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the number of new covid cases reported in scotland has hit another record high of more than seven thousand in the last 2a hours. it comes as the scottish health secretary warned that the nhs was facing a perfect storm of pressure. the latest uk coronavirus figures from the government show there were 33,196 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period, which means on average there were 34,361 new cases per day in the last week. 61 deaths were recorded in the past 2a hours, with an average of 114 deaths a day in the past week. on vaccinations, 88.3% of adults in the uk, have now had their firstjab and 78.1; % have had both doses now. now it s time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. for many parts of the country, it has been a cloudy sunday and overnight there will still be a lot of cloud coming in from off the north sea once again. we are likely to find some clearer skies flung across wales and the south west where we saw the sunshine today ....
louisiana governor edwards also last hour with an update on the situation in his state. we have a very dangerous situation on our hands, with hurricane ida, and we can expect devastating impacts to continue for most of the next 24 hours or so, as the hurricane passes through the state. i can tell you right now, we do not anticipate any overtopping of the mississippi river levees or overtopping of the levees in the hurricane-risk reduction system around the greater new orleans area. arthel: that is good news for sure. look at these images. we have fox team coverage of this massive storm. meteorologist adam klotz is live in the fox weather center with the latest, but we re going to go to mike tobin which is fighting and bracing the winds there. i think you are on canal street, the edge of the french quarter. mike, take it away. well, i am on canal street. you can see we are certainly getting buffeted by some significant wind shear. the one thing is that we re not re ....
katrina. plans to ban single use plastic plates, cutlery and polystyrene cups in england have just been announced, as part of proposals to tackle what ministers say is the unnecessary use of plastics that wreak havoc with our natural environment. the measures will be considered in a public consultation this autumn, with scotland, wales and northern ireland having similar plans. here s our political correspondent, nick eardley. this is our bamboo set. is this the future of eating on the go? paris sells bamboo cutlery across the uk. we are still working with bamboo and hemp. sustainable items which he hopes are part of the answer to reducing plastic consumption. what do you think about the idea of banning plastic cutlery? yeah, i would vote for anybody who will ban it. i think plastic is everywhere. we cannot get rid of plastic completely, but there are definitely certain areas where we can improve. this is the problem plastic in oceans around the world, deadly for a ....
islamic state in afghanistan with a drone strike following thursday s deadly attack at kabul airport. meanwhile, the uk s evacuation in afghanistan reaches its final stages the head of britain s armed forces says it s been a success. we ve done an extraordinaryjob to evacuate as many as we have, but i m afraid, it s absolutely heart breaking that we can t bring everybody out. a recipe for covid chaos government plans for schools are criticised by education unions who fear a rise in coronavirus infections. hurricane ida is approaching louisiana forcing the evacuation of high risk areas. for weeks now we ve seen images of people crowding around the airport in kabul desperately trying to leave. but stories of hope are emerging too courtney bembridge has this story of one family s tearful reunion in paris. as soon as i saw my mother running to me, all this fear ran away. i rediscovered the smell of my mother and it was something i had forgotten. my mother s tear ....
alerts. a lot of lives are on the line. the pentagon is stating today according to the information they have now which is different from some of the reporting basically the chaos of yesterday, the pentagon states their findings of one explosion and not two which was widely reported in our breaking coverage yesterday. 12,000 people now additionally have been evacuated at the airport over the last 24 hours. president biden speaking today about the continuing mission. the mission being performed is dangerous and is now come with significant loss of american personnel. it is a worthy mission, they continue to evacuate folks out of that region out of the airport, we ll keep the mission. taliban insists that people with valid documents are able to get in and out of the country they claim any time. white house officials confirmed to nbc news today, places where they may go after isis for retribution for these american deaths. as the president stated in that somber address to ....