kevin: welcome back to the friday big show. as we ve been documenting here on fox news @ night, rising prices at the grocery store and of course at the pump costing american households in a very big way, all with the 2022 mid-term elections approaching. with that in mind, lawmakers on capitol hill are also playing close attention to the impact government spending is having on our economy. congressional correspondent chad has that from capitol hill tonight. reporter: kevin, democrats face headwinds ahead of the midterms, high crime, potential for war in ukraine and a lingering pandemic, but inflationary gaels threatened to turn the midterm into a political hurricane it wasn t that long ago that democrats pitched build back better until joe manchin slammed on the brakes over inflation. his fears are now realized. this is not a time to be putting more fuel on the fire.
the impact it s had on? it hat on. give us a flavour of what the impact it s had on? hat on. give us a flavour of what the impact it s had on? it was quite calm here up the impact it s had on? it was quite calm here up until the impact it s had on? it was quite calm here up until about the impact it s had on? it was quite calm here up until about 2:15pm . calm here up until about 2:15pm today when we started to get the first rain events from storm barra. that continued with squally winds up to around 4:15pm and that s when the gaels really started to kick up here at the west coast. south of the country, they have been experiencing strong gaels since early morning. but for us here, this started around apm, and what expecting is the storm will peek here at around midnight, 1am and will continuously plough into this morning. so we are under a status read because we are a coastal area, and that status read will go to status orange, and that s been issued by the irish meteorological se
we do expect to take a hammering as it were. ~ , , . , we do expect to take a hammering as itwere. , ,. it were. we ve seen the pictures you sent from earlier, it were. we ve seen the pictures you sent from earlier, and it were. we ve seen the pictures you sent from earlier, and obviously - sent from earlier, and obviously this is quite a few hours before it got really rough as darkness fell, and we can get a sense of it from seeing the movement even of the grass and leaves around you in the background. what sort of preparations have people made? again, agriculture and fishing here would be the main industries here so all the farmers and fishermen have been prepared for about 2 3 days, they ve had their livestock locked away, they ve had their boats taken out of the water was up i suppose everything from household trampolines have been tied down basically anything that could take flight has been tied down or taken indoors. again, the people here are quite used to dealing wi
the first signs of barra are in the average sea coasts and could cause travel and disruption with rain and snow on the hills and part of ireland and wales. brightens up later but in the gaels in the rain and hills the transfer of their way north and eastwards across the rest of england. let s go straight to the house of commons with the health of a tear in the latest on coronavirus. throughout this national effort, i have always been grateful to how this houses work together. across the floor in a constructive manner and i look forward to continuing. with permission, i like to make a statement by the pandemic. the omicron variant is continuing to spread here and around the world. according to the latest data, there are no 261 confirmed cases in england. 71 in scotland and four and
that will clear. temperatures won t drop away too much, around 7 11 degrees but it will feel cooler tomorrow morning that it does out there this morning. essentially we are between two weather systems. original high pressure trying to build in but before that clears you will see some of the strongest of the wind. it could gust 60 70 mph which will lead to some travel disruption and a bit of damage as well. you should you could see gales around northern england and the gaels. a blustery day on sunday. but actually tomorrow, dry day for most of you stop a few spots of rain towards the south west and stay fairly cloudy but some sunshine. scotland and northern ireland and eastern parts of england. temperatures tomorrow around 10 13. best of the sunshine throughout monday and eastern areas and more cloud and rain than the west. that s how it s looking. it cloud and rain than the west. that s how it s looking. how it s looking. it doesn t look too bad at