welcome to the programme. amid the turmoil in uk markets this week, the chancellor met the us banks today and was told in no uncertain terms that his budget which he has planned for november is way too far away . the government needs to communicate much sooner, said the banks, on what the solution will be to the problem the city believes they created. it has been another chaotic day on the markets. this morning, the bank of england performed a screeching u turn, putting the brakes on its plan to sell government bonds and instead launching a new scheme to buy them. think of it as a form of digital money printing. the bank is creating funds to to buy bonds which the government issues to borrow money. and this is why. since the mini budget, the cost of government borrowing long term has shot up. it was spiralling above 5%. that s a 20 year high. we have seen rises in the last two days that would normally take years. the bank of england is buying up the debt, in essence creating
every single race is the most important thing. we haven t looked at all of them but each one is urgent, specifically. thank you chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. i want to start tonight with the kind of seems like a small thing, it s one of those small things that when you scratch the surface a little bed starts to look like the symptom of a larger problem. vice president kamala harris was in a car accident on monday, in washington. don t worry, everyone s fine no one was hurt, it was a one car accident, meaning that what happened was the car she was traveling and ran into something. here s the washington post described it. the secret service agent driving harrison an suv struck the curb of a downtown tunnel hard enough that the vehicles tire needed to be replaced, bringing the motorcade to a standstill. harris had to be transferred to another vehicle in the motorcade so agents can safely spirit or to the white house. like i said, small incident
and trajectory. it s expected to bring a catastrophic storm surge with winds over 150 miles per hour. the wind speed right now at 155 miles per hour. just shy of a category five storm. the eye of the storm is expected to churn somewhere between 40 meyers and venice, just south of where i am right now. hurricane ian has spawned multiple tornados in southern florida. a wide swath of florida is on alert through 5:00 p.m. today. already, alread more than 100,000 people are without power. more than 2 million people are under evacuation orders. hurricane ian is roiling seas. a big clue for what hurricane ian is capable of, cuban authorities has said the entire island has lost power. urgency and anticipation of the storm has mounted as we expect a very busy hour ahead. we ll hear from tampa s mayor in 30 minutes. we ll be speaking with sarasota officials on their own storm preparations and fema s assistant administrator. 30 minutes ago we heard from president biden. this storm is
that cop to shoothim in his back. there are more questionsthan there are answers. jennifer: this was coming. there was too muchrage in everybody and it s beengoing on for years. steven: next thing i know,i picked up a brick and threw it straightthrough the window. (upbeat music) (protestors chanting) r: it all began on a noteof prayer and mourning for 15 year old phillippannell, shot to death by policeon tuesday night. natacha: it was apeaceful vigil. everybody just wanted tocome together and find out, like, why did this happen? then the evening came. the crowd was getting angry.the police were pushing back. and then that s whenthe riot broke out. william: the night of the riot,i was there. very, very quickly,it just got out of control. people werethrowing rocks, broke windows inthe police building. bryan: i ve gotpeople that they re inside in fear of their life. we tore up everythingin our path. i wanted that policestation to be burned down. that s how i felt. you know, i me
and in ukraine, ukraine racking up more battlefield devastation. that is what we re watching at this hour. the search for survivors in florida, rescuers going door-to-door in neighborhoods decimated by hurricane ian still nearly 2,000 have been rescued so far an the death toll from this monster storm jumping to more than 100 people now. more than half of the deaths are in one county alone, lee county. the sheriff there is about to hold a press conference. we re going to bring you that live when it begins, when it happens. there is so much tragedy from this storm. we ve seen this for days now. but we re also hearing incredible stories of survival. a fort myers man who clung to a palm tree for hours as the storm surge flooded everything in site. his daughter fearing the worst after their last desperate phone call. they re now reunited and they will join us this hour. let s get started with the very latest on the recovery. boris sanchez is live in fort myers. in this press con