Promising a games to remember. After covid saw no fans in tokyo and rio was dogged by financial issues, the pressure is on for paris to rival, or even better, london 2012. Beyond just the sport however, those involved say they re mindful of a secondary purpose for the games. It is always important, we are here hoping on winning at least medals but we are part of the incredible global movement, the paralympic movement which on and off the field want disabled people to be realised in society. Those performances on the field can only help us in that cause. England and sri lanka are making theirfinal preparations before the second test at lord s tomorrow. England beat the visitors by five wickets in the first test at old trafford last week, chasing down a fourth innings target of 205. England captian 0llie pope says he s expecting another challenging game from sri lanka who impressed with their tenacity in manchester. For the guys to put together some good scores, and set us a chase from 1
For the weekend, temperatures for northern ireland and scotland reaching into the low 20s in the warmest spot and perhaps the mid 20s in the warmest areas of eastern england. So fine weather for the weekend. That s it. Now, let s join our colleagues for the news where you are. Have a very good evening. Hello and welcome to sportsday i m olly foster paris prepares for part two, after the success of the olympics, the paralympics starts tonight and british atheltes are ready i will be ready to fight, and there will be a battle. The transfer window closes on friday, italian forward federico chiesa has agreed to join liverpool and leading from the front, ollie pope says he can t let the england captaincy affect his batting also coming up on sportsday. . . Is this the end of the american dream? louis ree zammit is left out of the chiefs playing squad ahead of the nfl season two and half weeks after the olympics came to a close, we are just half an hour away from the paralympics opening cer
Its a really, really tragic situation so well hope for the best in terms of additional recovery but were bracing for some bad news just given the destruction were seeing. But i do think the Quick Response was very important and i do think it saved lives. I want to thank the folks for their bravery in doing that. Harris local affiliates are reporting 51 people are unaccounted for. Fox news is working to independently confirm that. Steve harrigan is near that building gathering information and well have a live report from him coming up. I want to move to this. Vice president Kamala Harris finally caving to pressure agreeing to visit the border tomorrow as the crisis there is raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. She waited 93 days after President Biden put her in charge. Harris back in march laughed off a reporters question on whether she planned to visit the border. An interesting journey with her. Earlier this month she was giggling when asked about it and at on
Its a really, really tragic situation so well hope for the best in terms of additional recovery but were bracing for some bad news just given the destruction were seeing. But i do think the Quick Response was very important and i do think it saved lives. I want to thank the folks for their bravery in doing that. Harris local affiliates are reporting 51 people are unaccounted for. Fox news is working to independently confirm that. Steve harrigan is near that building gathering information and well have a live report from him coming up. I want to move to this. Vice president Kamala Harris finally caving to pressure agreeing to visit the border tomorrow as the crisis there is raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. She waited 93 days after President Biden put her in charge. Harris back in march laughed off a reporters question on whether she planned to visit the border. An interesting journey with her. Earlier this month she was giggling when asked about it and at on
No word how many could be trapped and what caused the collapse. Here is what the mayor said a short time ago. They were doing roof work on the building at the time. Certainly that doesnt seem like it would be the issue that would have caused it. Some of the residents at the Community Center have complained to me the new building that went up to the south used to shake the building when they were putting the pilings in. We need to look hard at what happened there and find out because buildings just dont fall down like this. We had the dogs out there probably a few hours ago over the collapsed area and were just not getting any hits which is really heartbreaking. Bill its a sound bite that captures the moment for what were trying to understand really beneath the rubble. Dana one thing we do know the building was going under a renovation of some sorts. That might have perhaps contributed to this terrible situation. Bill the authorities have been we see the sirens all night long. At the mo