We start with the situation in gaza. A ship carrying humanitarian aid is expected to set sail to the territory from cyprus this weekend as part of a planned maritime aid corridor. Its a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and United Arab Emirates aiming to bring supplies from cyprus to the coast of gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children there are starving to death. Organisers hope the plan could allow large amounts of extra aid, but say it will be complex and continue to press israel to allow more deliveries by road. These are the latest pictures from larnaca, in cyprus, where, as you can see, aid is being loaded onto a ship, which is due to depart in a couple of hours. Earlier i spoke to hiba tibi shes the Country Director of Care International palestine and she explained the challenges of getting aid into gaza. Any plan that is being taken currently to increase aid in gaza is welcome. These are, unfortunately, aiming to save as many
Year s eve. plenty of travel for that. right. a little time. thanks, chad meyerss. well, philadelphia avoided a big mess on the roads by postponing last knit s nfl game between the eagles and the minnesota vikings. it will be played on tuesday, but it turns out putting off a nationally televised football game, even for a blizzard is, yes, of course, a big controversial deal. mayor michael nutter has been taking enough heat to melt all that snow in philly. he joins us now by the phone. mayor, first, on a serious note, how is your city looking after this storm? philly is in great shape right now. our crews have been dealing with this storm and basically, we won. the city s been up and running all day. government was opened. court s opened. everything functioning well, except our mass transit system functioning and also making sure that our dialysis patients were able to get service today. so they were out. public employees out overnight. citizens doing their thing today, shovelin