Sleet and freezing rain of the season this morning and follows days of weather misery around the country that left more than two dozen people dead in several states and welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. The southeast is dealing with rain and in texas the people there cleaning up from deadly tornados and causing chaos for air travelers and we have more. Reporter drivers are hearing warnings of a dangerous commute in several parts of the country from illinois to massachusetts where the first snow of the season is falling this morning. First storm of the year with a lot of accidents and hopefully they will be minor. Reporter anything but minor across much of the u. S. Already this week, high winds and icy roads created dangerous conditions in wisconsin. In missouri deadly flood water swept through homes, washed away rvs and shut down major highways and new mexico declared a state of emergency after heavy snow left behind snow drifts measured by the foot, one couple was t
Flight. This is al jazeera live from new york city, im bisi onileere. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl is due to go before a military judge this morning as the beginning of his Court Martial on desertion charges. Bergdahl walked from his post in afghanistan in 2009 and spent years as a taliban cab active. Al jazeeras robert ray is live at fort bragg in North Carolina. Robert, what can we expect to happen during todays hearing . Good morning. Its raining cats and dogs here in North Carolina at fort bragg, but Bowe Bergdahl just walked into the courthouse behind us, just momentarily, a few minutes ago, expected to kick off at about 10 00 a. M. , the arraignment, that is. The charges will be put against him and then well expect in about an hour or so after that from the military to come out and give us a statement and tell us more about what is going to happen in the coming months after this arraignment is done. This morning, i called bob and Janie Bergdahl and told them that after nearly five
Of london. Lawmakers beginning 10. 5 hours of debate, over whether to take part in air strikes against i. S. I. L. In syria. Protesters are saying a resounding no. Good morning, welcome to your world, im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Parliament plans to vote on aggressive action against i. S. I. L. In syria. If the m. P. S vote yes, british fighter jets could be fighting within days. Dana lewis is in london. Good morning. The british Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing for military action. He has been defeated on the issue of syria and spoke a few minutes ago. What did he have to say . First of all, they are saying they could start the bombing within a matter of hours of vote being taken. Now its expected to be one. Around 10 oclock local time tonight. One of the first things the Prime Minister said, and you know that the British Parliament is about a lot of rhetoric and theatre. He says he has no longer going to refer to the group as other allies changed their term knollingy as we
And. It will potentially take care of some violence in america. And sport, former France International replaces rafael for real madrid. Saudi arabias allies have rallied to its side in a growing diplomatic dispute with iran. For the kingdoms execution of a dissident shia cleric. Cut all ties with iran, while saudi arabia says it will hold all air traffic and commercial relations. Andrew simmons reports. Transiting here and dubai airport, as they were evacuated, comes similar action he by some of saudi arabias allies, among them neighboring bahrain. After two days of protests from shief muslishia muslims. The action he followed the arson attack of the Saudi Embassy in tehran. Saudi arabia accused iran of doing nothing to prevent it. A war of words is escalating. We decided to cut off all diplomatic relations with iran. We would also be cutting off all air traffic to and from iran and commercial relations with iran and have a travel ban against people traveling to iran. Translator unfort
Ending gun violence in america. The president complete with attorney general Loretta Lynch today. The topic of discussion, allow to get guns off the streets. He says hes tired with congressional inaction and hes using executive powers to tighten up the nations gun laws. A lot of the work has gone on behind the scenes to take a look at what the president ask do using his executive authority has been grounded in the knowledge that the gun lobby and the republicans in congress who regularly do their bidding are going to look for ways to stop it. Mike viqueria joins us from washington. Mike, the president seems, appears ready to take on this fight. Well he does and josh earnest went on to say that whatever the president proposes they feel they are on solid legal ground. It was a year ago when president obama what infamously said he was going ouse his pen to Block Congress on some of the issues that frustrated him and none more so than his own reckoning, than president obamas own accounting