An hourat 8 30pm to come, remember, the debate on for an hour at 8 30pm on bbc one, so do stay with us for that. Now though, it is time for news watch. Hello and welcome to news watch with me samir ahmed. All other Major Party Leaders have faced the questioning of andrew neil but not Boris Johnson. Is this the fault of the bbc . And in a fractious campaign, have bbc interviews helped or hindered the election process . Interviews with Party Leaders during Election Campaigns are often feisty affairs and andrew neil is widely considered one of the bbcs toughest interrogators. As he showed this week with his questioning ofjo swinson and jofra archer. Borisjohnsons failure to commit himself firmly to andrew neils questioning initially led the bbc last week to say the Prime Minister would not be on the Andrew Marr Show until he committed to the andrew neil interview. But after fridays knife attack on London Bridge, the corporation withdrew that ultimatum, arguing it was now in the Public Int
4 00 eastern, im poppy harlow in new york. More breaking news. The gunman that was tackled and hogtied by three americans on board a parisbound train has just been identified. He may have ties to isis. A source telling us at cnn cnn that authorities traced his travel movements to turkey and we just learned this is where he may have been in contact with french isis fighters. The shooter who emerged from the trains bathroom with a rifle slung over his shoulder was taken down by a british man and three quickthinking americans, one a u. S. Air force member, the other a member of the National Guard. The bloody aftermath showing one of the americans on the ground above him. The gunman shirtless and restrained with a necktie around his feet and ankles. President obama calling the three american heroes personally, thanking them for all they did and for stopping what could have been a tragic and huge massacre. Anthony sadler joins me on the phone. He is the american heroes father. One of the me
Meteorologists Rick Reichmuth on how big a punch this hurricane is packing. And phil keating in florida where fears of that category three storm have a lot of folks there bracing. We begin with Rick Reichmuth and the fox weather center. Hi, rick. The radar picture, this comes out of puerto rico. This is their radar. Gives a good sense of what were dealing with. The storm kept jogging to the north and recenters. That spared puerto rico and spared the storm from big mountains that would rip it apart. The storm intact and will stay intact. That means what happens next has now a bigger impact for the mainland u. S. A. The u. S. Territory spared. It will continue to pull to the north and continue to pull away from puerto rico. So still some rain to fall there. That rain isnt going to be anything that will cause huge problems. The eastern side picking up 3 to 6 inches of rain and that will cause flooding because the weekend state is still in after hurricane maria. That is the satellite image
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department of energy really thinks politically before it thinks economically, and talks about how the doe pushed very hard, meaning department of energy, pushed very hard for solyndra to hold off on its announcement of laying off 100-plus employees until after the election. and they talk about how they wanted this bad news out of solyndra to be postponed until after the midterm election of 2010. neil, what does it tell us? well, we also have an investment adviser to kaiser who wrote him and said that megyn: he s the money guy behind solyndra. right. thinking politically on this issue. and how strange is it that these layoffs at solyndra happened on the day after the 2010 elections? of course, this is all political. and, megyn, it doesn t matter whether it s republicans or democrats in power, seemingly it doesn t matter. this is what you get when you get a command economy.