your day? fix. are still standing. what was your day? your day? a little smidgen optimistic your day? a little smidgen optimistic decompression | optimistic decompression between two of the conferences, labour and conservative, and then the s&p tomorrow and there is still the treasury union congress rearranged in the morning a little after that. they were both extraordinary. labour was extraordinary and newsworthy. it was kinda quite serene. it was a party that was upbeat. they weren t buyers breaking out in the corners or political fights that. frankly for labour they have been frequently in the past. for the opposite reason, the conservatives, there were political scraps breaking out very visibly in public. then, that kind of briefing that was going on and private from seniorfigures down was going on and private from senior figures down was also volcanic as well. you have a conservative party to put it at its gentlest is not at ease with itself with a new prime minister
the school district in uvalde has suspended its entire police force responsible for campus security. at ten o clock, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it s chris in the streets in south london. james cook, scotland editor, here in the studio. and it s alex forsyth, also in the studio. so, chris, you are currently in a street, but you ve just come back from the labour and conservative conferences. i m amazed you re still standing, albeit in a street. i mean, how were they? what was your take on the whole thing? it s a little smidgeon, alex, of domestic kind of decompression between two of the conferences, labour and conservative, and then the snp, which i m heading to tomorrow. and then there s still the tuc, the trades union congress, rearranged after the mourning period to come, a little after that. how were they? they were both extraordinary and for completely opposite reasons. so,
rather have, they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have the coal plants. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. my dad was a coal miner and my grand grandfather was a mining engineer. my dad was in sales. there was no work. we left to go to delaware where the oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolly in scranton going out north washington and adams avenue. within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood. the most prestigious neighborhood in the region in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people live. there was you d go by a wall that my recollection is was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. it went from essentially a city block. you can see the coal piled up to the very top of the wall from i
ship. look at your screen, biden earlier today in israel as tucker just showed you, literally appearing to not even know where to sit down here and where do i sit down, what do i do? let me say hello, let me shake the hand of the air. hello, error it s not the first time we see this. and once again appearing totally disoriented thank goodness, the israeli prime minister helping him, dazed and confused. these latest struggles come as biden s agenda is imploding here at home because, yes, it was yet another day with another bad, horrific batch of bad economic news for the biden economy. this is on top of yesterday s you know, for biden this was his 41 plus year record high inflation, 9.1%. today we learned that wholesale inflation, just the measure of inflation before it gets to you at the retail level, consumers, is surging even more, a whopping 11.3%. that is nearly the highest number ever. yet another painful reminder of the failures of this far left disastrous, destruct
agenda, are we going to have success, are we going to be able to match bringing down the price of gasoline, when you down the price of other things continuing to create jobs. that is the challenge. that is what we have to deliver. on 90 million americans from the plains to the northeast remain under heat alerts at this hour. former vice al gore is once again sounding the alarm on climate change. comparing climate deniers to delay law enforcement reaction to the uvalde school massacre. confronted with this global emergency, what we are doing with our inaction and failing to walk through the door and stop the killing is not typical of what we are capable of as human beings. we do have the solutions. and i think these extreme events that are getting steadily worse and more severe are really beginning to change lives. well, back to capitol hill now in the january six committee which has completed the season finale of its hearings. they do say there is more to come after the