good morning, wet and windy start to the day, the good news is the worst of the rain will blow through, come the afternoon the weather will brighten up with spells of sunshine but they will be lots of blustery showers today, particularly across western areas. i will have the full forecast for you later on. it s saturday, 7th january. our top story: the prime minister will hold emergency talks at downing street today to try to tackle the huge challenges facing the nhs. and senior doctors say the health service is on a knife edge, with many a&e units struggling to cope with record demand. our health correspondent jim reed reports. the nhs is under record pressure this winter, where the queues of ambulances delayed out hospitals, rising waiting lists, and more front line strikes planned in the coming weeks. sue front-line strikes planned in the coming weeks front-line strikes planned in the coming weeks. front-line strikes planned in the cominu weeks. ,, , , , ., , coming weeks
are in pennsylvania, aishah hasnie in georgia and alexis mcadams is following the new york governor s race. first to rich edson live for us in pittsburgh. rich. reporter: good evening, jon. well, i guess western pennsylvania s going to have to be big enough for two former prime ministers. first it was former president obama, now 40 miles away and about an hour from now you re going to get former president trump. he will be campaigning in latrobe, pennsylvania, for a number of republican candidates including dr. mehmet oz who s running for senate and doug mastriano who s running for governor here. he has supported oz since the republican primary. he was the one, the former president, babbed in that backed in that primary in mayment. oz has trained his campaign on crime and inflation. mortgage rates are through the roof. couples all over the commonwealth, new families are worried about crime in their communities, and they re worried about fentanyl in their mailboxes. it d
what we heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes. this is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm. jason: remember last year when the white house highlighted a 16-cent discount for your fourth of july? not this year. gas is up, interest rates are up, food is up. in fact, it s pretty hard to find anything that isn t more expensive than it was one year ago. this as the supreme court caps off a historic session with some of the most consequential rulings we ve ever seen. coming up, senator mike lee from utah who clerked for justice samuel alito on the high court and why the epa decision is as impactful as anything they ve ever ruled on. plus, america s crime crisis with violence this holiday. three police officers and a k-9 shot dead in kentucky. two people fatally shot and three officers wounded in texas. many chicago 22 in chicago 22 people were shot including 4 fatally in the span of just 20 hours. and crime is u
is a clear articulation about the future of the law of order. remember last year when the white house highlighted 16-cent h of july? not this year. gas is up, interest rates are up, food is up. in fact, it s pretty hard to find anything that isn t more expensive than it was one year ago. this as the supreme court caps off a historic session with some of the most consequential rulings we ve ever seen. coming up, senator mike lee from utah who clerked for justice samuel alito on the high court and why the epa decision is as impactful as anything they ve ever ruled on. plus, america s crime crisis with violence this holiday. three police officers and a k-9 shot dead in kentucky. two people fatally shot and three officers wounded in texas. many chicago 22 in chicago 22 people were shot including 4 fatally in the span of just 20 hours. and crime is up 38% in new york city. lee zeldin, who s running for governor in new york, the epicenter of the crime wave, on the movement to d
a preemptive measure, they decided to argue the negative that electing republicans in the future wouldu be akin totu electing terrorists who would seek to blow up our entire system. this is just an extraordinarily dangerous course for republicans to be taking in terms of our democracy. republican party can no longer say that they don tst agree with the insurrectionists, with the bigots, with racists. there may now be people aligned with white supremacists who are in congress. how do youou protect the country from them? it could be that we havean a republican majority in congress this fall and iff that happens, you may see republicans in congress wanting cut the money tot the department of justice to turn the lights. we may lose our democracy. ge the attorney general issued ominous warnings. the top domestic violence extremist threat comes from racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocated for the superiority of the white rac