Are three more chances for Elise Christie to claim this elusive medal. Chris has the weather. We will cast our nets further afield and bring you the very latest on what cyclone peter has done to tonga. Talk to you later, chris. Is it time to stop clowning around . Are pranksters and creepy clowns changing the face of an age old entertainer . Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im simon mccoy. It isa im simon mccoy. It is a crisis hitting at the very heart of oxfams appeal, with questions raised by the government millions of individual donors about whether the charity deserves their money. The Charity Commission has taken the most serious action it can against oxfam, and begun a statutory inquiry into its procedures. It will investigate the handling of claims that oxfam staff used prostitutes as they carried out Disaster Relief in the aftermath of the earthquake in haiti in 2010. Matt cole reports. This crisis has already claimed one senior figure, 0xfams now former chief executive
Already struggling with debt into further difficulties. And Princes William and harry visit a Memorial Garden for their mother, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death. Tropical storm harvey has made landfall for a third time in the us, as the countrys southEastern Region grapples with an ongoing Natural Disaster which has left about 20 dead so far. The storm has moved inland now to louisiana and you can see that from the satellite imagery. Laura trevelyan is in houston in texas and joins us now. Welcome to a flooded area of houston where the road behind me has been turned into a slipway for boats. There are so many rescue boats being launched, many manned by volunteers. This neighbourhood has been flooded, people have abandoned their homes and cars and what is more because where we are is just below the reservoir is outside of houston which are virtually overflowing as received so much rainfall, there are timed releases from the dams and the water level in this already flooded
We are literally the largest Minority Group in america and one in every five people in our nation have a disability. The majority of people have a loved one with a disability is 12 and we are the only Minority Group that anyone can join at any time due to accident, illness or aging. Respectfully is very proud to be a member of the ccd, a group of more than 110 National Disability organizations who want a Better Future for people with disabilities. As we have seen recently, overall the Disability Community is quite good at protecting key lifesaving benefits and advancing civil rights. So many great organizations already out there and so many fantastic leaders already in the Disability Movement already, why was there a need to get another disability organization. And what specifically is respectability trying to achieve . Respectability fundamentally is about the opportunity agenda. We know that people with disabilities and the people who love them wants opportunities for education, skil
Directly to what its supposed to. We pay the highest gas prices. Why pay senator. The roads and traffic is a mess. Reporter republicans arent so quick to agree on higher taxes and the governor needs twothirds vote in both houses to pass. What they propose is one of the largest gas tax increases in california history if not the largest and it hits and impacts hard working californians low and middle income families especially. Reporter the governor and other Democratic Leaders are ready to get this going. The governor has set april 6 as a date to get this voted on so well let you know. Liz . Juliette, will the money be going only towards the transportation package. Reporter well, they made it clear today that they have actually set a constitutional amendment that makes it clear that that money goes directly to that proposal. Thank you. If you cant beat em, join em . Pretty much what the city of San Francisco is saying about the annual 420 pot smokeout in Golden Gate Park. Kpix 5s phil m
We know that tobacco and cigarettes use is the leading cause of preventible death in San Francisco and thanks so much for the department of Public Health leadership for emphasising that along with communitybased organizations. I wanted to give and nearly 4 hundred 400 million a year is spent on health costs related to cigarettes and tobacco. Also ucsf and stanford researchers gave us recently their up to date research and premature death in low income communities and also tobacco density the higher concentrations of tobacco permits and sales that density results in increased Youth Smoking rates as well so this is about limiting access access but also reducing big tobaccos efforts to hook young people on cigarettes and also the e cigarettes as well and this over time as i said will cut our tobacco permits in half according to our estimates through attrition and reducing the number of tobacco licenses. Creating a cap of 45 licenses per district and that cap was calculated by looking at t