how local lad sean longstaff has these newcastle fans dreaming, as the club reach a first final since 1999. it s official liverpool has become the host of this year s eurovision song contest in a special handover ceremony in the city. it isa it is a dry and bright day in the south and east, but expect some rain in the north and west. the strong winds will gradually ease. good morning. it s wednesday, 1st february. hundreds of thousands of workers are going on strike today, in the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade. among them are more than 100,000 teachers in england and wales. teachers in some parts of scotland are also taking action in a separate dispute. unions say more than 23,000 schools could be disrupted, with many having to close. 0ur education reporter vanessa clarke has more. it s been a familiar sight in scotland for months. but for the first time in seven years, teachers in england, and teachers and support staff in wales, are joining the act
to have that one meal that day, to be somewhere warm and dry. and in the case of some vulnerable children, as well, to be safe as i know they are every day. yesterday i made one. did you? budgets are tight. last year in england and wales, most teachers were given pay awards by the government of 5%. here, it was taken out of the school budget. it cost £170,000 and meant some difficult decisions. it doesn t matter how much the government have put in there s far, far more going out of schools. since september, five members of support staff have left. we haven t replaced them, we ve amalgamated roles. we ve shuffled people around internally and it s stretching everything again. the impact of it all is that everybody s having to do more. everybody s tired. everybody s worn out. everybody s getting fed up because they know that actually what should be happening is that schools should be given more money that should be being funded centrally. and if that was the case, there would be no i
month. but buyers of diesel fuel are really feeling the pinch, and that includes the nation s school districts. cbs scott macfarlane reports. reporter: this semester, it s the schools learning the tough lesson in economics. diesel, at approximately $5 a gallon, is potentially combust iblg to the school budget. in montgomery county, maryland, the buses burn through an estimated 18,000 gallons a day. we go really around four and a half times around the world. it s about 112,000 miles a day on our buses. reporter: this public school system, like many other others in america, has signed a long-term fuel contract. but as some of those contracts expire in the coming months, a school bus-sized financial problem awaits many schools. you might want to tightenun the mileage some of these buses run? absolutely. we look at our routes continuously throughout the year to tighten up routing. reporter: there are approximately 480,000 school buses in america, according to
school boards who have put in sensible reasonable mask mandate measures to protect our students and teachers and staff. he has targeted those specific school board members that voted in favor, withholding their salaries from the school budget. fortunately the biden administration and the department of education stepped in and fufilled that funding but it s a very, very scary thing because he s 100% targeting the very individuals standing up for sensible measures he. like you said earlier something i m deathly concerned about we have these school board members right now but the outside public is looking at this. where s our next generation of school board members coming from? they re seeing this intimidation and attacks and they want nothing to do with it. so i m very scared where we re going down the road. thank you for joining us tonight. coming up, we re live in haiti with the latest on the developing migrant situation.
board members. it would come out of the school budget. president biden offered support if the state does indeed take funding. steph? threatening to punish people for protecting public health. dr. peter hoe tess, dasha burns, sam brock, morgan chesky, thank you. we ll leave it there. coming up next, they put their lives on the line and now they have watched the country they fought in fall. with many, many people asking, with many vets asking, what was all of this for? we re going to hear from two combat veterans who served in afghanistan, next. and enjoy fresher smelling laundry for up to 12-weeks.