Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Thousands of mourners say goodbye to former israeli Prime Minister ariel sharon. His body will lie in state and monday will be laid to rest at his family farm in israel. Dignitaries are expected to attend the journal and Vice President joe biden will lead a delegation from the United States. Nick schifrin joins us live from jerusalem. Walk us through the next few hours and days leading up to Ariel Sharons funeral. What protocol will be observed according to jewish law . What you are seeing now is the equivalent of ariel sharon laying in state behind me. That is the coffin and these are the visitors. Behind me is the israeli knesset, the parliament, the closest they have to the u. S. Congress. What you see is ariel sharon laying in state, being given the honours that a former Prime Minister, general, as decorated as he is is given here. He will lay in state for the next few hours. Tomorrow mor
Eight days and counting. Thats when iran says it will halt its Nuclear Program. Word came in the u. S. Administration. Leading up to january 20th iran will begin enrichment. As this agreement takes effect well be extraordinarily vigilant in our verification and monitoring of irans actions. And that is an effort to be led by the International Atomic energy administration. It will be a tough negotiation, and we are clear about what will be required in order to be able to guarantee to the International Community that this is a peaceful program. Al jazeeras Patty Culhane has more on the ins and outs of todays developments. Well, the steps all involve the centrifuges. One of the things is they have to get rid of some technology allowing them to go from 5 to 20 i with is which is more concern to the Nuclear Programming. A lot of people believe you dont need 20 to do medical or peaceful uses. Its easy to go from 5 to 20 for a nuclear weapon. President obama highlighted steps that certain cent
Its collection of art to pay debts. A southwest airplane is back in flight after an overnight stay at a Tiny Missouri airport. The boeing 737 landed at the wrong place yesterday, was stranded on a small runway, no one was hurt, the airline and the faa are investigating. Those are the headlines. America tonight is next. Remember you can always get the latest on aljazeera. Com. Ill see you later on tonight. On america tonight. Water restrictions slowly lifting for weary residents in West Virginia. A long road and many unanswered questions. What went wrong in chemical valley. This could have been prevented. The containment, if this was receipted by the state it wouldnt have happened. Plastic in paradise. An ecosystem in disaster. We take you inside the battle to keep the Hawaiian Islands free from debris. Theres a constant battle. Combating teen pregnancy. Does the answer to reducing the numbers lie in a wildly Popular Television show . Good evening, thanks for joining us, im michael okwu
Temperatures will be coming down today visibility at the coast is ben reduce 53 in pacifica overall a couple degrees cooler in the south bay and also into the east bay. So we wake up with the cloud cover right now. Were clear in concord and livermore and with that should change is the fog increases and partly cloudy throughout the afternoon with much cooler days in today and tomorrows forecast then were going to reverse that trend for the week ahead liz. All right lisa. Thank you ian. Now a posttropical cyclone is continuing to move inland after making landfall near, Myrtle Beach South Carolina the storm struck the southeast as a category one hurricane with 85 miles an hour winds in florida officials. Meantime are still assessing the damage the death toll has risen to 33 making ian the deadliest storm to hit the state in 60 years abc News Reporter. Justin finch has more from florida. And making another landfall friday near georgetown, South Carolina as a category one hurricane with win
Good morning. Aim lynn berry. Right now Hurricane Sandy looks to become a menace for folks all along the u. S. East koempts its expected to bring high winds and heavy rain, even some snow to areas. Early this morning sandy slammed into cuba as a strong category 2 hurricane packing winds of 110 miles per hour. The storm is being blamed for two deaths so far, one in jamaica and one in haiti. Nbc meteorologist bill karins has been tracking this powerful hurricane for us. Bill, what can you tell us . This is going to be an historic event but eventually all the way up into areas of new england. Lets get into it. The storm intensified before it slammed into cuba. Theres the eye off the coast. This rain ban over haiti, theyre also going to see a lot of destruction this morning from those heavy rains. Theyre very prone to mud slides. About 480 miles away from miami right now. Winds at 110 miles per hour. Almost a category three storm. Keeps it as a hurricane through the bahamas just off the fl