The Written Test Tens Of Thousands of Minicab Drivers in london will need to pass to get behind the wheel. And bed and banksy the Elusive British Graffiti Artist opens a hotel on the west bank with a message for the middle east. And coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News captain eoin morgan shows the way in antigua scoring a century in englands opening one Day International against west indies. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. The Prime Minister set her sights on the Scottish Nationalists today as she accused them of Tunnel Vision at the Tory Party Conference in glasgow. The snp, for its part, accused her of mind boggling hypocrisy. Mrs may claimed the snp are pursuing independence at any cost and called on the Party Faithful to campaign for a united britain post brexit. The snp said she was making a power grab. Our scotland editor sarah smith was watching. No cuts here welcome to glasgow. A rather lonely little protest came out to greet the Prime Minister, whos come here t
costs for impaired driving. excessive drinking was defined as binge or heavy drinking or any drinking by pregnant or underaged youth. alcoholism is not an easy thing to deal with, either by yourself or alongside someone you love. this brings me to another story i want to tell you about, a home for alcoholics that lets them drink and is funded by you, by me, the taxpayers. no matter what you think, it s an interesting concept for sure, and these types of places are starting to pop up more and more frequently around the country. chris welsh spent the better part of a month working on the story at one of these so-called wet houses. he joins me now from minneapolis to talk about it. chris, thanks again for being back on the show. let me ask you to start how did you get interested in this? well this was a story that sort of popped up on a local newspaper a while back. you know, we saw it and thought this could really make an interesting story to really dig deeper into. so we t
sanjay gupta m.d. starts right now. happy halloween, everybody. welcome to the program. i m dr. sanjay gupta. the candy of our childhood. why do we still crave it every year at halloween? have you been dipping in already? we also have serious business to get to you ve seen the pink ribbons all over this month, we want to clear up misconceptions about breast cancer. first a number, this one. $1.90. that s the cost per drink of excessive drinking in the country. it adds up to about $223.5 billion burden to the u.s. government and individuals. about $746 per person. just about three quarters of those costs of excessive drinking were due to lost workplace productivity. 11% of it from health care expenses. 9% from law enforcement and other criminal justice costs. 6% for motor vehicle or crash costs for impaired driving. excessive drinking was defined as binge or heavy drinking or any drinking by pregnant or underaged youth. alcoholism is not an easy thing to deal with, either by
up the east coast all the way to canada. this is a huge storm, folks. just check out the view from the international space station. we re all over irene, where it is, where it s going. we ve got jim spellman riding out the storm in the bahamas. john zarrella is in wrightsville beach, north carolina, and jacqui jeras here in the hurricane headquarters. jim, let s start with you. what s the situation there? reporter: good morning. the winds have been blowing like this for hours now. about an hour and a half ago they really picked up a lot. you can see the sea is being blown over the sea walls here, a lot of the low-lying roads along the coastal areas already have water on them. fortunately so far we have yet to see any major damage to structures. reports coming in just within the last hour of widespread power outages across the island, as you may expect, as lines get blown down. so far they have avoided that main blast. just about all of the tourists in the area that could ge