the defence secretary grant shapps said the royal navy is working on a new dragonfire laser weapon to complement its existing weaponry, the sea viper air defence system. that s to be upgraded with a new warhead and software to counter ballistic missile threats. here s grant shapps. we have, for example, the largest ships that we have ever put to sea in the aircraft carriers. i toss it off, i think, 13 frigates and destroyers which are under commission at the moment. we are modernising the navy, going throughjust massive through just massive capitalisation programme and just this morning, for example, i have been on x, twitter, yesterday, the results of a new weapon which is a laser weapon called dragonfire, capable of doing what those men and women on hms diamond have been doing, with the sea viper missile system, and doing it with a labour laser instead to bring down incoming so the technology is also moving on very fast, as well as the investment. economists have warned
hello to you. i am ben thompson. welcome to the programme. even by the standards of american school shootings, it was grim 19 students and two teachers killed by a gunman. but what was also shocking about events at the robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, was the police s failure to take prompt action. in the last couple of hours, we have had the department ofjustice report into that failure. it says officers failed to accurately assess the situation. they say it took more than an hour to confront and kill the gunman despite the presence of dozens of law enforcement officials. the us attorney general merrick garland has been in uvalde, where he saw some of the murals that have been created in memory of those who died. he also met survivors and some of the families of those who lost their lives. afterwards, at a news conference, he had this message for the entire country. the law enforcement response at robb elementary school on may 2a, 2022, and in the hours and days af
New direction tonight after a quick fix slowed the commute to a crawl. Good evening. We are at the toll phaza where toll plaza that is already looking better. Trafic is better than friday. Reporter cal transstopped short of giving an apology but suspended it because traffic was worse than expected. Reporter caltrans suspended the construction project friday night into saturday morning after it produced a day long traffic mess over the bay bridge. They had to slow down going over covered steel plates. It was too much. That, the traffic it was bad for a very long time. And, and, you just can not sustain that kind of delay. The team will look into less obstructive ways to do construction, drivers are hoping for a better plan. They should of let people know before what was going to happen so they will know. I am not going this way. How would it of changed it for you . It would of prepared me to go a different way. Gone around the field to golden gate or i would of went san mateo bridge. Tr
Hospital have volunteered to limit their travel until officials make sure they dont have the disease. One lab worker who might have handled duncans specimens caused a small scare when she boarded a cruise ship bound for belize. On sunday she was back in the u s, symptomfree. The Obama Administration continues to face criticism for its handling of the ebola matter. Sen. Ted cruz says Public Health officials are telling the president what he wants to hear. He says obama should ban flights into the us from ebola stricken countries. What is unfortunate is watching the Obama Administration treat this as yet another political issue rather than as a Public Health crisis. Health Officials Say cruz is off the mark. Ive never had an experience where a president is telling me to tell him something that he wants to hear. The Defense Department is preparing a 30person military quick strike team. The teams mission will be to travel anywhere in the United States to help with future ebola cases. The t
A live look showing a gorgeous start. Satellite and radar shows dry conditions. However, tracking system thats going to bring some rain. A tenth of an inch and a quarter of an inch with heavy values north of the Golden Gate Bridge. We take a look at your headlines. Light rain predominantly in the afternoon and early evening for much of the bay area. We are not going to see rain for the sierra nevada, but next week looking at highpressure making a return. With that said, mainly sunny skies and warming trend. Again, ill be talking about the storm headed our way in my next report. Thank you so much. Happening now, the 11th annual nike womens Half Marathon just ticked off in San Francisco. Mike is among the big crowd there. Good morning, mike. Reporter good morning. These runners left union square at 6 30. Just leaving this morning as we take a live look. The nike womens Half Marathon features about 25,000 runners today, all here in San Francisco. The run today is tourism awareness for leu