On the leaderboard. Lets go live to the course and join our reporter ben croucher, and ben conditions once again not making it easy, whose fairing best out there. It is properly blowing out here now. The wind has really whipped up. We have no shelter from that breeze on the west coast of scotland. There are gusts of 20 or 30 miles for, may be stronger lowering the players down the back nine. Who is coping best? it might be no surprise to hear that a man who has conquered the open championship before, the 2019 champion from ireland, shane lowry, another under 30 round for him. Two shots clear of the rest, 7 under par. Huge roar on the 18th and hour ago we heard, that is a tell tale sign the irishman is very well. Credit to dan brown who is five under par, he plays his last couple of holes. Just dropped a couple of holes. Just dropped a couple of holes. Just dropped a couple of shots. Justin rose not a single bogey for him so far. He has played 1. 5 rounds. That is some going. Just 12 pl
Devices caused the problem. It says it s now deployed a fix. But it will be some time before businesses return to normal. And the effects have been far reaching flights have been grounded, some card payments have stopped working, and pharmacies struggled to process prescriptions. We ll be speaking to our correspondents across the uk and around the world to bring you the very latest. First, nickjohnson has this report. Transport, banks, supermarkets and doctor s surgeries. All cogs in the wheel of our daily lives, all impacted by a major global it outage. Around the world, flights have been grounded, and here in the uk, rail operator govia thameslink, which runs southern, thameslink, gatwick express and great northern, says widespread it issues have been leading to short notice cancellations. Those trying to see a doctor today have also been struggling. This gp clinic in barnsley says it has a major issue, with no access to its clinical system. This surgery in liverpool says it was only
Welcome to bbc news. It s the it failure that has ground industries, retail services and even health care to a halt. Aviation, banking and communications sectors have also been thrown into chaos. The cyber security firm crowdstrike has confirmed that an update to its software running on windows devices caused the problem. It says it s now deployed a fix. Microsoft, which operates windows, says they have now completed their mitigation actions and all their impacted apps and services have now recovered. However, the effects have already been far reaching. Flights have been grounded, some card payments have stopped working and pharmacies struggled to process prescriptions. We ll be speaking to our correspondents across the uk and around the world to bring you the very latest. First, nickjohnson has this report. Transport, banks, supermarkets and doctor s surgeries all cogs in the wheel of our daily lives, all impacted by a major global it outage. Around the world, flights have been grou
millions of american families and businesses trying to get through the pandemic are a big step closer to getting a desperately needed financial boost. the u.s. senate narrowly passed president biden s massive $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package on saturday. some of that money could start appearing in bank accounts before the end of the month. now, it includes $1,400 per person to those who qualify and unemployed americans could get a $300 increase to their jobless benefits through september 6th. this is biden s first major legislative win since his election even as senate republicans flatly rejected efforts to make it a bipartisan measure. now this bill returns to the house of representatives, which has done a great job from the beginning. we re hopeful we will find quick passage so it can be sent to my desk to be signed into law. cnn s jessica dean has more of what s included in the stimulus bill and the next steps to getting it passed in the house. reporter: the
town sweet 16 party. fox defamation trial delayed just hours before opening statements . is this a sign a settlement could be near. and spacex boss elon musk, downplaying expectations with his company about to launch the most powerful rocket ever built. good monday morning to you welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with carnage at a sweet 16 birthday party in a small southern town. four people were killed, nine injured, some critically in this rampage saturday night. indeed ville alabama so far, authorities have not released details about a suspect or a motive. but overnight we did learn the name of one of those killed kiki smith, who was a student athlete athletic manager on the high school s track team. for more on another of the victims. a star athlete, let s go to cnn s isabel rizal is indeed ville. i spoke with michael taylor, who is the assistant football coach over a day ville high school. and he says th