good morning from north yorkshire. millions of us go on coach trips every year but they are under really big financial pressure and hoping for a big summer to their losses. it s a huge day forjockey rachael blackmore. she s leading the way at the cheltenham festival and today aims to become the first woman to win the gold cup. raising a laugh, but at a safe distance. red nose day goes ahead in the face of covid restrictions. a spring equinox this weekend but the weather stays fairly cloudy for most of you, but most should stay dry. the full forecast coming up. it s friday the 19th of march. our top story. the oxford astrazeneca vaccine will be rolled out in some european countries today after regulators found no evidence it causes blood clots. the prime minister borisjohnson will receive the vaccine today and has assured the public it is safe after more than a dozen countries paused their delivery of the jab. here s our health correspondent katherine da costa. the oxford astr
absolutely mad decisions. griff: should president biden visit? yes, and i hope that president biden, who made the president of the united states, who is best than all the presidents in the country, he visited. he s really done a lot for our country and continue doing, in my personal attitude, that personally he s care about what happens here and of course, i see this visit, it s important for ukraine and for president biden. griff:s there s a new package of aid, the president announced more aid, 800 million, will it be enough? i can send enough, then this war will stop, but using this opportunity from all my heart and the attitude of ukrainians, i can say big appreciation of
i.c.e. director he join us from our nation s capitol good morning to you. good morning . good morning. you know, griff s tour of that is an eye opener not a lot of people have heard a lot about those places but we ve heard concentration camps, things like that. those images are an eye opener. well, they are for those people that had aren t informed in the way we actually run our detention centers. and that one is is just representative of all of our detention centers that is how we run our detention facilities if they re safe, humane and secure, the individuals are not there for punitive purposes or being punished or sentenced for criminal violation but detained pending immigration proceedings or prior to removal. right, and the people who have described the facilities as concentration catches those are the ones closer to the border operated by border patrol. which is different than the i.c.e. facilities, right? that s true. but i would still disagree with that character
million worth of loans to great companies like griff s. and we re a venture-backed company ourselves. we re a high growth startup. the goal is in about three to five years to be basically the ebay of small business loans. communities of individuals can lend to each other on the street shares platform. yeah. and griff, how about you? you know when you look at combat flip-flops, where do you see it going in five, ten years? oh, i see it going everywhere. we re really just trying to show people that you can get a long way with persistence creativity, and respect. i think the things we see on the news, the challenges we re facing, we can do a lot as a community to overcome those problems if we make cool products, help people and tell a cool story along the way. you re a in your website, the mission statement says it s not about fighting. you know, i when i read that i was like wow this guy s an army ranger. this isn t about fighting, it s about basically helping people employing
mines, make stuff in u.s. and kosovo. we continue to grow. i ll be at the jersey shore this summer with combat live in flops. i hope so. how about, griff, your experience as an army ranger serving overseas deployments. how did that experience help you with the civilian transition to become a ceo? any veteran are forced to up come one creative solutions for a complex and i would have to say difficult problem that s have been plaguing our country or our a country or society for a long period of time under very ambiguous rules of engagement. and they always are mission successful. and you just years of repetitive forced maturity under that and leading people through the challenges. that s what you do as a ceo or as a business owner. you lead people through complex problems daily to arkschieve your objective. yeah. mark, how about you? how about your experience in the air force? you know, you re an army air force jag, you served the nine