President trump meets survivors of wednesdays High School Shooting in florida. The president declined to answer a reporters question on gun control. Also, south africa after president zuma just one of the topics under discussion in dateline london with carrie gracie, in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Lizzy yarnold has won team gbs first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in south korea. Shes won the womens skeleton, making yarnold the first british competitor to defend a winter olympic title. Yarnold headed into the final run 0. 02 seconds behind leaderjanine flock, but a poor finish from the austrian saw her drop out of the medal places. Our sport correspondent is in pyeongchang. An extraordinary day here, one that will live long in british olympic memory. The most successful in british winter olympic history. Thats largely because of Lizzy Yarnold winning the gold medal here in the skeleton and defending her title. Her parentsjoin me now. Clive
And we are very excited. How have you come to this deal is the question many people will want to know . Two years ago the words olympic were not even in angelenos vocabulary at that point in time so i think weve come a long way from when we first indicated there was an outside shot that wed be given the opportunity to even compete. So here we are today saying we are down to the dotting of the is and crossing of the ts, and in a short period of time you will be hearing the olympian theme music rolling through the city of a lay. Obviously paris has been bidding for 2024, and you have bid for 2028, what convinced you do go for 2028 . Two years ago no one even thought we were in the game and now here we are at the table. We believe in going for 2028 we might get some additional perks that we could use to help benefit the city of los angeles, but i think the most important thing is that this is like a once in a lifetime thing. We have the opportunity to be a government in la that for all of
Us and is live now on the scene. And cheryl, more than 20 recent freeway shootings in that area. What do we know about this one . Reporter it has been. It happened about two hours ago. And police and the truck that had that shattered window is no longer here, as you can see. But Contra Costa County sheriffs tell our photographer on scene that a pickup truck was struck by a bullet while traveling on highway 4 through pittsburg. Youre looking at that truck. At least two people were inside. The passenger was struck by shattered glass and taken to a nearby hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. No information about the possible shooter, and no information about the car that person was in. Now, the driver was so shaken up that he left the freeway and came to this chevron station on willow pass road. Now, highway shootings a very big problem here in the bay area. There have been a couple of dozen shootings on highway freeways since november of last year. Police have put together a task f
Morning. Thank you so much for being up with us. Lets say good morning to first alert meteorologist erica martin in the first alert weather center. You bring up great points as far as the fog. We do have a patchy, foggy start to the day. So that marine layer. Im explain why we have that in a moment. Weather headlines do include the fog that was eventually start to improve. Lots of sunshine in the forecast. I am forecasting mostly clear to clear skies for most of the area. Its not going to be muggy for today. However, a change in the forecast by later tomorrow. So enjoy today. Drier conditions and certainly very nice temperatures. Tonight also dealing with some patchy figuog through the over night hours into tomorrow morning. Keep that in mind. Current temperature 66 degrees. Northeasterly wind, 8 miles per hour. Here were seeing a little bit of an easterly push. More northerly. About 100 to 200 miles offshore there is a low pressure system pushing in a lot of wind, so that is affecting