from national grid, put it into context, what does it mean7m from national grid, put it into context,g in response to very high demand on the system and a few issues with infrastructure that brings gas into the uk. we seen the cold weather pushing gas demand one third higher than it was last week and the highest it has been for 45 yea rs. and the highest it has been for 45 years. with problems bringing gas in from norway or mainland europe, which has led to the system to be a little bit short. national grid issued a notice to the market asking if anybody had the ability to either increase how much gas they were pushing into the system to alleviate supply or to turn down how much they are using to balance the system. what has been the response to that? it seems to have worked well, when they first issued the notice around 6am, there was panic stations but by mid—afternoon the system had balance again and now we're sort of seeing the after effects. the lag being dealt with rather than any immediate shortfall. presumably given the weather this will be an issue for the next few days. unti

there was also a warning from the national grid that there may not be enough gas to meet demand. we'll be investigating the impact of that on industry and domestic users and whether such a shortage could have been avoided, but first, it was a day of drama. these are the temperatures that you may well see on your thermometer, but if you step out in the wind, it is really going to feel cold. —13 in birmingham. that is not to be sneezed at. i've just been speaking to chris evans, he says his hair froze in the few minutes it took him to go outside and then come back in. we've got amber weather warnings into south wales and the south—west, but we have a red, top tier, that means take action, the weather could turn really quite disruptive as we go through the evening. rock music plays a lot of snow piling up, some spots seeing 15—20 centimetres, maybe a0 or 50 over the higher ground here. some of that snow then fringing into parts of northern ireland. as we go through the night, we keep the snow showers across northern and eastern scotland. rock music plays well, police across the coun

and there's a warning from the national grid that there may not be enough gas to meet demand today.ndustrial users are asked to cut back. we'll bring you all, the latest weather developments. also coming up... the head of the european council, donald tusk, has warned that if britain leaves the single market and customs union, trade restrictions with the european union will be inevitable. i will be asking in london if anyone has a better idea for preventing a hard border between ireland and northern ireland. matt hancox says the government is formally closing bill everson inquiry into the media. good morning. it's thursday 1st march. i'm annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. as the country faces another day of weather disruption the met office has issued another red ‘danger to life‘ warning for snow to come in to effect at three o'clock this afternoon. the latest warning covers an area stretching from south west england to south wales with heavy snow and blizzard conditions expected together with strong winds leading to severe drifting. overnight hundreds of motorists were st

and the fact the national grid has issued a warning today, what does it mean for the long—term?ms in general are under strain. we want to go green and use less coal and gas is green and we want to use more renewa bles is green and we want to use more renewables because that is cleaner still so the long—term direction of travel is to use less fossil fuel. traditionally where the flexibility came from in the energy system was from the fossil fuels that can read up from the fossil fuels that can read up and down easily the challenge is to keep the energy system seeing other without the prices going haywire as we decarbonise. that is the challenge for the government and the challenge for the government and the national grid. interesting that you think it will put pressure on the government and businesses to look at more renewable resources ? yes, and also more flexibility. usually these price hikes are because of a physical reason behind it so if you can invest in technologies and part of that is just intelligence, knowing what is going on and being able to respond quickly, energy f

it reports that the national grid is on alert.has more on theresa may putting pressure on moscow with a possible travel ban for 1,000 russian tycoons. the sunday telegraph leads on the same story as well as a photograph of a smiling duke and duchess of cambridge at a st patrick's day parade of the irish guards. and the sunday mirror leads on the sex abuse scandal in telford, quoting a police insider who says it was too much trouble to crack down on grooming gangs. let's good to those newspapers. bonnie, would you start us off? the sunday express headline, nee stands up sunday express headline, nee stands up to putin, several examples. she made a pretty good speech in the house of commons the other day, it was pretty strong and impressive for a lot of people because she has been caught up in brexit. this was really good. she has expelled 23 diplomats. the russians have expelled 23. she is battling oligarchs and looking into the travel and so forth. what is interesting to me, i did not look at the speech completely she gave to the p

it reports that the national grid is on alert.ess has more on theresa may putting pressure on moscow with a possible travel ban for 1,000 russian tycoons. the sunday telegraph leads on the same story, as well as a photograph of a smiling duke and duchess of cambridge at a st patrick's day parade of the irish guards. and the sunday mirror leads on the sex abuse scandal in telford, quoting a police insider who says it was "too much trouble" to crack down on grooming gangs. let's start. a nice headline here, the pm's ward on vladimir putin's ‘mcmafia' million, cracking down on dirty money. i'm unsure where ‘mcmafia' starts and ends and where russian oligarchs who just happen to have a lot of money starts on end. that is one of the issues. we have had a lot of russian money in the system for a long time. it is propped up quite a few things. in some bits of the party as well. i think is the public clamour to find out who is here, who actually is in the country, how are they in the country? one thing is important to stress, this isn't a

the national grid have warned that there isa national grid have warned that there is a possible supply the uk. it is children forcibly sent abroad in the 19a05 and abused should be given financial compensation, so says an inquiry report. in sport, scottish rugby say they are appalled to hear that eddie jones was physically and verbally abused after their win over england. the england head coach was confronted by a group of men outside a train station in manchester after posing for a picture. there was another incident on his journey to london. he says he will never use public transport again. arsenal are taking on manchester city tonight with arsene wenger in the firing line again, four days after their league cup defeat at wembley. and ronnie 0‘sullivan reaches the fourth round of the welsh open snooker. grace only managed to score four points against him in the whole match. i will be back with more on those stories later. see you then. lets get more on the extreme weather affecting large parts of the country, as storm emma starts to belt. —— bite. robert hall is next to the m3 in win

it reports that the national grid is on alert.essure on moscow — with a possible travel ban for 1,000 russian tycoons. the sunday telegraph leads on the same story — as well as a photograph of a smiling duke and duchess of cambridge at a st patrick's day parade of the irish guards. and the sunday mirror leads on the sex abuse scandal in telford, quoting a police insider who says it was ‘too much trouble' to crack down on grooming gangs. the mail on sunday lead on mcmafia millions. is this the new stage targeting the money? it seems to be. it does seem to be a sensible thing to do when you think about that their lots of russian oligarchs in their lots of russian oligarchs in the uk using the uk as a means of laundering some money acquired. if there are assets in their right to be in the uk is copper mines, then they will be irritated with putin for precipitating the situation. theresa may making it easier to seize these... ways to curb that. these are all, i think, the right approach, but it is interesting, because this is exactly

that includes national grid going to heavy users and asking them to use less.e it will bring things back into kilter. domestic use is not affected but industrial users are affected. it is a test of the measures put in place to try and equalise supply and demand. of course, it will raise questions about long—term investment in britain's gas supplies. we'll have more on the big freeze and a full weather forecast at the end of the programme. and you can keep up to date with the weather and travel situation wherever you are, by visiting the bbc news live page, that's at bbc.co.uk/news you can also get live updates on the bbc news channel and your local radio station. the time is 30 minutes past one. our top story this lunchtime. travel misery as a foot of snow falls in some parts of the uk. hundreds stranded on the m 80 in scotland. and the new coach of england's women's football team phil neville has his first competitive match this evening. coming up in sport, world heavyweight champion deontay wilder says the sport has a huge problem with doping head of a world

it's basically the national grid vein, we're not sure there is enough gas in the system to meet thatn your cooker or central heating and it's not going to work? no. it's the first early warning shot of a number of measures. but they can then take to bring the supply and demand back into balance. it includes for example asking heavy users to use less. in fact, a big chemicals company has been asked by national grid and they've agreed to dial down their usage by 20%. lets turn to india where this magazine cover has split public opinion. the headline reads ‘moms tell kerala— don't stare, we want to breastfeed.‘ now there are two issues here — both breastfeeding in public and the two people in the photo. the magazine used a model, not a mother — on the cover. inside, though, the baby's real mother is pictured breastfeeding her child — next to the model. this is how it's seen in india blogger anjana nayar "that point at which you decided to push a real mother actually breastfeeding her child into the inner pages and portray a model holding a baby to her bare breast on your cover is where

starting with the express, which carries the warning from the national grid over gas supplies as stormter is on the front of the telegraph while the i reports that britain is encountering the coldest temperatures for 27 years. the metro has a satellite images from nasa apparently showing the snow that swept across the uk today on its front page, and sticking with the severe weather, the sun dubs the arrival of storm emma as emma—geddon. while the times warns that worse could follow — with the environment agency issuing six flood warnings. concerns over russia's nuclear weapon capability leads the ft — following the russian president's annual state of the nation address earlier today, and the mirror tell their readers that a man who lost both his arms in a bomb attack in iraq 15 years, and who the mirror brought to the uk, has become a father. so the weather leads the majority of the front pages tomorrow — with more to come over the next few days. the's dip into those with both of you, you will have to become weather experts. rachel, take us to the telegraph, winter in control. it is ca

there economy of puerto rico why it is so bad it has to do partly with the national the state owned electric grid but back in the sixty's and seventy's the u.s. introduced tax incentives to get manufacturers to move here and in the south of the island the other side of the island all these big manufacturers came a lot of pharmaceutical companies still to this day ten percent of all pharmaceuticals consumed in the united states are actually produced here in puerto rico but as a consequence all of the electric power plants and most of them all the big ones the ten biggest ones are all oil in the south of the island which is way at bats the direction we are on the top of the north of the island so all of the cables and you know how the u.s. does unlike much of europe which is the cables are underground here they're over ground so all of the cables were knocked down in the hurricane maria and because it's also a jungle it's going over the hills all those cables are going over through jungles the vines although you know you think of a jungle it's all sort of a canopy of green it's all growing over all

the national grid says the country could run out of gas today. freezing temperatures mean there's not enough to meet demand. we'll find out what that might mean. and we'll bring you all the latest on the disruption across the roads, railways and airports around the country. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday with me, will perry. coming up for you this evening... appalled and disgusted — that's the reaction from scottish rugby after hearing that eddiejones was verbally and physically abused followng their six nations match. the talking is over — tonight, phil neville takes charge of england's women for the first time. day one of the world indoor athletics in birmingham. can laura muir win gold for britain? and we catch up with england's record wicket taker, jimmy anderson, who fears for the future of test cricket. the england rugby union head coach, eddiejones, says he'll no longer use public transport after being physically and verbally abused on his way back from the calcutta cup

the national grid says the country could run out of gas today.hat might mean.

the economy of puerto rico why it is so bad it has to do partly with the national the state owned electric grid but back in the sixty's and seventy's the u.s. introduced tax incentives to get manufacturers to move here and in the south of the island the other side of the island all these big manufacturers came a lot of pharmaceutical companies still to this day ten percent of all pharmaceuticals consumed in the united states are actually produced here in puerto rico but as a consequence all of the electric power plants and most of them all the big ones the ten biggest ones are all oil run they're all in the south of the island which is the way it that's the direction we are on the top of the north of the island so all of the cables and you know how the u.s. does unlike much of europe which is the cables are underground here they're over ground so all of the cables were knocked down in the hurricane maria and because it's also a jungle it's going over the hills all those cables are going over through jungles vines although you know you think of a jungle it's all sort of a canopy of green it's al

the economy of puerto rico why it is so bad it has to do partly with the national the state owned electric grid but back in the sixty's and seventy's the u.s. introduced tax incentives to get manufacturers to move here and in the south of the island the other side of the island all these big manufacturers came a lot of pharmaceutical companies still to this day ten percent of all pharmaceuticals consumed in the united states are actually produced here in puerto rico but as a consequence all of the electric power plants and most of them all the big ones the ten biggest ones are all oil run they're all in the south of the island which is the way it that's the direction we are on the top of the north of the island so all of the cables and you know have the u.s. doesn't like much of europe which is the cables are underground here they're over ground so all of the cables were knocked down in the hurricane maria and because it's also a jungle it's going over the hills all those cables are going over through jungles the vines although you know you think of a jungle it's all sort of a canopy of green i

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house because many people are still without power and there there is a new movement to use the national utility grid now as a backup and for the future because there will be bigger and bigger hurricanes and this was the biggest hurricane to hit since the one thousand nine hundred twenty s. early one nine hundred thirty s. that that you should take care of yourself essentially they should have your own energy sovereignty we need some micro grids we need a mesh sort of network so that you are never reliant on a centralized grid again yes a quick question that will go to the brick the energy needs that you're talking about there the way that they're geographically spread out it sounds like a her kilian task to bridge that gap there's tremendous entrepreneurial energy now on the island in new movie. you stacey is the wave of outsiders coming in and now are they maybe thinking a little bit with rose colored glasses in terms of what's possible given the immense infrastructure needs on the island or what you think well there are some outsiders coming in and yes they have fantasies so many of them have a lo

outline what he believes will bring the russians down as they try to infiltrate our entire national energy grid. we're less than an hour to the closing bell. dow is up 113 on this friday. let's start the "countdown." right now, the dow and the s&p 500 charging higher in the final hour of trade this week as fears of that trade war with china. they may be subsiding but could boil up as quickly as the snap of a finger if the president makes an announcement that we expect to come soon. we'll tell you when that is coming up. the s&p 500, up 7 points, it has earlier today been struggling to stay in positive territory, but if it does, the s&p will snap a four-day losing streak that would be longest losing streak in three months. one thing traders are watching right now, what do you call it? bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, quadruple witching day. what does that mean? the day where you see the expiration date for stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures. you see a little volatility depending on the day, today is the day, we're not seeing too much volatility, lea

vast finance, big loan, government contract, corruption involved, big national grid being built, big power stations being go that either don't work, don't happen and is crab money. it is possible to use small installations that can provide solutions at a much lower cost and a more local level. it is more difficult for the corrupt to get their hands on those things and so we should be looking at those and that goes to the point i was making about working with small and medium enterprises and the private sector and looking at equity rather than just loans and recognizing some of these things can be done small-scale rather than very big scale. >> to go back and forth, how do we address the cause and not just the symptoms. my really talking about the cause of the symptoms and how do we. >> i think one of the issues is that the people who been addressing this, and trying to address this, i think there's been a surge for the single cause of fragility and i think the trouble is were not going to find it. they're all interrelated. you have a lack of security and so you don't have a proper ma

the national grid being built, big power stations being built. and then they either don't work, don't happen, and are a siphon for corrupt money. now, it is possible to use smaller installations that can provide solutions at a much lower cost and a local level. it is more difficult for the corrupt to get their hands on those things. so, we should be looking at those. and that goes to the point that i was making about working with the small to medium-sized enterprises whether it is the private sector, looking at equity instead of just loans, and recognizing that these things can be done on smaller scales.>> you know, the back and forth -- how do we address the cause of the fragility and not just the symptoms? am i really talking about the cause, or the symptoms, and how do we -- >> well, i think that one of the issues is that, the people who have been addressing this, and trying to address this -- i think there has been this search for a single cause of fragility, and i think that we are not going to find it. they are all interrelated. you have a

vast finance, big loan, government contract and a lot of corruption involved in it and the big national grid being that either don't work, don't happen and masses of siphoning on corrupt money and now it's possible to use small, solar installations that provide solutions at a much lower cost and at a more local level. it's more difficult for the corrupt to get their hands on those things and so we should be looking at those and that goes to the point i was making about working with small and medium-size enterprises the private sector and recognizing some of the things can be done on a small scale, rather than a large scale, just to your point, sir. >> how do we address the cause of the fragility and not just the symptoms of the fragility? and am i really talking about the cause or the symptoms and how do we -- >> i think one of the issues is the people who have been addressing this and trying to address this, i think there's been this sort of search for the single cause of fragility, and i think the trouble is we're not going to find it. they're all interrelated and they have a lack of secur

house because many people are still without power and there there is a new movement to use the national utility grid now as a backup and for the future because there will be bigger and bigger hurricanes and this was the biggest hurricane to hit since one thousand nine hundred twenty s. early one nine hundred thirty s. that that you should take care of yourself essentially they should have your own energy sovereignty we need some micro grids we need a mesh sort of network so that you are never reliant on a centralized grid again it's a quick question that will go to break the energy needs that you're talking about there the way that they're geographically spread out it sounds like a her kilian task to bridge that gap there's tremendous entrepreneurial energy now on the island in new movie. you stacey is the the wave of outsiders coming in to the island now are they maybe thinking a little bit with rose colored glasses in terms of what's possible given the immense infrastructure needs on the island or what you think well there are some outsiders coming in and yes they have fantasies and many of them h

vladimir putin, after what he has done, nerve agent attack in britain and now penetrating our national grid that's a serious thing, i say be more aggressive, what say you? >> i agree with general varney. [laughter] >> i thought you were spot on. wars started with shots fired in the past, now you have local grids and even ukraine, i hate to say it this way, we live in softer time where we are not willing to throw the way we would for changes that should and ought to be seen as acts of war. stuart: this president is. i take nothing off the table. he is prepared to throw it down with north korea. >> look at north korea, you're absolutely right. look at what's happened with syria, isis, iran and russia have thrown down there, but we don't have as much strategic interest in that region as they do. we have to pick our place where is we can truly smack them and show them they have to be kept in line and do so forcefully. i agree with your statement. stuart: i think you might do well running the veterans administration. >> you to fire some people every once in a while. [laughter] stuart: we are gla

. >>> coming up next, russia targeted by the trump administration over cyberattacks on our nation's power gridnext. david: russia retaliating against the united kingdom, expelling british diplomats after prime minister teresa may announced her decision to kick russian diplomats out of the united kingdom. following the nerve gas attack on the ex-russian spy and his daughter. joining me now, retired four-star general jack keane, now a fox business military. generageneral, the poisoning ofs couple, it harkened back to the poisoning of kim jong-un's brother in malaysia. apparently that was also a nerve gas that killed that brother of kim. it brings to mind a question of the connection between russia and north korea. is there an axis there and might there nerve gas have been from the same source? >> well, it's certainly possible. russia and north korea absolutely have a political alliance. and russia has stated openly that they're not going to let north korea collapse economically due to the sanctions, thasanctions that rud to in terms of the resolution. they've been back-dooring commodities in nor

. >> his concern that they're going to hack the nation's power grid.ectrical, the water system as well. you're the cheryl of the homeland security committee. have they done it? >> they already have. the fingerprints in our system, the critical infrastructures, currently. we know they have capability of doing it. china does tooflt china still has security clearances. this is all going on in cyberspace and it is something my committee has been very vocal about. >> is the president personally, i know some of his cabinet members are involved but is the president personally speaking out enough about it? you rarely if ever hear him say a critical word about putin. >> i think he finally has acknowledge that had they meddled in our elections. >> barely. >> when you look at it, the secretary, they've all come out. >> they have. but the president doesn'test never says anything even remotely critical of putin. >> he congratulated him. >> i think he would be well vised to condemn and criticize. >> would you want him to speak out. >> i would. are you confident that

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. >> tucker: i remember when the russians hacked the national power grid. do you think it might help oh but they didn't, of course. you think it might help the rest of us watching us what you seeing is political advocacy? what you're watching is one side waging partisan battle against the other? >> yeah. but you know, it's strikingly effective. your previous guest, she didn't want to let go of the narrative that is out there that russia had an important effect on the election. the evidence as you pointed out is extremely light at best. you know, anything that russia did to the tune of a million dollars a month is dwarfed by the rest of the spending and the other things that influenced the outcome of the elections. it's something that is held on to for dear life. it's the story of coverage. it's enraged that people that see things more clearly than that but on and on it goes. you see it in the character assassination of devin nunes who puts up with unbelievable assaults on him. they continue to this day that he's the guy at fault where on the democratic side

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is blaming russia for cyber attacks on the nation's power grid. russia tried to penetrate the u.s.y grid leaving tracks to show their hackers had the ability to shut down the grid but didn't go that far. here is jim sciutto. >> reporter: vital u.s. infrastructure, including the power grid under cyber threat by russian government hackers, potentially giving the kremlin the ability to turn off the lights. the department of homeland security and the fbi detailing a two-year multistage effort by mow c moscow targeting the u.s. energy grid. they planted malware that allowed them to move into larger networks. once inside the energy suppliers, they collected information on the facilities control systems, attempting to gain the ability to turn those systems off. >> they're positioning malware so they could pull the trigger when they wanted to. but they're also sending the united states a message. we are in position to cause harm if we wanted to do it. so you, the u.s., should be a little more careful. >> the russians targeted other crucial segments as well, including water, manufacturing a

and there's a warning from the national grid that there may not be enough gas to meet demand today.

. >> tucker: i remember when the russians hacked the national powerth grid.opo you think it might help -- but they didn't, of course. do you think it will help the rest of us getting agitated to remind ourselves it's political advocacy. no expectation of objectivity or news. what you are watching is one side waging partisan battle against the other. >> strikingly effective. your previous guests, she really didn't want to let go of the narrative that is out there that russia had an important effect on the election. the evidence, as you point out, it's extremely light at best. anything that russia did to the tune of $1 million a month is dwarfed by the rest of the spending and the other things that influenced the election. it is something that's held onto for dear life. i think it's distorted coverage. i think it has enraged the people who see things more clearly than that. on and on it goes.oe you see it particularly in the character assassination of devin nunes, chairman of the house intelligence committee, whose had to put up with unlivable assault on him. t

he also called the nation's electrical grid and mass transit systems a "total mess." look, we see the markets jumping 387 points for the dow but let us dig down into infrastructure stocks, put them on the screens, steel stocks are moving higher across-the-board, anywhere from four to near 6% to the upside, everybody from u.s. steel, ak steel, kbr, jacobs engineering and then if you look at materials everybody from the concrete makers to the suppliers , you've got u.s. concrete jumping 2 and 2/3% , everybody looks pretty darn healthy granite construction up 5% but then you broaden the aperture to the markets in general racing the session highs on this last day, last week and last month of the first quarter and we could look at the dow jones industrial overall it's a nice picture s&p 500 is also moving to the upside by a good 44 points, and then the nasdac, we've got it up 150 points. remember, two days ago, we were down 200 points, and then we were up and then we were down. right now we're up two full percentage points 100 points above the 7,000 mark for the tech-heavy

nation. our power grids, our nuclear. it is one more thing on top of all this other stuff. >> let me wrap up this stormy daniels issue. if there were, the lawyer says there were allegations made while donald trump was serving as president of the united states, against stormy daniels' threats. we don't know what they are. he's not suggesting what the threats are. this raises further questions, what if anything should be gun that? >> certainly it is the subject of investigation. first, let's get the facts. it is an issue for the district attorney, probably this los angeles if that's where it took place. if there is something here, yes, there ought to be an investigation. do not count on the house of representatives to do their job. they have completely abandoned the people of manager by not continuing the investigation into what this president did. what his team can and what is throughout with regard to putin, trump and russia. >> you're talking about the intelligence committee. are you saying all republicans in the house o

he also called the nation's electrical grid and mass transit systems a "total mess." look, we see the markets jumping 387 points for the dow but let us dig down into infrastructure stocks, put them on the screens, steel stocks

this week we heard a lot about foreign nations attacking our grid. we have the possibility of a foreign nation that has attacked or colorado department of transportation, the virus shutting down 2,000 -- are you confident that the department budget request ensuring our electric grid remaining secure, is there something that we can do to mistake sure our infrastructure has cyber security and the tools. i am out of time. >> thank you. >> recognizing again the secretary's time schedule. we have four more colleagues and we'll try to get through quickly. >> thank you, madame chair. mr. secretary, good to see you. a little bit of northwest business, i told the bush administration, george w. bush, his folks that -- it is not going to get sold off in my watch and it is not going to get sold off either. >> yes, sir. >> we are concerned of eliminating the national technology lab in albany which i think is doing singularly good work. i was in albany, oregon a couple of days ago and i heard it again. i want to ask you about hampford, the project director for the

national lab system. switching now real quick to grid cybersecurity issues, the office of electricity reliability has bled enough for in the nation with the last to talk about the technical challenges of grid modernization. in many cases, these assets we work with are privately owned and don't have the resources for research and development in d.o.e. has provided a lot of support in that research, deployment of technology for the great. if it's the opposite it the opposite attitude. 11 focuses on cybersecurity and one focuses on electricity and cybersecurity manner should security and electricity delivery. i'll ask a few questions and maybe you can continue this conversation after the hearing. a crosscutting initiative. the grid modernization laboratory consortium have brought together technical expertise from national labs to address the challenges from a cybersecurity enters storage standpoint. the crosscutting initiative has been a success most people admit that it's important d.o.e. continue to lead this program. can you comment on the department's plans and get back to us on that. that would be great

securityas well as strict military applications and so you have to wonder, applications like our nation's electrical gridh needs primary aluminum do we believe as a nation that's important to have an indigenous supply yes or no. >> thanks so much. back to you. >> all right, thank you very much >> after being higher for most of the day, stocks are now in the red, as you see on your screen just by a little bit for the dow. let's bring in chris cordero, chief investment officer with region atlanta, and quint, managing director with jewel financial. quint, tell me, which is it? >> it's jewel. it's jewel joule. >> all right >> that sounds beautiful quint, we have been talking a lot about a couple metals, aluminum and steel you want to make a case for a third metal, gold. why? >> yeah, because everything we are talking about has a root, and that root is that it's founded in inflation, and we're going to be seeing that. and i'm not a gold bug by any stretch of the imagination, but all that we're talking about, whether it's tariffs or raw material prices or simply demand coming from infrastructure projects or br

nation. i mean, attacking our power grid, energy souses. we need to do something and prepare.ed to be prepared for this kind of thing happening. >> i just want to share with all of you, with both of you, scotland yard is investigating nicholas' death in london, a former putin opponent living in exile and was found dead in his apartment. now, there's another investigation, this time, a murder investigation. the nerve agent used is so appalling and the worst chemical attack in europe since world war ii. this is an exchange between our peter alexander and sarah huckabee sanders at the white house. >> is putin a friend or foe of the united states? >> i think that's something russia has to make that determination. they have to determine if they want to be a good actor or bad actor. you can see from the actions we have taken up until this point, we are going to be tough on russia until they decide to change their behavior. >> rick, how tough on russia are they, if the president has not demanded on interagency approach? >> you know, the sanctions that came out yesterday, the bar is v

grid. now the united nations humanitarian chief mark has just given a sobering briefing to the u.n. security council about the situation in the democratic republic of congo so the central african country has been gripped by violence listen humanitarian needs caused by internal conflicts have doubled over the last year thirteen million people need humanitarian assistance more than four point six million children are acutely malnourished including two point two million suffering severe acute malnutrition we're seeing mushrooming epidemics including the west outbreak of cholera in fifteen years there's also an epidemic of sexual violence most of it unreported and on addressed and much of it against children while the u.n. is trying hard to draw the world's attention to what exactly is going on in india in the democratic republic of congo describing the violence and sexual abuse as horrific more than fifty seven thousand people mostly women and children have fled the country's east into uganda since the start of this year alone they join forty four thousand others who escaped during twe

energy grid and critical infrastructure, targeting 13 russian nationals and antis charged by mueller. >> glowing cause for second posh -- growing calls for a second special counsel. your republicans, today sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions saying a special counsel is needed to gather independently the facts. facts. >> senator say that author of discredited crum trump dossier mislead the fbi, it is critical to know if fbi mislead the fisa court. >> and our first guest has been leading the charge for a second special counsel since last summer, congressman ron desantos, a member of several key committee, welcome to the program. >> good evening. >> spell it out. why do we need a second special counsel? >> for a couple reason, department of justice cannot investigate itself, it has a conflict if it is called upon to investigate act of high officials from james comey to mccabe to people like bruce ohr . the other reason, there is evidence that federal statutes may have been violated. you look at christopher steel, whether he was honest with fbi, and jim comey leaked his memos,

clocks haven't been thinking correctly two baltic nations that ticked off at each other maybe behind the slowdown as their disputes affected europe's power grid. whose stolen time clocks are running slowly in many homes some have lost more than six minutes as the world ends of the time warp. unfortunately clocks are losing time so people are turning up late to appointments they're leaving home late and missing their buses it's mostly clock radios that are affected and clocks eleven's they're part of a europe wide electricity network that normally operate sort of steady synchronize frequency that has about one in our kitchen and in the living room we have two clocks and one is running ten minutes behind the other. the reason for the slowdown is a dispute between serbia and kosovo it means there's not enough electricity being pumped into the network so the frequency is reduced result clock radio slowdown. normally they operate at a frequency of fifty hertz. the reason the clocks have gone wrong is that the frequency is full and you can see it going down a bit no i'm dependent. so the perfect excuse for the bitch. across europe trusty timepieces