and the first extraordinary images from nasa s new telescope distant galaxies and light from 13 billion years ago that have left scientists speechless. a miserable day for england, they are thrashed by india in the first of their one day matches at the oval. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. sir mo farah has told the bbc that is hugely relieved that the government says no action will be taken after he revealed he was trafficked illegaly into the uk as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant. the four time olympic champion says he was born hussein abdi kahin, but was given the name mohamed farah by those who flew him from east africa to london with fake documents when he was 9 years old. until now he had always told people that he came with his parents to the uk from somalia as a refugee. our community affairs correspondent, adina campbell has the story. he isa he is a household name and winning double gold at london 2012 was one of the defining mom
We start with mark johnson. How bad is it out there right now . Reporter the schools have arrived and they are outside of the warning counties. They are all over the place. Here is a live look at our Storm Tracker. Interstate 70 seven and 40, this is a mess. This is 25 Miles Per Hour travel. Its near zero visibility at times is the squirrels really add up and look at those roadways. Not a clear lane anywhere to be found. Again, where squalls exist, 2 inch 2 in. h. We have generally two. One is here. Into southern lorain county. The bigger one stretches from lorraine through the western suburbs just south of downtown in northern Summit County into southern cuyahoga and thats youngstown area. Let me show you the heaviest oh snow detector. One to 2 inches of snowfall per hour. Theres the 480 split and heavy snow. X feel, northfield, twinsburg. Still moderate snow. That stretches into aurora. This band has been sinking southward but another heavy band from willard to south of wellington. T
Patel, flying to california flight 2 animated graphic today is the busiest travel day on the roads and skies this holiday season. Nats crowd bag pop and its not off to a great start with one to threehour flight delays. In new york. New jersey. And philadelphia. Uh no delayed. 3 this Southwest Airlines flight was forced to return to oakland for an emergency landing. After the plane suffering a mechanical problem circled for nearly four hours. interplay tvu kgo plane sot ashley stasio, traveler 57 09 15 the plane was just thumping and thumping and was going very slow. Because they were trying to get the landing gear up and it nats quick plow with snow falling at an inch per hour in parts of oregon. Nats oh my god 80 mile per hour winds. Leaving damage in southern california. pic cleared by Melissa Griffin and this tornado touching down. Destroying several homes in mississippi. new wx gfx 68 million americans are in this storm many drivers. Are packing their patience sot expecting traffic
Weather creating problems across the country. First off mississippi. Several People Killed when twisters moved through. In our area its not the holiday getaway anyone hoped for on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Drenching rains leaving cars almost underwater in bayside. Expressway. Slow going. Now were getting ready for warmth. We have several reports. We begin with meteorologist lee goldberg outside our studios on the Upper West Side. Weve been getting soaked for about eight hours now. Thankfully this is the last in the train of downpours coming through. Reporter it is the caboose. Weve had a lot of record warmth. Rain. Look at lower manhattan. The cloud cover down to 300 feet. So the low visibilities will be a concern. 64 degrees right now. An inch and a half in new york city. The record for the date is 1. 6 inches from 1913. You can see the back ems approaching new york city. Weve had thunderstorms over the east end over the past hour. Now theres heavy rain over upper ma
Set back in 1998. Meanwhile it is a driving rain out here. Looks like the heaviest rain half hour. Thanks for the confirmation. He said, its raining. Sade, rob, back to you. Thank you lee. Get back inside and dry o. Were going to check with lee in a few minutes. Now we want to go to michelle from laguardia. Reporter a lot of delays. Nice to be dry inside but a two to two and a half hour delay here at la guard i cant. People are lined up all the way down, probably 10 lines. The lines are moving. A lot of people working those lines, but folks are in very good spirits. I have to say they expected with the weather and the fact this is a Holiday Travel day, one of the most busy of the year that they would see these delays. This is definitely the day as we look at the de par taurus departures get out of dodge. We wish you a Merry Christmas reporter these are the busiest days of the year for travel. Laguardia did not disappoint. Long lines were moving. Are you delayed . Going to raleigh . Yes