Others wounded in a kabul suicide bombing. The Islamic State says it carried out the attack. Our reporter has been at the scene. This is the building where the explosion happened, and you can see the building has been almost completely destroyed. Sharanjit an easing of diplomatic tensions between turkey and the United States as both countries say they will restart Visa Services. Also on the program, the email scandal rocking the miss america contest. We hear from a former winner on where the organization is heading. Sharanjit hello, and welcome to bbc world news. We start with liberia, where it was announced a short time ago that former International Football star george weah has won the president ial election. His supporters celebrated as the Electoral Commission announced that with almost all the ballots counted, mr. Weah had won more than 60 of the vote. He made his name playing for ac milan. He was the first and only player from africa to win the coveted ballon dor award. Over the
And the drama kicks into high gear with the return of the bachelor. Season 22 is already shaping up to be unlike any of its predecessors. Well have a complete wrap up with our Senior National bachelor analyst. It is tuesday, january 2nd. From abc news, this is world news now. Oh, we forgot the chief senior bachelor global contributor. Were going to start things off with breaking news. Passengers were stuck in long lines as Customs Computers were down for hours. This happens as travelers return from the busy holiday weekend. You see some of images were getting in there. Some of the lines were more than four hours long. Imagine facing that after coming off the long flight. Now travelers complained that they missed connections and were given little information. A Customs Agency says the disruption did not affect the standards for security screening, and it does not believe the outage was malicious in any way. The system is back on line and all airports probably have quite a bit of a backu
Breaks out there and checking the full roads and full check ahead. Maureen, wisdom. Caitlin and mike, thank you. 4 30 and breaking early this morning out of the district were checking out reports that a middle school flood overnight in southeast. The concern is over Kramer Middle School q street. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick is live on the scene with the latest in this story. Mel, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, guys, still a lot of equipment on the scene here. We have d. C. Hazmat crews standing by and what youre seeing here is Washington Gas crews getting ready to go in with a digger into the school here. As you mentioned two hours going we got reports that was some kind of water main break and water in the the basement. Several feet were told and were also seeing emergency lights inside the school going off as well. One thing we noticed is strong smell of natural gas. What im told is that some of the water got into the boiler room and compromised some of the natural gas lines