Halt an influx of migrants crossing over from france it is putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prize kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners in the field of physiology or medicine this year it is a trio of virologists harvey j. Altera Michael Houghton and charles and rice the panel at the institute in stockholm awarded them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus the medicine prize carries a particular significance this year with the corona virus pens and make highlighting the importance of medical research for societies and economies around the world. So lets get more with 5 correspondent Eric Williams who is here with us in the studio so tell us more about the winners and whether you were surprised with this choice well to be honest im almost always surprised i mean ive been doing this for a lot of years and there are
Once again along the gulf coast. The story of this storm, this hurricane will be that of the flooding rainfall. Were talking about a catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding situation. As you mentioned from southern mississippi all the way over into southern alabama including the mobile area, also into the panhandle of florida where the conditions have been very serious out towards pensacola. Now the wind, intensity of the storm coming down, moves further inland this afternoon. It is slowly crawling inland, neil. Only five miles an hour. It means relentless rain will continue over the same hours for hours and hours, resulting in that flooding. If that flooding that were alerting people and businesses to across the southeastern United States as the storm continues to move off to the north and east, that risk for serious flooding is going expand into georgia and up towards the carolinas the next couple days. It is really important that people and businesses be prepared in those areas. T
That region. This was disrupted by the storm. Jeff flock first with whats going on in lake charles, louisiana, i saw the wind whipping around a little earlier today, jeff and that looked pretty strong. That looked very strong. Reporter pardon maya experience but ive been in a hurricane and youre absolutely right and how strong . Well, look what its done. I mean, power lines down, trees everywhere. Look at this tree here. Im always fascinated by up close and personal with these things. Thats the definition there, of a tree snapped like a match stick. 150mile an hour winds can you see what it did through that house . Right down through the middle of the house and this is a story in a lot of places. Everything, you know, trees everywhere down, power lines down. They are going to be forever trying to get the power back restored here, and i think these are one off. Every house that i have seen, i said this two hours ago and ive been looking at houses since then, and ever since then, ive not
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Good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the first meeting of the year, the january 13th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor ronan, and seated to my right is supervisor catherine stefani, and seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. And we are joined by supervisor shamon walton. I would like to thank our clerk and those from s. F. Gov. Tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please silence all electronic devices. Speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 28thf supervisors agenda. Item number one is a hearing to considering appointing one member term ending 2023, to the Oversight Committee. One seat, one applicant. Chairwoman hi. Is atori laou here . A beautiful name, did i pronounce it correctly . Yes. Chairwoman is good. Come on up. Do you have any presentation or thoughts you want to share with us. I would like to introduce myself a