Cities and how the shortage of police officers is only making it worse. A gut wrenching 911 call made by a man who just discovered his wife and son shot dead has just been released for the mystery behind the double homicide in a prominent south carolina family. And one of the most divisive issues in that country, abortion. The height commitment has blocked federal dollars per plane for abortion coverage for decades. Now prochoice democrats want to make that rule i think of the past. We begin tonight with the latest graphic illustration of the serious danger posed by america s growing crime crisis. White house correspondent kevin corke is staying on top of the story tonight. Good evening, kevin. As you know there s an old adage. Talk is cheap you re no matter how much policymakers talk about their socalled solutions to violence in american cities, one thing is it is capable. The crime numbers are not going down, you are not solving the problem. Which is why with violence surging across
Of office, in america, that can really do amazing things. Like go to space, you saw that today, like create miracle vaccines, we ve witnessed that. But we cannot bridge the political divide that s tearing us apart. Billionaires taking their own rockets way up into space. Amazon s jeff bezos built a company and built his own rocket ship and took off for space. He did that today. Bezos telling our very own anderson cooper that he is looking to the future. We have lots of problems on earth and we have poverty, we have hunger, we have all kinds of problems. We have climate disasters, we have pollution. We have to work on the here and now. And we have to look to the future. We as a society, as a civilization, as humanity, we ve always done that. We can go to space. We can create amazing vaccines, safe, effective and ahead even the most ambitious schedules. Vaccines that save lives that even if it is life or death, we can decrease the political divide and convince people to get vaccinated. A
the government has apologised to the victims of the grenfell tower fire at the public inquiry. the apology came as it admitted a series of failings in overseeing building safety in the years leading up to the disaster that claimed 72 lives. our correspondent tom symonds reports. the aftermath of worst fire in british history. within a day the government announced a public inquiry into this disaster. now, nearly four and a half years later, there is an apology. the department is deeply sorry for its past failures in relation to the oversight of the system that regulated safety in the construction and refurbishment of high rise buildings. it apologises to the bereaved residents and survivors of the fire for such failures. but those who escaped the fire described this statement as deeply offensive. i believe there were a series of 999 calls, effectively, to the government, that they chose not to act on. there were repeated fires. you know, knowsley heights, garnock court and, in
a british teenager who was attacked by a crocodile while on holiday in zambia is recovering in hospital in london. the 18 year old said she was very, very lucky to be alive. she was white water rafting with friends on the zambezi river near the victoria falls when the crocodile bit her leg and tried to drag under the water. our correspondent has the details. it s not many people who can say they ve escaped from a crocodile attack. but amelie osborn smith has done that on a trip to zambia. she says her foot was in the croc s mouth. when the accident happened, i fully accepted the fact that i was going to lose my foot. 0k. i accepted that and i said to my friends, it s fine, i ve lost my foot. i m still alive. crocodiles on the zambezi can grow to 18 feet long. amelie had been rafting with friends when she somehow ended up in the water. a number of people jumped in to save her. people say that you see, like, your life flash before your eyes, but you don t. you just think, h
are facing a second weekend without power in parts of scotland and northern england, following storm arwen. those affected are now bracing themselves for almost freezing temperatures forecast in some areas over the next 2a hours. meanwhile the energy regulator, 0fgem, says the cap on the maximum amount of compensation customers can claim from suppliers has been lifted. 0ur correspondent peter harris sent this report from rothbury in northumberland. boots on the ground, the troops are taking supplies to those still without power. are you all right? i ve come to make sure everything is all right. along rural farm tracks they are trying to find those in the most remote communities that could be in need and now face a 9th night without electricity. it was absolute destruction. the woods down there are completely flattened. not to call northumberland a national problem until this morning is extraordinary. the army s involvement follows northumberland county council declaring storm