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lots of problem this morning across central and northern scotland. snow. things will not properly improve until we get into tonight. even then it will stay very windy. you will be very busy today. thank you very much indeed. and there s another cobra emergency meeting today to discuss the impact of the storms. our political correspondent helen cattjoins me now. what sort of things are they talking about in terms of making preparations? about in terms of making re arations? , , ,., preparations? this is the government emeruen preparations? this is the government emergency committee, preparations? this is the government emergency committee, cobra, - preparations? this is the government| emergency committee, cobra, which gets called when there is an emergency to respond to. there was a meeting yesterday and another this afternoon. the membership of cobra changes depending on the emergency they are responding to. this one will be chaired by cabinet office minister michael ellis. his
going to happen in eastern ukraine, because that has been going on for a long time and they are accustomed to some degree of tension on the eastern border. but in kyiv, when they ousted the pro-russian government. it did seem like people were trying to convince themselves that he was not going to be a target, despite reporting in the last week that has said that the russians will go for kyiv in some fashion. and speaking to people here, they have been making preparations. they have been taking this are extraordinarily seriously. even though, in recent weeks, the ukrainian government had been downplaying the threat. saying that a full scale invasion would not happen. people here were taking those western intelligence assessments extremely seriously. they were preparing for the worst. and i was out in a suburb in kyiv one evening, watching as you ukrainians were learning things, such as having first
of clear indication right now. one thing i would say, though, you can see that there are a lot of second hand shops here where people sell furniture and these shops have been filling up in the last few weeks due to the amount of people who are leaving and i spoke to a local tailor in my neighbourhood who says that he had had no work in the last month or so. he said, because people are leaving, no one is making any plans, if they can leave, they are leaving and if they are stuck here, the making preparations for the worst, really. tell]! here, the making preparations for the worst, really. the worst, really. tell us more about the the worst, really. tell us more about the taliban the worst, really. tell us more about the taliban tactics - the worst, really. tell us more about the taliban tactics and l the worst, really. tell us more i about the taliban tactics and what they are bringing to the areas they have overrun and what the feeling is in other areas where there is a fear that
hurricane. julian is live in melbourne florida. up dated information from when we saw you guys yesterday. the mandatory evacuations for the barrier islands where we are right now was supposed to go into effect at 8:00 this morning, that has been pushed back to 8:00 tomorrow morning. the or lan orlando international airport will are flights today and today. this is the scene we re seeing play out across the area. you can see businesses, homes are boarded up. it seems like right now 50% of businesses and homes boarded up. take a look at this video that we shot yesterday of a homeowner, a couple out there, they boarded up their home, they re making preparations. and as you can see, they have a message for dorian. take a listen to what they have to say. we re just want him to take a hike and go some place else. it s disconcerting not knowing