Vine street expressway is giving you a big old hug. When sun comes up rush will come n we are still waiting on it. In the meantime would i say you are good to go but give your commute i with say another 25 minutes or so and we will talk about a totally different story, stay with us, erika. Back to the top story now. Senator menendez plans to fight corruption charges. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in newark this morning. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao joins us from the sat center with the very latest information, jan, good morning. Reporter senator menendez has said that he was innocent and wow prove that. Today he is facing a number of federal corruption charges including conspiracy, bribery and making false statements but last night he reiterated that he is innocent, will fight charges and in the end he will be vindicated. Take a look at the video. Menendez and solomon melgen a florida eye doctor were indicted in connection with the bribery scheme. Justice Departmen
Lot of standing and cooling water as we moved into the city. We caught up with people in the neighborhood, especially a group from richmond who were helping a relative move. The water pooled so quickly that every time they tried to venture out, they were driven back. It was really coming down when we arrived, it has left up. It just keeps coming in waves, we have seen it come and go. One bit of positive news from this neighborhood, i have been covering the storms in the flooding here for two decades and the locals told me that usually with rainfall like this, they would be inundated. The city has spent a lot of time, effort, and money trying to improve drainage and it is apparently working. Looks like we can take it away. In rosslyn and in the front see pat for the airport we it overhead but we never hear the airplanes. Today we heard plenty. Outside we shot this video at around 1230. The folks were running for cover , we had more on this storm damage in virginia coming up. Dont go awa
A lot to talk about the us secretary of state mike pompeo is meeting borisjohnson in downing street with china high on the agenda at thejohnny depp libel trial his ex wife is questioned about the injuries she says were caused by him. And thousands of people line the streets of ashington in northumberland to pay tribute to football great jack charlton. The long awaited report into alleged russian interference in uk democracy and society has said moscow poses an immediate and urgent threat to National Security. Parliaments intelligence and Security Committee accuses the government of not being willing to investigate whether moscow interfered in the 2016 brexit referendum and of welcoming with open arms russian money. The foreign secretary dominic raab says the government will be resolute in defending the uk from hostile state activity. Well be getting reaction from westminster and moscow shortly. But first with the details of the report heres our Political Correspondent nick eardley. Wha
Good morning, hello, im Victoria Derbyshire with you this wednesday morning, 2a hours into this partial lockdown how are you doing . Welcome to bbc news. Let me bring you the latest headlines. Stepping up the fight against coronavirus a huge makeshift hospital is to be opened in london but theres a stark warning from these a e doctors. We are seeing patients in their 20s, patients in their 30s. We dont know what the outcome of some of these patients will be. They will go to intensive care, they may be in intensive care for some weeks. In some of them will die. And its completely heartbreaking and harrowing. Overnight 170,000 people answer the governments call
for a volunteer army to help tackle the crisis thats 3 a minute. In times like this, as the chief medical officer has already said, we see outbreaks of altruism, people wanting to help. So its a wonderful response, in the same way that all those doctors coming back, nurses saying they will come back, i am bowled over by it. The go
We have to face the reality of that. We were too slow with a number of things. But we can make sure that in the second wave were not this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk too slow. And around the the Health Secretary, world. The boss of a uk nhs trust warns his staff could run out matt hancock, has responded of protective gowns this weekend, despite assurances from ministers to concerns that there are enough to go round. About a shortage of protective gowns by saying that 55,000 gowns with a number of countries will be arriving today. Changing their advice on facemasks i would love to wave a the mayor of london calls for people to wear them, whenever magic wand and have large quantities of ppe they fall from the sky and be able to leave answer your questions about when it home. Will be British Government ministers set out five key tests before lockdown restrictions might be eased, resolved. Including a sustained fall in daily death rates. And there are calls