mortgage rates are rising. the average interest rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage rose to 30% last week. according to freddie mac that s the highest rate since april. the 15 year rate rose to 15.3%. mortgages dropping to 2.65%. some consumer news for you. butter ball is recalling 14,000 found of ground turkey after reports of blue plastic was found in the meat. the recall items include a 2 1/2 pound of farm to family butter ball, all natural ground turkey with a sell-by date of october 18th. and 3 pound trays of kroger ground turkey with an october 17th date. so check those in your fridge if you have them. the defending world series champs advance in the playoffs after knocking off the giants thanks to a questionable game-ending call. andy scholes has it all covered in this morning s bleacher report. hey, andy. got to feel bad for giants
recorded a further 191 deaths from covid 19, that is people who have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test. 38,975 new cases of covid 19 have been reported in the past 2a hours. infection numbers in the last seven days are up 15.3% on the week before, and the weekly death count is up 26.1%. the headlines on bbc news. mps are due to vote on controversial plans to raise national insurance to fund the nhs and social care. this is the scene in the house of commons. more than 1000 people have crossed the channel in small boats this week, the home secretary is to hold talks with her french counterpart. the biggest ever terror trial in
million views. this is a lot more interest we re seeing from the ratings. the first debate, though, from nbc, had about 15.3 and 18 million viewers. this is a bit of a dip. but the cnn debate had 8.7 and 10.7 million viewers. which is on cable. so it is a little different. but 14 million viewers is a big deal. it shows a lot of interest in these debates. i m assuming one of the factors is trump. people are very excited on the left about beating him in the 2020 election. and so he is generating not only interest on his side but it seems like on the other side as well. and now we know who is going to be hosting the next debate. right. cnn and the new york times hosting the next debates. and so that will, we ll see what happens there. it ll be in october. in ohio. oliver darcy, thank you for coming in. good to see you. thank you. as we mentioned cnn will be there, part of the next presidential debate in partnership with the new york times. live from the battleground state of
a pro european constructive forces in this parliament david mcallister with me here from the european peoples party thank you for him very much for finding some time on this very emotional and very interesting evening here and with that back to you phil marks thanks for that much hoffman in brussels of the european parliament more from us across the across the evening so what we know so far in terms of an exit to polls and partial results c.d.u. in germany 28.6 percent of the greens a 2nd on $20.00 of the esprit de the c.d.u. coalition partners 15.3 percent disappointing result for them the last results that we had in the exit polls were from france where the peds national rally appears to have done very well let s join the lisa who is out with emmanuel mccall s all macho party in paris we ll get to reaction in just a sec lisa but to talk us through the rest of the figures if you have them.