Now on bbc news, Monday In Parliament. Hello again and welcome to Monday In Parliament, as mps call for more help for those living in flats with Inflammable Cladding. Theyre locked into an absolute nightmare, in unsafe homes, unable to sell, unable to remortgage and facing mounting bills. The Housing Minister says the government is on the case. It is vital that dangerous cladding is removed as fast as possible, and the government will not tolerate unnecessary delays. Also in this programme, a message for those unsure about the covid jab. This is a safe vaccine. Everyone who qualifies should take it and you should trust i the government and the nhs in order to supply it. But first, ministers have come under pressure from mps including many on their own side to do more to help People Living in homes with dangerous cladding. Three and a half years after the Grenfell Tower disaster, in which 72 people died, thousands of leaseholders are facing large bills to remove Inflammable Cladding and
i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la it s where nearly everything american and great came from. the things the whole world wanted made here. the heart, the soul, the beat of an industrial, cultural superpower. a magnet for everyone with a dream of a better future, from eastern europe to the deep south. american dream, you came here. the one straight ahead with the green roof? yep, the big rococo building, completely empty. empty. unbelievable. the white one is being rehabbed. there s some money coming in. the one next to it on the right is completely empty. the gray pyramid with the spire on top sold for $5 million. $5 million for that? you can t buy a garage in the hamptons for that basically. $5 million for a skyscraper. it is post-apocalyptic. i mean,
maybe the worm started to turn here. the packard automotive plant. opened in 1903, it was considered the most advanced facility of its kind anywhere in the world. huge, epically proportioned. i mean, 3.35 million square feet. now, one man lives here. al hill. my name is alan hill. welcome to my home. this room right here was a forage room. it was a former packard motor car company. i started living here about seven years ago. at that time, i was semiapprehensive about the place and the going ons around here. but turns out it s about as peaceful as the north woods. and ah, not having a credit card or mortgage payment or car payment is a real blessing. there s a few nails here so. yeah. what s happened here in detroit is unfortunate, but it s a sign of the times. we find out that not only does it take a village to raise an individual,
wants americans to get a vaccine. they see this as just a, you know, a one in a million situation. they feel strongly that people should get vaccinated and not use this as an excuse or a reason for fear. reporter: the number of americans getting their first dose of the covid vaccine has been dropping for several days now. just to give you an example, david, on friday, the u.s. was averaging 3.35 million shots a day total and today we re averaging just over 3 million. david? all right, stephanie ramos with us tonight. steph, thank you. and we do have one more important note on the virus tonight. overseas and the crisis unfolding right now in india. hospitals are overwhelmed, the highest daily death toll seen yet. reports patients are now being forced to share beds. and concern over a fast-moving variant. here s our senior foreign correspondent ian pannell tonight. reporter: tonight, india is in crisis as a second devastating wave of coronavirus sweeps this nation.
casino. just hours before that payment was due, it really looked like trump was not going to make it, which would have dire consequences. and so his dad, who was then 85 years old, sent a bagman to this casino, to donald trump s casino in atlantic city. the dude he sent, his name was howard snyder, walked into trump s casino in atlantic city. he went up to the cage where all the cashiers work on the casino floor and he handed them a check for $3.35 million. the cashiers verified that the check was good, and the casino promptly handed over to howard snyder a big pile of poker chips. here you go. each worth $5,000. $3.3 million worth of poker chips. howard snyder took those poker chips, put them in a bag and left. he did not play poker with them. he did not gamble with them. he just took the poker chips away. apparently, the next day, it turned out that that $3.35 million wasn t enough.