Good morning. Cool air good morning. Coolair is good morning. Cool air is arriving further north of the uk today, with rain followed by blustery showers and some sunshine. In the south it stays mild, but pretty cloudy, but that cooler areas moving across all of the uk by the time we to tomorrow. Cooler air is. I will have a full forecast coming up a bit later on. Its saturday 21st november. Our top story. The nhs has started setting up coronavirus Vaccination Centres across the uk, with the hope of getting all adults vaccinated by the spring. With infection rates dropping and levelling off in all four nations, the government has asked the medical regulator to asses the Pfizer Biontech vaccine for uk use. Anna oneill reports. This is the ray of light as described by the Health Secretary. Millions of doses of this pfizer ion tech vaccine against covid i9 could be heading to britain as early as next month, and the nhs is getting ready for a mass Vaccination Programme. ready for a mass Vac
And, 75 years after the liberation of auschwitz, we hearfrom germans who helped to save their fellowjewish citizens. One of the all time greats of basketball, kobe bryant, has been killed in a Helicopter Crash. Reports say his helicopter went down into a hillside in calabasas in fog, killing nine people, including kobes teenage daughter, gianna. We begin with this report from our correspondent chris buckler, in washington. Whether they cheered him orfeared him, all basketball fans recognised kobe bryant as one of the sports greatest players. His entire 20 year career was spent in an la lakersjersey, and his death on the outskirts of the city has left people across the United States grieving. Nine people died when the helicopter he was only crashed in calabasas. The la Sheriffs Office says that no one survived the accident. His list of achievements is long an all star, an nba champion and an olympic gold medallist. He was unashamedly competitive, and he was deeply frustrated when his pl
Means, we have not seen it. We dont know what the uk government is going good morning. Its a cold day across to say for the response in england. The whole of the uk today, with the first minister and myself earlier in the week at a press brisk north easterly winds are starting to take over. All the briefing, made it clear that we details coming up shortly. Think, certainly in scotland, it is too early to think about any major changes. The first minister was good morning. Quite clear that the key message its sunday, may 10. Our top story a coronavirus alert system, similar to the one used remains stay at home. I reiterated to describe the terror threat, is expected to be announced exactly that. We are in a very, very during borisjohnsons televised address this evening. Fragile moment. Actually, dominic the Prime Minister will outline a roadmap towards easing lockdown restrictions in england and has also changed the governments slogan on coronavirus, advising us to stay raab the same day
Some rain mixing in with snow along the coastline and then snow, heavy snow thrown inland. So much snow that what you see on the ground right now with ginger zee is just phase one. Our ginger zee is in potomac, maryland, this morning. Good morning, ginger. Reporter snow is coming down fast and furious this morning in washington, d. C. Wet and heavy on the federal offices that have been closed ahead of this march monster. In maryland and virginia, shelves are empty and lines were long. Its stressing me out. Getting everything and making sure, you know, the store doesnt run out of the stuff i need. Reporter overnight millions of chicagoans slipped and skidded into their biggest snowmaker of the season. This morning, nearly half the country is being affected. At least 1500 flights already canceled with more to come. Definitely ready for the snow to be done. Hopefully this is the last one. Reporter in some places more than a foot has already fallen. Towns blanketed in snow now face the blo
Its been a week of tit for tat, which escalated dramatically in the early hours of friday morning. The previous friday, a us civilian working in iraq was killed in an attack, which washington believed was the work of an iranian backed militia. It struck back with airstrikes in iraq. The government in baghdad grumbled about a breach of sovereignty, protestors tried to storm the us embassy there, and ayatollah khameni appeared on television to waggle his finger at President Trump. Then on friday, with the explicit authority of the president , qasem soleimani, was killed. The United States. The president who wanted out of foreign engagements, preferring maximum pressure using economic sanctions to achieve either or regime change, is now sending thousands more troops to the middle east this in the year he seeks re election. Abdul, what is your prediction of what iran will do next . It could be a war. This is a declaration of war. After 2003 when president bush told us after 2003 when presi