Betrayal of Winston Churchill in the darkest hour and the director won the shape of water. We round up the days sports news, highlights of the fa cup and from the Winter Olympics. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The family of the murdered labour mp jo cox, have pledged to support her husband, after he resigned from charity roles following allegations of sexual misconduct. Brendan cox denies assaulting a woman in the United States in 2015, but admits to inappropriate behaviour while working for save the children. The charity has confirmed that he was suspended from his role there, and says he resigned before a disciplinary process was completed. Robert hall reports. Jo cox, labour mp and mother of two, was murdered in her constituency during the run up to the 2016 eu referendum, shot and stabbed by a far right extremist. In the months after her death, the public rallied in support of herfamily and in particular, her husband, brendan, who set up two charities, thejo Cox Foundation
Breaks in the clouds we are seeing that sunshine and we have dew points climbing into the 60s as well. Right now the closest warning is Severe Thunderstorm Warning well to the west in sections of new york state. But look at ultimate doppler. Off to the west this is is what well be watching that is a front continues to approach our area for bubbling up in the atmosphere of those thunderstorm clouds and you can see right now around Lancaster County we are watching a cell producing heavy rainfall but this is not severe. Well keep our eyes on it it has lightning with it. Once again we have that sunshine out there. Lots of moisture and any of the storms could produce damaging winds, hail or isolated tornado. The main timing is now through about midnight tonight thats when we will be watching things of course well keep you posted posted and have more updates throughout the show. Back to you. That break in the rain get flood waters a chance to recede. Our cameras found minor flooding on parts
House and senate met with president barack obama at the white house this afternoon where they heard that if two sides do not agree on a bill the president will urge the Democratic Senate to put forth a measure anyway. American people will not have any patients for a politically selfinflicted wound to the economy. The economy is growing but sustaining that trend is gong to require a elected officials to do their jobs. Mitch mcconnell and his democratic counterpart harry reid are supposed to keep talking tomorrow there could be a breakthrough by the end of this weekend but the president has repeatedly demanded for the extension of tax cuts below 250,000. Illinois comptroller judy thinks that the impact on illinois could be as high as 1 billion if lawmakers dont strike a deal before the deadline. Social security and income tax increases would lower the states revenue by up to 5 billion. This is all coming down the pipe because we have yahoos in congress who cant sit down and to do the job
Emergency landing. Once the plane landed, paramedics mt. The aircraft and checked the vitals of the copil copilot. He was able to walk off the plane himself and he was then transported to the hospital. As you point out, this is coming just one day after an American Airlines flight captain died midair in the cockpit and once that plane landed, he was pronounced dead right there in the cockpit. So thats why so much attention is being focused on this incident today. We know that the faa, often times they will require a medical examination. If youre under 40 years old, you have to do it once a year. Over 40 its twice a a year. What happens in this it case its unclear. It sounds like this person today will be okay. Just bizarre the medical emergencies happened back to back like this. Mary, im curious, how unusual is this . Is the crew trained to deal with these types of medical emergencies . For the pilots, its unusual. We were talking yesterday that there have been seven or eight deaths si
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