Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. Bill third grade is a critical benchmark. Those who cant read are four times more likely to drop out of school. Gillian memphis, tennessee, 76 of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. Only 1 of those students were held back a year. Bill at problem chronic absenteeism. More than a quarter of students are missing at least 10 of the school year. It puts them of greater risk of dropping out. The governor from arkansas Sarah Huckabee sanders with us yesterday. We have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this Propaganda Leftist Agenda Teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. Its one of
house? the administration sending troops to the border as southern states brace for a surge of migrants with the title era 42 policy set to expire. but one border town is inundated and declared an emergency. we ll take you there. a college town on high alert. authoritie manhunt after three stabbings in a week. this near the uc davis campus in california. those stabbings left two people dead. police are now pleading for the public s help in identifying a suspect. plus, now they are trying to write their own story. hollywood writers hitting the picket line today. we ll tell you what they re demanding and what it means for your favorite shows. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. and we start this hour at the u.s. southern border. the biden administration now confirming they are preparing to deploy an additional 1,500 troops as early as next week. the migrant crisis is expected to worsen as the trump-er
sport, and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. well, over to you. well, overto you. hello well, over to you. hello again, matthew. there are 100 days to go until the 2023 fifa women s world cup gets under way in australia and new zealand, and organisers say they re on course to sell a record 1.5 million tickets. co hosts australia are in action in a friendly against the european champions, england. kick off in brentford is just a few hours away. our reporterjo currie is there. jo, the countdown to the tournament is on. absolutely, it is now three and a half they will be a host of stars on display tonight notjust they will be a host of stars on display tonight not just with the but a large number of those players also playing the football here in england also playing the football here in enaulan . also playing the football here in en [an a ., ., also playing the football here in en. ian. ., ., , , also playing the football here in eni [ani ., ., , , ., england and th
morning. we have a lot to get to, but we ll start you off with the five things you need to know for this tuesday, march 21st. the nypd on alert today in response of donald trump s call for protests ahead of a possible indictment. a source telling cnn that all officers are expected to be in uniform, ready to deploy. we re told no specific threat has been identified and there s still no word on a charging decision from the manhattan d.a. also today, a massive strike has shut down los angeles public schools. thousands of teachers and other workers are set to walk off the job for at least three days with negotiations in the district stalled, nearly half a million students will be out of school. also, we re tracking a high-stakes summit just two hours away in moscow. russia s president putin and chinese president xi jinping are set to hold more formal talks today. secretary of state antony blinken called xi s visit diplomatic cover for russian war crimes. new development on
documents at his home in wilmington, delaware. this weekend the president s attorneys announced they five five additional pages of material on thursday evening. they found them t that the justice department announced a counsel to investigate the other material found at that home and in an office in washington, d.c. the white house said there are no logs of visitors to biden s home. james comer asked for those documents and answers from the white house. evan perez is following this for us. tell us more about these five pages. the white house says the five pages were turned over or discovered when the white house made arrangements and the president s personal lawyers made arrangements for the justice department to come and retrieve a one-page document they say they found in an office adjacent to a garage at the wilmington home that they previously told us about. this timeline, this additional piece of detail told us also that the there s a white house counsel, a lawyer, who