Welcome everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. Were going to start today with Breaking News because yet another Hurricane Threat is facing floridas West Coast. Just moments ago, tropical Storm Milton Florida as a category three storm in just a few days. Now, governor Ron Desantis has declared a State Of Emergency for 51 counties ahead of and it could bring devastating Storm Surge to parts of the state still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Cnns Rafael Romo joins me. Now, Rafael Helene slammed into florida just ten days ago. I know you were on the ground covering some of its devastation. Can you tell us what were learning now ahead of this potential impact here yes, some are high. This is probably going to feel like a onetwo punch for many floridians in addition to we clearing a State Of Emergency and 51 states, florida governor Ron Desantis has ordered Management Sites to be opened 24 7, so that many areas covered by debris after Hurricane Helene
But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a sevenyearold, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre, we didn t go to galleries, or. . . I was not exposed to the arts. But they found a local school around the corner, and we now can fully appreciate that little local school had some of the best teachers you could ever come across. And you had this very rapid rise through your teens. You performed at the opening ceremony of the sydney olympics, and then you started to win international ballet competitions. The first teachers i had unleashed this tiger within me. So, then it was when i was about 13 or 14, which again shows you just how incredible my first teachers were, that they felt they d taken me so far, and it was time to hand me on they introduced me to my teacher in sydney, hilar
Steven mcrae, welcome to hardtalk. We re here at the royal ballet and opera in london, which has been your professional home for many years now, and you re about to go back on stage as the mad hatter in alice s adventures in wonderland. Tell me first how this adventure began for you, the world of ballet. Because you grew up far away from here. Yes. So i grew up in the outskirts of sydney, australia. Probably the furthest you could possibly get from the royal opera house here in london. I grew up in a motorsport family. My father was a drag racer. My father was an incredibly clever man who would create any parts with his own bare hands that he couldn t afford to purchase or to import. But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a seven year old, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it. Bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre
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Smartphones. Now on bbc news. The travel show. Im toby carr, and over the next year, im going to kayak in all of the areas of the Shipping Forecast. Now, the Shipping Forecast, issued by the met office on behalf of the maritime and coastguard agency, at 0015 on tuesday, the 11th ofjanuary. Around every corner. There s something new. Gps seems to. Be switching around where it says it is. Its kind of funny, ive been charging around this bit of sea a bit like a mad person. I thought it was a brilliant adventure that he was going on. But once i started seeing some of his reports of the faroe islands, i suddenly thought, this is actually quite scary. What hes doing is probably quite dangerous. Wind gusts the winds gone a bit crazy. The sea is mental. Probably be about six metre high waves. It looks maybe more than that. There are warnings of gales in viking, north utsira, south utsira, forties. The Shipping Forecast in the uk is the worlds first storm warning system. Southeasterly seven to