Told to stay indoors. This footage, where residents were being rescued. This was the scene from the Pilots Seat flying in the eye of the storm as It Hurtled towards southern georgia. Our North America Correspondent David Willis reports. Hurricane helene touched down on Floridas Gulf Coast bringing with it winds of around 130 miles an hour. Officials had warned of potentially catastrophic and unsurvivable coastal Storms Surges, in places the height of a two storey building. Lashing rain proceeded helene s arrival, Flooding Streets and leaving more than half A Million florida homes without power. It was very scary. You know, it was coming in very, very fast, but steady across the island, and then all of a sudden, you know, it was outside. We had sandbags, we had prepared but we heard a Big Bang and the Garage Door caved in and the water came rushing into the house like a giant stream. So we grabbed the dogs and ran as quickly as we could with just what we had and our dogs and that was it
Yesterday. Ill have all the detaIls. Its saturday, 7 september. Our maIn story the PrIme MInIster, SIr KeIr Starmer, Is makIng hIs fIrst offIcIal vIsIt to Ireland today. Hell be In dublIn for talks wIth hIs opposIte number, SImon HarrIs. Theyll dIscuss topIcs IncludIng commerce across the IrIsh Sea And Theyll attend a NatIons League Football match between Ireland and england. Our Ireland Correspondent ChrIs Page reports. At the fIrst meetIng, SIr KeIr Starmer and SImon HarrIs were pIctured havIng a plate. The photo symbolIsed a better relatIonshIp between the two countrIes after some years of straIn. Today, Balgo To watch england take on Ireland In the uefa NatIons League, but beyond Impact on whIch wIll dIsrupt the dIplomacy. In recent weeks he has had trIps to germany and france. BrItIsh PrIme MInIster To MInIster to go to dublIn was borIsjohnson, fIve years ago. RelatIons had cooled sIgnIfIcantly. BrexIt was the major factor. The border wIth Northern Ireland was the uks only frontIe
rescue. tremendous sadness for those families i m sure. thank you. we turn now to startling developments in the amtrak crash investigation. officials say that that train accelerated substantially in the final minute as it hurtled toward that fateful curve going from 70 miles an hour to more than 100 in only a minute. cnn s transportation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh has the very latest for us live in philadelphia. that s an extreme speed-up. reporter: it absolutely is. you know investigators also found that at this point they are no anomalies as it relates to the tracks or even the signals. but as you mentioned this train according to this new data from the train s video cameras instead of slowing down it was speeding up as it was approaching this curve. overnight crews continue to remove the seven cars one by one from the deadly crash site as the ntsb is eager to interview
estimated police chases kill nearly 300 people a year. watch dog groups insist the real number is two to three times that many. law enforcement at its most dramatic and dangerous. in lubbock, texas, last week, a toddler was tossed from the window of a careening suv on the run from police. the child survived. over the weekend, this mercedes reached speeds of 100 miles an hour as it hurtled through the streets of hollywood. it happened really quick, coming up the road against traffic. he clipped this car and it flipped. then he hit a he was swerving towards me. i swerved out of his way. reporter: the vast majority are routine traffic stops gone awry. 90% of them nonviolent offenses. is out worth pursuing? who is going to be harmed? shall we let him go because otherwise we might jeopardize more lives? reporter: the california highway patrol, like police in many communities, recognizes the risk.