Budget deficit, soaring public debt and recessionary trend fitch downgraded the longterm us rating from the highest level of triplea to double and plus this indicator means a high level of solvency, but at the same time there is a low probability of default. The downgrade of the United States reflects the expected deterioration of the financial situation. During over the next three years, the high and growing debt burden of the government as a whole, and the weakening of governance over the past two decades, as manifested by repeated cancellations of debt limits and lastminute decisions. How did the feature agency explain their decision among the main reasons , not only the growing state bonds and the possibility of a recession. Well, the tightening of the feds policy in the white house hastened to immediately disagree with such conclusions. Minister of finance. Usa janet helena called the decision and i quote unauthorized and based on outdated data, and the press secretary of jubaiden
Campaigning, rishi sunak made it one of his stops on his Whistle Stop Tour of the uk and today, The Labour Leader keir starmer started off his day there. What did you make of what he was saying and what he was doing . Yes, and i think this is a signal, adam, of things to come, isnt it . Because theres been a lot of discussion about whether in this election, in particular the route to number ten might run through scotland, and in particular for sir keir, might run along the river clyde here in glasgow and the river clyde. In fact, that is it, isnt it . If youre watching, if youre not watching, theres a river behind me. Yeah, and what is why is that . Well, because about a decade ago, there was a big shift, a big, Big Shift In Support from labour to the snp. Labour for decades and decades would send dozens of mps from Scotland To Westminster at every election in the 2019 general election. How many mps did they return from scotland . One one. So keir starmer hopes to change that and there
Budget. The program is thought to be on the chopping block and the likely impact. And a new chief in town, oakland, gets ready to welcome floyd mitchell. His main focus as he hits the ground running. This is today in the bay. Well good morning. Its 6 00 straight up on your friday morning. Im scott mcgrew and im Ginger Conejero saab. We are in for marcus, whos off this week, and laura, who will join us in just a moment to talk about her story. Were going to get a look at the commute from mike and the things youre watching out for. But well start things off with the forecast. With meteorologist kari hall. Its friday, we have a beautiful sunrise over San Francisco. Its all clear and its going to be another warm one for the inland valleys. Headed up to 90 degrees today, 80 for the coast and the bay. And for the weekend. Its going to be a mild one, especially for the inland areas and some cooling near the coastline going into next week. More dry and warm weather that continues. Not seeing t
Visit. Both the president and the first lady are waking up in the bay area this morning ahead. Details on the visit as we inch closer to the november election and tracking a weekend warm up. Meteorologist kari hall is timing out what you can expect as you make your plans. This is today in the bay good friday morning. We made it to so happy that we say that every friday im Ginger Conejero saab. Laura garcia is in our newsroom. We will see her in just a bit. And im scott mcgrew. Marcus is off this morning. First, lets kick things off with a look at what is bound to be a very warm forecast. Yeah, its already warm out there and we are going to heat up even more this afternoon as our temperatures are in the upper 50s. To start, were at 63 degrees in martinez, and then you can see the difference in temperatures from martinez at 63 to 48. In sonoma. The wind has calmed down in some spots and thats allowing those temperatures to drop. But as we get all of that sunshine today, its going to heat
Diplomacy orforce . In gaza, israeli troops enter rafeh, so where does that leave a ceasefire agreement, the future of palestinians who evacuated to rafah and the fate of the israeli hostages . Well talk live to this woman in tel aviv, whose relative is still being held by hamas somewhere in gaza. And to unicef, about the situation on the ground in rafah. Our diplomatic editor mark urban is here on what the chances are for a ceasefire now. Also, tonight, the star witness at Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Today Was Adult Film Actor Stormy Daniels, who testified in vivid detail about when she had sex with him mr trump denies it. Here she is talking to newsnight in 2018. He attacked me first, i was called a liar, that it never happened. And unless hes had a Penis Transplant then im pretty sure thats a checkmate. In court, ms daniels gave plenty of detail about her alleged encounter with him. So is trumps legal battle having an impact on the election . Mark has travelled across america to