hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin with breaking news from the us. prince harry says he and his wife were involved in a near catastrophic car chase with paparazzi on tuesday evening. let s show you the pictures that have just come in. let s show you the pictures that havejust come in. a let s show you the pictures that have just come in. a warning there is flash photography from the start. they show prince harry and meghan leaving a gala in new york. a spokesperson for the couple say that they and the duchess s mother were relentlessly pursued for two hours, they said the chase resulted in near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two nypd officers. let s head back to the newsroom and our royal correspondent sarah campbell who is monitoring all of this for us. for anyonejoining us here on bbc news, just bring us right up to speed in terms of the statement and the additional details you have learned. indeed. as you saw from those pictures, thi
is yet to come and on day one of their re-election campaign, vice president kamala harris makes it clear she won t shy away from the campaign spotlight, so why are both her supporters and her critics cheering we re also keeping an eye on the white house where president biden will be holding a joint press conference with the president of south korea we are now hearing from the white house that should roughly start 30 minutes from now. we begin in new york where two trials involving former president trump are unfolding just blocks apart, and in both cases, prosecutors and judges are going to extraordinary lengths to protect the ordinary people working on them their concern that those people could be singled out by trump or his supporters by harassment, intimidation or personal attacks. donald trump just got a warning from the jungdge for going afte the woman suing him on social media. we re not just talking about the civil case in trump s criminal trial, prosecutors filed
The 18th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina passed just over a week ago and people all over the south are still recovering from the aftermath. Learn about how Katrina affected both
to rethink the entire better prepared? i believe we need to rethink the entire system - better prepared? i believe we need to rethink the entire system of- to rethink the entire system of protection at the systemic level, because this kind of event as i was saying before put the entire system to a severe test, and luckily this event was forecast, forecast correctly, but very unluckily, this event comes just two weeks after an equivalent lease severe storm that basically saturated river catchment and all the levee systems that protect the flood plains. so basically if we couple these two events, in reality, in 36 plus 48 hours, we have recorded the amount of rain that normally falls for half of rain that normally falls for half of the year, meaning that we had in four days half of the rainfall we
those unprotected residents and businesses are getting flooded, and they re flooded out. the crest will be as we go throughout the end of this week through the weekend, and then the middle of next week, and so again, this has only taken us from southern minnesota, not even to st. louis. so the water flows slowly down the mississippi, chris again, she said slow moving disaster for those areas that aren t protected by the levees, that s what they re witnessing. while we have this extraordinary large hail in the south, saw the comparison to the baseball, and also potential tornados, how long is that going to last? mostly today, a little bit tomorrow even florida had this incredible hail storms the last two days. here s dallas, we re going to be watching you closely another thunderstorm is about to go through the fort worth area in a half hour from now. we have the chance for large hail and tornados. the threat for florida will exist for even large hail again. it s a huge area, it s pr