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today and we will find out how some of the biggest names fared over christmas. are voters willing to pay more taxes to boost spending on the nhs? a survey suggests nearly a half of them are. we ve a special report. plans for a billion pound project to use the tides in swansea bay to generate electricity are backed by a senior government advisor. in sport: southampton lead liverpool in their league cup semi final. nathan redmond gave the saints a 1 0 win in the first leg. carol has the weather. good morning. there is snow in the forecast today, wintry showers and windy conditions for the north in particular, and also parts of the west. in the south we have rain initially with hill snow but later in the day some of that will readily turn to sleet and snow even at lower levels. i ll have more details in 15 minutes. thanks, carol. good morning. first, our main story. the us director of national intelligence has rejected suggestions made by donald trump that official agencies leak ....
eighty one after a long illness while the news was announced by her personal assistant when mandela was the ex-wife of the late president and anti apartheid icon nelson mandela her legacy in south africa was mixed for decades she was long admired as a determined fighter against white minority rule in south africa but women to his reputation began to suffer and later years due to a number of controversy still she does remain one of south africa s most of fining figures and tributes have been pouring in for her this is what one member of the current government had to say she was really it was. solved in african names. is the sea deep our evolutionary pain. of this great i call of regimes drug. serfontein is a south african journalist author and documentary filmmaker she has reported extensively on her country thank you so much mr serfontein for being here with us who was winnie mandela well she s obviously in the former wife of nelson mandela but she was so sort of a very strong ....
Truck on friday morning and she died at the scene. for 35-year-old offered help on her youtube channel which had hundreds of thousands of subscribers. authorities believe she is the first person to die in an accident on a scooter, no arrests have been made. amazon getting a run from its money from major retailers. the e-commerce giant rolling out the prime day discounts. target and walmart and others are offering their own bargains and their hopes of attracting the online shoppers, especially those without a amber ship. mary abner joins me now. didn t they used to call this christmas and july? good memory. it s after black friday in july, july isn t the month in retail where much goes on. there is no big gift giving event in the sales haven t started sales in the summertime. dana: the next big event is ....
What are they warning us of today? you have a few retailers, costco being one of them, warning they are willing to raise their price. they warned yesterday at the end of the day prices will go up on thins. right now it s hard to predict when that s going to happen because the second round of tariffs isn t set in stone. you have costco, family dollar, dollar general, all warning that they plan to increase prices. since i m talking about the dollar store, you have dollar tree announcing they re trying to rejuvenate family dollar. they acquired family dollar in 2015. sales haven t been the greatest. they re adding a new product to their stores. that product is alcohol. the running theme seems to be in my head today. they re adding alcohol to 1,000 family dollar stores. overall, what we do know from these retailers, is that prices ....
Arm sales are important not because of the money but leverage in the future. those are things we can use to influence their behavior. i would not take cutting that off, off the table. if cutting off these arm sales or memorandums of intent at this point the sales haven t happened yet it s going to fall on congress and it s going to fall on sanctions and it s going to fall on congress in a bipartisan fashion say no, enough. to follow that example congress will have to be the bad cop here. they ve been fearful of challenging this president but this is something that is so bold faced in terms of the disappearance of someone with u.s. ties that they re going to reign in saudi arabia where they can. i think the saudi government knows right now that they ve got to do something publicly that ....