History. Well bring you the latest on the markets. And well be getting the inside track on Life In The Fast Lane with the boss of londons city airport. Just how do you grow a business thats hemmed in on all sides . Scientists say Smart Devices or is good at doctors as spotting skin cancer. What would you like your phone to warn you about . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. Were talking about Corporate Tax cuts. Its a central part of President Trumps strategy to boost the us economy, and is on the agenda today at the republican partys annual retreat in philadelphia. President trump will be there to give an address, as will british Prime Minister theresa may a first for a foreign leader. Before winning the election, mr trump promised hed cut the us Corporate Tax rate from 35 to around 15 to try and keep more us business onshore. Hes targeting the billions that us multinationals like starbucks, google and microsoft make overseas. Mr trump says hell allow them to r
Is involved in such a decision. It beggers belief, really. Good morning. Its february 24th. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The conservatives have labelled their victory in the copeland by election a truly historic event. They took the seat from labour by more than two thousand votes The First Time a Governing Party has won a seat from another party in a by election for 35 years. The area has had a labour mp since the 1930s. For labour, the Shadow Chancellor John Mcconnell called the result disappointing. The party did hold on to the seat of stoke on Trent Central, in the other parliamentary by election result declared overnight. Labour finished two and a half thousand votes ahead of ukip leader paul nuttall. In the last hour the Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn has been giving his reaction to the by elections results. After his speech, he is taking questions now. Is defeated in copeland a disaster for the labour party . Its a disappointment. Im very sad about it. We campaign to win it back,
You really meant that today. I had a long week. So did you. I did, indeed. Happy friday from me as well. Im wilfred frost. Straight to the market action. Erring earnings in a minute, first a scary moment at Laguardia Airport last night. The Campaign Plane carrying Vice President ial nominee mike pence skidded off the runway after landing in heavy rain. Emergen Emergency Personnel evacuated everybody on board. Nobody was injured. The plane did not strike any of the fencing and was never in danger of going into the water. Later this morning, governor pence will join the team of squawk box in the studio live at 8 00 a. M. I landed in laguardia last night around the same time that governor mike pence did. Then they closed the airport, and had a full grand stop. It was very rainy, wet, skittish. A bit. Delighted that everybody nobody has been hurt. Delighted to be back. And you had a safe landing. Lets check in on the Global Market action. Futures are looking a bit soft, down about 5 points
Intelligence report to the polls are close in the uk in the buzzer and they are getting counted right now as i speak. It is looking very tight right now but those that want to leave the European Union are in the lead. Right now 48. 7 say they want to remain an 81. 3 want to leave and this is with 26 out of 382 precincts reporting. I want to head straight to london where Ashley Webster is there and actually the turnout was extraordinarily tight. Its unclear which way this is going to go. What are you saying there . People have been making this comparison between Great Britain and the u. S. Right now and theres this Popular Uprising where people are saying enough is enough. Exactly right, trish. What we are seeing in the early results, we have about 7 in. We have 93 ago yet that theres a surprise. Those areas that were expected to vote to leave and done that and they have done it by a much wider margin. Those were expected to vote to remain had one but by a very narrow margin to what we
Next week. Summer is clearing its throat by then. Here is a live look at the bay bridge. A touch of the fog has come across our region. Click clearing on the fog yesterday. There comes the fog overnight and it will repeat that clearing process again fairly rapidly. As far as temperatures we are in the 50s about everywhere. Santa rosa at 54, we can shave off a few degrees just before sunrise so this is not set in stone. Oakland up to about 60 at 8 am and noon reaching around 70 and 73 by 2 00. Here is the warmup off to the Central Valley that is where the numbers will be baking. A little relief for the east bay shoreline and warming from yesterday. The weekend looks like warming up a bit for saturday, a slight break on sunday before a big spike next week. Here is the next eight hours. About 78 for the inland regions, further inland the temperatures will spike again. First look at traffic. Lets head over to the bay bridge. The ride into San Francisco is looking good. A live look at traff