Children, perhaps close to halloween. Next steps, pfizer and its partner, biontech, will apply to the fda in coming days to get their vaccine authorized for use in children. The new york times underscoring the urgent need for a safe and effective vaccine for kids asap writing this, quote, children now account for one in five new cases, when the highly contagious delta variant has sent more children into hospitals and icus in the past few weeks than at any time other time in the pandemic. It s coming at a complicated moment for kids in schools with classrooms all across this country shutting down or having to revert once again to remote learning just days or weeks into the new school year. Doctors in alaska, idaho, and montana are facing what the washington post describes as agonizing ethical questions, forced to ration care for some of its sickest patients as hospitals surpass capacity due to covid surges. The state of alabama revealing their grimmest of statistics, that deaths outpace
here s what s coming up on sportsday this evening. all out by lunch, england women crumble at trent bridge in the first match of their ashes series. one of scotland s most successful managers, craig brown, dies. we will hearfrom one of managers, craig brown, dies. we will hear from one of his players. ryan reynolds and robert michael any turnaround wrecks some fortunes, but why are they getting into formula 1? also coming up on sportsday: there s been success at the eastbourne international for british tennis. wejoined the we joined the british wejoined the british paralympic in george peasgood as he fights his way back after injury. back evening, welcome along, a really summery feel to sportsday today, lots of cricket and tennis, we ll start with the womens ashes because england have lost their one off test to australia on the final day at trent bridge. they had hope this morning with 152 runs required and five wickets in hand, but it was all over by lunch. jo currie report
bbc news, nairobi. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. hello, the good news is that the rain in northern ireland has eased. but in 2a hours, there were three inches of rain in county down which led to the flooding. it looks likely that northern ireland will miss the worst of the rain from storm ciaran as it arrives in time for thursday. but with rain elsewhere, saturated ground, further flooding and the damaging winds are likely to be in the far south. there is an amber wind warning from the met office, i will show you that later. but the details are not nailed down yet because the storm has not developed, it will develop from this cloud which is the other side of the atlantic. ahead of that, this cloud is going to bring rain into the far south west to spoil hallowe en. we have still got a little bit of rain in northern ireland and northern england, but it is easing, still a lot of cloud keeping it on the chilly side. we follow that rain in the south west thro
Gary Shaw, the famed boxing promoter who eventually tried MMA when he helped launch Elite XC and careers for fighters like Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano, has died at the age of 79.