Hello, and welcome to st pauls cathedral, in the heart of the City Of London for a service of prayer and reflection in thanksgiving for the life of Queen Elizabeth ii. The service will open with the first address to the whole country by king charles iii. The congregation here will represent the mass of the people to whom he will speak from now on. From north to south, east to west. Because, unlike most State Celebrations or commemorations, the cathedral is not filled with those that are hereby reason of rank or status. The Prime Minister will give a reading. But all afternoon, crowds have been queueing up outside, because almost everybody here in this Wonderful Church have simply turned up because they want to be here. Access has been for anyone who can get to this place today. And as, outside buckingham palace, all day the crowds have been flowing around the crowds have been flowing around the cathedral, they want to take part. It is clear that this will be a service with a character
keep coming. willie? yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in some areas. more than 2.5 million people under evacuation orders along parts of coastal florida. the powerful storm passed the florida keys last night causing a couple of tornadoes and some damage there. officials say there also is significant flooding across that area. yesterday the hurricane battered western cuba knocking outing the island s electrical grid, causing a nation-wide blackout. offic
the u.s. economy, which used to be the envy of the world is in the most serious trouble since the great depression. inflation is rising, standard of living is declining. tremendous inflation and not much growth. the country was not in a great depression but the united states is in the dumps. wall street was cold, gray, wet, and miserable. there was no comfort to be found outside for investors there was not much inside. the tickers carried almost nothing but bad news. we would have a terrible decade for investing. people were skeptical of the stock market. it was a sleepy wall street. most economists expect a serious recession with at least 2 million more americans losing their jobs. regret to say we are in the worst economic mess since the great depression. from the first moment of his presidency, president reagan let him know that his top priority is the nation s economy. i put a freeze on pending regulations of the task force under vice president bush to revie
former president s legal team, slows down the investigation into the thousands of pages from mar-a-lago on august 8th, hundreds marked classified. after a nearly two-hour court session and a long weekend to think about it, she made her decision writing a special master shall be appointed to review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendtations and evaluate claims for the return of property. she continues the government is en joined from further review and use of the materials seized from plaintiff s residence, pending review. the government may continue to review the materials seized for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessment. to determine the classification levels of the documents will not stop, it will continue. doj can continue its classification assessment. actual investigation slows down. no comment from the department of justice at this hour but it is certainly possible for the doj to appeal the ruling to
provide more details from its closed-door interview with former white house counsel, pat cipollone. he testified friday for eight hours. yesterday at the south said cipollone reinforced alleged misconduct by trump, adding that his testimony included information that demonstrates the former presidents, quote, supreme dereliction of duty. a member of the committee explaining more of cipollone s testimony this morning on meet the press. he made very clear that he took the side of many of the folks we have already seen come before the committee. and he was asserting that there was not enough evidence to prove that the election was not free and fair. and that the right thing to do, i think, for a democracy is to have a peaceful transfer of power, especially after december 14th, when the states have certified their electors. also new today, former trump strategist steve bannon says he is now open to testifying before the committee. he resisted requests and defied subpoenaed,