rory cellan jones and his wife, diane having been rescued from the streets of romania. she made her home behind the couple s sofa, only emerging briefly for treats of steak and cheese. and her story has gone viral on twitter, with thousands of people regularly tuning in to see how she s progressing. yesterday, there was a bit of a breakthrough, as sophie was coaxed out from her safe space for the first time for a quick cuddle. we ll have more on her story on tonight s six o clock news. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. follow that! today, a good deal brighter with sunny spells and showers. but there are still concerns about flooding. look at this, the river severn coming out the flood low lying ground. and flood warnings in force, 82 across england, the majority of these four stretches of the river severn, and more heavy rainjust around the corner. on the satellite picture, this area of developing cloud and low pressure is going to bring a return of heavy
lisa marie presley the musician and only child of elvis presley has died after being taken to hospital in los angeles suffering cardiac arrest. she was 5a. her mother, priscilla, announcing her death, described her as the most passionate, strong and loving woman she d known. from los angeles, peter bowes reports. this was lisa marie presleyjust two days ago at the golden globe awards. her death was sudden. the 54 year old was rushed to hospital after falling ill at her home in the los angeles suburb of cala basas. hours later, priscilla presley issued this statement. born in memphis, lisa marie inherited herfather s graceland estate at the age of nine following his sudden death. she followed him into the music industry, becoming a singer songwriter. she released three albums during a career that embraced the legacy of elvis. you know, it would have definitely been easier for me to take up nursing or planting or truck driving, even. but music has been important for me, and
in the week. with the start of meteorological autumn the weather is going to reflect that with even a warning of dale s coming out in the short cost more south western parts of the country. meanwhile we have high pressure bringing fine and settled weather for the afternoon and into tomorrow. most places will be dry and also quite breezy across parts of england and wales. despite that the mid 20 is likely to the south and the south east and up to the high teens in the north. largely fine tonight, quite chilly across scotland and northern ireland and tomorrow we start off in the north on a chillier note. some showers around but most places dry. 21 degrees through the central belt. then thursday and friday we start to see the changes with these areas of low pressure merging together. and we see things turning more unsettled. for friday was central and western areas could see some showers and thunderstorms around. turning windy across scotland and north east england. temperatures
The launch of the orion deep space capsule, the first step toward sending a crew to mars. Record rainfall in drought stricken california, roads turning into rivers, schunk holes swallowing streets. Vehicular traffic in the middle of pedestrian traffic. Chants of i cant breathe and black lives matter, protestors angry after the grand jury decided not to indict a white Police Officer involved in the death of an unarmed black man. That officer was caught on video apply ago chokehold during an arrest. A medical examiner later concluded the move which has been banned for decades by the nypd contributed to garners death. Welcome to aljazeera. Nasas new space capsule is set to blast off heading into deep orbit. It was going to happen just a few minutes from now, but nasa just tweeted the launch was delayed because of a boat in the launch area. Were going to bring you that event live when and if it happens. That is a look at the launch pad. Theyve got about a 2 49 window for that launch, so th
The changes in ukraine and the question in the crimea. I would stress if all this were not so, then they would have thought of some other reason to hold back the growing strength of russia. Its been the plight. Several people were killed. Separatists in chechnya have been waging a war against moscow for 20 years. Lets go live to peter who is live in moscow. Peter, we know very little of what happening during putins speech there. What were you hearing while you were there. The capitol looked like a war zone last night. We see from those pictures. The building was surrounded by chechnya security forces. We understand that the militants are hold up with an exchange of power with policepatrol check points that left three to five police dead. It seems obvious that this was timed to steal the headlines from president putins address to the kremlin to parliament at the kremlin this morning. This is what the president had to say about the chechnya. We remember well about who and how in the 1990