Fort myers beach, in florida. You can see those high winds and heavy rains beginning to lash the coast there in fort myers. You can see how much the camera is shaking with the wind there, and obviously large waves warned of Storm Surges and rising water levels, as you can see coming up over the beach and onto the barriers, and beyond. This is from a short time ago in fort myers. You can see the before and after of water coming up over this hotel pool. Quite dramatic there. And just to show how dangerous this storm is, even with the storm still offshore, it is already causing damage. It has spawned several tornadoes which have been reported in the state, including in Areas that are seeing flooding. This is a home in fort myers that was hit by one of those tornadoes. You can see the roof is ripped off and the interior already destroyed, and the hurricane itself hasnt even arrived. These pictures from space give you a sense of the size of the monster storm. Its bringing winds of up to 120
Recognize my great friend and colleague, the best president of the best World Affairs council in the United States. I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Gym falk, very, very grateful to jim for his help in this. As ive said, weve got the players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight, a truly great Public Servant who is the director of the nsc under bush, and i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these high positions. Were going to look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think without even leaving the stage, im going to get the first panel under way so we can start this. As a college professor, i would say get your notepads out. There are going to be questions, discussion, so were going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sayle from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion. H
Case right now. Anything can happen. Probably will. Lets go to Benjamin Hall in london, very latest where this stand. Hey, benjamin. Yeah. Hi, neil. You put your finger on it. There is a lot of optimism in europe about this deal. 27 nation agreed with a deal with the uk. That in theory all should move ahead. The sticking point, the hardest part is yet to come. Now this deal has to be put before the British Parliament. That is where theresa mays deal fell so many times. The vote in the British Parliament is scheduled for saturday. At the moment, it does not appear if Boris Johnson has the parliamentary numbers to push it through. Meaning it could be dead in the water. He doesnt have the numbers, Northern Ireland allies, dup, do not support it. Nevertheless today he was sounding upbeat. It means we can deliver a real brexit that achieves our objectives. It means that the uk leaves whole and entire on october 31st. There were some major sticking points to reach this point. Many people rem
In the negotiations, since the beginning of it, therefore, we have been kept in front of the daily basis by him, at least a level of the Brexit Steering Group in the last few days. Yes, many of our fellow m e ps last few days. Yes, many of our fellow meps did not have a chance to read the agreement yet, but there is not so many changes. For the pages. But this is manageable. It is a question of political will. Frankly, there is not much leeway to renegotiate this. Frankly, if there isa renegotiate this. Frankly, if there is a ratification by westminster, thatis is a ratification by westminster, that is a big if, if it happens, then i think the parliament will ratify it with a broad majority. So you are amenable to getting it done . Absolutely. If there is a majority. You can find a majority two ways. In the parliament or directly with the people. My preference is to go to the people. The experience shows that the British Parliament is unable to afford a positive majority come over ther
Just to give a bit of context this meeting was supposed to be shorter than this about 2 hours ago we are expecting to hear from the Vice President apparently thats not going to happen at least not at the palace where they were meeting with perhaps theyll talk to the press when they stop we really dont know but they will talk for about 4 and a half hours they had a one on one meeting they came out they took they let people have pictures none of them look very happy everyone had a bit of a grimace notably there was no American Flag there which would have been seen as a courtesy to the Vice President turkey letting it be known that they dont see him as a head of state which would have been the protocol to have an American Flag there then they go into this extended bilateral it goes way longer than people are d expecting it the turkish side started offer to bring in food for the media that was waiting and then all of a sudden the Vice President s people came and told the journalists get yo