Good evening. Im ann curry in for brian who is in sochi starting tomorrow. And tonight is just a mess outside for a lot of americans. A second major storm in three days. This one bringing ice and freezing rain and affecting 115 Million People in 32 states. Here are the numbers. At least a Million People are without power when the day began. Nearly 5,000 flights were canceled or delayed. And the storm numbers predicted for this weekend, one in four americans is under a storm watch. Nbcs ron mott joins us from westminster, massachusetts who got at times 2 inches of snow an hour today. Ron, good evening. Reporter hey, ann. Good evening to you. It started snowing here a little after 4 00 this morning. Its been coming down almost nonstop. The last of the flakes are falling now. Theyve got a lot to clean up here, but millions of people to our south are dealing with a lot more than just the snow. The second blast of Winter Weather this week packed a more potent punch than the first. You cant
Longer refugees seek protection from weeks after Easter Sunday bombings our correspondent visits a Police Station thats become a shelter. And critics say it is a song contest in name only this years year of vision is set to be one of the most political yet saturdays final takes place in tel aviv israel and this calls for performers and visitors to boycott the event in solidarity with the palestinians. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei 0 has been reassuring russia and the e. U. That washington is not heading for a conflict with iran as comments came during his 1st official visit to russia a key backer of to iran iran has blamed the Current Crisis in the gulf region on washingtons decision to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Dorman and mike pompei was on a mission a mission that didnt go quite the way he planned pompei has been on the road for the past week rallying support for washingtons iran policy last wednesday he abruptly pulled ou
A plan back from the dead trees and they will put it to lawmakers early next month in a bid to get britain out of europe in time for the summer holiday. And ukrainian women becoming surrogate mothers to make ends meet they earn thousands of euros to carry babies for couples in western europe including from germany. And the competition heats up in the euro vision song contest 10 countries booked their place for saturdays final intel of even israel will go live to israel about the euro vision thats being overshadowed this year by politics. I brought in thomas thanks so much for joining us u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o has been reassuring russia andie you that washington is not heading for a conflict with iran comments coming during his 1st official visit to russia a key backer of tehran now iran has blamed the Current Crisis in the gulf on washingtons decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. And mike pompei is on a mission a mission that didnt go quite the way he planned p
In the beautiful game the risk of dementia and parkinsons for ex Football Players in their later years a study of formal professionals raises concerns about the long term consequences of playing the sport of the highest level. Im told me a lot of both thanks for joining us. Russia and turkey say they have a plan for syrias future both countries announced that they have reached an agreement on the future of Northern Syria following talks in the black sea resort of Sochi Russian president Vladimir Putin and his turkish counterpart rich of type 2 and say they are adding another 6 days to a ceasefire that was due to expire on tuesday evening turkey wants to establish a buffer zone 30 kilometers wide along the syrian Turkish Border from which Kurdish Forces would be excluded. The kremlin had predicted long and difficult negotiations perhaps thats why the greeting was particularly friendly organized extra nice weather for you 6 and a half long hours of negotiations between Vladimir Putin and
That because of his leadership, turkey and syria are a safer place. The president , listen here, taking credit. He green lights essentially the turkish operation. Now he says he has stopped that military operation and the United States alone deserves the credit. Were willing to take blame and were also willing to take credit. This is something theyve been trying to do for many, many decades. Since then, others have come out to help and we welcome them to do so. Other countries have stepped forward. They want to help and we think thats great. The president also announcing it will be interesting to see what the reaction is in the United States congress. The president saying he has lifted sanctions he imposed on turkey at the beginning of this military operation. Again, the president saying its time to get u. S. Troops out of syria. The president describing facts on the ground in syria that are not in sync with what we are hearing from officials there and our correspondents. Lets begin wi