this is the planning effect. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. the nation pauses today to remember the life and legacy of civil rights leader dr. martin luther king jr. members of his family are in the nation s capitol to make another push for voting rights legislation. as the senate is set to make what may be a futile effort to push those bills through. we ll talk with democratic texas congresswoman, shelia jackson lee about what comes next. meantime, we re learning more about the gunman who held several people hostage in a texas synagogue for nearly 12 hours. on the eastern seaboard, an messy start to the week for tens of millions of people as a winter storm brings heavy snow, ice, rain, and wind to the region. and a former haitian senator is arrested in connection with last year s assassination of the country s former president. we ll take a closer look at the deteriorating situation on the ground in haiti. and we begin with
tragedy. we have to first and foremost pray for all of those who are impacted, those families, pray for our first responders and thank them, all of them working together. i think that folks are stunned. i think folks are reeling. i think that s particularly true for people worried about their loved ones right now. bill: we have a lot to deal with at this hour at 9:00 in new york city, 9:00 in baltimore. watching this catastrophic situation there. container ship crashing into the francis scott key. it collapsed in moments, as you see, middle of the night. crews are scouring the waters for the possibility of survivors. the water is very cold. we ve got a news conference coming up in 30 minutes. we ll follow every twist and turn on this story today. good morning, everybody. tuesday morning in new york. bill hemmer and welcome. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. here is what we know. the collision happened at 1:40 in the morning. the response is an acti
now on bbc news, it s time to click. this week, we are guarding against danger and disaster. shona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. 0k! i m ready to be rescued right now! that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alert s come through. i didn t even notice that, but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form.
millions of brazilians before sunday s run off vote. now on bbc news, click. this week we are guarding against danger and disaster. shona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. 0k. dummies through their paces. ok. i am dummies through their paces. 0k. iam ready dummies through their paces. ok. i am ready to be rescued right ok. i am ready to be rescued right now ok. i am ready to be rescued right nova right now. that looks cold. certainly- right now. that looks cold. certainly. but right now. that looks cold. certainly. but how - right now. that looks cold. certainly. but how could i right now. that looks cold. - certainly. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? help rescue swimmers in distress? ., distress? and then from cold and wet to distress? and then from cold and wet to hot distress? and then from cold and wet to hot and distress? and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. - distress? and th
that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alert s come through. i didn t even notice that, but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form. but now a team of engineers in sweden are in the final stages of developing the first average female crash test dummy. so, what happens to a woman s body during a crash? shona mccallum has been to linkoping in sweden to fi