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weather is approaching some western parts of the uk, particularly the south west here through the night, this is showery rain, showery means on and off, one minute it is quiet, then heavy then quiet again, but the vast majority of the country early on tuesday morning, pretty clear, with some morning sunshine. now here is the problem with tomorrow. so, low pressure often brings strong winds but this is large and there is very little wind in it, and that is not necessarily a good thing, because with the strength of the sun all of the moisture, will see big showers forming inland. some will be thunderstorms, some will be downpours as well and there is very little wind to push this round, so where the storm forms it dumps that rainfall and that leads to flash flooding, but flash flooding the localised. sud, most of us don t get it. it will be in spots round the country. on wednesday there will be more of a breeze in the southern half of the uk and the centre of that low tra ....
that we will be guided by the science, following the science. we know we can dramatically lower the cases in this country. we just need to finish the job with science. we are not changing the science, the virus changed, and the science involved with the changing virus. laura: the science has not changed. like all pandemics, in the wind down phase there are viral variants and mutations but the science, the immunology has not changed. the variants become more transmissible but usually not more deadly. often less so in that is immunology 101. for many months, very smart and a political scientist have been saying that vaccines would never mean zero covid infections, but instead that they would help curb hospitalizations and deaths. for 15 months we have known that those who died from covid had at least one if not two, three or more comorbidities. we know that the elderly and those with metabolic syndrome, high bmi, diabetes, hypertension would suffer the most. the mor ....
in the south, in places like alabama, arkansas, states with poor spread the variant at the same rate. but it is critical to note that breakthrough infections are care and as the cdc now pushes for vaccinated americans to wear masks indoors and many places across the country, president biden says more restrictions could be coming. more restrictions because of covid in. in all pll probability. what we can say is this virus is doing exact will i what we predicted what it will do. and if we can t get extremely high rates of vaccination, and now higher than the original strain, we re going to see more and more variants. some of which will be worse. reporter: polo sandoval, cnn, new york. so despite current covid vaccines being very effective, experts fear that might not always be the case. eventually a covid variant could evade current vaccines. for more, i m joined by salma abdelaziz in london. this is hypothetical at the moment. but what more can you tell us? ....
hello, welcome to a packed sportsday, after day one of the tokyo olympics. i m austin halewood. here s what s coming up in the programme. they re under way, and it s been a solid start for some of team gb s biggest medal hopes on day one in tokyo. two from two team gb are through to the knockout stage of the women s football competition after a win overjapan. but the hosts are up and running, their first gold of the games coming in thejudo. also coming up in the programme, away from the olympics. time for the talking to stop. the first lions test match against south africa is under way in cape town. and hope for hull charlie shoots a brilliant round on day three of golf s evian championship. good evening, welcome to sportsday. well, we are under way. after a year long delay, the tokyo olympics are now in full swing, and we ve had an action packed first day from japan. 11 gold medals were up for grabs. the first of them went to china, in the women s ten metre air rif ....
in the first wave of the pandemic while the south east was hardest hit in the second wave the heatwave across the uk has been continuing and this afternoon northern ireland has broken it s all time temperature record for the second time in 5 days. the gb women s football team off to a flying start at the tokyo olympics with a 2 nil win over chile good afternoon. we cannot go on as we are the words today of the brexit minister lord frost, demanding a rethink from the european union on britain s post brexit trading arrangements with northern ireland. the government has called for significant changes to the deal negotiated only last year but it s held back, for now, from the dramatic step of effectively suspending parts of the deal. the european commission vice president has flatly rejected the uk demand for a renegotiation of the northern ireland protocol a protocol which requires checks on goods coming in from mainland britain. chris page reports. northern ....