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For many families, the pandemic has been a time of unprecedented challenges. the government added £20 a week to universal credit payments last march. it was a big increase, but it was temporary. and the uplift is due to come to an end in october. im anthony. im a father of two. i became redundantjust before the lockdown due to ill health. anthony says the end of the extra money will mean some tough choices. for us as a household, we are going to be left with the question of food versus fuel, or...

| Credit: Lance King/Getty Students at Duke University are required to stay in their dorms for the next week due to a "rapidly escalating" outbreak of COVID-19 on campus. In the last week, more than 180 students tested positive for COVID-19 and another 200 students are now quarantining due to possible exposure. The university opted to go into a "stay-in-place" order in the hopes ...

There was no shelter in place. we were inside the building. so they allowed us to stay, but they were preventing people from coming inside of the capitol. and thats what happens when its a code orange. we were just told 5, 10 minutes ago it had gone back to a code yellow and has since cleared. >> the headline there, the all clear at the capitol. all clear at the white house. this appears to have been a false alarm, but, again, we should feel comfortable knowing that they react very quickly to ai...

Hostile. most of the time in these incidents, they are small, private planes, civilian pilots who essentially get mixed up about where the restricted air space is. they may not have read the latest bulletins from the faa, and these small planes often just simply wander in, frankly, to restricted air space. even if they may be trying to test the boundaries of it, even if its maybe deliberate, they dont see hostile intent but thats exactly why the u.s. military scrambles aircraft and sends them up...

Here. obviously, as you said, abundance of caution. i know back during the ronald reagan funeral, there was an evacuation of the u.s. capitol. and another lockdown because of a plane flying into restricted airspace. if i remember, that was the governor of kentucky whose pilot had strayed too far into restricted air space. abundance of caution, and its looking pretty good here from the capitol. >> okay. there you have it. momentary, for minutes, concern at the white house but now that lockdown is...

Well probably learn that ultimately, it was roberts desire not to be seen as reflexively protecting the president. >> okay, ron brownstein, hold your thought. we have some breaking news out of washington just now. the white house, we learning, is on lockdown due to a security threat. possibly related to an aircraft in restricted air space. we have our joe johns inside the white house in the briefing room on the phone because the white house is on lockdown. actually, no, hes on camera. tell us wh...

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