Related. With more heavy Snow Forecast across Northern Scotland this weekend well talk to one family who decided to make the most of it. Dont, dont shes kicked him out and coming up this hour. Certainly not on mute how one Parish Council has gone viral after a zoom meeting got a little out of hand. Good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Energy prices will rise for millions of people across the uk in april, after the regulator ofgem said the cap for default Domestic Energy deals would be raised to cover suppliers extra costs. Ofgem defended the decision, saying that its in the interest of customers to start allowing Energy Companies to recover some of the costs to avoid larger price hikes in the future. The price cap was introduced in 2019 and designed to protect customers from being overcharged. But this is the first rise in the cap so how will the decision affect customers . The price cap affects 11 million households who have never switched suppliers, or whose discounted deals have expir
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. We begin with a scathing federal report on the st. Louis county juvenile justice system. The u. S. Department of justice says the county discriminates against black children, treating them more harshly than white children because of their race. According to the Justice Departments civil rights division, black children in st. Louis county are 1. 5 times more likely than white children to end up in family court in the first place. Black children are 2. 5 times more likely than whites to be detained before their trial, and, if convicted, they are more tha
Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Joining us this morning, elie wiehl is on set and mike isaac. We will get to you in a couple of minutes. We start with mixed signals from washington over the president s reported conversation with Russian Foreign minister lavrov inside the oval office. National security adviser h. R. Mcmaster now set to hold an oncamera press briefing in about 30 minutes. We will bring it to you when it happens. John harwood is in washington to set the scene. Clearly the white house is taking this seriously, as it should. What do we expect to hear from mcmaster . Well, i think this is the most significant damage control this white house has had to do so far, because what we have been seeing is an erosion of republican support. Its not an outright jailbreak in terms of people fleeing him but you do hear more serious criticism of him because this does involve National Security, not just involving russia, but also involving isis and i would expect that genera
For sanctuary cities. Reporter local leaders say they are disappointed with the passage of this bill. The bill cuts grants from the Justice Department and Homeland Security and the concern is a lot of money and he could endanger lives. With a vote of 228 295 the house of representatives made it tougher for socalled sanctuary cities like san jose to protect undocumented increments immigrants. I am not surprised. We will do what we have been doing. Reporter the bill would let the federal government strip money that have policies preventing cooperation with federal immigration officials. Opponents say the bill asked local jurisdictions to retain without due process of violating the constitution using local resources to carry out the look work of local agents. We will police the same way we have for decades. Reporter it is not clear what federal dollars could be withheld. San jose will not lose significant funding Santa Clara County could. Where it will be significant is of the they decide
Period. When you step outside, it hits you. The wind and cold air. There is no escape unless you duck inside. Jeff goldberg has been around town today. Is this a preview of winter . Allison. Very popular, we really wanted to get the brunt of the wind so we came out here to the key bridge between virginia and d. C. We got exactly what we asked for. The wind whipping down the potomac river. We sayeth not the heat its the humidity and today we say its not the cold, its the wind. Winds are serious. It is considered the happiest time of the year. Its a bit nippy out here. But an old town you can feel the wind swaying you so you have to be careful. It is no match for a wind whipping up why caps on the potomac. Across and down the river, windy, cold, beautiful, baron. If there was ever a day you wanted the National Mall to yourself, today is that day. Weve got to keep moving. Even santa is struggling to keep his balance through all this mighty wind. Not just one big coat. Jeff for the weather