looking for, and trying to protect people in their identities. and make sure they re really focused. overall, were pretty remarkable job by everyone in los angeles today. speaking of my identity, client, the police chief luna identify the sheriff there, identify the suspect as a 72 year old man. what i thought was interesting, was when he talked about the ages of the victims at this location. they re still working to identify all of the ages, and all of the next of kin. but he did say, they were in y, they were in his estimate from the ages of 50 and above. the fact that the shooter was 72 years old, according to police, that seems unusual. yes, for sure, generally there on the younger end of the spectrum. 20 would be a ballpark figure i throw out there. up and that s what you would hire routinely talking about when you are here on air. this is an outlier. you may remember, there was an older gentlemen although he didn t kill anyone, with the nashville bombing a few years
that s the figure we re hearing, it s still to be confirmed, but that s the ballpark figure. now, this would be something voluntary that the 27 countries would sign up to. butjust talking to commission sources last night, they say they re seriously considering making this mandatory. so in other words, forcing eu countries to cut the amount of gas they use. that is easier said than done, though. and although the commission later today might talk about using a legal mechanism to do this, crucially, as is often the case, they need the individual say so of the member states, so they need to be on board if this is going to happen. we can get more now and the fires that led fire services across the uk to declare major incidents. the speed at which they spread was put down to tinderbox conditions amongst record high conditions. jonathan smith is the assistant missioner for the london fire brigade. mayor of london confirmed how busy your
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ballpark figure. hospital admissions could surge overwinter, unless the rollout of the covid vaccine booster programme is sped up across the uk. that s the warning from one member of the covid 19 actuaries response group, who says fewer than half of those in the at risk group who received a second jab at least six months ago have had a third dose. let s look over some of the case figures from this week. yesterday just over 49 thousand new cases of the virus were recorded. that s an increase of more than 16% on last week and the highest number since mid july. currently there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with covid 19. joining me now is professor mike tildesley. he specialises in predicting how infectious diseases will behave at the university of warwick s science department. thank you forjoining us. bearing in mind those statistics and also what we were hearing about the potential for the new delta sub variant, what is your anticipation on where we are