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welcome to bbc news. british diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from the sudanese capital, khartoum, as fighting between rival factions of the army enters a second week. the ministry of defence has confirmed embassy staff were removed under the cover of darkness. the united states has carried out a similar operation. there s no word yet on how other british nationals are supposed to leave. with the latest, here s our africa correspondent andrew harding. in war torn khartoum this morning, dramatic moves to rescue at least some trapped foreigners. overnight, american military helicopters flew into sudan, heading for the capital in the centre of the country. in a short but successful operation, nearly 100 us embassy staff and their families were airlifted to safety. there are reports of a convoy also leaving by road from the french embassy, and within the last hour, confirmation that british embassy staff have been extracted from the city. the prime ....
in the light of her faith, in his first christmas message. it is in the life giving light and with the true humility that lies in our service to others, but i believe we can find hope for the future. millions of people in the us and canada are spending christmas in the grip of a severe winter storm. it s brought extreme frost, heavy snow and strong winds. at least 35 people have died in weather related incidents, and around 175,000 homes are without power. 0ur north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, reports. a very white christmas has turned more into a deep freeze. the city of buffalo in new york state is used to tough weather conditions, but this storm has left it paralysed. many don t even have any power to cook their christmas lunch. i m really glad that i have a fireplace because otherwise i d be freezing right now. 43 inches of snow fell here as of christmas morning. driving is banned as the blizzard conditions leave roads impassable, power substations frozen an ....
the pink is the area of concern. this is where you can see on radar the reflection of freezing rain potential. what is that? it is very, very cold rain. it is rain that begins falling at snow, melts due to a warm air layer like the warm front we have been dealing with and hits and freezes upon impact. the northern most edge. the pink is showing off where we are still seeing some icier conditions and that potential right through north hampton county as well. the deeper green, the more moderate to steady rain that is falling now in philadelphia. the yellow orange is to our west. it will be heading our way. pockets of heavier rain and more scattered showers through delaware as well as new jersey. that s not going to be the case the whole morning. p at periods, i expect it will be more steady to heavy rain there. we ll track those conditions throughout the rest of your morning. now, let s talk traffic with jessica. thanks, krystal. we are starting over on the admiral wils ....
wants to appeal his sentence. but at this point we don t know when that appeal will come. so once it s filed, that s when we ll know more about those details. all right, mitch blacher. and our coverage of today s sentencing continues at 4:30. coming up in 30 minutes, we ll speak to a legal expert about the sentencing and any possible grounds for appeal. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with federal marshals shooting and killing a suspect while serving a warrant. authority say the suspect grew his weapon first. this all unfolded shortly after 10:00 a.m. behind a home on hellerman street near frontenac in the city s oxford circle neighborhood. we have more on what the agents were doing there, from nbc 10 s tim furlong. tim? reporter: agents were looking for this guy to came out of the house. they say they tried to bring him in calmly and peacefully. they took him across the street. he started running this way, that s when they say he turned around and pulled a g ....
that see only the negative and there s a lot of positives going on here and i hope, i hope that that is seen and thought about. he still has work left undone so we need him to be table reply enter society as soon as possible so he can continue to pay it forward relative to the lives he has wrote touch. reporter: fat is a at a s wife left court without comment. federal prosecutors that had called for 17 to more than 20 s years in prison for fattah. but the judge obviously chose to impose far less than that. today chaka fattah was sentenced to 10 years in prison and that s a significant sentence. reporter: sharrie, in addition to 10 years behind bars, mr. fattah will have to pay over $600,000 in restitution to the agencies he ripped off. he remains free on bail until january 26th. then he must surrender to federal authorities t live at the federal courthouse in center city, i m vernon odom channel6 action news. all right, the sentencing making national headlin ....