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Its thursday, the 13th april. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The Education Secretary, Justine Greening, has said that she wants a new model of Grammar Schools in england which are open for everyone. She says she particularly wants to ensure that there are much stronger educational outcomes for ordinary Working Families, and notjust the privileged few. But new analysis from the government shows a majority of Selective School places go to more affluent families. Lets here little of whatJustine Greening has been saying in the past few minutes. The final part of the plan for brit...

Helicopt helicopter? whose helicopter was it and how, why it had to crash land at the top of this 51 -story building in the middle of midtown manhattan. caused a fire. new york fire presence. put the fire out. had to get all these people all 51 floors of this building out of the building safely. as we've been saying, it's north of time square, south of central park. if you have ever been in new york city, this is the heart of the city. this is where you have all these massive, tall building and huge avenues where you have a lot of lunchtime traffic. you can imagine the city has come to a stand...

Let's talk about arkansas this morning. there are hundreds of roads that are under water right now because of this record flooding that's continuing to drench the heartland. arkansas river broke through a major levee. that puts thousands of homes in danger. experts there say these levees have never held this much water for this long. here's cnn's natasha chen. >> this is rogers avenue. >> reporter: this is the lunchtime traffic in ft. smith these days. >> we've got a doughnut shop down there. autoparts store, tuxedo rentals, liquor store. >> reporter: it took about a week for waters to rise sl...