there are limited services from here to swindon, oxford and newbury racecourse and that there are some and cornwall police. obviously, the advice is to check before you travel. but for now the board here says that services are still cancelled to places like bristol, south wales and cheltenham, but they do say that they hope to have those up and running before 12 o'clock this afternoon. it is notjust here, there are other parts of the train network that have also been affected. in northampton we have seen pictures earlier of the train station there that was completely flooded overnight. services there are also still disrupted and expected to be closed throughout much of today. london and northwestern have also cancelled services to prox just an stansted airport, which could affect lots of people hoping to get away from there this afternoon. 300 flights have been cancelled across a number of airports today, so it is notjust the rail network, but roads and the airports as well. the advice certainly from great western rail, who operate most of the intercity train services out of paddington

. >> way down newbury, will he muscles his way for a layup there and eventually that didn't come outve mercy. hearst on sunday. that's all the time we have for sports. we'll toss it back to you. dana will at that. this was going on. >> thanks, aaron. that's all we've got here for properties at 11. thanks for joinis at 11, 30 live on air and streaming with kron on. i'm

enjoy you got a sense of mike we got to we got a little more love i know i know bill and you can the newburyes down you can always go to the billy goat because the billy goat is in essence not a formal journalism, but a pretty journalism museum. and also kind of shrine to mike. that's not the only reason i like going there, but it's one of the many reasons many years ago, after mike had moved to winnetka and had to spending more time there and driving up there. after he finished his column afternoon, we would occasionally down to the billy goat, which was not as tourist heavy as it is. these and we'd sit at the bar and at one of our favorite golf partners jeff was the longtime bartender. and we'd sit down, he would bring us a couple drinks. one afternoon, we're down there, cubs games on the tv, up in the and some construction worker guy, based on the way he was dressed, was sitting down at the other end of the bar. and those were the only people in there. the minute mike walked in, guy shirts going, oh, look big shot, big shot mike, great. give you. oh, i'm so fortunate to be here. i can't b

at the newbury center, a social professor of

at the newbury center, a social professor of higher leadership at boston university college education human development. his work appeared in new york times, washington post and sometimes higher education and on npr and cnn. he's author of privileged poor how elite cultures of disadvantaged students. and adam harris, an award winning journalist, a senior fellow also as a state must provide while american has always been unequal and how to set them right. before joining new america, he covered higher education and national politics at the atlantic. where he's now a contributing writer. books on historically black colleges and north carolina and amc university. and he was on the forbes under 30 list. please join me in welcoming anthony. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thank you so much for coming out. tony, it's great to be with you, my brother. congratulations. >> good to be here. >> a fantastic book and excited to jump into that conversation. i wanted to start, kind of where where the book started for you. so can you just walk us through? what were the seeds of class dismissed?

and newbury honor, prince honor and naacp image award recipient, jason reynolds.y. so jasmine, my question, my first question and the biggest question i have for you this evening, you are, to me -- i know you hate this, but to me and many of them, one of the greatest of our time. one of the greatest contemporary writers of our time. absolutely. [applause] >> someone who accomplished the things you've done my question where does this begin, how does this begin for you? >> so when we were upstairs in the balcony and we were watching everyone on stage, i was thinking about how i would answer that question because i didn't have anything prepared. and you know, i thought back, you know, to my childhood and i came late to reading. i wasn't an early reader. i struggled to learn how to read. i finally got it when i was in first grade, but once i learned, i attempted to -- i read a lot. i was a library reader because i only have access to my elementary school library so i grew up in the '80s, so i read a lot of newbury award books, island of the blue dolphins, you know, sc

>>the way down newbury, will he muscles his way for a layup there and eventually that didn't come outrcy. hearst on sunday. that's all the time we have for sports. >>it's been great news for all the ski resorts, more and more trying to open up now as they get ready for the holiday and looks like the weather is going to cooperate. lot of sunshine going to be showing up. temperatures going to stay cold enough to worry about melting snow. we have more snow up there again today. you can see the snow take a little bit suddenly track, though, as you make your way in towards 70 up in the mammoth area. but now things begin diminish and that means that's great news. if you want to travel up there for tomorrow, expect a lot of people are going to be headed up there. so make sure that you take your time. but partly cloudy skies up there. the snow has ended so far southern parts of the sierra nevada. that's good news to the winter storm warnings have been taken down as this storm system kind of falling apart a bit. just some partly cloudy skies there it is cold in the high country. no getting aro

kid has won the 3:00, the gold cup here at newbury. know, it's been a fantastic atmosphere. 12,000 people watching on. and actually, funny enough, we spoke to paul nicholls, candy kid's trainer, a little bit earlier on. he was telling us that he was feeling a little bit confident. our racing expert is with us for the day, of course. friend of the channel as well, phil davis. i mean, we spoke to paul nicholls. he was feeling a little bit confident, maybe hadnt little bit confident, maybe hadn't had the greatest start, you know, with the earlier races today. but you know he's pulled it out of the bag really right at the end there. >> he saved the best till last hasn't he. but gb news viewers get all the best information don't they. we spoke to paul nicholls earlier. he said he was confident of a big run and can do. kids just gone and won the big race of the day. second was broadway boy again really well fancied and third, which we mentioned earlier this morning. victorino came from a mile back to finish third, so all all the first three

. >> well, here at newbury, the excitement is building. you were mentioning it's not quite christmas dawn in the racing calendar this race today and the big one at 3:00. the gold cup feels like the start of christmas for these racegoers. we'll be bringing you the atmosphere a little bit later on here in the grandstand . here in the grandstand. >> indeed. and it's spennie christmas. i didn't write that bit. i had no idea what it means ehhen bit. i had no idea what it means either, but taking the family out on traditional days close to christmas now costs around £500. is the festive season getting too expensive ? yes, i think it's too expensive? yes, i think it's a spoiler answer to that one. i'm dawn neesom and the weekend starts right here and now . starts right here and now. yeah, so last november, yeah, i got my tree up a week ago. i must admit, i've been very smug because it was the only time i was going to do it, much to the husband's annoyance. he keeps actually trying to take baubles off the tree, thinking i won't notice, i do. he wo