Why fewer shoppers and more closures made july an especially tough time for retailers. Ill have the details. A Fabulous Four and a perfect start to the new premier League Season for Manchester United, who thump chelsea at old trafford and inflict a first defeat for Frank Lampard. Good morning. Today we are looking ata good morning. Today we are looking at a mixture of sunshine and showers. Showers in the north and west, have very heavier and thundery showers in the south east, in between some sunshine, and this weeks weather remains unsettled. Ill have more in 15 minutes. Its monday, august 12. Our top story drug crime has risen in rural areas but fallen sharply in major city centres. A bbc investigation has found that in some villages in england and wales it has more than quadrupled in five years. The findings highlight concern about the spread of so called county lines gangs which traffic drugs using children and vulnerable people. Dan johnson reports. The latest frontier in the figh
Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. A bbc investigation has found that drug crime in some villages in england and wales has more than quadrupled in five years. Thats as drug crime as a whole has risen in rural areas and smaller towns, but fallen sharply in major city centres. The findings highlight concern about the spread of so called lines gangs which traffic drugs using children and vulnerable people. Dan johnson reports. The latest frontier in the fight against drugs. Heroin and crack cocaine are pouring into north wales from merseyside and manchester. Theres a lot of money to be made in this town. Children and young people are running drugs hundreds of miles. They are vulnerable and at risk. If someone becomes established here, then llandudno is their town, if you like, so if another rival gang or someone from manchester or Something Like that tries coming into town and muscling in on the business, well, youre going to start getting sort of fighting between the two g
Good morning. Todays open hearing is the fourth in a series the committee is skukting to examine the intersection of Key National Security challenges and intelligence. In our prior hags we explored the rise of authoritiarianism, russian intelligence trade craft and chinas use of technology as a actual of oppression. This morning we will look at Climate Change which is the greatest longterm it National Security threat to the u. S. And affecting every dimension of National Life for decades and possibly centuries. In the unclassified 2019 worldwide threat assessment director of National Intelligence coates submitted this finding to Senate Counterparts on behalf of the the community. Quote Global Environmental and ecoology aldid he grey graduation and Climate Change are likely to fuel competition for resources economic distress and social discontent through 2019 and beyond. Climate hazards such as extreme weather, high temperatures, droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, Sea Level Rise owe s
Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Test test test test. What you would need is definitively need an icebreaker to navigate that piece of geography. What you dont see on this map because it would clutter it is beyond that 100 coverage inside of that blue line, there are areas where you get 60 sea ice coverage, 30, 40, which you would probably also want an icebreaker or definitely need an ice hardened clad ship to navigate. The purple line, on the edges of the map because the arctic is entirely icecovered in the winter and the maximum ice is in march. The minimum is in september. What you see there is you need an icebreaker to navigate any of that in the march time frame. It provides a rough seasonality in the arctic. So how has that changed over the last 50, 40, 30 years, whatever it is . Is it bigger, smaller, the same . What are we looking at . The navy uses a figure of a per decade loss of 3 of maximum ice per year and 13 of minimum ice p
Start the new year. We have this accuweather alert that just seems as though it will not end. Dave murphy has more on that and karen rogers has your traffic. Good morning. Good morning. Im so excited. All four of us together. I know. Starting a new year. Yay nice. Its been awhile, too. I wish the weather was nice. Yeah. Lets take you to the weather center. Well get plenty of sunshine. You can see cloud cover off the coast. Another little batch coming in from the west. That will probably pretty much break apart off to the west and like yesterday, the temperatures will really be the story along with that wind chill. Right now were at 13 degrees in philadelphia. These numbers a little better than yesterday but still very raw. 11 degrees in allentown. 12 at this hour in trenton. 12 in wilmington. 12 in millville. 16 in cape may. Even though the winds arent quite as strong were looking at severe wind chills. Feels like 1 degree below zero in philadelphia, three below zero in allentown, four