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Alastair cooks tally surpassing the previous best of sir alastair cook. And finally, he now stands alone as englands most prolific test batter, ending day three in multan on 12,578 runs. Now, at 33 years of age, root is now fifth on the all—time run scorers�* list. He is 3,348 runs behind the indian legend sachin tendulkar, who is top of the pile there. So after passing that english record with an impressive knock, how was he feeling? tired, more than anything. Its been a long day. But, yeah...

Anderson cooper in braden florida, where the winds have really picked up significantly just in the last ten minutes or so, they are really starting to whip here in downtown by, by the river. I just want to get a sense of sort of the wins. Its sort of hard to tell when youre actually in it you get a sense in the light over there. Theres just been a steady downpour of rain and you can see it there. It reflected in the light as i was talking to erin in the last hour, there is a lot of along the riv...

Barreling down the gulf coast straight into floridas west coast. 120mileanhour winds and violent water pummeling the bridge. And this is santa bell island where floodwaters appear to be swallowing a house. And in fort myers, a tornado rips through neighbourhoods, obliterating properties. The winds are ferocious, the storm churches unstoppable and floridians are worried. Lets go to her senior correspondent in tampa. Steve? jesse, we see rain come down in sheets. The wind is starting to pick up as...

Bill: thank you sean we are live here as milton is a major storm here in central and western and eastern florida tonight. Hurricane milton battering florida moving on shore making landfall as a category three storm 90 minutes ago downgraded earlier from a category five in the gulf of mexico. Lifethreatening storm with a surge upwards of 10 feet expected in several areas of the west coast. And its a very fierce. Weve got live coverage we will get to it right now. Steve has been in tampa all day a...

Out of florida, millions of people under threat from monster size hurricane milton. That powerful category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles an hour has come ashore. The eyewall made landfall half an hour ago in siesta key, which is a barrier island off of the coast of sarasota. Right now, the storm with a diameter of 450 miles, is bringing lifethreatening winds and potentially devastating storm surge up to 13 feet. Earlier today, the national oceanic and atmospheric administrati...

Biggest storm of the century could make landfall within the hour. Live images from st. Petersburg on your screen right now, you see our bill weir there in that picture. Hell be with us in a moment hurricane milton now on a much faster track toward land, expected to hit florida with 150 mile an hour wind gusts and a destructive storm surge. Conditions deteriorating by the minute officials now saying it is no longer safe to be outside. And lets show you what it looks like on the roads already floo...

The evacuation process. It wasnt easy, first off. There was a lot of different variables, a lot of different factors that came into that decision. One of them was financial. Really dont know if we can come back or not. You know, if the storm hits really bad, you know, our area might be fine, but the pathway back down the home might not be. And to risk not having that cheque every week that we, you know, depend on, could just be a major issue down the line as well. Some people would think that ma...

People are being urged to leave coastal and low—lying areas of florida as hurricane milton, expected to be the biggest storm to hit the area in a century, moves closer to the states west coast. President biden has warned evacuating is a matter of life and death. These pictures are coming into us live from the state of florida. This is the sunshine skyway bridge, the gateway to tampa bay, normally a very busy road even early in the day but pretty much deserted now, clearly very exposed and cert...

I think he has got an insatiable appetite for runs that makes him so good. He has got brilliant technique, his temperament is very level which has helped him throughout his career. He has created this impenetrable bubble around his batting which means it is protected at all times and he has amazing consistency with that. That desire to score runs sets him apart from a lot of other people. — sets him apart from a lot of other people. Sets him apart from a lot of other eole. . , other people. En...

The us state of florida is bracing itself for what could be the worst storm in a hundred years. There are huge trafficjams across the state as more than five million people respond to evacuation orders ahead of hurricane milton — which is expected to hit tonight. Flights between the uk and florida have been cancelled, with the foreign office urging britons already in the state to follow instructions from local authorities. Its moving across the gulf of mexico, where warmer waters have contribu...