School safety against targeted violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I actually want to thankour witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and your families and the other families of the families for attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that can prevent tragedies for other families, its remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which date back to about 1998 is where we had the first directed attack, numbers of 56. I know in your testimony youre talkingabout 710 shootings since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed, 12 students, one teacher, 21injured, sandy hook in 2012, 26 killed. Two were injured and parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Anthe death and casualty toll is simply unbelievable, quite honestly. I grew up in the
Life changing. Plus, marine a is a free man. Royal marine Alexander Blackman, who was jailed for shooting dead a wounded taliban fighter, has been released from prison. Overnight. He received a life term in 2013 for murder, but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter. His wife spoke to this programme in march when she heard the news that he would be released. I spoke to him shortly afterwards and i think it took a little longer for the realisation to hit. I think he had worked very hard to prepare himself for not such good news, so once it had finally dawned on us that we were going to be together soon, we were very happy. Well bring you all the details in the next half hour. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until am this morning. So much to talk about today, please get in touch, please get in touch. Porna bell was married to rob, a Science Journalist for three years before she discovered he was a secret heroin user. We have been speaking to her in her First Television int
Good morning. Its friday 28th april. Im annita mcveigh. Police say theyve arrested six people following a Counter Terrorism operation in North West London, in which a woman was shot by armed officers. The female suspect, whos in her 20s, is under police guard in hospital. Officers believe theyve thwarted an active Terrorist Plot. The raid is not connected with yesterdays arrest near Downing Street of a man carrying knives. Our correspondent andy moore is in willesden at the scene for us now. Whats the latest you have on this investigation . We now have a total of six people arrested in connection with this investigation. There was a raid on the street at about 7pm yesterday and we can bring you some video filmed by a neighbour. You can see Police Officers with long barrelled guns, we understand cs gas was fired into the property, you can see today one of the windows is broken, so you can see those armed Police Officers. We can see what appears to be a woman who is brought out of the pr
Record breaking. The dow and s p 500 made all time highs during yesterdays trading session. The blue chips added on 71 points, the nasdaq 46 and the s p 14. Gold closed up 2 and oil by 72 cents. A tesla plant fire in california reportedly injured 3 workers wedesday. It caused the stock to tumble 2 dollars, but later bounced back. The workers are okay . Cisco had a miss on revenue along with a profit slip. The stock fell more than 3 after the close. And the nations deficit is shrinking. The shutdown and sequestration cuts assisted in reducing the deficit between Government Spending and revenues raised by 24 in october. Todd horwitz of average joe options joins us on this thursday morning for a closer look at the stock market. Good morning to you. Good morning angie. We keep hearing how lower gas prices are helping the consumers. Do you think that lower gas prices will be a driver for people to buy more stocks . No i dont think so. I think what youre really seeing here angie is a lot of
African variant. The number of children of key workers who are still going into Primary Schools is undermining the lockdown, teaching unions have warned. And some nurseries looking after the very youngest children question why they have to stay open and say they need more help to deal with the pandemic. A change in tone from President Trump he now condemns the violent storming of the us capitol by his supporters. Hello, good afternoon. The latest r numberfor the uk has been published and government scientists estimate it is currently between 1 and 1. 4 that means that on average every ten people infected with the virus will pass it on to between 10 and 1a people. Before christmas it was estimated to be between 1. 1 and 1. 3. Scientists advising the government said the estimates of r and growth rates are based on the latest Data Available up to january 11th and do not include any impact of the Current National lockdown. The mayor of london, sadiq khan, has declared a Major Incident in t