erin paterson, as investigators believe, prepared a deadly dinner for her family. the sinister hostess poisoned lunch with a vekro. she still considers her husband's uncle and aunt days before the verdict. paterson committed the horrible crime 2 years ago in a small town near melbourne. allegedly, in order to improve relations with relatives and her husband simon, the couple was on the verge of divorce. erin said that it was a trial dinner. the invitation came from erin, when the whole family was in church, because her husband's uncle is a pastor. he told the jury that they were very encouraged by the invitation. the husband never showed up, and his... relatives felt unwell after the meal, everyone turned out to be in the hospital with severe poisoning, their lives were fading before their eyes, a few days later the husband's parents, don and gail paterson , died, his aunt died too, doctors miraculously resuscitated erin's husband's uncle. they are some of the best people i have ever met, they have never done anything bad, i am so devastated by what happened. the i

colin paterson reports. you don't need to compromise your vision. charli xcx dominated last year's brit awards at london's o2 arena, winning five. next year, for the first time, the ceremony is heading to manchester. the brits will take place at co-op live in february - the first time they've been held outside the capital since they began in 1977. we just feel now is the time to make a bold leap into other parts of the uk, to bring the music to the fans. manchester has such a rich musical heritage, and it's got a fantastic ecosystem of support there on the ground, including lots of amazing grass-roots venues. the first brit awards to be televised by the bbc were in 1985, and held in a hotel ballroom. sade won best album... i'd like to say thank you to the rest of the band - i'm only a small part of sade. the winner is... ..alison moyet, best female... quite simply, i'd like to say this makes me feel very chipper. thank you. read it, read it, read it. the winners are... ..wham! ..and wham!, best group. thank you to all the people that actually bought

colin paterson, bbc news.story now about friendships which bridge several generations - and it's all thanks to a special playgroup. the "grand-friends" group takes babies and toddlers to play with the elderly residents of a care home in coventry - with benefits for all involved. our reporter rosie eaton has been to meet them. # row, row, row your boat # gently down the stream.# the youngest member of this playgroup is six months. the oldest is 98. but all agree it benefits both ends of the age spectrum. it's actually quite an emotional experience to actually see the children going up to the residents and seeing that resident and child become alive. it's just such a heart-warming experience. even graduates of the group pop back for visits. today's a reunion for eight-year-old rosie and her grand friend dennis. she tapped me on the shoulder and i didn't recognise her because she'd grown up so much. i enjoyed coming because, like, we did all these fun activities and we sang songs and i got to see the grand friend

number one is former governor paterson said cuomo didn't really get out and talk to people.did a lot of closed door meetings and touted a lot and put a lot of money on television. hasn't lived in the city for 20 years. and i think there was a sense of like, you can't just walk in here and assume we're going to get take our votes. mom. dani i mean, they had thousands of volunteers knocking on good old fashioned campaigning, knocking on doors, talking to people. he seemed very willing to go all over the city and talk to people and take tough questions on us. and i mean that to me. i hope my party is paying attention to the fact that part of what he did was to put together a broad based, multiracial multi, you age coalition. he won an area called oakland gardens, which is in queens. trump actually won in 2024. lee zeldin won it in 2022. he flipped it. so i mean he it was interesting to see how he won. and it's again, the other thing, what was he talking about costs. the number one thing and we're seeing this nationally. people are still frustrated and anxious about costs. cost

today, shutoffs impact most customers in areas between paterson and tracy. it's all in an effort to prevent wildfires. >> number three, we do have elevated fire danger here, especially in the upper elevations of the north east bay hills, eastern santa clara hills, where gusty winds will plague the entire bay area once again. >> number four, the trump administration is threatening to withhold more funding from california. this time, it's because of a sex education program. the department of health and human services says the program is not compliant with federal law, citing content about gender identity. number five some muni riders in san francisco have fewer options. starting today, the san francisco municipal transportation agency is cutting service along five bus lines, consolidating two of them and ending the other three routes along market street. number six juneteenth parades and festivals are happening all across the bay area today. the biggest celebration is actually tomorrow in san francisco. a parade will take place at 11 a.m. down market street, a

paterson prosecutors say that paterson deliberately laced their food with so-called death cap mushroomsat's the most toxic mushroom in the world. paterson says she did not intend to kill anyone, and she has pleaded not guilty to all charges. and check out some of these images coming out of italy. these are. this is a tour group scrambling down mount etna as the italian volcano shoots. as you see there, clouds of ash and rock into the air. the eruption began overnight. several people reported being able to hear those explosions some 30 miles away. experts say. preliminary observations show a partial collapse of the volcano's southeast crater, which has made for some spectacular lava flows in recent months. two massachusetts business owners say they began filming an ice arrest because something about it just did not feel quite right to them. we'll pick up with what happened next after the break. >> what will. >> you. >> do when. >> the power goes out? >> power outages can. be unpredictable. >> and inconvenient. >> but with a generac home standby generator. your life goes. >> on uninterrup

erin had plated up for the guests on different sized and coloured dinner plates to that which erin patersonate of herself. the court also heard about erin patterson not eating much of the beef wellington at the lunch because she was talking too much but she did tell the jury that after the guests had gone she tucked into a cake that had been left by her mother-in-law gail patterson. it has hardly been touched because people had eaten so much at lunch and she finished it off, binge eating two thirds of it and then she made herself sick. this afternoon attention turned to the events after the lunch, especially focused around a food dehydrator that she had used to prepare some of the mushroom recipes she'd like to cook. she recounted to the court about a conversation she had with her estranged husband simon in which he said is that how you poisoned my parents, by using the dehydrator? of course not, she replied. but she did tell the jury that that made her reflect on what might have gone into that meal. her defence team say that they will be wrapping up their questioning on thursday. then it w

victory was won by the australian nicola ollislagers, another representative of australia, leonor paterson, third. ukrainian high jumper. yulia levchenko won gold at the tournament in warsaw, conquering 1 m 92 cm. levchenko held her first competitions after an unsuccessful stage of the diamond league in paris, where she finished outside the top 10. mykhailo kovkhan won gold at the continental stage of the hammer throw in estonia. in the final attempt, the ukrainian threw 79 m 37 cm, setting a stadium record and ahead of the polish favorite pavel fajdik. the competition in estonia became. for kokhan the last preparation before the european team championship in athletics, which will be held from june 27 to 29 in madrid. dayana yastrymska lost the final of the tennis tournament. in nottingham. in difficult weather conditions, the ukrainian lost to the americans mccartney kesler 4-6-5-7. however, yastrymska set a national record, playing in the finals on all surfaces. and now she will rise to 42nd place in the world ranking. lyudmila luzan won gold on the last day of the european rowing champi

malaise, all their life faded before their eyes, a few days later the husband's parents don and gail patersond, his aunt died too, doctors miraculously resuscitated the husband's uncle erin. they are some of the best people i have ever met, they never did anything bad, i am so depressed by what happened. the investigation found out that the cause of death of three people was beef wellington. this is a tender beef tenderloin, baked in puff pastry, served with mushroom sauce. it was to this that erin added the deadly ingredient: death caps. the killer cook had collected them in advance near the house, her now ex-husband simon, who had refused to go to lunch on the fateful day, had published incriminating messages, the woman had persistently invited her husband to visit. i feel awkward going to... lunch, it's disappointing, i've spent a lot of time this week preparing lunch. the alleged poisoner kept looking for a reason to invite relatives for dinner. in the end, she said that she was terminally ill. according to survivors, ian wilkinson, erin served the guests beef in a large gray dish , and p

and what he finds out is that there are these police clamping down on union organizers in paterson.y're arresting them at open air speeches. so reed ends up getting arrested because he's at an event. while he's in jail, he meets a guy named carlo tresco and he also meets bill haywood. truscott is one of the most famous anarchist agitators of pre-world war one america. haywood, of course, is the radical labor leader of the international workers of the world, or the wobblies. and he meets these two guys in the yard while they're held, and they begin talking with each and reed starts writing back to his friends in new york city from jail, saying, like, these guys are great. like they're open, they're honest. talk about their ideas with you. and he begins to develop this voice that is sympathetic to working people. within a couple of years, the socialist magazine, the masses, begins publishing his gripping accounts of life in prison. so he begins writing articles about what it's like be in that environment. and this him noticed in the metropole bulletin, another big magazine of the day

. >> in paterson, new jersey, five people were hospitalized for dehydration at an outdoor high school graduation. it felt like 111 degrees outside. >> all power is off and there are people who are feeling ill. >> amtrak passengers in baltimore say they were stuck in a tunnel for over an hour without air conditioning. yesterday, the company apologized for the locomotive malfunction and says staff handed out snack packs and bottled water. >> we're not camels. camels can overheat and still survive because. but we're not able to do that. >> record temperatures become even more dangerous for outdoor workers like this roofing company in north carolina. >> they can get up to about 120, maybe 125 on those shingles. so it's brutal up there. >> it's boiling. it feels like 100 degrees out of here. >> but at least there's a quick respite for children facing triple digit heat in philadelphia and washington, d.c. splash pads now, if you do have to be outdoors, make sure to wear loose fitting and lightweight clothing. and of course, stay hydrated. that beach patrol sergeant we spoke with also said t

he was arrested yesterday while on duty at a cal fire station in paterson.th cal fire since 2023, and also worked at stations in santa clara and santa cruz counties. he has a criminal history in idaho unrelated to child sex crimes. >> a former correctional officer at the dublin federal prison faced charges for a second time today. daryl wayne smith is accused of having sex with incarcerated women at the now closed prison. he appeared in court remotely, pleading not guilty to 14 counts of sexual abuse. in april, a jury deadlocked on similar charges. the u.s. attorney's office decided to retry the case. opening statements are set for august 25th. seven other former dublin correctional officers have been found guilty of sex crimes. an unusual arrest along the oakland estuary near the high street bridge this afternoon. east bay regional parks police tell us a man in his 40s was involved in a traffic stop. he ran and then jumped into the water near the tidewater boating center. it appears a good samaritan helped to get him to shore in alameda. police say he was t

in paterson, new jersey, the heat cutting high school graduation ceremony short and sending nine peopley in saint louis, where police say a woman died earlier this week after being in her home with no water or air conditioning for at least three days. in kansas city, missouri, an energy company working with the salvation army, giving out hundreds of. >> fans these summer months that have air conditioning can be really expensive, and some families. >> struggle to. >> afford it. >> while in washington. >> d.c. >> like walking into. >> an oven. >> triple digit temperatures closing. >> down the washington monument for the third straight day while at our nation's. >> zoos. >> some animals getting a spray down and firefighters helping kids and the new england community stay cool in this. >> intense summer heat. >> now, the good news and you did mention this, anna, is that there is some relief coming to many. i know you guys are experiencing much better temperatures than we are in new york right now. that is shifting to much of the country, but so too is an increased threat of some severe weat

after the lunch, paterson admitted she threw out a food dehydrator, the same one she used to prep theth cap mushrooms. police later found it in a dumpster with her fingerprints on it. the lone survivor told the court his wife noticed aaron eating from a different colored plate than others. so this case has gripped the world. crowds outside court wall to wall media coverage. aaron's estranged husband, simon patterson, also testified. jurors saw these text messages from the night before the launch. simon, sorry, i feel too uncomfortable about coming to the lunch with you. mom, dad, ian and heather tomorrow. aaron i've spent many hours this week preparing lunch. spent a small fortune on beef fillet. it's important to me that you're all there tomorrow. the mother of two cried on the stand. a prosecutor asked you intended to serve one of those beef wellingtons to simon patterson. if he came, aaron responded. yes, but not one with death caps. not intentionally. outside the wilkinsons church, small tributes for a family ripped apart. >> mom and dad were always strong pacifists. mums. mums, s

in paterson, new jersey, the he cutting high school graduation ceremonies short and sending nine peoplethe hospital. the blazing temperatures turning deadly in st. louis, where police say a woman died earlier this week after being in her home with no water or air-conditioning for at least three days. in kansas city, missouri, an energy company working with the salvation army giving out hundreds of fans. >> these summer months, to have air-conditioning can be really expensive, and some families struggle to afford it. >> reporter: while in washington, d.c. -- >> like walking into an oven. >> reporter: triple-digit temperatures closing down the washington monument for the third straight day. while at our nation's zoos -- some animals getting a spray down. and firefighters helping kids in the new england community stay cool in this intense summer heat. and back here in chicago, we're expecting those temperatures, as you mentioned, to soar into the 90s. that's why you have folks behind me trying to sneak in that morning workout. look at this video. that includes illinois governor j.b. pritzk

it's a different story, but over towards paterson. but not not not not heading out that direction.od. fog bank moving north and nothing new. this is the one that's been stubborn, stubborn, stubborn, stubborn here just refuses to burn back. it does. and then it just sticks and stays. keeping oakland, berkeley, hayward, south city and san francisco quite cool to cold. some breaks in the fog to the south, but there's plenty there. a little bit of a break on parts of the santa cruz coast yet. fog coming in from the south continues to march northward. so i think some sun to start has been replaced already with fog there. if you're down in the desert southwest southern california. yeah, it's warm to hot. if you're up here, it's not. and if you go north, it's not as well. so it's a pattern. i don't think it's changing all that much for the cool in you. another big fog bank. chilly lows. it's really windy for some here. other locations not as bad, but 50s to low 80s, at least in my zones. a little bit warmer. some higher clouds saturday into sunday. right back down again on monday. >> all