this is what forecasters are warning about as hurricane ian, a dangerous category 3 storm, maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. it s strengthening, with florida right in its sights. take a look at this. there s the radar. if you are in florida right now, or you know someone there, the next few hours could really be crucial. millions of people, millions are under warnings and watches as this massive storm takes aim at that state. the numbers are staggering. 15 million people under hurricane warnings in southwestern florida. the national hurricane center says they need to rush to finish preparations to protect their lives and their properties. more than 7 million are under a tornado watch in central and southern florida. and that includes miami, and that through 5 am. and that could change. we re going to get updated forecast about the hours here. over two and a half million people are under evacuation orders right now. one and three quarter million of them under mand
In adolf hitlers manifesto he wrote, all the great civilizations of the past became decadent because the originally creative race died out as a result of contamination of the blood. He links the poison which has invaded the National Blood to, quote, an influx of foreign blood. The Blood Reference is reminiscent of the chants by White Supremacists in charlottesville in 2017. Tonight, donald trump is now under fire for similar language about immigrants. Good evening. Im abby phillip. Here what is the former president and current republican frontrunner just said about immigrants. We know theyre terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like were witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. Its poisoning the blood of our country. Its so bad. And people are coming in with disease, people are coming in with every possible thing that you could have. We dont know what really inspired trump to use that language or what was even in his head, but this episode comes as trumps rhet
workers and retirees, largest to union pension fund comes from $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package signed into law in 2021. mark mix national right to work committee tells fox news a bailout to failed pension plans is pointless without reform to ensure the program can last on its own. paying less at the gasoline pump now than you were a year ago. a.a.a. says the current average for a gal is $3.31. down one penny from the same date in 2021 also down 47 cents a gallon from one month ago. there is some major drama tonight involving the leadership of the republican party there is disconsenter than expected performance in the midterm elections. mark meredith looks at where things stand tonight. the chairman of the rnc ronna mcdaniel. [applause] she has led the republican national committee since 2017.
hello, i m nuala mcgovern. you re watching context on bbc news. a united front by western leaders in brussels one month on from russia s invasion of ukraine. meeting in brussels, they promise to increase military aid to ukraine and send 40,000 more troops to countries in eastern europe. nato has never, never been more united than it is today. putin is getting exactly the opposite of what he intended to have as a consequence of going into ukraine. there are new sanctions against russia too, with the us joining the uk in targeting hundreds of politicians in its state duma. and as the west focuses its attention on the war in ukraine, north korea carries out its first inter continental ballistic missile test since 2017. tonight with the context, political
been wanted in the disappearance of gabby petito. the medical examiner saying laundrie took his own life with a gunshot wound to the head. laundrie vanished in september, days after his girlfriend gabby me tino was reported missing. weeks later, his remains were found in a florida nature preserve. of course, many weeks before that, petito had been found dead in wyoming. her death ruled a homicide. zble we turn next here tonight to that major verdict after charlottesville in the shifl trial we ve been following. the trial after that deadly unite the right rally in charlottesville in 2017. tonight, a federal jury now ordering white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $25 million in damages to nine victims. here s our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. reporter: tonight, a jury in virginia holding the white supremacist and neo-nazi organizers liable for the violence at sthar their charlottesville rally that turned deadly in august 2017. i think this verdict