good evening, this is bbc news, i'm chris rogers. the headlines at 7pm: two mass shootings in the united states — the first at a walmart shopping centre, in which 20 people died. the gunman is in custody. we are treating it as a domestic terrorism case, and they going to do what we do with terrorists in this country, which is deliver swift and certainjustice. the second shooting took place just hours later in dayton, ohio where nine people died. police have named the suspected gunman as 24—year—old connor betts. a six—year—old is airlifted to hospital after falling from a viewing platform at the tate modern art gallery in london. a teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. all hands to the pump in the race

to reduce pressure on the dam near whaley bridge in derbyshire, as more rain is forecast. tomorrow's heathrow strike is suspended to allow for further talks between the union and airport management. and coming up in sportsday in half an hour, we'll have the latest from edgbaston, where smith and wade make centuries as australia lead past 350 in the ashes. good evening. two mass shootings just hours apart have killed 29 people in a weekend of violence in the united states. one, in el paso, texas, close to the mexican border, is being treated as a possible hate crime against the city's majority hispanic community. hours later, a gunman killed nine people in dayton, ohio, before being shot dead

at the scene by police. more on that in a moment, but first, the el paso shooting which happened at a shopping centre. police are investigating whether the gunman posted a document referring to a hispanic "invasion" of the united states a short time before the attack. sophie long reports from el paso. a normally busy shopping mall cordoned off. an investigation is under way as people come to terms with what happened here hours ago. a gunman opened fire in what was a packed walmart superstore, killing 20 people, injuring at least 26 others. one white man is in custody. he's been identified in local media as 21—year—old patrick crusius, from the dallas area. authorities are investigating whether this was a targeted racist attack. they believe the gunman may have posted a white nationalist statement online shortly before the attack. we are treating it as

a domestic terrorism case. and we're going to do what we do to terrorists in this country, which is to deliver swift and certainjustice. el paso lies right next to juarez in mexico. the border is just beyond those tall buildings there. the population here is more than 80% hispanic. the fact that the authorities are investigating whether this was a targeted racist attack, has led some to question whether the rhetoric being used by politicians here is actually making things worse. please help us. i will. democratic presidential candidate beto o'rourke, who is from el paso, left the campaign trail to be with people here. he blamed the attack on the increased levels of hate being seen across the united states and he told reporters that president trump was, in part, to blame for that. we've had a rise in hate crime, every single one of the last three years. during an administration where you have a president who has called mexicans rapists and criminals, though mexican immigrants commit crimes at a far

lower rate than those born here in this country, he has tried to make us afraid of them. to some real effect and consequence. president trump has condemned the shooting, calling it tragic, hateful and cowardly. there are people in this country this morning thinking that president trump was happy by this. that's a sad, sad state of this nation. he's angry, he's upset, he wants it to stop. the focus of the investigation has moved 900 miles away, as officials search the suspect‘s home on the other side of texas. americans ask why this has become such a familiar scene. sophie long, bbc news, el paso. just hours after the attack in el paso, nine people were killed and 27 others wounded in another shooting — this time outside a bar in dayton, ohio. police shot the gunman dead. officers have said the gunman‘s sister was among those killed. here's our north america correspondent chris buckler.

after a saturday morning of grief and violence in america came a saturday night that brought more of the same. nine people were killed and more than two dozen injured, all in a shooting that lasted less then a minute, as people were enjoying an evening out in the centre of dayton. they started pushing as out the back door, into the alley out the back because they didn't want us coming out the front because they didn't know where the shooter was. or how many there was. when you came outside, as soon as you hit the front street, you saw the bodies and you knew that this was different. you knew it was something you never thought of experiencing, never experienced. but this kind of attack has been experienced by far too many in this many in this country — there have now been more mass shootings in the united states this year than there have been days. i think that the police and ourfirst responders have done

done an amazing job. clearly the question has to be raised — why does dayton have to be the 250th mass shooting in america? the gunman has been identified as 24—year—old connor betts. his home is being searched by police, who say he was wearing body armour, using an assault rifle and carrying more magazines of ammunition when he was shot dead by officers. bang, bang, bang, bang, rapid. you could tell it was a big gun and you're not going to get those from no handgun, you're not. as detectives struggle to understand the motivation for the latest murders in this country, in ohio there is a desire to focus on those who died on a night out with friends, rather than someone who came here to kill strangers. much more on that story on the bbc news website. here... emergency workers have been continuing to shore up the dam near whaley bridge in derbyshire. so far, water levels in the toddbrook reservoir have been lowered by more than three metres, but heavy rain is now forecast. evacuated residents are no longer being allowed to return

to their properties for possessions and the cordon around the area is being strictly enforced, as danny savage reports. to get anywhere near whaley bridge, you have to be patient. i mean, maybe we should just all be a bit more understanding, but it's just frustrating. unfortunately, when we came back, then they've closed it to absolutely everybody, and clearly something or the other has happened to make them make that decision. the evacuation area is being strictly controlled by police. have you got a driving licence on you with proof of address? the issue we're having is people are ignoring road closure signs. have you been evacuated? no. this is where we need to be clear. if you've been evacuated, then you can't get down. beyond the cordons, it eerily quiet. does the silence wake you up at night? yes, it does! for the first time ever, we can hear birds. tina runs a pub on the edge

of what's now a ghost town. the worst—case scenario would be a disaster for her friends and customers. you can replace material things, to a degree, but when it's your livelihood and your home, everything, where do you begin? and i think it's really sad. at the dam, the water level has dropped significantly. the pumps are being pushed further into the reservoir but it's still not deemed anywhere near safe enough for people to return home. we have to drop the water level in the dam by about 4.5 metres more from where it is today. we are losing about two metres a day at the moment, so a couple a day minimum. what we don't know is how much we are going to be held up by the rainfall which is forecast to be very heavy later today. for people here, it's chilling to think what could have happened if the dam had failed without warning, including brian and sue, who have taken in their children and grandchildren. we would have lost our family. our son, his wife and our two lovely

girls, and so would everyone else that was involved in our village lower down, they would have experienced that awful thing. the authorities want to be sure this area is safe before letting people return to their homes, but the situation is improving. danny savage, bbc news, whaley bridge. there is lots more live coverage of this story on the bbc news website. ican i can show you what we have at the moment. the latest video coming on as repair work continues on the whaley bridge dam. more footage of the prime minister's visit. the latest summary, a lot coming from oui’ latest summary, a lot coming from our local reporters on the scene, water levels dropped significantly, danny savage reporting. more video showing how the water has dropped. lots of live updates, including weather update. and additionally if you are in the affected area or worried about people there, there's a bbc local radio news special on air right now —

tune in to radio manchester, radio sheffield or radio derby for regular updates from the emergency services. you can listen to that, bbc local news special right now on whaley bridge. police say a six—year—old boy is in a critical condition after being thrown from a tenth—floor viewing platform at the tate modern art gallery in london. he landed on a fifth floor roof and was taken to hospital by the air ambulance. a 17—year—old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. with me is our correspondent, duncan kennedy. he has been following this story. quite hard to take in the details that are emerging of this? a dreadful experience by all accounts for the eyewitnesses that saw it. a very busy day. the museum, gallery that takes in something like 6 million visitors every year, packed out again today. obviously, people

are on holiday. around 2:30pm this afternoon, this incident unfolded. there were screams, one afternoon, this incident unfolded. there were screams, one woman shouting where there were screams, one woman shouting where is my son? we don't know if this was the boy's mother or not. but this boy has, in the words of the police, been thrown off a tenth floor viewing gallery at the tate modern, a huge brick building, it used to be an old power station 0h it used to be an old power station on the south bank. the boy has ended up on the south bank. the boy has ended up on on the south bank. the boy has ended upona on the south bank. the boy has ended up on a fifth floor roof. the ambulance services were called, they treated him at the scene and then took him to hospital via helicopter. the police this afternoon had said he is ina the police this afternoon had said he is in a critical condition. they have also said subsequently that a 17—year—old youth has been arrested 0h 17—year—old youth has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. again, by all accounts, on suspicion of attempted murder. again, by allaccounts, by on suspicion of attempted murder. again, by all accounts, by some of the people who were at the scene, this youth was if not detained by members of the public, then certainly noticed by members of the public and didn't attempt to do anything, waited for the police to come and they made their arrest. he

has not been charged or anything that has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. at the same time as all this was going on, the tate gallery itself was shut down. people have used the term locked down the stop no people were allowed out or in, that was to allow the emergency services to carry out their business. it all lasted several hours. the tate modern was then close for the remainder of the day. thank you for that update, duncan. strike action by airport workers planned for tomorrow which threatened flights at heathrow has been suspended. but another strike, planned for tuesday, is still set to go ahead unless a deal can be reached. katy austin is at heathrow for us. how much optimism should there be for travellers that some deal can be reached in the next 2a hours or so? it is just very hard to tell at this stage. it was quite last minute

tonight that we had tomorrow's strike is off. while further talks are carried out to try and prevent a strike happening on tuesday. but because it was quite last minute, a lot of disruption had effectively already been caused. some airlines had already cancelled flights and passengers have been left in a lot of uncertainty in some cases about whether their flight was going ahead as planned. some said they were finding it very difficult to get a firm answer from their airlines. we just had a message from a throw in the last couple of minutes, where they have confirmed that unite have decided to postpone the strike tomorrow and confirm strike action is still scheduled to go ahead tomorrow doesn't heathrow have said they will continue talks with unite and remain hopeful they can find a resolution and stop the threat of strike action. heathrow has said airlines may choose to reinstate impacted flights but it regrets passengers have been inconvenienced and heathrow urges people to check with their airline for the latest information.

if the strike was going to happen, we we re if the strike was going to happen, we were being warned there could be very long queues to get through security and a number of airlines had already said they would operate a policy of restricting hand luggage that was allowed on flights, to try and make it quicker to get through security. we hope to get more information in the coming day or so to see if those measures will apply on tuesday if that industrial action does go ahead but for now, passengers can just contact there are line and we can watch and wait and see how talks tomorrow progress. thank you very much for that. it is the start of the summer holidays as well, so a very stressful time for passengers. the advice is to contact your airline before travelling, check their website as well, see if alternative flights have been arranged, if your flight has been affected. the bbc will keep you updated on how those talks between the unions continue and if there is any deal reached with heathrow airport. let's bring you up—to—date with the latest headlines on bbc news.

two mass shootings in the united states, just hours apart, kill 29 people. the first, in texas, is being treated as domestic terror. a six—year—old boy is airlifted to hospital and is in a critical condition after falling from a viewing platform at the tate modern in london. a teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. tomorrow's strike action at heathrow is called off, as the union and airport management agree to meet for further talks. we understand we will be hearing the latest on the situation at whaley bridge in the next few moments. a press co nfe re nce bridge in the next few moments. a press conference is due to be held by the local authorities and emergency services. notjust updating us but of course, updating local residents on the situation.

the fear at the moment, even though the water level is going down, and on our live paged danny savage has sent some video showing how the water level is going down, more bad weather is on the way which means water levels can shoot up, putting water levels can shoot up, putting water pumps under pressure. let's listen in to hear the update. which one of you is filming live? 0k. which one of you is filming live? ok. so, good evening. iwould really like to give you an update in relation to what has happened here. as you can probably tell, we have just had a residents meeting where we took a huge amount of questions from local residents and there was fantastic attendance, a huge number of people came and i am hopeful we managed to answer some of the questions they had. a bit of an update in terms of what has been going on since we last spoke to you. earlier today, i took the decision to rescind the offer to allow people to rescind the offer to allow people to go back into their addresses for 15 minutes from the evacuation area. i would like to explain to you why i

did that. originally, we asked people to leave because we absolutely believed their lives were at risk because the reservoir, the dam was about to burst, so we had to get people out really, really quickly. we knew that people just simply left and people will have left things like medication, they will have left belongings that they needed and they would have left things like family pets. so i felt that we needed to give people a small opportunity to go in there, to retrieve pets or the items because if i didn't, people would do that and if they did that in an uncontrolled way, they would be putting their lives at risk. it's far easier for be putting their lives at risk. it's far easierfor me to make be putting their lives at risk. it's far easier for me to make sure someone went with them and then we can make sure they got out again safely. sadly, a small number of people went back into their residents and refused to leave. by doing so, they put their own lives at risk. we have not evacuated this for no reason, we have evacuated it because there is a real prospect the dam could fail and if it fails, it is catastrophic. people would die if

they were in that evacuation zone. so those people that remain in that zone are putting their lives at risk. they are also putting the lives of the responders, primarily the police, at risk, because we have to keep going on and speaking to them and asking them to leave. by refusing to do so, i'm having to put my staff at risk in order to do that. so i would urge them, if they are watching this, to leave their properties and let us know that they have left their properties. this is a difficult incident to deal with and the people, the local community have been brilliant. they have been fantastic. they are so supportive of our efforts, i cannot tell you the support they have given to the responders who are on the scene, be it from bringing them something to eat or simply volunteering. we have been inundated with volunteers, more than we needed to have. i would urge those people to leave. if the dam doesin those people to leave. if the dam does in fact fail, we will need to go in and try and rescue those people, so the firefighters' lives

will be at risk. i would urge them in the strongest possible terms to leave those properties and tell us they have done that. what has happened today? you had seen there has been a lot of activity taking place. the fire service and other agencies have done a tremendousjob in pumping the water out the reservoir. at 3:30pm, when i had my last strategic coordinating group, it went down by level of 3.5 metres. we are aiming for eight metres, so it will have gone down a lot more sense then. we are pumping the water out at a maximum efficiency. there is definitely a limit you can reach, in terms of how fast you can do it because if you take the water out too fast, there can be structural damage to the reservoir and we are at that point of maximum efficiency. i must thank colleagues from environmental agency, the canals and river trust, the fire service collea g u es river trust, the fire service colleagues and indeed the army, who have come to support us in doing all of this. you will also be aware we

have been shoring up the ingress, to prevent water coming through, and diverting it down to the sluice channels that exist either side. all of that has taken place where the sandbags are now in place, we are in grouting them to make the secure. that has been ongoing today. we have had some local residents helping us build the smaller sandbags and i have been very grateful for their support. so, an awful lot of activity has taken place. we just had the residents meetings of the people are asking, when can i go home? that is their number one priority. given that life is at risk i can't say to them you can go back and there are businesses affected by this and the business also affect the community, in that if those businesses do indeed suffer, then there is local people working there. we are mindful of that. so as chair of the strategic coordinating group, i've been working with my local resilience partners and other agencies, statutory and non—statutory, to try and look at

some of these issues. there is a group looking at the effect on businesses and there is a group that is also looking at the recovery and what that looks like. we absolutely are aiming to get people back in their homes as soon as possible. but i'm not prepared they can do that until i get absolute assurance that it is safe for them to do so and that there is appropriate mechanisms in place, so that will include pumps that will be ongoing, to keep that water level at that safe level, so people can go there safely and it doesn't rise up again and put those lives at risk. so an awful lot of work that has been going on. we have huge support from the residents, who have been fantastic for us that we've got huge, really good multi—agency support and working together in order to deal with this slightly unusual situation. but i would like to express my thanks to all those involved, particular my thanks to the residents and businesses who have been displaced and the patients they are showing. thank you. our people still behind the cordoned? yes, i got an update

only a moment to go. there are 32, 31 people in 22 households that are still there. how many of those are the ones that went back in and didn't come out again? a small number but i can't tell you the exact number. what would you say to people who are still in those properties? i think i've articulated quite strongly around them putting their own lives at risk, the lives of responders at risk and also, i don't understand why they would do this. when i made that pointjust a moment ago, at the residents meeting, it got a round of applause because people understood the real risk and what we're doing and i am disappointed they continue to pose risk to everyone. the dam level is going down, other people might decide i will risk it and go back? yes, absolutely foster people think it's going down a bit, it must be safer. just to emphasise, the reeson eight metres has been set is because

the damages above that. if you go back before then, you are risking yourself going when the wall is not structurally say. that is the real message to them. in order to do that, we are staffing all the roadblocks. in derbyshire co nsta bula ry roadblocks. in derbyshire constabulary we've invested in 24—7 drone capacity, so we can put eyes in the sky to see if anyone is trying to go back in there. fully arrest people or is it voluntary? we have not arrested anybody, we are asking people not to go back in their homes, on the understanding they are putting their lives at risk. 0k, risk. ok, if there are no more questions, thank you very much. rachel is one of derbyshire police, not mincing her words about her disappointment in the 31 people from 22 households who were allowed to go back to their properties for 15 minutes to gather their belongings, their pets and obviously items they wa nt to

their pets and obviously items they want to try and save should the area be flooded but decided to remain in their homes. she says they are not just putting their own lives at risk but those of the emergency services who have to visit the property is to try and appeal to leave and potentially putting the lives of emergency workers at risk who end up having to rescue them, should the dam break. it is reaching four metres down. it needs to reach eight metres down. it needs to reach eight metres down. it needs to reach eight metres down to make the area safe to stop the pumping continues and so do the delivery of the sandbags. we will keep you updated and live updates on the bbc news website. we also want to update you on our top story this hour. let's get more now on the two fatal shootings in the united states which have left at least 29 dead. the first in el paso, texas — which saw 20 people killed is being investigated as a possible hate crime against the city's majority hispanic community. hours, late in dayton, ohio a 24—year—old gunman killed nine people, before he was shot dead

by police at the scene. let's get the lastest from peter bowes who's in los angeles. peter, more details continue to emerge about both shootings but more reaction as well, notjust from the people of america but from the very government that is now under pressure to yet again address america's shooting problem? there has been a tremendous amount of reaction and you are right, a lot of political reaction as well, with beto o'rourke, the democratic candidate, presidential candidate who will challenge donald trump next year, accusing once again donald trump of being a racist and being in pa rt trump of being a racist and being in part to blame for this because of the rhetoric and the language that he has been using in recent days and weeks. other politicians have been reacting. there has been a call for

a recall of the senate, which is currently on its summer break, to consider legislation to bring in more severe background checks. this is legislation which is supported by the democrats but so far has never had enough republican support to bring it into law. that is the main focus certainly of the democrats, that for something to be done, more stringent background checks is the way to go. but others are saying this is america, people have the freedom to bear arms. this country is saturated with guns. there is some scepticism that even more stringent background checks will do relatively little in the bigger picture to prevent tragedies like we have seen in the last 2a hours. picture to prevent tragedies like we have seen in the last 24 hours. the national rifle association fight very ha rd to national rifle association fight very hard to stop those checks being made into law, to stop more gun control. do they ever come out and say anything about the shootings

themselves? have they on this occasion as an organisation?” haven't heard anything in detail about this particular shooting but yes, they do talk about shootings in the past. broadly speaking, the angle generally is, sometimes it is more guns and more people are armed, whether it be in schools or other public buildings, could actually prevent instances like this happening. a certain quarter of the us has support for that. we have heard a lot of talk about teachers, teachers are reluctant to go down this road but the national rifle association and other suggesting that more people armed and trained to use guns could actually prevent insta nces to use guns could actually prevent instances like we had seen over the last day. peter, thank you for that inside and do keep it updated if you hear anything faster peter bos in los angeles, keeping you updated on the bbc website as well. let's bring you the bbc website as well. let's bring you some news closer

the bbc website as well. let's bring you some news closer to home. borisjohnson has pledged £1.8 billion in a one—off funding boost for the nhs in england. the prime minister said it would go towards "vital new kit" and upgrades for 20 hospitals. labour says the pledge is "significa ntly short" of the amount needed by the nhs and would not reverse years of cuts. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. popular but often controversial. all politicians want more money for the nhs. the government has already promised billions to meet that contentious 350 million a week figure. now, borisjohnson is offering more. he says to fulfil his brexit campaign promises. tomorrow, he will pledge £1.8 billion for the health service in england. 1 billion for things like beds and equipment, 850 million for urgent repairs to 20 hospitals. the health service is better funded now than ever before in its history, and 1.8 billion is nothing to be sniffed at.

it's a significant commitment, on top of what was already a very significant commitment to the nhs. boris has made it absolutely clear, the nhs is a priority. but it is the new funding less than nhs england weekly budget enough question but there is a backlog of repairs, amounting to £6 million. sewage pipes bursting, cancer patients are getting their diagnosis cancelled because of old faulty equipment and it is because the tories have done this smash and grab raids on the investment budgets, cutting £4 billion. this is one of a number of new spending pledges from number of new spending pledges from number ten. we've already made and promised more cash to prepare for a no—deal brexit, for policing, third transport infrastructure as well. the government says it's all possible because the economy is in a strong place. but others think it will all mount up and inevitably mean more borrowing. might it all be borisjohnson preparing for a

general election? his allies say no, but with the spending taps flowing again, who would rule one out completely? one man whose flight hasn't bern is frank zapata, an inventor from france. this morning, he made the first—ever successful crossing of the english channel on a jet—powered hoverboard. one way of getting there. i say successful — his first attempt lsst month ended in the water. this time, he took off from sangatte near calais crossing the 20 mile stretch injust 20 minutes — powered by a kerosene filled backpack. not a very safe way to travel, i suppose, rather him than me. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. another evening of drenching down pause. it won't rain all the time but when it does, it could be

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