household energy prices could rise by up to 50% by next spring the warning from the energy sector, amid calls for the government to step in. the west end star having to self isolate with covid for a second christmas in a row we talk to people who re having to adapt their plans at the last minute. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. more boxing day matches are off due to covid, but should games go ahead at all with managers worried about player s welfare? good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at six. it s the first official government data on the impact of the omicron variant. almost a month after the first omicron cases were confirmed in the uk, preliminary research suggests that someone infected with omicron variant, rather than delta, is up to 45% less likely to attend a&e, and up to 70% less likely to be admitted to hospital. but there is concern about how long the boosterjab provides extra protection against omicron. these early f
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seems like you re making a fashion statement. it says vote, doesn t say who. if you get me that item i ll find a civic way to rock it. nobody rocks it like. you see you tonight. nicole and i will be out there with the rest of the team. it is election eve here on the beat as well. campaign guru james carville kicking off the show. we have the music. you hear that. we have the legend. always dressed for television. see you in a second. and we have the final numbers heading into the election day. democrats are catching up with republicans in enthusiasm. that s from the nbc poll. the fact is, 2 22 midterms now have surging turnout. in the last midterms the energized 2018 on trump there was a record turnout of 38 million votes. that is now topped by this final re-election set of numbers. over 42 million people already voting. 38 million was the record work 4 million more. the new record is 42 million. that is more m s, to quote the new drake album. candidates are hop
people were not just conservative, black people always have been conservative minded, but more black people voted conservatively. and lyndon johnson, then you go down that road, and now we are where we are. that was byron donalds suggesting there were positive aspects to jim crow. he joins me tonight. plus, president biden is in normandy on the 80th anniversary of d.-day, delivering a stark warning about the state of democracy. and the grandson of a key member of the black panther party, david hilliard, is pushing back against a video of hilliard saying allegedly that he supports trump, saying it is misleading. and that grandson joins me later. but we begin tonight with the 80th anniversary of d-day, the day some 156,000 allied soldiers arrived on the beaches of normandy, charging head on into nazi gun fire, land mines, and barbed wire. pushing the occupying nazi era germans out of normandy and then out of the rest of france. the invasion marked a definitive turning p