The major power cut across the uk earlier this month was sparked by a Lightning Strike and the sudden loss of two big generators. Its emerged Jeffrey Epstein signed a will two days before killing himself in his new yorkjail cell, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Manchester uniteds unsettled star paul pogba misses a penalty as his side are held to a draw at wolves. And coming up. We hear from the chicken connoisseur on the decision to put anti knife slogans on chicken takeaway food boxes. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The irish Prime Minister, leo varadakar, has rejected a fresh demand by borisjohnson for the eu to remove the irish backstop from the brexit Withdrawal Agreement. In a letter to the European Council president , donald tusk, mrjohnson said that it was anti democratic and inconsistent with the sovereignty of the uk, and suggested that alternative arrangements could replace it. The uk and the eu had agreed on the backstop as
Well, good morning, everybody. Humid, sticky, steamy, stuffy and thunderstorms around in these overnight hours. Here is the current temperature, 80 degrees. We will drop a bit as we get going today another degree or two. 71 kingston and poughkeepsie. 78 bridgeport, connecticut. 80 in the park. 78 around orange. Air quality alert. Bad air once again. That is really across northern Fairfield County but long island, coastal connecticut, you are not in that but the air quality wont be that good. A couple of thunderstorms around bridgewater. There is lightning in that one and around Suffolk County a storm, too to watch out for. That will run up to 80 and up the hudson river valley. Another steamy day. Highs in the low 90s. It will feel like 95 to 100. Heather is feeling better. She is back in action. I am here. We will talk about mass transit. Mass transit is there for you as well. Its doing okay as far as metro north goes. You have the Waterbury Branch. Long Island Railroad doing fine. 1,
Shirleen, back to you guys. Thank you very much, bill. Mayor de blasio is warning people today they had to be cautious because the heat is dangerous but its not keeping people away from the beaches. Folks are enjoying the sun and water. Sandra bookman is live in or charred beach to tell us about it. Ken, there is a breeze here. I will tell you a secret. Thats why our photographer and i came here. We knew we could start the day off cool. Thats the same idea a lot of people here had and the same idea people around the city told us they have. Whatever you need to do, you need to do it early. Hitting the beach on one of the hottest days of the summer is practically a no brainer. The earlier the better. Certain time of the day the sun is hot. This is, as you can see, the best time to enjoy yourself. Then when it gets hot you seek shelter. Reporter at Orchard Beach in the bronx, some worshippers claimed their spots before noon. Getting up early seems to be one of the most common ways of beat
, a few miles east, of reno. That teacher was trying to protect students when the student shot him. Maria ines ferre joins us with more on this story. Maria. Tony, im going to show you where the shooting occurred. This school located in northern nevada, four miles from reno, where the Sparks Middle School is located 800 students. The first 9 11 call came in just 15 minutes before classes started this morning. Swaswat teams and fbi responded. We just got an update from the local police a short time ago. Heres what they had to say. The injured students has one has gone through surgery and is out at this time. The other individual is doing well. The one deceased is a staff member of the school. The Sparks Middle School. The other deceased individual at this point in time appears to be a student suspect in this case. We havent gotten to all the witness interviews just yet. And the initial stuff as you can imagine, the best description is chaos. I cant say whether or not he was targeting sp