Good morning. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im jonathan martin. Greece is asking for urgent Financial Relief after agreeing to harsh spending cuts to pave the way for a new bailout. U. S. Treasury secretary arrived in germany to scurs the on going crise. European leaders are considering a request for emergency cash. Germanys finance minister said an outright debt cut for greece is out of the question. The reforms are wildly unpopular among many greeks. In athens, demonstrations turned violent outside parliament. Cars and trucks were torched banks and a. T. M. s were vandalized as lawmakers voted to approve the plan. We are live in athens. Parliament passed the measure but seems no one is really happy about it. It was a landslide vote, but nobody is happy. Lawmakers here faced a stark choice, either adopt reform measures, more punishing austerity measures, heap more pain on a population thats all right pushed to the financial edge, or risk the total collapse of the
News, president elect donald trump is planning to ask congress to front the money for a border wall between the u. S. And mexico. And the search is on for a pickpocket that stole from eldery customers on the main line. And the big story is a normal possible snow storm this weekend. It wasnt much but enough snow fell overnight to make us break out the shovels and scrapers. This is Chester County, where people were cleaning off they are cars and clearing the sidewalks. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee, is tracking the snowfall totals and details on the next one. Reporter it was a nice welcome to 2017 with the snowfall across the delaware and lehigh valleys. And 3. 2 inches in chester, burlington 2. 4 and 1. 8 inches in huff church. And Philadelphia International airport we picked up 1. 9 inches of snow and it has moved out and temperatures are cold in the wake and in at the freezing mark in philadelphia. And 28 in reading and feels like the teens north and west when you factor in the windchi
Pregnant women who have contracted this appear to have a higher chance of having a baby with a malformation being born with a very, very small. We dont expect a major outbreak in the United States despite the fact that theres considerable problems. Reporter that includes nearly 4,000 cases of zika linked and the rest of the country. If youre not pregnant and you do contract the zika virus. The worst you experience are flulike symptoms and that is unlikely since the type of virus is not common in boston. Im john monahan, fox 25 news. John, thanks. And as we mentioned, the zika virus is the number one story on myfoxboston. Com. You can log on right now to learn more about the virus, read the complete cdc warning for pregnant women looking to travel and a first facts sheet issued by the Massachusetts Department of health. Again, thats on myfoxboston. Com. Stay with fox 25 on air for any new developments on the zika outbreak. Some snow and rainshowers work their way up towards us right now
In boston, this is wbz this morning. Good morning to you its 5 01 on your thursday morning i am chris mckinnon. I am kathryn hauser. Its thursday the january 28th and we checkeded forecast and it feels chillier than yesterday. 15 to 25 degrees colder. You can feel it absolutely you guys. As you step outside this morning its killie start. Temperatures running in the 20s in boston. 27 degrees at logan and dew points in the teens and air is dry and wind pretty light from the southwest right now creating a real feel around 20 degrees. We have got teens in terms of temperatures too. 17 in taunton. 19 falmouth and mid20s in chatham and colder readings from keene up into vermont. Satellite and radar is is clear skies consider is showing clear skies. Bright and chilly start sunrise at 7 02. Up around 40 by lunchtime. A few clouds mix in at times mid30s with the clouds on the increase as we head into the ride home. Sunset at 4 52. Speaking of ride lets get you on the road with traffic and weath
Burning house and carried the woman to safety. News4s Mark Seagraves spoke to the hero and the family impacted business his lifesaving effort. Millie jones lived in the house for more than 38 years. She has helped raise three generations of children here. It was her 8yearold great grandson who ran through the house the morning of the blaze, trying to warn people to get out. He is the one that told firefighters where to find his great grandmother. It was the grandson standing with the door open. My grandmom, go get her. Amir johnson is 19 years old. He just graduated from the fire academy in december and hes only been on the streets a few months. Probably my second big fire. I never had to drag someone out of a fire. I was kind of out. He says when he got inside the fire, it was so hot and the smoke so thick that he could hardly see. Searched the first bedroom. Came out of the bedroom. Searched the next bedroom. Came out of that bedroom. I found the grandmother in the last bedroom on th