appeal for the flooding catastrophe that s killed more than a thousand people and affected 30 million. the head of the institute for fiscal studies labels some of liz truss s tax cutting policies as worrying and inadequade for dealing with rising energy costs. a rapid rise in vaping over the past decade reaches record levels in great britain with an estimated li.3 million people taking up the habit. and. after a two year pause due the pandemic, europe s largest street party kicks off its final day at the notting hill carnival in west london. now on bbc news.hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. we humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. how do we feed a global population heading toward 10 billion?
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my name is jamir dixon and i m a locafor pg&e.rk fieldman most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg&e. my truck is something new. it s an 811 truck. when you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our gas lines and our electric lines to make sure that you don t hit them when you re digging. 811 is a free service. i m passionate about it because every time i go on the street i think about my own kids. they re the reason that i want to protect our community and our environment, and if me driving a that truck means that somebody gets to go home safer, then i ll drive it every day of the week. together, we re building a better california. we are following multiple breaking stories this hour. stand by for more on the flooding catastrophe in texas. right now we have breaking news out of north korea. kim jong-un s regime following up on a provocative missile launch over japan by making a new threat aimed at the united states. cnn s will ripley is the only weste
that. that he was different. he was a wizard leaving among muggles upon muggles. good cover. we have new information about the damage caused by hurricane irene. there are at least 40 confirmed deaths in 11 states. more than 7.4 million power outages along the east coast. and according to one estimate, up to $10 billion in damage. in the catskills region, state and local emergency responders have carried out more than 190 rescues since the storm began. one official says vermont is facing a flooding catastrophe, the worst in 83 years, after irene dumped up to 15 inches of rain in the state. roughly 250 roads are washed out, at least three bridges are covered with rainfall. we ll go to the weather channel s report with the little from vermont.
inland flooding in several areas that we saw today. cat skills, mid hudson, where the rainfall set records, the flood levels have set records, and the amount of damage is devastating in some areas, and will get worse before it gets better. we have had as a result of this storm and our state is far more complicated than it was in the 50s or even in 1985, so this is going to take some period of time. that of course is connecticut s govern dan malloy he ll join us later on morning joe with an update on how his state is recovering from hurricane irene. we go back to vermont where rainfall from irene dumped up to 15 inches of rain causing what at least one official calls a flooding catastrophe, the state s worst in 83 years. roughly 250 roads are washed