And this budget is an example. Nick watt reports. We havent quite heard the first cuckoo, but spring will soon be upon us. As the buds slowly sprout, its time to prepare for future climates, both sunny and chilly. That was the spirit Philip Hammond invoked in the lead up to the budget. Expect to prepare for troubled times as the uk leads the eu. It actually turned out that spreadsheet phil is so comfortable in his dream job that we witnessed gag a minute phil as he cracked a joke about the last chancellor, who announced the demise of the Spring Budget. The treasury has helpfully reminded me that i am not the first chancellor to announce the last Spring Budget. 2a years ago, Norman Lamont also presented what was billed then as the last Spring Budget. What they fail to remind me, mr deputy speaker, was that ten weeks later he was sacked laughter so wish me luck today ah, a chancellor who thinks he can deliver a deadly serious budget whilst lightening the mood with some gags at the expens
I think in a sense we . Re probably at the point of near failure. The Llyn Peninsula in north wales. Its eight oclock in the morning, and home carer amanda is beginning her working day. Her first call is in pwllheli. Good morning have you got your bleeper on . My bleeper, why . What bleeping time do you call this . Amandas one of the uks 800,000 Home Care Workers, helping the elderly and disabled live independent lives at home. Today, shes with former Teacher William williams, who has multiple sclerosis. Its just nice knowing that i could go out there and help other people and make sure that theyre safe in their own home, and that they can actually stay home, and live at home in their own house, and dont have to go into care or anything like that. Im 72, remember. I havent got much time left we have many years to go again the girls, i have to admit, are terrific. Absolutely terrific. Theyre caring, theyre understanding and theyre full of fun. Like many carers, amanda struggles to make
george zimmerman at $1 million. you might remember he is the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of trayvon martin. zimmerman s earlier bond of $150,000 was revoked after prosecutor told the judge that he misled the court about how much money he had. it is not clear how soon zimmerman is going to post bond or when he will be released. a florida lifeguard has been fired after saving a man from drowning. yes, that is right. thomas lopez says he was let go from his job in hillendale eare beach when he rescued a guy outside of his area of the beach. i am going the do what is right and i did. he says that several other lifeguards have quit to protest the firing and my colleague erin burnett is going to talk live to lopez tonight live on cnn s erin burnett outfront at 7:00 p.m. president obama kicked off this bus tour in a politically critical state of ohio. the road to the white house has run through ohio and the president has made
here to pepeka. no fatalities. nine people were injured there. one person critically injured. governor of kansas is declaring state of emergency there. let s get right to our meteorologist rob marciano who is tracking these storms for us. that same line that produced the tornadoes last night across parts of kansas and missouri moving into parts of kentucky and indiana and illinois. dangerous storm with a tornado dropped down to harrisburg, illinois, damage there and search and rescue actually under way. that s with this line and this cell moving just to the south of evansville, indiana, just to the north of hender son, kentucky. another storm just northeast of paducah. another one just southwest of that. these are strong storms moving quickly. 65 to 70 miles an hour. and in somepla places it s stil dark. tornado watch is up until noontime central for parts of kentucky and also it s kind of sliding back through just north of memphis. this storm is a big one. it stretches all
strike. thousands of public employees say they ll walk off their jobs this week as parliament prepares to vote on yet another round of austerity measures. wrnss in yemen s capital say government troops killed at least five people when they opened fire on pro democracy demonstrators. sunday s violence left eight dead and more than 50 wounded. the surge in violence is blamed on al qaeda and the muslim brotherhood. a revolutionary forces commander was killed in sirte in the front line on sunday. many fear the anti-gadhafi fighters are losing the earlier momentum in the battle for moammar gadhafi s birthplace. those are the headlines from cnn, i m zain verjee. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodgson. this is world business today. the top stories on monday, october 17th. stocks rise as investors pin their hopes on a solution to europe s dead woes. a crisis of olympic proportions, how the 2004 athens games put greece on the