Hurricane irma is now pushing up floridas west coast, bringing with it intense rainfall, severe flooding, violent winds and tornadoes. Three people have died since the storm made landfall in the florida keys on sunday. Power supplies have been cut to more than three million homes and businesses. Six Million People have been ordered to leave their homes in the state, while those remaining in several cities are under night time curfew to prevent looting. Irma has been downgraded to a category two hurricane, but officials are warning residents not to under estimate the dangers of storm surges. Miami may have dodged the eye of burma, but the city was still inundated. Irma. Storm surges swamped the financial district. All day sunday, people were told to seek shelter from the Hurricane Force winds. Wind speeds here are still in excess winds. Wind speeds here are still in excess of 90 mph, and up here on the fourth floor while kenny, they are more like 100 mph. Balcony. To give you an idea of
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Millions . But pewdiepie has been forced to apologise again after being caught using a racist slur in one of his videos. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning, the latest breaking news and developing stories. And as always, really keen to hear from you on all the stories were talking about this morning. A little later, well be talking about the Prescription Drug pregabalin and the huge rise in sales on the black market and the devastating impact it has on addicts. Also ,well speak to the christian parents whore threatening to sue their Childrens School because one of the pupils there goes to school some days as a boy and others as a girl use the hashtag victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Hurricane irma has slammed into the west coast of florida, bringing with it intense rainfall, severe flooding, violent winds and tornadoes. At least three people have died since the storm made landfa
Change is fueling more powerful storms and also driving the mass extinction of parasites that are critical to natural ecosystems and could add to the planets si xth mass extinction. We will speak with the elizabeths winning author and scientist colin carlson. Then we look at hurricanene irs impactct on haiti and the caribbean. Hurriricane irma is the strongest and largest storm ever that has come out of the atlantic. It caused devastation throughout haitiribbean, texas, and was severely damaged by this. Amy y and we will hear voices f the earthquake in mexico. The survivors. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least four people have died and nearly 6 Million People are without t power in florida after Hurricane Irma made landfall on sunday on the florida keys as a category 4 hurricane. The storm also flooded the streets of downtown miami, turning the citys main strip brickell avenue, into a , threefoot
Change is fueling more powerful storms and also driving the mass extinction of parasites that are critical to natural ecosystems and could add to the planets si xth mass extinction. We will speak with the elizabeths winning author and scientist colin carlson. Then we look at hurricanene irs impactct on haiti and the caribbean. Hurriricane irma is the strongest and largest storm ever that has come out of the atlantic. It caused devastation throughout haitiribbean, texas, and was severely damaged by this. Amy y and we will hear voices f the earthquake in mexico. The survivors. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least four people have died and nearly 6 Million People are without t power in florida after Hurricane Irma made landfall on sunday on the florida keys as a category 4 hurricane. The storm also flooded the streets of downtown miami, turning the citys main strip brickell avenue, into a , threefoot