Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan hello and thanks for joining us. This memorial day holiday weekend, about 40million americans are traveling at least 50 miles or more, according to the aaa. Most by car, and threemillion by plane. Now, new restrictions on plane travel are in the works. Homeland security secretary john kelly said today the Trump Administration is considering a ban on large electronic devices, including tablets and laptops, on all International Flights to and from the u. S. A partial ban now affects 50 flights a day from ten cities. Mostly in the middle east. Kelly also said hes likely to order greater screening of carryon bags, often overstuffed by travel
Day event, when this highflier hits a power line. What went wrong. And wild ride. The competition heating up for the scariest roller coaster on earth. Why this new one is unlike any you have seen. Wish me luck. Our reporter faces her fear to find the best ride of the summer. Hey, good morning. Lets get straight to our top story, that historic washout in the South Central u. S. And this is an unprecedented, fluid and extremely dangerous situation throughout the region. Were seeing hundreds of homes under water and flash flood warnings in effect. Were also seeing evacuations and water rescues. In fact, one firefighter in oklahoma was swept away and died while attempting a rescue on the front lines. Incredibly sad. Heres whats causing this right now, a line of strong, slowmoving storms dumping massive amount of rain. These storms are on the move right now. We will get the forecast from rob in just a minute. But we want to kick off our coverage right now with abcs phillip mena whos in wich
We ask what the chances are of bringing all sides to the table at the geneva ii. Dozens of students arrested in egypt after confronting security forces. Im in london with the latest from europe including the widow of the former yugoslav communist leader has died. And violence breaks out at monta neeing roes first ever gay pride parade montenegros first ever gay pride parade. First an explosion in iraq happening within the past hour. 35 people have been killed in the capital baghdad. A Suicide Attack happened outside a cafe in a neighbourhood, following two explosions on sunday. A dozen people were killed in attacks near tich reet and near the town of roha. We are joined live on phone from baghdad. Bring us up to date with what you know about the latest explosion. Actual, its before about an hour. A suicide bomber entered a cafe in the western part of baghdad and an explosion happened, killing about 35 people, injuring about 48. After the suicide bomber, another attack happened, another
Away, with some of us as early as this evening and overnight. Elsewhere, apart from the southampton area, more showers this afternoon, as if that were needed. Storm francis. Temperature is a little bit back and where we were at the weekend, so 21 as a high this afternoon, maybe 22 in the heart of london. Back to francis. We keep dropping the isobars in the middle of this deepening storm, putting a bigger squeeze on the isobars, which is why the met office have issued the warnings they have, because they are concerned about the intensity of the rain and also the strength of the rain and also the strength of the wind. The yellows and greens indicate where we expect the heaviest rain, gradually easing off, though scotland is again in for a chilly night ahead of the wind and rain associated with francis. The rain associated with francis. The rain sticks right across scotland then northern ireland, and returns back to the north west of england later in the rain. Here are the gusts of wind.
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