The European Union and we now have in Parliament One more np who will fight to make that happen. Two holiday firms super break and late rooms collapse, affecting tens of thousands of travellers. A maiden test century for rory burns as england fight back on the second day of the ashes. In the last few minutes, Emergency Services have said that theres still a substantial danger to life if the water levels in the dam at Whaley Bridge in derbyshire, cannot be reduced. Raf helicopter crews have been dropping sand, gravel and stones to try to stabilise a damaged wall of the toddbrook reservoir amid fears it could burst and engulf the nearby town. Around 1500 residents were moved out of their homes yesterday, as a precaution. The environment secretary, Theresa Villiers says the situation is not yet stable. Several flood alerts including a severe Flood Warning are still in place for these areas shown here in red. Judith reports. This is the front line, a new defence belt back buy back tonnes o
15 million in eight years. In fact we plant less now than we did in the 80s. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. In the last few minutes the Federal Reserve has done something it has not done in more than a decade cut Interest Rates. Its only a quarter of a point but whys it cutting rates at all . Normally a central bank would only lower Interest Rates when an economy is faltering, not something you could say about the us economy right now. Fed officials describe it as an insurance cut, to keep the us economy on track. But the critics suggest the normally independent central bank is caving in to political pressure from the white house. The president has been very critical of the fed chairjerome powell, and has been demanding this cut since the fed put up the rates last december. Id like to see a large cut and id like to see immediately the quantitative tightening stopped. We expect the chair of the Federal Reserve to speak in the next 30 min
Heres the situation in florida right now. Nearly seven Million People dont have power, streets are still flooded, and the islands of the keys are cut off so we dont really know whats happening there. But actually, its not as bad as it could be. Which suggests our Forecasting Technology is good, but not perfect. Warnings of total catastrophe dont seem to have panned out. The same isnt true, however, for several caribbean islands. The locals say the response has been slow, there has been looting, theres no food, no drinking water, many parts are without power. It is truly miserable. So whats irma doing now . The storm has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm and is heading north towards the state of georgia. It is daylight in miami now, people have had some hours to get used to what has happened. How bad is it . am staggered by how quickly this city is returning to normal. Yesterday, this street was a raging torrent, a river of storm surging floodwaters running through the financial distr
We are following breaking news in alabama. A ups cargo plane has crashed near the birmingham airport. The faa says the aircraft was an 8300 that crashed on approach to the airport just before dawn this morning. It was flying from louisville to birmingham before it went down. Well have live updates throughout the ktvu morning news. In the meantime we are following developing news of a deadly shooting near san lorenzo. Claudine wong is live at the scene with what police are saying about the investigation. Claudine what do you know so far . Its still very early. We just spoke to a sergeant on scene. We have the latest information for you. This area remains blocked off. You can see a little further down from where we are standing is where a police car still sits. We are waiting for the crime scene techs to get here. It could be shut down for hours. It has been shut down for hours since the police got the call for help. About 12 07 this morning Alameda County sheriffs deputies responded to
Occurred here that adversely impact the work of our federal officers. For example, the mayor of oakland has actively has been actively seek to help illegal a ailians avoid im sorry support those who flout the law and validate illegality. California congress man coming up before them. Scoop up more facts. Claudia live from sacramento. Claudia . Reporter good morning. Witness against, harris. Attorney general sessions through down the gauntlet saying federal laws the supreme law of the land and equalling the sancts iary policies with open boarders. Spoke as a breakfast meeting with california peace officers and blasted state politicians saying they are deliberately objukting federal Immigration Law protecting them living here legal ill. We are simply asking the state and other jurisdictions to stop obstructing federal Law Enforcement. Stop treating immigration agents differently from everybody else for the purpose of eviscerating border and Immigration Laws. Stop protecting law breakers.