We start in the united states, where hurricane milton has re strengthened to a category five storm, as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of wednesday s projected landfall. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring you a destructive storm surge, and some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled. It s expected to bring strong winds of up to 165 mph or 270 kph. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the south eastern us; 225 people were killed across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean. President biden has postponed a trip to germany to oversee preparations and prepare a federal response. He urged those in milton s path to evacu
listen to what he is saying now when a reporter pressed him about a. mr. president do consider all trump supporter s president biden: come on, look. you keep trying to make that case, i don t consider any trump supporter a threat to the country. kayleigh: really question mike that s curious because he said the exact opposite of that on thursday night, watch. president biden: there is no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. a maga republicans at america and see carnage darkness and despair. they spread fear and lies, that is why respecting conservatives like federal court judge michael ludwig has called trump and the extreme maga republicans a clear and present danger to our markers a. kayleigh: to make, i m getting really busy because on saturday he then doubled down on the initial thursday comments after the backtrack, so between saturday the
More details are emerging about some of the victims who died in the fire. New images of the moments after the fire broke out and tore up the side of the building. In sportsday cristiano ronaldo, the world player of the year, could be leaving real madrid this summer. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at six. Police say that at least 30 people are now confirmed to have died in the fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower behind me in west london. The bbc understands that the total number of people who are dead or missing so far is around 70. There is growing anger at the way the authorities have dealt with the aftermath of the fire. Around 500 protestors have stormed Kensington Town Hall. In the last half hour, the Prime Minister has offered a £5 Million Relief Fund for those affected by the fire. The queen and Prince William have been visiting a Relief Centre which has been helping victims of the fire. Our first report tonight on the latest on the tower block fire, is from our corres
Immigration. As you pointed out, he spent a threeday weekend in mara large reminding the president that the midterms are coming up. On top of the vocal criticism from ann coulter. We are told that the president was already frustrated that there has been a lack of progress in his view in building the border wall. All of this was exacerbated with the reports on fox news with the caravans coming. It isnt just on the Immigration Issue as you pointed out. It is a myriad of topics the president is touching on. Amazon, nafta, mexico. Some may say he has lost some of his moderating forces in the white house including hope hicks former communication director who left last week and this is the first week the president was without her by his side. Even when she was here, he still went through these fits of fury. At the bottom line here is this is the president being the president. It is obviously not the first time that the president has gone after multiple groups in just one day. Reporter absolu
northwest washington, about four miles north of the white house, after gunshots erupted on a major thoroughfare in the nation s capital. reporter: witnessed described hearing dozens of shots pulsing through the neighborhood which houses multiple schools, a college campus and embassies. in an unverified video that the police have yet to identify, the shooter may have live streamed the attack. as the injured were rushed from the scene, residents were told to shelter in place as police cordoned off the area. and we re continuing to do a very thorough search. as you know, some of these buildings are very large. they ve taken some time for us to go through. reporter: ellen croon was blocks away waiting for news from her daughter. she was going to pick up her eighth grader, and heard all this shooting. she thought it was a jackhammer, but it stopped and it started again and when she called us, she was so hysterical i couldn t understand what she was saying. reporter: as swat teams