To thunderstorms as weather warnings are extended by the met office across a large part of southern england that came after the hottest day of the year so far. Far. After some big thunderstorms last night. Still a few showers across the south today, but for many there will be some pleasant warm spring sunshine, especially so in western scotland. Could last into tomorrow as well. Join me later for a full forecast. Me later for a full forecast. And the sport this morning. Jadon sancho may have been a little bit rubbish at Manchester United. Sorry jadon, but hes flying back again at dortmund as they beat Paris Saint Germain in they beat Paris Saint Germain in the first leg of the Champions League semi final. Rocket ronny is knocked out of the World Snooker championships and the olympic flame. Hes on board a ship somewhere in the mediterranean bound for france. Mediterranean bound for france. Good morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on gb news. On
Were live until am this morning. What does the budget mean for you . In half an hour, well be answering your questions, so please do get in touch with anything you want to know about your family or business finances. Use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The chancellor is facing accusations of breaking an Election Pledge by increasing National Insurance contributions for many Self Employed workers. After his budget announcement, Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to reconsider his plan from some conservative mps. The treasury has rejected calls for a re think, insisting the increase will make the National Insurance system fairer. Lets get more on this from our political guru, norman smith. How much pressure is he under . Huge pressure. It is notjust mr hammond has broken the conservative Party Election manifesto, many tories oppose on principle a tax rise on peoples income, but more than that, they belie
Good evening im lloyd sowers. And im haley hinds. Thanks for being with us. The search continues for a man who talked stalked a sixyearold, followed her into a bathroom and held her down. Luckily that little girls scream, scared off the attacker. It happened inside a macys in a mall in clearwater. Evan lambert, whats the latest . Haley, police are pushing this mans picture out to everyone. Take a close look at this guys face. Clearwater police say this man followed a little girl into a macys in clearwater mall, and attacked her. Pushed her to the floor and it was her screams which led him to stop whatever it was he was the girl was physically unharmed but vectors investigators said that he ran and got away. Hopefully, someone will say this is my neighbor, i have seen this guy at the convenience store, which looking at that photo you would recognize him. If you dont recognize the man, you may know who the women are, they think they were with the man. Disgusting, filthy, not right, man,
[ music ] Untold Stories saluting our Vietnam Veterans, continues now. Christmas in a hospital. How strange it seemed to be. Its not a physical ailment, but an ailment thats called ptsd. 46 years later, Doug Alexander still carries the burden of war. Alexander is a vietnam veteran who wrote this poem by receiving treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. He is also my uncle. I know. Those people died. Over there. Fighting a war that. Really none of us. Understood why we were there. But we were sent there to do a job, and we were trying to do it. And i know that those people tried just as hard as the next guy. But they didnt make it. And that bothers me. The year was 1969, and the country had already invested 15 years into vietnam. My uncle was 19 and more than a year into his army enlistment, when he was given orders to head to vietnam. He would soon be on the ground in tein minh. And i asked them, why do they call it rocket city . He said, cause they get rocketed three times a day
Racist and xenophobic. Theyre also inaccurate. The four women hes referring to are actually citizens of the United States. Three of the four were born here. Its also behavior thats unbecoming of the leader of the free world. You should be talking about things that unite us, not divides us. To be clear, there is one republican who said that today f any other do this hour, well bring it right to you. About a dozen others have tweeted their objection though. But as of this hour the rarely camerashy species of members of congress have been m. I. A. We reached out to top gop leaders in the house to invite them on the show today, and guess what . We didnt hear back. While its not news the president is a racist or the Republican Party is largely following his lead, what should serve as a warning to all democrats is this is the terrain on which the 2020 election will be waged. The New York Times peter baker writes it this way, quote, President Trump woke up sunday morning gazed out at the nati