hello there. let s talk more about our top story, the energy crisis. over a million more british households face being plunged into fuel poverty this year. this is according to a uk charity. national energy actions is up to 1.5 million additional households will struggle to heat and power their homes by the spring. bills are pushed up by the soaring cost of wholesale gas. the bbc s economics editor has more. price rises are flowing direct from international markets into people s homes from drill to grill and soon on to everyone s bills. already this has it the likes of susan, a pensioner from bradford whose energy company has just hiked her monthly bill from £85 to £125. i am conscious that i put less water in the kettle, i have already started putting an extra layer on if it gets cold. there is only a limit to what you can do, i have changed the lightbulbs to economic ones. the money has to come from somewhere that i am not quite sure where yet and it is a lot of money to
subpoenas two more people, this as trump allies face their subpoena deadline. plus, the covid vaccine could be available for children within weeks. we have all the details for you. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom. with isa soares. welcome, everyone. it is friday, october the 8th, and we begin with a crisis averted for now. two senators, u.s. senators have voted to temporarily extend the nation s debt ceiling. that basically means they avoid what everyone agrees would have been a disastrous default. that means the u.s. government will have more money. in fact, it will have another $480 billion in about two more months to pay its bills. the house of representatives still has to agree. but this is only a temporary fix because come december 3rd, they will have to face a vote on this again. now, the stopgap measure brings u.s. debt limit to a whopping $28.88 you can see there, trillion dollars. that s the amount the government can borrow to pay the bills
angry that biden administration agreed to provide nuclear powered submarines to australia. france wanted to sell its own submarines in the biden administration effectively killed that deal. it hurt france and they were mad about it. we haven t had a problem with france this profound since, to be specific, 1798. john adams was president of dan and the interesting thing is he had no idea we had a problem with france, it took months for word to reach him in washington that american and french diplomats were fighting with one another. by the time adams learnt about this diplomatic dispute which became known as the xyz affair, it was too late to stop it. with that in mind, john kerry was asked what happened here in his response was simple. like john adams, joe biden had no idea the french were upset. unlike john adams, our current president had the benefit of cell phones and the internet. jill biden didn t know because he s a mental decline, there are a lot of things he doesn t kn
launched. joe biden had just turned 69. 25 years. normally if something is over 25, it is too old for me. but so much has happened in that time. this was me 25 years ago. and this is me now. that is what you get for taking care of yourself, kat. not a drop of that s blood went to waste. here is kat 25 years ago. and now here is her today but without makeup. yeah. thank god for our amazing hair and makeup team. by the way, emily compagno is here tonight. here s emily from 25 years ago. while back. you have changed. but i so don t foul totally supportive. what was it like back when we started? unlike mainstream media, were afraid to take chances. also didn t drug test us back then. here is our first morning show called marshmallow and friends. greg: it s hard to believe that did not win at a daytime anime. i remember peter doocy having to bash because he started choking on one of those little bloggers. their ratings plunged and he survived. we also created hard-hitting pr