People are being urged to leave coastal and low lying areas of florida as Hurricane Milton, expected to be the biggest storm to hit the area in a century, moves closer to the states West Coast. President biden has warned evacuating is a matter of life and death. These pictures are coming into us live from the state of florida. This is the sunshine skyway bridge, the gateway to Tampa Bay, normally a very busy road even early in the day but pretty much deserted now, clearly very exposed and certainly not somewhere anyone would want to be as the hurricane approaches. Although those winds and rain not being really fully felt yet, if we look at this picture of some Palm Trees you can see they are moving a little bit in the breeze but those winds will get stronger and stronger. The national Hurricane Center saying that milton is bringing sustained winds of around 155 miles per hour, as we look at this track. It was downgraded a short while ago to a Category Fourfrom Category short while ago
Now becky quick. We begin with the weather we cant change it or improve it, though we can complain about it but as Steve Liesman found thanks to big data and supercomputers meteorologists could make predictions with greater accuracy and that could have a huge impact on local economy. Better weather is this weeks cover story. Reporter in develops companies, our smartphones warn us, but people around the globe lack even basic forecasts. But with super compute going ibm launched graph, a forecasting model. It says that graph will provide accurate forecasts not for a few places, but for the entire world. This model is named after the ancient god that ruled the super sky. It puts 12 trillion pieces of weather data every day for 26 million location around the world. The super computer is so fast, this massive model provides new forecasts every hour were getting down to kind of the Cellular Level of the thunderstorms now where we werent able to do that before and with that information we can
Is causing huge problems, so, yes, oui is causing huge problems, so, yes, our constitution is being stress tested by the necessity to proceed with brexit. Do you agree with that, alison, and if it is being tested, almost to destruction, what do we need to do about that . Is that something the Supreme Court is going to address this week, potentially . |i do to address this week, potentially . do accept that it is being tested, andi do accept that it is being tested, and i think it is because you are in and i think it is because you are in a very difficult situation, you have an issue that is very divisive, very strong opinions on both sides, and you have a strict time limit set out by the legal requirements of the European Union, so i can see the pressure, but at the same time if you are going to start thinking about a new written constitution, you need to think very carefully about what those principles should be and how they should work, and i dont think that is a job for the Supreme
Continue preparations for a possible Ground Assault into gaza. Also on the programme. Interrupted by a protester, but The Labour Leader sir keir starmer stays on course as he urges his party to seek a decade of National Renewal at the next election. And coming home, again euro 2028 will be jointly hosted by the uk and ireland. And coming up on bbc news england are back on track at the cricket world cup. Reece topley among the wickets, as the defending champions celebrate a comfortable victory over bangladesh. Good evening from jerusalem, where new details are just emerging as weve come on air of the ferocity of the attack by hamas gunmen on Southern Israel last saturday. The Israeli Defence forces have today been recovering the bodies of civilians, including babies, from a rural community, just a mile from the border with gaza. Whole families are reported to have been killed. Israeli soldiers on the ground have described what theyve seen as a massacre. Tonight well hear from our corres
Author dave berry, lets begin where you begin in yourst book is to state ever. What is wrong with the state of florida . We do have a reputation for stupid ear to people, and there are many people doing stupid ear things here. But my argument is it is not our fault. The example i gave, and i know i apologize personally but there was a famous example couple ofcp years ago where a woman was driving south on the overseas highway in the key west and according to the Highway Patrol report was in a hurry to get to key west because she wanted to see her boyfriend and shave her bikini region in preparation so a lot of people would pull off to the side of the road just for that. But again she was in a hurry soh she outsourced the steering of the car to the person who was the passenger whapassenger who s her exhusband. Very florida detail. [laughter] so they are going south, shes operating the accelerator, he ih operating the car and she is shaving. What can go wrong. The car in front of them, o