somebody out there knows what happened to joanna. we need to provide her family with the answers they want. as police wait for more forensic results, they know that a dollar public may yet survive the missing information that they urgently need. >> this is bbc news. the headlines this hour. england and has retained the ashes in australia for the first time in 24 years. the heads of state have told the ivory coast to risk -- to step down or risk military intervention. russia oppose the president has ordered to investigate moscow's international airports. fights broke out involving frustrated passengers. bad weather forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights. passengers stormed passport control. >> a modern transport with thousands of people desperate to get away for the new year holidays. the chaos started when ice brought down power lines. emergency generators brought in in the passenger backlog has not gone away. the airline staff seems to of disappeared. >> people are really desperate. there are fights. water supplies broke out

joanna, how has this experience changed your life? >> i have never done anything like this before.been on a television show before, only doing a cappella for a couple years. this is a lot of talk appellant now, and i am learning so much about all the different things you can do with it. it is always a blessing to work with such amazing musicians and also in an environment that is so friendly and supportive of each other. >> i am sorry to cut you off. you guys are all fantastic. we are out of time unfortunately, but you can catch the finalists singing their hearts out in the two-hour life in l.a., next sunday, right here on wbal-tv 11. dr. daniel anthony from the animal hospital is here to injury -- dr. danielle anthony from the animal hospital is here to answer your pet questions. you brought a rat, really? >> he is a pocket pet, and he is very overweight. i think he is getting over said on the rat pallets >> does a snake go blind if it is about to shed its skin? >> they will lose their spectacles as well, which is their coating over the eye, so it will go sort of translucent. it i

. >> and the forensic examination of the place where joanna yates' body was discovered on christmas day still -- is still continuing. police are appealing for information and a 10,000 pound reward has been offered by crime strop -- stoppers for anyone helping to convict her killer. >>> this is bbc news with the headlines again. ivory coast's new u.n. ambassador says political unrest has put the country on the brink of genocide. danish and swedish police have arrested five men on charges of plotting to attack the offices of the newspaper which published cartoons of muhammad. >> critics say -- the emergency response in the new york blizzard was inadequate. >> we take our emergency life-saving responsibilities very seriously, and i'm extremely dissatisfied with the way our emergency response systems pompltd and as i announced yesterday, we're going to take a look at everything we did to see if it could be done better, starting with the communications and dispatching system. we do know that on monday we received 4 -- 49,478 calls to 911. that is the sixth largest volume in 911 history, and

some of the possible contenders for that 2011 race include yee, vent tour capitalist joanna reeves. >> nobody wants to see flashing lights in your rearview mirror, especially when you think you haven't done anything wrong, but what's what exactly happened to several people over the lars couple days where he was reportedly back on the job. the suspect, a 19-year-old san mateo man. they have been tipped off by the b beret and camel pants he was wearing at the time. >>> dr. claudio palma rushed to the aid of a woman when she hit her head. that didn't keep her from noticing her doctor was dressed as elvis. he performed cpr. >> at that point, my wife yelled, my husband is a doctor. i went to the back of the restaurant, and there was a woman laying on the ground. >> i don't think she knew what to make of me, unless they think it some small -- i wonder if she was dressed as priscilla presley. >> i wonder, too. thank you very much. >>> coming up next, celebrity credit cards, are they real or bank account bloodsuckers. tonight we reveal the secret that banks don't want you to know about those

thanks again to eric and carmen force during this and to joanna and the team and the department of environment. all great job. thanks for all of your hard work. >> thank you. this does not happen without a lot of work in city hall. the best things happen when they collaborate for the mayor and the board of supervisors. we have witnessed two of the leaders in this effort. carmen chu was the key sponsor and eric mar was the key vote. memo congratulations to the mayor for his leadership on the project, to my colleague, who was the key and deciding vote on the matter, but also to the department, who really worked hard to get the package together. the department of environment, the puc. without the hard-working staff, we would not be at this step today. the mayor talked about how it was so exciting to be able to fly over san francisco and see the solar projects. it is just as exciting driving by the solar reservoir every single day and seeing one panel go up and two channels and finally, all of them seem to be up. finally, it is very exciting to be the home of the sunset reservoir project. the sola

. ♪ good-bye joanna ♪ ♪ you're gone and yet you're mine ♪ >> reporter: but they haven't been all successes and lacks mass appeal. and sondheim has had his run-ins with the critics. >> it's mostly reviewed by people who know nothing about what they're writing about. ♪ >> reporter: but for whatever small struggles there were there were also the stunning successes. "a little night music," now in revival, features a song, "send in the clowns." ♪ send in the clowns ♪ >> reporter: a song so culturely indelible that when you search for it on youtube, you find it covered dozens and dozens of times. ♪ isn't it rich ♪ ♪ aren't we a ♪ ♪ send in the clowns ♪ >> reporter: despite all these tributes, sondheim wishes he could rewrite some of his greats successes. >> i don't mean they're terrible. they are so self-conscious. they are written with a capital w. >> reporter: and the ones you don't like -- a good example would be? >> oh, goodness gracious. i'm fond of quoting in "i feel pretty," a street girl is singing "it's alarming how charming i feel." puerto rican girl from the streets, it just makes me

the state senator and supervisor and venture capitalist joanna reece. the city will choose a mayor by voting in the order they submitted their application. the next permanent mayor will be elected in november. >> firefighters are hosting a final push for the donations. they are teaming up at the event at the sonoma chicken coupe on campbell avenue. from 6:00 to 9:00, you can donate new unwrapped toys while enjoying food, music, and ralphs. firefighters will go door-to-door for kids in need. >> robin williams will bring down the house at a holiday benefit. he will do stand up at the san francisco war field to raise money for glide memorial church. there still tickets available for tonight's 7:00 show. the search serves nearly one million meals to people every year. there plenty of tree-lighting ceremonies in the season, but none like this one. a southern california artist will be in the bay area to build a 33-foot tall christmas tree. check it out. it's made entirely of recycled shopping carts. it will be on display at the bay street shopping center in e

so let me thank ron kindle, eliot dumas, joanna hardy, major keith washington of my office, we thank him for his fine work and my deputy chief of staff for her untiring efforts to keep moving this bill. certainly we want to acknowledge all the sponsors that were the original co-sponsors, mario diaz-balart, ted poe, ileana ros-lehtinen, henry "hank" johnson and many, many others have rallied around to be supportive. let me close at this time and indicate that we often speak of making sure that our veterans have all their benefits, we want to help the wounded warriors, many of us visit the front lines from iraq, afghanistan, to bosnia, and places beyond. but we want them to know that we cherish what they have done and a military museum is a way of doing that. it gaves them -- gives them great joy to teach and educate adults and children alike what it is to serb. sour freedom is intertwined with the sacrifices of our men and women whose devotion to freedom is unparalleled. i'm privileged to honor their sacrifices and the role each plays in our freedom by championing and supporting this