And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
While back home still one more sleep to go for these fans and millions of others preparing to watch the World Cup Final against spain in sydney. Elsewhere a goal down, then a man down, but still liverpool win in the premier league. Also coming up on sportsday. Kjt clinging on to the top three. She s one of the british medal hopes as the World Athletics Championships gets under way. And will this effect Warren Gatland s world cup squad selection . Wales beaten heavily by south africa. Hello again. Welcome along to sportsday. For theirfans back home it s the night before. But for the lionesses it s already the morning after. England are waking up on the day of the women s World Cup Final knowing that only spain stand between them and a significant slice of history. Our Sports Editor dan roan is in sydney and sent us this report. A strong will and an undying belief. England into the World Cup Final. And this is a tournament the lionesses have had to battle through, overcoming injury, the
Sidewalks, driveways but new skies have cleared, and temperatures have listen. Look at these numbers at 44 degrees in philadelphia. 12 degrees warmer then this time yesterday when we were right around freezing, it is 45 in dover, 41 wilmington and 40 degrees in allentown but there is a problem, snow really did start to melt. I dont know if you saw it but drifting off my gutter pipes all day so there is a lot of water, puddles, wet spots so temperatures do drop below freezing again tonight. There is potential for re freeze as we head into tomorrow morning not a ton but if there is something that looks wet when you walk outside tomorrow morning watch out it could be ice once again we will continue to melt that snow. Temperatures got back to normal and then we will climb higher by friday, 60 degrees and we said taste of april, 60 but also april is men for one or thing, april showers, i will tell you when rain returns to the forecast as well, coming up. So looking like weather wont be a pr
Agenda, dwight jones, my counterpart with mcgraw hill education, who is not here as he is currently serving on his Civic Responsibility of jury duty. I mentioned who is not here but in my brief introduction i would like to share with you how i, we, mcgraw hill education, got here. At the third annual urban Superintendent Academy with asa, and with the opportunity to introduce our next keynote speaker, dr. Mark fidel. You see the role that dwight jones and i work is identify Strategic Partnerships with National Alliances that also align to the core values and mission of our company. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science company, we identified with one of our longtime partners, aasa, with their work on Digital Learning and transformation and as a result of this alignment we took a lead role, an active partial with their digital and personalized learning symposiums. So our partnership continued and quite hone
Rights of individuals in a changing world which is bound bound impact upon those individual sense of who they are and what they can do. Will these nobeline human rights and Human Dignity, which is the legacy of the past two centuries continue to mark the journey of our people. And so judge as you well know. This is no ordinary nomination. Not merely because you were there and i must say to you that. It must be somewhat daunting as is experienced as you are . Sit there and with an array of people here about to question you its not an easy position to be in a confident. Im not being solicit this you will handle it. Well, but nonetheless theres not an easy position. But this nomination is more with all due respect judge and i assure you agree then about you. In the passing on this nomination of the Supreme Court we must also pass judgment on the weather or not. Your particular philosophy is an appropriate one at this time in our history. And that was senator joe biden in september of 1987