The covid threat is to be raised to the highest level five across the uk , following a warning from all four chief medical officers that the Health Services are at risk of being overwhelmed within three weeks. With coronavirus cases continuing to rise rapidly, driven by the new variant of the virus, the number of covid 19 patients in hospitals across the uk is also increasing sharply. Our Health Editor hugh pym has the latest. On the front line of a major London Hospital today. Here at st georges, staff say its exceptionally busy after a big increase in admissions of Covid Patients. Over the weekend, theyve been struck by the number requiring oxygen support, and thats meant doubling capacity for oxygen supplies, which is no easy matter. We have had several whole families admitted. Quite a lot of those people havent been older people, they havent been people with lots of medical problems. They have been young and fit people who have been themselves shocked at how unwell theyve got and h
And in the past has identified future superstars. Adele, sam smith and celeste have all won it. This years bbc sound of 2021 has been named as 23 year old rapper pa salieu his hard hitting lyrics about life and death in his home city of coventry impressed thejudges, as lizo mzimba reports. Never let them draw out the energy theyjust want you fall cos theirjealousy protect your energy the 23 year old dubbed the uks most inventive rapper in years was given the news on radio one by annie mac. You are the winner of the bbc sound of 2021. You won you serious . He laughs that is crazy. So much gratitude, man. They dont know about the block life still doing mazza inna front line his music reflects his experiences. He himself once survived a shotgun attack. His growing success means things are now very different to a year ago. A yearago, surviving, man. People round me caged, people around me turned crack fiend, you know . I come from a real life, you know . Hello from the other side with prev
The department of elections still had more than 100,000 ballots. Was not jenkins did not receive the 51 threshold to receive victory out right, once the rest of the votes are redistributed, under ranks choice, she is likely to cruise to victory with over 55 of the vote. Her closest opponent, criminal defense attorney john has not conceded the race and told me he is, quote, incredibly plowed proud of the campaign we ran another two months taking on the establishment machine politics of sentences go, while i acknowledge the trend in result, nearly half of the votes have not half of the voters had not had votes counted. Thank you very much. The Alameda County district attorneys race is still a tossup. Terry wiley leading with just under 52 of the vote. He is the current chief assistant da. Civil rights attorney pamela preis trails with the vote as of now. Definitive results on a pair of dueling housing measures. Speeding up Affordable Housing construction, proposition d is back to cut the
Latest album. How the event also also doubled as a celebration of of filipino heritage. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00, a lie look outside of the Labor Day Weekend weekend officially gets underway underway on the holiday heat will be sticking around longer than we thought. High fire danger is expected across california this weekend. We have have already seen a pair of fast fast swimming fires forcing evacuations to our north. This is new video into our newsroom from siskiyou county, where Governor Newsom just declared a state of emergency. And for a fourth straight day cal iso has called for a flex alert tomorro. Alert tomorrow. Once again, you are asked to conserve electricity between 4 00 and 9 00 p. M. Lets get to first alert meteorologist, paul hagan, hagan, with what we can expect from this heat. Paul . Although this heat will last a little bit longer, it will arrive a little bit later. So heat in the bay area starts on sunday and goes to tuesday. Temperatures are s
Good morning welcome to breakfast it i so i; r i social media was ,77; h r 1. 512; i it iii. Social media was ,77; itiiigzgfi it ii social media was ,77; with Louise Minchin but through the afternoon, some of the showers will be heavy as they and charlie stayt. Our headlines today cross england and wales. More in about ten minutes. Breaking news on the cruise ship quarantined because of the coronavirus outbreak. The last few minutes or so. Two the government says it will try good morning welcome british tourists on board the to breakfast with Louise Minchin and charlie stayt. Our headlines today to bring british passengers home. Diamond princess liner. They have a danger to life as nine severe itsjust been its just been confirmed been diagnosed with coronavirus. Flood warnings remain itsjust been confirmed that its just been confirmed that the british couple onboard the ship have in force across england and wales in the aftermath tested positive for coronavirus. David abel has just put