For the purpose ministers from around the world are in new york to try to revive the syrian peace pros. They hope to arrange a ceasefire and direct talks between the Syrian Government and the opposition. Lets go live now to new york. Our diplomatic editor james bays is with us from there. James, the meeting is underway. Whats the latest . Well, theyve all arrived, the Foreign Ministers for this meeting, as you say, the aim is very ambitious. After many years of bloodshed, more than over 250,000 people dead in syria, theyre trying in january to get a ceasefire in syria, and to get facetoface talks between the Syrian Government and the syrian opposition. Having said all that, there are great sticking points here, sticking points some of them that have been around when they loft tried to have talks two years ago, but also throughout the five years of the conflict. For example, the future of president assad in syria, would he have any role in the future of syria, would he have any role in
Thanks for joining us this midday. Im jessica rae. One person is dead after a plane crashed just outside of pender, nebraska late sunday evening, according totohe wayne county Sheriffs Office. Around 720 last night, the Sheriffs Office got word of a missing plane scheduled to land at sioux Gateway Airport th single engine plane, originating from columbia missouri, was diverted due to dense fog and failed to notify the airport if it had landed. Emergency crews responded to the crash site just outside of pender the pilot was pronounced dead at the scene. No other passengers were believed to be in the plane. Rsh weather conditions hindered the search of the crash and the ntsb says weather will be one of the things theyll be we have very limited information right now about the the flightand the accident but we have dispatched an scene and thats one looking at. The name of the other details have yet to be released. The faa and the n tsb are currently investigatingthe incident. Jessica rae y
Thicker in some areas where visibility is down to zero. This morning we have a mix of clouds and son. A few scattered gun and storms are possible as chance between midday and into the afternoon. We will have some dry hours today coolingoff smile with a morning shower. 75 degrees on wednesday. Heres a look at the monday morning commute. So far so good just a few spots of over the construction especially in bound kennedy from chicago avenue to ohio. The two left lanes are a until 5 00 a. M. Otherwise the roads look good. No major issues or problems. Israel is holding its fire for a seven hour humanitarian truce this morning. But hamas has not agreed to honor the cease fire. The onesided truce comes after israel was widely condemned for a bombing that killed 10 palestinians at a school that was sheltering refugees. More than 100 rockets were fired from gaza into isreal yesterday. Medical Officials Say more than 18hundred palestinians have been killed since israel invaded gaza on july 8th.
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