At what the papers are saying about tomorrows news. Good evening. This is what Hurricane Milton looks like from space. It is gathering strength as it heads towards the West Coast of florida tonight. The worst storm there in a century is how President Biden is describing it. And it comes less than two weeks after another Storm Hurricane Helene brought terrible devastation to the area, leaving more than 200 people dead. The mayor of tampa said Hurricane Helene was a wake up Call Milton is literally catastrophic. Scientists say Climate Change and warmer seas are fuelling these increasingly dangerous storms. Our correspondent Gordon Corera reports from tampa in florida. An exodus from tampa. Long lines of Traffic Snaking out of the city tell you that the warnings are being taken seriously here. Florida is used to hurricanes, but the message has been that this time is different. The city is still recovering from the last hurricane, helene, which hitjust two weeks ago and killed more than 20
Within the next few minutes, the former conservative Home Secretary, James Cleverly, will try to win over his fellow conservative mps as he launches campaign to become leader of the party. Mr cleverly is one of the front runners to replace Rishi Sunak following the Conservatives Defeat atjuly s election. He is among six candidates vying for the job, and those candidates will be whittled down to four by the time of the conservative conference at The End of the month. After that, mps will carry out further rounds of voting to select two final candidates for the conservative members to choose between, with the result announced on 2nd november. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, vicki young, who joins us from westminster. Hello. Any hint as to what we are likely to hear from James Cleverly. I think he will talk about some specific policies. We can really say this Leadership Election has been rumbling along in the background over the summer. We have had a bit from all of the candida
and picking up again across scotland as we head through tonight. the wind is tending to ease down from northern ireland, the rest of england and wales. the rain band becomes stuck across the south east of england, very wet through the night. elsewhere, turns a little bit drier. 0ne night. elsewhere, turns a little bit drier. one or two mark of showers, most of them affecting the north and west of scotland, where the wind will be strongest overnight. still double figures across the southeast with that rain band. the rain lingers on tomorrow across much of the south east, that corner of the country. the next area of low pressure will start to run into northern ireland and then into wales, the south west of england. showers increasing, the rain eventually cleared from the south east and east anglia but it is a slow process. elsewhere, quite a bit of sunshine around. the best across the far north of the country, plenty of showers in the south. 13 degrees will be the high, a coole