jernigan's today is charlotte and andrea, whom you saw in the film clip.ou for joining us. >> thank you. kristen: you and your friends made this documentary to spur conversation around youth mental health. why is this so important and urgently needed? >> great question. coming out of the pandemic, we have seen record high rates of suicide and self-harm in youth. two years later after the start of the pandemic, we are seeing a spike in research studies. it has become a huge issue in our younger generation to bring awareness to mental health and ensure that when we go to school and when we are at home that we have the care and resources to speak up about it. kristen: if it's not too personal, do you struggle with mental health sometimes? >> definitely. as a student athlete, a lot of us struggle. the recent death of my teammate, it has become such an issue within my team into the sport. we have talked a lot about it with the team and i found out about katie while i was at world cup qualifiers with the u.s. national team. it was devastating. i ended up competi

bill jernigan, bbc north—west today.gain. for most of you, the weather looking fine through the rest of the day today with variable cloud and some spells of sunshine. however, we do have thickening cloud to our northwest, and this cloud is associated with atlantic weather fronts with freshening winds. eventually, we'll see rain spreading into the northwest of scotland over the next few hours. now, today, it's a bright enough day for most of you with some sunny spells coming through the cloud. and i think the best of the sunshine will be across parts of southern england, southern wales probably as well for parts of eastern scotland. but for the western side of scotland, it's here where we're going to see the cloud continue to thicken, with outbreaks of rain getting into the hebrides and also highlands as well. temperatures high teens to low 20s, and where the sunshine comes out, given the winds are mostly light, it will feel pleasantly warm. overnight tonight, well, for much of england and wales, we stay dry with some cle