hello there and welcome along to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. history for djokovic, but not as he d like it, at the french open. the world number one with a new benchmark for a late finish in paris. the centre of attention jude bellingham basks in the glory of champions league success. his england team mates can t wait to see him back. and success, at last, for laurie canter, as the englishman has the edge in a tight field at the european open. hello there and welcome along to sportsday. that s all to come, but we start with news that s reached us in the last half an hour or so that rugby league legend rob burrow has died. he was 41 years old. burrow was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, just two years after he ended his playing career with rugby league side leeds rhinos. he, his family and his great friend and former team mate kevin sinfield have raised millions of pounds for mnd charities. sally nugent reports. rob burrow s life is defined by his defiance of
ridiculing the effort by the special counsel to have a gag order in play put in place on the former president. they re calling it an unconstitutional overreach by the special counsel. and their say this is actually a ploy to help joe biden in the election. i ll read you some of what this filing said tonight. it says like manhattan district attorney alvin bragg jack smith is seeking to restrict president trump s camp campaign speed as the first presidential debate approaches at the end of the month, that s of course the debate that s going to be here on cnn then later this month, they go on to say the following. they say that the motion is a naked effort to impose totalitarian censorship of core political speech under threat of incarceration in a clear attempt to silent president s silence, president trump s arguments to the american people about the outrageous nature of this investment and prosecution. and look, what the former president s lawyers are really homing in on. and
Person who is shooting at cars on the highway. More visibility is hamper lower visibility is hampering results from getting survivors. The vessel made a distress call just before 9 00 a. M. Local time on wednesday and tipped over. There were 462 people on board. Peop Officials Say six people have died and hundreds are missing reporter the early stages of this disaster were filled with terror for the passengers as the ferry lurched ever further on to its side but with some hope the rescue operation was underway swiftly survivors were plucked from the ship. As they came ashore, the government Response Center said 368 had been saved, 107 still missing. I held the handrail and moved toward the right of the ferry to try to get at a time helicopter. Rubbish bins were floating around me. The water came up to my neck. For the parents who waf he had waves their children off and were told they were all rescued. Officials miscalculated. Fewer than 80 were confirmed safe, 300 passengers missing. T
The winds have picked up considerably in just the last few minutes, thank you, what is going on there . It looks like you have to hold on to stand up . You really do, sean, and we almost got blown over here. It gives you a sense of the power of this storm, it keeps increasing. And the people here who are either watching their homes and their communities on television or those who have decided to write it out just have a long, long way to go. Florence has slowed down now and its just creeping along, where nearly when you are in an area like this that is the worst of the worst, it only lasts a couple of hours. This is going to be 24 hours of Hurricane Force winds that we are just now really feeling the real effect self. To the rising tide is coming in. It is a terrible combination with the storm surge that will certainly destroy the dock and send these Dock Sessions into town to destroy everything and anything in the path. And watch the rain come down, it
will be 40 inches of rain which
Storm florence. All of our crews are out in it. Well be bringing all of this information to you. Our breaking News Coverage our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac360. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening. Im Anderson Cooper in willing, North Carolina. The story has been wailg rain and rain and more rain. Were seeing the heaviest band of rain just in the last ten minutes or so hitting this area down by the cape fear river. Five people have died so far in this storm. Five people. Five lives lost. Hundreds of people have had to be rescued from their homes. Some here in wilmington. Others in new bern and elsewhere. There have been rescues going on last night throughout today and no doubt will continue tonight. Well be talking to some rescuers in the next hour as
well as some people who have been rescued. And the stories they tell are harrowing of water coming into their homes. Of sending their children up into the attic with what they thought was to save their lives, an