Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news america. Laura this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. The attorney general is finally row overbut the President Trumps attack on the judiciary wont go away. Pleaserable president , take your seat. Laura protests as president zuma gives his state of the nation address. What has gone wrong in postapartheid south africa. Caught up in a drug war how people in the philippines are coping with a brutal crackdown. Onra welcome to our viewers Public Television in america and around the globe. President trump is disputing bipartisan accounts that his Supreme Court nominee expressed concern over the attacks on the judiciary. At issue is whether judge gorsuch privately called the president s criticism of judges demoralizing. This comes as a District Court decision on the travel ban is due by the end of the
Maternity hospital leaves a mother and child dead. An on air scare the dutch man carrying a fake gun determined to make news. We begin in washington and the showdown between the president and republicans over key stone. The senate pass add bill today prove that go key stone xl oil pipeline the house pass add similar bill early they are month. A version that have plan could reach the white house as soon as next week and the president has threatened to kill it. We have a report. Senate bill one as amended is passed. Less than a month after retaking control of congress, republicans in the senate have fulfilled a Campaign Promise make the ketone xl pipeline a priority, Senate Voting in favor of the project. Only nine of the 44 Senate Democrats crossed the ill. The massive multibillion dollars venture is slated to transport canadian tar sand oil through nebraska then to louisiana and the gulf of mexico. Republicans frustrated by what they see as an administration dawdling are calling it a v
A city gardener accused of running over a woman in a park has been arrested for leaving the scene of a collision with a bicycle. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to pursue this case but the 19yearold was booked on a hit and run charge. We are live with the story in the Outer Mission neighborhood. Reporter the accident happened right here at san jose avenue and regent street. Outer Mission District of San Francisco. Accord owing Police Jonathan bernowski hit the bicyclist as he was making a right turn. The 19yearold did not stop. Police say it happened yesterday afternoon, shortly after he left the courtroom where his father was being arraigned investigators say the 19yearold hit a bicyclist the person was not badly injured. He lives about a mile from where the accident occurred followed by a witness who then called police. He was arrestd and booked into the county jail. So far, this is a hit and run case. This afternoon, the District Attorneys Office was waiting to interview a wi
Is dangling over theeath 280 over highway 101. You can see this big rig right here this, is on connector ramp from 280 to southbound 101. Northbound 101 which runs beneath is closed now as a result. There are incredible traffic back ups in this area. Looks like a movie. Dangling like that. No word on how this happened but we know the driver is okay. And was standing by the trk not too long ago but he got the scare of his life. The resulting traffic is just enormous. You can see just a moment ago there is a forklift there. That is the load th truck was carrying. Sky sevenontinues to pull wider, you can see lanes beneath the overpass. Traffic is stopped. There is concern this could fall beneath. Yes. All freeways and around the area are a mess if the Helicopter Shot continues to pull back. You can iagine this time of the day what the result will be. There we go. We pan back you can see traffics at a stand still. Not going to go anywhere for some time it is a mess were going to be followi
Race in kansas, of all places, which very well might determine who controls the whole u. S. Senate this year, all eyes tonight on the kansas supreme court. We do not know when that ruling will come but it could come at any time. Theres a lot going on, theres a lot worth watching. We start tonight with isis. The sunni militant group in iraq and in syria that the u. S. Government says were now at war with. Isis has now released a new video that is not another beheading video, thank god, but it is plainly aimed at an american audience. Its 52 seconds long. It appears to be a trailer for a longer video of some kind, but we dont know that for sure. What they have released is this 52 seconds worth of propaganda video. It is propaganda, but in terms of its news worthiness, it is worth seeing because it shows what theyre capable of in terms of their skill in producing a message about themselves but also gives some information about what strategically they are trying to get americans to feel. I