The netherlands needed a world cup qualifying miracle. Well let you know if they, france and portugal have made it to russia next year. Good evening. We start tonight with a special report on the surge in deaths from heroin addiction across the uk. Last year, there was a death from heroin or morphine abuse every five hours. The annual cost of drug addiction to society is now more than £15 billion. Heroin and morphine deaths have doubled in five years to more than1,600 in england, wales and scotland, the highest number since records began. Some police and Crime Commissioners have told the bbc they would like to see the drugs decriminalised for personal use. This extended report by our special correspondent ed thomas contains images and details of drug abuse from the start. 0. 2 grams in weight, £10 in money. How long did it take you to get it . About five minutes, if that. You can get it from most backstreets in most villages. Has that taken over you . Yeah. County durham, searching f
Skyfox over the 2400 block of South Franklin street within the hour. That is where firefighters are battling this row home fire. You can see smoke, you can see flames shooting out of the upper floors of this building. The good news here, we have no reports of injuries. We are working with officials to see how this all started. Of course, when we get updates, we will bring them right to you. Were also following developing news out of the center city philadelphia. Attack at a septa station caught on camera. A live report is coming up. But first we take live look at the radar. That mess you see right there is head our way. What does it mean for you . A messy weekend. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. Spring may be a few days away, but we are in store for some rain, ice, maybe even some more snow. Lets get the details from meteorologist mike masco. Say it aint so, mike. Winter is going out kicking and streaming right now. Take look. Winter weather advisories being posted to the north an
Of the storm lies and it is going to be pushing on southwest to northeast kick as we get into tomorrow morning. 24 in the poconos. 37 philadelphia. These temperatures are pretty easy to take and certainly above average. But we are advertising a wintery mix north and west as you can take look northampton lehigh, berks and lancaster counties this is a weather advisory that goes into place 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning going into 6am on sunday. Why . Because of the storm system. Its cranking away across the upper up of michigan it will slide on a southeast motion. Its going to cross over the ohio valley and pop coastal low by sometime saturdayevening, saturday night as this low lifts towards the normal it is going to send a band of energy back along the coast. We call this an inserted trough. This is a rapid motion of air rising air thats going to allow for the snow to start to fluff up and i want to bring you over to High Resolution future cast because this is doing a great job showing yo
Of the storm lies and it is going to be pushing on southwest to northeast kick as we get into tomorrow morning. 24 in the poconos. 37 philadelphia. These temperatures are pretty easy to take and certainly above average. But we are advertising a wintery mix north and west as you can take look northampton lehigh, berks and lancaster counties this is a weather advisory that goes into place 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning going into 6am on sunday. Why . Because of the storm system. Its cranking away across the upper up of michigan it will slide on a southeast motion. Its going to cross over the ohio valley and pop coastal low by sometime saturdayevening, saturday night as this low lifts towards the normal it is going to send a band of energy back along the coast. We call this an inserted trough. This is a rapid motion of air rising air thats going to allow for the snow to start to fluff up and i want to bring you over to High Resolution future cast because this is doing a great job showing yo
Days of protests and release to police videos, dashcam and body cam footage, of scotts killing. We will get response from journalists Marc Lamont Hill coauthor of, author of, nobody casualties of americas war on the vulnerable, from ferguson to flint and beyond. Then tonight, 100 Million People are expected to watch the first president ial debate. Among the topics, Foreign Policy and terrorism. Today in a democracy now exclusive, we speak with the former guantanamo prisoner who was cleared to leave under president bush and obama, but remained at guantanamo for over 12 years. His name is jihad Abu Wael Dhiab. States saysunited in the media, human rights, human rights, human rights. I never had human rights. Never, never, never. Amy released to uruguay, he is currently on a Hunger Strike to push for his demand to be allowed to leave uruguay in order to reunite with his family. We will also speak with his lawyer, with a lawyer, ramzi kassem, who helped negotiate the deal to get dhiab and