More countries are demanding answers. On the possible role of wuhan Lab Leak in the pandemic. Im Sandra Smith in New York, and this is America Reports. Happy friday, john. That word friday sounds so good. Im John Roberts in washington. The start of the G7 Summit comes one day after Eu Leaders called for a new investigation into the covid origins, they say the initial probe by the World Health Organization was quote insufficient and inconclusive. Can get this as a leaked document suggests that G7 Leaders will also press for eight new probe while calling on china to cooperate. Kicking it off is eat our. Hi, peter. Good afternoon. The whole overarching goal of the summit is figuring out how to help the world collectively recover from the covid 19 pandemic and the economic fallout that follows. Theres also no interest in how covid started and we are hearing that European Partners are not satisfied with the Information Theyve gotten from the chinese so far. There is a wide scope of differen
From mass graves searching for clues. We hear from a mother whose son never came home. Ah. Hello everyone, im layla rock. Thank you very much for joining us. Russian president Vladimir Putin has tried to claim victory in muddy ball saying his forces have successfully liberated the port city in south eastern ukraine. The as of style a steel plant is the last place in my new ball still in ukrainian hands. Its believed some 2000 soldiers and around a 1000 civilians are sheltering. Their cave is demanding. Moscow opened a humanitarian corridor to let them sleep. In a televised meeting, president potent told his defense minister say gate shall go to blockade the as of south steel plants, and im told that President Biden is speaking right now. Lets go to washington and listening to what he has to say. We had a good discussion, im talking about what im about to tell you about today as well as he was thanking American People for their support, understands and significance about keeping everyon
To a category 4 storm before it makes landfall in just hours on floridas big bend. You are looking at live pictures from cedar key where the rain is whipping sideways and whipping hard. Idalia is less than a 100 miles away from the Chore Churning with 120mileperhour winds. Forecasters are not mincing words. They describe it as dangerous, Life Threatening Oig and a Once In A Lifetime storm that could bring catastrophic storm surge of up to 16 feet in some places. We got new forecasts from the National Hurricane center and we have Team Coverage from the florida gulf coast. Sara sidner is down by the water in Crystal River. And it is a very different pibt from what we saw yesterday. What are you seeing on the the ground right now . Reporter we are starting to feel some of those bands. We are getting the wind now. We have also seen the rain as well. And of course the water extremely choppy and rising. Now, i want to get straight over to Derek Van Dam. He is joining us from tampa. Every hou
Expecting water to come in, but if you notice where the water is right now, its over that small embankment there, thats going to be a business at some point, they are planning to put a business in there, but let me give you a look at how choppy things are here, and how high the water has gotten. This was well below this area here, well below, you had to really lean down to get close to the water. Now its coming up and its almost completely onto that. This is nothing compared to what is being expected here. The highest the water has ever gotten here in Crystal River is about four feet above the flood zone. The entire community is a flood zone. Its in a flood zone, why they have told people to evacuate. At this point in time this is a wind event right now. It has been raining as well as the bands come in, but the real fear is the water, and what do officials always say . You run from the water, you hide from the wind. Hopefully people have heeded the warnings, as this storm gets closer,
Good wednesday morning and the Breaking News we are following this morning, a significant storm, now a category 4 storm, Hurricane Idalia now in the extremely dangerous category, that category 4 Storm Designation is intensified over the hours from a category 3 now to a category 4, it is expected to make landfall onto floridas gulf coast in just hours. Forecasters are calling the storm dangerous, life threatening, a Once In A Lifetime storm that could bring catastrophic storm surge of up to 16 feet in floridas Big Bend Region. At 6 30, just about a half hour from now, Florida Governor ron desantis will be giving an update from tallahassee. We will bring you that live. Desantis says if you wanted to see a press can he not. Analog for a storm hitting this place at this scale, go back more than a century. Sarah sanders has been there live, part of team coverage, bill weir, in florida, Derek Van Dam in tampa. And brian todd. And well be speaking with local officials and the director of the