we begin in sri lanka where gotabaya rajapaksa has sent a letter formally handing over power to his prime minister, but stopping short of a resignation. our correspondent is in colombo with the latest development. we just had a statement from the office of president gotabaya rajapaksa, somebody that the protesters behind me, they have spent months camping out here in the centre of colombo, desperate for president gotabaya rajapaksa to resign and they blame him for this country s economic woes but we have had a statement from his office and it doesn t look like it is very clear exactly what he is planning to do. i have got the statement here. effectively he doesn t resign in this statement and he says that he is transferring the presidency to ranil wickremesinghe who is currently the prime minister, while he is out of the country, so this is a man who promised he would resign but he hasn t done that yet, and this is now leaving even more uncertainty, we are reading to the stat
reporter: the russians kept him alive so they could exchange him for their own. translator: there were two of us bedridden so we had to be fed by nurses, so they would say because of you my son got killed. i tried to be understanding, but they were accusing us of things we never did and we had russian news read to us all the time in the morning and evening. that was a lot of pressure on the mind, a distortion of reality. on april the 27th, the exchange happened, and he was put on a plane. his pelvis crushed, his lower jaw broken, brain concussed, but he can still feel his legs. translator: and i also have problems with my eyes because of constant bright flashes and dust, so at first they were glazed. then they opened. for now i still can t see with my left, and my right only
before that they were narrowing the rules saying can you speak in the evening. then they came back and said no, you know what? you have to speak in the daytime when kids are in classes. you have to exclude you know what? we are canceling it. steve: we as on last night with tucker explaining the whole shebang. now the university has said you know what? it s not safe for you. we can t guarantee your safety. for your own safety don t show up. she has made it very clear she is going to go anyway. she was invited by two organizations. she is going to go on april the 27th. and she told tucker it s not the kids who are saying don t come. it s the faculty. i think it s the faculty and the administration. it was two student groups that invited me. one was the college republicans. one was as far as i know a nonpartisan group that just invites speakers. i think they were embarrassed about what happened with myelo and they wanted to show oh no, we can have another speaker.
power steering issue. 20 crashes have been linked to this issue. of course that continues ford s problems we ve been hearing about those a lot this year. the destruction of syria s chemical weapons arsenal will not be completed before the june 30th deadline. president bashar al assad agreed last year. the country already missed an april the 27th deadline for it to hand over its chemical weapons. that expired with damascus. that red line issue hasn t done so yet. and measles cases in the united states have hit a high. 18 states across the country infected. half the cases have been tied to trips to the philippines. the cdc says the biggest outbreak is in an amish
atlanta. so, john, what is the holdup? reporter: this is another one of those cases makes you scratch your head. bureaucracy and red tape getting in the way of public safeties. let s put up what happened last april the 27th. to remind you what is at stake here. dekalb county has been trying for two years to install six community storm shelters but confusion and red tape at the state level with bidding process avoided two attempts to sign a contract to put the shelters in. the most recent failed bid occurred last week when the attorney general ruled two state agencies had jurisdiction over installation of storm shelters and the county has to comply with two different sets of regulations to put those in. anthony clifton is the emergency management director. he says now they have to start the process all over again and probably won t get the shelters in time for this spring s storm season. the best word i can use is frustrating.