New hour and youre pretty this morning detroit. Thats nice gorgeous. All right. Welcome back. Im isabel rosales, alongside victor blackwell, Allison Chinchar, an Andy Scholes. Here is what were watching for. You. Voters in several states will get the chance to start casting their ballots in the precedential race this week. As the candidates remained laserfocused on those key battleground is accusing three americans, including a purported Navy Seal of plotting to assassinate the countrys president. What we know about the allegations and the Investigation Hearings into the loss of the Titan Submersible Last year are set to kick off tomorrow. What investigators will be looking at to determine how the underwater expedition went so wrong . And what is left of Hurricane Francine is on the way out and potentially the next Name System just off the coast of the atlantic, well take a look at the forecast Coming Up and we had a big saturday of College Football paid and elides, nephew are just Run
around his month long eat out to help out scheme which ran in august 2020. diners received 50% off meals at restaurants on mondays, tuesdays and wednesdays with the government subsidising the bill. here s our health reporter, jim reid. mine too. that and the yakisoba, depends on the mood i m in. back in the summer of 2020, the then chancellor brought his flagship policy to the table. eat out to help 0ut subsidised midweek meals in pubs and restaurants. it proved popular at the time. but critics say it fuelled a rise in infections. did you ignore the advice over cobit? did you ignore the advice over covid? earlier witnesses, scientists and ministers have said they were not consulted in advance about that eat 0ut consulted in advance about that eat out to help 0ut scheme. he was asked to respond. why would i raise it as a risk when i didn t believe it was because it was designed in a context of a safe reopening? the onus is surely on the people who now believed it was a r
prime minister rishi sunak has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry here in london today. critics suggest that his eat out to help out the policy under which the government subsidised meals led to an increase in infections. early evidence at the inquiry suggested that health officials hadn t been consulted about that because the milk scheme, but rishi insisted milk scheme, but rishiinsisted insisted that the chief scientific and medical advisers did not object when the scheme was announced. rishi and a chance at the time back in 2020 claim his actions had protected millions ofjobs hospitality sector. my primary concern was protecting millions ofjobs of particularly vulnerable people who worked in this industry. all the data, all the evidence, all the polling, all the input from those companies suggested that unless we did something, many of those jobs would have been at risk with devastating consequences for those people and their families. and that s my independent thin