Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African coronavirus variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 p
Counsel to look into the investigation against the president s son, hunter biden. Lucas tom lynnson has the latest on this story. Reporter it was just a few weeks ago that hunter biden thought he was minutes away from freedom are from any further charges. Of course, that thats not what happened. The plea if deal fell apart, and now it could be going to trial, according to federal prosecutors in a filing yesterday. A Special Counsel has been named. Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently are. Based only on a facts and the law. Reporter that Special Counsel, david weiss, of course, has been investigating hunter biden for the past five years now and negotiated with what many republicans call a, quote, sweetheart plea deal. President biden left the white house yesterday for the beach, he did not take any questions before Boarding Marine Wunsch the president one. The president has long main
southwest florida woke up to today, you ve seen houses shredded, others carried away by brutal storm surge including cars ending up in bays in some circumstances. steve harrigan by the grace of god rode out of this storm close to the impact his own as anyone else and tonight we find him right across a causeway connecting the barrier islands. you have seen some horrific destruction, what can you tell us about how the search and rescue attempts are unfolding in the dark? they are going on, they have carried out more than 700 rescues and they got started just after 1:00 in the morning. as soon as the wind died down more than 40 miles per hour they were out there risking their lives to try to save people who were trapped, some of those people on rooftops, both by helicopter and on land. talk about destruction, it is remarkable in the daylight hours to go around and see the level of destruction. i m standing in front of a destroyed house in a destroyed neighborhood. it s a sad s
this election cycle the house is said to be in play. best case scenario for democrats they would have to win all 30 toss-up races. a big challenge. that would give them a razor thin majority at 219 seats. dana: top concern driving voters to the polls is still inflation. the issue favors the g.o.p. the future of democracy and abortion not far behind. democrats hope those issues give them an edge come november. dana: we have reaction from axios senior political correspondent josh. good morning to you. we re sfwerg the homestretch of the mid-term elections. latest data shows there are a lot of toss-up races worth watching nationwide. democrats and republicans trying to make these races about two very different issues. of course prompts the question which party will have the winning strategy when they go for control of the house and senate? for the house republicans are slated to take control but team projects 30 house races considered toss-ups. there are a few notable on
states can handle. shifting them to self proclaimed the border is a mess. most of the coverages one-sided. what it is revealing his martha s vineyard s officials were not told and they had to scramble to get that confused migrants into an emergency shelter and overnight at a church. it gave the migrants to a military base being used. we will have more on this ahead. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. the media keep reporting that in the state battles over abortion rights they are energizing some republicans are softening their rhetoric. lindsay graham introduced a bill to further restrict abortions in states where it is illegal. outlawing late term abortions. just about no one on the right or left likes the senator s proposal. after 15 weeks, no abortion on demand except for in cases of rape, incest, to save the life of the mother and that should be where america is at. graham s dangerous ugly desperation move is the most definitive evidence you will ever get.