i want to thank you, orla, for your hard work.know we worked together on it for many years, and for all of your hours and all of the families and all of the students who gave their feedback to get us here. i'm not going to tell you what to do, because i know when i was a school board member, i didn't like people telling me what to do. but i want to say thank you for all of your hard work. last thing i'll say is thank you, esther, for all you do. i also want to shout out to the student delegates. you all are extraordinary. it's just been so inspiring and hopeful to see your leadership and how powerful you all have been and essential to the kmfrgs at a time when we need you more than ever. you've been leading, and we've been following you all. so thank you for leading, thank you for taking this on, thank you for seeing it through. this will make a huge difference for the constituents that i represent in district 6, but more importantly, i believe this will lead us to more high quality, accessible equitable schools for our students a

from istanbul our international correspondent orla guerin sent this report. test positive, not just those figures for all those who test positive, notjust those with symptoms. officially, there are around 30,000 new cases every day. well, two more victims of the covid virus have just been well, two more victims of the covid virus havejust been buried here, side by side. now that the government is releasing more com plete government is releasing more complete data, it is clear that turkey is in the grip of a huge new wave of infections, but bad as the official figures wave of infections, but bad as the officialfigures are, doctors here believe they don‘t reveal the full extent of the crisis. 50,000 new cases per day. that's the real figure according to the head of the doctor commission, who tells me the government has been putting lives at risk. they did not reveal the truth, people can feel more comfortable and just take risks, they didn‘t know they took risks truly because there we re they took risks truly because there were no truths shared by the governmen