Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We start this hour with breaking News Hurricane Milton is now a category one hurricane threatening floridas West Coast with devastating Storm Surge, flooding, and damaging winds. Its forecast to intensify into at least a category three storm before making landfall in just a few days the team covering this dangerous storm, Cnn Correspondent Rafael Romo And Cnn meteorologist Elisa Raffa are here. I want to start with you, rafael, though what are we learning as far as preparations and other things go . Hey omar, this is a very serious situation in addition to the clearing of State Of Emergency and 51 counties, florida governor Ron Desantis has ordered Management Sites to remain open 24 7, so that many areas covered by debris after Hurricane Helene can be cleared before the arrival of milton, which became a hurricane this afternoon more than 800 guardsmen are currently deployed for debris removal, but the
This is Bbc News, the headlines is this filming . Catherine, the princes of wales announces shes completed chemotherapy , at the personal video message. As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump prepare to go head to head in tuesdays debate many polls suggest theyre neck and neck. And lost and found. We hear from a family in texas whose cat returned home after a 2,000 mile adventure. The princess of wales has spoken of her relief at completing her course of preventative chemotherapy, in a video released by Kensington Palace in the last few hours. Catherine revealed in march that was she was receiving cancer treatement. Kensington palace has indicated it isnt possible at this stage to say whether the princess is free of the disease but says she will return to light duties. In the video, she said the year had been incredibly tough, and described her experience of the cancer as complex, scary and unpredictable. Lets speak to Dame Laura Lee Chief Executive of the cancer care charity, maggies. Than
Weve bounced back, with laura kuenssberg, for the Weekend Newscast, because youve been off, ive been off, and im very happy to be back. I feel were being gloriously reunited. Its extremely nice to see you, although i saw you on the television quite a few times over the break, which was very exciting. Yes, thats a Sort Of trial, in every sense, especially for the viewer. But parliaments been off. Theres been a lot happening. And you have been out on Matt Chorley s new programme on 5 live with some of your analysis. Here it is. We can hear some. Theres no arguing about whether or not potatoes were a vegetable. Well, if you had potatoes, i would have said you could have potatoes and chips and mash. Oh, yeah. Right . Is chips not in it . No. Well, thats a dish. Thats an entirely separate category. Ah, anyway well, you know. I mean, i can tell you about avocados and tomatoes. Definitely not fruit. 0h, theres more. Theres more. You see, matt turley, whos got a new programme, Just In Case any
Morning for all of these lawmakers. Bring us up to speed on whats going on now and what it means for americans who need help in the pandemic. Reporter i thought when i woke up this morning i thought it would be over and its still going on. Voterama is still going on. Marathon session to try to pass amendments for budget reconciliation. First step that needs to happen so that they can pascoe individual 19 relief without any support. Now the senate doesnt do this very often. It shows how important it is. There was one amendment that all senators agreed on except for rand paul. Targeted stimulus checks for the next round of covid19 relief. This comes as 10 senators were clear with biden they want to continue this dialogue. They want to continue talking about covid19 relief. They have concerns about his 1. 9 trillion package. They want something smaller. They want something more targeted. They sent a letter to him hoping to continue that conversation, but janet yellen has been clear, she s
Backfire. It follows a vote in the us House Of Representatives which passed a bill that would require the tiktok owner bytedance to sell its stake in the Social Media Platform. During the debate, lawmakers repeatedly said that tiktok has links to the Chinese Communist Party Something denied by both tiktok and bytedance. The Chief Executive of tiktok posted this on the Social Media Platform a short time ago. Us lawmakers were debating whether the pastor bill, they had repeatedly said that tiktok has links to the Chinese Communist party, something denied by both tiktok and bytedance. Denied by both tiktok and bytedance denied by both tiktok and bytedance. Denied by both tiktok and b edance. ,. , bytedance. Our intention is for tiktok to continue bytedance. Our intention is for tiktok to continue to bytedance. Our intention is for tiktok to continue to operate l tiktok to continue to operate but not under the control of the Chinese Communist party. I the Chinese Communist party. I want to