royal mail apologises to customers as a one day strike by postal workers halts deliveries. powering over a million homes. the world s largest offshore wind farm goes into operation near the yorkshire coast. and big disappointment for emma raducanu as the defending champion is beaten in the first round of the us open. and coming up on the bbc news channel. with one day to go until the transfer window deadline, five teams are playing in the premier league tonight, with liverpool and manchester city both in action. good afternoon. mikhail gorbachev was one of the most consequential leaders of the 20th century, and now preparations are being made for his funeral. the last leader of the soviet union died yesterday at the age of 91. but thoughts on his death vary wildly. many russians including vladimir putin blame him for what they believe was russia s loss of prestige and respect after the fall of the iron curtain. yet in the west, he s lauded for ending the repression of communi
82 Miles Per Hour. Thats how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was going when it derailed on sunday. Four people died when the metronorth train jumped the tracks on, on a curve, dozens more were hurt. Investigators now know how fast the train was going. They still dont know for sure why it derailed. Lets take you to jonathan martin. He is at the crash site in the bronx. Jonathan . Reporter hey, tony. You know, investigators have said from the start that this is a very preliminary information, but as you mentioned, these two black box data recorders have revealed key information. One frust from the front and one from the back, showing this train was going too fast echoing what a lot of these passengers and witnesses have been saying from the start. Reporter investigators with the National Transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train that derailed was going too fast as it approached a curve. The preliminary information and let me emphasize this is prelim
Thats what theyre working tonight to try to prevent. Many of the walls have already fallen inward. Tonight as we say this heavy equipment continues to try to control the collapse. They are going to go back up again here. We probably should stay for just a moment with this shot. Liz, you can see how this arm is just articulated off of a tractorred vehicle. He is going to back up now. I think they are going to take a deep breath and assess the situation. In the meantime, we want to start our Team Coverage tonight with phil matier and a fire thats struck at the absolute worst possible moment. Phil. Reporter all right. Its interesting as we are seeing now how dangerous this building is. And fighting this blaze was equally dangerous. The San Francisco firefighters had one thing in their favor. They got lucky. Heres the story. Luck was on our side yesterday. Thats the fastest i have seen a fire spread in my career. Reporter firefighter steve mcgwire was one of the first to arrive at the blaz
The future. And forgotten . Syrias children of war. Impacted by the ongoing conflict and the biggest humanitarian crisis of this century, today, tuesday, march 11, 2014. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Some big developments to tell you about overnight with the investigation about the plane thats missing. That is our top story this morning. Those developments in the search for flight 370. We are also learning more about the two men who boarded the Malaysian Airlines flight using stolen passports and nbcs tom costelo coverses aviation for us. Tom, good morning to you. Good morning. The fourth day for the search for this missing plane is now wrapping up in asia and still nothing. One of the most baffling events in aviation history upon. Now malaysian authorities are considering whether there was a mechanical issue or did someone onboard have a psyc