In only their third ever test match. And coming up two arsenal stars are targetted in a carjacking attempt, by an armed gang in a london street. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9am. More disruption is expected on parts of the rail network today, after yesterdays high temperatures caused extensive damage. Network rail feared rail lines would buckle in yesterdays extreme heat. But with speed restrictions in place, that didnt happen. What did cause pandemonium yesterday, however, was damage caused by trains to overhead cables when the cables sagged in the heat, causing some fires. This left some commuters stuck in london late into the night. Repair work has been ongoing throughout the night but only half of the tracks north out of london st pancras have been fixed, meaning a significantly reduced service. East Midlands Trains has urged passengers not to travel to london st pancras from nottingham and sheffield. Its put an emergency timetable in place. Thameslink services which
Good monday morning, im frances rivera. Im philip mena chaos erupted at one of the countrys largest food festivals in gilroy, california. Three victims confirmed dead and a suspected gunman was killed by police a 6yearold boy, steven ramiro, has been identified as one of the victims. I lost my son nothing i could do besides try to be with him until i could put him in his his resting spot, wherever that is nbcs molly hunter joins us live from gilroy what more do we know about this investigation thus far good morning. Were in front of the police station. What we heard from the Police Last Night is that they were trying to find a motive. They were not identifying the shooter yet and what we heard from that police chief is that theyre looking possibly for a second suspect not necessarily a second shooter, but possibly a supporter, accomplice. Take a listen to what the police chief said last night. We have one suspect we know that is down we have some witnesses reporting that there may have
Blindfolded i police custody. Doubling do. President trump escalates his attacks on balti and his congressman. Hejust ahead, tre heated war of wards, and the citys newspaper responds with choice words for the president. Plus, shark attack. A surfers frightening encounter off the coast of california caught on camera. I never felt force like that from any animal in my life. Serio concerns. Howpple is responding to new eavesdropping allegations. And fortnite phenom. The vid quo game tournament that packed one of the most historic adiums and turned this 16yearold into a multimillionaire. Foort fortn champion. Today, july 29th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, and wcome to today. Thank yo for joining us on this monday morning. Im Sheinelle Jones alongside lester holt. It was a busy weekend. We do want to get to the breaking news overnight. A mass shooting at a popular festival in california. It h
A busy part of kabul it came on the 1st day of official campaigning for the president ial vote is a former head of afghanistans Main Intelligence Agency and is regarded as one of the talibans fiercest opponents and president ashraf ghani kicked off his bid for another term by announcing that peace is coming and promising to start talks with the taliban but the group has already rejected his peace ministers claim that direct talks to be held in the next 2 weeks. All have it very dark is a lecture of government and politics at cardon university and he says it is important for the Afghan Government to be seen as focusing on more than just the upcoming election. So this is not the 1st time the government has announced that they will go into direct talks with the taliban and perhaps this is not the last time and every time they have talked about going into direct talks with the taliban the taliban have flatly rejected it and did the statement that came out from the taliban was basically say
Arsenal players chase off armed carjackers and escape unharmed, tweeting this morning, were fine. A game changer treatment for women with a hereditary form of Ovarian Cancer, will be made more widely available on the nhs. Tens of thousands of gamers gather in new york for the World Championship of fortnite with more prize money on offer to the winners than wimbledon. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. After yesterday was abandoned with threats of thunderstorms, its all heading towards a lightning fast finish at lords. Englands bowlers striking again and again in their one of test match against ireland. More on a record breaking day, very shortly. A lot of the relief for commuters this morning. It is cooler and fresher today but we still have heavy showers and thunderstorms but we have lost the peak of the heatwave. All the details for the weekend and about 30 minutes. Also coming up. Meet 16 year old hollie, who is set to make Rugby League History this weekend as the youngest