but funny enough, i had a little conversation with john redwood before he came on air, and we were justare reforms. the only problem with them were that they were stalled by year. so redwood was saying there were lots of righties in the party who wanted them to be implemented immediately, and then they were pushed into 2025. so you haven't necessarily landed them because labour could now reverse them, couldn't they? >> so look , i was 18 months in >> so look, i was 18 months in post reform that is fundamental and affects millions of people and affects millions of people and their livelihoods, their big decisions. >> you have to consult on them quite properly. otherwise you get challenged in the courts and they get overturned. so you have to do things in the right way. but we proceeded at pace. now the office for budget responsibility, which is an independent body , assesses my independent body, assesses my reforms as meaning 400,000 fewer people going into those long term sickness and disability benefits than would otherwise be the case. and they've also scored with the treasury billion

and minister sirjohn redwood. sir johnte pleasure to talk to you. so the early shots have been fired. tom tugendhat, let's start with him having a severe dig at nigel farage for his reckless rhetoric. does he have a point? >> well, i think it would be better if the leadership candidates and the conservative party concentrated on what the government got wrong and why it was that so many people either went to vote reform or stayed at home, because i certainly found dunng home, because i certainly found during that election and the polls bore it out, that the tory vote roughly halved from 2019 to the latest election. and most of them didn't go off and vote labour or liberal. indeed labour's vote actually fell and the liberal vote stayed at a very low level. and suddenly from nowhere, reform got 14% and turnout fell about 10%. so we know that most of the disgruntled conservatives either voted reform or they stayed at home. so the leadership candidates should concentrate on why did that happen and if they stayed in the governme

now, john redwood, i know that you've said i stood down from parliament because i felt unable to defend government's record. but what do you make to this claim of the £22 billion black hole? >> well, you can get to 22 billion, particularly if you add in the 10 billion of big page pay in the 10 billion of big page pay awards that they've now made on their own account. but what they don't do is look at any of they don't do is look at any of the areas where there's huge amounts of waste and unnecessary losses. and i would say to this government, you say that you're about to do things you don't want to do. if you don't want to do them, don't do them. you're the government. cheer us up. stop mugging us. don't go in for this artificial austerity which we really don't need. we want a growth strategy. and i think your party has picked up one of the things i've been pointing out for 2 or 3 years, the bank of england is losing tens of billions of pounds needlessly. every year by refusing to take the sensible actions that the european central bank and the fed are taking in a similar position. and

and we discussed this with john redwood and others last night.ative government bringing in rules about non—doms we're seeing and we saw under a conservative government, young entrepreneurs, people in their 30 somethings leaving the country being tempted by tax deals in milan and lisbon and all over the place . yeah. why was the place. yeah. why was the conservative government doing that? >> so look , we tried to do >> so look, we tried to do a different path. the markets reacted badly . i different path. the markets reacted badly. i think we weren't steady enough. i think weren't steady enough. i think we panicked and essentially we threw dare. i used the expression the baby out with the bathwater. so instead of actually going down a pro tax cutting route, we ended up with the opposite. and the consequence of that is around we can see what's happening . we can can see what's happening. we can see that entrepreneurship is being discouraged effectively through higher taxes. younger people are going abroad. they're leaving . yeah, because they can l

but let's speak to the former conservative mp, sirjohn former conservative mp, sir john redwood on thisthis is a very generous pay offer, is it not? >> yeah, it looks like a good pay >> yeah, it looks like a good pay offer and i would imagine they would accept it. i have no problems with people earning good money, but i think what i do have a problem with is this deal when there are no productivity improvements, because this has got to be paid for. and the reason there have been strikes was the previous government and the previous management of the railways was saying there are improved working practices and improved flexibility so that we can run decent weekend services that we needin decent weekend services that we need in return for decent increase in your pay . and those increase in your pay. and those have all been swept off the table by the labour government, who have shown that the railway is effectively nationalised already and they and their officials are supervised and no productivity increase deal on a pretty generous basis . and so pretty generous basis. and so the railway i

all right, john, thank you for that. police redwood city looking for this man, they say assaulted 2 elderly people in separate incidents yesterday morning. >> between 07:38am, the first of saw was in the parking lot of a grocery outlet. broadway between walnut and maple streets. second happened at the front entrance of the sam, a tail superior court. here's another good look at him. coty short hair, 40 to 50 years old, 5, 7, 5, 8, he's believed to be on foot. pacific. a man accused of recording of self stabbing a woman to death and then live streaming on facebook committed to a mental hospital this week. comes after a judge ruled he was not mentally competent to stand trial for murder. 40 year-old mark stephens much you cough was arrested in july of last year after one of his facebook friends reported the live stream video to authorities. she called confessed to the murder in court. later said that confession was generated by ai. he said to receive mental health treatment in a state facility for maximum period 2 years. check this out.

john, your morning of the banana slugs. a love this fog that we have in the redwoods this morning. something that's pushed through. >> during our late afternoon and overnight hours last night and something we're seeing across a lot of the bay this morning, little bit of low grade. they're in the distance above san jose. although your skies are bright right above the santa clara valley itself. now we do have a few spots, the mist and drizzle near the coastline. elsewhere, though, you're just looking up at a greater morning and that's a cooler afternoon. sea breeze really ushered in by the slow passing us to the north and west as we make our way, especially that the tail end of the weekend and early next week, this low will skirt right by us without much of anything except for the return of the seabreeze. so no rainfall over the weekend, we will have a few is still drizzle at the coastline. kind of like you're seeing this morning. you will continue to see that as we move into tomorrow, too. this generous onshore breeze will bring some fog during morning hours. afternoons will be part

john, thanks for that. hey, still tracking this accident along southbound 101. and have a new redwood city in addition to the slow highways. also that this accident there. >> things have been very slow. go for us on this wednesday morning. 20 women right on the bay bridge. not seen any major accidents. a longer bridges drive times are going down just a on the 7 tail last hour that 40 minute. now we're down to. 25 still busy, though. one of the south, a 74 last check-in grid. 80 2, 80 82 at this time. that's the better route. it's a landed on a 2, 37, 60 minutes. all right. james, back to you. >> all right. time to talk winners and losers on wall street with financial expert rob black. joining us this morning as we're looking at wednesday, robin, what you see on the markets this morning. >> yeah, that's kind of like we're waiting to see what the fed has to say later in the day around 11:00am our time. will they cut interest rates in september? that's the 100%. if they don't, the market's going to go a little loco in the coco de mercy and target up 15%. they say theft is going down. the

mist and drizzle towards the coast and up in the redwoods monday, labor day itself looking good before we heat back up into next week, right? all right, john, thank you for that. let's get you moving out there. 25 it right on the bay bridge. if you are going to be. >> traveling into the city, taking the mateo bridge just short of 26 richmond center fell around 16 the golden gate bridge. 37 of the tolls. 36 minutes. let's talk about shake shack. oakland's only shake shack closed. now this is on telegraph avenue. the company citing underperformance is one of its reasons for shutting down southern california is also closing, citing the minimum wage price hike that went into fact earlier this year is a factor employees at those restaurants can be rehired. other shake shack locations. if employees do not want to transfer to another location, they could be eligible for pay for 60 days, close location to oakland now is in reveal at bay street. and a 90 year-old paulo out a woman's home was burglarized while she was asleep. police say the burglar hopped this all happened right near berrian park elementary school on tuesday night woman's daughter w

redwood city each at 60. now later on today, daytime highs will push near triple digits for a few spots. i'll let you know where your forecast rain. all right, john, thank you for that. he checked on the bay bridge right now. meteorites on 60 minute ride. >> traveling into the city, our seven-day average about 14 wire. it was summer fell 13 golden gate. 37, tolls, little fog. a 20 minute ride. >> it's 6.30, and the big story that we're following in the east bay, alameda county, there's a firefighter who is on paid leave right now because he used racial slurs in the aftermath of a crash from force to resist. osseo shows the heated exchange shows. >> posted it viral on tiktok >> in a tense confrontation. now the focus of a sweeping investigation involving an alameda county firefighter. firefighter was off-duty when he was recorded by the driver after an accident in lodi. the video posted on tiktok friday i i about but do not work drivers says several times that the firefighters spit on him. the fire fire can be heard hurling racial slurs and profanity at the driver attacking his ethnicity, his job, and he's driving on monday. incident has sparked u