For their patience, being patient with us, once this highway is open, theyll experience a smoother ride at the very end. Most motorists spent the weekend fed up, some enjoyed the closure. These women walked across the span, and loved it. It was beautiful. Weather, blue skies, birds, boats, it was amazing, and no exhaust fume, yay, no noise, it was fantastic. So for us it was a good weekend. Right . It was. Reporter and now, it can be a good weekend for all of those holiday travelers. Once again, that bridge reopened within the last ten minutes. It was slated to reopen tomorrow morning at 5 00 a. M. So theyre about 12 hours ahead of schedule. Great news for holiday travelers. Great news for commuters. Everything should be getting back to normal fairly soon. Reporting live in the east bay, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Definitely great news, thank you, jodi. Download our app and get timely alerts like breaking news, and when the freeways reopen. It is free. We want to go to a dev
Mr sunak is expected to meet his israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and israeli president isaac herzog for what he said, on arrival here, he hoped would be productive meetings. This, after urging regional leaders to avoid further dangerous escalation. In gaza, meanwhile, egypt has agreed to let humanitarian supplies in via The Rafah Crossing. An initial convoy of 20 trucks of aid are expected to enter gaza after a deal announced by President Biden and the earliest is tomorrow. Announcing the agreement, the us president warned that the aid convoys would be stopped if any supplies were confiscated by hamas, which governs gaza and is regarded as a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and us. We can bring you live pictures of gaza. It isjust after 11 00 in the morning. Israels military says it hit hundreds of sites in gaza over the last 2a hours targeting, it says, hamas infrustrauctre. With the latest, heres our correspondent wyre davies. As trucks carrying aid queue on the egyptian side
Israeli Army Launched a strike on lebanese territory, it is reported that military targets of the Hezbollah Movement in the border zone were chosen as targets. The attack was, as the idf said, a response to yesterdays shelling. It is also reported that hundreds of strikes were carried out in the gas strip during the day; that night one of the shells hit a residential building in the south of the enclave, where the israeli authorities had previously called on residents of the northern regions to evacuate. At least nine palestinians were killed, aljazeera tv channel reported another. An israeli rocket fell near a school in gaza city, killing four people and injuring fifty others. This morning, our ministry of emergency situations at the chkalovsky airfield near moscow reported about help to the residents of the enclave ; a plane carrying 27 tons of food flour, sugar, rice and pasta flew to egypt. On behalf of the president and government of the russian federation, humanitarian assistance
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the white house and a briefing thursday in additional funding. Most of the Biden Administration us lawmakers for an additional 24 billion in military and Financial Aid for ukraine. The National Security council for europe and russia Timothy Clark from Oxford University discuss the russian ukraine war. And suzanne, Vice President and director here at the brookings institution. Ukraine, the west and the world. We are delighted to have so many joining us here in the audience and online from around the world. Im looking forward to this timely important discussion. The war had disastrous consequences for the ukrainian people and created significant ripple effects across europe and around the world reigniting debates about European Security and the future of nato and transatlantic and Foreign Policy and trajectory of power competition. We are fortunate today to have a group of wise experts to discuss. Will start with the conversation on less
The king and president make their way underneath the Arc De Triomphe, just in the position below where i am standing a few hundred metres away, we are seeing the Republican Guard battalions heading out towards the Champs Elysees. This has been the first formal Set Piece Event of this visit, just in the last 90 minutes or so, the king and green touched down in france, made their way to central paris, the roads have been closed for a good few hours here down the Champs Elysees and around the Arc De Triomphe. This formal welcome was made by president macron and the events unfolded, the laying of the reef, the rekindling of the flame underneath the Arc De Triomphe. Spectacular images which will baby much notjust across france but around the world. And i hope from both the french and uk government is that this is a very visual powerful way of expressing solidarity, friendship, unity. And the last couple of years since brexit, of course, have tested some of those themes and part of the aims