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are facing major delays this bank holiday to scheduled flights. it follows what s described as a technical issue with the air traffic control system. restrictions on flight numbers have had to be implemented to maintain safety, and despite the problem now being identified and remedied, delays will last well into the night. here s our transport correspondent, katy austin. one of the busiest days of the summer for flights descended one of the busiest days of the summerforflights descended into summer for flights descended into chaos summerforflights descended into chaos for thousands of passengers, many on their way back from holidays. many on their way back from holida s. , ., , ., many on their way back from holidays- many on their way back from holida s. , ., , ., , holidays. due to fly at 11am this mornin: , holidays. due to fly at 11am this morning. it s holidays. due to fly at 11am this morning, it s now holidays. due to fly at 11am this morning, it s now for ....
good morning. we got another day of sunshine and showers today. the showers will be heaviest and most frequent in the east. the could be some sunshine around as well. some drier interludes as well, but i will have more details coming up shortly. it s sunday 27 august. our main story: the prime minister faces another difficult by election after the conservative mp nadine dorries finally handed in her resignation. the former culture secretary said she was stepping down with immediate effect 11 weeks ago but stayed on to make inquiries about why she had been denied a peerage. she has accused rishi sunak of whipping up a public frenzy against her. our political correspondent iain watson reports. last year she was a cabinet minister, but now nadine dorries has said she will be leaving parliament for good. if you think you ve heard that before, well, she initially announced she d go back injune, but then decided to stay on to try to find out why she had been apparently blocke ....
that there are no members of the australian defence force involved in this incident. our focus as a government and as a department of defence is very much on incident response and on making sure that every support and assistance is given at this difficult time. our reporter in sydney, phil mercer, has the latest. officials have confirmed that three us marines have died in this aircraft crash. this took place on the tiwi islands, about 60 kilometres to the north of darwin, the capital city of australia s northern territory. so right at the north in the middle of australia, on melville island, one of the tiwi islands, this vertical take off aircraft has crashed. this is an osprey, one of two us vertical take off aircraft that have been involved in military drills between australian forces and us military forces in the northern territory. we understand that 23 people were on board. three us marines have been confirmed to have been killed. at least five others have been flo ....
where the francis scott key bridge sits this morning. six people presumed dead and they are shifting to recovery effort this morning. you are watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. we are piecing together what happened yesterday when a cargo ship struck the pillar of the bridge sending the whole thing crashing into the water and panic erupted. the whole bridge just collapsed. the traffic i can t get to the other side, sir, the bridge is down. todd: live on the scene, connor, what is the latest? that search and rescue effort sadly turned into a recovery effort, coast guard suspending search due to dangerous conditions. they will be back out this morning. we ve seen this video yesterday and last night and officials believe the ship lost propulsion before it slammed into the francis scott key bridge, one of the main supports. the ship were able to six are missing and two were rescued. we re hearing from mexico s consul ge ....
minutes later, rescue crews pulled victims from the partially submerged buckled train cars. we are so bad at learning from our mistakes and preparing for future instances. we need to assess our infrastructure collisions, not the only cause of tragic bridge collapses. take what happened at the fbi, you footbridge, miami, florida march 20, 186 people were killed after a pedestrian bridge near the campus of florida international university suddenly collapsed. the 170 foot long newly installed bridge had been under construction, i35 w bridge, minneapolis, minnesota, august 2007 13 killed 145 injured. a major interstate at a standstill after the 35 west bridge collapse during rush hour federal regulators blame the accident partly on support plates, which they said were half as thick as they should have been hyatt regency sky walks, kansas city missouri, july 1980, 114 were killed when the walkways on the second and fourth floor of the hyatt regency hotel collapse due to a ....