joining me. i m alex marquardt in today for fredricka whitfield. and we begin this hour with the 2024 presidential race, which is entering a another pivotal phase. of the campaign today, former president donald trump hits the campaign trail exactly one week after surviving an attempted assassination at a campaign rally last weekend in pennsylvania, later this afternoon, he and his newly minted running mate, senator j.d. vance of ohio. they re going to be holding their first joint campaign rally in grand rapids, michigan. notably, today s event will be in doors, unlike trump s rally last weekend, which was outside. now this comes as president joe biden continues to recover from covid at his delaware beach home as he presses forward with a return to the campaign trail next week now, despite growing calls for him to end his reelection bid, 35 lawmakers are now publicly urging him to step aside, including a dozen new names that came on friday alone. but biden is insisting that he
she might have been alive today. the government could make it compulsory for all front line nhs staff in england to be vaccinated against covid 19. and plans in scotland that would mean you d need a vaccine passport to get into nightclubs, major sporting events, concerts and festivals. and emma raducanu s record breaking run at the us open goes on the first british woman in almost a0 years to make it to the semi finals. and coming up on the bbc news channel. england name a preliminary squad for the t20 world cup but there s no ben stokes, as he continues his breakfrom cricket for his mental well being. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. hospital waiting lists in england are now the worst since records began. 5.6 million people were waiting for routine hospital treatment at the end ofjuly, according to the latest figures from nhs england. some of the longest waits are for people needing hip and knee replacements and cataract surgery. and ambulance waiting t
okay there are no more mean tweets and we have a really nice president and the country is in the crapper. well, i don t know that he is a nice president, but i can tell you the president has never been more unsafe. it is my honor, derek, to welcome you into the hall of fame family. [cheers and applause] i had one goal during my career and that was to win more than everyone else. we did. ainsley: that is so cool. derek jeter welcomed into the hall of fame. you will see later on in the show we interviewed a family that lost their dad on septembe. we are going to talk to his wife and the boys. their twins and their nickname growing up was were the twin towers because they sore tall like 65, 6 9 . maybe taller than that their mom and dad were very tall. they stopped using that name after the world trade center and lost their dad. they met derek jeter when they were little. they showed me a picture of them really short and derek jeter really tall. they met him later in lif
pressure with us at the moment. last night provisionally was the highest august air pressure ever recorded in the uk. but stuck underneath that we have lots of grey cloud for most of us. and you can see from the satellite and radar that we have a lot of clout right across the uk. some drizzle coming out of that cloud. the second picture from inverness shows a different story with clear skies across much of scotland. blue skies and just a bit of fairweather cloud. that is the picture for much of scotland for the rest of today but over the next few days we keep that cloudy theme for most areas. some drizzle around and a bit of sunshine around. sunshine is across much of scotland, some sunny spells for northern ireland and north west england. but still a bit of a breeze down the east coast for east anglia and the south east. temperatures in the mid teens but further west in the sunshine 23 degrees for the west of scotland for instance this afternoon. this evening and tonight clo