And if theres one place that needs extra attention right now, its florida. Over the last week, more than 134,000 people there tested positive for covid. To put this into perspective, the u. S. Was seeing sevenday averages close to this in late may and early june, so a single state is now seeing as many cases per week as the entire country was just two short months ago, and yet florida governor Ron Desantis is facing a countrysized case count, he is playing politics despite the Fact Florida leads the country in the number of children hospitalized for covid19. He is banning Mask Mandates is schools and refusing to put in Place Mitigation measures really anywhere in the state. Lets go to orlando, florida, and natasha chen. Natasha, give us the latest here on floridas covid situation. It is just going downhill quickly. Reporter yeah, jim. The Health Officials are doing everything they can. Were at the mexican consulate in Downtown Orlando where they vaccinated about 20 people today. Earlie
official joel greenberg could significantly strengthen the justice department s hand as it investigates mr. gaetz and others that met him through florida republican poll techs and scrutinized on sex trafficking violations. the defense attorney for greenberg all but confirming serious consequences for gaetz with the cryptic remarks made outside a florida courthouse. did your client introduce matt gaetz to any underaged girls for sexual relations? right. so i m just going to let you sit there and look over your head and ignore that question. i m sure matt gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today. not very comfortable. the close ties between gaetz and greenberg detailed at length in the politico piece titled the congressman and his wingman and reports this, quote, the relationship wasn t one of equals according to mutual friends saying the tax collector looks upped to the congressman. greenberg introduced him to young women. who he met on seeking arrangement, a dating w
of sunshine and dry weather. this high pressure has been building in from the south west moving in ahead of this new frontal system arriving for the weekend. you can see on the satellite picture we start off with quite a bit of cloud and then lots of holes appearing, you can see what the blues showing those showers. lots of sunshine around particularly into scotland. another breezy day, particularly for north east scotland and the northern isles, elsewhere the breeze will be fairly fresh and that will take the edge off the temperatures. you can see the extent of the showers for central and southern areas, those will tend to fade and temperatures may be up to 14 still sees across the south, single digits for the north, feeling cooler when you factor in the breeze. this evening and the first part of the night the showers fade and many central, northern and eastern areas stay dry with light winds and under clear skies to turn in quite cold, a touch of frost in rural areas. south
in 55, a new campaign is launched to encourage people to get covid boosterjabs. a week on from the killing of conservative mp sir david amess, people in essex hold a silence in his memory. let s cross to the green party conference in birmingham, where we re expecting co leaders carla denyer and adrian ramsay to speak shortly. thank you. it is so great to see all of your in person once again. we have missed that so much. on my last day as acting leader, one member wrote to me a goodbye message that said i had carried the soul of the green party. that is a really nice thing to say, and a really nice way to describe whatjonathan and i have tried to do over the past three years and it is actually a pretty good description of the mainjob years and it is actually a pretty good description of the main job of the leaders of our party as well. i definitely think that person made that comment about the soul of the party metaphorically but in actual fact handed down to me i have this to
the journey is full of risk, but some afghans still feel this is their best hope. the prince of wales tells the bbc that he sympathises with the aims of eco protesters but not with their methods. and, captain kirk takes a real life journey into space the 90 year old actor william shatner explains why. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. wales continued their quest to feature at a first world cup since 1958. they re in qualifying action away to estonia. good evening. pregnant women are being urged by the nhs to get fully vaccinated against covid. the appeal was made following official figures which show a significant proportion of patients needing intensive care treatment are unvaccinated, pregnant women with covid. the royal college of midwives says pregnant women have a higher risk of becoming seriously ill from coronavirus. nhs england found that betweenjuly and september, out of 118 people who needed the most intensive kind of life support, 20 were preg