specialist centres are due to open across england this week. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a number of conservative mps have joined those calling for the government to provide urgent support to businesses struggling with soaring gas prices. the leaders of industries with heavy energy consumption say spiralling costs are threatening their future. ministers insist they re in regular contact with business groups to explore possible solutions. our business correspondent katie prescott reports. cement, glass, steel, chemicals. the industries with the heaviest energy consumption in the uk. to keep the furnaces burning, they re crying out for government support. absolutely right now. gas prices are at an unprecedented level. and the businesses that manufacture the goods that we need are trying to operate under these unprecedented conditions. they re backed by some conservative mps representing industrial areas. they need government support, either in direct support or a ca
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violence but they, too, worry that the d.o.j. will use isolated incidents to intimidate and bully them. at a summit in northern virginia one florida mom got a standing ovation for this. they want to silence us and shut us down. the only thing to do is have a mass exodus from the public school system. that s it. [cheering and applause] harris: former education secretary betsy devos says that mom speaks for many hundreds, thousands of frustrated parents. the fact is the far left of the democrat party wants to continue to control children as they have for decades and i think ms. king expressed well what many parents are feeling today. their voices are not heard. they are considered a nuisance and the whole effort is essentially right out of the marxist playbook to separate parents from kids and control kids futures. harris: alexandria hoss is live in washington, d.c. parents are only feeling more inclined to speak out. at the summits the parents are learning how they
amount. the dollar amount, as the president said, is zero. this bill will be paid for. it s about what are the values that we share and how we ioritize them. paul: let s bring in our panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy editorial page editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and editorial board member kyle peterson. dan, first address this argument that we re hearing time and time again from the democrats which is that the cost of this bill is zero. i mean, it seems ridiculous on its face, but why do they keep repeating it? is what are they trying to get at in. well, they keep repeating it incidentally, it is arguably the most ludicrous statement in the history of american politics. [laughter] if you can think of anything more ridiculous, let me know. they re saying it because they are sensitive to the fact, paul, that people are focusing on the top line number, as we say, and i think they understand that a lot of voters are taken aback by that figure. so
we have a new look now at the epicenter of the devastation in maui, and also now are learning that only a handful of the 106 confirmed dead have been identified. any day now former president donald trump and his 18 co-defendants are expected to go to jail after being booked in georgia. we are live outside with the very latest. for the first time north korean officials say they are holding u.s. army private travis king. they claim he s seeking refuge because of racial discrimination, they say, in the u.s. military. i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. let s start with the new video coming out of maui. a camera crew travelled in with fema to get a first look at portions of the historic town of lahaina that had been blocked off until now. the once-vibrant paradise now the epicenter of devastation. the death toll is that 106 people killed and only about a third of the fire zone has been searched by recovery crews. the go