lockdown parties in downing street. people are facing huge disruption to their travel plans as the half term break gets under way. dozens of flights have been cancelled, and there have been long delays at ports and on the roads, as well as cross channel services. and there are warnings that the disruption is likely to continue for more than a week. let s take you through the latest developments. easyjet is cancelling more than 200 flights over the next 10 days from gatwick airport, insisting it needs to in order to provide reliable services over this busy period . there have been long queues at london s st pancras station for eurostar services across the channel as families head to disneyland paris and football fans try to get to the french capital ahead of the champions league final. and people are being urged to check the latest advice before travelling to the port of dover where there are huge tailbacks as hundreds of lorries queue to get through tourists however, are b
Sports and all indications are that Jahill Okafor is numbered. He was not on the team today and not with the sixers tonight his big man did not travel with the team to charlotte where they will play tomorrow the sixers are trying to complete a trade for okafor before next thursdays deadline. The sixers are hoping they can with talks heating up okafor will not play for the second straight game tomr not want to risk an injury a move coach brett brown made last night as well and since the general manager Bryan Colangelo took over in the summer they have been trying to trade the big guy. Although speculation is rampent all throughout stuff yu learn that as the deadline gets closer that the reality that something could happen goes to a high level. Reporter bead will miss the next few games because of a fracture and meniscus and will not play next week on the riding challenge and big man big problems tonight on action news sports sunday coming up, at 11 45 and just a few moments. The flyers
Team and today im saying goodbye to both. Reporter history is made today, the suzuki gets his 3,000 hit with a triple in colorado, the marlins outfielder only the 30th player in Major League History to reach 3,000. Each only needs roughly 1200 more to catch pete rose the all time hit king. Eagles fans may live and die with every win and every loss but eagles rookie quarterback says he is not throwing any extra unneeded pressure on himself to live up to the title as future franchise quarterback and he says its just football, the second over all pick is trying to make it simple as he gears up for the first nfl preseason football overnight and his way of managing the stress of being the man under center. Comes with the territory and obviously there is pressure but i block it out and inherited pressure on a smaller sense back in college and block it out and go play ball and the rest will take care of itself and that is the approach i have and will stay with. Reporter more of our one on one
editor for the sun. firefighters are battling to extinguish a fire which has broken out on a superyacht in torquay marina. these dramatic pictures were taken from a drone and show billowing smoke from the 85 foot yacht as firefighters try to get the blaze under control. devon and somerset fire and rescue service says it has five fire appliances at the scene of the blaze. there have been no reported injuries at this time. there are fears for the safety of the other boats moored there. you can see that the smoke is impossible to contain, there are 8000 or so litres of diesel fuel on board. we ll now speak to john donavan from devon and somerset fire service. he is incident commander for the yacht fire. a very busy incident for your colleagues in devon? yes, we attended the incident in torquay this afternoon we had reports of an