Its thursday, the 13th april. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The Education Secretary, Justine Greening, has said that she wants a new model of Grammar Schools in england which are open for everyone. She says she particularly wants to ensure that there are much stronger educational outcomes for ordinary Working Families, and notjust the privileged few. But new analysis from the government shows a majority of Selective School places go to more affluent families. Lets here little of whatJustine Greening has been saying in the past few minutes. The final part of the plan for britain is a Fairer Society. A society based on merit. Delivering a Fairer Society should start with education and our schools, making sure that our children and young people can do their very best, and reach their potential wherever they are growing up. That is the means by which we build a better country, its how we deliver the plan for britain. In short, we are the means, our countrys people, each
helicopt helicopter? whose helicopter was it and how, why it had to crash land at the top of this 51 -story building in the middle of midtown manhattan. caused a fire. new york fire presence. put the fire out. had to get all these people all 51 floors of this building out of the building safely. as we ve been saying, it s north of time square, south of central park. if you have ever been in new york city, this is the heart of the city. this is where you have all these massive, tall building and huge avenues where you have a lot of lunchtime traffic. you can imagine the city has come to a standstill. we have been reporting on the one fatality, at least one we know of which is the pilot. we don t have a name for the pilot or a company which this pilot or this helicopter may be affiliated with or why it was flying in weather that was poor as we ve been watching the pictures play out in new york city. got a number of reporters who have been covering all of this.
let s talk about arkansas this morning. there are hundreds of roads that are under water right now because of this record flooding that s continuing to drench the heartland. arkansas river broke through a major levee. that puts thousands of homes in danger. experts there say these levees have never held this much water for this long. here s cnn s natasha chen. this is rogers avenue. reporter: this is the lunchtime traffic in ft. smith these days. we ve got a doughnut shop down there. autoparts store, tuxedo rentals, liquor store. reporter: it took about a week for waters to rise slowly.
the police cars drive past him. ville va tries to let police know the suspect s location. it s taking a minute or two for word to get to the police cars. the green pickup, the hostage? silva now makes a crucial decision. to make a daring maneuver. all these police officers are many this real narrow street with speed bumps they re trying to get turned around. i look over to my left. here s this very busy lunchtime