Now on the last word with lawrence o donnell. Good evening, we will get to andrew weissmann and other news, but we will begin with the hurricane. As you just heard from alex wagner, there are 600,000 people are ready without power. We will go straight to nbc news meteorologist bill karins at this hour for the latest on exactly what the track of the storm is. What do you see coming? we are in the impact his own. We are now watching the northern eye move onshore and it is like the equivalent of a tornado that is 40 miles wide that is now moving into florida and it will knock down everything in its path if it is not made of concrete or brick. You can see where the storm is. It has intensified all afternoon and all evening long. It is a solid category 4, almost to the higher end of category 4. The hurricane hunters said it is still intensifying right up until landfall. This is the coast and where the really destructive winds are and now they are starting to close in on populated areas. Thi
Breaking news and good evening. I m erin burnett outfront tonight. The breaking news unsurvivable. That is the exact word officials are using right now, as hurricane helene has now grown to an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, bringing with it potentially really historic storm surge levels right now expected at 20 feet. Let s just look at the scene right now is a live camera that we have in met lots of florida trees right there right now, you ve got up to 130 an hour gusts coming through that area on that bridge. We have seen cars coming and going really even in these past few moments, which is pretty stunning. Many bridges have already been closed. This is the skyway bridge, as you re looking here, which is now completely submerged. Imagine being in one of those cars. And right now, darkness is descending on the area more than 200,000 people in the dark without power right now, there is a sheriff asking people who do not evacuate to write their name and date of birth on the
Just hours after World Leaders at the united nations called for a 21 day ceasefire. These are the latest pictures were getting from lebanon. The idf says strikes happened in beqqa, close to the syrian border, and Southern Lebanon, and targeted weapons depots, rocket launchers, and military buildings. Israel says it has struck more than 2000 hezbollah targets in lebanon over the past few days. The lebanese Health Ministry said more than 70 people were killed by israeli Air Strikes on wednesday 00v allies including the us, uk and eu issued a joint statement for a pause in the fighting for what they said would provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement and a ceasefire in gaza. It follows a meeting at the Un General Assembly in new york. Yair lapid, leader of Israels Opposition Party yesh atid, says israel should accept the ceasefire proposal, but only for seven days. But its a view not shared by bezalel smotrich, the far right minister of finance in Benj
So, what do we know about hezbollah s capabilities . Bbc verify s Nawal Al Maghafi has more. Wednesdays attack by hezbollah is believed to be the first time ever that a ballistic missile from the armed group has been launched towards tel aviv. Let me take you through the details of the attack and why it symbolises such a significant escalation. This video, filmed from eastern tel aviv, was posted around 6. 1i0am on Social Media and it shows the moments after the single surface to Air Missile was intercepted by israel using its Air Defence system. This white plume of smoke is where the missile had been intercepted. There were no casualties or injuries reported as a result of the attack. In a statement, hezbollah confirmed that it launched the missile. It said it was targeting the headquarters of israels intelligence agency, mossad, which it believes is in this location, north of tel aviv. Hezbollah also said that mossad was responsible for assassinating leaders and blowing up pagers and
The bbc has heard harrowing testimony for the first time from a woman who says she was raped by the former Harrods Owner mohamed Al Fayed when she was 16. He has said that it was. He goes on to say. The statement goes on. Lets talk through their statement and its significance with our reporter. Louise, this is a very strongly worded statement from the current boss of Harrods. Statement from the current boss of Harrods of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the current of Harrods. Absolutely, ben. This is the current boss this is the current boss apparent distancing himself as the bus from the former boss mohamed Al Fayed and distancing his company, the business Harrods from the former. There were strongly worded statements within this. Toxic culture, he talks are, of secrecy, fear of repercussion and Sexual Misconduct. He talks of his personal horror, a very strong word, of what happened in terms of these allegations and what i need to make clear