i am anderson cooper. while the u.s. is the most expensive country when it comes to tkgiving birth, it s also th safest. the statistics are more dire when it comes to giving birth for black women. the question is why do black women face more risks when they go to the hospital to give birth? that s the question that cnn anchor and new mom, abby phillip, has been asking since the birth of her daughter two years ago. abby made unconventional choices when it came to her own childbirth experience, and since then she has been surprised to meet so many other women that made the same choices that she did. over the next hour she takes us to hospitals and birthing centers around the country to show us why more and more black women are turning away from traditional health care and finding other options when it comes to giving birth. hi. hi, baby. reporter: this is the sound of new life being brought into the world. the e kind o of momement mosostt women drdream of.. yet t this is
arrivederci antonio. manager conte leaves tottenham hotspur by mutual consent after 16 months in charge. and we ll be hearing more of your stories about caring for relatives with dementia. nothing prepares you for that moment where your parents do turn around and ask you who you are. that moment is heartbreaking. it s monday the 27th of march. our main story. the new leader of the scottish national party will be revealed this afternoon, six weeks after nicola sturgeon announced her resignation. the scottish health secretary humza yousaf, the finance secretary kate forbes and ash regan, a former minister, are the three contenders hoping to become first minister. whoever wins the top job will take on a fractured party and a country facing a number of policy challenges. our scotland editor james cook reports. for the snp, this has been a difficult campaign. splits have emerged on the economy, social issues such as gay marriage and a lack of progress towards independence. so part
i will never be young again or any younger than i am today. i will never be faster or more flexible. i will never win competitions against 22-year-old wrestlers in my weight class. i will never be a black belt. none of those things will happen, but none of that matters anymore. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder san francisco is changing. we all know it. you can t stop it. were you born here? yeah, both generations of my grandparents are from san francisco. my dad s side came out after the gold rush, so came here in the 1850s. author john birdsall grew up in this town, and he s a close observer of the changes happening here. you know, when i first came out to san francisco, i was making all the same sort of tired jokes that everybody from new york that comes out to san francisco the first time makes. you know, i thought it was all
good morning, after the peak of the cross part of the world and central england. still hot and humid in the south, we could see thunderstorms in the evening. all of the details coming up on bbc breakfast. it s saturday, the 18th ofjune. our top story: some migrants who cross the channel in small boats are to be electronically tagged, in a 12 month pilot scheme run by the home office. ministers say it will help maintain contact with asylum claimants who reach the uk by what it calls dangerous routes. critics fear it will treat people who have fled war and persecution as criminals. simonjones reports. another busy week for the border force in the channel, more than 1000 migrants brought ashore after being picked up the sea. the government says it will seek to remove those who have passed through several safe countries before claiming asylum in the uk. and, as part of a year long pilot scheme, some of those awaiting deportation will be fitted with electronic tags. officials say
Do, we have a Customer Service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and weve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and its not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. Most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. W we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, were prioritizing them. And also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. Because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the
typically shelter in beaumont. We have three shelters open, they will not at capacity until they started to get at capacity, well look at opening another shelter. A shelter, you dont just put up there and ask people to come. You have to have supplies, cots, blankets, and someone that knows how to run it. And the red cross, because of all the devastation in texas is very, very limited resources for them, too. So i think that would be our biggest issue,