Move back to tottenham today. We are talking all autumn bulb planting. A dry start to the day and many of us should see a fine and dry day ahead with more details in ten minutes. Its friday the 18th of september. Our top story. Tighter National Restrictions across the whole of england are being discussed by downing street to try and slow the surging number of coronavirus cases. The measures are being described as a circuit rate after a warning from the governments teeth scientific advisers that there would be a significant rise in the death rate without further intervention. This is what borisjohnson is desperate to avoid another full Scale National lockdown, which he says would be a disaster for the economy. Instead, the government could introduce whats being called a circuit break perhaps just for a fortnight of tightened restrictions in england. Schools would remain open, as would workplaces. But pubs and restaurants could have their Opening Hours cut. Some public premises would hav
Answer soon. Well also get to some other big news tonight. The Government Shutdown being pushed by the hard republican right. That and the first strike just scored by a secretive figure in the Hillary Clinton camp to undercut the candidate some believe could become her number one hazard on the road to nomination. Gleets to the story thats fired up the streets of new york. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk is with the protesters in foley square in lower manhattan. Stephanie . Good evening, chris. These protesters are on the move. If its anything like last night, theyll continue to be on the move. Minimum disde struction, maxi. M its unclear where theyre going to head. Early estimates there are about 500,000 people in this crowd right now. So they are moving slowly. Theres also a pretty heavy Police Presence here. One of the things thats angered this crowd particularly is the secrecy of that grand injury process. And they were hopeful that all of that evidence, the same way it was released in the ferg
Cross examined. And in the end, justice was not served. How is it possible that two different groups see this one issue so completely differently . Is it part of the divide in our nation . And where is it leading us . Lets get to it. Good tuesday afternoon fro deck on a very difficult day in america where were all left to wonder where is this taking us. And will history be our guide. Were right now waiting for the mayor of ferguson, missouri, to speak following a night of violence and destruction in his city. Well bring you the news when it begins. But first the parents of Michael Brown say the legal system is broken. Thats the word from their attorney, a very emotional attorney a short time ago. A grand jury decided not to indict the white Police Officer for shooting the black 18yearold who did not have any weapons on him. The family says they are profoundly disappointed in the jurys decision, which sparked a night of violence and protests across ferguson, missouri. And in this hour a
Off here. Traffic is not being allowed. It has not been allowed to enter this, you know, fourblock radius of west florissant for the past, oh, id say, 14 hours or so now. Its been blocked off. Were told its blocked off because it is still being considered a crime scene. This is, of course, where last night gunshots rang out. There were a number of the stores were looted here. One, two, three four were set on fire as well. In fact, behind me, we just saw in the past ten minutes or so, we just saw some workers arrive to set up some fencing around whats left of that Public Storage facility. We are expecting more protests tonight. In fact, weve already seen a handful of organized protests so far today. There was one over in clayton. Nothing like what we saw last night. Largely peaceful. Much smaller as well. Again, expecting to see more of that over the course of the afternoon and evening. More than 80 people arrested. 15 buildings set on fire. Dozens more than that vandalized and looted.
News tonight. The Government Shutdown being pushed by the hard republican right. That and the first strike just scored by a secretive figure in the Hillary Clinton camp to undercut the candidate some believe could become her number one hazard on the road to nomination. Lets go to the story thats fired up the streets of new york. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk is with the protesters in foley square in lower manhattan. Stephanie . Good evening, chris. These protesters are on the move. If its anything like last night, theyll continue to be on the move. Minimum destruction. Its unclear where theyre going to head. Early estimates there are about 500,000 people in this crowd right now. So they are moving slowly. Theres also a pretty heavy Police Presence here. One of the things thats angered this crowd particularly is the secrecy of that grand injury process. And they were hopeful that all of that evidence, the same way it was released in the ferguson case would be released in the garner case. Instead