taiwan s deadliest blaze in decades. questions about poor safety standards after 46 people are killed in a high rise apartment block fire. we visit south sudan, where like many african countries very few people have been vaccinated and the covid virus is spreading. and coldplay s environmentally friendly world tour a tree planted for every ticket sold but they re keeping their private jet. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in the morning in singapore and 1am in lebanon, where a national day of mourning has just begun for six people shot dead in violent clashes in the center of the capital beirut. there have been international calls for calm, with the united nations, the us and france all urging a de escalation of the tensions. gunfire erupted during a demonstration by shia muslim groups against the judge investigating last year s devastating port blast. from beirut, anna foster has the latest. it started as a protest. but the
we report from south sudan. covax was meant to make sure that low income countries like south sudan would not be left behind. by now, it was hoped that one in every ten people would have been vaccinated, but the reality on the ground is that only one in every 500 south sudanese have been fully vaccinated. and coldplay s environmentally friendly world tour a tree planted for every ticket sold but they re keeping their private jet. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and 2am in lebanon, where a national day of mourning has begun for six people shot dead in violent clashes in the centre of the capital beirut. there have been international calls for calm, with the united nations, the us and france all urging a de escalation of the tensions. gunfire erupted during a demonstration by shia muslim groups against the judge investigating last year s devastating port blast. from beirut, anna foster has the latest. i
covered by more than two and a half feet! this practice facility for the washington redskins football team - no match for the blizzard - the dome crushed by the weight of all that snow. a similar story outside philadelphia - this church roof buckling - and crashing into the chapel below. sot - lee wiggins / calvary fellowship church opened the door to the auditorium, looked up - and just a gaping hole in the roof. and in new jersey - coastal communities dealing with a one-two punch of snow and icy floodwaters. sot - this usually happens in the summer. never seen it happen like this in the winter. but so far - no major damage. sot - gov. chris christie / new jersey please be careful. but you re free to go out and do what you want to do. ray raimundi oncam close: here in new york the streets and subways are back open - but airports across the region don t expect to be fully operational until tomorrow at the earliest. in new york, ray raimundi, abc news. after a couple of
now. mount rose season pass holders got an email yesterday explaining that owners are looking to sell the resort. the statement explains that at 95-years-young, owner fritz buser is ready to hang up his skis and retire. they say recent weather has made this the right time to sell. buser has owned the resort since 1971. it is a mix of private property and land leased from the u.s. forest service for a total of 12-hundred skiable acres. the process of looking for a buyer for mount rose is expected to take some time. in the mean time, they say, it s business as usual. one woman accused of stabbing another at the star of reno motel this afternoon. police were called to the star of reno motel at fourth and arlington around two this afternoon. officers arrived, to find a woman with stab wounds to her back and stomach. she was taken to renown for treatment of those injuries. received, information was given to other officers, they were able to locate the suspect a couple of blocks
ghost-town at one of the city s busiest transportation hubs. penn station.almost empty. cancellations.seen all over the boards. sot - jeff bienenfeld, traveler i do not remember it ever looking this empty. in fact i just took a picture of it myself because i want to remember how empty it is. ray raimundi tag more than 14-thousand flights were cancelled as a result of the blizzard. on monday schools will be open here new york city but many schools are closed across the northeast. ray raimundi, abc news, new york. in washington d-c. the house is postponing votes this week because of the snow. that includes a proposal to override president barack obama s health care veto. senators plan to begin work wednesday night, extending a delay imposed even before the storm hit. here in our area. it looks like we re getting a little break from the snow. dick stoddard has your weather now forecast. models continue to be fairly consistent in the presentation of the next system to impact the