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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Fox news anchor's on-air rant against LA rioters
By A news anchor in Los Angeles lost his cool live on-air while watching a car burn and seeing rioters hammering out chunks of sidewalk. 'I don't see why it can't be stopped right now,' Fox 11's Elex Michaelson said during the broadcast, as a network helicopter beamed back footage in real time late Monday. 'I mean, you got all these people out there, and we see what's happening, and every station is showing it happening, and they're smashing up rocks and they're setting fires on the street,' he continued 'And yet, everybody is allowed to wander and do their thing.' As Michaelson spoke, protesters in the shot were seen using hammers to break off debris before stuffing it into backpacks. 'And yet, if our parking meter goes two minutes too long, there's a ticket right there,' Michaelson raged. 'How does that happen? I mean, who are we protecting?' The journalist - fresh off an interview with Gov. Gavin Newsom - then asked 'what our priorities are right now as a society.' 'This guy's allowed to hack the sidewalk,' he said. 'But god forbid I'm two minutes late on my parking meter.' Joining him remotely was retired LA police officer Nick Wilson, who now runs the Los Angeles Sheriff's Professional Association. The union boss sat quietly through Michaelson's diatribe before agreeing with him. Wilson singled out two of the city's top cops - LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell and Sheriff Robert G. Luna - as the parties who should be facing such questions. 'This should be ended right now,' he said. Michaelson referred to those caught on camera as 'thugs, anarchists, idiots,' expressing disbelief at the scene unfolding before him. 'Literally, what we were just looking at together was somebody taking a hammer to the sidewalk, to then be able to get rocks in their bag to throw at law enforcement,' he said. 'That's what we're watching. I mean that's what's happening right now live on our cameras.' The day before, demonstrators were seen in the same area hurling debris off on an overpass at California Highway Patrol officers. Hours prior, hundreds of federal agents arrived on the orders of President Donald Trump. 'Look at what you're seeing. This looks like a third-world country right now,' Wilson told Michaelson Monday as the fourth day of protests continued. 'Should this be ended? Can it be ended? Absolutely. Is it? No.' Earlier on Monday, Michaelson welcomed Newsom for an in-person interview, where the politician accused Trump of acting like a dictator. 'He's not for peacemaking. He's here for war,' Newsom said, adding that he plans to sue the Trump administration. 'He wants a civil war on the streets of America, not just here.' Violence escalated with the deployment of National Guard on Sunday, with cops later confirming dozens of arrests. By 11:30pm Monday - when Michaelson offered his real-time reaction - protesters were still setting fires and forming barricades with objects they found on the street.
BBC News
30-04-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Yorkshire's lowest rainfall in 90 years as temperature to soar
As Yorkshire prepares for what is expected to be the hottest day of the year so far, records show the region has endured its driest combined February, March and April for almost 90 78mm (3in) of rainfall has been recorded at Sheffield's Weston Park weather station since the start of February - the lowest since 1938. Typically we would expect to see around 184mm (7in) and, by contrast, the same period in 2024 was the sixth wettest on record, when 300mm (11.8in) could reach as high as 26C (79F) later - the average for late April is 14C (57F) - and though they are expected to fall later in the week there is little, if any, rain in the forecast as we head into May. But, while the warm weather may be a boon to sunbathers and holidaymakers alike, it's not universally Dr Nick Wilson, an arable farmer in the Vale of York, who specialises in crops such as wheat and barleyHe said he had only recorded 20mm (0.7in) of rain at his farm in the last 10 weeks. The contrast with last year when his crops were sitting in flooded fields couldn't be more stark."It's a crucial time of the year for the development of crops," he tells me."And with the lack of rainfall we are already looking at a 15% drop in crop yield."More worryingly, if we don't get any rain in the next week or 10 days, the yield could drop to potentially more than 20%."Inevitably, this is likely to mean higher prices in the shops later in the farmers like Nick haven't recovered from the disastrous spring floods last year, which lead to another poor UK harvest"We've been hit from every side at the moment, whether it's politically, economically or financially," he says."And this could just be another nail in that proverbial coffin. It's not good and farmers' mental health is really suffering." Jim McQuaid, from the Department for Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, tells me no-one should be surprised by these increasingly frequent weather recent years we have seen numerous records broken in the UK - the most notable one in July 2022 when 40C was recorded for the first time - a temperature which scientists believed would have been impossible were it not for climate change."This is what the weather models have been telling us for a number of years, but now we're actually seeing it with our own eyes," Dr McQuaid there's evidence to suggest that the jet stream - so crucial in determining weather in the UK - is being impacted by our warming planet, leading to longer periods of the same a ribbon of fast-moving air high up in the atmosphere, formed by the clash between cold air in the Arctic and the much warmer air in the the Arctic is becoming less cold - it is the fastest warming place on earth – and this is weakening the temperature contrast with the sub-tropics, which is so crucial in determining the strength of the jet may be causing the jet stream to meander in the Atlantic - becoming slower-moving and so becoming stuck – leading to longer periods of either rainfall like we saw last spring or dry weather that we have seen since for farmers like Nick, who are desperate for some rainfall, the long range forecast doesn't offer much in the way of hope, with the first half of May expected to see a continuation of the drought.I've been a meteorologist for 30 years, and there can be no doubt we are seeing patterns of weather becoming more extreme, not just the intensity of events, such as more rainfall, but the length of time these types of weather flooded fields with crops under water last year and the same fields this year with crops struggling to survive the drought illustrates our changing climate, with projections suggesting these patterns are only likely to become more extreme over time. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
09-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Northampton homelessness sleep-out raises half of 2024's amount
A charity that supports homeless people with a sleep-out saw its donations halve to £8,000 for this year's event on Friday Hope Centre, in Northampton, has been running The Big Sleep-Out for over a decade, raising money and awareness on Williams, head of marketing for the charity, said the figure was less than half the amount raised at last year's event and "it costs us around £1,000 a day to run the homeless centre".The charity reported a 30% increase in the number of people who have used its services over the past year, and is now seeing about 65 people a day. Last month, Hope repurposed its office area, which is next to its hub in Campbell Street, to make room for 35 beds for rough sleepers. Ms Williams emphasised the importance of collaboration with local authorities to find solutions to homelessness. "Working together, you can find solutions. That is the way forward," she said. Nick Wilson, who took part in the sleep-out, had experience of sleeping on the streets before joining the Army. "I want to raise awareness of how homelessness doesn't equate to just rough sleeping," he said."I found this out 16 months ago when my landlord sold the property from under me." Adam Brown, Leader of West Northamptonshire Council, said: "With growing demand and increased pressures on services, we need to identify new ways of working to best utilise our resources and meet people's needs."The council started a Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy last year, with an aim of building 650 affordable homes a year by 2029-30. Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
