economy. in general, things cost more. i think the way people are really withstanding this economy depends on whether you own assets or not. so right now the average homeowner is worth $255,000 in terms of net worth while the average renter is worth 6, 500. a 40 times difference. while the cost are things are going up, a lot of homeowners are feeling good because they see the value of the assets go up. if people want another job they can get one. but if you re representing, you don t own a lot of stocks, it s a do you have time. the cost of everything is going up. neil: it s interesting, too, scott, if it s rattling the markets, so far it has a funny way of showing it. i know the markets were worried about omicron for a while, how far it was spreading. now the last three winning days we ve wiped out the losses we
the good news about that is that the preliminary data showed about an 89% protection from hospitalization or death have given within the first three days of symptoms. now that the complete full final data center is in is just as good if not better. that s really good news. it is holding off under larger numbers of people. they re going to be submitting that to the fda and hopefully we ll get action on that soon. it is has been a year to the day since vaccines first came out. but it is also well more than a year into this pandemic. and we were looking at the death toll and the first nine months of the pandemic from february from the first death on february 29th, 2020, to nine months later, 269,000 deaths, a little bit more. in the last nine months, very close to that, 255,000. and those are nine months in which the vaccine, highly
the giant vote count. you know, we have a lot more votes to count here. we already have 98,000 plus for the democrat. 34,000 but it s only 32%. again, go back in time. look at that 98. ralph northam got 255,000 votes in fairfax county, alone, four years ago and we believe turnout is higher tonight. in this race than it was four year oogss ago. so we have a lot more votes to count and republicans have been disappointed many times before in virginia as the map fills in this way and they build a lead, only to see 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m., the rest of the votes come in up here as they are counted. but but if you are the republican campaign, republicans have not won statewide since 2009. um so, if you are glenn youngkin, you are looking at some of your metrics and you think we re doing okay. that history, though, is what tells you don t rush to conclusions. we have a long way to go. punch up prince william county because i want to go to boris sanchez who is in manassas in prin
the big question right now for a lot of democrats is did democrats vote? did they turn out to vote? are they depressed because the democrats on capitol hill have not been able to get their legislation through because prices are high, because gas prices are through the roof, because of inflation, because they re disappointed, whatever, are they depressed? if we are estimated about 440,000 people voted in fairfax county this year, how many voted last year or in 2017? let s go back to the governor s race. that s a better comparison. if you look at 255,000 for the winner. we re not quite there. we expect turnout to be higher. we expect turnout to be higher across the state. the question is proportionately, is it much higher in some of the rural areas? i can show you a few of those in a minute. you re looking at 255,000 votes here for the winner. so more people did turn out this year in fairfax county than they did estimated. it s on track to. it is on track to have more and the quest
you re watching a bbc news special on the crisis affecting energy prices. special on the crisis government ministers say they have to prepare for the worst as the uk s energy firms continue to come under pressure from soaring gas prices. in the next half hour, we ll addressing key concerns and put your questions to the experts. but, first, how did we get here? in short, gas prices have soared. this shows their ups and downs between 2016 and 2020. but look at what s happened in the last year. it sjumped nearly four times 7 and it continues to rise. six suppliers have ceased trading since the start of september. the head of one of these firms has described the situation as almost apocalyptic and the future for other companies is looking bleak. among those to have gone out of business are avro energy with 580,000 customers, and green with 255,000 energy users, which ceased trading on wednesday. in total, 1.5 million