plus, coming to a car park near you: cheap solar charging for your electric vehicle. but does northern europe have the weather for it? we start with the cost of living here in the uk because, as we were anticipating this time yesterday, the chancellor rishi sunak has announced a financial support package to help people with soaring bills. the 15 billion pound plan will be funded, in part, by what he called a temporary, targeted energy profits levy. in other words, a windfall tax on the energy companies, a policy the opposition labour party have been calling for, but the government has resisted, until now. all households, regardless of income, will receive a grant of £400 towards their energy bills, which won t have to be paid back. on top of that, those on the lowest incomes, around eight million households, will receive a one off payment of £650. and pensioners receiving the winter fuel allowance will also get an extra one off payment of £300. those receiving disability b
the voters have spoken. the message they are sending now today to republicans and democrats alike after last night s big election. it is debate day in america. donald trump is skipping, but the five candidates who are showing up, they are already planning sharper attacks. which candidate absolutely needs a knockout punch? and michigan congresswoman rashida tlaib censured over her comments about israel, how she s responding to the rare and stunning rebuke. i m sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. forget reading the tea leaves anymore, forget analyzing polling data. this morning we have new and concrete data from the voters themselves who went to the polls in multiple states. democrats appear to be breathing a sigh of relief, republicans maybe some of them left scratching their heads about what this means today. one issue that voters seem to speak with a loud voice on yesterday is abortion rights. an increasingly conservative ohio
what we re learning now. new york police preventing what they say could have been a disaster after stop ago vehicle for a blacked out license plate and later finding out a whole lot more and those guys the guy riding that vehicle. holding in jail and remember very well and what happen when had three of the 9/11 hijackers were first pulled over in routine traffic stops. stops after they were let go. this arrest coming after icecaptured illegal migrants with suspected ties to isis. never good. that is igniting new concerns over exactly who is crossing our borders and not just inside our boarders. new threats outside too. russian warships are roaming just off the coast of florida. china s build ago new megaport in south america and north america is north korea and all over u.s. ally south korea. is the ship about to hit the fan? i had to practice that line forever. general rob spalling and former fbi special and we re all over treasury secretary janet yellen saying our debt is
The possibility of russian interference in the us electoral process. That is where you begin. You begin at a highly, serious level where you are protecting your National Electoral integrity. Then you have all of these revelations while tromp is in the white house. The quote that you just gave, that is in the quote that you just gave, that isina the quote that you just gave, that is in a white house document. The white house has said it is authentic. There was no question about what he said. What is interesting here is the sourcing of all of this stuff. It is coming from officials in and out of government. Most of them still serving officials and that, i think, is super important because it tells you there are people who are really worried about the conduct of the presidency and the way, notjust what he does, but why he does it and how he does it. He seems totally unable to separate anything that happens from himself. Its all about him. In the bids middle of these revelations, we have t
Air force one friday night, en route to saudi arabia, but his team was still trying to firefight the latest twist in the sacking of the fbi director, and the russia connection if there is one. I just fired the head of the fbi. He was crazy, a real nutjob, the New York Times claims he told the Russian Foreign minister, i faced great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. Well, if he did say it, that last part looks very premature. John mccain, the veteran republican senator, is among many to observe that this all feels horribly familiar. Stryker mcguire, they are all thinking of watergate. You were in the states, working as a journalist back then, all those years ago. Do you have a sense of deja vu . I was a mere child. Precocious journalistic talent journalists started at a young age back then. So, is it like watergate . No and yes. One thing is that watergate began with two break ins. May and june 1972. It built rather slowly, and the break ins themselves were rather inconsequen