Refugees trying to make it to europe. Top story, voting in nigers president ial election well under way. Around 7 Million People registered to vote in the country. The current president has been criticized for his handling of security threats which is one of the main issues. A state of members of the jury has announced state of emergency was announced after attacks from the boko haram. Despite political instability, the World Bank Says nigers economy grew by 6. 5 in 2014. The u. N. Says it is still one of the least developed countries with high rates of illiteracy and disease. Our correspondent is outside a poll at the moment. What is it like so far . Reporter there is not much, but we are seeing now the beginning of the vote. In a few minutes i think as you can see behind me in this high school there are at least four or five classrooms where they have established the boxes brought here just a few minutes ago. There was a scene here of activity when they brought those boxes one our la
The u. S. State Department Says north korea proposed holding peace talks to formally end the korean war sometime before its Fourth Nuclear test in january. But both sides failed to agree on conditions for the meeting. Spokesperson john kirby said on sunday that the Obama Administration considered pyongyangs proposal. He said the administration asked north korea to include denuclearization as part of the talks, but the country rejected it. Kirby did not say exactly when north korea made the proposal. Pyongyang has repeatedly asked washington to end what it calls a hostile policy towards it. The u. S. Position is that it will not start any dialog unless north korea takes concrete action towards denuclearization. The fighting in the korean war ended in 1953, with an armistice instead of a peace treaty. Experts on north korea are analyzing pyongyangs intentions. The professor is from the university of shizuoka, and he says after obtaining nuclear capability, they were trying to maintain st
Long island sound saturday night. When they came to my house i didnt know anything. Youre hoping they will find him . I hope so. I just want to see him again. The plane, a piper pa 28 like this went down just after 11 00 a. M. In the seattle harbor near Port Jefferson. His friends, a ram Austricio Ramirez, 36 year old nelson gomez and 25yearold wady perez were also on board. Police say ramirez a student pilot was behind the controls when they started having engine trouble and he turned the controls over to instructor gomez when they force landed the plane in the harbor. Dive teams prepared to search under the surface. Eventually it was Suffolk County Police Officers who pulled some of the survivor to safety using kayaks they found at nearby homes. Myself and two other officers were on the west shore shoreline until we were able to find three additional kayaks and we entered the water. You could hear the victims calling for help. So it was you had to get out there and it took what we ha
Downed trees and tore down power lines. Winds gusting over 50 miles an hour overturned a tractor trailer. It was in the semilame lane when it was blown. Reporter we apparently escaped the worst of the storms here in tampa bay but that is not the case in our south. Reporter this is video from the fifth floor of the county Office Building in port charlotte. Employees recorded this video of strong winds. The National Weather service is investigating two reports of tornadoes. At least seven homes damaged. That storm now gone back cooler weather is here. Winds right now. Keep in mind, this is still an active situation all part of the cold front. This is east of us and you can follow it all the way down the atlantic. There it is. Down in south florida. What we have is cold air cpn and a few clouds rolling in. I think we will clear out nicely by the afternoon. Temperatures are going down. Upper 50s. Look at the winds. 15 to 20 sustained. We will have wind gusts over 30 which will make it feel
And much more ahead. Yesterday, it was so nice, i went for a walk, had no idea where i was going, just wanted to get outside. I did the same thing, wife and i went for a walk. 60 degrees officially yesterday afternoon in boston, sitting at 49 right now with a light breeze that makes it feel like 44. This time last week, i was talking about wind chill ratings that were below 0. Already above the expected high of 40. If you look closely, we do have clouds streaming from the west but you get the idea, see a few of those crossing our skies from time to time. Also have a cold front on the map and the air on the other side of the front is also a little bit cooler. Bottom line, theres not going to be a huge warmup from the morning until the afternoon. Might top ut ot ne 50s, that would be about it. Eventually the clouds completely take over as we head into the evening hours and later on tonight, some of us, mainly the south coast, the cape and the ie islands could see snow. 7 on 7 forecast co