Will combine to welcome 48 nations for the tournament. The six counties who will stage the matches are argentina, morocco, paraguay, portugal, spain and uruguay and they will all qualify automatically. Our sports news editor dan roan has more on this. Dan, how can this Work Logistically . It is an amazing deal that has been struck by fifa today along with a number of configurations that represent the different continents of the football landscape. If fans thought the idea Of A Winter World Cup was a novel proposition, they will be just as amazed perhaps is the announcement today. For the First Time Ever at the world cup will be staged across three continents. It will be staged in three countries in 2026 in the us, canada and mexico. Fifa have gone one better it seems with this. Six Different Countries over three continents. Spain, portugal, morocco are effectively the co hosts of this tournament, but in a move that is meant to honour and mark the centenary of the inaugural world cup in
Minutes. The flagship Free Childcare scheme in england now one charity says parents are subsidising it from their own pockets. Are of champagne. It is really bound to in small doses. Id offer you a glass of champagne. He was the actor behind television sleuth jason king Peter Wyngarde has died in hospital at the age of ninety. Taxpayers owe private Companies Like carillion almost 200 billion pounds to complete big building projects and the public spending watchdog says its not the best value for money. In sport curtains for konta. The british number one is out of the Australian Open after a shock defeat to the world number 123. Good morning. First, our main story. Britain is to increase its contribution towards border controls in france by nearly 45 Million Pounds, and commit to taking in more migrants calais. The deal will be announced at a summit between theresa may and the french president Emmanuel Macron this afternoon. Their meeting at the armys Officer Training Academy in sandhur
Thats going to be building toward our area. Not only this evening but over the next several days. A live look outside of our studios. Temperatures have been in the 90s. But this is what it feels like. 98 right now is the current feels like temperature philadelphia. 98 in dover. Look at wrightstown, feeling like 98 degrees. The Lehigh Valley allentown it feels like 96 degrees. Heres the danger. An excessive heat warning right along the immediate i95 corridor. Saturday through monday feels like temperatures over 100 degrees. Look at future feels like temperatures. By tomorrow 3 00 oclock in the afternoon, it will feel like 108. In wilmington. 104 in dover. 100 and 5 degrees in philadelphia. So that is the danger. Coming up well talk how long this heat wave lasts, but also shattering records and what to expect for the all important dnc it looks like the heat and humidity will stick around. Chris . Thats right, big weekend ahead, scott. This excessive heat raising another concern as the ci
Actually until the threes in some places in our suburbs. In philadelphia, 51 degrees, sun up little while now, 7mile per hour winds, very low relative humidity at 36 . 39 degrees mount pocono, 38 in pottstown. And we are 46 degrees in wildwood at the moment, today, 68 degrees, our high, cooler afternoon than yesterday. And then tonight down to about 46 degrees, and another chilly night, there is some rain on the way, eventually, we will tell when you coming up in the seven day forecast. But here is a bridge to avoid in to delaware. Delaware Memorial Bridge, dont do it, hovering over the double jelly donut delay here leaving new jersey trying to get to the delaware Memorial Bridge. A major jam, major parking lot it, all started last night, when they noticed some problems in the suspend err coil. Looks like metal cable that holds the bridge up. Major construction. Right now only one lane open leaving new jersey. We are stacking up like the pancakes here, to the traffic maps again with on
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