Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. Bill third grade is a critical benchmark. Those who cant read are four times more likely to drop out of school. Gillian memphis, tennessee, 76 of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. Only 1 of those students were held back a year. Bill at problem chronic absenteeism. More than a quarter of students are missing at least 10 of the school year. It puts them of greater risk of dropping out. The governor from arkansas Sarah Huckabee sanders with us yesterday. We have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this Propaganda Leftist Agenda Teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. Its one of
bill: got ourselves a rare hurricane for southern california. hurricane hillary intensifying to a cat four earlier today churning in the pacific a few hundred miles off the southern coast of cabo in mexico. fox weather meteorologist jane is tracking the storm. what do you see and forecast? unprecedented you re right. category 4 storm awaiting the next outlook for the national hurricane center coming later this afternoon. what a powerful storm. almost 500 miles, large and powerful. we have the alerts up for the southern baja of california including tropical storm warnings and hurricane watches likely extended northward as the day goes on today. here is the latest forecast track. shifted a little further east this morning but still some