Can only help us in that cause. Now to the Us Open Tennis where the wimbledon Champion Barbora Krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second round by the romanian Qualifier Elena Gabriela ruse, beating the czech player 6 4, 7 5 to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time. Krejcikova who was knocked out of the quarterfinals at the olympics chose not to play any hard Court Warm up events going into the tournament, and withdrew from the tournament in toronto with a thigh injury. In the mens draw, fourth Seed Alexander Zverev is in action in the louis armstrong stadium. Hes taking on Alexandre Muller of france, the two have never met before. Zverev has taken the first two sets the second one a closer affair, went to a tie break. Zverev leads the third set 3 1. While the former semi finalist Grigor Dimitrov is through to the third round, the bulgarian ninth Seed Beat australian rinky Hiji Kata in straight sets. Cricket and England And Sri lanka are making their final prepa
Really looking forward to tomorrow. Guehi to newcastle . Ugarte to Manchester United . What of merino, mctominay and ramsdale . Well bring you the latest premier League Transfer news. Well bring you up to speed with the brits in action on day two of the us open. Coming up, we are in the nets as england and sri lanka prepare for the second test match at lord s. And arnie stone comes back after much dedication, energy and surgery. Weve been catching up with dame sarah storey too and well start sportsday in paris because this time tomorrow, well be gearing up for the Opening Ceremony of the paralympic games. Blissfully its expected to be dry unlike the olympics one last month. Paralympics gb are sending a squad of 215 athletes, targeting between 100 and 140 medals. Well, those athletes has chosen their flagbearers to represent them in the place de la concorde. 0ur correspondent andy swiss has more. Welcome to the paralympics of gb headquarters here in paris, and it was here early this mo
residents are warned to brace for extreme heat. temperatures expects to soar to 115 degrees. let s check in with adam klotz for the fox weather forecast. what do you have for us? adam: wild weather across the country. eastern half of the country, something similar today. you see every afternoon storms explode, expect to see something this afternoon. the rain continuing to linger across new england, at times fairly heavy. that takes heat of the day. rain from mississippi and georgia to the carolinas. potential for severe weather today, including areas like charlotte, norfolk, dc and philadelphia, up to new york. that is two on a scale of five, large hail and wind possible and isolate tornado is not out of the question. out west, it is the heat. you are seeing 115 in phoenix. 113 in vegas, 106 in bakersfield. showers here for eastern half of the country. everything in green, risk for rain for today s forecast. for the 4th of july forecast, maybe a chance of severe weather.
gansu province. more than 250 other people have been injured in the 6.2 magnitude quake. rescuers are braving freezing weather with temperatures below 13c to search for survivors. the government has dispatched teams of rescue workers to assist local emergency crews. let s go live to our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell who is in beijing, what more can you tell us? a what more can you tell us? powerful, shallow earthquakes struck the plateau as before midnight, bringing down people s homes and killing 118 residents as they slept, of those we are told 105 people died in gansu province and 13 in neighbouring qinghai. the rescue effort started through the night into the early hours of the morning and has continued today in very difficult, freezing conditions. we are told that 11100 firefighters have been sent to assist in the rescue effort. we are getting footage of emergency tents being set up. you can imagine one of the terrible things when this sort of accident happe