the centre of the memorial signifying the invasion by land, sea and air here at gold beach on the north coast of france. and i m naga munchetty in the studio. also in the news this morning. the first minister of wales, vaughan gething, faces an uncertain future after losing a vote of no confidence he insists he ll carry on. premier league clubs will vote on whether to scrap the use of the video assistant referee, after a season of notable errors and mounting scrutiny. good morning from hms belfast, one of the first warships to arrive at the normandy beaches. it is a cold start to the day, across the board, sunshine and blustery showers, most of which will be in the north. all the details later. it s thursday the 6th ofjune welcome to normandy where 80 years ago today, more than 156,000 allied troops launched an attack on german forces which would change the course of the second world war. it would forever be known as d day. it was just before 6.30 in the morning onjune 6t
which started the year at under $500 a share and closed on wednesday at over $1,200 a share. that is just such a huge jump in a short time. it rose over 5% in value on wednesday alone, giving it the market cap of just over $3 trillion. let s hear more from our north america business correspondent erin delmore. wall street s on a record breaking run. the latest all time high closes for the s&p 500 and the nasdaq. the latter powered by you guessed it nvidia. the chip makerjoined the $3 trillion club on wednesday, overtaking apple as the world s second most valuable company. microsoft is still the world s number one. nvidia is only the third company to ever exceed $3 trillion in market value. it s leading in the race to develop the chips needed to enable new artificial intelligence applications. and that s where the other tech giants and a lot of companies are spending big bucks right now. nvidia shares ended the trading day up more than 5%. alphabet, amazon, apple, meta,
memorial, where the king and queen will lead the united kingdom s commemorative event. at a vigil at the bayeaux war cemetery here last night, more than 4,000 gravestones were individually lit up in a tribute to those who never returned. they re the men who changed the course of history, more than a0 british veterans have made the trip to normandy i ve been speaking to one of them. i was up on the bridge and i could see it all but i couldn t do anything, i couldn t get in the water to help them or save them. the sculpture of three trips storming across the sand stands at
one area where white house mitchell officials are there was a clear path or one thing they definitely wanted to secure coming out of, this would be maintaining that senate majority. that is not locked in by any means right now. they are still a number of tight races out there. but when you look at the broader map in, talking to white house officials, they understand right now that this is a very different picture than most people were predicting going into the night. a very different picture than some were expecting. even last night the president, a general optimist himself, made clear they re holding on to the house was going to be a tough task. nobody here is predicting the democrats will hold on to the house, but they are very clear that they have won a lot of races that looked like they would be tipping towards republicans. one in particular sand stands are we trying to white house officials s officials, that was the victory of abigail spanberger in virginia. it was a toss-up brace