kentucky showing some of the damage left behind by historic floods that killed at least 25 people. you can see floodwaters slammed this school bus into a building, just devastated there, wrecked cars and downed trees are everywhere. tomorrow eastern kentucky is expecting several more rounds of rain that could make this flooding worse. electricity is out in many places. state officials say 21 drinking water systems have been damaged by rushing waters. there have been more than 600 water rescues. among the dead are four young kids from one family, the youngest just two years old. the governor of that state said it s vast destruction in that area he s worried they ll find victims for weeks to come. this is still an emergency situation, we are in search and rescue mode. again, that count is going to continue to go up. we don t lose this many people in flooding. this is a real tough one. cnn s evan joins me now. just incredible footage of the devastation where you re at right
doing important things always does. melanie, i hope you weren t up all night following these twists and turns. getting this bill out of the senate, they ran into some head winds and rocks along the shore in the name of senator kyrsten sinema. how did it play out? as chuck schumer put it, it was a bump on the road. there was some drama before this bill got to the finish line. senator kyrsten sinema was concerned about the 15% corporate minimum tax, impacting small businesses. so she joined in on a republican amendment to address that issue. but it also included an extension of the state and local tax deduction. schumer was told some democrats would not vote for the final bill if those changes were in there. so behind the scenes, democrats were scrambling to come one a solution to prevent this deal from falling apart. they came up with letting sinema support that amendment and added in a different way to pay for the changes. that is the reality of a 50-50 senate. they needed
It was about 15 kilometers south of the uotsuri islands. Part of the senkaku island chain. The minister says eight f15 fighters from the air Self Defense Force based in okinawa were dispatched in response. But when they arrived the chinese plane had already left japanese airspace. The coast guard photo of the chinese aircraft shows letters on the planes body indicating it belongs to Chinas State Oceanic Administration. The Defense Ministry says this was the first such intrusion by a chinese aircraft since the selfdefense forces began keeping records. The coast guard says the plane was initially spotted around 10 40 a. M. Local time. Coast guard officials confirmed the intrusion at 11 06 and the plane moved out of sight four minutes later. The coast guard vessel radioed a warning to the aircraft not to enter japanese airspace. The aircraft responded that it was flying over chinese territory. Also on thursday, four Maritime Patrol boats intruded into japanese waters off the senkaku islan
And a Chinese Space capsule has successfully returned with the first samples of moon rock in more than a0 years. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. A court in paris has found 1a people guilty of being linked to the three islamist extremists who carried out attacks on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and a jewish supermarket, nearly six years ago. 17 people were killed. The longest sentences, of 30 years, were given to a close friend of one of the attackers and his former girlfriend who is believed to be in syria. Our paris correspondent, lucy williamson, has been following the case. This trial has struggled to match the scale of the events behind it. Those in the Public Gallery today better known than those in the dock. Arriving for the verdict, surviving staff from a jewish supermarket and the magazine Charlie Hebdo, the two key targets in the attacks. The harshest verdict was for ali riza polat, sentenced to 30 years for complicity in the attacks. Mo
More foreign citizens are due to leave the chinese city of wuhan as the numbers infected with the potentially deadly coronavirus still increase. Authorities there say 170 people have now died there are another 1,700 confirmed cases. In the next few hours hong kong will halve the number of flights to Mainland China and suspend train and ferry services. John sudworth has the latest. Safely out of wuhan, a plane arriving at a California Air base with 200 americans on board. Earlier, japan got a flight full of its citizens out, touching down in tokyo. The night before the great escape. But the brits are still only preparing to leave. Kharn lamberts grandmother, vera, stuck here on holiday, is running low on her medications. How do you feel about going home . Delightful. Theres frustration with the uk government. I think its been an absolute shambles, to be honest with you. I dont think the government have really known what theyve been doing. I dont think theyve had as much contact with the