come up tonight. ae will be here with the bbc s team of fact checkers looking over what s said. and we ll have more tomorrow morning on what you can trust and what you can be sceptical about. the deadline for candidates to be confirmed for the general election across the constituencies is ii.00pm this afternoon. we are talking to representatives from all of the major parties. we are joined now by ellie chowns, the green party s candidate for north herefordshire. she speaks for the party on housing and commuters. good morning, thank you for getting up early to speak to us. on the issue of confirming candidates you have had to drop candidates you have had to drop candidates due to anti semitic comments they had made, an issue of looking at up to another 20 possible cases of people selling stuff online last night. how many more of them can we expect to be dropped before today s ii.00pm deadline? the
rapist an evil act. i used the wong words in the wrong way and for that i apologize. as a father of two daughters i want tough justice for predators. rape can lead to pregnancy. the truth is rape has many victims. the mistake i made was in the words i said, not in the heart i hold. i ask for your forgiveness. reporter: akin face east 5:00pm deadline today to voluntarily withdraw. we shall see. jon. jon: doug mcelway in washington. thank you. jenna: a tropical depression brewing in the caribbean could turn into a tropical storm, a tropical storm with the name of isaac. depending on what path the storm takes from there and it could be a few it might spell trouble for next week s republican national convention if florida. we are still a few days out. janice dean pays attention to all these.