Families rely on schools for meals for their kids. The longterm Public Education system is still unclear. But covid19 is absolutely magnified the problems we heard about when making this episode. Thank you. What grade are you in. 4th. Do you like 4th grade . Mmhmm. I like your glasses. I like yours, too. You want to try these on in. Im good. What are your favorite subjects . Reading, math, science. I like her, she makes learning fun. Cute kids, amazing teachers. Thats what this episode is about. Its not schools or achievement gap . Nope, why would we talk about that. I dont think people understand how challenging our profession is. To go with the flow. I got to be very patient. Back in my day we called like lunch ladies. You know. You know. No. Notes notes i used to hate lebron james. Im a jordan guy. I live in the bay area. So i used to hate him. Then he went and did this. Lebron james opening the i Promise School in his hometown. He says opening this school may be the greatest moment
Boots says results take 12 minutes, but theyll cost £120 each. A week before the us election, democrats anger as President Trump looks set to get his choice for the Supreme Court through. Classical music plays. And the moment a former music teacher with dementia hears his new Charity Single, backed by the bbc philharmonic. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Borisjohnson is refusing to bow to pressure for the government to fund free Schools Meals for disadvantaged pupils during the holidays. Speaking this morning, he promised no child would go hungry this winter. The Prime Minister said his approach of providing money through universal credit and local councils was right to point out several conservative mps have backed a campaign led by footballer Marcus Rashford for a rethink. Jonathan blake reports. Donations of food for families already facing hardship in leeds, volu nteers already facing hardship in leeds, volunteers at this Community Centre say these food parcels
We begin with President Trumps unprecedented, that is right, i said it. Unprecedented attempt to try to somehow undo what happened on november 3rd and come out as the winner of the election. Hes tried challenging the results in court. That hasnt worked. Hes tried just claiming victory. That clearly hasnt worked. So today hes trying something else. Calling in republican state lawmakers from michigan to meet with him at the white house. Why is that important . Because technically, the state legislature could try to seat electors who will vote for trump even though biden won the state by more than 150,000 votes. The lawmakers themselves have said they have no intention of doing that. They are turning down the president of the United States. But it fits perfectly with a reuters report about trumps new strategy. Try to persuade local republicans to intervene on his behalf in battleground states and somehow flip them from blue to red. We know theres basically zero chance that will happen, bu
Power just enough that the Syrian Rebels will be able to finish the mission and actually drive him from power. And in order to do that, the leader of the Free Syrian Army told us in conjunction with a western military action that the rebels will launch their own offensive. They have already begun to stockpile ammunition, some new ammunition has been arriving. They have confirmed to us the question now is what will that leave the United States and what will it leave syria, if Bashar Al Assad is toppled. There are many different rebel factions who are operating in syria, only a few of them are friendly to the United States. Richard engel, nbc news, in southern turkey. U. N. Inspectors left their hotel today, headed to an unknown destination. We should note the u. S. Stocks sold off big time yesterday. You see what happened there. Dow was off over 1 . In asia overnight, take a look at what happened on this news. We have red arrows across the board, the hang seng off 1. 5 . And the nikkei
2,200 cases of coronavirus here in the u. S. Confirmed cases. And at least 49 people have died. The virus is impacting millions of people in every region of this country. Well talk about the latest in the International Headlines in a minute but we want to begin here in the United States. Late night for lawmakers in washington, the house passed the Coronavirus Response bill just before 1 00 a. M. And this was at the end of a day of intense talks between House Speaker nancy pelosi and the white house as well. And the president tweeted his support for the bill late last night. But still 40 republicans voted against it. The bill goes to the senate next week. Sarah westwood is with us now. So President Trump i know is praising the team work between republicans and democrats today, but do we have any clarity on why so many republicans, those 40, voted no . Reporter they were heated negotiations over this bill over a period of two days, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin taking lead for the whi