are warning this winter could be extra hard. not just for covid, but for flu, and now a childhood respiratory virus that s going around. it is an important message and we re going to go to the white house when he begins speaking. speaking of the president and midterms, biden is going to syracuse this week. yes, syracuse, yes, new york. yes, new york, in the last two weeks before the midterms. he s coming here because as blue as new york is, some of the congressional races are looking a little more purple. after a haywire redistricting process, new york has more congressional battlegrounds than nearly any other state in the country. even the democratic campaign chairman is locked in a dead heat, forcing the house campaign arm to spend a lot of money to defend its own chief from republican michael lawler. it s not just malone in westchester. nine of new york s seats from the tip of long up to pew kip see are in play and now the governor s race is tightening. kathy hochul, once
asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls eve
Live starts right now. Laura . Youve got a lot to fix with whats going on in washington. You think i can fix it . Hold on, im the want to fix this . You will not put that on me today. Laura alone can fix it. Well, then you have some very high hopes. Thank you so much, nice to see you as always. And we do have, to her point, there is Breaking News out there as republicans are just now choosing another speaker. The big question is, how long will this one last . Tonight, i am laura coates live. All right everyone, mike johnson, come on down. Youre the next contestant on the next speaker, right . Well, for the fourth time in three weeks, republicans have chosen another speaker designate. Congressman mike johnson was elected with 128 votes. Do the math, thats less than the total, you do realize. And get this, Kevin Mccarthy, who was kicked out of the job three weeks ago, received 43 votes. The next highest tally. Which means its Groundhog Day all over again. Just go ahead and cue up bill mu
shocking sequence of events that took place on that flight. he was slurring his words after drinking that whole bottle of port before the flight, on board he was refused more clothes and asked to return to his seat and it is alleged that ryan told the crew remembers that he was being harassed by other passengers because he was famous. he asked to because he was famous. he asked to be moved and was refused and at that point he became angry and said that he was a gold card holder. then he made some racial comments towards a black female member of the cabin crew about her appearance, and about her complexion. the ba air hostess gave evidence and she said that he told them she told him to stay away after he came up to her. he didn t and grabbed her wrist and at that point members of the public had to interview. pm? point members of the public had to interview. , . ., , point members of the public had to interview. , u, , ., interview. any comments from the
and there will be people who spin this as political or they took the bait. they didn t take the bait. whatever it is. i have confidence that jack smith and all of the career professionals at the justice department will make these decisions based on the facts and the law as merrick garland has said all along. and the people that are spinning it four have already made up their minds. i don t think that there really people out there who have not decided how they feel about this. just a loop back on this kind of core question of what this is going to mean, the work of the 16 committee. the report, i was so struck by congressman cicilline saying, you know at some point members, you will sit down with your good and grandkids, no longer be in the house of representatives and they will say, where were you? what did you do? and you will need to be able to answer that question and that question will be more powerful and more meaningful than the questions you are answering right now from your c