Nuclear deal. Ready for round two of a republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare, politico is reporting tonight the white house is pushing for yet another bill and another vote by next week. Word is, President Trump wants a done deal before he marks his 100th day in office. Thats one week from this coming saturday. Now, we are hearing that republicans who have a clear majority in congress are not sure they can hit that deadline. It failed badly before. Weve got storms on the way. Chief meteorologist topper shutt is outside watching doppler on the terrace. So where are they, top . They are still west of us right now, in fact, very nice evening in town but out to the west along i81 particularly, big storms, even up to the north of the hagerstown to the west of chambers chambersburg a big storm. Strongest storm down to the south. We have been following these for the last couple of hours, culpeper big time storm. Look at the increase in gh storm. Heavy rains, reduced visibility, rain
Austerity and rolling out the red carpet for the u. K. Film industry. The latest results from the baftas. At least 40 people have been killed during a riot at a football match in cairo egypt. Medical sources say its the worst football related violence since fighting in port said leaving more than 70 dead. Rob matheson has more. Reporter groups of football fans tried to get into the stadium in cairo. They had come to watch a premier league game between zamalek and emmpi. Some did not have tickets. Police tried to stop them with barricades. When that doesnt work they fire tear gas. Some people have accused the police of using violence to try to pacify the crowd. The police denied this. It appears that in the confusion a stampede occurred and many died from suffocation. We need to look at how it was handled. I mean the way the police dealt with the violence and how egyptian blood is so cheap and how fans are killed easily over a football match. Reporter egypt is no stranger to football vi
In the city as being grave and that it worsens with each passing day. The Prime Minister said he would resist another National Lockdown if at all possible. The government has come under pressure to impose a short Circuit Breaker across the country, but mrjohnson said he wanted to continue with taregted local action in order to avoid damaging health, economic and social effects. The government also said that there had been a further 15,650 cases of coronavirus in the uk. A further 136 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for covid 19. Lets listen to what the Prime Minister said about manchester in his News Conference a few minutes ago. Now, we have not yet reached an agreement with Greater Manchester. I com pletely agreement with Greater Manchester. I completely understand the reluctance
of the mayor and his colleagues to ta ke of the mayor and his colleagues to take manchester into the very high alert level. It is far from a pain free course of action and it will mean a
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With us, madeleine grant from the telegraph, and features writerjames rampton from the independent. Welcome to you both, i hope we can hear you loud and clear. Tomorrows front pages lets start with the metro, which says that the uk death toll is racing ahead as nearly 3,000 people have died after contracting the virus. The ft focuses on global unemployment. They sayjobless claims in europe and the us are surging as economies continue to stall. The telegraph leads on Matt Hancocks pledge for 100,000 tests a day to take place by the end of this month to try and put an end to the lockdown. The times leads on the same story. The independents leads with the headline failing the test, a dig at the government lowering the testing goal set out by the Prime Minister last month. The guardian also focuses on testing numbers, stating that number 10 admits it made mistakes and has changed its testing targets. W
The democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are in negotiations with special counsel Mueller Report to come and testify and they aim to have the hearing take place may 15, 10 days from now and this morning david sicily was on the Committee Say it representative from Robert Mueller agreed to testify, but he later walked back those comments saying nothing has been agreed to. Here he is with chris wallace. We think the American People have a right to hear from him and tell the day comes we never have an absolute guarantee. The white house indicated they would not interfere with his attempts to testify and we hope that wont change for mac this morning another front a step to get tougher on securing the border. Mark morgan is his pick to lead i. C. E. Seine im pleased to inform all those that will leave in a immigration policy that mark morgan will join the Trump Administration to be a head of our hardworking men and women of i. C. E. He will do a great job. This week and the president i