Coming in early everybody. We will be snappier in terms of our pace because we have folks who will be observing good friday at noon. Honored to be joined i the woman on my right, who needs no introduction. A guy familiar to many of you there, the commutable Communicable Disease specialist. To my far, state police superintendent, pat callahan. To my immediate left, and great leader, department of corrections, commissioner marcus hicks. We are going earlier today than we usually do. We have the overnight numbers. Im not sure, judy will tell us how deeply we can dig into the numbers. We have at least the top line numbers and we will go from there. Let me get into that immediately. Since yesterdays briefing we have been notified that we have 3627 more residents who have received positive test results. That puts our statewide total at 54,588. 7 overnight and our statewide total at 54, 588. To our online dashboard that is accessible d19. Nj. Gov. I as of 10 00 p. M. Last night we residents r
The Charity Samaritans is being criticised for entering into a year Long Partnership with a gambling company. Staff at Paddy Power Betfair, chose samaritans as their charity of the year and are supporting it through fundraising, corporate donations and volunteering. Critics say samaritans shouldnt work with the gambling industry. Dan whitworth, from radio 4s money box programme, has more. If you are sat in the pub, you can tell a guy who is an alcoholic. Lets be honest, you can tell if a guy is on drugs. The man sat in the corner on his phone is gambling his life away and nobody knows because it is such a hidden thing. Critics, including relatives of people with gambling problems who took their own lives, say samaritans is risking its well earned reputation by working with Paddy Power Betfair, adding it should stop taking the compa nys money. The mp, carolyn harris, who chairs the all Party Parliamentary group on gambling related harm, says she is shocked by the deal. She calls it dist
At the vatican this morning that hed been stuck in an elevator for 25 minutes and had to freed by firefighters. Apparently there had been a power outage as he was making his way up in the lift. Now its time for a look at the weather with ben. Hello. It is the first day of september. The first day of autumn as far as meteorologists are concerned and so it seems apt that there is quite a cool fail that there is quite a cool feel to our weather today. Sunshine at times, but also some showers, some of which will be heavy and thundery. The showers most plentiful across scotland, Northern Ireland, the north of england, in fact, a band of cloud will bring more general showery rain into Northern Ireland later in the afternoon. Further south, not as many showers, more dry weather as well, some sunshine with highs of 13 20d. Through this evening and tonight we see the showers crossing Northern Ireland, passing into scotland on the north of england. Showers elsewhere tending to fade away and with
On any other day, wednesdays spending plan would have been the big story at westminster. The chancellor, sajid javid said hes turning the page on austerity as he promised to raise public spending by more than £13 billion next year. Extra funding has been announced for schools, defence, and preparing for britains exit from the european union. Our economics correspondent andy verity has been looking at the numbers. The last time spending rose this fast, by more than 4 , was back here in 2004, and the government was in a lot less debt back then. These red bars here show the spending reviews since the financial crisis, when the governments debt shot up. Sajid javid argues the Interest Rates are cheap now, so he can afford to borrow more for extra spending. Every single Government Department has had its budget for day to day spending increased at least in line with inflation. Thats what i mean by the end of austerity, mr speaker britains hard work paying off, a Country Living within its me
Sunday will mark the next escalation in the trade war between washington and beijing. 15 import taxes on about 120 billion of chinese imports. Whether either side might be getting ready to blank. My discussions with chinese and american friends and china is looking more and more alike we are not any closer. It seems that china has begun to hunker down. China has waited this out, and china thinks that they can weather the storm more easily than President Trump or americans think they might. China is beginning to look for other markets for their exports and they are doing a pretty good job doing that, so it is the longer haul. There is also a sense that it is becoming more political than economic. President trump might be timing potential deals closer to the election rather than earlier. That is the next couple of three weeks. People are starting to adjust to all of the changes. The trouble is there is still in immense uncertainty. With the inability of putting a deal together is creatin