Dana hello everyone, its 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. [ ] consoling the criminal and not the victims family, President Biden getting slammed by critics after appearing to apologize. To the alleged killer. President describing him as an illegal immigrant during the state of the Union Address and then faced with fierce backlash from many and his party who said that he should have used the term undocumented. Use the word illegal win talking about the band that allegedly killed laken riley. President biden undocumented person. I should not have used illegal, undocumented. Look, when i spoke about the difference between trump and me one of the things i talked about the border was his way of talking about vermin and the people polluting, what i wont do, i wont treat any of these people with disrespect. They built the country. The reason our economy is growing. We have to control the border and we an orderly flow but i dont share his view is all at all. You regret using that wo
fights to prevent its collapse. ministers are drawing up contingency plans while the supplier looks to secure extra funding amid debts running into billions of pounds. celia hatton has more. the future of the uk s biggest water company is far from watertight. but the government is reassuring thames water s 15 million customers they won t lose access to water as work continues behind the scenes to try to rescue it from collapse. thames water is £14 billion in debt and in crisis mode after the surprise resignation of its ceo on tuesday. no clear reason has been given for sarah bentley s departure. ministers are considering a plan to bring the utility giant temporarily under public ownership if it can t sort out its debts. we need to make sure that thames water as an entity survives. there s a lot of work that the government is trying to do on resolving sewage. certainly, up until now, the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down, but there s a lot of infrastru