Showing up with coronavirus. Several states now teaming up. Launching an effort to speed up test results and this morning, the new closures. The rockettes already canceling this years christmas spectacular. Plus, wiped out. Why you may not see clorox wipes on store shelves any time soon. Joyride punishment. Tough love for a boy who stole his parents range rover. And the boss is back. The popular 80s sitcom getting a reboot. Which characters are coming back. Good wednesday morning. We begin with a new look at the destruction caused by Tropical Storm isaias as it roared up the east coast. At least six people are dead and millions are without power. The storm slammed into the carolinas and barreled up the coast, all the way to new england, spawning tornadoes, dumping heavy rain and packing wind gusts that topped 100 Miles Per Hour. And its not over, even as the storm moves out, flooding remains a major threat in some areas. Overnight, nearly 4 million Power Outages along the east coast. A
Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Its the last day of campaigning for tomorrows general election, and all the Party Leaders have been out on the campaign trail. A teenager is found guilty of the murder of 14 year old jaden moodie, who was stabbed to death in east london. Our investigation is not over. We know five people were in that car on that night, i had my officers and i will to bring jaden moodies murderers tojustice. Aung san suu kyi appears at the hague to reject accusations myanmars military committed genocide, against rohinga muslims. Greta thunberg, the teenage environmental campaigner, is named person of the year by time magazine. And Recovery Efforts are on hold in new zealand, in a moment it will be time for sportsday, but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. At seven oclock on beyond 100 days with just a few hours of campaigning left for the general election well be getting analysis from the polling guru sir john curtice. And at 8 30, th
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. Also in the programme amazons head scientist says alexa could one day become an active companion that can see and even walk around the home. What do you think . Is this a thrill or a threat . Are you a fan of Digital Assistants . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. We begin in hong kong. Police in hong kong have used live ammunition at pro democracy demonstrations and shot one protestor at close range. Protesters had called for a general strike on monday and have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. Shocking pictures of the incident in the sai wan ho district were livestreamed on social media. An unarmed demonstrator can be seen approaching an officer, and then falling to the ground after being shot at close range. Local media are reporting that he is in Critical Condition in hospital. The police have issued a statement de
Look over here. I love this had. Look over here. I love this had. Look at all the orange i do not see a lot of red here tonight. When i was in washington, there was plenty of orange but i have not seen many nationals supporters here. Maybe the astros bought all the tickets. I dont know that is quite a sea of orange. Bring us back one of those hats. Kiki bertens pulled off an upset to beat world number one Ashleigh Barty at the end of year wta finals in shenzhen. Bertens is a replacement for naomi osaka, who has pulled out with injury. After losing the first set, she came back to win and will now play Belinda Bencic next. Bencic beat Petra Kvitova in the days other match the swiss prevailing in three sets against the two time wimbledon champion. Still with tennis, us open finalist Danil Medvedev has been knocked out of the paris masters. It ends a run of six consecutive finals for the russian whos risen to numberfour in the world. He was beaten byjeremy chardy. The frenchman, lost the f
Out and he didnt wait for the ferrari mechanics. He had his own diagnosis. I think that the suspensionjust failed. Something broke. Hundreds work in a team, but all for the driver. Eventually bottas passed him safely. Second place for hamilton meant he was champion again. Through the mask we could just imagine his emotion. Then hamilton was back, safe on the summit. He never left it. On the all time grid, hamilton is second with only Michael Schumacher winning more drivers titles. Why should hamilton, aged 3a, stop here . Races, titles, does this look like a man who is tired of winning . Hamiltons former teammate nico rosberg leeads the tributes on social media in italy, the former inter milan and Manchester City player Mario Balotelli tried to walk off the pitch following alleged racial abuse from the crowd during his sides match at hellas verona. Balotelli, who now plays for brescia, had enough and picked the ball up and kicked it into the stands. He wanted to walk off before being p