Should she get the boot . Yes. But first, coming up, is your morning. News morning. News good morning. Its 931. Im Rhiannon Jones in the newsroom. Rhiannon jones in the newsroom. Some breaking news this morning. Gb news can reveal a 100,000 migrants have now crossed the channel. Thats since records beganin channel. Thats since records began in 2018. The landmark figure was reached as another 250 people crossed in small boats early this morning. The arrivals are the first since saturday as bad weather made conditions in the channel largely impassable. The figures add yet more pressure on Prime Minister rishi sunak, stopping the small boats is one of his governments key priorities as pressure is mounting on the Police Service of Northern Ireland. As a second data breach is being investigated, the names of more than 200 serving officers and staff were stolen from a private vehicle on the 6th of july, along with a police laptop and radio. The psni chief constable simon byrne will today fac
By that of the nasdaq as it is rising more than 1 . Tech shares accounting for a decent amount of the game. The gains are relatively broadbased as people get back to work today. Among the fang stocks helping account for the rise today weve got netflix on the rise. We also have some of the content and broadband providers on the rise as well. Disney, dish, Discovery Communications and charter communications. Mccrory looking at the media landscape for this year emphasizing the idea that content is king and that some of these content creators are going to do better. Fox buying more content. Various eitherer of the pipes, providers of the access to overthetop networks or to the providers of content like discovery themselves. Media seeing a pretty broad lift in todays session. One group that is not on the rise of the pipes, providers of the today, insurer. Todaye kbw out with a new cutting all state to an underperform saying that companies Margin Expansion story is just about played out. Loo
Im Cheryl Casone in for trish regan. Welcome to you intelligence. Right to it. Heres what you need to know about what was Just Announced from the two advisers to the president. The president wants three tax brackets instead of seven for individuals, and they are 10 , 25 , and 35 . The president also proposing to slash taxes for all corporations along with small and medium size businesses down to 15 . Right now were in the high 30s. He also wants to eliminate the death tax and repeal amt, the alternative minimum tax, take a look how the markets are reacting right now. Not a lot of reaction, but the details of the plan that come out earlier today, the dow, s p and nasdaq still in the positive. We should watch the s p, we may have a record close based on earnings and also what we heard on the tax plan. Take a look at the russell 2000 hitting alltime highs today. These are smaller and mid cap companies, many analysts are saying could really be the beneficiaries of the new tax plan coming f
Another country interfering with our elections. The Intelligence Committee is the best place for that. Reporter even those against a special counsel still like the choice. I dont think appointing a special counsel was necessary but if one was going to be appointed i think bob mueller is an excellent choice. Reporter the man who picked mueller, rod rosestein briefing senators behind closed doors today on his decision to appointment the special counsel and the role of the firing in james comey. It was a counterintelligence investigation before now. It seems to be now a kremlin investigation. In a lunch today with Network Anchors President Trump said the special counsel hurts our country terribly calling the entire investigation a pure excuse by democrats having lost the election. Jonathan the instapoll is active now. What do you think of the finite appointment of a special prosecutor. Is right move . We have joined by brad garrett. Its good to get your appointments on these things. Your
Going. Reporter xaviers cousin said he was like a brother to her 5yearold son. Why . Like, why . He was such a little boy, he doesnt deserve that. Reporter xavier was a kindergarten student in southeast. Its very devastating. Devastating. This tragedy of the young boy that got killed. Reporter what will you tell your children . Be very careful when youre crossing the street. Look both ways. Reporter ahead at 6 00, how the school will help its Young Students deal with death at such an early age, when they return to class tomorrow. Thats the latest from livingston road in southeast, washington. Back to you. Such an awful story. Thank you, chris. And this is an example of why all of us need to be careful about young children, especially as we have warmer weather and longer days. Killed in traffic crashes in 2015, according to the nhtsa, that showed more than 70,000 pedestrians were injured. Among those killed, more than a fifth were children under the age of 14. Leon harris here at the li