Superintendent at meridian 223 is nervous about opening in two weeks. If i make a decision or lead the board down a road thats too aggressive we could, you know, literally be putting someones life at risk, and that is a burden that i did not assume was going to be part of my Job Description when i became a superintendent. Reporter the debate over whether to open schools has divided the country. Many teachers are scared. Give us choice reporter while this weekend parents rallied in georgia, calling for schools to reopen, worried their children will fall behind. In pnew jersey, this superintendent says its impossible to please everyone. Wi wak m ofal a t tallyething n the night. On a scale of 1 to 10, what is the chance that youll reopen . I, unfortunately, think its very low. I think a 1. A 1 . Mmhmm. And how would that feel after all the work youre doing to try to reopen . You know, as much as this is a tremendous leadership challenge, and i say that in a positive way, of just working
Panther angela davis. Everywhere you turn 15th street is covered in that black lives matter mural. So everywhere you go, not just that community, but businesses that have been boarded up, essentially black lives matter art murals everywhere you go. For now, well send it right back to you guys. All right. Melissa, the soul of oakland is shining bright tonight. Thank you. In the past 15 days since floyd died, millions of people are making changes in how they act and how they govern. Today those calls to action were front and center in houston. The service was inviteonly but streamed live worldwide. Lets bring in Nbcs Jay Gray who joins us in houston on this memorable evening. Jay, we watched it on tv, but you were there. What stood out to you . Reporter yeah. Raj, powerful, emotional here today. We had tears and laughter. We had prayers inside the church here. George floyds family joining a grieving nation to say one final goodbye. Tonight george floyd is finally home. Time for us to cel
hello there. we ve had some warm sunshine with temperatures in the high 20s across eastern england but elsewhere it s been a rather cloudy day with some rain around at times, some damp weather across the south west with a bit of mist at times, too. now, overnight tonight, south westerly winds will continue to bring some further pulses of rain with low pressure firmly in charge of our weather. no real rain, though, for the south east, where we desperately need it, and our temperatures on the warm side 16 to 18 degrees, feeling a little on the humid side, probably some mist and low cloud around some of our western hills to start the day on sunday. sunday, more rain in the forecast, heavy at times for scotland and northern ireland. a pulse of rain likely to cross wales, perhaps reaching the north midlands, the peaks and the pennines through the afternoon. south east of this, it s drier with some sunshine. temperatures across the board higher much warmer in aberdeen but the
delays are also being reported by travellers heading for the eurotunnel in folkestone, with traffic crawling on approaching routes. and russian missiles hit the port of odesa a day after ukraine and russia agreed to restart grain exports. welcome to bbc news. in the past hour the head of the world health organization has declared the outbreak of monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. the who director general says 16,000 cases of the disease have been reported in more than 75 countries, and five people have died. dr tedros says monkeypox represents a high risk in europe, with a clear risk of further international spread. we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria in the international health regulations. for all of these reasons, i have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international c
to a lack of fuel as israel continues its military operation there. communications are also down for a second day in the enclave. the un s biggest agency in gaza says it is no longer able to bring in and distribute aid. as of this morning, no aid has come in as of this morning and this is due to the lack of fuel. so if we get in a shipment of fuel, yes, we will be able to go up to the border and pick up those trucks of much needed supplies. but we need fuel for that. live now to geneva to speak to dr margaret harris, a spokesperson for the world heath organization. the un is telling us they are begging for fuel right now. can you explain what happens in a hospital when there is no fuel or power? fix, when there is no fuel or power? hospital then is really reduced to a first aid station if you have no power. all you can do a google is look at what the problem is and try to pat somebody up, but you can t do surgery, you can t do any of the life saving things because you won t