you re watching bbc news. now the dark side of direct sales. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i m lora jones and, for the past year, i ve been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your soul. and could direct sales companies be breaking the law? i m speechless. if they were here right now, . i would ask them what on earth they think they re u
with a hammer. he was a 42-year-old man, nbc news is reporting, according to sources, depeppi was in fact looking for the speaker herself, shouting where is francy, where is nancy. it is the same chant that some rioters on january 6th said when they broke into the capitol. pelosi s husband paul was in the hospital. her office says he should make a full recovery. but will our politics? joining me now from outside the pelosi home in san francisco is nbc s jacob ward, we also have nbc s ben colins who is with me on the set. he s going through the social media profile. we have nbc s ryan nobles, as well, at the capitol and former secret service special agent charles marino, he is here with all of the analysis and the context, he served under lee presidents to assure individual and family safety. joining me now is nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter as well. we will have him in a moment. i m sorry. let s go to you at the scene of where this happened. we heard from off
field currently. they will work 24/7 until we get the lights back on, again as the governor said, not our first rodeo, but every storm is also different, and always poses different challenges. appreciate all the support from the state, governor, thank you, from local law enforcement as well, the national guard, this is a team sport and a team effort and we are going to all work together until we get florida back up on our feet and where we all want to be. thank you. and when fpl and the other companies have crews in, the ex ten to which that infrastructure has remained is critical because it s a lot easier for them to reconnect an existing system than to have to rebuild it. so to see some of that that was able to withstand is encouraging. it s also just a testament. some of these folks put money into the resilience of the infrastructure, and this is like the ultimate test. you have a hurricane that s a massive hurricane coming in at 155 miles an hour, producing this type of
wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your soul. and could direct sales companies be breaking the law? i m speechless. if they were here right now, . i would ask them what on earth they think they re up to. so, at this point in the day, i m going to explain what you can expect to be doing in the business, essentially. you re learning the very basic skills. # and a girl like me. ..sales, you get marketing. # ..making money like me. ..time management, teamwork. # high roll like me, making money like me, # taking over like me. # taking over like me! on average, you re looking at £350 to £400 a week as your starting pay. once you ve done a certain amount of sales, you re doing things like recruitment, training, running road trips, basically building your own little empire, essentially. finally, w
in galicia in the north west of spain. heavy rains hampered efforts to retrieve the bodies throughout the weekend. now on bbc news, the dark side of direct sales. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i m lora jones and, for the past year, i ve been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your soul. and could direct sales companies be breaking the l