But thousands ofjobs are at risk. In the last few hours, a bbc team in derna in libya have seen for themselves the terrible impact of the floodwaters that have washed much of the town into the mediterranean sea, and killed thousands. Its now five days since the disaster that hit derna, which is in eastern libya, along the coast from the libyan capital tripoli and the city of neghazi, and the city of benghazi, towards the egyptian border. Today, our colleagues found little evidence of much international assistance. Correspondent anna foster and team saw the extent of the devastation, and heard the fears over a lack of basic supplies and the likelihood of disease spreading. Heres the report shes just sent us. Even by night, dernas recovery teams dont sleep. As darkness falls, another body is carefully pulled from the ruins, wrapped and taken to a waiting ambulance. It is a scene that has now been repeated thousands of times. I cant describe it, when you see peoples death. Maybe when you
Upper 90s. 76 agrees at 6 00. By 9 00 82 degrees and we will hit 90 degrees by lunch time. Ill take you through it neighborhood by neighborhood with the forecast when i come back in ten minutes. We are in for dangerous heat today. We sent nbc 10s katy zachry to find out what the city of philadelphia does when we get to conditions like were having today. Katy joins us live in center city. What can we expect . What proactively is the city doing in this situation . We know theres been a heat warning issued by the National Weather service. Around this time every morning when were going to experience excessive heat the National Weather service will have a call with members of the Philadelphia Health department and issue a heat warning which they did. It goes into effect at noon today. What can you expect if you live in and around philadelphia . The city may extend the hours during which the Public Libraries and r exc centers are open places that double as cooling centers where theres air co
And we begin in colorado, where the head of the epa is visiting the site of a major toxic waste spill. Gina mccarthy, on the site of the rivers, allen, what did mccarthy have to say about the Water Quality in the river behind you . Well, she was here in durango and some other spots on the river, and what she said, there has been extensive testing in recent days, and theyre showing that the river water is back to the same quality that it was before the spill, which was a week ago, last wednesday morning, and she also repeated what she said before, that shes heartbroken by it, and she blames, and says her own agency takes the blame for what happened up at Gold King Mine and what happened in the animus river and the san juan river, and the plume of sludge that throwed all the way out to lake powell. And she topped in durango for a news conference, and heres what she had to say about the spill. I just came from a briefing that dave and others provided to me on the status of the cleanup, an
Was different to the other terror attacks we have hard, they have involved knife attacks on innocent people and vehicles used on pedestrians. This was an improvised explosive device left on a packed tube train during the rush hour with people going to work, children going to school and it was left there. It did explode and cause injuries, but not the kind of death and destruction that was planned for by the terrorists who left it there. In the terrorists who left it there. In the aftermath of the explosion that did take place was my colleague and we will be hearing from her very shortly but first of all let us speak to two people who were on that tube train. Tell us what the feeling was like the mad explosion happened. You were told to get off the tube. Everyone started running. They were ina stampede everyone started running. They were in a stampede of people running out of the train at the train station. Did you know what was going on or we re did you know what was going on or were y
Shoots in the next half hour or so. And shes one of the favourites to win strictly Alexandra Burke and her dance partner Gorka Marquez will be here after 10am. If youve got a question for them, get in touch. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Latest breaking new throughout the programme were expecting to hear shortly whether or not scotland can introduce minimum pricing for alcohol, to tackle binge drinking. The Supreme Court will be making the announcement in about 45 minutes time and if the Scottish Government is successful it will have an impact on plans in others parts of the uk. Do you think minimum pricing a good idea . Will it tackle binge drinking . If you binge drink, if youre addicted to alcohol, would it help you if booze was more expensive . Our top story today. Zimbabwes military has seized control of the country in what it is claiming is not a coup but a bloodless transition. President Robert Mugabe and his family were detained, but are safe, accord