I want to thank my amazing team, my family that made so many amazing sacrifices for me. And Beaming Biles after struggles with her mental Health Superstar american gymnast Simone Biles takes bronze on the beam. In other news. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says scotland will remove most of its remaining covid restrictions from Monday Face coverings in indoor public settings will continue. This change is significant and hard earned. The Sacrifices Everyone has made over the past year and a half can never be overstated. Coronavirus Cases continue to fall in the uk, but deaths have risen to 138 the highest reported daily figure since march 17th. Borisjohnson meets the Opposition Leader of belarus after one of the countrys athletes at the olympics sought sanctuary in a foreign embassy. Sprinter tells the bbc why she did it. I want people to stop being afraid, i want them to speak out because when there is pressure its really important not to keep silent. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc N
Lets cross now to the scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who is making a virtual statement to msps she is set to reveal whether her government will lift most legal Covid Restrictions. I will set out a number of mitigation conditions. I will summarise the key points from new guidance being published today on arrangements for the start of The New School year. Let me start by summarising todays statistics. The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 1016 which is 8. 1 of all tests. There are 406 people receiving Host Tokyo and 61 people receiving Host Tokyo and 61 people receiving Host Tokyo and 61 people receiving Intensive Care which has won more than yesterday. Sadly nine further deaths were reported over the last 24 hours taking the total number of registered is death and the daily definition to 7952. As always i want to convey my sincere condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one. I can also report that 4,014,000 212 people have now received a first dose of v
before we get there come overnight tonight, still the risk of storms coming across parts of kent in particular. plenty of showers too for scotland and northern ireland. the bulk of the country actually is not particularly humid but it will take quite a while before that fresher air starts to waft its way into east anglia in south east england, so quite a muggy night for the most part. but by the time we get to tomorrow, fresher air will start to rise behind this cold front and tomorrow is a day essentials of sunshine and showers, though that said, there could be some longer spells of rain particularly working in across northern areas of scotland. elsewhere, the showers get going into the afternoon, some of them turning heavy and thundery in nature, one or two heavy downpours to come and temperatures by and large a bit below average but because we are still in august and that august sunshine, i think it will still feel 0k. it s a similar picture as we head into the weekend, ag
comments from brinks. repportingl ive. southern highlands prep academy fired brinks in early october. the parent from schofield middle school approached police later that month. the driver accused of driving drunk and causing a deadly crash on boulder highway last year pleads guilty. judge: are you pleading guilty today because you are truly guilty of these two offenses? lee: yes your honor. 22-year-old seong lee pleaded guilty to two counts of d-u-i resulting in death. each charge carries up to 20 years behind bars. police say lee was behind the wheel in the march 5-th crash that killed 18-year-old gabrielle thomas and 17-year-old kamesha gilmore. an arrest report says lee admitted to drinking several beers before driving. he was also out on bond for another d-u-i charge. a judge says lee will not be eligible for probation. once he s released from prison he will have a restricted driver license. and must order a owns or operates. date is april 18-th. clark county school
of the man who was shot or said whether or not he ll face charges. reporting live cyndi lundeberg fox 5 news earlier today northern nevada construction workers gathered to protest outside of the tesla factory near sparks. the workers were saying tesla isnt keeping up their end of the deal with nevadans fox 5 s miguel martinez-valle has been following the progress of maker s tesla motors and he has the details tesla and faraday are supposed to hire 11,000 new workers in the next five years, and most of those are supposed to be nevadan s in return they re getting big tax incentives from the state. but some are concerned the car makers wont keep up their end of the deals high paying jobs that was the promise made by both tesla motors and faraday future in order to get tax incentives from the state. but some protestors up north believe tesla isnt holding up their end of the deal. construction workers marched outside the gigafactory site, saying tesla is bringing in workers from