Across the uk, landmarks including the blackpool tower, Wembley Stadium and the london eye illuminate in his honour. This morning well have reaction and tributes from those he loved, helped and inspired. And the World Of Sport, that captain sir tom loved so much, has been paying tribute. The former Olympic Champion Jessica Ennis hill said he will forever be a hero to many people. She presented him with a special award in december. And scientists discover the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is 76 effective during the three months after the first dose. Good morning. Today we have got some rain, sleet and mostly hill snow moving across Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland. Southern england are seeing some heavy rain, but in between some heavy some sunshine and showers. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 3rd of february, and todays breakfast is a special programme to celebrate the life of a man who gave us so much of his time over the last ten months captain sir tom moor
Front covering over japan. The region has borne the brunt of the damage. People in the affected areas are trying to recover what they can between downpours. One resident says all the furniture and appliances on the ground floor of his house were damaged by flooding. Translator i want the rain to stop. I hope it stops as soon as possible. Volunteers are working with residents to clear out mud. Only people within the prefecture are allowed to help as a precaution against the coronavirus. People at evacuation shelters are also trying to maintain social distancing. More than 6,000 houses have been flooded or damaged across 19 prefectures. Officials are still trying to get a full picture of the destruction. People across the krunt are donating food, bottled water and other necessities to h help tho in hardhit areaeas. Prime minister abe shinzo say police, firefighters and selfdefense force personnel have rescued more than 2,300 people. Translator i want officicia to do all they can to save
Centered about 65 miles southeast of parryville alaska. Its the blue circle that you see there just off the Alaska Peninsula coastline. A depth of about 17 miles o is pretty far down luckily all tsunami warnings have been called off the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there are no threats currently to the u. S. Or the canadian coast lines. According to the usgs since 1900 theyve actually been about 6 other earthquakes of this magnitude or stronger within about a 200 mile radius of last nights quake. The largest of it was about an 8. 2 that was way back in 1938. Now this map here shows you the severity of the shaking that was felt right at the epicenter of course major shaking was occurring but as the waves propagated out and finally reached the peninsula coastline. Those waves were more of a moderate to weak sensation which means that damage probably on the very light side if any at all no reports of any injury or damage, but well let you know if we find out anything different. Dow
Have a map that shows you where the rise in cases are compared to the week prior and you can see by the color coding that actually california has slightly improved. Somewhat since the last time this map was published were seeing only just a steady rise in cases as it as opposed to that end a 50 jump like weve seen in weeks past across the country. We have now more than a 142,000 recorded deaths with more than 3. 9 million infections. In the wake of the rising numbers and the dropping poll numbers for the president he appears to be changing his tune on coronavirus he had a briefing his first briefing with the coronavirus said debt just resume, you know yesterday and he urged everybody to wear masks. And even went as far as admitting that things will likely get worse the president says before they get better. And now the cdc is reporting the number of infected americans could be. 2 to 24 times greater than the actual reported case numbers. Think about 40 of these infections. Are without
After reopening many have been told they need to keep customers out once again. Good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us on kron 4 news tonight at 8 our top story tonight, new details about what San Francisco Public Schools will look like in the fall. The San Francisco Unified School District recommended beginning the school year with Distance Learning. Kron fours taylor sackey live for us now from the School District headquarters with the very latest taylor. You can while the plan is to start the school year with Distance Learning the School Board Hopes to eventually face students back into the classrooms once its safe to do so the school board says that this is probably the best option after reviewing the latest science and data and also holding many town Hall Meetings with the community. San Francisco Unified School District is moving forward with starting the school year at home and the district zoom meeting on tuesday. Superintendent Vincent Matthews r