we begin with the turmoil on financial markets today, the pound sterling continues to languish against the us dollar and several other currencies. the slide in its value was triggered by last week s mini budget, with its controversial package of tax cuts. let s get historical for a moment. we have records for sterling against the dollar going back through history, and in the early hours of monday morning it reached an all time low that is since the creation of the us currency in 1792. let s take a closer look at the past few days the dollar has been strong but this further drop down is about sterling weakness, with a bit of a recovery and then falling back again. you can see this dramatic few days, sterling weakness with a little bit of recovery before it fell back again. on friday and monday there were massive moves within a day, which for a currency like sterling is rare. and one of the impacts of a low pound means that we import inflation, oil and gas is more expensi
massacre. i saw more tears this week than i ever want to see ever again. my first guest tonight is the uvalde justice who was inside the crime scene and identified the victims. our first year of the night. how are you holding up? it s been tough, ups and downs from the time it happened to that evening, yesterday morning but it then tough. have been involved in the work of trying to get the paperwork to the medical examiner s office coordinating with funeral homes to ensure the bodies are released back to the funeral homes and brought back to the families here in uvalde, it s a full-time job and kept me busy so it s kept my mind off the reality of what happened to our town. for those who don t know, what is your job entailed? will have a medical examiner, we are the corner so in most cases we handle deaths that are called unattended that s, from people not admitted into the hospital, people not admitting into a nursing home or hospice so anybody who dies outside of tho
massacre. i saw more tears this week than i ever want to see ever again. my first guest tonight is the uvalde justice who was inside the crime scene and identified the victims. our first year of the night. how are you holding up? it s been tough, ups and downs from the time it happened to that evening, yesterday morning but it then tough. have been involved in the work of trying to get the paperwork to the medical examiner s office coordinating with funeral homes to ensure the bodies are released back to the funeral homes and brought back to the families here in uvalde, it s a full-time job and kept me busy so it s kept my mind off the reality of what happened to our town. for those who don t know, what is your job entailed? will have a medical examiner, we are the corner so in most cases we handle deaths that are called unattended that s, from people not admitted into the hospital, people not admitting into a nursing home or hospice so anybody who dies outside of tho
massacre. i saw more tears this week than i ever want to see ever again. my first guest tonight is the uvalde justice who was inside the crime scene and identified the victims. our first year of the night. how are you holding up? it s been tough, ups and downs from the time it happened to that evening, yesterday morning but it then tough. have been involved in the work of trying to get the paperwork to the medical examiner s office coordinating with funeral homes to ensure the bodies are released back to the funeral homes and brought back to the families here in uvalde, it s a full-time job and kept me busy so it s kept my mind off the reality of what happened to our town. for those who don t know, what is your job entailed? will have a medical examiner, we are the corner so in most cases we handle deaths that are called unattended that s, from people not admitted into the hospital, people not admitting into a nursing home or hospice so anybody who dies outside of tho
u.s. policy. basically diplomatic chaos this afternoon. ending with paper statement from the white house in an attempt at clarifying from the defense secretary. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president starts us off tonight tuesday morning from tokyo. good morning, peter. peter: good morning, bret. president biden spent months explaining the u.s. was never going to fight russia in ukraine. he was very clear about that. and when it comes to fighting china in taiwan, he was very clear about that, too. he just wasn t on the same page as his staff. the future of the 21st century economy is going to be largely written in indo-pacific. the president planned to talk about confronting china economically but wound up talking about confronting china on the battlefield. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. but what the president says the u.s. would help t