Got failed is coming up into minutes, first this update residents of the big bend gulf coast of florida who have not already evacuated are weathering the worst of hurricane helene tonight the major category 4 storm now expected to make landfall in about 1 hour in a region that has been battered by big storms the last couple of years the senior correspondent steve harrigan is live on the ground in crystal river, florida, up here it how are the conditions where you are right now? the wind has definitely picked up in the last hour appeared we ve seen gusts knock down some street signs up your kiss is going to come to show sure as a category 4 storm. It s good to be a huge storm also. The effects will be felt not just in florida but in georgia and the carolinas as well there are also concerned about a storm surge that could reach 20 feet in some places. That s being called on survivable. Evacuations have been in effect of the past 2 days here. Cruise are set to go out as is the national gu
Presidential endorsement that both candidates have been angling to lock down for weeks now. And it turns out neither one of them is getting it. An an election that is marked by an allout fight for Blue Collar voters. The teamsters silence rings louder than really any endorsement could tonight. The leadership declared during that theyre not backing Vice President harris or former president Donald Trump. The republican Nominee Tonight tried to claim otherwise earlier today, i was honored to receive The Endorsement of the Rankandfile Membership of the teamsters. I love that endorsement comes from the leadership of the teamsters, but well talk more about that in a moment. But just to give you a sense of how much trump was trying to woo the Teamsters President Sean Obrien, he gave him a Prime Time Speaking Slot at the republican national convention. Any reaction with the Teamsters Decision not to endorse know they are. I particularly daughter is there not going to endorse the democrats its
Tonight, a major presidential endorsement that both candidates have been angling to lock down for weeks now. And it turns neither one of them is getting it. An election that is marked by an allout fight for blue collar voters. The teamsters silence brings louder than really any endorsement could tonight. The leadership declaring that they re not backing vice president harris or former president donald trump. So the republican nominee tonight tried to claim otherwise earlier today, i was honored to receive the endorsement of the rank rankandfile membership of the teamsters. I loved that tapes of course, the endorsement comes from the leadership of the teamsters, but we ll talk more about that in a moment. But just to give you a sense of how much trump was trying to woo the teamsters president sean o brien, he gave him a prime time speaking slot at the republican national convention. Any reaction to teamsters decision not to endorse know they i particularly to honor their not going to en
It s fu him to end this but today was about having the chance to not talk about a tactic but a strategy in relation to ukraine. Russia s president vladimir putin says lifting these restrictions would represent the nato alliance s direct participation in the ukraine war. We heard the same argument from russia s representative at the un. Translation: if the decision to lift restrictions is really taken, from that moment, nato countries are conducting direct war with russia. In this case, we will have to take the relevant decisions with all the consequences for this that the western aggressors were phase. Ukraine very much wants to be able to use these weapons. Our security correspondent gordon corera explains why. These are the western weapons at the heart of today s debate. They include american atacms and this, the british storm shadow system, which has a range of at least 250 kilometres. Storm shadow has already been used by ukraine against a russian base in occupied crimea last year,
Doing so would be a serious escalation of the war, but Keir Starmer said moscow started the conflict and can end it by withdrawing its troops from ukraine. Our Political Editor Chris Mason was on the prime Ministers Plane, and sent this report shortly after landing. The Prime Minister arriving here in washington with the foreign secretary, David Lammy Sir Keir Starmer s second visit to the White House in two months. Ukraines allies remain rather guarded in their public remarks about a change in policy on the use of Western Missiles inside russia. But the diplomatic dashing to arrive at a decision is in plain sight and that has proved enough for President Putin to say this. Translation if this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than direct participation of nato countries, the United States, I European countries. In the war in ukraine. It is their direct participation and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence of the conflict. This will mean that nato countries