good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. a massive storm churning along the east coast. this storm is getting stronger. rudy giuliani is ordered to pay $148 million to two former election workers he defamed after the 2020 election, but these women may never see a dime of the money awarded to them. new this morning, the israeli military just announced a tactical pause in fighting in one gaza neighborhood so people there can get desperately needed food and water, but this won t last long. new information about the death of matthew perry. the powerful drug found in his system when he died. we re starting with the severe weather that s threatening millions of people. this powerful storm system bearing down on florida right now, really up the entire east coast. the possibility of flooding and severe winds has prompted florida s governor to activate the national guard. tens of thousands of
Of their europa conference newsnight at 10 30pm, Election Night fever as the bbc gets ready to report the results of a last big vote before the General Election. Will it be boomtime for starmer or doom time the sunak . Good evening. The polls have just closed in local elections across england and wales, the biggest test of political opinion, ahead of the General Election. Police and Crime Commissioners will also being chosen, there are mayoral elections, and a by election in Blackpool South. All the results will be coming in over the next couple of days, with Party Leaders looking for indications, of what a General Election might bring. Well chris is here with his take on what we should be looking out for, over the next 48 hours. Chris. Evening, clive. For the last 15 hours, millions of decisions have been taken and thousands of aspiring Decision Makers politicians await their fate. This is a Patchwork Set of elections around england and wales with a long tail of results, going on unti
Good evening. John swinney looks set to become scotlands new leader after the woman expected to challenge him decided to back him instead. Kate forbes confirmed she would not be standing for the snp leadership after humza yousaf s resignation. Instead, mr swinney, scotlands former deputy First Minister and party leader, has offered her a significant role in his government. Our scotland editor, james cook, reports. Please show your appreciation forjohn swinney. The snp is in trouble divided, distracted and struggling to govern. John swinney says its time to get a grip and he is the man for the job. I could have stood back and hoped others would sort things out. But i care too much about the future of scotland, and the Scottish National party, to walk on by. Youve said there you cant walk on by because, essentially, your party is a disunited mess. What specifically is wrong with it . Well, the party is not cohesive just now. We are not together, we are not operating as one big unified te
as we heard. they are going to try to get them down there as you they can pick up more and more things, get photographs as you mentioned before. very careful mapping of everything there and that is because, obviously there are huge concerns for the families with respect to the people who have passed and everything, but from an engineering standpoint they need to get as close as they can be getting as many pieces as they can to figure out what exactly went wrong. was it the seal here or was it the seal here or was it that window upfront here? did something like that give way and maybe the debris, if you get enough of it, and put it all back together, even if you ve got to do some virtually through photographs, maybe it can tell you what actually went wrong instead of what we think went wrong. at this step, remember, you could have a pinhole problem and that could cause a systemic failure and everything goes to pieces there. the sad truth of it is that they are going to be gathering all
careful mapping of everything there. that s because obviously there are huge concerns for the families and respect for people who passed. from an engineering standpoint, they need to get as close as they can to getting as many pieces as they can to figure out what exactly went wrong. was it the seal here or here or that window up front here? did something like that give way and maybe the debris, if you get enough of it and put it all back together, even if some of it s virtually from photographs, maybe it will tell you what actually went wrong instead of just what you think went wrong because at this depth remember, you could have a pinhole problem and that could cause systemic failure and everything goes to pieces there. the sad truth of it is, though, they ll be gathering all of this evidence truly so close to the titanic itself, the thing that drew these people down there, the titanic which had been sitting there more than a century now, more than 1,500