hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states. and around the. world i m john. vause with the cnn center in atlanta. almost nine hours now since hurricane eta made landfall in southwest florida. and this monster storm continues to cause widespread flooding. and storm surges in 12 feet high in places. tonight, statewide. like trustees outed more than 2 million homes and businesses, and the power grid so badly damaged parts there are concerns it may need to be rebuilt. ian arrived at the state went just shy of a category five. it s since been downgraded to a category 1, but still remains very dangerous. authorities warning the worst may yet be to come. ian is now slowly moving into central florida, with winds around 90 miles or 145 kilometers per hour. time lapse video shows water levels rising on the streets of fort myers, south of where it made landfall. the national hurricane center said the storm surge on florida s west coast has likely peaked, and is now startin
against danger and disaster. shona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. whoa! 0k! i m ready to be rescued right now! that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alert s come through. i didn t even notice that, but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form. but now a team of engineers in sweden are in the final st
towards the west. it will be a muggy start to the day, temperatures 14, 15, 17 degrees first thing tomorrow in london but let s pick up on those showers. the south west of england, wales, through the midlands, there could be a few more reaching the south coast tomorrow, but again, many of us will miss them. of course, what we don t want is an awful lot of rain in a short space of time because that causes flash flooding and i guess there is a possibility of that in some areas tomorrow, but the vast majority of us missing the heaviest of the rain. tomorrow, very modest temperatures, 22 in london, a mere 15 in aberdeen, a cold 12 for our friends 22 in london, a mere 15 in aberdeen, a cold 12 for ourfriends in lerwick. there is a change on the way some good news if you want some rain. a low pressure is approaching on saturday. but at the same this vortex of wind, this low pressure by its virtue is also going to scoop up warmer airfrom the its virtue is also going to scoop up warm
killed. italy s prime and, mario draghi has resigned. the doctors have effectively cured the rare bleeding disorder, haemophilia b. and no ordinary telescope. a first time that scientists will be able to detect the smashing together of neutron stars. welcome to the programme. the foreign secretary, liz truss, says the treasury s economic economic policies have failed to deliver growth for two decades, including the past 12 years of conservative rule. she s rejected concerns that the tax cuts she s promised if she becomes the next prime minister would increase inflation. ms truss and her conservative leadership rival, rishi sunak, are now setting out their pitches to win over the party membership, who will have the deciding vote over the summer. our political correspondent, iain watson, reports. his report contains some flashing images. it s going to be a busy six weeks. liz truss has been in the cabinet for the past eight years, but she s fighting this leadership election lik
exotic plants growing in the uk. and the notting hill carnival is back returning to the streets of west london for the first time since 2019. hello and welcome to bbc news. the leader of britain s biggest trade union says the labour party needs to get a spine and do more to stand up for working people struggling with the cost of living crisis. the unite union s general secretary sharon graham has told the bbc unions are emerging as the only people standing up for workers, accusing labour of moving the goalposts in terms of what it s prepared to do to support them. labour has not backed inflation matching pay rises, but has said if they were in power the party would join negotiations between employers and unions. our business correspondent marc ashdown has more. what do we want? 10%! when do we want it? now! could the summer of strikes turn into a winter of discontent? at felixstowe port, 1,900 dock workers are finishing an eight day walk out, impacting uk supply chains