we take a live look outside heading into hour 3:30 half-hour. breaking news as we come on the air. a confirmed tornado touches down in michigan, a weekend of extreme weather ahead. 3 images of extensive damage coming in. reports of homes and businesses ripped apart. a tornado watch across part of the northeast. record-breaking heat across much of the country heading into the weekend. the northeast bracing for temperatures in the 90s. rob marciano tracking it all for us. growing concerns about the spike in covid cases as summer approaches. the u.s. reports 700,000 new covid cases just in the past week. 45% of americans living in a medium or high risk area. the first pfizer booster shots are now being given to children ages 5 to 11, hours after getting the green light from the cdc. breaking news along the southern border. late today a federal judge in
easyjet has been saying and why they are doing thie easyjet has been saying and why they are doing this- are doing this. the a319 by easyjet is one of the are doing this. the a319 by easyjet is one of the workhorses are doing this. the a319 by easyjet is one of the workhorses of - are doing this. the a319 by easyjet is one of the workhorses of the - is one of the workhorses of the easyjet fleet, taking passengers to sunny climes across europe. this morning i had a little look on easyjet s website, the a319 was going to malaga, berlin, dubrovnik, amsterdam. but as you said, lots of airlines, ba and others, are currently recruiting cabin crew because they laid off so many during the pandemic was a big impact for these stock shortages on the airlines ability to operate punctual flights and get back to their busy summer schedule is as demand has researched. easyjet cancelled a whole load of flights last month, as did ba. it battled against covid shortages, and basically took the dec
as travel bookings started to come back. our business correspondent simon browning had the latest developments on easyjet s decision. the a319 by easyjet is one of the workhorses of the easyjet fleet, taking passengers to sunny climes all across europe. this morning, had a little look on easyjet s website, the a319 was flying to malaga, berlin, dubrovnik, amsterdam. it s a real workhorse of the fleet. but as you ve said, lots of airlines, notjust easyjet, ba and others, are currently recruiting cabin crew because they laid off so many during the pandemic. it s had a big impact, these staff shortages, on the airline s ability to operate punctual flights and to basically get back to their big summer schedules as demand has resurged. easyjet cancelled a whole load of flights last month, as did ba, it battled against covid shortages and basically took the decision to cancel flights. as summer approaches, it can t be caught in that same situation where it s short staffed,
good afternoon, rio grande valley here in texas continues to be the epicenter of the border crisis with border patrol telling us in recent days, there are certain days where they apprehend more than 2000 migrants in a single day so far the weather rolling in as summer approaches, it s not slowing things down. a live click here in la jolla next to an incomplete border wall, migrants will cross the rio grande, they will run or give themselves up here ballpark and that s what we saw happening this morning. look at this video we shot from our drone this morning, this is a family unit who gave themselves up to border patrol as they were being processed. we can hear on the radio s runners coming through elsewhere along the border and border patrol resources get sucked up,
other countries are doing that, you know, germany, france. at the moment, that doesn t apply in the uk, but it could and it would open up potential for travel for lots of training over the summer. so i think it s really important but it needs to happen quickly. the government have said that decisions on traffic light allocations take into account a range of factors, including genomic sequencing and variants of concern, and that both tailored and wider economic support is still available to the sector, including the furlough scheme. as the summer approaches, the industry is becoming increasingly anxious about what will happen next. caroline davies, bbc news. let s turn to australia. new restrictions are being brought into the country s most populated city sydney in attempt to stop a growing outbreak of the delta variant. cases are still low. the authorities have reported 16 new infections, which brings the cluster there to 37 cases. so that means sydney s 5.3 million residents w