Donald trump expected to leave trump tower in mid town, manhattan minutes from now and in the courthouse in Lower Manhattan. The first day of a civil trial relating to claims of fraudulent Business Practices within the trump organization. So more coming up on that as it happens here. Meanwhile, the crisis is unrelenting. Illegal Border Crossings hitting an alltime high under President Biden and repercussions are being felt everywhere coast to coast and especially in this town as we say good morning. Im bill hemmer. Dana has the day off today. Gillian turner is here. Gillian i got in 9 30 last night. Great to see every store open. A guy was singing Frank Sinatra on the megaphone. People eating ice cream. Bill it wasnt raining, too. Gillian the numbers are stunning at the border. More than 260,000 illegal crossings in september alone. More than 2. 2 million have crossed this fiscal year, nearly four times the population of wyoming. Bill its putting a strain on cities everywhere. The open
Blustery diet on the roof of Broadcasting House and across the uk we have early showers. Blustery start. For others even windy and more wet weather on the way. The Weather Forecast for the whole weekend coming up. Thank you. Good morning. First our main story. A chaotic handling of personal Data Breaches is undermining confidence in the governments ability to protect the uk from Cyber Attacks. Thats according to the commons public accounts committee, which says ministers have taken too long to consolidate the Alphabet Soup of agencies tasked with stopping attacks. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani reports. The russians have engaged in Cyber Attacks against the us. The russians have engaged in Cyber Attacks against the us. The president ial campaign rocked by a hack. Hillary clintons team were targeted in a cyber attack. The resulting leak of staff personal e mails was devastating. But it is not just e mails was devastating. But it is notjust us e mails was devastating. Bu
Well look ahead to super bowl 51 and the growing popularity of america football, here in the uk hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until am this morning. We also want to hear from you this morning if youve had trouble getting hold of fresh vegetables. Poor Growing Conditions in europe are causing a shortage and tesco has started to ration Iceberg Lettuces. To stop Smaller Stores buying from them in bulk. Well have the details on this and find out if its going to get worse. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the Hashtag Victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today theresa may has arrived in malta for an informal one day summit of eu leaders. Shell brief European Union leaders on her meeting with donald trump, and is expected to stress that she wants a positive and constructive relationship with the eu after brexit. Kevin connolly reports. The cannons will welcome the eu leaders to their fi
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Among five items in this week s government/NGO section is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory s annual report Utility-Scale Solar, 2023 Edition, chock-a-block with statistics and graphs quantifying an explosion of installed permanent energy sources. Photovoltaic deployment is accelerating and now outpacing wind as costs have rapidly plunged. Given the natural properties of wind and solar energy supplies, reserve power storage is very much in frame. Current battery storage capacity is about 22GWh, what a sizeable nuclear plant could deliver over the course of 10 hours or so. There s of course much more to be done but it s also true that we re only now beginning to seriously tackle the job of energy modernization.