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the white house faces mounting pressure to address the ongoing crisis, which some experts say might last well into next year. house budget committee ranking member jason smith will join us a few minutes from now with his reaction. but we begin tonight with david spunt who is live at the white house. david? jon good evening to you. not much more time left in 2021. the clock is ticking, but the supply chain crisis may follow us into the new year. as you mentioned the cargo ships off the coast of california right now have been sitting there in an ocean parking lot as millions of goods are in limbo. new numbers from the labor department show in port prices rose last month after falling in august. the shortage of truck drivers is also a serious problem causing economic harm. truckers have been on the front lines of this entire pandemic. they want to be paid well. they want to be respected. we do have an issue with a shortage of truck drivers in this country. look at th ....
negative result. rules for overseas lorry drivers are due to be relaxed to try to ease continuing problems in the supply chain. a bbc investigation finds nearly 13,000 domestic abuse cases have been dropped by police in england and wales in the last five years. from today, shoppers can spend up to £100 per transaction using their contactless card. 18 months ago i could have bought and paid for these on my contactless card, but from today, well, i can buy this much, up to £100, without putting in my pin. a man s been arrested after a stabbing at a constituency surgery of conservative mp sir david amess. let s get more from our political from our political correspondent, pete saull. what correspondent, pete saull. more do we know at th very what more do we know at this stage? very limited information at the nine learnt but we now according to his westminster office, a stabbing has had a dent in his constituency. sir david amess was having a regular constituency surgery in lei ....
bostonglobe.com, their front page today in the middle of the day. i was looking for some other new england news, and i completely forgot it was marathon day and it was like, oh, there s 14 most read stories on the front page of the boston globe, they re all different stories about the marathon. i completely forgot about it, even though i m supposed to be a massachusetts, you know. yeah, you are. you re just the other end of massachusetts. exactly. the couldn t be farther away from boston end of massachusetts. the closer to albany part of it. yeah, got it. thank you, rachel. thank you, lawrence. well, starting somewhere around the early 1990s, rush limbaugh and other right wing fanatics decided to change the name of the democratic party, they changed it to the democrat party. they thought that was really smart, the democrat party. their point was that both parties are democratic parties in the sense that they both believe in democracy and our products of de ....
hello and welcome back to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us over the next few hours. with me again, jenny, journalist and times radio present terror, and giles, political commentator, from a conservative party press chief, welcome back to you both. we ve got several more titles, let s start with the dominant story across most of the front pages, the key is outside many petrol stations, as i say, the daily mirror leads with calls for essential workers with nurses, doctors and carriers to begin priority. the same story in the times here with a warning from the times here with a warning from the b and there is a real risk of nhs staff being unable to do their jobs because they won t be able to fill up their card cars. anger at the cost of fuel will makes the front of the express. desperate drivers are being ripped off by some firms increasing petrol prices and cashing in on a crisis. 150 a leader in some cases. more elsewhere. the repeats that story, ....
the express reports the prime minister borisjohnson is back on track , says red wall voters remained loyal to the conservative party. the times says the conservative party has been punished in the south as they lose hundreds of council seats in thursday s local elections. the mail, meanwhile, says that starmer is in crisis after a police investigation is launched into a beer and curry night held by the labour leader. the i says the tories have put the prime minister on notice , but don t ignore the police inquiry following labour leader sir keir starmer. the sun says, will you korma quietly, sir, referring to sir keir starmer s police investigation into a beer and curry night in breach of covid rules at labour hq. the ft report on boris johnson s renewed threat following significant losses in the local elections. the guardian, meanwhile, claims that senior conservatives blame boris johnson for losing swathes of the party s southern heartlands. the mirror simply says ....