Little bit more than 48 hours until the highly anticipated president ial debate. Vice president Kamala Harris will Square Off with former President Donald Trump and philadelphia tuesday. Now, its the first time the two candidates will come facetoface and they are taking different paths to preparation but hello Everyone Welcome to Fox News live i am arthel neville. Eric hello everyone Thank You for joining us im Eric Shawn for another former president , spent yesterday on the campaign trail. Holding a rally in wisconsin. This as the Vice President has spent most of the past few days in a pittsburgh hotel. She has held a series of Debate Practice sessions, visited a Spice Shop Yesterday ands pittsburgh this is a new poll finds that she and mr. Trump, they are deadlocked in this very close race. Alexis mcadams is live in pittsburgh with the very latest on the Harris Campaign. That is right if you can believe it when the Home Stretch of two days out from the debate less than two months out
Watching bbc news. Just wanted to bring you some breaking news about the figures of overcrowding in prisons. They show that the Prison Population is at a new Record High, 88,521. It has risen by 1159 since the 2nd of august. That is a significant week, when the riots began. As you are aware, lots of new people have entered in the Criminaljustice System so you can see here, from 26th Ofjuly 87400 and that number has continued to rise throughout the weeks of august until they have reached the new Record High 88,521. This comes at a time when thousands of offenders who served 40 of their Prison Terms will be eligible for early release. It is necessary, says the government, because of severe overcrowding injails. There are fewer than 500 spaces now left in men s prison in england and wales, made worse by the convictions of hundreds of people convicted in the riots of last month. We have been given access. Siren blares. Chaos in hmp pentonville. Shouting. We re the only broadcast journalist
Prisoners because missiles prisoners because of overcrowding, the bbc gets special access to one of britains most dangerous prisons and good news in northumberland in the uk as a Puffin Population is declared stable despite fears of Bird Flu. Those are our headlines on i move on i want to take us to New York and show you the live pictures because these are the pictures because these are the pictures where we expect in a little while to hear from Donald Trump because he has already been inside a courtroom in manhattan with his lawyers already been inside a courtroom in manhattan with hi original; that the judge in the original case should not have allowed a couple of the key witnesses to give evidence and another number of other lines in terms of the appeal so we will watch and listen to Donald Trump when he arrives at those microphones. We may also here today when we all get sentencing in a different case in the hush Money Case after that conviction back in may of falsifying Business R
Are put in to bat on an overcast first morning of the third test against sri lanka. They already hold an unassailable 2 0 series lead. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. The Prison Population in england and wales has hit a record high for the second week in a row. The latest figures show there are now more than 88,500 inmates. Thats a rise of almost 1,200 in five weeks. Around half of those are cases linked to this summers riots. In a few days time, the governments temporary early Release Scheme will begin, and some offenders will be able to leave jail at an earlier point in their sentences. Lets speak now to our Uk Correspondent daniel sandford. Daniel, what are these high numbers doing to the Prison System . Last week, i was sitting here talking to your audience about the Prison Population hitting an all time high. This week its even higher, and essentially what happened is on the 30th Ofjuly when the rioting Started this summer, the Prison Population has been rising
Warns of Human Rights violations with a Special Report coming up on good News in northumberland in the uk as they often population as the clear and stable after fears about Bird Flu, we will be speaking to a puffin ranger. Let me turn to Breaking News just as i was reading those headlines, a line coming in from kenya, from the Deputy President , an update on that story with that Dormitory Fire in central kenya, we know 17 pupils dying but the latest and it is a disturbing update from the Deputy President saying 70 children are missing after that steadily can your school fire, 70. We had expected the numbers to go up but a big, Big Jump In to go up buta big, bigjump in terms of to go up but a big, Big Jump In terms of the numbers of children missing and we know some children have already been taken to hospital, 17 pupils at least have died and he really distressing details at the scene with parents arriving there to try to make identifications but they had warned us that the numbers wou