believed there was a danger to his life. he said much more working with the danger to pakistani democracy. we will have more from pakistan on that last headline in just a we will have more from pakistan on that last headline injust a moment but let s head to the bbc sport centre and ran at the spot the day. olly foster is therefore is. come over to you. many thanks. matt cavendish says he has lived an absolute dream for over 25 doctor mark cavendish says he s has lived an absolute dream for over 25 years as a professioinal cyclist. he is going to retire at the end of the season he is currently competing in the giro d italia, but it s a rest day and he made his announcement earlier today. he s won a world championship on the road and two on the track..and has also been commonwelath cahmpion. but he s most famous for his tour de france stage wins. he shares the record of 3a with eddie merckx. here s bbc sports drew savage the bike has given me opportunities to see the world, me
here in the uk the final few rail services will be departing over the next hour as more rail strikes begin. hello and welcome to bbc news. more than 250 million people are facing life threatening conditions as plunging temperatures, blizzards and icy winds grip much of the united states and canada. 19 people have been killed so far. the us state of montana registered a record breaking low of minus 45 celsius. the storm extends from quebec to texas. sancha berg reports. a blinding snowstorm in buffalo. this is what zero visibility looks like. driving was banned. no planes could land or take off. this northern part of new york state has been hit hard by the bomb cyclone, an enormous winter storm. while further south, there have been floods. we ve had ice, flooding, snow, freezing temperatures and everything mother nature could wallop at us with this weekend. the storm had already swept across the country forcing traffic off the road, bringing down power lines, with temperatures
this is cnn breaking news. we are following significant breaking news this morning. sources tell cnn a hostage deal between israel and hamas could be announced as soon as today. here are some of the details. we are told the potential deal calls for the release of 50 women and children. in exchange, a four to five day pause in fighting and three palestinian prisoners swopd for each civilian hostage released, 150 being held. sources say israel and hamas are still working on the names of those who would be released. officials are hoping that one of the first will be 3-year-old abigail here. she is the youngest american hostage. her parents were killed by hamas. we spoke with her great aunt a short time ago after this news broke. she is cautiously optimistic here is more of what she told us. we can t get our hopes up in a way that just believes it s going to happen right if in the next couple of hours. when i think about that on friday is abigail s fourth birthday and she s
remember that, tied to the train track, helpless, her only hope is that she s rescued before she is flattened, destroyed, ripped to bits, like a penny on the train track. makes me think of the aflac ad. the government added another $60 billion to the deficit in june. so the grand total on money that we ve borrowed so far this fiscal year is $904 billion. the real headline, though, is that that number confirmed that we are on solid track to hit a $1 trillion deficit for the fourth year in a row. well, the sky high numbers start to blur in this country. it s trillions here and trillions there and hundreds of trillions. it gets confusing. tonight actually there s a really frighteningly easy way to put that $1 trillion in perspective. so to give you just a sense of how much money we re burning through that we do not have, remember the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts that coming at the end of the year? the so-called sequester cuts that republicans and democrats alike say will kill
anything as dramatic as this. you know, we ve become real attached to the fact that military personnel love their animals, and we want to do everything we can to keep them together. sounds great. it s a noble thing to do, right? if, in fact, that is what terry crisp is doing. instead, keeping them honest tonight, cnn s drew griffin has discovered only a slim fraction of the $26 million that woman raised could even possibly have gone towards rescuing dogs. and as you ll see, the charity watchdog group has doubts how that slim fraction was spent. as they put it, the numbers don t seem to add up. the appeal though, reuniting dogs and troops, is powerful. just as it was 6 1/2 years ago after hurricane katrina when crisp was running an organization called noah s wish. the appeal then was to reunite pets and survivors. terry crisp joins me. she is in sacramento, california. good to see you. good to see you, anderson, too. and you brought an animal with you? this is tabasc