Youre watching bbc news. Im simon mccoy. As the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus rises to nearly 2000, the nhs in england is to cancel all routine surgery and sent home as many patients as possible in order to free up beds. The governments chief scientific adviser said it was reasonable to estimate that 20,000 people could die from catching coronavirus in the uk. If we can get this down to numbers 20000 and below, thats a good outcome in terms of where we would hope to get to with this outbreak. But its still horrible. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, advises uk citizens against all nonessential Global Travel for an initial period of 30 days. The government is set to announce emergency measures to support the economy after warnings that the latest restrictions could put firms out of business. The archbishop of canterbury calls for church of england churches to put public worship on hold and become a different sort of church in the coming months. And uefa confirm that euro 2
It clear that hillary is running for president. We have been waiting for this very special rollout, this video, when will people see that . We are told this video is going to be released any moment now and it is going to be an outline of why she is running for president. This is not going to be a reprise of her video from 2008 where she says im in to win, this is going to say why she is nighting for voters and shes out there hearing the concerns of voters she will be traveling to iowa on tuesday and then on to New Hampshire later in the week. Shes going to try and kwings democrats that she is the person to lead the party forward. A lot of people challenging her way on this. First and foremost is succeeding president obama. No once in recent memory has a candidate of the same party succeeded a two term president. But she is going to announce this in a video. She is going to say why she is fighting why she is winning. This john pedesta going around telling people to look at their email.
Continue. The army is involved because theres so many people still under the wreck ageage. The explosion began at 7 05 when a tank the hospital with gas. Theres no information about the cause of the accident but it may be we need to confirm this but maybe was something flowing out the tanker some gas that made the explosion to the hospital. So for now, theres 71 people taken out from the hospital. We have 25 at least injured in several hospitals around the area. And we have about seven people dead. Four babies and two adults. Three adults. As far as the children from the hospital they are being moved elsewhere . Excuse me. The children who were patients in the hospital, those surviving, are they being moved elsewhere safely . Yes, this hospital have a lot of people inside. Some people were taken out and just four minors are dead and three adults. The injured people were taken to other hospitals in the area. Thank you, so much our good wishes to you on this rescue effort. Rescue and rec
Hi, everyone. Im poppy harlow joining you from atlanta. 4 00 eastern. We begin where all the political attention is today, the hawkeye state, iowa. The political stampede is going on at the world renowned state fair in des moines. Two a listers, Hillary Clinton, donald trump making the most waves there today, for sure. Heres trump speaking just moments after arriving. Jeb bush is a puppet to his donors. Hes got lobbyists. I know them. Hes got lobbyists. And he made statements over the last couple of days that are incredible, trying to justify the war in iraq, it cant be justified. Then he said skin in the game. I dont know if you saw his recent statement. He says the United States has to prove to iraq that we have skin in the game. Weve spent 2 trillion, thousands of lives lost, Wounded Warriors who i love all over the place and he said we have to prove that we have skin in the game. I think it may be one of the dumbest statements ive ever heard. Skin in the game, we dont have to prove
Becoming the republican president ial nominee. Give the devil his due it was a crushing victory by donald trump Bernie Sanders dismissed as a fringe candidate shellacked Hillary Clinton when the pundits insisted it was unnestable. I am blown away by the Bernie Sanders win. This is not a good morning for Hillary Clinton. Period. She got kremlined. Hillary clinton in longer has the unbeatable campaign. So company subplots where do the trump haters double down . Does they unfairly sabotage marco rubio over a debate . And Mary Katharine ham on what she brought to abcs Republican Debate as an unabashed conservative. Camera came on and i thought, is extremely nervous for me is i will look so relaxed they will stop being nervous. So relaxed, this is media buzz and i am howard kurtz. With donald trump now the clear g. O. P. Frontrunner it is worth recalling how many dismissed his chances eight months ago. This is Donald Trumps biggest day and he will be ignored from here on. He trounced the ot