Mcdaniel college in westminster is opening late at 10 00 a. M. Because of a power outage. Days after a typhoon devastated the philippines the government and International Relief agencies are still struggling to get aid to those who certainly need it. Here is Susan Mcginnis reporting for wjz. Typhoon haiyan came ashore in vietnam this morning as a category 1 storm. Far weaker than the potential recordbreaking typhoon that crashed into the philippines friday. Tens of thousands are feared dead but getting an accurate count is hard is Communication Systems down in many areas. Jim eds is a photographer from florida who was in one of the hardhit areas. It was complete chaos. Just a mass of people trying tot out of there for security reasons and because theres no food or water. President obama said his thoughts and prayers go out to the people effected by the storm. He ordered the pentagon to deploy marines to assist in recovery efforts. The first waive of u. S. Government aid arrived. Food,
After four nights of unrest, they are trying something different. They have asked elders to serve as buffers between police and protesters. There have been several injuries as well as arrests. These officials here, city leaders are saying that they understand why people are outraged and they respect the peaceful protests but they do believe that the violence is not the answer. We heard a bit more from the mayor. Here is what he had to say. I know the vast majority of the people who have taken to our streets do so with pure hearts, good intentions to ensure that tragedies like the death of mr. Prude never happen again. Their message we must do better and we have to address how we police our city has been heard. We are doubling the availability of Mental Health professionals at the suggestion of Council Vice President lightfoot. We will take our Family Intervention Team out of the Police Department and move it in its funding to the department of youth and Recreation Services where our pa
This day of reckoning for bulger has been a long time in coming. A boston jury finds mob boss Whitey Bulger guilty. The 83yearold was convicted of murder racketeering, and conspiracy charges. Okay kufd of taking part in 19 killings the jury found him guilty in 11 of those. We still wanted justice. I dont understand what the jury was looking at. Inside that jury room how heated did it get . It was insane. All kinds of dissension. Firefighters tried to control the flames after a pipeline exploded. Hillary clinton expected to give a series of speeches on public policy. Anthony weiner suggested his wife would work on Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign. Do you know what your wifes role on the Hillary Clinton campaign will be in 2016 . I do. What will it be . Im not telling you. Authorities say James Dimaggio got off one or two shots before he was killed. She has been through a horrific ordeal. Im very proud of her, and i love her very much. Tragedy at a baseball game. A fan in atlanta fell 60 f
This is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. As a vital shipment of 400,000 safety gowns from turkey is delayed, some hospitals in england warn theyre down to their last few days of supplies. The government says its doing all it can. We are doing absolutely everything we can to bring as much ppe in from right across the globe. We recognise its a big challenge. I cant give you a date the education secretary says schools wont reopen until the uk meets its five tests, but says there are no plans to have them open over the summer. While spain looks towards relaxing lockdown measures, by allowing children to go outside from next monday, italy is still considering its next move, and the number of daily fines for illegal Outdoor Activity is on the rise. India enters its fourth week of coronavirus lockdown. Doctors tell the bbc a lack of tests mean they dont yet knowjust how serious the situation is. From what i am hearing from hospitals here, some of
That. That inevitably means there will be smaller quantities over shorter periods of time until individual ppe line stabilise. Is there anything further he would like to ask . Just on the reopening of schools, if i could . Is the timing of that dependent on you feeling that schools have an adequate supply of cleaning materials, hand sanitiser and that sort of thing . If so, what guidelines are being drawn up so, what guidelines are being drawn up to give to the schools and the trusts to make sure that schools can be as safe as possible for parents and children and staff when they do eventually reopen . Kit, we have already issued a lot of guidance on this and it is available on the gov. Uk website. If you want to be able to access, i can organise someone able to access, i can organise someone to send you a link in terms of how we have been advising schools in order to deal with the challenges. Because we must not forget, many thousands of schools have continued to remain open over the