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Millions . But pewdiepie has been forced to apologise again after being caught using a racist slur in one of his videos. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning, the latest breaking news and developing stories. And as always, really keen to hear from you on all the stories were talking about this morning. A little later, well be talking about the Prescription Drug pregabalin and the huge rise in sales on the black market and the devastating impact it has on addicts. Also ,well speak to the christian parents whore threatening to sue their Childrens School because one of the pupils there goes to school some days as a boy and others as a girl use the hashtag victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Hurricane irma has slammed into the west coast of florida, bringing with it intense rainfall, severe flooding, violent winds and tornadoes. At least three people have died since the storm made landfa
Indiana congressman dave mcinto be, ed kinard, ellie ya zinn sky and Jenny Beth Martin, Tea Party Patriots cofounder. Let me go to you first, Jenny Beth Martin, because you wrote an interesting piece on tax reform helping the sharing economy. And ive got to tell you something, no ones brought that up even though its the hottest thing going in this country right now. It is, and i think that it really highlights the fact that the last time the tax reform that we had tax reform, it was 1986, and we werent even using the internet or email, much less this new gig economy where people can plug into uber or lyft or other types of businesses to do contract work from time to time as their schedule allows. Charles so does it help, is there any provision or thought put into this plan from either the senate or the house . Well, were encouraging both the senate and the house to include the new gig act as part of the amendments to be included so that it updates the code, makes sure these people are
Stretch of ash burn and hill road. They received the call last night. As a concern, Young Concern obviously im sure they were passengers. Reporter police are still investigating how the two atvs collided but said each one had a man and boy on board. The Fitchburg Deputy fire chief said a sevenyearold boy had a severe trauma injury and a sixyearold boy had a compound fracture to his leg. Police told tuesday sixyearolds father a 32yearold man lost his leg. They say he severed it on a snowplow attached to one of the atvs. Being on the roadways can be dangerous. These vehicles are capable of high speeds and things can happen. Reporter we spotted these warning signs in the woods along that road, stating no motorized vehicles allowed. According massachussetts law 8second can only be driven on designated trails an paths. Drives but we didnt find any for passengers. State law also requires everyone to follow safety guidelines. We did see one helmet at the crash site, but police are still worki
Strike twice cant strike twice, but the ipod was simple, i am told apple watch has up to 2 million settings i could just see my wife fiddleing with it. I know pa ruseing companys website confuses your preorders choices, there are three basic apple iwatch choices basic watch, available in 20 models, the watch sport in 10 models. Then the watch edition that is in 8 models. Keep in mind each of those models comes in dozens of configuration from color to glass casing to size, color and look of the band. I am sure apple will make it as easy as they can on customers. I am betting it will still be overwhelming for many of those customers, i suspect that is what had apple stock under pressure today or buy on rumor sell on reality thing. The thing is apple went long on this way away too long, remember what is at stake if apple did takes eye off real moneymaker, the iphone, just as waves of new android smartphones are about to hit the market, and price defying apple customers are those begining