Underwater motorways heavy rain and floods put the brakes on the christmas getaway. Buckingham palace confirms that the duke of edinburch is in hospital. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with connie. Waiting for announcement from arsenal . Were waiting for confirmation that mikel arteta is the new arsenal manager. Up until this week he was assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and in the last hour or so hes confirmed that arteta has left the club and hes in london. Chris has all the weather parts of the country flooded . We will be looking at how much rain has fallen over the last couple of days, bringing flooding seems like these, but also crucially as the Christmas Holiday getaway gets under way, we will be looking at what the weather has in store over the next few days. Thanks, chris. Also coming up. Three, two, one and lift off a new era in human space flight. Could this capsule one day take paying passengers into space . Hello, everyone this is afternoon liv
Into claims of electoral fraud, after the brexit party said its candidates had been offered inducements by conservatives to stand down. The labour partys executive Committee Meets to finalise what policies it will put to voters in the general election. Two people have been hurt in a large fire at a Student Accommodation building in bolton. More than 200 firefighters were brought in to tackle the blaze at 11 30am, tts dateline with my colleague carrie gracie, shell be talking about trump, the crisis in hong kong, and floods and fires. Hello, good morning. In an unprecedented interview, Prince Andrew has told the bbc that he let the royal family down by staying at the home of the convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. Speaking to Newsnights Emily Maitlis at buckingham palace, the duke addressed accusations that hed had sex with a 17 year old american girl. He said he couldnt remember meeting Virginia Roberts and denies allegations of inappropriate conduct. Our royal correspondent, Nich
At the time he felt it was the right and honourable thing to do. The year is 2010. Prince andrew was in new york. He is videoed staying at the mansion of a convicted child sex offender called Jeffrey Epstein who had just been released from an 18 month prison sentence. Andrews presence gives rise to questions put to him by bbc Newsnights Emily Maitlis. You were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender. Yes. It was a convenient place to stay. I mean, i have gone through this in my mind so many times. At the end of the day, with the benefit of all the hindsight that one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do. But, at the time, i felt it was the honourable and right thing to do. I, i admit fully that myjudgment was probably coloured by my, um, tendency to be too honourable, but thats just the way it is. And then, there is andrews alleged friendship with the then 17 year old Virginia Roberts who was onJeffrey Epsteins payroll. She has alleged andrew seduced her. She says
Heartbeat. Welcome to the overnight news. Im dana jacobson. American women are on top of the soccer world again. Team usa shut out the netherlands 20 to win their second consecutive world cup championship and fourth overall, cementing their status as the gold standard. Roxana sabaria was there. Reporter for the reigning champions, taking on europes best was never supposed to be easy. In the first half, the netherlands did something no other team here has. Stop the u. S. From scoring. Deflected. Two players down in the box. Reporter when the americans were awarded a penalty, cocaptain Megan Rapinoe stepped up. Goal, usa reporter a few minutes later her teammate rose followed. And so, to cheers in t. Earned a fourth world cup cty, makg were crazy. Ats what makes us special. We just have no quit in us. Were so tight and well do anything to win. What bng made . It was awesome. It was the best. Highlight of my life. Yeah. Usa usa reporter but the women arent just soccer players. Theyre role
Those temperatures climbing. Here is a live look with our Sales Force Tower camera. Clear skies. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s to low to mid 60s at this hour. With all the microclimates. Along the coast, mostly sunny and breezy, mid60s. Warming up for the bay in the low 70s with mostly sunny skies and breezy. In land low to mid90s there. A big cooldown is on the way. Well talk about that in a moment. Emily. Were seeing things heating up as far as the commute is con certainly. Main travel times. We have one no longer in the green through the altamonte pass. Stat is up to 37 minutes. Drive times in the green and smooth sailing for most commuters. Off to the bridge, some flashing lights. That is the result of emergency construction. It is back right there on the bridge, lane closures in the westbound direction until 6 00. Several in the eastbound direction. Remember how much this used to stack things up. It is likely to happen again. Youll see delays in the westbound direction. Giv