Refugee crisis, after nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims flee from myanmar to bangladesh. And the Manchester Arena re opens tonight with a benefit concert, more than three months after the terrorist attack which killed 22 people. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hurricane irma is continuing to sweep its way across the caribbean, en route to the us coast, leaving a path of devastation. Cuba is the latest island to be hit. The category four storm it was category five, the highest, but has eased slightly made landfall off the North Eastern coast overnight bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Communities have lost power and communication is becoming increasingly difficult in more remote areas. The bahamas have largely been spared after the storm changed course. This is irmas trajectory. Its expected to make landfall with us coast tomorrow, before heading inland. In florida, more than five Million People a quarter of its population have been told to evacuate. And theres another hurrica
More than three months after the terrorist attack which killed 22 people. Englands cricketers look set to wrap up the series against the west indies. Theyre chasing 107 for victory in the third test. Coming up in click at 3. 30pm, the women fighting for tech recognition. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hurricane irma is continuing to sweep its way across the caribbean, en route to the us coast, leaving a path of devastation. Cuba is the latest island to be hit. The category four storm it was category five, the highest, but has eased slightly made landfall off the North Eastern coast overnight bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Communities have lost power and communication is becoming increasingly difficult in more remote areas. The bahamas have largely been spared after the storm changed course. This is irmas trajectory. Its expected to make landfall with us coast tomorrow, before heading inland. In florida, more than five Million People a quarter of its population have been
Opened fire. Killing, 58 people and injuring more than 500 others. Initially, i thought it was fire works but then right after fire works they turned the lights on and then about 5 a guy with the bullet wound in his neck motionless from there on in people just started dropping like flies. Swat teams stormed gunmans mandalay bay hoe fell room. Investigators are working to figure out a motive but say the 64 retie rehad no ties to International Terror groups. President trump spoke about the mass shooting at the white house, earlier today. To the families of the victims we are praying for you , and we are here for you. We ask god to help see you through this very dark period. Scripture teaches us the lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. We seek comfort in those word for we know that god lives in the hearts of those grief. This afternoon the president and the white house staffers took part in the moment of silence on the white house lawn. The presid
Tuesday or Something Like. Jim, on twitter when you put the recovering chairs, musical chairs. You dont know who is going to be sittinger. Well good morning, it is wealth out there, katie, so our commute this morning will be little slow. Right now just look at a lot of construction. Yes. Tis the season for. That will certainly tis the season for summer vacation, so hopefully the roads wont be quite as congested out there for you. As we take a look whats happening right now here, on our skycam 3, things pretty clear at the moment. We did certainly have Stormy Weather rumbled on through in the last hour, hour and a half or so. Rain still mushing it way through not just 95 with you the jersey turnpike, north, up to new york sit, youll be running certainly into wet roads. So around the city just from this little batch that did roll on through. So, we should be catching a little bit after break as the rest of the morning progresses, here is a look at the last couple of hours, yes, those sto
She damaged several cars and homes before police could get her into custody. Opposition grows overnight to the Senate Healthcare bill just as at budget offices releases its finding on the impact. Some areas are waking up to temperatures in the 50s. Lets expand on this right now with meteorologist, david murphy and karen rogers. Good morning to you both. Nice to get a little break with these temperatures. Feels good. I know, right and humidity low today, too right. Satellite shows plenty of cloud cover out there across the region. What with the rain coming through but out to the west of us, we are going to see rain popping through and then some clearing coming in as well. Theres that satellite image were waiting for and we have that cloud cover and the related rain coming through right now. More clouds out to the west. Another shower possible. But we are expecting to transition later today to a mix of clouds and sun. Should be pretty good. Heres storm tracker6 live double scan and we ar