Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with Rachel Burden and ben thompson. Borisjohnson urges people not to visit their families on mothers day, as he warns the nhs could be overwhelmed if people fail to slow the spread of coronavirus. As italy struggles to contain its coronavirus outbreak all non essential businesses are ordered to shut down. Here, the National Trust is closing all its parks and gardens saying its no longer possible to maintain social distancing. More nations call for the olympics to be postponed as pressure continues to mount on organisers of the games. Usa track and field say moving forward wouldnt be in the best interest of the athletes. No one could say it is warm out there but the chilly wind isnt as strong as yesterday. Sunday forecast is coming up. Its sunday the 22nd march. Our top story borisjohnson has warned that the nhs could be overwhelmed if people do not act to slow the spread of coronavirus, and has urged families not to visit loved ones on mothers day. T
Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Im joshua johnson. Lets dive into our roundtable discussion. Joining us tonight on the news panel are paul rogers, science and environment reporter for the San Jose Mercury news. Tom vacar, consumer editor for ktvu news. And martha mendoza, reporter for the Associated Press based in santa cruz. Welcome, everyone. Yesterday, thousands of Law Enforcement officers came together in honor of Santa Cruz Police Sergeant Loran butch baker and detective elizabeth butler, shot dead last week by a suspect they were questioning about a Sexual Assault. The memorial was so big, organizers moved it to hp pavilion in san jose. Mm martha, you were at the event. What struck you about it . It was really a sad, sad day. It was shakingly sad. There came a moment when one of the officers partners picked up their son, 5yearold waukeen. He has his moms hat over his eyes and holding a teddy bear. You just see this is a kid whos never going to have his
Get or how deeply the community needed to grieve to get this out of its system. Its true. This wasnt just the community of santa cruz grieving by any stretch. What happened at hp pavilion was police from all over california came. There was ive never been around so many thousands and thousands of Police Officers. And everybody was there in full uniform to honor these two colleagues of theirs. And what one captain from tustin who had driven 400 miles up told me was he and everybody else was just thinking there but for the grace of god go i. He said, the investigation they were doing, the same thing ive done hundreds and hundreds of times. Could have been any of us. I live in santa cruz, as martha does. I live two blocks from where this happened. When i came home that night, there were s. W. A. T. Teams around, schools in lockdown, helicopters in the air. Santa cruz is a small town. A lot of people know everybody. This was the big gest event in santa cruz since the 1989 earthquake. Really
Get or how deeply the community needed to grieve to get this out of its system. Its true. This wasnt just the community of santa cruz grieving by any stretch. What happened at hp pavilion was police from all over california came. There was ive never been around so many thousands and thousands of Police Officers. And everybody was there in full uniform to honor these two colleagues of theirs. And what one captain from tustin who had driven 400 miles up told me was he and everybody else was just thinking there but for the grace of god go i. He said, the investigation they were doing, the same thing ive done hundreds and hundreds of times. Could have been any of us. I live in santa cruz, as martha does. I live two blocks from where this happened. When i came home that night, there were s. W. A. T. Teams around, schools in lockdown, helicopters in the air. Santa cruz is a small town. A lot of people know everybody. This was the big gest event in santa cruz since the 1989 earthquake. Really
Girls aqueducted from the boarding school in northeastern nigeria, take sboon the jungle and possibly split up and sold as child brides. So in the most doing you assignment any cnn correspondent has had this year, the team made the frightening fourday journey to be the First International reporter to reach the northeastern nigerian town where the girls were kidnapped and joins me now live. Did this young girl decide to share her story firsthand with cnn for a specific reason . Why is she talking . Reporter well, there really is a sense, randi, in spite of what were hearing, the pledges for support, the bring back the girls hash tag, that for the people there they feel that they have been forgotten by the world, they feel isolated. It is almost a month and in that time many of them are slowly losing hope. So, those who can bring themselves to speak, those who can bring themselves to talk a little bit about what they went through do so because they hope to remind the world that the girls