earlier demonstrated just how powerful those winds can be. there is the wind speed, as i am standing next to the building. i will take a knee. oops. i ll have to take a knee there. okay. you guys got it i m going back out. the powerful winds created record level storm surges in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. over 2 million are without power tonight. and flash flooding is still a major concern, with potentially up to 30 inches of rain predicted in some areas. let s go now to nbc news meteorologist michelle grossman for the latest on hurricane in. michelle, hurricane ian has been downgraded to a category one storm. what should residents in its path expect over the next 24 to 48 hours? i, they re great to see you. they can expect flood and rain we. need to prepare for that flash flooding. when it comes to water and hurricanes, that s the number one reason for deaths in hurricanes, it s the salt water, the storm surge that we talked about, and also fre
have hopes and dreams. i want to know why people with a learning disability are more than twice as likely to die from avoidable causes than the rest of the population. she didn t deserve rest of the population. she didn t deserve the - rest of the population. me: didn t deserve the treatment she got. and how some hospitals failed to care properly tar failed to care properly for eole failed to care properly for peeple like failed to care properly for people like me. i- failed to care properly for people like me. i am - failed to care properly for- people like me. i am absolutely heartbroken people like me. i am absolutely heartbroken they people like me. i am absolutely heartbroken they treated - people like me. i am absolutely| heartbroken they treated robert like that. people with disabilities have the right to be treated as a person. you. get this on be treated as a person. you. get this on camera. - be treated as a person. you. get this on camera. people i be tr
slowly meander its way across the southeastern tier of the u.s. here is a look at the system in question. you can already see a lot of that moisture bringing some pretty heavy thunderstorms to portions of northern texas, areas of oklahoma now starting to see some of that rain move into portions of arkansas as well as louisiana. you still have some rain in arizona and new mexico as well. but a lot of that is really going to begin to shift off to the east in the coming days. we do still have flood watches in effect for new mexico and texas and oklahoma and some into louisiana and southern arkansas as well. you also have some of that tropical moisture still surging from that potential tropical cyclone we had yesterday. it moved inland, but it is still pushing, that flow is still pushing the moisture from the gulf into the southeastern region. as that stationary front gradually starts to shift off to the east, you re going to see the water go with it. here is a look at where we f
he s not coming back. she discovers, finally, he s not coming back and she gets a war widow s pension. and she decides, ok, i m going to make my dream come true. i m going to take whatever money i have, whatever other money i can get together, i m going to go to paris and i m going to buy myself a dior dress like i have seen in the houses of these glamourous women that i clean for. so she goes to paris and she turns up at the house of dior, where isabelle huppert is, let s be honest, not pleased to see here. here s a clip. she speaks french this lady wishes to buy a dress. direct her to a suitable shop. go. please, let me escort you out. no, no, no, no, hang ona minute! i ve come miles, saved every penny, scrubbing floors and i don t know- what, so i can buy this frock. a christian dior gown is not for pennies. if you think i ain t - got the money, there. are you mr dior? oh, no, i m mr fauvel, accounts. let me help you. she speaks french excuse me, cher madame, but it
parliament in sri lanka has voted for prime minister ranil wickremesinghe to become the country s new president, despite his unpopularity with the public. he faces the task of leading the country out of its economic collapse, and restoring order. now it is time for empire and me. i m de graft mensah podcaster, presenter and proud british ghanaian. i m going to be leaving behind my dayjob and heading to west africa for the first time since i was nine. the murder of george floyd and the anti racism protests that followed led people to start to question britain s history, as well as its actions abroad when it had an empire. and it led me to want to find out more. i know that ghana used to be part of the british empire, so i want to discover what that meant for the country. i want to learn why britain made ghana part of its empire, how it affected the ghanaian people, and what impact it had on my own family. i ve made the 3,000 mile journey to accra, the capital of ghana, somew