Law in the next few days, and people on flights to rwanda by early june. Ill bring you more shortly. Shortly. Okay. The first of four criminal trials against donald trump begins today in new york as he faces charges over hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels. And our debate at seven this morning with more than 11 million sick notes issued last yean million sick notes issued last year, well be discussing whether we need a crackdown. Whether we need a crackdown. And it is sport this morning in golf, Scottie Scheffler gets his second green jacket in five attempts as he wins the masters. Arsenal and liverpool get a little bit wobbly in the title race. And in germany, the first new champions that arent Bayern Munich for a very long time, its been a breezy and showery start to the morning, but there will be some sunshine on offer this afternoon. Join me later for the full forecast with all the details. And were all still talking about those drone attacks in israel on saturday
The independent is looking at the notting hill carnivals tribute to victims of g re nfell tower. A minutes silence was held at the festivals opening at the weekend, and will be observed again today at the grand finale. And finally, South China Morning Post reports the International Olympic committee would consider introducing esports to the games to attract a younger audience, but only if gore and violence is removed. So lets begin. With us is Lawrence Gosling editor in chief of investment week. Good morning to you. So, these floods in houston, i mean, utterly incredible scenes and you know, a terrifying situation for those caught up in it. Very much so, this is the kind of legacy of hurricane harvey, we get used to this time of year of having a hurricane with an alliterative name but these are mickey names, these are 27 inches of rain, as it has been reported has hit houston already, and perhaps the first Natural Disaster of this sort of crop residency, but he has two cope with trump.
Being forced to leave and leave right now. All of this as President Trump tours the devastation beginning in corporate us krity Vice President pence will head to texas later this week Contessa Brewer will get the latest on relief and recovery earnings there lets go to john kern an, pretty dramatic scenes in dickinson, a lot of water between here and houston, turned into a bayou. I wish i could say that was the end but apparently not after opening down triple digits, the dow is positive. And investors brushing aside fears about north koreas latest Missile Launch United Technologies and caterpillar and apple leading gains and financial and material stocks the biggest laggards right now. Lets get you caught up on the latest on harvey the storm setting a rainfall record for tropical cyclones in texas. The National Weather service just over 49 inches of rain has been observed at locations southeast of houston flash flood warnings remain in effect throughout houston, about 300,000 people by
The white house today saying it fully supports those investigations and press secretary Sarah Sanders declaring President Trumps been vindicated by his decision to fire, a if following revelation after revelation about the former at the eye directors conduct in the weeks and months leading up to his dismissal. I think theres no secret comey by his own self admission leaked privilege government information weeks before President Trump hired him to comey testified in fbi agent in engaged in the same he sets his own stage iv himself on that front that his actions were improper and widely considered illegal. The news york times or on alpha t. Politicize the investigation by signaling he would exonerate Hillary Clinton before he interviewed her are the key witnesses. Hes very happy with the decision he made and i think hes fully vindicated by a lot of those things and knowing it was the right one. Republicans in Congress Calling for answers to the chairman of the Senate Homeland security an
The white house today saying it fully supports those investigations and press secretary Sarah Sanders declaring President Trumps been vindicated by his decision to fire, a if following revelation after revelation about the former at the eye directors conduct in the weeks and months leading up to his dismissal. I think theres no secret comey by his own self admission leaked privilege government information weeks before President Trump hired him to comey testified in fbi agent in engaged in the same he sets his own stage iv himself on that front that his actions were improper and widely considered illegal. The news york times or on alpha t. Politicize the investigation by signaling he would exonerate Hillary Clinton before he interviewed her are the key witnesses. Hes very happy with the decision he made and i think hes fully vindicated by a lot of those things and knowing it was the right one. Republicans in Congress Calling for answers to the chairman of the Senate Homeland security an