Everybody at nasa basics. Let me introduce the panel and i will each one of them take some words. Steve is the director for the program here at counter arid and joel, the nasa manager of the space Center Program at houston. The deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. The joining us is benji, senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. Nasa kurt costello, the program chief scientist and last but not least is arlena moses, the launch whether officer for our 45th weather squadron. I dont everybody is looking forward to hearing from them as well. I will turn it over to steve and let them take it from there. Thank you. Is great to be here following the launch readiness today. Since we talked on tuesday, we have put the falcon nine through a static fire, an important test for us to check out the rocket and make sure all of the systems are functioning as expected. We removed all of that over the last few days and the rocket is really good. Its important to do som
Inland areas talking more about what to expect this monday. Still ahead your forecast back to you james all right, thank you john 7 oclock we do want to begin with the latest on the coronavirus and the numbers show that at least 33 states now are seeing cases rise on a week to week basis and heres a look. At the current map which shows us the number of cases compared to last week youll notice 8 states are highlighted in dark red. Those are places where weve seen a 50 increase in cases from one week to the next california is included in that group. Meanwhile 25 states are indicated in orange, those are places where were seeing a 10 to 50 increase in coronavirus numbers. Right now we have more than 3. 3 million infections with more than a 135,000 deaths reported across the country the worst by the way is in florida now surpassing a new york as the nations hot spot with the most career i co coronavirus cases. Anywhere in the bay area. We have more counties going on the states watch list a
That high temperatures going to give us some record heat today. The heat advisory will be high for tuesday. It does look like the hottest day 50s and 60s for your temp. The trail hills is already 59. They have a west, northwest at 66 degrees. Theres a lot of cloud cover on it goes into friday, saturday and the weekend. Notice is this the main focus . We go up to 205 and 580 approaching that area. Breaking news, an Early Morning brushfire was near the oakland coliseum. But it is under control now. Here are live pictures. We are right with the firefighters keeping an eye and looking at the hot spots. Here is what it looks like. The fire burned three and half acres. A second alarm was issued because you know how dry it is out there. How hot it is and how fast fire and flames can spread. The closest water supply was in oak court. He did pose a bit of a challenge. The full containment just after 5 am. And no one was hurt. Is a hot day across much of bay area. Theres also danger for many peo
A lot of empty runs on the weekend after dropping off their cargo trucks came back empty that something on the public wants to avoid. Hoover congo was supposed to make 3 runs today but the 2nd was cancelled if no other solution is found the truck will go empty for 500 kilometers has. To the canada has been a truck driver for almost 40 years his work has changed a loss over that time. Thats why im on call this used to be a dream job not me more. There are too many trucks on the roads and. Traffic is heavy and there are constant traffic jams i cant just drive past it on the shoulder or say get out of my way im on a deadline that mean. The number of trucks on germanys freeways has been rising with no end in sight but 2030 its expected that freight volume will increase by 39 percent driven by the growth in online shopping. More goods going by road to bring more congestion. Both to tell our friends is a Management Consultant he never had anything to do with trucks or Freight Companies but o
Parts of southern england that are inundated. At a quarter to eight, private eyes editor ian hislop joins the bbcs media editor to look back ona the bbcs media editor to look back on a fascinating year of front covers, cartoons, and satire. Good evening. Three and a half years after the uk voted to leave the eu, mps have resoundingly voted in favour of the government cosmic brexit bill. It paves the way for borisjohnson to deliver his promise that the uk will leave the eu at the end of next month. Well, the per minister won the vote easily by 358 votes to 234. Six labour mps rebelled and voted with the government. Now, the Withdrawal Agreement, now approved in principle by mps, says that the uk will leave the eu on the 31st of january and allows a transition period until the end of 2020. During which time, we will still abide by eu rules. It also says that we will pay the eu a divorce bill of around £33 billion, and it sets out a plan for dealing with the Northern Irish border with wh