Doctors say a british woman who was shot while on holiday to brazil is lucky to be alive. Eloise dixon is reported to have been attacked when her family drove into a slum area. Good morning. Tesco has announced its scrapping 5p Carrier Bags altogether in favour of the more expensive bags for life. Ill be asking if other retailers will do the same. Also this morning, the challenge of finding the right pair of shoes for the children. Well be getting the latest advice on a problem troubling many parents at this time of year. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Good morning from the roof of the Broadcasting House in london. Grey skies. Dry at the moment. Rain and showers. Heavy downpours in east anglia and the south east. For the rest of the uk, it is sunshine and showers. I will have more details in 15 minutes. Thank you, carol. We will start with our top story. More than 40 of Maternity Wards in england closed their doors to expectant mothers at least once in 2016, data obtained by
Its been ten years to the day since the start of the Global Financial crisis. Thats when banks started to realise they had bet that couldnt afford to be paid back. Ill be finding out what lessons have been learned and whether it could happen again. Anger at the athletics World Championships, after one of the favourites to win the 400 metres is told he cant compete following an outbreak of norovirus. Yes, the fallout from the virus really overshadowed the 400 metres final last night. The runner didnt feature and in his absence Wayde Van Niekerk cruised to victory to retain his title. Like a Rhinestone Cowboy. Country star Glen Campbell has died at the age of 81. And carol has the weather. Good morning. We have a wet start in england and wales and through the day the showers pushing in the direction of the south east. Heavy and thundery. Some issues with fluttering flooding. In the sunshine it will feel pleasant. More Inis Sunshine it will feel pleasant. More in 15 minutes. Thank you. Fi
the rise, the average price 3.78, up 15, almost $0.16 from last week. and $0.25 from just one month ago. not to be ignored, that is a big difference to a lot of american families, a lot of businesses and workers filling up their gas tanks a lot, that matters, trace. trace: and outside the door, it s almost six bucks a gallon, just saying. and you can go after a light bulb and get some pushback, you go after somebody s truck it not going to be good. sandra: crosses the line. trace: it s not going to be pretty at all, sandra. america needs 180 degrees change from the direction joe biden is taking us. he s wrong on the economy, wrong on energy and wrong on national security, which includes food security and border security. he s just plain wrong. sandra: that s friday in des moines, iowa, 2024 gop candidate
say the last three years, yes, inflation has a mention, 9%, now down to 3%. unemployment level lowest in decades. sandra: still significantly above where the president took office and consumer price up 16%, gas prices up $0.16 in the last week. garrett, you get the final word in there. yeah, again, i mean this idea we are talking about joe biden fixing problems that he created and things just are not again, 65% of americans are saying the country is headed in the wrong direction, that s very tough. donald trump continues to suck up the oxygen here. go into the gop debate, i think candidates to watch for, nikki haley and tim scott, vivek, even. doug burgum like you said who you are interviewing, the first opportunity they ll have 15, 20 million eyes on them at the gop debate here on fox news, it s a huge opportunity to garner support. there s a lot of high stakes debate for ron desantis and the major question which looms over
healthy air. it definitely looks nastier outside today, for sure. reporter: and while temperatures are rising here in the southwest, gas prices are falling. arizona saw the steepest decline in the last seven days, down $0.16 a gallon, john. john: kris van cleave. thank you, kris. for what to expect this independence day weekend, let s bring a meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. john, good evening. you have mentioned how poor the air quality is from canadian wildfires. it looks like the smoke will peak in the northeast tomorrow, so places like d.c., philadelphia, new york, and boston. saturday is the day they will be under air quality alerts. the gradual improvement as we go through sunday, much better for monday, as well as the holiday on tuesday itself. expanding heat across the south, because of a high-pressure dome here, a lot of storms that are riding along the periphery of that. saturday could be a very violent day for st