manchester united move to within a point of the champions league places after marcus rashford sent them on their way to a convincing win over nottingham forest. we have heavy rain sweeping in from the south west, pushing north east through the day. behind it we see a return to sunshine and showers but wherever you are, it will be windy. good morning, everybody. it s wednesday the 28th of december. our main story: relatives of a 23 year old man stabbed to death on the dance floor of a birmingham nightclub have described him as their best friend . cody fisher, a non league footballer and school sport coach, was fatally injured on boxing day, as greg mackenzie reports. 23 year old cody fisher was in the prime of his life, but his life was cut short, stabbed to death on a dance floor ofa birmingham nightclub on boxing day. described by his family as a best friend, the semi professional footballer and sports coach was fatally injured at the crane nightclub in digbeth. police beli
of biblical proportions. ian is a cat 4 storm bringing 140 mile-per-hour winds and leaving a wake of destruction in its path. the national hurricane center is warning of catastrophic window damage with an unsuburb viable storm surge of up to 18 feet. it is expected to dump 2 feet of rain across the state bringing unprecedented flooding and destruction. entire neighborhoods are now undersea as water levels continue to rise. homes are floating down the middle of the street and people are swimming in their living rooms. by the way authorities say it s a very bad idea. who knows what s in that water. and first responders rescue services can t escape the flooding either. this fire department in naples is completely under water. leaving the city s residents on their own. and things are even worse in the air where hurricane hunters are flying into the heart of the storm. watch. oh [bleep] jesse: more than 2 million people in the state were told to evacuate, with thousands more h
significantly over five years. nearly £165 million was spent on temporary children s social workers in 2017. although there was variation between authorities, by 2022, the overall figure had reached more than 227 million up 38%. john gregg runs children s services in coventry. he says with budgets tight, extra spending on agency staff hits the amount they can spend helping families. regionally and nationally, the reality is, if we are spending more money on children s services and vulnerable children and we are spending it on agency workers rather than a full range of services for children, it does mean that children are going to get less of a service. i also think there are probably impacts on other areas of council service delivery. richard devine is a consultant social worker who has worked in council child protection for more than a decade. he says agency staff can be good but he worries about the instability it brings to families when they know their social
hurricane erma back in 2017. although they didn t sustain a direct hit, there was extensive flooding, including in downtown jacksonville. in fact, the mayor of jacksonville urging residents who suffered flood damage in you are that to take precautions during this storm because he believes that there are some parallels. but, just take a look at how blustery it is. if i can get my recover from, photographerkathy to pan up. blowing in the window. obviously not hurricane force winds just yet not tropical storm force winds but blustery when you consider that the eye of this storm is pretty much on the other side of the state. a very large and very powerful storm. jesse? jesse: your cameraman or woman caught some thrill seekers heading to the beach right there. have people not fully evacuated? i know they are on the east coast but it looks like it s headed their way.
rome. hi, pamela. you re absolutely right. pope francis legendarily has no off switch, and he certainly didn t take christmas day 2017 off, continuing to press his campaign for peace in a variety of global hot spots. he began with the middle east in the wake of president trump s controversial decision to relocate the american embassy in israel. he prayed for peace in jerusalem, reiterated the long-standing support for a two-state solution that goes back to the partition. he then touched on myanmar, a country he visited in 2017. although carefully without using the the word rohingya, simply referring to the need for the dignity of minorities there to be protected. he also omitted the word rohingya in myanmar. that was an effort to not inflame the situation. he touched on venezuela, the ukraine, a variety of african