newsom announced that he s doubling the number of state police in san francisco to crack down on the drugs and crime. bu at the problem extends far beyond san francisco. here s what i w lasti saw last n los angeles. oh, yeah. come on. because he said that. oh, man, forget the libsyo there. say, that s compassion. we disagree. u cayou can see more of that ons show. cross country tomorrow night at. 9 p.m. eastern. so l.a. is a disaste ernr. r and now it s mayor karen bass is calling for drastic action
the british chambers of commerce are calling for free or low cost covid 19 testing kits to be given to companies to help them cope with the large numbers of staff catching the virus. the business group says as many as three quarters of employers reported workers off sick with coronavirus in the last four weeks. covid cases peaked last month, with about 5 million people infected at the end of march. but now the onus is on companies to try to keep staff safe. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports from liverpool. business has been booming here for the last couple of years, with these home cooking spice kits taking off. but that means extra pressure for the boss to keep orders flowing while keeping staff safe. so there s 15 of us in total and a number of cases in the warehouse, enough for us to, as i said, shut down production for a week or two weeks. figures from the ons show that the omicron peak for factory floor workers was injanuary,