team coverage today. adam klotz is in the studio tracking the storm and bringing the christmas forecast. let s start with jackie ibanez reporting on the devastating conditions. multiple families will be spending the holiday without loved ones, five people from oklahoma have died, including a 16-year-old boy. the storm is impacting nearly every state in the lower 48, mother nature unleashing fury during the busiest time of the year, leaving many with nowhere to sleep, except the floor of the airport terminal. im00 not optimistic, if it was a cancelled flight, it is not good. i got to go back down here, rebook or refund. we were anticipating the flight was going to get cancelled and rebooked on southwest and rebooked twice on united this afternoon. i contemplated driving in case flights got cancelled. 12,000 flight delays and cancellations for millions, six states are sounding the alarm calling for a state of emergency. accumulating heavy snowfall and temperatures p
is awareness of a complaint that may have been, or an allegation that may have been made, and something that trips the wire, if you like, meets the threshold for formal disciplinary action. a man is arrested by police in the us state of illinois after six people were shot dead at an independence day parade. 50,000 people have been put on evacuation alert as floods hit sydney for the third time this year. a bbc investigation has found that children as young as 11 have been housed in temporary accommodation as record numbers are placed into care. and england beat india by seven wickets on the final day of the fifth test at edgbaston. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson s decision to appoint chris pincher as deputy chief whip is facing further scrutiny after a former top civil servant said the prime minister was briefed in person about an investigation into the mp s conduct when he was a foreign office minister. downing street s account of what happened ha
to hit the area in over a century. the epicenter in the high atlas mountains near marrakesh is a yunesco world heritage site. equipment and manpower are limited in this region. patients are waiting outside hospitals, and residents are sleeping on the streets, fearing intense aftershocks. more than 700 people are in critical condition. officials believe the death toll will steadily rise. i want to bring in ben wedeman for more on all this. ben, you ve been to the area. set the scene for our viewers, what the topography is like, who lives there, why it s a tourist attraction and how an effarthque of this magnitude is cause so much damage. this earthquake happened just a few minutes after 11:00 p.m. friday evening. from the video we ve seen of cctv for instance, there was a small jolt followed by this massive earthquake. you see buildings just collapse in one cctv video. a block of buildings just falls into the street, sending tens of thousands of people sleeping outside last
is expected to climb even higher as night continues to grind on there in morocco. sam kiley joins us from morocco. i think perhaps you saw the ceiling above you giving way just a touch. how are things where you re at? reporter: well, jim, you put your finger on what everybody here is most afraid of here in the medina in the old city of marrakech. an environment that certainly not in living memory and for many people, not even in the history books has any recollection of being worried about an earthquake. here you have the direct results of it. it is the collapse of a roof, that blank space there is the night sky above it. you have a roof, a floor, two ceilings, all collapsed down on to the ground here where i m standing. if you look at these buildings, we re in these very narrow streets, these very, very narrow streets. all of these buildings have enormous cracks down the side. the concern obviously is, if any of these cracks give way as a result of future tremors, then the
norah: what we are learning from day one of jury deliberations. how do you feel about the jury? norah: the cbs evening news starts now. donald trump just leaving the courthouse after spending five hours waiting for the jury to decide his fate. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. day one of deliberations is done, and there is still no verdict, but the jury did send two notes to the judge. the first was a request to rehear key testimony from two central players in this case, former national enquirer publisher david pecker and trump s former fixer michael cohen. they specifically want to hear what boh men said about a trump tower meeting where pecker says they came to an agreement with trump himself about a scheme to kill negative stories about him, among other pieces of testimony. they also, the jury, wants to rehear those instructions from the judge. those are the only clues that we have about what is happening inside the deliber