A deadly nightmare. On december 4th last year the ovation of the seas set sail from sydney for new zealand. It was pay cruise season and thousands of australians had bought tickets for one of the last trips before christmas. On board the Royal Caribbean cruise was adelaide lawyer gavin dello his wife lisa and her 15 year old daughter zoe hosking. A really long toward took care of a preacher all the above regarding sure it should be. A boss trial airline usually on. Also on the ovation of the citys was sydney family the langfords mom and dad. Christine an anthony and their teenage children jesse and were not. There were lots of families taking i suppose an early christmas or a lead into their Christmas Holidays and paid a lot of money they planned for their sake and maybe from where their mindset is i can let them look after me. One of the highlights offered to passengers was a day trip to visit thailand volcano. They were provided with a brochure that was branded with Royal Caribbean b
President trump has lashed out over his imminent impeachment in a 6 page letter to top democrat nancy pelosi, accusing her of declaring open war on american democracy. On the eve of the crucial vote in the house of representatives, which is dominated by the democrats, hes claimed hes been denied his most fundamental rights even though hes turned down an offer to give evidence himself, and have his legal team question witnesses. In his letter to the House Majority leader mr trump claims the charges he faces are completely disingenuous, meritless, and a baseless invention of your imagination and also claims the impeachment process, which is set out under the Us Constitution, is nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. Now the fear that impeachment could backfire, politically, on democrats is in the minds of some members of congress, as our north america editorjon sopel reports. 0h, say does that star spang
In this age of streaming . A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme will the Office Christmas party become a ghost of christmas past . Some companies are scaling back celebrations due to hard times, others are choosing to do something alternative. Do you love or loathe the Office Christmas do . Tell us what you are up to just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. President trump has lashed out over his imminent impeachment in a 6 page letter to top democrat nancy pelosi, accusing her of declaring open war on american democracy. On the eve of the crucial vote in the house of representatives, which is dominated by the democrats, hes claimed hes been denied his most fundamental rights, even though hes turned down an offer to give evidence himself, and have his legal team question witnesses. In his letter to the House Majority leader, mr trump claims the charges he faces are completely disingenuous, meritless,
So we did check in with the duty manager here. So far there are 10 delays and two cancellations. Nothing really out of the ordinary. But it is always a good idea to check your flight status. Is christmas falling emerald week this year. Tricky for a lot of people to travel based on work schedules. Whether not they were able to get that long weekend. Or maybe some people do work on monday and todays the day there heading out of town. It will certainly be an exciting day for a lot of people doing lastminute travel. Ktvu fox news. Police are investigating this morning after crash involving six vehicles. The collision has to and last night at highway 85. The road was shut down but it is open once again this morning. One person was seriously hurt in two people were hospitalized with minor injuries. Police are not releasing any information about those involved in the crash or what may have caused the collision. Aaa is doing its part to keep bay area road safe this holiday. Starting at 6 00 to
It is now 6 am. Lets go back to the desk. A busy day on the roads and in the airports as Holiday Travelers make the last minute dash to get out of town. Are spinning their Christmas Eve journeying to where they want to be for Christmas Day. Oh my goodness. Is only 6 am and look at the line to get through security here. We have all of these people waiting to get through the metal detectors. There also sleeping bags and look at the line as it continues here. There people still filing in with these long lines. Give yourself plenty of time to get through security here this morning. It will be taking a while. I did get a chance to speak with travelers and they were keeping their spirits high. And said they are quite excited to get out of town for the holidays. We are so excited. We are going to disney world. You know, ive been hesitant to book this trip. But you know what, we are just going to do it. Its going to be an adventure and their frontier right now. We have the ponchos and umbrella