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white house, headed for the northeast to get a firsthand look at the damage left by hurricane ida. elsie huge parts of new jersey and new york remain decimated by deadly flooding. ida killing at least 45 people in those two states. some swept away by cars, others drowning in their own homes. new disaster declarations mean parts of both states are eligible for federal aid, but even that is fraught with complaints from counties left off the list of those eligible for aid. and down in louisiana which got hit by ida first, more than 400,000 homes are still in the dark, nine days after the storm rolled through, and high temperatures continue to raise the misery and risk. all three regions are at risk of more severe weather in the coming days. we have all of the angles covered. shannon petty piece at the white house, allison barber in new jersey, and some brock in louisiana outside new orleans. thank you all for joining this morning. sam, nine days have passed, still hundreds ....
today for the british team in tokyo. good today for the british team in tokyo. morning, it ha and good morning, it has been a bit cool and cloudy for some of us recently but you will be pleased to hear there is a bit more sunshine in the forecast, and temperatures will be on the up over the next few days. some rain and a forecast for tomorrow in the north, i will have all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s saturday 4 september. our top story: some gp surgeries in england and wales have begun cancelling appointments for the winter flu jab, after delays to the delivery of doses of the vaccine. a shortage of lorry drivers is believed to be behind the problem. doctors have warned it will have a serious impact on workloads and patients. our correspondent helena wilkinson has this report. this year s flu campaign is set to be the largest in history. more than 35 million people in the uk will be offered the jab on the nhs. news of a delay to some flu vaccine deliv ....
now, that is a gas # it s all right, jumping jack flash is a gas, gas, gas #. tributes to the rolling stones drummer charlie watts, who s died aged 80. mickjagger simply posts a picture of his bandmate. as competition gets under way at the paralympics, british cyclist dame sarah storey breaks her own world record in qualifying she has the chance of gold within the hour. good morning, temperatures reached just over 26 in parts of scotland. you could see similar here again today but like yesterday areas of cloud floating around and the best of the sunshine in the west. all the details in 25 minutes. presidentjoe biden says he intends to stick to next tuesday s deadline for the us to complete its evacuation in afghanistan rejecting borisjohnson s appeal for an extension. speaking at a press conference last night, he said the mission was under growing threat of an attack by extremists linked to the islamic state group. nomia iqbal reports from washington. up to 6,000 us ....
structure bill for a month now after they reached an agreement on what they called the basic framework of that legislation. one month ago, in a meeting with president biden at the white house. there they are after that meeting up there in the white house driveway and now it s not unusual at all for it to take at least a month or more to figure out the details of such legislation after you ve established a general shape of it and then get all of that into precise legislative language. and after a weekend of work, it seems like today it might actually be the day that the bipartisan group could bring their bill to the senate floor through majority leader chuck schumer and begin debate. here is what the lead republican negotiator rob portman said yesterday. we re about 90% of the way there, with a legislative language and staff and i feel good about getting that on this week. we have one issue outstanding and we re not getting much response from the democrats and it s abo ....
legislation. in the trump presidency infrastructure week was a constant joke. a bipartisan group of senators have been working on the details of an infrastructure bill for a month after reaching an agreement on what they called the basic framework of the legislation a month ago in a meeting with president biden at the white house. it is not unusual at all for it to take at least a month or more to figure out the details of that. after a weekend of work it seemed like today might be the day that the bipartisan group could bring their bill to the senate floor and begin debate. here is what the lead republican negotiator, senator rob portman said yesterday. we are about 90% of the way there. i am here this weekend working on legislative language. i feel good about getting it done this week. we have one issue outstanding. we are not getting much response from the democrats on it about mass transit. our transit number is generous. we increased transit in the proposal and t ....