The lower bar for sarah youre watching out is there are live from london also coming up on the program. Ivory coasts government confirms 85 people have now died in violence over the disputed election. Double the previous estimates. Sudan says it fears up to 200000. People could flood into the country escaping the fighting in northern ethiopia. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resigned on mass in protest at the dismissal of 4 of their colleagues. The thank you for joining us. The World Health Organization has described europe as a cautionary tale of the dangers of easy coronavirus restrictions. The continent is experiencing an aggressive surge in infections with daily deaths steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave in spring. More than 50000. 00, people have now died from cope with 19 across the u. K. , and thats after another 595 fatalities were confirmed over the past 24 hours. Marking the countrys highest daily death toll since may. Infections are also climbing with al
Humidity. Its exactly what we need at events since 1954. This point. 50 of those events bring and its virtual this year due to the pandemic, not open slightly average, above average rainfall. So a lot that well be watching what it will look like for the for the public. Next couple of months. For as we go into the next family members will visit today in small groups. A pretty high chance of la nina how can i, when you wont take it from me several months. We tknow that dry weather is no developing, cooler than normal good morning you. Thank you for joining us on this what we need at this point. Water at the equatorial pacific. Lets head over to mike for an friday morning on today in the bay. Im marcus washington. Update on the commute. You can go your own way youve been tracking a traffic and im laura garcia. Alert. We are seeing that happen now yeah, and also that humidity so our other big story this near that blob that we have. Go your own way in the air. Morning talking about the fire
Including some turtles. Thats right. Your tax dollars actually paid for a study that put turtles on treadmills. So here we have our turtles on a treadmill. To no ones surprise, it turns out that turtles are really, really slow. Okay. Thats what our tax dollars went to. In fact, this wasteful study found that turtles moved at nearly the same pace as dead turtles on a treadmill. Arent you glad that washington bureaucrats used your hard earned dollars to conduct this study . Good grief, folks. Now how many of your tax dollars went to this study exactly . Well, folks, your guess is actually as good as mine because there is no legal obligation for most federal agencies to publicly disclose the price of government projects even though the american taxpayers are paying for them. Folks, this is your money, your money. So shouldnt you have a right to know how it is being spent . Its been said before, and i sure believe it, government functions best when it operates in the open. This is the basi
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor ethan magness, First Christian church, johnson city, tennessee. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god. We come to you in need of your sovereign love for your power exceeds our human power. Your authority exceeds all human authority. Your government will stand when all human government have passed into history. We come to you in confession of our weakness and sin. For we have sought too often our own power. We have fought too selfishly for our own glory. We have clung too tightly to our desire and to our faction and our plan. We come to you seeking the strength to repent. Turn us to your wisdom instead of our own. Turn us to honesty instead of falsehood. Turn us to humility and service instead of pride and selfseeking. We come to you for a blessing. Like jacob, we cling to you and will not let go until you have blessed us for you are good and gracious and loving and in you we put our trust.
Rosemary will join us in about 15 minutes with a closer look at what we can expect for the rest of the week. Several people are dead and several others missing after a massive volcano erupted in new zealand. Many of them were tourists exploring the surface of working a. Kitty the e of the harrington reports one man from San Francisco was there. Reporter ash and steam thousands of feet into the air. Tourists and their guides scrambling to get on board. A helicopter, burned and destroyed. He just left the island. He was at the edge of the greater only 30 minutes earlier and posted this videos showing steam and gas pricing from the event. Tourists alessandro and alyssa also recorded this terrifying scene on their phone. People scrambling for safety in the boat as volcanic material searched towards them. Another boat turned to ashes and we were very, very lucky. Really lucky. Reporter around 50 people were on the island when the volcano erupted only 23 were rescued. Many of them suffered s