the two crawford county deputies were suspended and the police officer placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated. police say the man in the video is 27-year-old randall w warchester. they accused him of spitting at a convenience store clerk. where he was arrested outside the store. one witness tells a cnn affiliate it looked like the man got up to run away to avoid arrest, but the sheriff claims he got up to attack an officer. warchester is being held at the county jail on multiple charges. it s unclear whether he has an attorney. the crawford county sheriff s office released a statement writing, i hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter. arkansas governor asa hutchinson tweeted it will be investigated pursuant to video evidence and the request of the prosecuting attorney. now, the local sheriff s office says a state investigation has been opened that will be limited to the physical use of
this is valid for thursday and into friday. deep floodwaters are possible, damage to homes and businesses from the flash floods and river flooding too. that is still to come. it s not happening at the moment. the weather is in the process of going downhill. this is the rainfall accumulation we have been showing you this graphic for the last two or three days. you can see the signs for a fair amount of rainfall, but there are distinct spots in the uk and it looks like the south east could see heavy rain too. but it is really this part of the country we are focusing on. for today, the wet weather spreads into southern and western parts of the uk. the rain doesn t even necessarily have to be torrential at any moment, it is more that it will be very persistent in certain parts of the country over the next few days. early on thursday, the heaviest rain is across the north of england and the lakes in two parts of scotland and northern ireland. in the south, there is even a bit of b
i m hill harper. thanks for watching. welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper, australia s great barrier reef is the world s largest marine habitat and one of the natural wonders the world. but it s now in its seventh mass bleaching during events in 1998, which means the warming waters around australia are killing the coral, turning this vibrant ecosystem into an underwater graveyard this is just one of several climate crisis that s plagued australian recent years. they ve been devastating wildfires and massive floods that are made parts of the country uninhabitable. and has decimated the population of native species like koalas. cnn s i ve and watson has been reporting on the climate disaster in australia for years. and he recently traveled back to see the evolving threats firsthand and how people are both contributing to the crisis. and trying to find ways to fix it a once in a lifetime experience a chance to walk hello, on a desert island in the middle, the gre
a hole in the ozone layer over antarctica, that s fuelled by smoke from wildfire events in australia, is exposing wildlife to protentially damaging levels of uv light. scientists from the university of wollongong say animals and plants are having to put more energy into avoiding the rays. here s our science correspondent victoria gill. the ozone layer that protects us from the sun s most harmful rays is healing gradually. but in antarctica, in cold high atmospheric clouds, a hole in that layer still appears every year. that ozone thinning or loss used to peak in september or october, when animals and plants are tucked under winter snow and marine animals are protected by sea ice. but it s now lingering until december, well into the antarctic summer, when wildlife is much more vulnerable. researchers say that s been driven in part by smoke from the australian wildfires in 2019 and 2020, which were fuelled by climate change. the researchers found evidence that antarctic plants