so it wants a pay rise of 5% over inflation, which would work out now as a 17% increase. but in england and wales, nhs staff have been offered an uplift of a.75%. in scotland there s been an increase ofjust over £2,200. there s been no pay award in northern ireland because there s no functioning government. the results of the ballot aren t out yet, but the mood music is pretty clear. nurses are expected to have voted to walk out, so last minute plans are being drawn up here at the headquarters for the royal college of nursing. and there are plenty of big questions to ask, like, when will this happen? probably this side of christmas. and will it be one day of action or spread out over several weeks? right now, we just don t know. a vote to strike doesn t mean every nurse will automatically take part. it s better to think of this as a series of mini ballots across local services. it s possible trusts in some parts
the results of the ballot aren t out yet, but the mood music is pretty clear. nurses are expected to have voted to walk out, so last minute plans are being drawn up here at the headquarters for the royal college of nursing. and there are plenty of big questions to ask, like, when will this happen? probably this side of christmas. and will it be one day of action or spread out over several weeks? right now, we just don t know. a vote to strike doesn t mean every nurse will automatically take part. it s better to think of this as a series of mini ballots across local services. it s possible trusts in some parts of the country won t have enough votes for action. the government says it values nurses and has given more than a million nhs staff a pay rise of at least £1,a00 this year, as well as a 3% increase last year. it s urging them to carefully consider the potential impact on patients, which worries some nurses like ian. he spoke to the bbc earlier this week.
republicans in the senate. let s have a look at the house of representatives. the magic number here is 280. when we came into these elections, the republicans were about five seats short of that and that s what they were aiming for and expectation is the party not in power doesn t have the. they will pick up 20 or 30 seats but they haven t done that yet. this hasn t been a huge wave of red ticking over, but they have picked up some seeds. let s take a look at some positive news for republicans and es go to florida to try and do that. florida, a big, big republican success story overnight and we can see that, lots of red, but crucially, this we have to look at. these red and black stripes here, these three districts because these are the areas that are nearly in republican control. that is what they have needed and they needed to
republicans appeared to think they have the advantage on the economy. that is just the party who is out of power because the party is out of power doesn t have the white house will typically run against the status quo and right now a big part of the status quo is inflation. people don t like it. according to the latest tracking poll, the economy is the number one issue people like to hear candidates talk about, ahead of abortion and economy is number one issue, they re and one party has incentive to make it better, then that parties the one that has the presidency, the democrats. the other side, republicans have an explicit incentive to make the economy worse. and i will tell you, having covered the key party caucus among 2011 and, one looks the key financial crisis, i feel confident in predicting that if republicans win control of the senate or the congress they will do everything in the power to sabotage the economy, to
tournament in ohio on the hook for cheating. we got [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. what they just said, we ve got weights in the fish. martin savidge is joining us now. why are weights in a fish? that is a show began that will go down this in-familiar any. you ve heard about the one that got away and you will hear the story of the two that almost got away with it, as in two fishermen. having grown up in lake erie, i know how seriously they take their walleye fishing. what makes this scandal particularly shocking, the two anglers here are almost legendary in the walleye fishing world. they have won a lot of tournaments. which now this opens up a whole new can of worms. the idea is that teams working in pairs go out and catch fish. they bring back the top five walleye that they collected and