And a fresher, less humid feel in the east, so basically not a bad sunday in prospect. I will have all the details Coming Up shortly. Its sunday, the 21st ofjuly. Our main story. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has hinted that she will give Public Sector workers above Inflation Pay increases. Its understood that independent Pay Review bodies have recommended rises of 5. 5 for teachers and nhs workers, with inflation currently at 2 . Ms reeves told the bbc s Laura Kuenssberg she would make the Sums Add up. Shes also announced a review of pensions in the hope of encouraging billions of pounds of investment in the uk. Our political Correspondent Leila Nathoo has the story. Millions of Public Sector workers awaiting to learn what their Pay Rises be this year. Independent Pay Review bodies make recommendations to the government of what percentage should be awarded. It is understood ministers have been advised to raise the salaries of teachers and nhs workers by 5. 5 , a rate that is above cu
We head into a Holiday Weekend with Gas Prices hitting a sevenyear high and americans paying a whole lot more At The supermarket. Dana Mark Meredith is following this story from washington for us. Good morning. New economic data from the labor department. The Unemployment Rate just unde from the month prior. Good news. Employers adding more jobs than what economists were expecting. Government reporting some 850,000 nonfarm jobs added last month. Where were the jobs added . No surprise, Leisure And Hospitality. Restaurants and hotels are selling out and professional businesses services as people go back to work. Fewer jobs added in manufacturing than you may expect and some jobs lost in construction. One of President Bidens advisors is calling the Jobs Report fantastic. The White House is still to insist the recovery has a long way to go. Critics say the president s push to spend trillions of dollars could crush the economic growth after the pandemic. They want to spend so much money. T
Government have no authority to force me or any other person to wear a mask plain and simple. Another tweet reads quote, really hard for parents who have kids under 12 to square this. Talking about the new school reopenings. There are questions about the timing of the Biden Announcement which happens to coincide with the head of a powerful Teachers Unions calling for Public Schools to reopen in person five days a week by the fall. Republican lawmakers say the new Mask Guidance conveniently pulls another away from the laundry list of crisis. Not everyone is buying not bowing to political pressure. Its about damn time that we should be following the science and not playing politics and from the beginning of covid, there has been far too much politics connected to it. Joe biden and Kamala Harris have been playing politics with covid19. They also were playing politics on masks. It never made sense when you were vaccinated to wear a mask. Unfortunately biden and harris and the administratio
Good morning. This is a perfect topic for limbaugh if you think about it. If you follow the story carefully and the dueling stories between the Wall Street Journal as to how this happened and the New York Times, they have very different takes as to how texas got itself in this situation. Dana the other thing is while the debate is going on theyre running out of food at the Grocery Stores because the supply team in breaking down. Janice dean is tracking the storm. Lets begin with Casey Stiegel Reporting live from dallas. Hi, casey. Good morning to you. Now officials are Warning Texans to be prepared for what they call disasters within a disaster. You hit on this, dana. Weve seen a lot of long, long lines, people waiting for hours in some Communities Just to get some groceries or water. They are standing in line for hours at food banks and also atwater distribution sites. Many shelves empty. All of the houston metro area, the nations fourth largest city and all of austin under mandatory
A man opened fire yesterday on f. B. I. Agents attempting to serve a child pornography warrant. After he spotted them on his security camera, killing two of them, wounding more. The bureau identified those agents as 43yearold Laura Schwartzenberger and we do not yet have the photograph of 36yearold david alfin who also was killed. Three other agents wounded. A live report from sunrise, florida, is coming up. President biden is set to meet with democrat senators at the white house this hour on his covid19 Stimulus Plan after suggesting that republicans counter proposal is dead on arrival. Biden told Top Democrats he wants a big, bold package and the party is prepared to pass it without republican votes despite the president s push for unity and working together. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Democrats are fast tracking a Stimulus Plan despite lacking any republican support as the president faces increasing pressure from the far left of his Political Party to act.