Good afternoon. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay nearly £158 Million to their customers. The Regulator Ofwat says its because the firms have failed to meet performance targets such as cutting Sewage Spills and leaks. Some future Water Bills will be reduced to reflect the missed targets. Our Environment Correspondent Jonah Fisher reports. A warning this report contains flashing images. This Report Card does not make pleasant reading for the Water Companies. Targets for reducing leaks are not being hit, the number of Pollution Incidents has hardly changed in the last five years and Customer Satisfaction has continued to fall. Three Water Companies anglian, southern and welsh are rated bottom of the class. The others are just average, with none rated in the top category. So we think the sector suffers from a culture of poor performance, that companies are not taking responsibility for their performance. They are too often blaming the weather or the circumst
Lawrence its 8 00 a. M. On east coast, this is Fox And Friends. With four weeks until the election, Kamala Harris struggles to answer basic questions about the border. Policies weve been proposing are fixing a problem, not promoting a problem. But numbers did quadruple. Brian plus, white House Press Secretary walking out of a Briefing Yesterday after being pressed by Peter Doocy on fema funds. He has money for people in lebanon, what does it say about his values . The premise of your question is misinformation, sir. Ar Ainsley North Carolina getting help from Luke Combs and Eric Church, and they will join us coming up. Steve big final hour of Fox And Friends and starts right now. Brian fox weather alert, coast bracing for hurricane milton. As it heads toward tampa. Lawrence milton could be strongest storm to Hit Tampa in more than a century. Steve check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. We keep showing the cone, that cone gives approximate proach, we still dont know exactly whe
East coasters, youve got three more hours, if youre One of those states. Its not close of business, its at the end of the day exactly, youve got a few more, have a great show. Thank you thanks to you at home for joining us this hour the date, October 7th, was previously known for One reason, it is vladimir putins birthday. Hes 72 today. Congratulations. But now, for me and for you and for everybody, the date, October 7th, is its own unforgettable, indelible thing. S the same way that 9 11 is an unforgettable, indelible date for us forever and ever. October 7th is when 1,200 people died in the hamas attack. October 7th, 2023, One year ago today. They lost 1,200 people. If you sort of extrapolate that, given the relative size of the population of our two countries, an attack of that size in our country, that would have been the equivalent of us losing more than 35,000 people. We lost 3,000 americans on 9 11. They lost, relative to their population, the equivalent of 35,000 people on Octo
To one of china s most senior economists after he criticised xi jinping? we think he disappeared some time earlier this year. That gives you an indication ofjust how cautious peoplei have to be in order to not run foul of the leadership in china. Sirens blare iran launched two big waves of missiles at israel on tuesday. But in case you might think world war iii was breaking out, it was all carefully choreographed. Distant explosions iran signalled what it was going to do, the americans knew about it beforehand and israel was expecting it. That s the way these things are done. The basic facts are unchanged. Israel remains dominant in the immediate region, and iran s hope of turning its two associate groups hamas, in gaza, and hezbollah, in lebanon into checks on israel hasn t succeeded. And a wider war between israel and iran doesn t seem altogether likely because neither country wants it especially not iran, whose rulers know how fragile their control over their own population is. I