% drop-out rate. >> no drop out rate is acceptable. that's not what we want the kids to do. >> the districts closed schools and laid off staff and attendance rates are suffering. in 2008 mayor michael nutter vowed to cut it in half, a rate going this the wrong direction. >> this is not rocket science. this is not a mystery. you don't need a study. it is lack

my dwell's 12-year-old son brought his grandfather's military souvenir for show-and-tell at the stratford. her mother thought it was a dud, but the state police say it was a live similarlator grenade, which can blow up and injure people within a 20-foot radius. >> jon: he wasn't threatening his classmates. he had a live grenade by accident. we'll take it. [laughter] pretty good show-and-tell. you got to admit. all right. go. we'll move on to our next story in... oh, boy, high degree of non-sadness difficulty. florida. >> this publix parking lot is where the road rage started. >> jon: oh, boy. florida, road rage. i think i see where this is going, and it's a very dark place. >> gladys said in this statement that he felt threatened by the driver and the people inside the car. >> jon: oh, boy. natural selection have honed many species into hyperefficient killers, chief among them the threatened floridian. i'm just going to write down a body count and we'll see how close i can get. >> the driver stated that she was upset that the man called her and the passengers in her vehicle the "n" word a

four letter carriers will be honored today at the stratford post office at bell mmar, camde county. > now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley.ç >> clouds are moving in this morning and the temperatures will be heading into the upper 80s in some spots this afternoon. and the temperatures that are cooling this morning actually running a little bit warmer. it's a bit steamy outside this morning. that steamyness will stay with us through the day. a high humidity day. dry to start with but low clouds are overhead. showers and thunderstorms are in store for us as we head into the afternoon hours. right now moving out the door, 71 degrees in allentown. northeast philly is 73 and it's 72 degrees for atlantic city. the low clouds over citizens bank park. it will be dry this morning in the park. the game might run into showers and thunderstorms later today. right now, clouds, low cloudiness has moved into the area. thicker clouds are north and west. this is where we're tracking some showers and thunderstorms and these are on the move. you can see the lightning in por

. >>> christians have been targeted by hard-line groups as charles stratford reports from colombo. >> reporter: it's sunday's worship of a large evangelical church. a pastor told me not to film people. they are afraid after attacks by members of buddhist nationalist groups. in the town of hikadowa i met a man preaching for the assemblies of god. he showed the video of attacks on the church earlier this year. >> translation: they broke down the gate and destroyed the window and set fire to all the religious books. >>> the assemblies of god started in the u.s. with over 66 million followers it formed the largest pentecostal congregation. they were attacked by the way evangelical christians were converting muslims. >> translation: these people go into villages saying buddha is a liar and are destroying the people. >> reporter: members of buddhists riot d over plans to use this building for prayers. >> we tried to go to the mosque, 200 yards down the road, but we were stopped from filming by a group of young buddhists. >> reporter: the buddhist groups behind the attacks appeared in recent

. >> firefighters were called to stratford court. they called for back up after arriving to find planes coming from the roof of the home. firefighters covered most of the first floor furniture with tar. p. >> they did not even know. the family had no idea. the family was allowed to return to the home. working to determine if lightning was because of that blaze. tom skilling will be around later to find out if the weekend will be a total washout. >> felony theft charges. also controlled the trust fund. a tribune investigation concluded he skimmed more than $110,000 from the fund and used it to pay his credit-card debt cable bill and medical expenses. prosecutors say you'll be charged with the class g felony. >> is being held on bail after surrender to oak park police for theft. accused of stealing ipad. officials did not realize the ipad to oregon. the sun- times reports martin has admitted to taking them. >> claims he fired her without explanation last month because she spoke to federal agents who were investigating him. a lawsuit cl

al jazeera's charles stratford is there. >> but a movement that forms part of a unity government, which israel seems out to destroy. this majority, the palestinian youth here, was organized by hamas, as a show of unity for the member whose have been arrested by israel in the occupied west bank. now there are politicians here that say that unless the community does more, then the future of the unity government is in serious jeopardy. israel's sweeping arrest is part of it's search for three israeli teenagers. have annoyed members of that government. but they seem fatherless to do anything about it. to be honest, i don't know where their mind is. we are a unity government, from the whole palestinian people, we with just came in this position to serve our people? that period of time, and after that -- he has condemned the disappearance, and has called for restraint along the factions. but city words must be evaluated according to the authorities efforts to find the teenagers. so such aggression on the palestinians in gaza, on wednesday night, two rockets were launched into israel, this wer

postal workers were recognized for putting safety first and they received plaques in stratford, new jersey, each of them racked up 1 million accident free miles, more than 93 hundred postal service employees nationwide have reached that same goal. >>> here at the big board now and big changes are coming to abc news. diane sawer is leaving her anchor spot on world news, giving us a peek of what is next for her. and for other anchors as well. after nearly five years as the solo anchor of world news, diane sawyer is stepping down. sawyer a world renowned journalist led the program to the number one spot in the ratings, now she will move into a new role, calling it extraordinary interviews and specials. starting september 2nd, david muir will succeed sawyer as managing editor of world news. muir currently anchors world news weekend and will continue anchoring 20/20 with elizabeth vargus. >> and another milestone today. george steph stephanopoulos will lead all special events and breaking news. >> and james goldstein the president of abc news calls david and george and diane all world class jou

charles stratford reports now. >> the hospital survived seemingly insurmountable difficulties.onflict, lack of funds and the blockade of the borders. they say the new government is more than partly to became for their hardship today. >> this hospital struggles to meet the needs of the patients that come here anyways now it seems the government is failing to meet the needs of the people that work here. they haven't received a full salary for nine months and they have received nothing since the end of march. >> kareem attends to an elderly woman, she is close to losing consciousness, and treats up to 50 people a day. he has three children under 5, and a wife to support. >> i don't have money, i'm always educated i prefer to leave my family alone, i come to work because i don't have my wages. >> the palestinian government is under one-month-old, but already israel is demanding the president to end his partner ship with hamas. it blames hamas of the disappearance of three settlers in the occupied west bank, it has arrested hundreds in it's seven for the young men. of trying to funn

charles stratford, al jazeera, gaza. >> indiana's government is trying to control the growing population. one community is pulling out all stops to keep the population from becoming extinct. a report on the different ways the leaders are use to go encourage people to start a family. ever since she was 16, she has dreamed of being an orth do nottist and ever since then, she has had little time for anything else between marathon exams and earning her master's degree, she has had no social life, let alone a boyfriend. >> everything is hectic and the competition that you have and the amount of money you are pumping in, you have to give full attention to it to reach it. >> these are the pressures many young people face today. for nilufer, marriage and children are crucial. her community is literally dying out. their population has been reduced to around 60,000 here because career-driven professionals are having children late or not at all. mumbai has the world's largest concentration of farsiis. community leaders say they are doing everything they can to encourage people to marry young and ha

stratford, new hampshire, megyn kelly said the system worked because that montana judge that sentencede the system worked because you brought the situation to light, bill. well, that's what i'm paid to do. the 14-year-old victim killed herself after being raped by that teacher and i'm going to do everything i can to expose people like judge baugh that gave the guy 30 days. why this guy did that? why do any judges do this stuff? beyond me. they don't really care. we're going to expose all of that stuff and that's what we do here. nick paris, paris france, mr. o, i'm choleric because you don't pay attention to your viewers over here. we defend you. who? who do you defend me from? we're in 135 countries or something like that, all over the world. i don't want to neglect france. i don't know if we have a huge audience in paris, but maybe. ally fox, mr. bill i'm 15 years old and want to see you and miller in philly. we'll be there in the fall. when tickets go on sale i'll make the announcement and in the meantime, everybody can see the bolder fresher show in rapid city south dakota on july

>> jealousy, perhaps not, but a very strong sense of here i am, a middle class fellow from stratford, from a provincial town, who is trying to make his way in london, and i have to stain myself by performing in public in the way that i do. here is this aristocrat in a chateau, in a tower, who is communing with the ancients, and who is brilliant, and who is deep, but this is not me. this is not who i am. so i think it's the meeting of two very different sensibilities. >> rose: there are some fundamental similarities. >> deep similarities, deep ways in which they saw eye to eye. i think especially in a way the belief in the power of the everyday, the importance of living in the everyday, of understanding that, that's what you have, not dreams -- >> rose: how is that present in shakespeare? >> it's present in thousands of -- >> rose: of characters? >> of tiny touches in shakespeare as well as some grand touches, but it's present in the sense that-- in the grandest sense, in a play like "romeo and juliette" that you don't have another world to look forward to. you have this world right no

>>reporter: chris stratford of the bb says his organization has received 2,200 complainlts in the past year of unwanted newsletters from progressive business publications, some say they never ordered the newsletter and others from businesses who claim they only agreed to a free trial. in fact, that's what happened to the head of the kpix engineering department. he did agree to the freebie but says he never saw an invoice until a collection agency came calling. >> they called up and said, hey, you know, we need money for this subscription. we're, like, well, wait a second, we never got the invoice to begin with. >>reporter: and we found complaint after complaint echoing ruth and jeff's stories on various websites, including yelp where nearly every review for progressive is one star. >> businesses have an ethical obligation to not bill consumers or businesses for products that they didn't order. >>reporter: progressive insists both jeff and ruth did order the subscriptions and it sent them invoices and con -- in confirming e-mails, though they misspelled ruth's name, so she never saw her

but our friends at stratford said their operations are actually unsurprising. what is surprising is the degree of success that isis has managed to achieve in the region. these militants have taken over several cities in iraq. mosul, iraq's second largest city, and tikrit, saddam hussein's former hometown. they're picking up defectors from iraqi security forces along the way as well as weapons and military vehicles. they freed several thousands prisoners now fighting for their cause. the entire contents of mosul's central bank estimated at $425 million, making them the world's richest terrorist group. that is a pretty scary thought. the iraqi military is focused on holding baghdad and cities key to their oil infrastructure. baghdad wants the u.s. to launch air strikes against these militants. but the white house is hesitant. this is opening a fresh foreign policy crisis for president obama. and for now, the pentagon says it's the job of iraqi security forces to hold their own. but that could all change if baghdad falls. half a million iraqis are already displace

al jazeera's charles stratford has more. >> reporter: there are more people on gaza's beaches this summeran in previous years. israel's blockade means there's a few other places they can go. people know about the risks, and the level of pollution is up% depth and getting worse. >> translation: we saw the warnings on tv. where else can you go, there's no places or inte tapement. they serve food, life is hard. >> he mass 10 children and he is unemployed. the hospitals don't have med since if his children get ill from swimming in the water much. >> the kids could get sick if they go to a hospital they can't do anything. close which is a sue im outment. >> it's hard to describe the smell. the authorities say pipes like these are pumping up to a million litres of sue im into the sow every day. >> the water authorities says a matter of fuel for generating electricity means that raw sewerage can't be pumped, and the government can't pipe fuel. is ray's blockade means cash from exports stopped. the new government can't afford to pay 50,000 people. people cap pay water and electricity wells. >> is

charles stratford has their story. >> reporter: this 10-year-old and his friend unpack their instruments. they have been playing classical arab music for five years and practice every day. >> faraz won a prize for playing at a music festival for palestinian children in the occupied waping. he was -- west bank, he was supposed to play again, but israel closed the border. >> reporter: i feel joy when i play with my friend. music gives people joy and takes us away from the siege. >>> more than half of gaza's population of 2 million are children, many exposed to political violence every day. the organization defense children international says more than 350 children were killed in gaza during israel's 3-week invasion at the end of 2008. another 30 in renewed contlict in 2012. farr as's mother says music helps her son and his friends cope. >> translation: i love him learning music, it is connected to the soul and humanity, it is important in gaza when people are so anxious. >> the edward sye eed national conservatory of music has more than 200 students. farr as is playing with his friend much