day, but it was that forjodi after her sister collapsed with a cardiac arrest. she was walking down the aisle as her maid of honour. she will be here to tell their extraordinary story. hello, welcome to the programme, we re live until 11 this morning. also later in the programme we will talk to the families of six former british servicemen who four years ago today were detained in india after the ship they were protecting from pirates drifted into indian waters and they were arrested. several years later they are still locked up in an indianjail. we will talk to the sisters and fiancee of three of the men. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use #victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. the government has set out details of its plans to cap the gas and electricity bills of 12 million households. it s published draft legislation to introduce an upper limit on on poor value standard va
the bay area. it starts now and continues until 7:00 this evening. temperatures from the 90s to 106 degrees. heat-related illnesses will be possible. keep drinking lots of water, even if you don t feel thirsty in this heat. it s now 75 degrees in san francisco. the peninsula, 83. 84 now in the south bay. as we get a close are look at the east bay, it s 90 in dublin. brentwood, 88. it s 89 in lafayette. a day when you want to try to limit your time outdoors. ozone levels are unhealth wy fo those with breathing problems. that will continue as we go through the week. gilroy 94. 96, napa. oakland, 96. for today and the next couple of days. i will let you know when the heat breaks. that s coming up. thank you. it s so hot, as we mentioned. 8,000 students are getting out of school early today and tomorrow and, in fact, the campbell union high school district is releasing them in about a half hour from now. fewer than half of the district s classrooms have air conditioning. ther
pacific. in japan, unprecedented rain broke a levee 36 miles north of tokyo. an opening 90 yards long that sent water to envelope a residential neighborhood. people are desperately waving from rooftops, hoping to be spotted by helicopters overhead. the tropical storm is ripping through the country, dropping 20 inches of rain in 72 hours. 100,000 people have been forced to evacuate. one official called this an urgent situation. and grave danger may still be approaching. meanwhile, eastern sicily is dealing with its own torrential rain, flooding turned a main street there into a fast-running river stranding people in their homes and shops. forcing people to abandon cars and seek shelter. revealed for the first time, a horrifying new look inside the apartment of a mass murderer. and it was rigged to blow. now that the trial for convicted aurora, colorado theater shooter james holmes is over, an erie view of what was inside his apartment. 16 bombs, four incendiary devices. alon
life will change during the papal visit. this morning s meeting gave them an idea of what to expect when thousands of visitors descend to the area to take septa trains and trolleys into center city. i was here when the previous pope, pope john paul ii, it was thronged, massive and everyone celebrated. reporter: people like paula are feeling more anxiety about the weekend. my dad, who s 95, lives near the radner train station and i m concerned i won t be able to get to him over the weekend. people will want to get into the city and it will be closed at 476. reporter: some business owners came to the meeting to learn if they can set up food tents or kiosks near the train station. we re not going to allow that because we ve got so many calls from outside the community who want to come in and sell all kinds of things. and right now we just can t do that. reporter: reporting from radner township, katy zachry, nbc10 news. two more meetings, one at 1:00 and this ev
announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. about evening. late today for the first time we heard from the captain of the british airways jet involved in a fiery aborted takeoff from las vegas. the london-bound 777 was the decision to evacuate before flames began eating away at the wing and fuselage that has earned high praise today for the crew whose actions may have saved lives. nbc s hallie jackson picks up the story from las vegas. mayday, mayday. seabird 2276. reporter: the mayday, using british airways call sign speed bird, came just before takeoff. we are evacuating on the runway. we have a fire. i repeat. we are evacuating. reporter: that calm voice, captain chris hanke, a pilot with 42 years of experience, talking with nbc news today. there was a loud bang and the aircraft sort of veered to the left. he actually opened the door and went down into the cabin, saw how serious it was. reporter: at