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Its not clear how much damage it has caused. What is clear is the category four hurricane will track along much of cubas northern coast before shifting north to the united states. Already, thousands of people have moved away from the cuban coast including british tourists. Some of them save their Holiday Company could have got them out of the country before the storm hit. We still have a big window, they could have got some planes and i took us out, even someone have got some planes and i took us out, even someone else in america. It seems that thomas cook have left is here well everyone else has been evacuated. In response, thomas cook says it has moved almost 2000 customers to an area on the mainland as directed by the cuban authorities which is in lockdown and in hotels built to withstand a hurricane. Meanwhile in southern florida, the next place expected to be hit by the hurricane, there has already been an unprecedented evacuation. More than 5 Million People ordered to leave and forany 5 Million People ordered to leave and for any people who have not already started driving out of the area, its too late, according to the authorities. We have shelters in your community, go to those shelters. You can go to family, friends, shelters, but we dont want people on the road when the storm sta rts people on the road when the storm starts to hit. This is the destruction that Hurricane Irma has already caused on some of the islands that has passed over so far this week. This is barbuda, i was left of it or what is left of it. And now another powerful hurricane, hurricanejose, and now another powerful hurricane, hurricane jose, is fast approaching the same area. In a moment well hear from jane 0brien, our correspondent in miami in florida. First the latest from the cuban capital havana. Will grant is there. Its obvious the windy when you are but much worse on the northeast coast. Thats right. If people thought on cuba they were going to avoid the worst of this storm, its becoming very apparent that thats not the case for many communities along that northern coastline. Hurricane irma hit with the full force of a category five storm. The first time that has happened on cuba since the 19205, which gives you a 5ense since the 19205, which gives you a sense of the scale of this event. The cu ban authorities sense of the scale of this event. The cuban authorities did try to move large numbers of people out of harms way, but many have been left, particularly in the central province. There are many thousands of people there without power at the moment. That is flooding in that region, two, and where the tourists have by and large made it back to havana, there is still plenty of fi5hing communities and individual communities along that coastline and we are waiting to hear from a large 5wathe of cuba. Jane in miami where the storm is expected to hit tomorrow, and evacuation is taking place, perhap5 coming to end in places. What about the prospects for those who are 5taying the prospects for those who are staying put . Weve seen it now the largest evacuation in the history of the state. Here in miami, exist orderly, its deserted. This is one of the busiest cities in the country. Those who decided to stay off writing, there is no mistaking that. The tension is palpable. Some have decided to stay because theyre worried about their businesses and because they have nowhere to go. This is a storm that is twice the size of florida and it is moving north. Whenever you go in florida, you cant escape it. Even if it moves to the west, which it is looking to at the moment, the east is still going to feel it so there is still going to feel it so there isa is still going to feel it so there is a real sense of trepidation. Yes, some Infrastructure Improvements we re some Infrastructure Improvements were made after hurricane andrew but they have never been tested by a storm of this magnitude and people here have seen what happened in the caribbean and theyre very, very frightened. Thank you both. Rescue operations are under way in mexico after its most powerful earthquake in nearly a century killed more than 60 people. Three of the poorest states in the country suffered the most, losing hundreds of buildings. President pena nieto has declared a national day of mourning. A trust which runs 21 schools acro55 yorkshire has said it can no longer manage them and has asked the government to find a new 5pon5or. Wakefield city academie5 trust is believed to be the First Academy chain to make such a decision. The department for education says it will work with the trust until a new sponsor can be found. Hsbc has apologised to thousands of businesses after closing their accounts, some say without notice. Hsbc contacted them for information about payment5 theyd made over5ea5 part of the banks programme to tackle money laundering. Some businesses which failed to respond had their accounts shut down. Preparations are being made to re open Manchester Arena with a special benefit concert, nearly four months after the suicide bombing which killed 22 people. The event will be headlined by Noel Gallaghers high flying birds. Kate sweeting is there for us now mixed emotions, i should imagine. Ye5, mixed emotions, i should imagine. Yes, this was an attack which shocked the world because it was clearly aimed at children and young people out to have a good time, but tonights concert is about remembering tho5e tonights concert is about remembering those who died but also celebrating manchester and its response to the attack. It has shown incredible solidarity and resilience evenin incredible solidarity and resilience even in the immediate aftermath. Some of those expected to come to the concert tonight will have been at the Ariana Grande concert when the attack happened and its hoped they will be able to replace some of tho5e horrific memorie5 have something more positive. There will be extra security checks tonight. Rucksacks are banned and there will also be 5pecialist mental trauma teams to help anyone who is struggling, but this is about showing that Manchester Arena and manchester is safe and open for bu5iness. With all the sport, heres mike bu5hell at the bbc sport centre. Good afternoon. After his heroics on day two, James Anderson picked up where he left off yesterday to add to his total of record breaking te5t wicket5 for his country, as england try to restrict the west indies lead in the final, and deciding test. Joe wilson reports from lords. By by now its almost automatic. Another morning, hes off again. James anderson first over of the day. Te5t wicket 502 and still counting. Fast forward to celebrations, anderson again, Jermaine Blackwood gone. West indies we re Jermaine Blackwood gone. West indies were trying to build a lead but running out of batsmen. England were trying to stop everyone will stop wait and see who decided to chase this paul all the way to the boundary. Here comes a wicketkeeper just too late. With intense batting concentration required, shane did this. Hes had a miserable 5erie5 and england took that six wicket with west indies ju5t and england took that six wicket with west indies just 52 runs ahead in this deci5ive test. West indies stretched that lead to 82 at lunch interval, 5till 5ix wicket5 down and they still carry some optimism into they still carry some optimism into the afternoon. Both Manchester City and liverpool are looking to move to the top of the premier league table, for a few hours at least, theyre in action at the moment at the emirates in the days early kick off. Plenty of drama. The visitors had the better of the early play but Manchester City lead, the only goal5 so Manchester City lead, the only goal5 so far putting them one up. A liverpool player has just been sent off for a challenge on the goalkeeper. Liverpool down to ten men and theyre losing. Mo5t 0lympic medalli5t5 wait until theyve retired to launch their own academie5, but not james guy. The World Champion is only 21, but hes looking to help develop the nations next swimming 5uper5tar5 and will even fund the development of ten youngsters from around the country. Bbc 0lympic reporter nick hope reports. James guy, back where it all began. Trafford metro in Greater Manchester was his first club and his academy launch simply had to happen here. I was created here and this is where it all started for me. So first swimming lessons and without them today, i dont know where id be. Going to get ten kids from the age of 1a to 17 and they will become part of the jj academy, which is quite cool, really. And these are the guys that are going and push you when we are tired and done. So hopefully when they are doing that i can say, they were part of my team. As well as mentoring, guy will also fund academy athletes. And there will certainly be no shortage of interest. Ijust had Spine Surgery six days ago and ijust thought to myself, im going to push through, im not missing this. Ive been waiting for him to come down to the club for so long. All these kids that hes teaching, he is an inspiration to them all. Hes probably the best swimmer ive ever seen. It was really fun taking pictures with him. Whilst james guy clearly hopes his academy will help discover and develop some of the sports future 5tar5, he is still only 21 years old himself and therefore wants to continue inspiring youngsters through medal winning performances over the coming years. When i was11, i put down on a piece of paper i want to win the gold at the Olympic Games so i what i need to need to do to be the best athlete ican be. To need to do to be the best athlete i can be. These youngsters already think guy is an amazing athlete and they hope it will mean a chance of more selfie5 in the year ahead. Just a reminder of a few stories, which you can follow on the website. While rafael nadal and Kevin Anderson meet in the finals of the us open tomorrow, tonight its an all american womens final between madison keys and sloane stephens. And chris froome aims to make history by winning the vuelta a espana in madrid tomorrow. Thats all the sport for now. You can see more on all of todays stories on the bbc news channel. The next news on bbc one is at 5 20pm. Bye for now. Breaking news on the bbc news channel. Its coming from the National Hurricane centre which is the Us Federal Government Agency which is having a very busy time at the moment with a couple of hurricanes to content with, Hurricane Irma and hurricanejose, i5 Hurricane Irma and hurricanejose, is reporting that Hurricane Irma i5 expected to strengthen when is reporting that Hurricane Irma is expected to strengthen when it moves away from cuba later today. It has dropped to a category four hurricane because it is gusting at 155 miles an hour, the minimum level at category five which is the highest level used as 157 miles an hour so thatis level used as 157 miles an hour so that is every expectation that it will come back up again and they are pretty much saying that once it leaves cuba and dissipates, it will pick up more energy again as it moves pick up more energy again as it m oves a cross pick up more energy again as it moves across the sea towards florida where it is expected to hit landfall tomorrow. 0ne where it is expected to hit landfall tomorrow. One area that didnt suffer as bad as it feared was the bahamas. It has largely been spared because Hurricane Irma change direction. 0ur correspondent sent this update a short while ago. A profound sense of relief in the bahamas especially in the northern part of this archipelago. Some outlying islands in the south experienced structural damage and flooding but nothing on the skill of what was initially feared. Were getting a sense of the level of destruction elsewhere in the caribbean. Barbuda was the first island where Hurricane Irma made landfall and 95 of the building there have been destroyed. The island has been evacuated because of the danger posed by hurricanejose. The us virgin islands, four deaths have been confirmed. The British Virgin islands, a great deal of destruction. Donald trump reached out to president Emmanuel Macron yesterday, offering american condolences and american practical support. Sean is in florida. Thanks for being with us on bbc news. Were you trying to leave you have not been told to evacuate . Its not a mandatory evacuation here, its at our own discretion. We have decided we wouldnt leave, we have been through three storms previously, but we are familiar with it. You are being pragmatic in your approach, trying to make the best preparations you can . Gamma, you get to get all the stuff i could fly around outside like tables, chairs and plant pots and just hunker down as they say. Have you been made nervous by some of the predictions that have been made . The governor described this as a catastrophic storm, the like of which are state has never seen. Hes right and which are state has never seen. Hes rightand im which are state has never seen. Hes right and im a little nervous of course, its very dangerous, all sorts of things that happen. We rate in the middle of the state so the likelihood of flooding is much less. It is heading for tampa weather has not been a storm for a number of yea rs, not been a storm for a number of years, a number of new building stone by the water could have problems. What about your neighbours . Some have gone, some have stayed. What sort of preparations are they making, what can you practically do to protect yourself . Some homes have storm shutters. The place that i live is relatively new and built to Higher Standards in the early part of this century so were pretty confident were going to be ok, itsjust a case of bringing things that could fly around when the big wins start to hit. Winds. The house is built to hit. Winds. The house is built to withstand higher wind speeds so theyre very well built. Some of the other areas like trailer parks, goodness me, you dont want to be there. The Power Companies have been warning that it thinks the outages that could follow from the storm is to overhead cables and could last for days if not weeks for part of the state. Have you got food and things like that ready for that eventuality . Have you got your generator . I dont have my own power generator. Some people do and thats probably the Biggest Issue if we lose power. Food in freezers will rot, youve got to get rid of that, only for so long can you keep it. That would be a problem if we did lose power. Thats probably the biggest problem that we face. Its hot here so we need air conditioning that made at last, of course. The other question that people will be interested is insurance, is it possible to get insurance, is it possible to get insurance to protect you from events like this . Its interesting, what we will see after this is insurers rates rising lake after last time. Down by the coast, they have to pay increase premiums. When Something Like this happens, the finish paying increased premiums. We can get insurance with relatively low deductible so were 0k. What do you make of the preparedness in florida. Absolutely fantastic. We experienced good preparedness in 2004 and its the same again, they know what theyre doing. Shone, thank you very much for speaking to we wish you all the best and perhaps we wish you all the best and perhaps we will speak to you again once things have cleared. A correspondentjoined me to tell us about the trajectory of hurricane erma and hurricane jose. Hurricane irma is huge. They flew a plane over it before it was downgraded and they found that the eye of the storm was 35 miles wide and hurricane strength winds extended to 75 males which is why we have seen all the destruction that we have across cuba and you will see it as the daylight images but hurricane jose will see it as the daylight images but hurricanejose is will see it as the daylight images but hurricane jose is following will see it as the daylight images but hurricanejose is following a similar track at the moment and u nfortu nately similar track at the moment and unfortunately hurricane jose, similar track at the moment and unfortunately hurricanejose, a category four hurricane, is getting very close to barbuda which got flattened by Hurricane Irma. It is more of a glancing blow, so it is tracking more to the north and northeast of barbuda so it is close enough that theres going to be some damage. There is still the idea that there could be some torrential rain and storm surges but i think the worst is probably going to be out at sea. Thats not what were seeing with Hurricane Irma. We need to focus on this one. As well as flying over the hurricane, they measured the sea surface temperature and measured the sea surface temperature that Hurricane Irma is moving over at 31 celsius. What effect does that have . The warmest sea it has moved in its history so what that does, although there has been some interaction with the coast of cuba so interaction with the coast of cuba so it has battered that and bumped into it and has weakened it slightly but were only talking about five miles an hour. That moved it from category five to a category four. And it could go up again . Absolutely. Because it is moving over warm water, that feeds it, gives of the energy, maintains the energy and so it could extra strength and again by five miles an hour into a category five over the next 12 to 24 hours or so. The difficulty is the turn to the north and that is the crucial bit. So far it has followed a fairly steady path over warm waters, maintained its intensity for so long, it has been strongerfar intensity for so long, it has been stronger far longer intensity for so long, it has been strongerfar longer than intensity for so long, it has been stronger far longer than any other, but were expecting it to turn to the north and that means florida is in the firing line. The turn is happening a little bit later so the track has changed positions lately. You can see the centre of moving up to the keys by sunday morning and then inland over mainland florida a bit later on in the day. When it hits land, is it because it hits land and hits buildings and trees, that that can actually contribute to a shift in the direction . Is that pa rt a shift in the direction . Is that part of what makes it hard to predict . The shifting prediction is down to the upper air, either side of Hurricane Irma you have an upper airof high of Hurricane Irma you have an upper air of High Pressure which is stronger than forecast but you have a jet stream diving down into the gulf of mexico, and that is going to force the change. What happens when it moves overland, you have all this energy fed into it from the warm water and it moves overland, so the wind tends to drop, the hurricane wea ke ns. Wind tends to drop, the hurricane weakens. Thats a steady process. On landfall, its still going to be a category for a category five and as we saw there, the winds and get swept northwards. It looks like it tracks across the western side of florida so that slight change is going to be nearer the gulf coast and the atlantic coast, thats the centre of course and remember we got category four, category five weaklings at moves overland, storm surge and torrential rain. It doesnt just stop surge and torrential rain. It doesntjust stop in georgia, and carries on. By the tenure in on monday, it has decayed to a Tropical Storm and it is notjust georgia, youve got into carolina, too. Hurricane irma has got a lot of history and its probably going to make history as well. Weve never recorded to category four hurricane is making landfall in the usa ever and we expect that is about to change because Hurricane Irma is going to be hitting as a category four, possibly category five. This is in exaggerated. Google talk and grand language but when the governor of florida says, you have got to get out, he isnt exaggerating. Of course not. The track is crucial and we have seen course not. The track is crucial and we have seen some course not. The track is crucial and we have seen some deviation and could still change. These things like to take the path of least resista nce like to take the path of least resistance and it could be that it wanders along the coast and doesnt actually make landfall until much further north. That could be the worst Case Scenario further north. That could be the worst Case Scenario in many ways because it will stay stronger far longer, but the track is to take it overla nd longer, but the track is to take it overland as it does so, it does weaken, but this is major. We dont wa nt to weaken, but this is major. We dont want to get hung up on whether it is a category for a category five fifths miles an hour. You would feel the difference. Youve still got a lot of destruction. You wont feel the difference. And there is plenty more on Hurricane Irma on our website, bbc. Co. Uk news. The nhs in england has issued new guidance to terror attack victims after some were subjected to vile and upsetting abuse online. It warns about the pitfalls of using social media and also says people need to be wary of journalists. But it adds that social media can also play a positive role in helping victims and families after attacks. In the early 19805 Greenham Common in berkshire hit the headlines because of protests over the decision to house American Nuclear Cruise Missiles there. 20 years on from the common being handed back to the public. The bomb proof bunkers are still there. Theyre empty, but theyre still protected because they are considered of national importance. Joe campbell reports. When you hear the air attack warning you and your family must take cover. Crews arrived at greenham in one of the tensest periods of the cold war. While moscow and Washington Squared up on the world stage, conflict came to berkshire as Anti Nuclear Campaigners picketed the base while inside the military trained for armageddon. This is the decontamination unit of what was raf Greenham Common. So through the Revolving Doors here and then you come up against this. This. Which as you can see is a very heavy blast proof door. It weighs more than a tonne. In this complex airmen would have cleaned up after exposure to fall out or chemical attack. John was the sites last civilian manager. Now, this looks quite important. This is where the whole suite was controlled from. We can make it do anything. It is supposed to lock all the doors. And all these years after the place closed, everything is still working. You press the button here and you can still talk. Yes. Whats this here . I mean, these are american cigarettes . Yes. These were probably being smoked by the last man who actually stood here and used this for real. Yes. I suppose really when you Wander Around here its a kind of window on the end of the world. Thats a good phrase. Yes, it is a window on the end of the world. I think there is no other way of looking at it. If the guys came back in here and had to stay in here, what is there outside left . Military and peace campaigners would both in the end lay claim to bringing about the end of the cold war in greenhams demise. The day the americans finally left Greenham Common, i was here to watch them go, but it didnt really sink in just what was happening until a few years later when on a trip to the us militarys bone yard in the arizona desert, where they store redundant aircraft, i came across a small area where there were a group of vehicles parked in congress in that desert setting in their green and black and brown camouflage. It was the Greenham Common Cruise Missile launchers awaiting their fate with the rest of the cold war relics. The bunkers though remain. A reminder of what might have happened had the missiles ever rolled out of here in anger. That was joe campbell reporting there. Time for a look at the weather. Good afternoon. I wouldnt use the word is tranquil to describe our weather prospects this weekend but certainly nothing as turbulent as were seeing across the caribbean at the moment. Whats going on here at home, its a story of sunshine and showers on the face of it. Across the southeast with a day has started off dry, the showers are now drifting in, some of them heavier than the day. Showers continuing progress in england and wales. Northern ireland and scotland are seeing fewer showers this afternoon, more in the way of sunshine. Breezy for many, 15 to 19 celsius. This evening, most originalfade for many, 15 to 19 celsius. This evening, most original fade away. Where we have clear skies we will see the odd fog that and will turn quite chilly, perhaps even a touch of grass crossed for some eastern areas, towns and cities holding at 1011 celsius. Settle in eastern area tomorrow, some brightness but cloud. And from the west gray quickly. We see a big survey moving to Northern Ireland into wales and western england. Showers behind, blowing in a strong wind and gales for western coastal areas later in the day and top temperatures of 13 to 18 celsius. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines at 1. 30pm. Hurricane irma has been lashing cuba with with heavy rain and winds of more than 150 Miles Per Hour after devastating several caribbean islands and killing at least 20 people. Meanwhile officials in southern florida have told 5. 6 Million People, a quarter of the states population, to evacuate their homes before the storm arrives tomorrow. Mexico declares a day of National Mourning after the most deadly earthquake its experienced in 80 years kills more than 60 people. The United Nations is warning of an unprecedented refugee crisis in myanmar. It says more than a quarter of a million Rohingya Muslims have crossed the border to bangladesh. Now on bbc news, inside out looks at how isis used social media to plan attacks on westminster and london bridge. Hello, im sean fletcher. Welcome to a new series of inside out. Over the coming weeks well be bringing you surprising stories from the capital. Westminster, london bridge, manchester and the recent attacks in barcelona have brought condemnation and sympathy

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