coming. i commend them in just being able to gather thoughts in that last minute when they didn t even know it was happening. . so chappelle said if they exceed the donations of those neutral or in favor, i will gladly step aside. if not, i will happily attend the naming ceremony, which we should mention was postponed. the principal said the stories the source stories have been inaccurate, devoid of context and neglected to include the nuances of art. as an art institution, we educate our students on the importance of media literacy and art as a free and open form of expression to both reflect and challenge society. what do you say to that? so what i say to that is, first of all, she is doing, in my opinion, a horrible job of fostering the students in her care now. her job right now is to groom and shepherd the artists in her care. not pander to one that came through 20 years ago when i finished well, dave finished duke ellington a year before i got there. so currentl
variant. it s hard to tell what s spreading faster this morning, the variant or dpfear. is it more contagious, is it more lethal? does it evade vaccines? it will take weeks to get answers. overnight, the united states banned entry for non-citizen travelers from south africa and seven neighboring countries. at least 44 other countries are also imposing travel restrictions. japan, israel and morocco have suspended all arrivals of foreign nationals, basically shutting down their borders. a growing number of countries reporting confirmed cases of the omicron variant, including canada. the variant has not been detected in the u.s. yet. we say yet because health officials say it may already be here. the cdc is currently sequencing coronavirus genomes, working closely with state health officials. south african epidemiologist is aleem abdul karim talked about what they re seeing there. based on the current evidence in south africa, it s transmitting faster than the delta variant
classrooms. lauren green is live in the new york city news room on parents running low on patients. lauren good evening. absolutely. good evening, trace. well, migrants buffed up to democratic cities like new york are finding their sanctuary city status comes with a hefty price tag. since last year the city s public school system has enrolled nearly 19,000 migrant students with roughly 500 in the past week alone. according to the empire center for public policy, that could end up costing big apple taxpayers over a half billion dollars. and tensions over the migrant crisis have been boiling over with hundreds protesting the city s plan to turn a shuttered catholic school into a shelter. if they could see what we re seeing on the ground, i know that they would know they would understand this is a poor location for these migrants. it s in the middle of a residential community and they re going to keep coming out and protesting against us. parents also expressed outrage t
the exceptional warm weather the world experienced last month did not surprise climate scientists. it coincides with a near record increase in co2 concentrations in the atmosphere. the link between c02 and rising temperatures is well established and this year global temperatures got an extra boost thanks to el nino, which brings warmer water to the surface of parts of the tropical pacific. that explains why february was 1.77 degrees warmer than preindustrial temperatures, and why global average temperatures hit a record 1.55 degrees above preindustrial levels over the last 12 months. it means we have temporarily at least breached the 1.5 degrees threshold the world agreed to try and limit temperature rise to, to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. february 2024 was the warmest february on record globally, with an average temperature of 13.54 degrees, above the 1991 2020 temperature. while this is remarkable, because, for instance, it is a tenth of a degree warmer than
results? and face-to-face with a killer. a professor describing his encounter with michigan state university gunman and the quick thinking that may have saved lives. plus, a major recall of tesla cars. the car discovered a problem with the self-driving feature. what you need to do if you happen to own one of these vehicles. welcome. we start with trump speaking about the unidentified object shot out of the sky. president biden says nothing suggests these objects are related to china s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance objects from any other country but we should note the u.s. has not yet been able to recover any of the debris from the three objects shot down over the weekend because of remote locations and severe weather. president biden also said he hopes to speak with chinese president xi jinping soon although we should also note attempts by top u.s. officials to speak to their chinese counterparts have been rebuffed in recent days. let s get straight to cn