swift boats, all ready to move in and begin to go door-to-door when it is clear enough to be able to do so. power outages have slammed half a million. that is the latest number that we have over the course of this hour that we re now in. floridians on the ground as ian barrels towards their homes, their businesses. we have people all across the state with updates about different sections of the state, what it feels like, what s going on there. fox team coverage with all of our great weather team out there spread across the state as well. we begin with katie burn who is in orlando. katie, what can you tell us from where you are? all right. let s go to max gordon first. max is in tampa bay. max, tell us what you re seeing where you are. hi, martha. so we ve been hearing a lot about the storm surge concerns in the fort myers area. but up here where we are on the north end of the storm, we ve seen an erie sight along old tampa bay. we ve seen what is known as reverse storm surg
daily beast reporting the georgia republican senator and antichoice candidate herschel walker paid for his then girlfriend s abortion in 2009. the daily beast has now reported that that woman is also the mother of one of her four children. we re going to have more reporting on that later in the show. republicans however continue to shop and recent polling says that he is in a tight race with the democratic incumbent, senator raphael warnock. there is one october surprise that could change the course of the midterm elections, and it s coming from over 70,000 miles away. in saudi arabia, opec plus, the alliance of oil producing nations led by saudi arabia and russia, announced a 2 million barrels per day cut in oil production yesterday. opec plus decision could lead to a potential spike in gas prices, just 33 days before the midterms. today, president joe biden had a one word reaction to opec plus s decision, disappointment. what is your reaction to the opec plus decision?
producing countries to increase their oil output. ali she hobby, a study analyst, told the new york times that it is certainly not a hostile, anti biden act. it has nothing to do with biden, it is to keep the price in unacceptable band. and quote. okay. so how should we analyze this set of facts? the summer, saudi arabia paid former president donald trump to host a tournament at his golf courses, which is a move much criticized as so called sports washing, attempting to launder its reputation on human rights abuses with people who don t care about that sort of thing. people like the former president, who bragged to reporter bob woodward that he, quote, saved mohammed bin salman, after a saudi death squad had washington post reporter killed and dismembered with a bunch of. his words, as quoted in woodward s book called rage, i saved his ass, i was able to get congress to leave him alone. i was able to get them to stop. and quote. those were trump s actual words about helping a
let s take you through what today will look like. the current prime minister, liz truss, held her fourth and final cabinet meeting starting about an hour ago. she is due to make a statement outside number 10 at around 10:15, before travelling to buckingham palace for an audience with king charles. after this, rishi sunak will head to the palace, where he ll be invited to form a government. then it s back to downing street, and the new prime minister will address the nation at around 11:35. and over the next 2a hours, we can expect to see a trickle of cabinet appointments which will start to shape what rishi sunak s government will look like. of course, not just of course, notjust appointments, but the message too. what is the message is likely to be when he appears at the podium which is just being put up behind us? first of all four at liz truss, then for a rishi sunak later on. keeping us company throughout the morning as we follow these events is nick eardley, our chief po
to the war in ukraine during his christmas day message. hello and welcome to bbc news. more than a million americans and canadians are facing christmas day without power as a winter storm continues to barrel its way across north america. the so called bomb cyclone has brought heavy snow, strong winds, and freezing temperatures. at least 20 people have died because of icy roads, and high winds uprooted trees. howard johnson reports. subzero temperatures. ..whiteouts. .. ..and flooding. from toronto to new orleans, north america is experiencing a winter storm of epic proportions. nearly 250 million americans and canadians are believed to be affected, with more than 1.5 million people without power. thousands of flights have been cancelled and major roads closed, ruining christmas travel plans. a 46 car pile up in ohio left four dead. while in kansas city, one person died when their car plunged into an icy creek. in hard hit new york state, driving has been banned to prevent fur