Fake trees, they look really good. The great thing about these trees that i like is you can change the lighting pattern on them, depending on how you feel that day. You want colored lights, you want white lights. Depends on your mood. Right. It is november 6, right . Well, i mean, you have to start thinking. I understand, it is november 6. Im not thinking about it at all. And thanksgiving is late this month. The 28th. Right. I have turkeys and other items up throughout the house. Im focused in on the bird. After that, that friday, thats when i put up the lights. You switch off on black friday, from thanksgiving to christmas. Hopefully well have a nice rainstorm. It gets me in the mood even more. It is the day after election. The race for San Francisco District Attorney just too close to call this morning. Overnight, interim d. A. Pulled ahead of deputy public defender through voting. Overall, lead by just a few hundred votes. Live outside San Francisco city hall where the vote continue
And scattered showers in the north, but still fairly chilly for the time of year. All the details coming up on bbc breakfast. Good morning. Its saturday, 27th april. The governments being urged to take action to stop unpaid carers unwittingly racking up thousands of pounds of debt. Carers are entitled to nearly £82 a week in benefits, but only if they owned less than £151 in take home pay from otherjobs. As a result, many end up owing money after being inadvertently overpaid. Our reporter Dan Whitworth has the details. Unpaid carers who look after a loved one do an incrediblejob. Often unpaid carers who look after a loved one do an incredible job. Often 2a hours a day, seven days a week, with very few breaks. There lies dedicated to caring for someone else. Of the nearly 6 million carers across the uk, just under1 million receive carers allowance, with about £80 a week. 175,000 of them also have a job, but there is an earnings limit of £151 take home pay a week. Go above that limit
, machine Collin Mcshane is at the white house. We are making America Great again. Reporter an early christmas for the gop. The president inviting republicans to the white house to celebrate after a historic vote in congress. Records all over the place. That will continue and then some because what we would did what we did. Reporter he said that it comes with something extra. We essentially repealed obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate. This is the ultimate bad Christmas Carol story. Reporter they likened it to a lump of coal in americus stocking. What we are doing here is saying wealthy americans big fat Christmas Present for you. 2010 we are taking your crutch away from you and all the other kids in this country. Reporter republican say the tax bill is really a gift to the u. S. Economy. This gets us better wages, eager paychecks, a simpler tax system. This gets the American Economy competitive. Reporter lawmakers have two days to pass a bill to avoid a government s
And are on the rise. And with the nissan scandaljust the latest set back to take the shine off japans manufacturing reputation, well assess the damage with our Asia Business correspondent Karishma Vaswani wholl also talk us through a big week for china. And as more than 100 cities bid to be the location of the new Amazon Headquarters, we want to know would you want the amazon hq near you and if so how would you sell your city . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. We start in spain, a country battling to stay in one piece. As you have been hearing, the government says it will impose direct rule on the region of catalonia and suspend its autonomy over the weekend following threats by the Catalan Leader to unilaterally declare independence. The crisis has been escalating since catalans voted to break from spain in a referendum on 1st october. Now, despite the poll being declared illegal by the spanish court. It is already taking an economic toll. Catalonia
Koeman. Tom hanks tells us hollywood has to change, as he becomes the latest star to speak out about the Harvey Weinstein allegations. Iam i am saying that first we have to hear from everybody so that we understand how fast and how all encompassing this was. And sarah has the weather. Good morning. It is looking damp and breezy today, before turning increasingly wet and windy tomorrow, with the arrival of storm brian. Ill bring you all of the details in about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may has made a personal plea for european leaders to break the deadlock in the brexit negotiations. At a private dinner last night, the Prime Minister called for the talks to move on to the future of trade. But the german chancellor, Angela Merkel, said more work needed to be done before that could happen. Adam fleming is in brussels. 0ur Political Correspondent chris mason is in westminster. Lets talk about what happened last night, adam. They say it was a private dinner, b