ask any rhode islander, and they will tell you that bill was an institution of rhode island's sports and journalism whose column was read by thousands across the state. it was a tradition. a must-read. and families across rhode island including mine started their saturday by reading his column for what it's worth. which included his latest, not only on sports, but also pop culture, politics, movies, and more. he was a columnist at the journal for almost 40 years, a n"new york times" best-selling author, and hall of fame brown university basketball player. who still played pickup games well into his 60's and was known for his jump shot which earned him the nickname shooter. bill was one of the best sports writers in rhode island history, who mentored an entire generation of aspiring writers and athletes. there will never be another like him. may he rest in peace. i rise today to celebrate the achievements of rhode island's special olympic athlete brian johnson of east greenwich. he made rhode island proud by bringing home the gold for bochl olympics in berlin last month. he and his te

case in point, rhode island.istory becoming road island's first dominican american and first afro latino lieutenant governor. she is also the first black woman to ever hold statewide office. now, she is running for congress. rhode island lieutenant governor -- is with us now. lieutenant governor, thank you for joining me. i'm curious about your take on the immigration laws that are taking effect today, 1200 miles south of you in florida. your sense of how it's going to impact undocumented workers? >> it's good to be here. i have to say that that law is evil. what many republicans are doing right now is using the immigrant population as a punching back in order to earn political points. that's not right. we shouldn't be using that dehumanizing of people, and using that suffering of our community, in order to earn political points. here in rhode island, we've recognized the importance of the immigrant population. my story is a good example. just coming here to this country, to this state, not speaking the language,

and rhode island.ver pinch yourself sometimes that you are back in new england? >> certainly is good-looking over jamestown and looking at this body of water where i have spent years exploring teaching and enjoy. >> it was also home to many people who remained convinced that david swain got away with murder. >> is there still a cloud over you? people are going to say david swingle of killing his wife? >> he was cut loose on a technicality. >> that is their opinion. i cannot tell you what to think. i don't not want to tell you to think. if you want to hear the facts, all be happy to share the facts. but i'm not going to spend a lot of energy trying to change something that you made up your mind with. >> david continued to call jamestown home until his death in august of 2022, he was 66. as for shelley, her gravestone is close by with those who loved and admired her. and finding the lessons in beneath this senseless tragedy. >> if i would ask shelley, given the situation he would say focus on the here an

in 2022, this creature became the first falcon permitted to be captured in rhode island. is considered the most prized of hunting birds. other raptors are also used for hunting such as this, the smallest of falcons. also cooper's hawks and red tail hawks. he said training begins with food-based reward and getting the predator to eat from your hand. >> you are trying to establish a trust with the bird. and that you put the bird on -- you start to incorporate the whistle. you whistle and get the bird to jump. take a little bit of a flight at you. they land on the glove, you give them a tidbit and then you go further away. bird to fly to you farther and farther away. >> when the raptors are released to nearby trees, falconers go into the woods, literally beating the bushes with sticks. if an animal spots a rabbit, the hunter gives a distinct call. to alert the bird to their target. >> what they are starting to do is they make the connection between something running and the falconer. >>>> after all this training, most of these birds afraid will be released back to the -- bir

of living was rhode island voters biggest concern by far.n the screen. voters are in fact still worried about the economy. you acknowledge this there is a real chance that democrats take back the house in 2024 but lose the senate. how if you are elected as a member of the house would you work with your republican colleagues across the aisle and across another chamber to get something done on the economy? >> dollars and cents issues matter so much for people when i was in the white house working to advocate for the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law it was clear cut when we called republican mayors across the country to encourage them to call their republican members they take a point to the specific roads and bridges they need to work on the broadband they needed and focusing on things that matter things that have a material benefit to people and communities across the country is an effective strategy to make that message come across. when that's what i promised to do for people in rhode island. focus on our core issues around the

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i always considered good fortune when i come to deliver remarks on the senate floor and get to follow senator sullivan's alaskan of the week speeches and his discussion of his constituent elverda, that reminds me of a very, very dear person in my life, florence cairns murray, born a little bit ahead of elverda, 1916, but also served in the u.s. military, she was in the wac, and then broke essentially every glass ceiling you could break in rhode island politics and in the rhode island judiciary, becoming a very respected and row -- row nouned- renowned supreme court justice. i will join my colleague senator sullivan in wishing elverda a happy birthday and i would like to be a fly on the wall with the conversation between florence and elverda. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: i will gladly pass along your birthday greetings to elverda. thank you very much. mr. whitehouse: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode

furthermore, they have the support of central massachusetts and from what is now rhode island.icut river valley and colonists turned into enemies violating neutrality such as attempting to confiscate. it took advantage of these missteps to take the lives of over the 3000 englishmen and destroy 16 colonial towns and slaughter 800 cattle. eventually, resistance collapsed. largely, if not entirely but largely because other native people through in their lot with the english. focus on thison part of the map here around the modern-day border of massachusetts and new york. in february of 1676, the mohawks, easternmost nation of the five nations as a gesture of alliance to the colony of new york drove to the winter camp, away from dutch and french on the river andnc eastward of colonial new england forces. so they tried this direction here. also were the mohicans and what is now connecticut cape cod, under thean rest sided with the colonies from the beginning and were adapted. meanwhile, their families were stopped as they run away from the cornfields and fishing stations. consequentl

every except for rhode island. and they gathered throughout the summer, debating what form of government the united states should have. what changes should make. in the end, only 39 out of the 55 delegates actually signed the constitution. by the time the signing, even place. only 42 people are left and three of them are dissenters. george mason. elbridge gerry edmund randolph. they were from virginia massachusetts and virginia, by the way, the order that i mentioned them, they to side. and one of the big concerns is a lack of a bill of rights. george mason had written virginia declaration of rights. he'd written the freedoms that the people of his state possessed, that the government take away. and there was not a bill of rights in this case that did not spell one out. some of their fellow delegates, like alexander hamilton, thought that a bill of rights could be unnecessary. maybe even dangerous. hamilton says that, you know, this constitution is we the people, giving powers to, the government, not the other way

the clerk: the senator from rhode island from rhode island for other senators proposes the following amendments, 510, 823, 315, 273, 224, 949, and 685. the presiding officer: the question is on adoption of the amendments en bloc. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it and the ayes do have it. the amendments agreed on en bloc. mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i would note absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: yes. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: so, mr. president, first, i'm happy to talk about the 50th anniversary of hip hop, a great artistic creation in america. and we have a resolution celebrating that 50th anniversary. i'm proud that my resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of hip hop has just passed the senate. the res

. >>> jimmy buffett shocked an audience in rhode island over the holiday weekend if showing up unannounced> what would jimmy buffett do ♪ ♪ >> i thought for sure he'd play "margaritaville. >> i did, too. >> he made the aneppearance in po po pinr in rhode island >> husbands were recruited to give a mother the dance she always wanted. what great daughters and son-in-laws. >> a lot of preparing went into that >> very cool >>> thanks so much for watching "early today" this morning, i'm jessica layton >> have a wonderful wednesday. >>> right now at 5:00, some fourth of july celebrations going a little over the top. illegal fireworks littered the sk

they're all canceling flights to rhodes island for the next few days the temperatures have reached 45 degrees and plus over the last couple of days on the 18th of july, in fact, we saw the temperatures hit those margins and get even worse you even saw wind reaching 49 kilometers per hour which has complicated the efforts to try and bring these flames under control. that's a front slovakia, romania, italy are all trying to help six people have unfortunately been treated in hospitals for respiratory problems no rainfall over the next week and temperatures are going to drop from 40 degrees celsius now but it does remain in the high 30s. >> absolutely. as you spoke about last week, very high temperatures are clearly having ramifications across all sectors thank you for that report. >>> well, it has been a busy morning for pmi numbers. we had the eurozone flash pmi numbers come out i want to bring you the u.k. ones that have also fallen to the down side coming in at 50.7 versus the 52.8 number we had back in june in parallel to the eurozone, the u.k. pmi numbers are slowing down as well th

i want to take you back to greece and the wildfires there that are spreading, the island of rhodes is, the island of rhodes is the particularfocus, you can see people trying to get away from the smoke and the fires. we believe more than 2000 people have been evacuated from beaches in the south of the island, fire is getting closer to the seafront there, coastguard vessels, private boat, navy, or helping people there as you can see get off the beaches and get away to safety. we are getting plenty mod of elements, though, as the eye is ticked by and we can cross to azadeh moshiri who is live there for us. talk us through the latest. here in athens, i talk us through the latest. here in athens. i spoke — talk us through the latest. here in athens, i spoke to _ talk us through the latest. here in athens, i spoke to the _ talk us through the latest. here in athens, i spoke to the fire - talk us through the latest. here in athens, i spoke to the fire service and they said that they apologise for any mess with these operations that they are human, that these are very difficult conditions, an

and rhodes island. linsey. >> marcus, thank you. >> linsey: next tonight, disturbing video of a police officer ordering a dog to attack an unarmed man after he had surrendered to authorities following a high-speed chase in ohio on the fourth of july. police have released the body cam video and say an investigation is now under way. and we do want to warn that some viewers may find this video difficult to watch. here's abc's alex presha. >> reporter: an ohio k-9 police officer is under investigation tonight after ordering his dog to attack an unarmed suspect who had already surrendered and had his hands in the air. it happened july 4th. officers tried pulling 23-year-old truck driver jadarrius rose over for a missing mudflap. police say rose refused, starting a chase. at one point, rose veers to the right, forcing a highway patrolman to the shoulder. in another instance, police dashcam video shows rose pulling over, and as officers order him out of the rig at gunpoint, he takes off again. roughly seven m

i'm now and join, but nichol, i petrol, professor of political science at the university of rhode island and also all the tragedy of your pray. what's classical and greek tragedy can teach us about conflict resolution. professor petra is great to talk to and thank you very much in advance for this rather unusual. i'm pretty intriguing. look at the ukranian conflict. well, thank you. i look forward to discussing it. now i've given you a focus on the greek to g, g. d is a left me, uh, quote, one more of them. uh, they saw, sophocles course started, that old man makes mistakes, but it wouldn't, ma'am you, when he knows that his course of action is wrong, repairs the evil, the only crime, according to sophocles, is pride isn't uh, what's your book is all about. that the, this construct essentially rose out of hubris, a few bits of the political leads, which by the way, some greeks considered as one of the biggest fans. yes. but not just this tragedy and not just this war. all wars arise out of hubris, which at the beginning of and as i say, the middle to the end of the 20th century. we have

naval war college in newport, rhode island, rhode island being where i born and raised. he is the author of 17 books, the most recent of which is nimitz at war. he has been awarded the lincoln prize the roosevelt prize, the morrison prize, and brandeis prize, as well as the dudley knox medal for lifetime achievement and the pritzker military museum and library for lifetime achievement in military writing. and last but not least, the youngster andy lang is associate professor of history at, mississippi state university, which, of course, as you all know, is the home of the ulysses grant presidential library and museum. he is the author of a contest of civilizations expose in the crisis of american exceptional wisdom in the civil war era, which was named finalist for the gilder lehrman lincoln prize. his book, in the wake of war military occupation. emancipate nation and civil war america received the society of civil war historians tom watson brown book award. he is now writing an intellectual cultural biography of nationalism and a study of ulysses grant as lincoln's pro

firefighters on the greek island of rhodes say they expect wildfires to become more intense today, asratures rise. thousands of people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the island. three hotels have reportedly burnt down and many others are in the danger zone. private boats have joined the coastguard picking people up from beaches on the east of the island. the fires have been

you can see as these members of the rhode island regiment predominantly african american members of this particular group moving through so just an awesome scene, so we are just getting ready for our actor nathan all for tate as we begin this discussion that coleila will be moderating. so good to see nathan. and then as we get ready to get started appreciate it. hello everyone. thank you so much for coming. thank you. so gosh, so many questions somebody so many questions to ask i'm going to start with the idea of why we're all here tonight. why are we here? what does james horton story has to have to tell us today. well for me james fortin story, what's so critical is is as a person of african descent who has a nine year old witnessed the words of the declaration of independence being read by sheriff. john nixon for the very first time places him in a very integral point in american history and then to see a free person of african descent making decision is to decide how in my life am i going to choose to? serve this burgeoning country and he is seeing events as a young man in this in th

now more than 80 active fires continued throughout the country, especially on rhode island, almost 19,000 people were evacuated from the island, the greek government declared a state of emergency, the european union and neighboring countries asked for help, and the forest fire in portugal reached the gates of the capital. reuters reported that there are not hundreds of firefighters to put out the flames in the west, he was helped by local residents. in the forest fires on the italian island of sicily, 2 people have been killed and many injured in the southeast of france since monday. burning at the highest level a similar package is given in north africa. in algeria, at least 34 people have lost their lives due to forest fires, and the large-scale evacuation order issued in tunisia, a neighboring country of algeria, also caused the flames to evacuate 300 people. thank you very much for your attention. in the name of god, i greet you, dear viewers. good evening. yesterday, the hottest place in our country was abadan, with a maximum temperature of 49 degrees, and the bloodshed in lorestan p

and the anchor is the symbol of a state which is rhode island. that officer, that french officer whose quote that i read, by the way, this is a drawing he did a little watercolor in his diary of one of those rhode island regiment soldiers. now, this was a regiment that had large numbers of african-american, american, indian and mixed race men and several companies in 1781. and so that's an eyewitness image. and they had that anchor emblazoned on their cap. it's on their buttons as wel and there it is on that armor as they're representing themselves in the encampment. now, this is not as weird as it sounds. practice that continues here is the 50th new york engineer's in petersburg, virginia, during the civil war, similar sort of greenery exercises. it's amazing what you do when u have time in camp and you can do arts and crafts. now this also, this image helped us to understand some other descriptions that didn't make a lot of sense. when i'd read them withou seeing this image. so, for instance, i want to just remind you, this is the little cluste

back towards the parts with nikolai petro, a professor of political science at the university of rhode island, an officer of the tribe, beauty of your brain, what classical greek tragedy can teach us about the conflict resolution. professor petra, before the break, we were talking about your credit access done so need to find its own unique national identity, its own national southcourt and the many russian thinkers, including i'm sure you're for the present lodging to put in, argue that the choice that the ukrainian leadership has made so far, pretty cautiously is to, you know, try those all spencer, a limited facility that existed within the ukraine population against the, the soviets or later against the russians and utilize it into a political mechanism of sort of unifying the country. a problem with them and attracting western financing. i can understand cynical part of me can understand the sort of a political, i mean that's, that's the key or utility of that. but in terms of the military and defense tradition wasn't, that's reckless. what other country would tolerate the whole style st

he is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island in portland, we haven't been ripped. he is a freelance journalist and in london we crossed through the income mackenzie. he is a visiting lecturer at the law. school of the university of westminster are a gentleman. crosstalk roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate nichol. i let me go to you. first of, you know, there's been a lot of, uh, there was a lot of talk about the ukraine. so got counter offensive. and now there's a whole lot of talk about the upcoming summit. and bill is the nato summit, of course. and, but it's quite peculiar and yeah, and i'm going to use that word. there seems to be a lot of double talk and ex, explaining what's going to happen there when nothing really much is going to happen . they're, they're going to throw a few bones to uh, to the ukrainians and other than that. and there's no membership in the cards. maybe no membership ever in the future. what are your thoughts as somebody to is approaching right. i think the game is lowering expectat

rhode island hasn't said yes when he takes his oath of office as president. so only 11 states in the union and those are indivisible borders. and and in theory, rhode island and north carolina are independent nations. and they could make a treaty, as it were, with putin and you're going to have actually europe in mercenaries, hessians on american soil. so you've got to get them on board in washington and understands all of that totally. and in part for geostrategic reasons. madison actually says some of this in the first congress, but washington says it first. so madison gets it through. but washington actually pivots, i would say earlier than madison, because, remember, they, in effect, opposed the bill of rights in philadelphia mason was the guy who was proposing it. and they said thanks, but no thanks. and it takes madison like a year to make a pivot getting all these letters from jefferson haranguing him and he just kind of ignores them in jefferson's. so madison is important in the bill of rights and he shapes it and he's looking at are the best provisio

island by sea. others staying in crowded makeshift shelters. rhodes is a popular vacation destination, particularly for british tourists. >> we started to hear the helicopters and then basically you could see the fire eventually on the on the mountain top, panic, everyone dashing about fleeing for busses. >> this man was staying in the seaside village of faliraki. >> we said that when we see smoke and we can smell the smoke , we will evacuate ourselves. we're just being safe because i don't know how many tourists there are in faliraki, but evacuating that area, it's going to be impossible. >> the airport now crowded with tourists trying to get home. >> everyone screaming and shouting, eating and crying, were desperate to get home. >> the airport on the northern part of the island is still open. uk based easyjet says it's adding additional flights to its schedule between rhodes island and the uk. >> breaking overnight, russia is blaming ukraine for a rare drone attack inside moscow. two nonresidential buildings were damaged, but russian officials say t

he is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island in portland, we haven't been ripped. he is a freelance journalist and in london we crossed the income mackenzie. he is a visiting lecturer at the law school of the university of westminster are a gentleman crosstalk roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate nichol. i let me go to you. first of, you know, there's been a lot of, uh, there was a lot of talk about the ukraine. so the counter offensive. and now there's a whole lot of talk about the upcoming summit and bill this of the nato summit, of course. and, but it's quite peculiar and yeah, and i'm going to use that word. there seems to be a lot of double talk and ex, explaining what's going to happen there when nothing really much is going to happen . they're, they're going to throw a few bones to uh, to the ukrainians and other than that. and there's no membership in the cards. maybe no membership ever in the future. what are your thoughts as somebody to is approaching the right? i think the game is lowering expectatio

reportera: estados como colorado y rhode island ya han implementado medidas similares como pedirle atrabajadores agrÍcolas en california, porque los problemas laborales que muchos enfrentan podrÁn tener soluciÓn con un programa anunciado por el gobernador gavin newsom. los trabajadores del campo a veces no denuncian las injusticias porque teme represalias o porque no tienen un estado legal en el paÍs, pero eso no serÍa un impedimento. >> una persona es rebelde y quiere defenderse, lo orillan y lo corren. reportera: por temor a las represalias, muchos trabajadores agrÍcolas no denuncian... >> es muy comÚn la discriminaciÓn en el trabajo por no tener papeles, por ser de una comunidad indÍgena. reportera: el gobernador gavin newsom afirmÓ que se otorgarÁn 4.5 millones de dÓlares para un prueba piloto que brindarÁ asistencia legal a campesinos involucrados en casos de disputas laborales. " los trabajadores agrÍcolas son la columna vertebral de nuestra economÍa y no nos quedaremos de brazos cruzados mientras los malos actores utilizan la amenaza de deportaciÓn como una forma de explotaciÓ

bethany bell on the greek island of rhodes, thank- the greek island of rhodes, thank you very much.andidate for next year's presidential election at a fund—raising event in the us state of iowa. mr trump has already insisted he will still run for office, even if he's convicted of any of the criminal charges he currently faces. 0ur north american editor sarah smith was at the event. there are about 1,200 republican supporters in this ballroom this evening, listening to all the different republican candidates trying to decide who they should support for the republican nomination. but of course, the night was dominated by one man. and, of course, that one man was donald trump. this is the first speech he's given since the new criminal charges were unveiled against him. he's a man whose legal problems just keep piling up and up and never seem to stop. but he won't let that deter him. and he didn't tonight. i mean, this was not the best speech he's ever given. he was rushing through his script, trying to stick to the ten—minute time limit. but nonetheless, he still grabbed everybody�*s a

this corridor stretching across rhode island, extending into portions of connecticut and rhode islande i-95 corridor could see ponding on the roadways. please, turn around. don't drown. make sure if you see a flooded road you want to go in the other direction, you don't want to be one of the statistics. rahel. >> in terms of the triple-digit heat, june and july seem to be the hottest months but it feelings like it's stretching time for quite some time? >> yeah, it's peaked, right? it's gone from the deep south and now we're starting to see the heat dome move over to the southwestern parts of the u.s. phoenix into albuquerque, these areas are going to see triple-digit heat extending through the rest of the week. an area we'll be monitoring very closely for excessive heat alerts, we do want those continues you can see on the maps. rahel. >> derek van dam, thank you. >>> quick hits across america. the nypd have arrested a man accused of a series of shootings over the weekend while riding a scooter. police say thomas abreu faces multiple charges including murder. >>> the manhunt for a man

the wildfires in greece are spreading, with the island of rhodes badly affected. f the island where the blazes are getting closer to the seafront. three coast guard vessels are on site, and a navy boat is heading there. among those forced to leave are hundreds of tourists — three hotels have burnt down, and many others are in the danger zone. the fires — said to be out of control — have been burning on the island for five days. the heatwave in greece is likely to become the longest since records began with temperatures expected to rise above forty degrees in many places on sunday. these are the latest images showing tourists on the greek island of rhodes evacuating the area. coastguards have been ferrying people off the island as firefighters attempt to tackle what are described as the most difficult fire they have ever faced. here are more picturesjust in. you can see holiday—makers getting on board a ferry. the ship is not even docked and hasjust ferry. the ship is not even docked and has just come ferry. the ship is not even docked and hasjust come up ferry. the

massachusetts, rhode island and plymouth all held public executions throughout the summer of 1676.luding, 50 hangings on boston common alone. thing which this public space has yet to acknowledge. the english even exacted rapid retribution on the deck. on august 6 colonial forces discovered the drum body as we move, a female satan and warring leader and a sister of pimeticon's life. authorities ordered there had to be severed and piped next to a holding pen full of wampanoag prisoners. captives, according to english accounts "made most horrid and diabolical limitation crying out it was their queens head!". filled with vengeful spirit captain benjamin church had the sage and dismembered and his head sent to plymouth. on the very site where the father feasted with the pilgrims authorities mounted the grizzly trophy outside the gate and left it to rock for the next 20 years. it's likely one of the last things that pimeticon's lysol and plymouth shipped her from her homeland into slavery. later that week plymouth held a day of ay of thanksgiving though history really pays attention to t

. >> carley: rhode island state senator is ordered to pay will restitution to constituent keying heriginally denied the allegations but caught in a lie by police. >> a state senator, i think you recognize me. i think. >> he said that's the guy just keyed my car. >> i don't know. do you know the guy? why could would you key his car? >> listen, he was threatening. >> there's a video. >> democrat pled no contest to the vandalism charge and must pay $2,800 in restitution to the car's owner and make $250 donation to the rhode island community food bank. the court says the case will be expunged from the senator's record if he doesn't commit any more crimes for a full year. that's also really embarrassing. turns out the media isn't concerned about the new document accusing president joe biden and hunter of taking a $10 million bribe from the burisma ceo. >> democrats would be quick to point out that that's not what this document does and, frankly, in readings it, there are even some things that could be lost in translation between the russian that was being spoken by this informant. republi

there was a research trip to providence, rhode island, and made my way to the john brown house. this isn't john brown the abolitionist. this is john brown the opposite, slave trade around cofounder of brown university. in the back of his magisterial home is a little annex where there is what is known as john brown's chariot and it is to our modern i tiny. i compare the forward facing seats to the backseat of the the w bug, a tiny little thing and according to family tradition when the newly inaugurated president, george washington, was visiting providence, john brown gave washington a ride in that cherry it down to the shipyard where he was building a ship named for the new president. that got me to wondering. in the book i was writing, washington visited providence several times but i had no idea he had come to providence once he was president. why? why was he there? that led me to realize he went on a series of presidential trips in an attempt to create a sense of nationhood among 13 former colonies. finishing up this book of straight history, close to a dozen books i had writ

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it, i'm now and join, but nichol, i petrol, professor of political science at the university of rhode island, and also all the tragedy of your praying. what's classical and greek tragedy can teach us about conflict resolution. professor petra is great to talk to you and thank you very much in advance for this rather unusual. i'm pretty intriguing. look at the ukranian conflict. well, thank you. i look forward to discussing it. now i've given you a focus on the greek project games a left me, uh, quote, one more of them. uh, they saw sophocles course certain that, oh man makes mistakes, but a good man you. when he knows that his course of action is wrong, repairs the evil, the only crime, according to sophocles, is pride isn't uh, what's your book is all about. that the, this construct essentially rose out of hubris. a few bits of the political leads, which, by the way, some greeks considered as one of the biggest fans. yes. but not just this tragedy, not just this war. own wars arise out of hubris, which at the beginning of and as i say, the middle to the end of the 20th century. we have a nu

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we have 19,000 people across the island of rhodes being evacuated, that includes locals and tourists,cult situation on the island of rhodes and holiday makers and people who live there considerably disrupted. thank you very much for that update. speaking on cancelled flights to greece. we spoke to a tourist from glasgow in the last hour and spent the night on a mattress outdoors. she had booked with tui. tui has said "we re continuing to closely monitor the wildfires in rhodes which have led to the evacuation of a number of hotels in the south of the island.we appreciate how distressing and difficult it is for customers who have been evacuated and ask they follow the advice of the local authorities who are managing tourist movements in impacted areas. our resort teams are doing everything they can to support customers, working closely with the relevant authorities. we have cancelled all outbound flights to rhodes up to and including tuesday, and passengers due to travel on these flights will receive full refunds. passengers due to travel on wednesday will be offered a fee free amend t

we begin in greece where wildfires are burning out of control on the island of rhodes. sands of people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the island. three hotels have reportedly burnt down, and many others are in the danger zone. private boats have joined the greek coastguard — picking people up from beaches on the east of the island. the greek army has also been helping get tourists to safety. no injuries have been reported. plumes of smoke can be seen blanketing the island with its many resorts. the fires have been burning for five days. the country's deputy fire chief says the fires in rhodes are the most difficult greece is facing. it comes as greece is suffering its hottest weekend in 50 years. one climate expert says the current heatwave could last 16 or 17 days, making it the longest since records began. our reporter azadeh moshiri is in lagonisi, southeast of athens and gave us this update. temperatures are set to rise, but also break records here in greece. now, for some, that may mean flocking to the beach like here in lagonisi. but for others, the d

we start in greece, where wildfires have swept across the island of rhodes. to the island have been cancelled. up to 10,000 british tourists are there, with many more booked to travel in the coming weeks. with more record temperatures forecast, there are renewed travel alerts and extreme weather warnings, but the uk government has, so far, not issued guidance against all travel to the region, meaning insurance companies are unlikely to cover the costs

condition, hot and dry weatherfor a long period of more than ten days and we also expect on the island of rhodes we heard from our correspondence, it is actually quite a large island. 0ur correspondence, it is actually quite a large island. our other parts of the island save?— a large island. our other parts of the island save? given the weather which is currently _ the island save? given the weather which is currently in _ the island save? given the weather which is currently in the _ the island save? given the weather which is currently in the region, - the island save? given the weather which is currently in the region, wei which is currently in the region, we have north—westerly and northerly winds, i would say that the northern part of the island looks currently safe since the fire is more active further to the south.— safe since the fire is more active further to the south. what about the weather, further to the south. what about the weather. is — further to the south. what about the weather, is that _ further to the south. what about the weather, is that forecast _ further to the south. w

our heat as vise rhode island mains in effect through sunday, but tomorrow is the peak.ottest weather is actually going to be in the central valley where temperatures top out around 110 degrees. this is a widespread heat wave that extends into nevada, down into arizona, and it has the fingerprints of climate change all over it. we can actually measure that with with a the statistic called the climate shift index, something that climate central came up with. basically just measures how much more likely an extreme weather event becomes because of the influence of climate change. for us in the bay area, we're in the orange category meaning it's a climate shift of 2 meaning it's twice as likely as without climate change. but in the central valley, the deep shade of maroon the at the top of the scale. this type of weather becomes five times more likely due to the influence of climate change. so it's hot tomorrow, and still toasty on sunday, but we back down a little heading towards the fourth of july. we'll look at the forecast in a few minutes. >> all right, thank you. >>> y

the rhode island native makes cooking look as easy as pie. >> let's make thousand layer potatoes. >> and he's been sharing his cooking creations for quite some time. tell us about the first cookbook you ever wrote. the first cookbook i still have believe it or not. >> thanks to my mom for saving all those little childhood memories that i always asked to throw away. i wrote it when i was seven, and it really i didn't write much, actually. it's a green binder and it's just filled with recipes that i printed off the internet. >> an exciting start of a dream for nick that turned into a reality all these years later, this time featuring his own recipes in his latest cookbook, knife drop creative recipes. anyone can cook. >> i really do believe that anyone can cook. that's why i have the motto on the top of the book. cooking is all relative. cooking can mean anything to a certain extent, but i really do believe that anyone, no matter what your age is, can jump into a kitchen and make something exciting to pour in. one can san marzano tomatoes and break them into chunks, finish with a pinch