Hear, listen, feel, discover the best memories of your life. And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, im katty kay. As the fight rages in syria and iraq, i speak with former u. S. Defense secretary leon panetta who is looking far beyond these conflicts in the middle east. We are living in a world which i have not seen so many dangers confronting this world. One of those threats is ebola. Doctors are working round the clock to find a treatment. And move over black jack, there is a new game. Chess, yes, chess is making major moves with 1 million purse. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television here in america and also around the globe. The skies over could he banny were full of ex could he ban were full of ex kobani were full of more bombs to stop the Islamic State militants. Inside the town there are street battles. Well hear from former defense secretary leon panetta on what it will take to defeat i. S. First, our World Affairs corpt
Canaveral last night. The rocket is carrying two commercial satellites in to orbit. Those are some of our top stories on monday, march 2nd. Announcer from abc news this is world news now. Well good monday morning to you. We begin with another onetwo punch for the northeast. Old man winter back again. Sure is. Just as one storm marches across the northeast, another is lining up in formation behind it. It is pushing snowweary boston at 8 1 2 feet of snow for the winter close to breaking the alltime snowiest winter. It is causing major travel problems across the nation. Reporter from the south to the midwest and the northeast the winter that wont quit dumping more snow ice and freezing rain making roads perilous. Look at this monumental pileup in no missouri. A Greyhound Bus packed with 55 people rear ended a tractortrailer. 40 people taken to the hospital. I remember being catapulted straight to the floor. I landed on my back. Im holding on to dear life praying the bus will not flip. Rep
Good morning, you are taking a live look at mountainview this morning where the quick thinking of a passerby kept the house fire from spreading. You can see, will is still damage there. And katie utehs is on the scene. It is sun, march 16. I am claudine wong. I am mike mibach. Good morning, rosemary. Good morning to you. I will show you the beautiful shot as we say goodbye to saturday evening. There is the moon setting. The official set at 7 04. So saying goodbye. Sun will rise in the next 18 to 20 minutes or so. Look at low clouds and fog out there this morning. Minor changes for today. You saw what it is. We have patchy fog and this is the case for today. Along the coastline, a little cooler. We will have a near repeat from saturday. And we will have some 80s. In the warmest locations. We have an easterlily breeze from hayward and that westerly breeze and southwesterly breeze will be strengthening over the course of the afternoon. It will lead to a cool down along the coastline. 52 d
The longtime civil rights activist has been described as americas most revolutionary mayor. He died of Heart Failure tuesday, less than a year after taking office. He was 66 years old. We will hear lumumba in his own words and speak to several of his close associates. Then as japan pushes to restart its dormant nuclear program, the crisis that fukushima continues. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is ramping up pressure on afghan president karzai to sign a deal to keep u. S. Troops in afghanistan beyond this year. In a phone call with karzai tuesday, obama said he has ordered the pentagon to launch new Contingency Planning for total withdrawal of u. S. Troops by the end of 2014. White House Press Secretary jay carney said karzais replacement after april elections might still sign the deal, known as the bilateral Security Agreement or bsa. The fact that president karzai has indica
We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Fax coming up, taking on the transformers. We check out the Wearable Technology that gives you superhuman strength. Italian fashionistas invade london. Valentino tells us that is where the money is. It is the business that makes more money. Quite a tan. A lufthansa is bracing for three day pilot strike kicking off today that will see canceled a vast majority of flights. The airline is calling it the most severe in its history. David tweed joins us from frankfurt. Talk us through the disruption. Destruction taking place on two levels. One is the level of the operations. 3800 flights are going to be canceled over the next three days. That includes cargo as well. Wings,so includes german a subsidiary here in germany. As you mentioned, 425,000 passengers have seen that their travel has been disrupted. That is the operational side. The other side is what it is going to do to the bottom line of lufthansa. Lufthansa earlier today co