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is involved in such a decision. it beggers belief, really. good morning. it s february 24th. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the conservatives have labelled their victory in the copeland by election a truly historic event . they took the seat from labour by more than two thousand votes the first time a governing party has won a seat from another party in a by election for 35 years. the area has had a labour mp since the 1930s. for labour, the shadow chancellor john mcconnell called the result disappointing . the party did hold on to the seat of stoke on trent central, in the other parliamentary by election result declared overnight. labour finished two and a half thousand votes ahead of ukip leader paul nuttall. in the last hour the labour leader, jeremy corbyn has been giving his reaction to the by elections results. after his speech, he is taking questions now. is defeated in copeland a disaster for the labour party? it s a disappointment. i m very sad about it. w ....
at at key government bond we are talking about tomorrow, and that is the spanish two-year yield. one of the concerns post brexit or post the vote is there is going to be for the political contagion. there is an election counting underway right now in spain. you can see an increase upward in the yields from negative territory back to positive territory. if anything happens politically where people start to doubt whether the government and the eurozone countries are committed the existing path, existed committed to being in the eu are the eurozone, you might see pressure on these clinical sovereign yields. on the spanish two-year yield, there is a lot of concern. that is way lower than it was a you years ago in 2011 are 2012. keep an eye on that tomorrow. matt: i want to look at currency markets right now. the pound is excellent trading down this afternoon, just a little bit. look at the chart, you can see a 134.96.ading at 184.97. pound at gdp, japanese yen, one 37.197. ....
dry air, light winds, clear skies. there will be some folks falling into the teens before sunday morning. sunday it looks like a sunny day. we ll be in the 20s and 30s in the morning. 45 by lunchtime. still a chilly day. something about the warmup coming. by christmas eve potentially 70 which would be a record breaker. i ll have the whole seven-day forecast coming up for you in a few minutes. i m looking forward to that howard. in case you didn t know, christmas less than a week away. that means shoppers are making lists, checking them twice, flooding to malls and shopping centers to buy presents. we reporter: we re in macy s at tyson s corner. if you re at home you might learn what santa is bringing you for christmas. what are you getting for your mom? what if she s watching? reporter: the good news is many of our last-second shoppers were willing to tell us what santa is putting under their tree. why don t you tell d.c. metro what you got your girlfriend ....
review of the case but also the results an investigation into the officers previous behavior. it s a legal victory for the family of john geer, shot and killed by a fairfax county police officer in august, 2013. on friday, a judge ruled fairfax county must release findings from an internal affairs investigation into the case. just last month, county officials named torres as the officer who fired the fatal shots. mixed emotions. you grieve the loss of the friends, and the geers are grieving the loss of a family member. 11,000 documents revealed torres admitted to having a fight with his wife before arriving on scene. torres told another officer he had seen geer standing at the door towards his house and put his hand s towards his waist. asked him several times if they could not back away and let john cool off. i was told they could not allow him to go into the house because he might hurt himself. in an interview torres told investigators he did nothing wrong ....