Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. now to a big political story in the uk, with the main opposition labour party being accused of a major u turn. the party is to announce that it will no longer spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. the party made the pledge 2.5 years ago. let s get more on this major political move. sir keir starmer has just been speaking about labour s green plans to our political editor chris mason. keir starmer, let s be clear. what are you binning today and what are you keeping? since we ve announced the green prosperity plan, we ve made a number of very important commitments, like green steel so we continue to make steel in this country, giga factories so we can do the next generation of cars, a national wealth fund so that we can have investment coming in for the jobs of the future, and green energy, which will be
but it is very different in the sense that president biden, it is thought to be about ten documents that he had done this was during his time as vice president and as a senator, some were found at his home in wilmington in delaware and others at the headquarters of a former think tank he was a part of. but he cooperated with the department ofjustice in order to get those documents back, the same thing happened with former vice president mike pence who is not going to be charged by the department ofjustice so it is very different, but it has not stopped trump of accusing president biden of weaponising the department ofjustice to go after him which president biden has completely dismissed. as you mention, he did say republicans are treated differently to democrats by the justice department. a lot of messages that came out in his speech, but of course one of the questions that experts have tried to answer is whether or not he could face prison time if found guilty, if convicted.
respiratory symptoms. and jofficials are advising you to put your masks back on to protect you from the smoke. and derek van dam is joining us from the cnn weather whycenter. yesterday the fire alarms went off at school because of the smoke. how will it be today? you ve heard the term you wait a couple minutes and the weather changes. this was literally a 15 minute time lapse and you can see the smoke that inundated new york city, the skyscrapers just becoming a martian landscape. social media was lighting up. it was incredible to see but also very dangerous. and yet another day of the smoke and haze across many of the many populated areas of the east coast. and in new york we still have haze and smoke present, but it is not as bad as it was last night. majority of the thickest has drifted further south. so washington, philadelphia, baltimore, those areas will wake up to almost choking-like air and hazardous air really as this smoke continues to settle in. that stretches ac