Afternoon everybody im in for martha maccallum, this is the story, the battleground targeting wisconsin both campaigns holding rallies the very same time in the same city as our new Fox Power ranking harris gaining powers since pattern dropped out, but trump is still had by ten electoral votes in the ways to do somebody with 46 up for grabs at. More enough to swing the race, live before us aint Eau Claire, wisconsin, awaiting the big rally, good afternoon mark. Good afternoon, it is a very big rally, was a crowd of about a few thousand people, Vice President Kamala Harris and her womb her new running mate, not too far from where we are here in western wisconsin, as a Moderna Moment ago, today appears to be the political world is out Eau Claire, wisconsin, Jd Vance about 3 miles away from where we are. We were speaking to voters here all day long try to go to their initial reaction to the news of Jd Vance joining the democratic ticket if they say they have been pretty fired up about it,
Out of the uk for a little bit. And now the eu opens up to british travellers who are vaccinated but most of it is on the Amber List too. Also tonight celtic s outgoing boss flees the Family Home after an Explosion Police Scotland have begun a criminal investigation. Feeling the heat soaring temperatures raise fears that Climate Change could spell the end of Test Cricket in some countries. And coming up on sportsday later in the hour on the Bbc News Channel whos in and whos out . Steve Clarke Names his 26 Man Scotland Squad for next months european championship. Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. Borisjohnson has tried to calm fears that the so called indian Variant Of Covid could undermine britains successful vaccine rollout. Speaking in parliament, the prime minister said that after looking at the latest data he had increasing confidence that the vaccines were effective. His comments come amid a growing debate among Health Experts aboutjust how infectious this new varia
Kentucky derby. This is early start, im laura jarrett. And im christine romans. It is friday, april 30th. Happy friday, everybody, it is 5 00 a. M. Exactly in New York. We begin with the Great American come back. The Economy Roars back in the first quarter. The economy grew 6. 4 on an annualized basis in the first quarter, the best first quarter since 1984. That strong number showed huge gains in Consumer Spending and business investment. Goldman sachs now estimates the economy for the year could grow 7 , the best in 30 years. Layoffs are slowing, weekly jobless claims still double what they were before the crisis but that trend incredibly important. The Housing Market is the strongest its been in years, Home Prices setting new records as buyers scramble to find homes amid an inventory crunch. The pandemic moves americans lives online, that has been a boom for tech earnings. AmazonS Profit more than tripled in the first quarter to 8. 1 Billion on 108 Billion in sales. The earnings comi
Despite pandemic pressures. Scheduled for 11. 57 pacific time. Nasas First Night time splashdown since apollo eight. Four astronauts have returned to earth from the international space station. And in half an hour looking back at the past seven days at westminster, Alicia Mccarthy will be here with the week in parliament. Good Afternoon And Welcome to bbc News. The rules that require people to self isolate if they come into contact with someone whos tested positive for covid, could be relaxed. In a trial starting next week, Up To 40,000 people contacted by Nhs Test and trace will be asked to take a lateral Flow Test every morning for a week instead of starting ten days of quarantine. 0ur Health Correspondent, anna collinson, reports. Test, test, test. Its a key part of society reopening. Currently, if you come into close contact with someone whos tested positive, you may receive this a message from Test And Trace saying you must self isolate for ten days. But this could soon change. A
self-defense when he killed two men and wounded another during protests last year. atlantis were screaming and i was trying to get to the police. why did you try to get to the police? because i didn t do anything wrong. i defended myself. his testimony was not the only emotional testimony in the courtroom. the judge overseeing all of this angrily berating the prosecution a couple times, even leaving the defense to ask for a mistrial. that threat still hangs over the proceedings as they re back under way today. let s go there. cnn s shimon prokupecz is live outside the courthouse in kenosha with the latest. where are things that the moment, shimon? reporter: the defense expert, john black, is now on the stand. normally you would see these kind of expert witnesses in the prosecution of police officers or perhaps a disciplinary hearing when an officer is charged or accused of using force unnecessary sily or in so violation of a law. it s interesting to see it being use