Day, but it was that forjodi after her sister collapsed with a cardiac arrest. She was walking down the aisle as her maid of honour. She will be here to tell their extraordinary story. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Also later in the programme we will talk to the families of six former british servicemen who four years ago today were detained in india after the ship they were protecting from pirates drifted into indian waters and they were arrested. Several years later they are still locked up in an indianjail. We will talk to the sisters and fiancee of three of the men. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The government has set out details of its plans to cap the gas and electricity bills of 12 million households. Its published draft legislation to introduce an upper limit on on poor value standard variable tariffs,
This is definitely the worst one expect the death toll from the north bay firestorms continues to rise as crews are working around the clock trying to get the upper hand on two dozen fires burning just in the north bay expanding into northern california. Good evening and welcome to our special coverage of the deadly firestorms. I am grant lodes. And i am steve aveson. 3500 homes and businesses have been destroyed and we have learned this afternoon that over 2800 of those homes lost were in santa rosa. Right now there are 400 people who remain unaccounted for in Sonoma County alone in the Sheriffs Office is using cadaver dogs to search for those people. We know more than 170,000 acres have burned, and that number could rise as there is very little containment in this particular fire. It is producing a lot of smoke coming down into the rest of the bay area. We have been trying to orient you little bit to show you the scope of the threat we are facing right now. I want to dial you in to s
Announcer this is nightly Business Report with Tyler Mathisen and sue herera. Retail wreck. Will this earnings season be the sectors worst in nearly a decade . Staying focused. The markets brushed off the firing of the fbi director, and stocks are oddly calm. Why . And what moves if any should investors like you make . Modern medicine. How Artificial Intelligence could one day predict what diseases we might get. Those stories and more tonight on nightly Business Report for wednesday, may 10th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. The talk in washington and on wall street was about yesterdays firing of fbi director james comey. More on that in a moment, but we begin tonight with retail. Some say the industry now faces its biggest challenge since the great recession. And as the sector gets set to report earnings, investors are preparing for the worst. Weve already seen a growing number of retailers file for bankruptcy. And if the pace keeps up, this year could see highest number of such
Acted upon the recommendation of mr. Rosenstine and mr. Sessions with whom he had met on monday evening, who then put their recommendations in writing. He said that he had made up his mind to fire mr. Comey before those gentlemen had met, number one. And number two, that he was basically not following their recommendations. He was acting on his own, so that raises some questions. The question of turmoil in the ranks of the fbi, something that has been raised several times and the president raised right there, was knocked down today on capitol hill by acting director mccabe who said that mr. Comey had the very strong support of the majority of the rank in file at the fbi. He certainly painted a very different picture of that. Reasonable minds obviously can disagree and from where the president the attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general sat they may have come to different conclusions on that but certainly that would be another sort of series of questions that i expect youll hea
Today, cool, and more clouds moving in and a slight chance of rain. We could use some showers, but were not going to see a lot of that. Heres a live look at san jose, starting out the morning with not much sunshine and temperatures that will be reaching into the mid 60s later today. Up to 68 in napa and concord, and 60 degrees in San Francisco. Ill have a look at the forecast as temperatures warm up. Thats coming up in eight minutes, but mike is showing some slowing right now through the trivalley. Its not unexpected and not very severe, but well show you because thats the only area where we see appreciable change. Green for the most part everywhere except for the 84 cut through. Theres 680 through pleasanton and the Castro Valley y, now seeing slowing because there are more cars there. Very nice on the peninsula, but well show you palo alto. Theres 101 northbound heading out of palo alto into San Francisco. Neither direction of the bay shore freeway has a problem in Silicon Valley to