visiting towns and neighborhoods that days ago looked pristine and now completely still flooded out all the while making the hard sell on his domestic agenda trying to offer his infrastructure and budget plans as solutions in preventing future death and devastation. we got to listen to the scientists and the economists and the nasa security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril and that s not hyperbole, that a fact. it s a bipartisan plan to modernize our physical ins infras infrastructure, our roads. how many bridges i went through in new jersey that had been over flown by the river because the next time disaster strikes, the flood is contained, the fire doesn t spread as widely and power stays on. not to mention those investments save lives, homes and create good paying union jobs. president biden making a hard pivot to his economic plan as you heard there trying to turn the page on crisis that have consumed his white house in
town with tourists once again filling the streets. benjamin, times square is still a shadow of its former self, but as you point out, tourists i ve started to return. crime does still remain a significant problem. travel in new york city is the fourth largest single employer in numbers of visitors drop by 67%. money spent plunged by 73%. officials are optimistic though but experts think it will take until 2025 until spending in new york city will turn to prepandemic levels. compute the latter, murder up 23%, shootings up 13%. 80% and hate crimes up 77%. governor andrew cuomo says that the epidemic of crime is a top priority. we have a major crime problem in new york city. everything we talked about with the economy coming back you know what the first step is? people have to feel safe. among them, newark, los angeles, washington, d.c., all reporting a surge all reporting a surge that could scare travelers away. the pulse of the city in times square, there are now over 20
iam i am live in rome where the biggest economies and biggest emitters are under pressure to meet words with actions. back in glasgow, as well as the delegates, climate activists have descended on the city for the summit including greta thunberg, mobbed as she arrived this morning. good morning from glasgow where the cop26 climate change conference, one of the biggest summits the uk has ever hosted, gets underway today, a year later than planned because of the covid pandemic. it s starting on the day the world meteorological 0rganisation is releasing its latest state of climate report which is expected to say that the last 10 years have been the warmest ever recorded. the challenge then for world leaders and delegates gathering here couldn t be more urgent. will they find ways to stop global temperatures rising by more than 1.5 degrees above pre industrial levels? and will wealthier nations live up to promises to deliver climate justice by helping developing countries? this m
for their lowest paid workers. rmt members who work for the 1a train operating companies are still due to go on strike, but this vote todayis due to go on strike, but this vote today is being seen as a breakthrough. we will have more of that on the news channel and the bbc news at six. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. good afternoon, today is the spring equinox, the beginning of the astronomical spring. and certainly, we have been feeling the days getting longer. the sunrise this morning in the east of england was just before six o clock in the sun won t set in parts of northern ireland until nearly quarter to seven this evening. but you may not get to see too many sunrises and sunsets this weekend because the jet stream, high up in the atmosphere, is blowing strongly across the atlantic feeding what is essentially a conveyor belt of weather systems in our direction. it will often be cloudy and there will be quite a lot of rain. this is the rain we expect to a
the financial markets react to the emergency takeover of switzerland s second biggest bank. in 20 years as the us led coalition invaded iraq to topple saddam hussein, we take a look at the legacy. the un secretary general antonio guterres has hailed a major new report on climate change as a survival guide for humanity . climate scientists from intergovernmental panel on climate change said clean energy and technology can be exploited to avoid the growing climate disaster. but they also warned a key global temperature goal will probably be missed. they say the world is expected to warm above one point five degrees centigrade by the early 2030s. secretary general antonio guterres has been speaking at the launch of the ipcc report and said everyone needs to work together quickly to achieve the climate change goals.. today i am presenting a plan to supercharge efforts. it starts with parties immediately hitting the fast forward button on the net zero deadlines to get to global z