rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, is there and they promise they will bring back the rate of interest tax to fund nhs staff. other news this afternoon. a moment of history in italy georgia meloni looks set to become its first far right leader since the second world war and its first female prime minister. a school shooting in russia has left at least 13 people dead, seven of them children. and nasa prepare to crash a space probe into an asteroid to find out how hard it would be to save the planet. welcome to bbc news, very good to have your company and it is going to be a busy afternoon. the pound fell overnight to its lowest level against the dollar for half a century. asian markets were reacting in part to the government s announcement last week of tax cuts and increased borrowing to pay for them. of course, that had come too late for their trading week on friday. at one stage, sterling plunged to around $1.03, before regaining ground. a weaker pound raises the cost
even the middle keys could be 2 to 3 feet. you will certainly get some very fast water flowing through the cuts there, especially in the lower and the middle keys. but where it goes from there is the size of this cone getting bigger and bigger and it is because this is the average error times a little bit. so two-thirds of the storm should fall into this cone. this is a completely different storm if this side of the cone is involved. this is a different storm for tampa if this side of the cone is involved. i think everybody is kind of looking down the middle because the computer models are trying to figure it out. the gfs, the american model, was way out west, started charging to the east. the european model is way over here, started charging to the west and now they re literally only 50 to 75 miles apart. so that kind of gives you a good runway. it also gives us a good runway if that actually occurs what the storm surge threat might be. from tampa to inglewood, bonita spring
forecasters expect ian to intensify into a major hurricane in the next 24 hours before it makes landfall somewhere along florida s west coast. ian poses a formidable storm surge threat for the tampa area. let s begin with chad myers, he has the latest hurricane center advisory. and chad, something that i found interesting here, officials were saying there is a higher than usual unpredict ability about how strong this storm will be and where it is going to land. true. and i think we re getting we re anxious. we want this to be perfect. we want all of the models to line up and say this is what is going to happen and that hasn t happened. a few models on the right and the left, not really agreeing. so an 80 mile per hour storm at the 11:00 advisory two minutes ago. the storm does move across cuba overnight and into the southwestern part of florida with winds and waves already on shore by 8:00 wednesday morning. there will already be wind. but the storm is still growing. wher
called a january 6th rioter. plus, what new text messages from mark meadows reveal, and why a former congressman pressed the january 6th committee to press the wife of a supreme court justice. ten straight days of protest in iran for a woman killed over a hijab. now the regime is out with its own crowds pushing a different narrative. welcome to the lead i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with politics lead, we are less than 48 hours away from the next public january 6th committee hearing. cnn is learning about text messages from then trump chaief of staff mark meadows linking the white house with a pro trump operative who was trying to seize voting machines. we re going to have more on this exchange in just a moment. we re also learning about new links between the white house and a rioter on january 6th. denver riggleman who was an adviser to the january 6th committee is telling cbs 60 minutes. riggleman will join us on the lead in a moment. cnn s sara murr