Also in the programme a Scrappage Scheme for diesel cars could be on the way as the Government Strategy to tackle Air Pollution is due to be published later. Ill be looking at what that might mean for car owners. And a lifetime of service, we will hear your memories as the duke of edinburgh retires. And in sport, Manchester United reign in spain, where Marcus Rashford makes his mark, to help his team, take a big step towards the Europa League final. And Sarah Keith Lucas has the weather. I will have a full forecast in about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. There has been a substantial swing from labour to the conservatives in early results from yesterdays local elections. The tories have made significant gains in england and wales. Counting doesnt start in scotland until later. All the councils in wales and scotland were up for grabs and a third of those in england. The conservatives have gained 115 seats and labour have lost 113. Heres our Political Correspondent chris
Tom cotton, ben sasse, john kasich and even, yes, mike pence, are quietly planning a run in 2020. Now, if youre watching this show on friday, neil ran through a number of accomplishments that the white house has been pointing to in its First Six Months whether it be job gains, stock market gains, all that kind of thing. So our question to follow up on that given that this article has been written, was or is the president being counted out way too early . To start us off, Charlie Gasparino, fox business correspondent, here in the studio from. The independent womens voice, heather higgins, also here many our new york studios, and are from the hill, editorinchief bob cusack from d. C. Heather, theres been so many articles written even during the campaign that its all over for donald trump, and although there have been moments where i think most of us would agree things have been messy during this [laughter] First Six Months you stay out of this gasparino [laughter] sorry, i just laughed.
Christian is adding up the rain total. Hes here with live doppler 7 hd not a lot of rain but legitimate amount. Thats true. Certainly helps dan and as you said we need a lot more and we will get it. Heres live doppler 7hd showing clouds over most of the bay area right now and little patches of drizzle and mist but we have more showers coming overnight rainfall total last 24 hours quite impressive. We really need it. Many locations between 7 tenths and 8 tenths inch of rain. Over inch of rainfall here and as we all know theres a lot more on the way. Here the next big storm on the satellite image its a soaking storm which will begin to deliver rain to the bay area tomorrow afternoon and it will be heavier and heavier as we get in the weekend. Heres our storm risk analysis. Theres a immediate risk of urban flooding meaning low level flooding of streetandnd roadwa roadways and maybe some clogged drains and drainage pipe. Jaws slight risk of some creek small stream flooding mud slide and ro
The president is set to address the nation on tuesday, to push what he called a limited strike on syria. Of course, by definition, bombing a sovereign country is an act of war. The president wraps up his trip to russia for an economic summit but the crisis in syria overshadowed all of it. While in russia the white house says the president tried to shore up support from other world leads. The president told the reporters the leaders are in agreement on one thing. It was unanimous that chemical weapons were used unanimous conclusion that chemical weapons were used in syria. There was a unanimous view that the norm against using chemical weapons has to be maintained. Shepard but just as important is what he did not say there was any agreement on who used those deadly chemical weapons. The president today held a surprise meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. The white house scrapped an earlier meeting because of tensions between the two countries. Russia of course strongly bac