Engineering reports found that thermal movement - the daily expansion and contraction of materials that all buildings undergo - as well as misalignment and tight precast joints from the original construction are the primary contributors to chipping concrete.

Born Milena Markovna Kunis, Mila comes from a Jewish family and moved to Los Angeles from Ukraine, when she was seven years old, alongside her father Mark, a mechanical engineer, and mother Elvira, a physics teacher, and her brother Michael.  

Senator Graham pointed to the difference in treatment of Biden's nominee versus how Democrats acted toward Trump's three picks - specifically pointing in his first line of questioning with Jackson on Tuesday to Justice Barrett's faith.

'Two years of pain, two years of heartbreak, of uncertainty, of business loss, of schools closing, of just conflict inside our households, but I said from  since the time I was elected I said that this virus was not going to define us, we're going to define ourselves.'

He asked Jackson how she felt knowing that her children, husband and the world heard Republican Senator Josh Hawley accuse her of endangering children with the sentencing of child pornography offenders.

Protests broke out at the time after the Ukrainian Justice Ministry ruled that using the term to describe a Jewish person was legal, turning back a petition demanding that the offensive word be banned from the public sphere.

Earlier on Thursday, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston announced the government would provide an additional $9million to 83 emergency and food relief services supporting flood victims in northern NSW and Queensland.

'While people in northern NSW aren't able to work, are still clearing out their homes and businesses, the extra two $1000 payments we're rolling out to eligible families and individuals will support our communities as they start to rebuild their lives,' she said.

She also said that precedent with sentencing in child pornography cases are outdated because they derive from a time when there wasn't the internet and it was based on the volume of images offenders would receive in the mail.

'One of my friends who grew up in Russia, she was in second grade. She came home one day crying. Her mother asked why and she said on the back of her seat there was a swastika. This is a country that obviously does not want you.' 

'When you're talking about the investments of hundreds of millions of dollars - and indeed billions now - then people would expect this to go through the proper assessment of the proposals which we did yesterday,' Mr Morrison told reporters in Perth.

Adams confirmed prior reports that the United States' most populous city will finally lift mandates on masks in public schools and proof of vaccination to dine in restaurants or enter entertainment, sports and cultural venues from Monday.

"Over the summer, we will begin the planning process for further ways to modernize the facility and substantially enhance the fan and student-athlete experience. I think folks are really going to be excited about all that we have in store."

In announcing her departure from politics, Ms Cusack said: 'The idea that being a flood victim in a National Party-held seat makes you more worthy than a flood victim who is in the Richmond electorate...

'And normally in natural disasters there's a lot of bipartisanship, people work together, but unfortunately over the last three-and-a-half years they've tried to use it to have a crack at me on every occasion.'   

Scott Morrison told Weekend Today the idea his cabinet has been too slow to respond to emergencies was nothing more than a 'Labor narrative' - despite criticisms being levelled by members within the Coalition.

Earlier in the hearing, Jackson issued a passionate defense of her history of sentencing child porn offenders as Durbin gave the Supreme Court nominee a chance to address Republican criticism claiming she is too soft on these crimes.

Lindsey Graham walked out of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing Tuesday after arguing with Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin over the release of Guantanamo Bay detainees following his line of questioning of the Supreme Court nominee.

'We have become so boring as a city," he said. 'I want to become a city of excitement. We are looking to reinstate every parade, every festival, every block party. People need to get outdoors and enjoy our city again.'

'We want to see the faces of our children. We want to see their smiles,' the mayor said, adding that parents with kids over the age of five could still send their children to school with face coverings if they wished.

'These are some of the most difficult cases that a judge has to deal with because we're talking about pictures of sex abuse of children, we're talking about graphic descriptions that judges have to read and consider when they decide how to sentence in these cases,' she continued in an impassioned defense of her judicial record.