recent day of the holiday season thanks to covid and bad weather. more than 13,000 flights have been canceled since christmas eve. many stranded travelers may have attended new year s eve gatherings like this one last night in times square. but experts warn it could lead to a tidal wave of hospital admissions as omicron surges. the nation has already smashed another daily case record, but mass gatherings aren t the only issue. we were all taught if you have a significant exposure to covid, you would have been within six feet of somebody for more than 15 minutes. while omicron is so contagious, it s changing the rules. you can have a very transient encounter with somebody. maybe your mask is a little bit loose, maybe they pulled their mask down a little bit, maybe you walked into an elevator or somebody has just coughed. this is how you can contract this virus. as those case numbers grow higher, one consequence is clear. right now more kids are hospitalized with covid-19 t
but first, the four cs of the apocalypse. that is the focus of tonight s angle. the car i drive is about 12 years old so i m in the market for a new or used car. for advice i called a buddy of mine who works for a firm in georgia whose whole purpose is to buy and sell cars and they do it for a good profit. what an education i got about the biden economy. about a 15 minute conversation. it turns out people are just flipping houses these days, they are flipping cars. prices are rising so fast it s hard to keep up with demand. people are selling cars they bought two years ago for a return of sometimes 25% to 35% more than what they paid for it when they first purchased it. we ve never seen as ever, my friend told me. for 100 years, used cars lost immediate value when they left the lot. he buy a car new, least the lot, drops in price, but no longer. good for my pal s business but this is a huge warning sign for consumers who are now paying through the nose for just about everythi
with the former met police officer and mp and a chief constabulary. fighting between rival gangs has involved firearms, knives and bombs. hello, and welcome. it is a moment of reckoning forjoe biden and his party. the democrats were elected to get things done, and tonight within their grasp as a bill that could bring new life into america s creaking infrastructure. successive presidents going all the way back to reagan have tried and failed to get something like this over the line. it would in its own be a huge victory for the white house. $1 trillion further infrastructure, and yet progressives are lining up to vote against it because they cannot get a commitment from moderate democrats in the senate and the other key part ofjoe biden s agenda. a second and much bigger bill to inject 3.5 trillion dollars into the post pandemic economy. they come together, or not at all. all week, nancy pelosi has been trying to bring her caucus together. we will see later tonight if she will
today on inside politics, reality bites. ron desantis wants you to ignore his current predicament that he s spending too fast and furious and is cutting staff and that seven weeks in he can t cut into donald trump s lead. plus, backlash, then backtrack. a top democrat crosses the line into anti-semitism, earns a rebuke from her own party and then revises her words. and does joe manchin want to run for president on a third-party ticket? today he makes a splashy appearance in new hampshire alongside a group that some worry might cut into biden. let s go inside politics. up first disappointment has a name and right now it appears to be ron desantis. as conservatives and excitement about the florida governor s campaign has given way to some deep seeing. the headlines reflect that politico playbook, desantis in disarray, the washington post a long slog, the new york times desantis sheds staff amid heavy spending. look no further than his campaign finance reports fo
i think in my acting days, i did a tiny bit of bbc radio. oh, you did? it might have been in this very studio some 60 odd years ago. really, here? fantastic. well, we ve got to dig those performances from the vault. i can t think what it was. it was something. ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. it s a great pleasure to come. and good to see you. you too. you were born in 1936. you grew up in the midlands. tell me about your family. what did your parents do? my father was an electrical engineer. took his apprenticeship in the mines. the whole family, my father s family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at alfred herbert s machine tool factory all his life ao odd years. skilled worker, then? yes, a skilled worker. electrician. and he had a work ethic that was formidable. he worked seven days a week. and my mother had been a hairdresser, but like women of that time, it was a matter of pride for my father that she should not have to work. but.lo