For theresa mays Minority Government, mps will vote on the queens speech later. In half an hours time the culture and Media Secretary will announce whether 21st Century Fox will be allowed to takeover sky. The deal would give Rupert Murdoch total control of the broadcaster. And Dame Katherine grainger, the incoming chair of uk sport, says she has huge concerns about Athlete Welfare. I think there is huge concerns, without a doubt, no one is pretending there isnt. Good morning. Its thursday 29th july. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A retired Court Of Appealjudge, sir Martin Moore Bick, will be appointed to lead the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster. The news comes as police say at least 80 people are believed to have died in the fire, but they dont expect to be able to confirm the final number for at least another six months. This morning the Prime Minister theresa may released a statement on the appointment of sir Martin Moore Bick to lead the inquiry. T
police telling fox news the accident discharge may have been near the main security checkpoint at the airport. video as you can see posted on social media shows people running for safety they abandon bags all over the passenger areas. airport official use have given the all clear in the investigation is underway. here are the breaking developments. reporter: which repeat there was no loss of life, no real threat but the panic with the possibility became a real potential danger. cell phone video shows panic passengers and asians running away from the terminal during what was thought to be an active shooter situation and chaos afterwards. it turned out to be accidental discharge of a weapon. flights were briefly halted happened neared the main
there are five different stories in here, some for cargo, some for people. it was retrofitted a little more than a year ago. changes were made to passenger areas which seemed to have added weight to the ship. we don t know if that played a role but it s something they ll look at. over a fairly extended period of time, whether it hit something or had another problem, it began tipping like this and then rolled completely under water. and apparently, because people were being told to stay in place or couldn t get out, a lot of people appear to have been trapped inside. this is a huge challenge obviously because there can also be air trapped in there. they ve been trying this idea of pumping air into these folks to see if they can somehow keep them supplied with oxygen and battle against the water in here. there are many challenges. first of all, can you get enough air in? so far they ve had very little luck with that. secondly, the temperature of the water out here, this is around
it s about 900 feet or 700 feet from one end to the other. it weighs about 7,000 tons. let me show you the decks on this ship because there s five different decks ladened with different types of cargo and some of them passenger areas. we also know that a little more than a year ago, part of it was retrofitted and there s some question as to whether or not that changed the balance of the ship. let s talk about that a little bit because this may be a critical thing to consider whether or not it hit anything that made it start leaning. when you talk about a ship, you ve got to talk about the center of buoyancy, the part that keeps it up and then the center weight of the ship. you want to keep those basically balanced and one of the ways that you do that is by making sure that there is enough cargo positioned properly in the ship and that anything on board the ship is balanced in the proper way. if this becomes unbalanced and the cargo is suddenly way over to one side like this or you