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and good morning. it is going to be another very wet day across the west of scotland. elsewhere, dry, cloudy, breezy. i ll bring you all the details very shortly. and we have a winner the strictly glitterball trophy is in new hands after a fabulous finale. it s sunday, the 17th of december. our main story: after years of denials, the former conservative peer baroness mone has admitted that she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit made from ppe that was sold to the government during the pandemic. the company was led by her husband, doug barrowman. she says she did help broker the deal, but claims she has been made a scapegoat for the government s failings. our political correspondent laura kuenssberg has more. questions about the pandemic, profit and politics have followed baroness mone and her husband to southern europe. foryears, mone and her husband to southern europe. for years, they denied links to a firm that receives £200 million in taxpayer mo ....
investigation. also this morning, we are on the ground following a growing humanitarian crisis on the southern border. as the secretary of homeland security heads to the border in anticipation of a mass influx of migrants. border towns looking for answers, migrants looking for help. are you desperate? i m very desperate she tells us. i don t have anything to eat. we have people sleeping on our streets. this isn t sustainable. it s not normal. please help us, and enough with the politics of it. and new controversy with justice clarence thomas. first it was reporting about luxury trips and yachts and a real estate deal, and now propublica has new reporting about a billionaire gop donor paying private school tuition for a thomas relative. i ll talk to the reporter behind that story, how that donor is responding and the larger ethical questions it s raising. but we begin with the suspect in a georgia mass shooting in custody this morning as we learn more about the ....
kohrs, especially to nbc s blaine alexander, are the most amazing discussions i ve ever heard from a grand juror anywhere. yes, rudy giuliani superfan. who knew? i heard you during your discussion of it question whether lindsey graham or giuliani have something to fear in this grand jury. based on what we have found emily kohrs saying in her interviews today, i believe we have the answer to that which we are going to get to. we are going to cover a lot of what she had to say today and all of these things, because this is the biggest window we have ever had into a criminal investigation on donald trump. we ve never really had anything like this. and what an investigation it may end up being. i will watch that segment eagerly lawrence. thank you, alex. today, in georgia, nbc s blaine alexander conducted what is simply the most important interview about a criminal investigation of donald trump. we ve occasionally seen interviews with jurors after they have returned ....
across england and wales. still a degree of uncertainty how far that will extend northwards, but nevertheless the threat is there, and it could come down pretty heavily on sunday. the greatest risk is across the south, through out the weekend staying dry across northern parts of the uk. a reminder of our top story: disruption continues at airports across the uk, around 150 more flights have been cancelled today. that s all from the bbc news at six, so it s goodbye from me, hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. emotions run high as fans gather at hamden park as scotland take on ukraine with plenty at stake. iam i am alive where the sun is shining ahead of kick off between scotland and ukraine. and the end of an era for paul pogba, it s confirmed he ll leave manchester united on a free . we ll be assessing his time at old trafford. also coming up in the programme: can england get off on the front foot as they prepare for a new era at lord s tomorrow, a ....
Of senator warnock. it all touches us some type of way, if it s not our children, it s someone else s children. we re continually seeing these shootings taking place virtually every day, certainly every week in this country, and until there is some strong legislation, some change in laws, we re going to continue to see this, and so we don t need to tap dance around it any longer. we need to face it and do something about it, and american people are tired of this. but we all i mean, we can t give up. this is horrific. this just doesn t make sense in a civilized society. right, no. in a community, a society as sophisticated as this country. cedric alexander i really appreciate your perspective. thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. this morning outrage and protest in new york. a man died after a fellow subway rider put him in a chokehold following an altercation on a train. let s get right to nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk ....