vincent, what s the latest? we saw some really striking pictures of the damage injames s report. good morning. well, you can see the full impact of storm eunice s 80 mph winds in east london on the o2 arena, formerly, of course, the millennium don t. in the past few minutes we have seen and heard more of the roof tearing. if you have never visited this site in the last 20 years, it is essentially a giant tent structure with a fabric roof. inside, at the centre, there is a 20,000 seat arena which is enclosed, but all the way around the outside is essentially an open street to that roof, which has restaurants and shops. now, it is the shopping section where the roof has torn. they were, as you say, around 1000 people in there yesterday. they heard a loud bang and had to be evacuated. the emergency services declared it a major incident, but thankfully no one was hurt. but the building had to close, and it will, we understand, remain closed for the
be quite compact. it doesn t cover a large area, but it may be pretty ferocious around the western isles of scotland, up to 90 mph winds in the hebrides on sunday night, the vast majority of us will not be getting that. farfrom it, it will be quite calm. into next week, double figures temperatures with variable weather. whatever the weather, enjoy the weekend. a reminder of our top story. failings by the metropolitan police met the serial killer stephen port was free to kill again after the death of his first victim. that s all from the bbc news at one so it s goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are.
meteorologist adam potts. we know hurricane season is really heating up. really heating up. today typically is the peak, the meteorological peak of hurricane season and looking like it because a lot of big storms out there beginning with florence, category 4, rapidly intensifying, 140 mph winds, very well defined i. it is a long way from the us sitting south of bermuda but here is the track it is going to run. it stays a category 4 storm, a big one with strong winds anywhere from 140 miles an hour likely up to 150 miles an hour or greater. the timeline on the storm takes it just outside the carolinas by early thursday morning. weather in the carolinas have deteriorated making landfall likely thursday afternoon into the overnight hours, still time to speed up or slow down so there s indecision on when the storm will arrive but it will be