And the fire broke out in the early hours of this morning between 12 and one oclock. The first call to the Metropolitan Police was at 1 15am. The blaze, you can see now there are no flames this stage, just smoke, and you can see the damage done to the building. Lets give you a sense from the images last night from the early hours of the morning. You can get a real sense of the scale of the blaze that was engulfing the building. Lets tell you about who is tackling the fire at the moment. Around 200 firefighters, a0 fire engines, and of course London Ambulance has sent a number of vehicles and medical staff to the scene. 0ur Correspondent is at the scene this morning. Tell us what you can see. Well, you can see the block is still alight. You can see some flames there. You can see the Fire Brigade Hosing down the lower reaches of the building. But the fire service said that this was a blaze reaching from the second floor right up to the 27th floor. Its been a blaze for five hours now. We
not looking for anyone else in connection with the they are not looking for anyone else. we saw outside the church there was a police presence, there were a number of response cars, ambulances or police vehicles as well as an air ambulance. the updates we were being given suggested sir david was being treated at the scene, and that was an extremely serious condition. that have been plenty of tweets in response to what has happened. stephen timms, who survived a similar stabbing stephen timms, who survived a similarstabbing in stephen timms, who survived a similar stabbing in 2010 has tweeted to say she is appalled to hear of the attack. joining me now, the
hello, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront, taxes, presidential candidate rick perry on the heels of last night s presidential debate, proposing a flat tax. scrapping the 3 million words of the current tax code starting over with something simpler. a flat tax. a flat tax has one big problem. if you tax everyone at the same rate, people who make less get hit harder and pay more than the current system. the flat tax was popularized by steve forbes during his two presidential runs, but he actually exempted families of four making less than $36,000. bold ideas are something we challenge on this show for a better america. let s see whether the flat tax is bold and smart or bold and bad. jim bianco is president of bianco researchers. you took the time to run the numbers and make sense of it. bottom line, instead of the politics of it, if you exempt people earning under a certain amount, what s the magic rate for everyone else to raise the same amount of revenue under a flat
presidential debate, proposing a flat tax. scrapping the 3 million words of the current tax code starting over with something simpler. a flat tax. a flat tax has one big problem. if you tax everyone at the same rate, people who make less get hit harder and pay more than the current system. the flat tax was popularized by steve forbes during his two presidential runs, but he actually exempted families of four making less than $36,000. bold ideas are something we challenge on this show for a better america. let s see whether the flat tax is bold and smart or bold and bad. jim bianco is president of bianco researchers. you took the time to run the numbers and make sense of it. bottom line, instead of the politics of it, if you exempt people earning under a certain amount, what s the magic rate for everyone else to raise the same amount of revenue under a flat tax as we do right now? if you exempt everybody under $36,000, you will exclude 38 or 39% of all taxpayers. 61, 62%
hello, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front, taxes, presidential candidate rick perry on the heels of last night s approximately debate proposing a flat tax. scrapping the three million words of the current tax code starting over with something simpler. a flat tax. a flat tax has one big problem. if you tax everyone at the same rate, people who make less get hit harder and pay more than the current system. the flat tax was popularized by steve forbes during his two presidential runs and exempted families of four making less than $36,000. bold ideas are something we challenge on this show for a better america. let s see whether the flat tax is bold and smart or bold and bad. jim, you took the time to run the numbers and make sense of it. bottom line, instead of the politics of it. if you exempt people earning under a certain amount, what s the magic rate for everyone else to raise the same amount of revenue under a flat tax as we do right now? you exempt everybody und