British driver. All eyes on catalonia as the Spanish Government takes control of the regions institutions. There are rumours the sacked catalan president could be tried could try and turn up for work. I am it sank ankrah station where rail bosses are trying to transform the network of the uk over the next 18 months and i am looking at how they are going to do it. St pancras station. do it. St pancras stationli never really would harm a never really thought it would harm a pet. That passive smoking can pose to your pets. And carol has the weather. Good morning. It isa it is a cold and frosty start to the day with a widespread frost, actually, but for most of us it will be dry and bright with sunny spells, showers along the north sea coastline and later thick cloud will bring rain and drizzle into the west. Ill have more details in 15 minutes. Thanks, carol. Good morning. First, our main story. The leader of the house of commons has been asked to make an urgent statement about tackling S
Mixed week right now, youre looking at the dow on pace for its eighth consecutive weekly gain as kevin was talking about. Hard to find down days the s p 500 is hovering around break even if it does end in the positive territory, it would be its eighth consecutive weekly gain nasdaq on track for its sixth week of gains. Dow futures indicated up by 30 points nasdaq indicated to open up by 20 points. S p fight pictuutures indicate 0 1. 5 this morning the hang seng ended up by 0. 3 in korea, the kospi with you up by close to a half percentage point. In shanghai, down by a third of a percentage point in europe, you will see it looks like things are relatively flat. France, you couldnt get much flatter than it stands the dax is up by 0. 3 . The ftse up by 0. 25 we will get to the gop tax plan and jay powell in a moment, a couple other big stories President Trumps twitter account was temporarily dark last night the company says that a exiter employee accidentally deactivated the account on hi
We begin with jobs the Labor Department says there are more than 6 million opens. A big skills gap that comes along with job seekers that are looking to get hired as our diana olick is hired, sometimes workers need to learn before they can earn reporter inside an unassuming ware house on the outskirts of denver, 18 students are learning how to saw, drill, plaster and paint. They are learning how to build a house. 18 might not sound like a lot but todays Home Builders are desperate for every last one of them every single year, the labor situation has basically gotten worse. People retire, nobody replacing them as an industry, we have done a lousy job marketing our opportunities to young people. So oakwood homes, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway started the colorado Home Building academy, a nonprofit boot camp teaching basic construction skills. The classes are free how can you afford it we can not afford not to do it reporter the academy hopes to graduate about 200 students from 11
Openings. That is close to an alltime high. But theres a big skills gap that comes along with job seekers who are looking to get hired. As our diana olick found, sometimes workers need to learn before they can earn. Thats our cover story today. Reporter inside an unassuming warehouse on the outskirts of denver 18 students are learning how to saw, drill, plaster and paint. Theyre learning how to build a house. 18 might not sound like a lot, but todays Home Builders are desperate for every last one of them. Every single year the labor situation has basically gotten more people retiring, nobody replacing them. And as an industry ultimately weve just done a lousy job marketing our opportunities to young people. Reporter so oakwood homes, which is owned by berkshire hathaway, started the colorado homebuilding academy, a nonprofit boot camp teaching basic construction skills. The classes are free. How can you afford it, though . We cannot afford not to do it. Reporter the academy hopes to gr
We begin with jobs. The Labor Department says that there are more than 6 million openings. That is close to an alltime high. But theres a big skills gap that comes along with job seekers who are looking to get hired. As our diana olick found, sometimes workers need to learn before they can earn. Thats our cover story today. Reporter inside an unassuming warehouse on the outskirts of denver 18 students are learning how to saw, drill, plaster and paint. Theyre learning how to build a house. 18 might not sound like a lot, but todays Home Builders are desperate for every last one of them. Every single year the labor situation has basically gotten more people retiring, nobody replacing them. And as an industry ultimately weve just done a lousy job marketing our opportunities to young people. Reporter so oakwood homes, which is owned by berkshire hathaway, started the colorado homebuilding academy, a nonprofit boot camp teaching basic construction skills. The classes are free. How can you af