Strong winds on tuesday night, sunny spells and heavy showers on wednesday. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines at 3. 30 Hurricane Irma slams into the florida keys with winds up to 130 Miles Per Hour. More than 6 Million People have been ordered to leave their homes as the storm inches closer to the mainland. The hurricane is predicted to create a catastrophic storm surge, which could be up to 15 feet high in places. We have also got these torrential rains which are causing flood warnings across this region, on top of the deadly storm surge that is almost certainly going to happen. Cuba was battered overnight. Theres been significant damage as the Recovery Process begins. In other news officials in mexico say at least 90 people are now known to have died in thursdays earthquake. Now on bbc news its time for click this week, the women fighting for tech recognition. Berlin in the round. And attack of the swarm. Its going to be monstrous. This week, weve been to ifa, the massive tech s
And attack of the swarm. Its going to be monstrous. This week, weve been to ifa, the massive tech show in berlin. Well be looking at the big launches and the cool new devices from the fair in a few minutes, and well also hear from the people behind them, who, weve noticed, once again are mostly men. The lack of women in tech has been well documented and its something that we run up against every single day working on click and its so frustrating its extremely rare for us to turn up at a tech company and for any of the available spokespeople to be female. Its been suggested that the lack of women in tech starts developing early on. Kids are going back to school this week hot on the heels of stats from the latest exam results here in the uk showing that girls are turning away from stem subjects thats science, technology, engineering, and maths. Only 20 of those who sat the Computer Sciences gcse exam this year were girls. For gcse engineering, it was 10 . Well, someone who is fighting ge
Belligerence that has no place in government. Global news 24 hours a day powered by our journalists in 150 news bureaus around the world. From new york, im mark crumpton. Bloomberg west is next. Emily bloomberg west this is. A third party is helping unlock the San Bernardino gunmans iphone. We break down the methods they may be trying. Permission to build an u anontyle business using a times cars. And how bubbly is the Housing Market . To break down the numbers. The fbis strategy to get out of its messy court case with apple. They say they were identified by a thirdparty with a possible way to get into the phone without apples help. Lets break down the methods the fbi may have in mind. There is a proposal that involves removing the phones memory and copping the content onto a drive. There are reports saying they may be working with an Israeli Company. The company declined to comment. Then there is the equities review created by the Obama Administration to determine if security flaws sh
Threequarters of a mile in santa rosa, and 82 at noon, and the east bay will touch 90. It will be pleasant by 7 00 and sunny and 80. The coast is starting off with cloud cover and 54 with a few areas of sunshine and temperatures topping out in the lowtomid 60s. Leyla gulen . We have plenty of traffic out there with no accidents. We are look at congestion headed along the westbound direction along the bay bridge but we have construction that will last until 6 30 this morning, eastbound side with various lanes blocked because of road work. That will continue to the transition to 580 and, also, eastbound 580 between 80 and san pablo road the lanes are blocked eastbound. The bay bridge toll plaza shows the metering lights are on with fog. It is busy moving into San Francisco. It is 6 02. The parents of the two chinese girl whose died in the asiana crash landed where their daughters died, at the same airport. The families arrived last night at Crown Plaza Hotel in burlingame. They were take
And came down hard a second time. Again, this man speaking from his hospital bed at San Francisco General Hospital. He said it was just incredible that virtually everyone was able to get out of that plane before it began filling up with smoke. We do know two people died. More than 180 were treated at nine local hospitals for fire and burnrelated injuries. Ten people at last report listed in Critical Condition. Two of them children. We understand that 11 children were treated at the Trauma Center at San Francisco general. The crash site itself has been secured by federal authorities who, by the way, have ruled out terrorism as a cause in all of this. The ntsb teams are on the way. Theyll be combing through a very wide debris field when they arrive there at runway 28l. Piece es of this planes tail ae strewn everywhere, and they will also be looking into reports that we are trying to confirm here tonight about some special lights that reportedly were not working on this specific runway ye