The warning for texans. Shelter in place, we are in a emergency. Rescue mode. Norah heavy Rain And Battering winds cause damage. Went through the roof of her house instead of our shed. Norah and the nightmare for holiday travelers with 1500 flights canceled. Every year its getting hotter. Norah and a persistent heat wave, we are tracking the forecast. The Cbs Evening News starts now. We are coming on the air with a number of developing stories across the u. S. , notably the dangerous weather and scorching heat and much of the country. Good evening. I am norah odonnell and thank you for being with us. We will begin tonight right here In Washington. The president of the united states, Joe Biden, facing a fresh round of questions about his health. 11 days after his disastrous debate performance, Cbs News has learned a Parkinson Specialist from National Regional Medical Center has visited the White House eight times over the last year. Tonight the president s Press Secretary is not being t
it isa it is a real mixed bag on the weather front this weekend. for some of us it actually means heavy rain and a lot of it. for example, in southern wales. but they will be some sunshine and mild weather around as well. there will be. it s saturday, the 20th of february. care home residents in england will be allowed to pick one person to visit them regularly from the 8th of march. they will be able to meet indoors and hold hands, but visitors must wear ppe and be tested before entering the home. it s part of the prime minister s plan to begin easing lockdown. our health correspondent laura foster reports. when england went back into lockdown at the beginning ofjanuary, the doors to care homes were closed to visitors unless circumstances were exceptional. the way of protecting residents from the rising number of cases and the added threat of the new variant. but now nearly 17 million people have had theirfirst covid jab, million people have had theirfirst covidjab, inclu
growing at a slower rate for the past two months, but inflation remains at nearly 8%, four times higher than the official target. hannah miller has this report. for father of two peter, sorting out the family finances is proving hard. he and his wife bought their first home using the help to buy scheme. but when their mortgage comes up for renewal early next year, they ll have to find an extra £750 a month in repayments. somehow we re supposed to spend less and find £750 extra a month to pay for that. so, you know, for many families, it s a terrifying situation. if you have young families like ourselves who have been swayed into the housing market by government, whose advertised help to buy as an affordable scheme, right, when things become unaffordable, you can t simply turn around and say, that s your problem. a rise of 0.25 percentage points would take the bank of england s base rate to 5.25%, the highest since april 2008. for someone with an average tracker mortgage of
nomia, tell us some of the reaction you have been seeing to the vote having passed? fix, to the vote having passed? huge sigh of relief, really, by those members of the republican party and democratic party who were somewhere in the middle and glad this has now past this hurdle before it gets to the senate. the numbers are really interesting. 71 republicans opposed the bill. some are not surprising. 46 democrats also voted against. again, some of those members were not surprising. but what is interesting, ultimately more democrats supported, 165, than republicans, 149. now the next big battle is the senate. find big battle is the senate. and what can we big battle is the senate. and what can we expect - big battle is the senate. and what can we expect in the senate, nomia? what can we expect in the senate, nomia? well, the democratic senate, nomia? well, the democratic party, - senate, nomia? well, the democratic party, chuck i democratic party, chuck schumer, the demo
requested notes, whatsapp messages, things that were taken down at the time for the borisjohnson has now hinted that over to the cabinet office about which is a government department and urge the cabinet office to pass that on to the inquiry. that material we re told in a statement from boris johnson inquiry. that material we re told in a statement from borisjohnson is in full and unredacted. there has been speculation of the last couple of days about whether material should be handed over in redacted form if it is deemed relevant to the inquiry. others are saying the inquiry. others are saying the inquiry should be able to decide what is relevant and irrelevant. so we re now got the statement from borisjohnson saying, from his point of view, whatsapp messages, notebooks have been handed over in full, unredacted to the cabinet office which is the government department looking after all of this. the covid inquiry do to get under way in a couple of ways. it will be usually sign