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Supply chain issues and higher prices affect the holiday shopping season? cnn business correspondent alison kosik is outside macy's in new york city. what are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: good morning, jessica. it's feeling pretty festive this morning in harold square where macy's is. the holiday lights are out, the windows are adorned with holiday displays and people are shopping at this historic department store. this will be a historic shopping period as well because we are paying the most in 30 years for so many items. but still, people are out here shopping. the retail federation...

It is black friday. but shoppers are facing supply chain issues, labor shortages and higher prices. so are they hitting the stores in person this year? cnn business correspondent alison kosik is outside macy's in new york city. what are you seeing? >> reporter: it is feeling pretty festive already at macy's in herald square. despite the fact that we are spending -- paying more for items than we have in almost 30 years, people are spending money. spending a lot. the national retail federation expects a holiday spending this year will actually break records with consumers shelling out anywhere f...

Get in touch using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions or email yourquestions@bbc. co. uk. the nhs in england is to receive almost £6 billion more in the budget on wednesday, in an effort to help clear the huge backlog of people waiting for tests, scans and non—urgent procedures. the extra £59 billion is part of plans to reduce the unprecedented number of people in england waiting for hospital treatment, which has been worsened by the pandemic. it will also be used for new equipment and to overhaul it systems. the money is on top of the £12 billion extra a year announced last month, which will ...

Who broke the story. here in the uk, the government says it will spend just short of £6 billion in an attempt to clear the record nhs backlog of people waiting for treatment, tests and scans. more than five million people are waiting for hospital treatment in england. here's our medical editor fergus walsh. early diagnosis is a key part of improving health outcomes, but the pandemic has seen growing backlog of patients waiting for mri, ct, ultrasound other checks. at least 100 one—stop shop community diagnostic centres are to be set up across england. which includes 44 already announced. th...

Alternative is eliminating the filibuster, but it is something that joe manchin does not support. he told me yesterday, geoff, he is still working with his republican colleagues to come to some sort of agreement with the voting rights legislation, but it is not something that republicans support, jeff. >> all right. talk about infrastructure, and chuck schumer says that he is going to be moving on this two-track path to get it to work. >> so we will start with this next week and start with the bipartisan $759 billion plan. but the republicans say they won't go along with this by voting on the ...