conference from texas governor greg abbott, top of the hour. he is calling on the biden administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. he said this is a crisis of the president s own making. we have the latest from the dhs secretary testimony to the senate homeland security committee this morning. we ll go to the border in just a moment. john: we kick off hour one of america reports with former acting ice director tom holman. i wanted to play from yesterday, there s a little bit of sound from the dhs secretary and get you respond to it. let s listen. borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. john: he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. what do you say to that based on what we have seen in del rio texas in the last couple of weeks? it s a lie. it s a lie. the borders are wide open. i have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. thousands of being released every day into the united states, many with
raising the taliban flag as the last remaining part of afghanistan falls after days of heavy fighting. spotted by a police helicopter a three year old boy missing since friday in the australian bush is found in a gully. and india cruise to a comfortable win against england in the fourth test at the oval. and coming up on the bbc news channel all eyes on emma raducanu. the british teenager prepares for the biggest match of her career at the us open. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government is preparing to unveil its long awaited plan for social care and the nhs in england with the announcement expected tomorrow. but the prime minister is under growing pressure over how it s to be paid for. critics say any rise in national insurance would break manifesto promises and disproportionately affect those on lower wages. meanwhile, the health secretary sajid javid has tonight confirmed that the nhs will be getting an extra £5.5 billion, to help it deal
time someone told me this package is dead, i would be a rich person. it was dead back in may. it was dea in june. it was dead in july again. all i ve heard is how it s dead and yet amazingly, it continues to advance. new polling from the washington post and abc news shows vaccine hesitancy has gone down in the wake of the delta surge with the percent of americans likely or less likely to get a covid shot now. just about half of what it was in january. it also comes as president biden s approval rating has dropped. that s down about 10 points since june. senior adviser to the president reacting this morning. we re not worried about poll number numbers. we re worried about the people in louisiana and new york and nj nmg. this has never been a president who worried about himself. he really worries about the country. let s go to heidi at the white house for us. heidi, welcome to you. is the white house concerned that when extended unemployment benefits end, it will hurt the
and building a new olympic spectacle beijing prepares to become the first city in history to host both a summer and a winter games, just six months after tokyo. welcome to newsday it s 8am in singapore, and 8pm in new york, where, for years, andrew cuomo successfully navigated the murky political waters of the state, amassing power with precision, leaving his opponents trailing in his wake. but it took just a week for the governor to find himself out of moves following the publication of a report by the new york attorney general s office which claimed mr cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women. he denied the accusations, but faced growing calls from within his own party to resign, and today, he succumbed to those calls. i think that given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. and therefore that s what i ll do, because i work for you. and doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you because, as