classic kicking off tonight on fox. todd: i did a little research, if they don t hit it, they will lose because hitting it is crucial to winning in baseball. jillian: you run, you will lose. todd: you are watching fox and friends first tuesday morning. jillian: a lot of factors in play. let s begin with the way the president is selling his $1 trillion spending bill, whispering or yelling when trying to convince americans it won t cost a cent. todd: lauren blanchard has a range of voice work, no whispering, no yelling, nice and steady, the president s approval rating falls to a new level. reporter: i don t know whether to turn the volume up or turn the volume down. president biden hopes to pitch for the build back better bill comes across loud and clear but what the bill doesn t how much it costs is still confusing many. what are we doing? what in god s name are we doing? we pay for it all. it doesn t increase the deficit single sent. reporter: yesterday the president
killed and others were injured in a drone strike near the border of syria. we ll go through the details of the attack and show you how the president is responding. plus, donald trump is now on the hook for a massive payout to e. jean carroll after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that as well as the looming case that can further impact trump s bank account. and a stunning second half comeback sends the san francisco 49ers to the super bowl, setting up a rematch of the 2020 big game with the kansas city chiefs. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ve got a lot to get to. we ll begin this morning with developing news out of the middle east and the deaths of three u.s. servicemembers in nort jordan. it happened yesterday at a logistics support base near jordan s border with syria. a drone packed with e
it just came up. 20 seconds later, it was gone. tornadoes and golf-ball sized hail pummelled the southern u.s. there s another rournd of severe weather on the way. plus to conviction, the prison sentence for alex murdaugh and what he had to say during his sentencing. and a man accused of plotting to murder, we ll look at the rise in semitism across the u.s. we start this hour with the extreme weather hitting huge parts of the country. at least ten people have died as the powerful storm system marches across the south and into the northeast. the next western storm will be you shalling inland saturday bringing another round of snow to the pacific northwest, northern and central california. in some places, new snow will be measured in feet. the system that brought tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding to the season central and eastern u.s. will be offshore by later this morning, but the cold part of the storm is going strong. winter weather alerts are in places across p
the bus stopped and passengers went to help the woman, who suffered minor injuries. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. where has some are gone? that is the yorkshire coast. rain is not the whole story this week that a big part of the story. you can see from the radar picture, what a soggy day so far in yorkshire, lincolnshire and in the midlands. we have started the season heavy showers across parts of east anglia and the south east. also towards the south west. these were the shower clouds beginning to build in north devon a little earlier on this morning. as we go through the rest of the day, across england and wales generally quite cloudy, some outbreaks of rain and heavy downpours in places. the driest of the weather and the brightest of the weather today will be across scotla nd weather today will be across scotland and northern ireland. a few showers but plenty of sunshine, 18-19d. showers but plenty of sunshine, 18 19d. north east england on the midlands,
code of conduct. good morning and welcome to bbc newsroom live. more than a0 % of maternity wards in england closed their doors to expectant mothers at least once in 2016, according to data from the labour party. 42 out of 96 trusts in england that responded to a freedom of information request said they d shut maternity wards temporarily on 382 occasions. the most common reasons given were too few staff and not enough beds. but the government says the numbers are misleading. our health correspondent, dominic hughes has more. for some years, maternity units have been struggling to recruit enough midwives. the royal college of midwives says there s a shortfall of around 3,500. now, based on a freedom of information request, labour says a growing number of maternity units are closing doors to new mothers. in england, 136 nhs trusts offer maternity services. last year, 42 of them closed their doors to new admissions at least once. there were 382 separate locations where units wer