it s more than 800 pages which was followed by 46 transcripts of witness testimony on top of all the that we re gonna start with sever weather in our breaking news story right now. meteorologist angie will giv us the latest forecast then we go to nbc corresponden shaquille brewster, joining us from benton angie, let s get you first first of all, you understand where shaq is that very, ver well what has changed you ve been watching the storm since the early hours, 7 am on words, iran for o clock in the afternoon eastern. what is changed? a lot of people have seen their winter weather alerts an advisories drop off. the people, like in buffalo, i places along the lakes, have not seen those warnings an watches come down. they re still dealing with blizzard conditions. while many locations have seen improvements, there are a lo of places are still getting hi in hard. buffalo has a nearly stationar lake effect snow bands sitting over top of them they ve been dealing with this
as assistant to the secretary of state, and the international trade economist rebecca harding. welcome to the programme. if at first you don t succeed, try, try and try again seems to be the game plan for kevin mccarthy in his bid to become the speaker of the house, after failing three times yesterday to get enough support from his party. but 2a hours on, the stalemate continues. he s lost twice again already today and now we are heading to a sixth vote, all because a small group of right wing republicans are blocking his path. some of them say they will never support him, no matter what concessions he gives. but mr mccarthy isn t backing down. this is the scene live in the house now, where that sixth vote is expected. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, no bills can be debated, no decisions made. so, it has to be resolved, no matter how long it takes. it could go on and on until some sort of deal is made behind the scenes. to give you a bit of history if you
Being elected to the very first time. Im detecting a lot of scepticism talking to voters in this part of the world about the idea of having another elected politician and that may well be borne out in the low turnout we get it eventually but that once people understand what a mayor does and we have seen that in Greater Manchester and the midlands, and those politicians tend to be very well known and they tend to be very well known and they tend to do and perform quite well and in many respects this is different was happening in the West Midlands and the tees valley where you have two conservative incumbents that have quite successfully managed to create a sense of them being apolitical, really, standing up for the region and not having to go along with the party is doing nationally. Thats not necessarily the case here is i dont think the conservative candidate will do that in quite the same way here as they dont have a track record to speak of. The expectation is that labour are in a v
talking about possible other options for the government but the ruling seemed to be very clear and categorical that rwanda isn t the best country for the uk to send migrants. best country for the uk to send miarants. ., , migrants. the ruling was categorical. migrants. the ruling was categorical. there - migrants. the ruling was categorical. there was . migrants. the ruling was - categorical. there was some suggestion it might have been more nuanced but it wasn t. there has been talk about whether the government might strengthen the agreement that it has with rwanda about rwanda s processing system but given the strength of the judgment, we don t know how the government will react. rishi sunak did make the point that crucially the supreme court, like the court of appeal and high court, has confirmed the principle of sending illegal migrants to a safe third country for processing is lawful. does that mean they will look at alternative their countries? we don t know which is