A difficult day for the organisers of the Paris Olympics and, indeed, the ceremony. The day started with those train delays, with those attacks on various Train Lines around france, but it ended with a real bang. The Opening Ceremony that was promised to be a joyful event, an event that would be beautiful theatre in the heart of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it really did deliver. We had the french celebrating their culture, their art, theirfashion, their music, but also celebrating a global sense of unity, a global sense of belonging together, and that really is what the olympics are about. The flame, that was also an amazing addition to the ceremony. It was lit on a hot Air Balloon then and flew up into the sky and is now hovering over the paris skyline. You can still see the Eiffel Tower is beautifully sparkling behind me. The ceremony has been something to behold and it ended with an icon on an Icon Celine Dion singing the most beautiful song on the first floor
Disrupted the journey to the ceremony for many travellers. More on that in a moment, but first, Maryam Moshiri has more on the spectacle on the seine. What a culmination, what an end to what has been at times a difficult day for the organisers of the Paris Olympics and, indeed, the ceremony. The day started with those train delays, with those attacks on various Train Lines around france, but it ended with a real bang. The Opening Ceremony was promised to be a joyful event, an event that would be beautiful theatre in the heart of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it really did deliver. We had the french celebrating their culture, their art, theirfashion, their music, but also celebrating a global sense of unity, a global sense of belonging together, and that really is what the olympics are about. The flame, well, that was also an amazing addition to the ceremony. It was lit on a hot air balloon, which then and flew up into the sky, and is now hovering over the paris sky
Organisers of the Paris Olympics and, indeed, the ceremony. The day started with those Train Delays with those attacks on various Train Lines around france, but it ended with a real bang. The Opening Ceremony that was promised to be a joyful event, an event that would be beautiful theatre in the heart of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it really did deliver. We had the french celebrating their culture, their art, their fashion, their music, but also celebrating a global sense of unity, a global sense of belonging together, and that really is what the olympics are about. The flame, that was also an amazing addition to the ceremony. It was lit on a hot Air Balloon then and flew up into the sky and is now hovering over the paris skyline. You can still see the Eiffel Tower is beautifully sparkling and look behind me. The ceremony has been something to behold and it ended within icon on an icon, Celine Dion singing the most beautiful song on the first floor of the Eiffel
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what more do we know about his condition? reporter: well, at this point, jose, it appears the senate minority leader is still in the hospital, recovering from this fall. his office has not given us an update outside of what they told us shortly after the news broke of this situation that he was dealing with last night. of course, mcconnell is 81 years old, he had health scares in the past, heart surgery, he fell in 2019 and broke his shoulder. so he has dealt with health issues and gotten past them before. but in this situation, it is a new issue that has cropped up and we re still waiting to get a status check as to how long he could possibly be out, what caused him to fall during this dinner last night here in washington. and how long this could potentially impact him being away from the united states senate. all of that are the questions we re still contining to ask, jose. in other news from capitol hill, a top health official said a significant data breach exposed per