Reporter im here with the spo sports today tens of thousands of people who are starving to death in three syrian towns will have to wait at least another day before help reaches them. Aid agencies had hoped that trucks with food and medicine would arrive on sunday. Some people are so desperate that theyre eating leaves and grass. They are ready to deliver aid to three sillages in villages in syria. Were talking about a madaya which ask on the outskirts of damascus. That has been under siege by government and allied forces. Another area is idlib where people are under siege from rebel forces. The u. N. Has been helping to negotiate this deal from back in september. Thats when they had hoped to agree on a ceasefire with these two differing sides and then last week some fighters were released from the north of madaya and their families as well. It has taken until this stage, a complicated stage, to help people that are in need of aid. There are other people in syria who need assistance as
Station house for more questioning. Our first blast of winter still lurking around tonight after temperatures in some parts of our area hit the single digits. One place even hit zero. Lets get to lonnie quinn now and talk about the wind chill and now long its going to last, lonnie . That whole term bitter blast, i sometimes look at these cliches and say oh, not the bitter blast again, yet this morning it was a bitter blast again, 0 in monticello between 5 00 and 6 00 in the morning. Factor in the winds gusting at times 20 miles per hour, if not more than, that and every single spot in the tristate area, everybody felt like you were in the negative numbers. It felt like 4 below 0 in new york city, 10 below in newburgh, felt like 5 below in islip and 3 below in the hamptons. It still felt like 5 below 0 in bell march and felt like if i belmar and felt like 15 below in monticello. Were 28 now, hit it at 4 00 in the afternoon. Thats 10 degrees colder than it should be. Tomorrow i think you
House says the u. S. Cannot confirm a North Koreans Hydrogen Bomb test, but it calling on the countrys leaders to abide by International Obligations and commitments. The surprise North Koreans state tv announcement called the event a perfect success, citing pyongyangs legal right to defend itself against u. S. Aggression. The real danger for the United States is whether or not north korea has intentions to demonstrate their capabilities as far as the pacific and certainly to threaten the u. S. Continent. Reporter news of the event came after a 5. 1 magnitude earthquake was deengted near a known north korea detected near a known north korea test site. South korea quickly condemned the debtonnation and called a Emergency National Security Council meeting. The countrys president told reporters the test is a threat on our peoples survival and future and a direct challenge if confirmed, this would be north koreas Fourth Nuclear test, the first was carried out in 2006. The unitedflations Sec
President ial candidates make one last push for the first vote to secure their partys nomination. The main Syrian Opposition group is in geneva for talks aimed at ending the civil war, but only hours after getting there theyre threatening to walk out. Their calling for u. N. Resolutions to be acted on and demanding humanitarian access to besieged areas. Reporter a very large group of press here, quite chaotic scenes when they arrived here because we all want to know the position, the exact position, of this, the main opposition grouping. When the spokesman came here said that they still believe that that u. N. Resolution at the end of december means there are things which should be put in place now before talks take place. He said they werent his groups conditions, they were conditions of the u. N. Security council. I then pressed him as to whether these conditions had to be met before they would sit down for talks. Reporter if those conditions are not met, will you engage in talks . W
First grand slam title for kerber the main Syrian Opposition has arrived in geneva for talks aimed at ending the civil war, but it is still unclear if they will actually take part. Opposition members want Prisoners Released and end the bombing of civilian and blockades lifted before talks begin we are ready here to make it a success to start negotiation, but at least we should see something, you know, on the ground there in syria. We should really stop these massacres against our people. So please help us, you know. Save our children, save the remaining children of syria. We are then willing to do anything. We want to put an end to this war. We want to put an end to this i. S. I. S. , terrorism in syria, we want to put an end to what this dictatorship is doing. We want to see new syria meanwhile in syria itself up to 400,000 people are trapped and in need of emergency help. Many have died trying to escape to a better life in europe. Our correspondent is in gaziantep. Reporter this is t