live from cnn center, this is cnn news room with kim brunhuber. we begin with the extreme weather threat across the central and southwestern u.s. horn 12 million people under flood watches in parts of arizona, new mexico and texas. the risk of flash flooding is high with these areas expecting heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the day. extreme weather forced a search and rescue mission as several hikers were swept off their feet by a flash flood. one person is still missing. let s talk more about this with derek van dam. potentially dangerous situation for many. what is the latest? yeah, the latest from the dallas/ft. worth meteorological agency indicating that anywhere from 6 to 8 inches of rain or more is possible within the next 48 hours. so starting now right through monday morning into the afternoon hours, that is when we re expecting the heaviest precipitation to move on, really intensifying tonight, that being sunday evening. i want to show you a broad per
highest temperatures out west, 21. thank you very much. see you later on. let s take a look at some of today s front pages. many carry news of former this morning presenter phillip schofield s affair with a younger itv employee while he was still married. the sun describes the revelation as a bombshell which has ended his career. so they say. elsewhere, the times reports that foreign teachers are being offered £10,000 to work in english schools as part of an overseas recruitment drive by ministers to fill classroom vacancies. the paper says hundreds of maths, science and language teachers will be brought in from countries such as india and nigeria this year. the daily telegraph leads with a warning from former head of the raf, sir mike wigston, who tells the paper that russia will be vindictive if it loses its war in ukraine,
mechanics and others have voted to go on strike if they don t have a new contract by the end of this month. the union is asking for higher wages, better training programs like active shooter training. school district officials say they are hoping to security a new contract as soon as possible. in virginia, the richmond school district is offering financial incentives to fix a big teacher shortage. experienced teachers would get a $10,000 payout and new teachers $8,000. they need to fill about 120 classroom vacancies before the school year starts in about a week. school officials say this is the most widespread teacher shortage in decades. listen to this. this is the worst i have seen it in about 25 years in education. and i think that it is the accumulated stress, exhaustion, feelings of disrespect that many teachers experienced over the last two, three years throughout the pandemic. and so it is not just localities
a teacher shortage is only getting worse. classroom vacancies have now surged to 5100, up 67% from last year with another 4,000 openings for bus drivers. cafeteria, woulders workers other staff jobs. the stress of the pandemic is what s behind the shortages. it says the problem is being driven by florida s low teacher pay. teacher pay in florida 49th in the country. yikes. in wisconsin two school districts are now being sued in federal court by saying their kids caught covid in the classroom because their schools don t require masks. one mom said a classmate sat next to her son who was sick leading to an outbreak in the class. they threw students into a covid-19 snake pit. they have an unusual ben factor helping their cause. the owner of a small wisconsin brewery. these plaintiffs were in the health care industry, so they