A foreign power is preparing to attack. It comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west African Regional bloc ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. The group now plans to hold an Emergency Summit on thursday. Meanwhile, the United States is suspending more than 100 million in aid to niger. But officials insist theres still time to solve the crisis. The window of opportunity is definitely still open. We believe that they should step aside and allow president Mohamed Bazoum to resume his duties, today, tomorrow, anytime in the nearfuture. They dont want to put a time when that window be close, would you say that using diplomacy to achieve this objective is our top priority with respect to niger. Our correspondent chris ewokor following the story from neighbouring nigeria. It is one day after the expiration of the ultimatum given to niger coup leaders by ecowas to reinstate president Mohamed Bazoum. The leaders are due to meet on thursday this week to deliberate on the pro
The vessel and the policy it is the flagship for are no longer empty. danjohnson, bbc news, portland. severe thunderstorms have impacted large parts of the us east coast. here s the weather front as it passed over the white house, government offices in the capitol also closed early. the national weather service issued a tornado watch for areas from alabama to new york, covering almost 30 million people. there s also been more extreme heat across the us, it s being felt on land, but also in the ocean. scientists are racing to save coral species from destruction. here s manuel bojorquez from our news partner cbs. scientists with the national administration took us to a spot of island morata. this is a resilient reef? it has been.
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Show Transcript We have a great announcement today, and I want to thank public s, uh, for partnering with us before I make that announcement. Uh, just one thio. Give a quick state of where we are in terms of the vaccinations Azi. Many of you know, we re the first state in the country to say when we re vaccinating the general public, we re putting seniors first, we re going to focus on 65 plus, Andi, we re gonna get through our senior citizens before we start worrying about young and healthy workers. And you have some guidelines. And experts were saying, Do a 20 year old healthy worker over a 74 year old grandma, grandmother or grandfather That s not happening in Florida. We re focusing on seniors. And so, as of right now, um, we are close to 700,000 seniors that have received a t least their first shot, and those numbers are growing rapidly. The reporting on this does lag on. I think it s also important to look back
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