friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
snow remain in force across northern england and north east wales. an intriguing weather story. i will have all the details. an emotional call from the father of elle edwards, who was shot at a pub on christmas eve. he tells us how he wants the people of liverpool to take a stand agianst violent crime. justjoin us, come as one and we will get through it and we will win. delays to the h52 high speed rail line. the government says it will help save money, but not everyone is happy. i ll have the details. after humiliation comes some redemption for manchester united, who bounced back from their historic thrashing at anfield by beating real betis in the europa league, and put one foot in the quarter finals. it s friday the 10th of march. our main story a shooting in the german city of hamburg has left at least six people dead and several others injured. the attack happened inside a meeting hall forjehovah s witnesses. the gunman is believed to be dead, but police still have no
like for the grand national here is darren bett. much better weather compared to what we have today, the sun will be out and it looks like it will be dry. today we have seen some sunshine across scotland, it also in northern ireland but we are seeing more showers breaking out as well, whereas for england and wales there really isn t much sunshine at all because essentially low pressure is still in charge as it has been through most of the week bringing more wet weather. if we look over the past few hours the rain has been developing more widely across england and wales and we are getting more showers breaking out in scotland and northern ireland, some could be heavy and thundery. but at least we are seeing some sunshine. lots of cloud for england and wales and underneath the cloud and rain temperatures only nine celsius, it will feel quite cold. a top temperature of 13 across norfolk and may be suffolk where the rain hasn t really started and things are briefly a bit brighter