Universities write to the uk education secretary calling for more money to help with the cost of taking in extra students following a government u turn on a level grades. And coming up this hour, the three victorian forts originally built to defend england against the french going up for sale. Hello and welcome. If you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The number of people being randomly tested in the community to track the prevalence of covid 19 is to be incased up in england. From october, 150,000 people will be tested every fortnight as part of the office for National Statistics programme which is separate from the Mass Testing Programme of people who have symptoms. The figure is up from the 28,000 in england who are currently sent a home testing kit. Testing will also be expanded in scotland, wales and northern ireland. The health secretary, matt hancock, says the expansion of testing in the
We are where we should be. We will warm up as we go through the end of the week. Details on that are coming up in a few minutes. Good morning, we are looking at Traffic Alert that is one issue on westbound 92 near the 101 connector. There is a three car crash and one vehicle has overturned. It is making one lane slow and traffic is backing up around the san mateo bridge. If you are taking the san mateo bridge, you will see brake lights. We will keep a close eye on that. South of there, there is some roadwork. We are at the news desk. We have new numbers in on unemployment claims. 1. 4 million new applications across the nation and that is e d oducof week prior. Some bses thatd their and shude after being le to open. That was after another search of coronavirus cases. The numbers were worse than expected although they have been over 1 million a week since march. We will stay on top of it in half an hour. A new. Coronavirus testing site shuts down after massive turnout on opening day. Al
Th it is. And the temperatures will stay belowormal for daytime highs. Looking like a postcard out there now. The cars are ms ing so a live picture from our city camera. But a beautiful day. It is going to be gorgeous all throughout the day. Now one thing you probably cant see are the winds that are blowing around. But temperatures in the 60s. Making it feel mighty cool out there for june. Were coming in t low to mid60s in the Shenandoah Valley and 75 around the i95 corridor bu factor in the winds that are gusting up about 30 Miles Per Hour at times, and youre feeling a little bit of the wichill out there. 78 is our daytime high today. Again, plebnty of sunshine. And d dyingwn after about 6 00 p. M. Tonight. Lets talk about fathers day because we do have rain in thec fore and well time it out coming up. Thank you, lauryn. Developing this morning, a search for an escaped suspect. Take a look at your screen here. D. C. Police say eric Cortez Mcnair escaped from custody while receiving tr
Traffic between the beltway and route 410. There is a lot of backup related to this. Southbound lanes are still open. Weve got a crew on the way and well bring you more details as we get them in. A busy evening here. Im lesli foster. Im derek mcginty. Get ready for heatwave day no. 2 and tomorrow some record highs could be broken. Our first alert chief meteorologist topper shutt is here to tell us how hot it will have to be for that to happen. Kind of low hanging fruit really. 95, 96 are the records tomorrow. Let me start with temps right now. Its plenty hot now, 80s pretty much everywhere, 82 in gaithersburg, 83 in downtown d. C. Upper 70s is as cool as we can get on this map, 79 into manassas, leesburg and still 80 would in fredericksburg which is why we say exercise in the morning. It just stays hot too long with this type of air mass. Were forecasting 93 tomorrow, 92 saturday, 93 sunday and 95 on monday. Our average is 83. Were kind of losing sight of that. This time last week we w
Traffic between the beltway and route 410. There is a lot of backup related to this. Southbound lanes are still open. Weve got a crew on the way and well bring you more details as we get them in. A busy evening here. Im lesli foster. Im derek mcginty. Get ready for heatwave day no. 2 and tomorrow some record highs could be broken. Our first alert chief meteorologist topper shutt is here to tell us how hot it will have to be for that to happen. Kind of low hanging fruit really. 95, 96 are the records tomorrow. Let me start with temps right now. Its plenty hot now, 80s pretty much everywhere, 82 in gaithersburg, 83 in downtown d. C. Upper 70s is as cool as we can get on this map, 79 into manassas, leesburg and still 80 would in fredericksburg which is why we say exercise in the morning. It just stays hot too long with this type of air mass. Were forecasting 93 tomorrow, 92 saturday, 93 sunday and 95 on monday. Our average is 83. Were kind of losing sight of that. This time last week we w