Offenders who ve served 40% of their prison terms will be eligible for early release. It s necessary, says the government, because of severe overcrowding in jails. There are fewer than 500 spaces left in men s prisons in england and wales, a crisis made worse by the convictions of hundreds of people involved in riots last month. Our senior uk correspondent sima kotecha was given full and rare access to hmp pentonville in london and this is what she found. Siren blares. Chaos in hmp pentonville. Shouting. We re the only broadcast journalists given access. . . It s a code red. . . To one of britain s most dangerous jails since the current crisis. 0k, come on, folks. And some prison officers are so frightened of being targeted on the outside that we ve had to blur theirfaces. Hmp pentonville! staff are overstretched. . . Another alarm here. . . And on the verge of breaking point. You worry about, you know, opening the door in the morning and making sure that they re alive. Anything could
anita: the chaos at our southern border continuing into the new year. customs and border protection sources revealing to fox news a staggering new record number of migrants entering our country in just the month of december. at the same time, a massive migrant caravan is marching its way through mexico. welcome back, everyone, to a special edition of fox news live. i m i m anita vogel in los angeles. great to be with you and happy new year. rich: i m rich edson in new york. border officials say they encountered a new record of 302,000 migrants in december, and more than double that since october 1st. the unprecedented figures have some democratic lawmakers pushing president biden to address this crisis. as long as people are coming to the border and they are hitting a speed bump and they are being released and waiting for, five, six years for an adjudication, they re going to keep coming. if we don t address that by addressing detention, giving them the quick hearing
hello, everyone. welcome to cnn newsroom. and i m john berman. victor is off this froop. and we begin with president biden s dramatic overnight move to dparnguarantee the money is e bank. this comes after the failure of two banks. today the president announced regulators are taking them over, but unlike what was seen in 2008 the u.s. will cover only bank customers not bank investors. all customers who had deposits in these banks can rest assured that we protect it, and they ll have access to their money as of today. that includes small businesses across the country that bank there and need to make payroll, pay their bills and stay open for business. investors in the banks will not be protected. they knowingly took a risk, and when the risk didn t pay off, investors lose their money. that s how capitalism works. svb s small businesses are thankthal for president biden s decision. i am quite relieved from what i heard from president biden. i think the administration h
19 hours, 59 minutes, and 41 seconds in counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be every friday night between now and the midterms. that is after tonight, only one more friday night between now and the midterms. it is getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go, and not only is it getting closer on the calendar, but voting is underway in all sorts of states, early voting nearly 20 million, they have already been cast in this midterm election, in the 2018 midterm election, all sorts of records were shattered when it came to turnout. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be over 120 million when this one is over. numbers that would have been unthinkable years ago, that is of course where politics are right now. so, the biggest campaign news tonight, the democrats, they are bri
and we are exactly ten, days 19, hours 59 minutes, and 41 seconds, and counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night, right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be everybody tonight, between now and the midterms. and that is after tonight, only one more friday night. between now and the midterms, it s getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go. and not only is it getting closer on the calendar but voting is underway! and all sorts of states, early voting net now nearly 20 million, 18 million votes already been cast in this midterm election. in the 2018 midterm election, also it s a records were shattered when i came to turn out. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be over 120 million when this one is over. numbers that would have been unthinkable years ago. but that is of course where politics are right now. so,