Good afternoon. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay nearly £158 Million to their customers. The Regulator Ofwat says its because the firms have failed to meet performance targets such as cutting Sewage Spills and leaks. Some future Water Bills will be reduced to reflect the missed targets. Our Environment Correspondent Jonah Fisher reports. A warning this report contains flashing images. This Report Card does not make pleasant reading for the Water Companies. Targets for reducing leaks are not being hit, the number of Pollution Incidents has hardly changed in the last five years and Customer Satisfaction has continued to fall. Three Water Companies anglian, southern and welsh are rated bottom of the class. The others are just average, with none rated in the top category. So we think the sector suffers from a culture of poor performance, that companies are not taking responsibility for their performance. They are too often blaming the weather or the circumst
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Is set to hit Floridas Gulf Coast late Wednesday Night tampa, potentially in the bullseye in the Citys Mayor is not mincing words. She is warning people who dont evacuate, quote you are going to die it appears some are taking her very seriously with those foreboding words, hitting the roads and streaming out of the area before it gets too late. The storm described as extremely dangerous with sustained winds of 100 and 65 miles per hour. Milton, now the strongest storm to occur anywhere on the planet. This year. I want to bring in Cnn Meteorologist Chad myers. Chad, weve heard the strong words in the tampa mayor. What is this new advisory show . It shows that we lost a little bit of pressure. The pressure went up. Thats good news. Weve lost a little bit of Wind Speed from one at 165. Thats still category five okay. Were not were not bringing this down. Do cat two or one or tropical storm a very dangerous storm, but hurricane hunters, both noah and also Air Force have flown in the ai ove
Two down here and penta gordon. And so that can happen. It can get close to land. They can turn Flood Watch in effect, obviously four to eight inches of rainfall. Some models now predicting probably in the neighborhood of about 15 inches of rainfall. And thats just the freshwater flooding thats possible from alberto two barrel, the very hi, im on Wednesday Night show that you and i will be on. Alright. Chad myers. Thank you very much. Well have more on Hurricane Milton later in the program, as well as reporting from the error is worst hit by helene in North Carolina where the Death Toll is still a climbing and to that point, Fema Today said the agency has enough funding to handle the response to Hurricanes Milton and helene. The fact that it has to reassure people about that not just to the weather lately, but also the political climate. Thats because in spite of republican mayors and governors and senators and Hurricane Affected States thing, otherwise dont. Trump has been lying again
Those . Maturation areas youre going to die a dire warning, evacuations underway as the extremely dangerous Hurricane Milton nears landfall in florida, plus North Carolina is a disaster. They dont have the people and theyre complaining theres no people around to help disaster politics. Donald trump doubles down on his false claims about the Helene Response while Kamala Harris calls him out and continuing to fight israels Prime Minister vows to not let up amid fresh airstrikes that has hezbollah targets ive look at Capitol Hill on this tuesday morning. Good morning, everyone. Im Kasie Hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us Breaking News this morning, we have a brand new update just moments ago on Hurricane Milton, the Storm Weakening slightly overnight. Now, a major category four storm. It is expected to regain strength this morning could hit land Tomorrow Evening. It has been less than two weeks since the southeast was pummeled by Hurricane Helene and florida residents are battening d