Headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, today millions of americans will celebrate our nations 243rd birthday, but for the first time a sitting u. S. President is breaking with tradition and holding a splashy event on Independence Day. Hes ordered tanks across washington. He has dubbed this years fourth of july event a salute to america, but critics are calling this event a tax for america make america great. Mark liver man has more. The president is promising the biggest fireworks ever. All the talk of pomp and circumstance is being marred by scrutiny and controversy. The u. S. Capitol is getting ready for an Independence Day celebration unlike any other. President trumps salute to america will take place this evening on the national mall. Its expected to be a show of strength with the military playing a starring role alongside mr. Trump. Warplanes will conduct a flyover of the capitol joined by aircraft from the president ial fleet. The problem i
sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday this sunday night, with me chetan pathak. coming up on the programme. hoping for no more years of hurt can england make a winning start at the euros? kick off against serbia is under 90 minutes away. is under 30 minutes away. # football s coming home! already off to a winning start netherlands come from behind to beat poland thanks to their super sub. ten years since his last major can rory mcilroy make it a night to remember at the us open? we ll have the latest on the final day in north carolina. also coming up on sportsday before 8pm. jack draper delivers his first atp tour title as the british number one wins in stuttgart. and heartbreakfor scotland as they miss out on a place in the knockout stage of the cricket world cup as england scape through, thanks to australia. welcome along, thank you forjoining us this sunday night. england s opening match at euro 2024 is approaching in germany. at the last championship they re
Johanna konta, one of the favourites for us open, is knocked out in the first round by the unseeded serb, aleksandra krunic. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. North korea has fired a missile over northern japan, in a move japans Prime Minister, shinzo abe, described as unprecedented threat to his country. The communist state has conducted a flurry of missile tests recently, but this is the first time it has fired what is thought to be a ballistic weapon overjapan the missile landed in the pacific. The Un Security Council is due to hold an emergency meeting President Trump said in the last hour all options or on the table. The Un Security Council is due to hold an emergency meeting in response. 0ur correspondent, Yogita Limaye is in the south korean capital, seoul. Thanks, over the past ten days, it seemed the rhetoric had abate the after that tense war of words we say between washington and pyongyang. What its done today in north korea shows it is clear there is no i t
The remnants of Tropical Storm nate. Melissa magee joining us with more on our wet start to the week. Melissa . A bit of a one, two punch from mother nature. Were tracking the cold front thats moving into the region that eventually as we get into the rest of tonight and into early tomorrow morning, weve got moisture from whats left over of nate. Heres Storm Tracker 6. That is triggering the on and off showers, you look off to the south and west you see the center of circulation which is now tropical depression nate as the system works its way into midatlantic. Bulk will shift to the north, more so to the north and east. The heaviest precipitation looks to be north and west of the i95 corridor. Storm tracker 6, is spotty showers there in philadelphia, light rain there, in oxford to the south of coatsville also showers and smyrna and dover at this hour. The rest of the evening, future tracker 6 showing 6 30 a couple of spotty showers overhead. But again the bulk of that energy rides to t
Rosemary, we called it first alert yesterday during the 11 00 a. M. Newscast. We can tell the system is going to start pack a punch as it tracked our direction. Now weve extended the length and locations of the first alert. New jersey and delaware. Were talking our whole viewing area for the new jersey and delaware zones, aside from northern new castle county. Were leaving out pennsylvania locations but for new jersey, sore jersey, the shore under your first alert. From now to 7 00 were tracking a system that is going to, in some spots, bring 7 inches or more. Specifically thatll be your Coastal Points. Especially for those delaware beaches. Thats where were looking at some computer mott models giving us a couple of degrees above the inch mark. Were looking at high accumulations possible by the end of it. It leads to dangerous travel. Today a first alert day and the look shows why. Look at the amount of snow sitting to the south. And the storm center is well to the south, as well. Its