On Bbc News At Five. A former royal marine, Ciaran Maxwell, has beenjailed for 18 years for supplying bombs to dissident irish republicans. Plans to recruit an extra 21,000 Mental Health workers in england over the next four years, have been announced by the health secretary. Downing street has insisted that Free Movement of people will end in march 2019, when the uk leaves the european union. And real madrid superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo, has appeared before a court in the city accused of tax fraud. Good evening from Tyne Cot Cemetery in belgium, where commemorations have been taking place to mark 100 years since the start of one of the bloodiest battles of world war one. Over three months, british and allied troops fought with german soldiers in what became known as the Battle Of Passchendaele. In the fields around this cemetery, around half a million soldiers on both sides of the war were killed, wounded or went missing. Prince charles, along with the duke and duchess of cambridge, j
Where this is all headed right into the Lehigh Valley mainly as far as the wintry mix and the snow is concerned. Locally around philadelphia were seeing mainly rain. Well time this out for you hour by hour starting at 4 00 p. M. We can start to see just after midnight, were seeing a wintry mix for parts of chester county, berks county as well. New castle county, Delaware County will see a little bit of a mix. We get this going a little bit further in time, 5 00 a. M. , mainly rain south and east of philadelphia. North and west it looks like Lehigh Valley, bucks county, light mix, snow. If youre headed in that direction, give yourself extra time. I do think roads have been pretreated, good news there. For the rest of us, south and southeast of philadelphia get ready for more rain. And the saying is this, well be dipping into temperatures below the freezing mark. Well see icy spots overnight saturday into sunday. Coming up, i have the 10 day on 10. Thanks for that. Weve got complete cove
Boulevard. It could be slow. C. H. P. Is on the way. Westbound 80 is through to the bay bridge toll plaza. It is backed up beyond the 880 overcrossing. Early voting is today across the bay area and the rest state and california is late in the game primary may not be a game changer but it is an important test. Matt . Good morning, mail inballots committee out today and you do not have to wait until election day but you can drop them off at the registrar of voters in santa clara. There are 50 other locations, as well, in the county. Are you listening on voting in california is the lat state to hold a primary election. Voter registration numbers are way up compareed to 2014. Donald trump is the presumptive nominee nominee and Hillary Clinton is closing in on her partys nomination but experts are specificking a big turn out. People want to be heard and there are other races on the pal lot. California secretary of state told the mercury news that it could be a major surge in turnout busines
Broadcast center this is abc7 news. There is still an impact of the vote in california. We could still have major clout in the white house. Im eric come mass. Thats why Bernie Sanders is coming to california. Lilian kim is live at city hall with the details. Lilian . Eric, early voting here at San Francisco city hall begins at 8 00 a. M. It is a little more than four weeks before the june 7th primary. Now that early voting in california is about to get underway candidates are getting serious. The Hillary Clinton campaign is opening its San Francisco office on van ness and oak farrell. A few volunteers showed up to spread the word. There is support here for hillary and we have been organizing for over a year and we continued the great work. Clinton her continued on friday. Now it is Bernie Sanders turn. He is scheduled to appear in sacramento on monday and stockton on tuesday. At his Campaign Office in sacramento the phones have been ringing off the hook. People have been calling to get
Ten minute bart delays with early traffic maintenance. They are recovering but early delays for bart from oakland to other directions. Muni is reporting no delays and ace train is good thing to take but it is on time and 580 is a crawl. Westbound, bay bridge toll plaza, not of a delay. They should be clearing the road work on the bay bridge just about now and we will check on that next report. Gives . Early voting begins today across the bay area and california is late in the day primary may not be a game changer but mill analysts say it is an important test. Matt is in san jose with that report. Matt . We are 29 days away from election day. That means you can turn in your vote early for june 7, and there are several options to do that. You can, of course, mail it in. Been, can you come to the register of voters and go inside register of voters and go inside and vote, or, big turn out despite predictions of political analysts that me will stay away because they feel the race for the de