ido i do geta i do get a lot of abuse. what do you normally do when you hang out together? this. we sit around, he abuses me. david baddiel will tell us about life with his father whose rare form of dementia makes him prone to extreme outbursts of swearing and sexual inappropriateness. really keen to hear your experiences of caring for a relative with dementia. hello. welcome to the programme. we re live until 11 this morning. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning. use the hashtag #victorialive. and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. council tax rises are planned by nearly all of england s local authorities in the coming year, but the organisation that represents them is warning that deep cuts to services will still be needed. the local government association says social care services for the elderly and disabled are at breaking point and will swallow up any extra money raised. here s our social af
how one man was rescued just hours from death. good morning everybody. i m randi kaye. we start this hour with a historic credit card settlement that could have you paying more out of your pocket. if you re just joining us, here s the deal. visa, mastercard and some of the country s biggest banks have agreed to a massive settlement with retailers that totals a whopping $7.25 billion. the lawsuit centers around credit card swipe fees. merchants allege credit card companies were fixing the price on those fees, but the proposed settlement now gives retailers the green light to tack on a surcharge if you use plastic, which could mean a bigger tab for you. and there s much more when you read the fine print. douglas canter, a lawyer for the national association for convenience stores has read all the fine print and joins us now from dc. doug, you have said it is not the retailers or the consumers, but actually visa, mastercard and their banks that win out in this one. why is that
morning. good morning, soledad, new video into cnn, homes entirely up in flames overnight in colorado, colorado springs. 32,000 people are on the run. the fire now roaring and unchecked and spread to 6200 acres and only 5% contained. the largest of the fires in that state is the high park fire, burning since june 9th. that fire has destroyed 257 homes, just epic fires in colorado. the only way back home by boat, debby now downgraded to a tropical depression, but still dumping a dangerous amount of rain over florida. 25 inches has come down in some areas around the coast. people are starting to come back to homes that are a total loss. the water was up this high. on the doors, everything inside the garage was floating. everything there was a walkway in the center and everything was stacked on the side. the water came up to crash down in on itself. the storm is expected to bring rains for another day as it heads to the atlantic. rob marciano has the latest on the storm.
summer games, right? so much fun. good morning, everyone. welcome to early, early early start. up first, debby doing more damage and dumping more rain than some full-blown hurricanes. the deadly storm now downgradeds to a tropical depression where is slashes across florida where a state of emergency is still in place. that storm is second to bring rains to florida for another day. george, i was reading this morning the folks here were really scared because the water came in so quickly. how are the conditions there now? well, you know, zoraida, good morning. we know the storm cloud have all passed here but again, these residents are dealing with a very difficult situation right now. just take a look. you see this home submerged for the most part in water. that s what you find in many of these low lying areas. it s hit or miss that more water that is covering these homes. in some places drivers are having to deal with six inches to a foot of water on the road. you see pol
for the nuts and bolts on this fias fiasco, it s the impact on the markets and your own investments. alison kosik joins us now. just what was this massive trading bet all about? before it went south? reporter: fredricka, what jpmorgan essentially did was made a big game am. they made risky bets and lost. the bets they made were to protect against possible losses on jpmorgan s other investments, but clearly they backfired and the bets produced losses of their own. how did this come out? it came out in a surprise conference call that ceo jamie diamond called for lamon called. shares are down almost 8% right now. shares of others are getting hit hard right now. wall veit is worried about other banks wondering, you know what, if jpmorgan can do this and it s considered the stronger of the banks or the strongest of the banks, what kind of bets are the other banks making especially, once again, that aren t as strong as jpmorgan? fredricka? so the ceo, jamie dimon, had quite the