:00:00. > :00:08.Good morning guys - Ricky here with all the top stories
:00:09. > :00:14.We meet, and race, a winter Olympic legend plus the hail stones
:00:15. > :00:21.so big they're smashing windows. This is Newsround.
:00:22. > :00:24.But first, special events to remember one of the major turning
:00:25. > :00:27.points of World War Two are starting today in England and France.
:00:28. > :00:31.The D-Day Landings happened 70 years ago tomorrow, in 1944,
:00:32. > :00:35.and saw thousands of troops from Britain, America and Canada land on
:00:36. > :00:41.It was the biggest seaborne invasion in history, and led to the
:00:42. > :00:46.Hundreds of soldiers, and their families, are in France to remember
:00:47. > :01:05.I was a teenager. I would be 20 the next day and I did not think I would
:01:06. > :01:12.see 20. It is a commemoration to those who did not see the white
:01:13. > :01:17.cliffs. They did not come back. I am representing my grandad who passed
:01:18. > :01:20.away two years in September. I have come to wear his medals and I am
:01:21. > :01:24.honoured and proud to be wearing them.
:01:25. > :01:27.And we'll have loads more on this tomorrow with some special
:01:28. > :01:33.But on to wild weather news now and giant hail has caused chaos
:01:34. > :01:37.Hail the size of tennis balls smashed car windows
:01:38. > :01:40.and made driving almost impossible and just look at the damage the
:01:41. > :01:48.To sport, and Winter Olympic gold medallist Lizzy Yarnold has made
:01:49. > :01:51.a return to the snow - but this time the skeleton bob
:01:52. > :01:54.legend has been meeting kids to try and inspire them to become
:01:55. > :02:01.Hayley went along to get a few tips too.
:02:02. > :02:08.Lizzy Yarnold goes for gold for Great Britain. Lizzy Yarnold is the
:02:09. > :02:23.Olympic champion! She is Great Britain's ice queen,
:02:24. > :02:29.reaching more than 70 mph on little more than an iced tray. Today, she's
:02:30. > :02:36.meeting kids to let them in on the top secrets of how she made it to
:02:37. > :02:43.the top. I go headfirst down the ice chute. I go up to 90 mph. When I was
:02:44. > :02:49.at school I did loads of sports. What is it like now you have got a
:02:50. > :02:55.gold medal? It has been a lot of fun. It is quite strange that people
:02:56. > :03:00.know who I am. I was given a gold blue Peter badge. What about meeting
:03:01. > :03:08.people like you have today who look up to you? That is what it is all
:03:09. > :03:11.about. Showing my gold medal and passing it on to the next
:03:12. > :03:16.generation. Winter sports are exciting and exhilarating. For
:03:17. > :03:23.anyone who wants to get involved, what would you say the top tips are?
:03:24. > :03:27.The top tips are having a goal. I wanted to go to the Olympics. Train
:03:28. > :03:35.hard every day and be determined to never give up. Next up for Lizzy are
:03:36. > :03:40.the world Championships in Germany. But before that I have got a
:03:41. > :03:53.challenge. You have got to beat me at sledging!
:03:54. > :03:55.And sticking with sport, Andy Murray will play Rafa Nadal in
:03:56. > :04:01.He battled through his quarter final to beat home favourite Gael Monfils
:04:02. > :04:06.And in footy Roy Hodgson has a few worries after England's latest
:04:07. > :04:12.They drew 2-2 thanks to goals from Wayne Rooney and Rickie Lambert.
:04:13. > :04:16.But Raheem Stirling was sent off and an injury to Man of the
:04:17. > :04:28.Match Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain could rule him out of the tournament.
:04:29. > :04:36.He was back really do his best. All I can do is cross my fingers and
:04:37. > :04:41.touch each piece of wood that I pass by and hope it is not that serious.
:04:42. > :04:43.Last up, Ireland as you've never seen it before.
:04:44. > :04:46.Adventurer Mike O'Shea has become the first person to fly
:04:47. > :04:49.from one end of country to the other using a paramotor -
:04:50. > :04:54.He spent more on three days in the air and reached heights
:04:55. > :04:59.We'll have more on that and loads more back here in half an hour.