It has just been downgraded to a category three storm, but its still capable of wind speeds approaching 200 kph. The storm has killed three people over the weekend. These are live pictures from florida, where the streets are deserted, as you can see. Officials are warning that the Emergency Services simply cannot help anybody who are still out in that storm. More than 2 million homes and businesses are now without power. The greatest danger is likely to come from storm surges. Pushing water inland. Much of the financial district of miami is now under water. At least two construction cranes have come crashing down on buildings. Curfews will now go into force in tampa and St Petersburg in the next couple of hours. Only hours before it finally hit florida keys, Hurricane Irma became more powerful. That rate here is the road in front of our house. This surge, iam road in front of our house. This surge, i am going to go with seven feet. Bryan cooper will is one of those who defied the order
A Postcode Lottery in Psychiatric Care across the uk. Medical experts claim people with Mental Health problems are losing out because of a lack of specialist consultants. Good morning. We are at a gardening exhibition. It is an Industry Worth £5 billion in the economy, and one thatis £5 billion in the economy, and one that is growing. I will have information shortly. In sport, chris froome creates more history on two wheels. He adds the tour of spain to his four Tour De France titles in a year he calls hes best ever. From a rocket on two wheels to the future of space travel. Well be live ahead of the launch of the uks largest rocket. And matt has the weather. Good morning. Good morning. While irma weekends, a blustery week in store for england. Weakens. I will have the forecast for you coming up in 15 minutes. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story. Hurricane irma is battering the west coast of florida, bringing with it intense rainfall, severe flooding, violent winds and tor
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
Time for a look at the weather, with lucy martin. Good afternoon. In the last few minutes, Hurricane Irma has been downgraded to a tropical on. It is heading northwards, as we move through the day. Still plenty of rainfall to come through the next few hours. But it is a quieter story across the uk today. We do have low pressure in charge, and that means weve got a fairly brisk north westerly breeze. And this morning, we started off with a mixture of sunny spells and showers, some of those showers fairly heavy. They will be making their way south eastwards and in between them there will be some good sunshine. Thats how it will stay as we move through this afternoon, a mixture of sunny spells and showers. The wind slightly easing on what we saw this morning, but still slightly breezy. The showers across england and wales do have the potential to be quite heavy. They could contain some lightning and thunder. In between, some spells of sunshine. For Northern Ireland, Northern England and s
School. The parents of a six year old child threaten to sue their sons school, after boys were allowed to come to class wearing dresses. 0n the anniversary of 9 11, President Trump appears alongside the first lady to pay tribute to the nearly 3,000 who died. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The us state of florida has been battered by Hurricane Irma, which has destroyed more homes and caused widespread damage. At least four people have been killed and more than half of all homes and businesses in the state are without power. Parts of miami are under water. The hurricane has swept up from the caribbean, where it killed dozens of people and wreaked terrible damage. Over the weekend, it hit cu bas northern coast. Irma then moved north, battering the islands in the florida keys, before passing by miami and close to the coastal city of tampa. The storm which has now been downgraded to a Tropical Storm is heading north, towards the state of georgia. 0urfirst report is from daniela rel