The rain gets closer and weakening in coverage. We have a warm front, the light moisture. We may get a shower, sprinkle, drizzle in spots early on this morning. The main emphasis for the showers is this afternoon. Plan on taking the umbrella with you. You wont need it all of the time. 56 by noon with a few showers, couple of leftover drops by evening and a high today of 59 degrees. 5 01 straight up. Lets find out about the commute. Thanks, chris. No major problems on the roads at 5 01. A live hook at the Brooklyn Bridge where we have ongoing roadwork. The manhattan bound side of the span is closed down. Heres a live look at the connecticut turnpike out by the darien service plaza. Smooth sailing here. No roadwork getting in your way. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Lauren, thank you. Now to breaking news in new jersey. A Police Officer shot a robbery suspect there. The officer walked in on the crime that was in progress at a gas station. This is the intersection of washington and c
San Antonio Spurs hire a new assistant coach. Tonight the safety of u. S. Forces in afghanistan is in the spotlight after an insider attack killed an American General. Majorgeneral howard green was a 34 year army veteran. Officials say a man believed to be an afghan soldier opened fire on green and coalition troops. More than a dozen others were wounded. The shooting happened at a training center. Lisa stark reports from the white house. The attacks took place at the African Military academy. It was during a routine visit by coalition officers, meeting with their afghani counterparts. During this meeting a man in an Afghan Military uniform opened fire, he was reportedly shooting with a light machinegun and killed Major General howard green, wounded a dozen others, including a Brigadier General and afghan officers. The assailant was killed during the attack. At the pentagon rearadmiral kirby says it appears to be another of the insider attacks, when afghan troops turned on coalition for
After 10 years and 4 billion miles the ossetia reaches its destination. The people of gaza have been offered some respite from the violence. A ceasefire is now in its second day, and as you see if the live shot, appears to be holding. Gaza coming back to life there. Cars and trucks on the road. People Walking Around as well. Though, it, of course, will be a long time before life returns to anything like normal. Remembering that the tanks are not far away. The live shot from the border of gaza with israel, where the israeli tank are in place. This is a 72 hour ceasefire. What happens after that, we do not know. 64 Israeli Soldiers and three civilians, including a Thai National have died. 1,875 palestinians have been killed. Nearly threequarters of them civilians, according to the United Nations. More than 9,500 palestinians insured and over 200,000 are living in u. N. Shelters. We are live to shajaiya in the gaza strip. Andrew simmonds is there fours. From the shot behind you, it doesnt
Thats been rehneda view thats been 10 years in the making. Welcome to the programme. A 3day humanitarian ceasefire in gaza is holding. Israeli Ground Forces have left the territory, allowing residents to return to what is left of their home. The process turns to the diplomats. The palestinians actions and israel have delegations in cairo for talks through mediators. These are pictures of the gaza skyline. Quiet at the moment. We hope it stays that way. Lets check in with our correspondent in gaza city. Just over 24 hours into the accuracy fire, it appears to be holding. Its giving people a chance to get out and about, back to their homes, trying to get belongings and food supplies, i suppose. Thats right, since the ceasefire started at 8am local time we noticed a lot of people coming on to the streets. Back in gaza city, there are scores of people outside a bank machine, trying to get access to cash. Filling up supermarkets, getting enough food and supply as they could. In the first fe
Basically grew out of the Space Program. Prosthetic limbs. There are a whole range of medical inventions, devices that have come as a direct result of having made vibrant Space Program. People say, well, they are very expensive, the cost of those spinoffs has now been worth it. I guess it is a value judgment. It depends how you measure the value to you get for the los. Offer me Airline Safety is worth a great deal. I am sure for you it is as well, peter. Host what kind of money do we spend annually on the International Space station . Is there a return on that investment . Guest well, squeeze been a decreasing amount of our Gross Domestic Product on a. It is not like it was in the 60s when we were in the space race, if you will, where we spent up to of 4 percent of gdp. Now we are well below 1 . And actually, that has decreased even further. We have no Delivery System for u. S. Astronauts right now. We are using the russian spacecraft to send our people. It will be several years before