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Supply chain issues and higher prices affect the holiday shopping season? cnn business correspondent alison kosik is outside macys in new york city. what are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: good morning, jessica. its feeling pretty festive this morning in harold square where macys is. the holiday lights are out, the windows are adorned with holiday displays and people are shopping at this historic department store. this will be a historic shopping period as well because we are paying the m...

It is black friday. but shoppers are facing supply chain issues, labor shortages and higher prices. so are they hitting the stores in person this year? cnn business correspondent alison kosik is outside macys in new york city. what are you seeing? >> reporter: it is feeling pretty festive already at macys in herald square. despite the fact that we are spending -- paying more for items than we have in almost 30 years, people are spending money. spending a lot. the national retail federation expec...

Get in touch using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions or email yourquestions@bbc. co. uk. the nhs in england is to receive almost £6 billion more in the budget on wednesday, in an effort to help clear the huge backlog of people waiting for tests, scans and non—urgent procedures. the extra £59 billion is part of plans to reduce the unprecedented number of people in england waiting for hospital treatment, which has been worsened by the pandemic. it will also be used for new equipment and to overhau...

Who broke the story. here in the uk, the government says it will spend just short of £6 billion in an attempt to clear the record nhs backlog of people waiting for treatment, tests and scans. more than five million people are waiting for hospital treatment in england. heres our medical editor fergus walsh. early diagnosis is a key part of improving health outcomes, but the pandemic has seen growing backlog of patients waiting for mri, ct, ultrasound other checks. at least 100 one—stop shop co...

Alternative is eliminating the filibuster, but it is something that joe manchin does not support. he told me yesterday, geoff, he is still working with his republican colleagues to come to some sort of agreement with the voting rights legislation, but it is not something that republicans support, jeff. >> all right. talk about infrastructure, and chuck schumer says that he is going to be moving on this two-track path to get it to work. >> so we will start with this next week and start with the b...

Republicans are outlining a bipartisan framework on infrastructure. the deal spends 959 billion taxpayer dollars. far less than president biden had wanted, and far less even more so than progressives say they are willing to accept. back with our panel to give a little more meat on the bone. as i said, overall, the cost is $959 billion new spending which is a key. $559 billion. and what were talking about is traditional infrastructure. were talking about roads. were talking about broadband intern...

A 787 billion supposed infrastructure bill and it was chalk full of waste, fraud and abuse. we got a lot of garbage out of it. to me as a conservative i want to starve the beast. i dont want more government. theyll try to pass as much money as they can. they are doing a stunning job of doing it. >> dana: republicans could agree more on what they define as actual infrastructure, roads, bridges, etc. a lot of other things in this bill. in the new proposal the biden team is willing to reduce the re...

Criticism that this wasnt a serious effort, saying that it was. they say this was made in kind showing that president biden is willing to move on the issue, but the open question is exactly how far. they said they got to this number, the reduced price, from $2.25 initially, now to $1.7 trillion, they got to that reduced price by making four major concessions. one removes manufacturing, research development and innovation elements. another lowers broadband investments from $100 billion to $65 bil...

To every single statement out there that was incorrect. >> all right. thank you. >> what i did -- >> i appreciate that, thank you. the president on monday said also -- who is this so-called whistle-blower? who knows the correct facts? is he on our countrys side? do you believe the whistle-blower is on our countrys side? >> i believe that the whistle-blower, and all employees who come forward to the icig to raise concerns of fraud, waste and abuse, are doing what they perceive to be the right thi...

So what i did is my loyalty is to my workforce. >> thank you. the president on monday said -- who is this so-called whistle-blower, who knows the correct facts? is he on our countrys side? do you believe the whistle-blower is on our countrys side? >> i believe that the whistle-blower and all employees who come forward to the icig to raise concerns of fraud, waste, and abuse are doing what they perceive to be the right thing. >> so working on behalf of our country. are you aware of the fact that ...