up welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. the cop27 climate summit has begun in egypt with an agreement to discuss the possibility of wealthy countries handing money to poorer nations to help them cope with the impact of global warming. until now, developed countries have resisted pressure to put what s referred to as loss and damage on the agenda. the conference heard a warning that the past eight years have been the warmest on record. our climate editor justin rowlatt reports. cyclones ripped through madagascar earlier this year. floods displaced more than a million people in nigeria. while another year of rainfall pushed parts of somalia and elsewhere in east africa even closer to famine. our planet is sending a distress signal. our planet is sending a distress signal, the un conference in egypt was warned. the last 80 years have been warmest on record, making each wave were life especially for vulnerable populations. sea levels are rising at twice the level
affairs told journalists that more than 1.3 million people had been displaced in the worst floods the country had seen in a decade. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. and boy, there s quite a lot of politics to think about, isn t there? all the drama about this government mess, though, a dramatic shift in our politics. it has become the conventional wisdom overnight that labour will win the next election. the polling suggests there s been a greater swing in recent days and weeks than there was during the last worst financial crisis to hit a conservative government black wednesday back in 1992. and that ll mean there will pretty soon be much greater scrutiny of what labour will do. faced with the same economic fundamentals high taxes, high borrowing, high inflation and low growth. if labour does indeed win an election, lisa nandy will be the cabinet minister with the job of delivering for what s become known as
action. also tonight, parts of buffalo, new york remain paralyzed by a once in a lifetime blizzard. the national guard now going door to door as the death it will keeps rising and the city struggles to dig out. as the january 6th committee releases a bach of transcripts, i ll speak with adam schiff. stand by for his take on the latest revelations including a claim that trump s white house chief of staff burned documents at the white house. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get right to the southwest airlines meltdown. it s causing major disruptions across the country. our correspondents are covering the impact at major airports to the fallout from southwest and the airline industry. let s go to nick valencia. he s over at the atlanta airplane, the busiest airport of the nation. nick, how are southwest passengers being affected there? reporter: wolf, some passengers flying southwe
kevin mccarthy does not have 218 votes. kevin mccarthy. and you have 20. i i asked you a very specific question. if by friday you don t have 30 i will not, sean. i will not withdraw. i mean, it s really uncomfortable when mom my and daddy are fighting. they are fighting. the u.s. house is completely frozen right now with a rebellion under way by far right republicans. good morning, everyone. don lemon with poppy harlow. there you see kaitlan has moved back to washington. we had her in new york for a little bit now she s in d.c. didn t last long. was it us? are you holding up there? kevin mccarthy no closer to becoming speaker of the house even as of this morning, congress is still without a leader. so what is mccarthy s new strategy to end the chaos? that s a question this morning. he voted for mccarthy six times. straight ahead, kaitlan is going to speak with ryan zinke. we have new details this morning on a royal feud between prince harry and prince
don t believe it. check it out yourself on realtor.com. so, you know, the story, for decades the biggest employer in braddock was manufacturing. something called the edgar thompson steelworks. in fact, andrew carnegie. the plants closed, and there was unemployment and people left by the thousands. one man saw an opportunity in braddock, pennsylvania, not an opportunity for the town, but for himself. that man s name was john fetorman. he was 35 years old, never in his life had a real job. getterman was not from braddock. he spent his life going to business school, then to harvard for a so-called masters of public policy, which for the uninitiated is an utterly meaningless document that you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get in order to tell people that you went to harvard. in fetterman s case, his dad paid for it, and paid for everything else. for a long stretch, deep into his 40s, his income came from his family. in other words, john fetterman was a classic trustfori