And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it
a deadly chokehold by a stranger on a new york city subway car. why this incident spaurrked a homicide investigation and important conversations about mental illness and vigilantism. and then the fight gets under way to overturn an abortion ban in one state, a ban dating back to 1849. you heard that right. years before the civil war. decades before women could even vote. we re talking to the attorney general who filed the lawsuit. welcome to the lead. we begin in our politics lead. a major milestone in the prosecution of the pro trump rioters who stormed the capitol on january 6, 2021. and an effort to in an effort to forcibly keep trump in power after his resounding and legitimate election defeat. today four members of the far right proud boys militia group were found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy in their roles in the teek. these are of course the same extremists donald trump declined to condemn during a presidential debate in september 2020. what do you
crime and address homelessness in the subway system, which included a plan to add more behavioral health emergency assistance teams. could this be seen as a failure of that plan to be implemented? how do you see this? i see this as someone who was in the new york city police department at a time when i was there are we were receiving calls of an emotionally disturbed person acting out on the street at the rate of one every four minutes, 24/7, 365. it can be overwhelming. basically the medical community, the hospital community has gotten out of the mental health business as a major factor. covid made that even worse as they took the few remaining mental health beds and turned them into critical care beds. the medical business has figured out that that is not where the money is and the government on the federal level and the state level is not putting the money into it used to.
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