spinning toward the west coast of florida this morning. bringing with it life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds and flooding. we ll have a live report from tampa in just a moment. and also ahead, a former d.c. metro police officer does not hold back at a sentencing for a capitol rioter. plus, we ll dig into new data that suggests significant covid waves could be coming this fall and winter. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us and we re going to begin in florida where millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as the powerful storm barrels towards the state intensifying every hour. the storm is expected to make landfall on the southwest coast of florida, as early as this afternoon. just moments ago, it reached the status of category 4 hurricane. the center of the storm is then forecast to move over the central part of the state, with winds likely re
our correspondent dominic hughes looks back now on some of the biggest challenges faced this year by the uk s health services. was 2022 of the year we finally learned to live with covid? at the start of the year, driven by the highly infectious omicron variant, the virus still had us in its clutches. even as the new year s eve fireworks faded into the night, an estimated one in every 15 people in the uk would have tested positive for covid. it s because of the threat from omicron that i announced on wednesday that we would move to plan b in england. you must wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, and from tomorrow, work from home if you can. faced with a huge number of infections, in early december of 2021, the government had already been forced to introduce what it called its plan b measures facemasks, compulsory covid passes and working from home. in just a few days in the new year, a grim milestone. the uk reached 150,000 covid related deaths. to picture 150,000 p
welcome to your new day . i m whitney wild. i m boris johnson. why officials are telling people to stop coming to the site. the white house is slamming the bussing of migrants to the democratic-led states as a cruel, political stunt. how they re planning to fight back even as gop governors vowed to continue sending migrants elsewhere. plus updated covid booster shots are rolling out across the country even as the world health organization says the end of the pandemic is in sight. we will be joined by a doctor with all you need to know heading into autumn. sad news for theater fans. broadway s longest-running show announcing the final curtain. it is a brisk autumn morning. saturday, september 17th. we are grateful to have you starting your weekend with us. welcome, whitney. thank you for having me, boris. plenty to get to this morning and no shortage of news. we begin with the battle over immigration and the migrants caught in the middle. florida governor ro
it never needed to be this way. and, prince harry says the royal family has shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile with him and meghan markle, in a new interview with itv. here in the uk, senior doctors are warning that some hospital accident and emergency departments are in a complete state of crisis because of the extreme pressures facing the national health service this winter. the royal college of emergency medicine says it s impossible to provide the best standard of care and there s no doubt patients are being harmed. our health correspondent catherine burns reports. we are used to seeing pictures like this every winter now. patients waiting in corridors and outside in ambulances as health experts talk about a crisis in care. this year the warning voices seem louder than ever. most of the nhs employees would say it has been one of the toughest winters they can remember. i feel uncomfortable, deeply uncomfortable about the level of care we are sometimes, be
capabilities was found by fbi agents. it s not clear what the document is and what the country is but the list is small there s eight other countries besides the u.s. with nuclear capabilities. the post also reports, some of the seized documents detail top secret operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president, members of the cabinet or near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to know these details of the special access programs. this reporting has not been confirmed yet by nbc news and the justice department declined to comment but what the president s spokesman is saying about it. and troubles for a top trump ally. nearly two years after being pardoned, steve bannon is expected to face a new criminal indictment in new york and turn himself in tomorrow. details on that case. and this afternoon, a reunion at the white house. former president barack obama and first