Man giving a tv set and stand to go with it to a man selling the big issue with only a few days to go before christmas. We will be looking into acts of kindness by strangers. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until am this morning. A heads up that later were expecting confirmation that birmingham has been chosen to host the Commonwealth Games in 2022. It was the only city bidding. So if it doesnt get it officially, that will be a massive story. Well bring you reaction to that obviously. Also today, we want to hear your breaking news from 2017 something thats happened in your own life this year. Lydia tweeted me shes had a hec of a year. 0ne, started cancer treatment. Two, bought a house. Three, treatment didnt work. Four, hysterectomy. Five, moved to london. Six, newjob. And she adds drily im hoping 2018 will have less breaking news. Let me know your breaking news from 2017, whatever it may be. Tweet me use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the
Property developers. Also victory for bristol city after the club beat Manchester City in the efl cup last night. Bristol citys chairman, steve lansdowne, says he feels vindicated for sticking with manager leejohnson after their struggles last season. And a car park in leicester, where the body of king iii was unearthed five years ago, has been protected as a nationally importa nt archaeological site. Good morning. Its thursday, 21st december. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Prime Minister has expressed deep gret at the departure of her first secretary of state, damian green. But said his actions fell short of the conduct expected of a cabinet minister. Theresa may sacked her close colleague and friend after an inquiryfound her close colleague and friend after an inquiry found he had breached the ministerial code by making inaccurate and misleading statements about pornography found on his Office Computer in 2008. Downing street said there wont necessarily bea stre
Suburbs and plenty of sunshine at the shore and 43 degrees. A look at the weekend forecast and game day forecast as well when im back in ten. But first Pamela Osborn has your first alert traffic. And were going to start on the i95 this morning at girard. If youre traveling 95 in delaware, lets give you a look at your drive times. Average speeds are in the 60s merchandise its going to take you just as well going southbound as well. The broad street line trains going northbound experiencing about a seven minute delay because of equipment problems. Hit them low, hit them high guess who that is the roots. Theyre getting warmed up with their rendition of the fight song. The band Just Announced theyll be performing at halftime at the nfc championship. Sundays game against the vikings will be the biggest one there eagles in years. And philadelphia will be flooded with fans. Ask matt delucia is live with everything you need to know about tailgating, transportation to and from the stadium and s
Meddling well discuss the potential impact for facebook and for the other big tech names. Speaking of big tech names intel Ceo Brian Krzanich will be here for an exculusive interview about the companys new Autonomous Vehicle partnership with alphabets waymo unit that will be coming up a while from now. That will be very interesting. Plus, find out whether a nearly 8 billion Missile Defense deal could signal more deal making on the horizon for the Defense Industry which is enjoying alltime highs in this market today. Lets start, though, with facebook feeling more pressure from washington over those russian ad buys ahead of the election Julia Boorstin has the very latest julia . Reporter hey, kelly. Facebooks under fire for recent revelations that russians bought ads on the social network to influence the president ial election House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member adam schiff is calling on the company to testify before congress saying im distressed it has taken us this long to be
Story, and why we issued the yellow weather alert, low windchills. These are the numbers to dress the kids for, and yourself. 18 tomorrow morning, feeling like that, and 8 in frederick. By lunchtime, the numbers are going down. Colder through the day. 13 downtown. 7 in frederick for the windchill, and 6 00, everyone will be in the Single Digits. 0 in cumberland, and again, dress for these numbers and windchills. We will come back with a yellow weather alert on friday and saturday, and we will explain why. Im cold just thinking about it, topper, thank you. Ellison barber spoke to people who are not looking forward to your forecast. Ellison . Reporter people here in Prince Georges County are already starting to bundle up, and they are bracing for even more shivers in the morning. I know its coming, and i think at this come. I feel like i want it to feel like winter. We are dreading it, and we are getting the gifts out of the way now so we dont have to come out tomorrow if we dont have to