sales plunging as mortgage rates rise. what it means for buyers and sellers. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone as the heat tightens its scorching grip, in some places, it s one eye on the thermometer and the other on the electricity meter. texas in particular seeing nearly unprecedented power usage as triple-digit temperatures continue to drive people indoors, testing the power grid nationwide electric bills are already expected to climb 20% over last year, to a average of $540. roughly a third of americans right now under heat alert yesterday saw a dozen record highs broken. more expected today. parts of the desert southwest could see a dangerous 115 degrees. and th heat now pumping into the east and south washington, d.c., bracing for a possible high of 100 by sunday.
stories yesterday of how more and more about retired people are going to food banks, they cannot afford the price rises in the shops, the heating builds going up, and this is a time when yesterday a trust was seen to have given out over 2 million food parcels. you have got parents who will be watching the programme this morning, getting ready for work, so they are in work, but they are still faced with making choices between fading their electricity meter or fading their children. that is how hard things are for people, and what help do you get from borisjohnson? there s real hardship out there. but get from boris johnson? there s real hardship out there. get from boris johnson? there s real hardship out there. but can you hand on heart say hardship out there. but can you hand on heart say that hardship out there. but can you hand on heart say that if hardship out there. but can you hand on heart say that if labour hardship out there. but can you hand on heart say that if labou
of high society. but i remember my nan talking about christine keeler and feeling very strongly that she had been a victim of injustice and that what had happened to her had been wrong. and they stayed in contact for many years after they had left prison. so you grew up, as a small child they re your mum s parents presumably there wasn t a lot of money around the house? no, not at all. that was very hard. and there are a number of layers to it. things like the electric going off and sitting in darkness. the money had run out and mum didn t have any money to put in the electricity meter. we had the advantage of a big east end family network around us, so we didn t go hungry in that sense, but it did mean kind of traipsing the hour long round walk to my nan s to get food from there or to get food from my aunts or my grandad, my dad s dad, who lived not far away. because my dad s always been in my life. in fact, i spent my teenage years.
as you say, largely because of her relationship. who does she share her cell with? shares cells with christine keeler, who was at the heart of the profumo affair, which i didn t really have much understanding or awareness of growing up. not exactly an east end girl, was she? no, she wasn t. i know, talk about chalk and cheese. you had this working class east ender in my nan, libby, and then you had christine keeler of high society. but i remember my nan talking about christine keeler and feeling very strongly that she had been a victim of injustice and that what had happened to her had been wrong. and they stayed in contact for many years after they had left prison. so you grew up, as a small child they re your mum s parents presumably there wasn t a lot of money around the house? no, not at all. that was very hard. and there are a number of layers to it. things like the electric going off and sitting in darkness. the money had run out and mum didn t have any money to put in the el