Underscores why there shouldnt be any material concern about the comcasttime warner transaction because there is nothing but more different and more interesting competition that is coming in this space down the road david cohen, executive Vice President of comcast. The committee will hold a hearing on the comcasttime warner merger and the affect on consumers. A panel of academics and journalist look at the role of u. S. Tax policy and debate ways to improve the current system. The urban institute hosted this. It is about an hour and hamp. Half welcome to the urbanbrookings tax policy. We are going to be talking about tax reform which is the holy grail of tax policy. It is sought after. There are rumored sighting all of the time. There have been recent tigsights like tom camp and ron whiten promises after extending the 5,000 stupid tax extenders for the last time there will be tax reform and it will never happen again. President obama called a tax reform commission, president bush calle
Warned that the government could impose handbrake restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus with travel is unlikely to be given much warning when you quarantine measures need to be enforced. The daily express also says there are fears that other countries popular with uk tourists could be added to the quarantine list. The daily mirror reports that british people with brea ks reports that british people with breaks booked to sprains might have to cancel their trip. Many uk travellers say they would not have gone to spain had they known about the requirement to self isolate for 14 the requirement to self isolate for 1a days which will prevent a number of them from working. The Daily Telegraph leads with a government push to tackle obesity, saying anne has been a wake up call on everyone overweight should lose at least £5 to save the nhs £100 million, as well as countless lives. Meanwhile, the Financial Times says the european banks are based braced for more loan losses as a result
Celebrating the formal launch of this general Election Campaign with a full fireworks experience. This final night of the dnc touted some more personal aspects of joe biden and his wife, jill, while weaving politics and culture together with powerful musical performances. And it culminated in a simple Closing Argument from joe biden, that he would draw on his decades of Public Service to be a leader for all americans. Biden speaking at a High Altitude with an implicit contrast to the low bar set by the current president. Here and now, i give you my word, if you entrust me with the presidency, i will draw on the best of us, not the worst. Ill be an ally of the light, not the darkness. Its time for us, for we, the people, to come together. And make no mistake, united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. So its with great honor and humility i accept this nomination for president of the United States of america. There you have it, that was the moment it became offic
Leading trump. Biden in wisconsin leading the president by 17 points in this poll, 5740. And joining me now, nbc News White House correspondent Peter Alexander will be here in a moment, but first, Steve Kornacki joining me. Steve corn aackee kornacki, lets take a look at the big board and what you think of the poll in wisconsin. Thats the biggest margin by far weve seen out of wisconsin. Weve seen joe biden consistently ahead in wisconsin. The states in gray, every one of them was a trump state in 2016. Every one of them, to some degree, the president is in trouble in the polling right now. But the two states, and this has been a consistent story this fall, that stand out, where trumps polling has been the weakest against joe biden, are michigan and wisconsin. And that abc Washington Post poll today, whether thats an outlier, a little farther out there than reality, its consistent with biden being ahead in that state and ahead in those two states more than the others. Look at this, if
Caribbean first of all, the record breaking season continuing, this aircame record breaking season continuing, this air came strengthening, catastrophic category five, half a metre of rain, winds of 190 miles an hour, making landfall in Central America tonight. Moving towards the uk, we draw in tropical air, for us, that means we have higher temperatures than normal, lots of cloud, is whether france will focus the rain. This one getting stuck in western scotland in the next few days, threatening some flooding by mid week. This afternoon there may be some weak sunshine for the east, to the west cloud thickening, getting some patchy rain coming in, temperatures around 11 or 12 degrees. Through this evening and night we see this patchy rain pushing further east across the uk, the rain really setting in a western scotland, through the highlands, and into argyll and bute but if anything overnight, with milder air coming m, overnight, with milder air coming in, temperatures rising, 12 14 by