good morning, wet and windy start to the day, the good news is the worst of the rain will blow through, come the afternoon the weather will brighten up with spells of sunshine but they will be lots of blustery showers today, particularly across western areas. i will have the full forecast for you later on. it s saturday, 7th january. our top story: the prime minister will hold emergency talks at downing street today to try to tackle the huge challenges facing the nhs. and senior doctors say the health service is on a knife edge, with many a&e units struggling to cope with record demand. our health correspondent jim reed reports. the nhs is under record pressure this winter, where the queues of ambulances delayed out hospitals, rising waiting lists, and more front line strikes planned in the coming weeks. sue front-line strikes planned in the coming weeks front-line strikes planned in the coming weeks. front-line strikes planned in the cominu weeks. ,, , , , ., , coming weeks
of representatives. cheering. not since the american civil war more than 160 years ago has it taken this long to elect a speaker. that was easy, huh? after multiple concessions and days of arm twisting, and at times tempers almost boiling over, kevin mccarthy finally persuaded enough on the right of his party to back him, with a little help from a friend. i do want to especially thank president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote the doubt of whether he was there and he was all in. it was donald trump s supporters who were all in with the storming of the capitol two years ago to the day and that will overshadow kevin mccarthy s speakership. he will probably be the weakest speaker in the modern history of the country and he will be held hostage to these 2021 radical republicans. the divisions may be resolved for the moment, but the next two years will be a rocky ride for the new speaker, as he resides over
harbors a dark history, we will take you to oasis villa, a painful reminder of the fragility of taiwan s democracy. announcer: live from the cnn center, it is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where for the second time in days the city of zaporizhzhia is taking a deadly pounding from russian rockets. have a look here, these are scenes of chaos after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas saturday reportedly killing at least 17 people, while further south moscow is scrambling to get the bridge drinking crimea with russia back up and running, a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire saturday. now, russia says repair work will be under way around the clock, some train and road traffic has already resumed, but drivers will go into the water later today to see if the structure can still support trucks. ukraine isn t claiming responsibility for what happened, but president zelenskyy made it clear he s far from feeling sorry ab
but first. our major cities did not get the merry christmas citizens wanted this year, for some it was a downright scary christmas there. were many cities where santa stayed in the air. we report isolated crime events throughout the year particularly in l.a. and new york but the national crime picture often gets ignored. when you look at the year it was it takes your breath away or at least it should. this is video of linda fricke, a 73-year-old grandmother from new orleans who was in her car when four teens rushed it, forcing her out. she got caught in the safety belt and they dragged her, it severed her arm from her body and she bled to death in the street. at least they capture her four attackers but so many times these cases go unsolved. this is just one of the more than 260 homicides in new orleans since the start of the year. my hometown of new orleans is set to become the murder capital of the country this week with a 52% in homicides since 2019. today another man was