Prix. And our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9. 35 this mornings reviewers are Caroline Crampton from the new statesman and the sunday times Foreign Editor peter conradi. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Hurricane nate has hit the United States, causing torrential rain and powerful winds. People in parts of mississippi, alabama, florida and louisiana have been ordered to leave their homes. The storm has already caused major damage to several Central American countries, leaving at least 25 people dead, before hitting the us as a category one hurricane. Luxmy gopal reports. They watched it approach, and then it hit. The us is facing the full force of Hurricane Nate, winds of up to 150km h, with storm surges. The category one hurricane has hit the gulf coast of the states, as torrential rain and flooding in parts of mississippi, alabama, florida and louisiana, where people have been ordered to evacuate. Being a fast moving storm, we had to make sure the plans were in plac
Smoking gun from comey today. The dow and the nasdaq hitting new alltime highs. Welcome to risk reward, im Elizabeth Macdonald in for deirdre bolton. Fired fbi director james comey admitted he created a memo, leaked a memo he was writing about for his meeting with President Trump in order to get a special prosecutor pointed to look into President Trump. That appointment did happen. Thats Robert Mueller. Lets look what was said. President tweeted on friday after i was fired, i better hope theres not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night monday night, it didnt dawn on me that there might be corroboration for our conversation, might be a tape. My judgment was i needed to get that out into a public share. I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didnt do it myself for a variety of reasons. I asked him to, that might prompt the appointmef a speciacounsel. I asked a close friend to do that. Liz never seeat basically happen on capitol hill. Head of fbi
Up on what you need to know throughout the day. The headlines look like this. It is a Hung Parliament for parliament for britain. Some talk we would hear from theresa may around 10 00. That is denied right now. Exit uncertainty is the big story surrounding this. Is a softer brexit now a more likely outcome . We are going to take you lived to brussels to discuss that issue. What is going on with the pound . It is trading lower. The cash open in around 30 minutes. Matt it was interesting. When i came into this trading for around 4 00 this morning, there had not been a lot of action overnight, especially not relative to what you softer after brexit and the trump election. I thought we would see the pound move lower and more volume. That picked up once you got the Hung Parliament headlines coming across. We have seen no a pretty serious size in town to selling hit new session lows just minutes ago. Within the last couple of seconds at bbc is reporting theresa may is saying she has no inten
Critical house vote and it is tight. Republicans this morning still dont have the votes to get this done. This is the president s first major legislative test and it could be headed for an embarrassing defeat. With the clock ticking overnight President Trump making a final plea to skeptical republicans. There really is a crucial vote for the Republican Party and for the people of our country. To finally repeal and replace the disaster known as obamacare. Reporter the businessman president is trying to seal the deal. We had to go with the Health Care First and were doing well. Reporter but the math doesnt add up. 22 republican no votes would kill the bill in the house and by our count this morning at least that many republicans are still not committed to supporting it despite the president s personal pitch. Can you get the votes, mr. President. I think so. Reporter armed with optimism trump took his Charm Offensive to capitol hill tuesday. Behind closed doors he used sweet talk and toug