This is bbc news. The headlines the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, gives a statement saying the country is preparing for a Ground Invasion, but doing Everything Possible to bring hostages home. He encourages Israeli Citizens to carry weapons. Some aid gets into gaza, but the un warns it will have to stop its operations in gaza tonight if it runs out of fuel. The us House Of Representatives elects little known republican mikejohnson as its next speaker, breaking the three week deadlock in the chamber. And in westminster, mps vote to suspend former conservative minister peter bone after investigation found hed bullied a staff member. Hurricane otis hits southern mexico, Slamming Ashore near acapulco as a category five storm before weakening. Welcome back. More now on our main story. Next more on the war between israel and hamas and the bombardment of gaza from israel. The Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza says more than 6,500 people have been killed since the start of the co
after hurricane katrina made landfall in louisiana, hurricane ida is slamming ashore, threatening the same communities. retired army lieutenant general russell oderey was responsible for coordinating military relief efforts after katrina in 2005. he joins us with more. thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. good to be with you. jacqui: in your view, has there been enough preparation for a storm of this kind of magnitude to mitigate its impact? has there been enough evacuation efforts, structural improvement, resiliency efforts, things like that? well, we have made a lot of progress in resilience. i don t think we are ever really ever ready for a category 4 or 5 storm or the wind and damage that it can provide. we are a lot better than they were before katrina as you
monster storm stretching from the coast past maine triggering blinding rain. slamming ashore. catastrophic flooding on okracoke island and the wind and and a rescue under way. tornados leaving a trail of damage. and hundreds of thousands without power as we come on the air. and it s not over yet. we have a new track and again tomorrow and stephanie ramos in kill devil s hill north carolina where the eye passed through and the emergency rescues are underway. reporter: tonight hurricane dorian making landfall in the outer banks. winds gusting over 100 miles per hour and dumping nearly 14 inches of rain. this is a flash flood emergency for okracoke island. reporter: okracoke island, the hardest hit area. rain colliding with storm surge. first responders choppering in