new york city what a mess. above ground and below water rushing through subway tunnels suiting down the entire system and stranding some riders undergroungd. the new york post with this cover today. the headline simply swamped. bryan llenas is live in new york city where two people sadly did lose their lives in queens. good morning, bryan. good morning. at least eight people have died in this historic and tragic flash flooding and torrential rainfall last night including a mother and her son. 22-year-old son and 43-year-old mother right here in the home behind me. their stuff is out here. i will bring you and show you the water came rushing into that basement apartment. you can see the hole on the side. father and son were able to get out. tragically the mother and son were not. it happened in just a matter of minutes. it was life and death. 10 miles away three people also died including a 2-year-old boy. here is a neighbor who actually owns this building about the scene
allowing strangers to sue anyone suspected of helping a woman get an abortion. the new york times describes the court s decision like this. quote, the majority opinion was unsigned and consisted of a single long paragraph. it said the abortion providers who had challenged the law in an emergency application to the court had not made their case in novel and procedural question. the majority stressed it was not ruling on the constitutionality of the texas law. it did not need to limit proper challenges to it. justice sonia sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent. the court s order stunning, a flagrantly unconstitutional law designed to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny? a majority of justices opted to bury their heads in the sand. sotomayor also describes the texas law like this. quote, in effect the texas legislature has deputized the state s citizens as bounty hunters. offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their ne
to harden their message to afghans seeking to flee saying that only foreigners can be evacuated. also this evening. the disappearance of the chef claudia lawrence in york in 2009 police announce a new lead. mcdonald s runs out of milkshakes and some bottled drinks at restaurants across britain. and the rolling stones drummer charlie watts has died at the age of 80. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. we ll have the latest from headingly ahead what promises to be a fiery third test bewteen england and india. good evening. with the united states today refusing to budge from its deadline of august 31st for withdrawing its troops from afghanistan, a g7 virtual summit chaired by borisjohnson appealed to the taliban to allow safe passage beyond that date for anyone who wants to leave. but in a hardening of tone, the taliban today indicated they would not allow afghans to be evacuated, and the us should stop encouraging afghans to go to the airp
area will be arriving a weak cold front, i would area will be arriving a weak cold front, iwould not area will be arriving a weak cold front, i would not call it cold because it is not especially cold air but it is certainly fresher air coming from the norwegian sea, bringing some cloud from newcastle danced towards the south east. so a bit more clearly in the east, always worsen across western areas. an steady as she goes on the weather front for the next few days. in fact as far as the eye can see, dry weather, not a raindrop to be seen, and even bank holiday monday is looking fine as well. that s all from the bbc news at six, so it s goodbye from me, and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. hello, i m olly foster, here s what s coming on sportsday. the paralympic flame is shining bright in tokyo. we ll look ahead to 12 days of competition. will dame sarah storey leave japan as the best british paralympian? from the track to the road, she s looking to
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