Find out if average wages are keeping up with the cost of living. Foreign secretary, boris johnson, arrives in the caribbean, as british holidaymakers affected by Hurricane Irma start to arrive back in the uk. In sport, celtic are humbled in the Champions League by paris st germain, and the worlds most expensive player, neymar. 5 0, the score in glasgow. There were wins for Manchester United and chelsea, though. And matt has the weather. Good morning. Storm irene is now in the north sea. The wind is dying down. A blustery day with sunshine. All the details coming up. Thank you very much. A bbc breakfast investigation has found thatjust 2 of council owned downing street says the cap on Public Sector pay increases will be lifted in 2018. Ministers have already announced salary rises for police and prison officers in england and wales that are above the 1 limit, but unions say it doesnt go far enough. Our Political Correspondent, leila nathoo, is in our westminster studio this morning. The government is lifting some sections of the pay cap. There is already criticism. There is. There has been recognition for some time and the government that the public has had enough of austerity after they lost the majority in the election. There has been a stepping up election. There has been a stepping up of rhetoric from the unions in recent day threatening co ordinated strike action. Now we have an announcement from ministers that police will get a i announcement from ministers that police will get a 1 bonus and pay rise. Prison officers will get a 1. 796 rise. Prison officers will get a i. 7 pay rise this year. Whyjust those two . It is independent pay review bodies that make recommendations to the government. Those two were yet to report this year. Next year there will be a whole new round of recommendations covering all Public Sector workers. That is when this cap will no longer be in plays. The i that is when this cap will no longer be in plays. The 1 cap has been in place for a long time. The government says they have to recognise the Public Sector while being fairto recognise the Public Sector while being fair to the taxpayer. Unions have reacted angrily. They said they wa nt have reacted angrily. They said they want 2. 9 . They said Public Sector is have had a pay cut for many years in real terms. All of the money will be coming from existing department budgets. Labour is calling for pay rises across the board, saying this isa rises across the board, saying this is a divide and rule strategy among different workplaces. This is the end of the cap, the automatic limit of i . But next year when all salaries are up for review again, i think we will not hear the end of the argument. Thank you very much, leila. We will speak to you again throughout the morning. Well speak to shadow chief secretary to the treasury, peter dowd, atjust after 7am. We will also speak to David Livingstone. A bbc breakfast investigation has found thatjust 2 of council owned tower blocks in the uk are fully covered with Sprinkler Systems. The findings are from a freedom of information request covering around half of the tower blocks in the uk. A Public Inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower, which didnt have a Sprinkler System fitted, begins tomorrow. Breakfasts Graham Satchell is in west london for is this morning. I support retrofitting. If you can save one life, it is worth doing. This cannot be optional not nice to have, it is a must have. It must be in place in the future to protect people. In 15 minutes you can see the whole of the special report about that on breakfast. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has arrived in the caribbean to visit the worst hurricane hit british overseas territories. Mrjohnson will see the relief effort first hand, visiting affected communities and meeting local officials. Its understood he will travel to the British Virgin islands and anguilla. The trip follows criticism from people in the caribbean and senior mps that the uks response was too slow. Meanwhile, the first british holidaymakers stranded in the us and the caribbean will start arriving back in the uk this morning. Since last week, more than 12,500 flights, including thompson, British Airways, and thomas cook, have been cancelled. Our reporter, dave guest, is at Manchester Airport where some of those passengers are due to arrive. Good morning to you. Good morning. Yes, well, of course, it is still a chaotic situation in florida, as we have been seeing. 10 Million People are without power. A quarter of a Million Properties destroyed by hurricane month. There is still disruption to flights to be some people will be disappointed because a flight has been cancelled. There was going to be A Thomas Cook flight into terminal1 at was going to be A Thomas Cook flight into terminal 1 at 740 was going to be A Thomas Cook flight into terminal1 at 740 this morning. That has also been cancelled. The first flights now we are expecting here will be the p 45 thomas cook flight. 845. Here will be the p 45 thomas cook flight. 845. That here will be the p 45 thomas cook flight. 845. That will here will be the p 45 thomas cook flight. 845. That will arrive in an hour. We will have a camera checking out the passengers as they arrived. This is a developing situation. The situation in florida is very chaotic. Irma brought havoc to the caribbean, causing 37 people to the caribbean, causing 37 people to be killed. Four deaths in florida. Widespread disruption. It will take some time to restore power to them. The infrastructure has taken a battering. It is not surprising there is still disruption to flights. They are doing everything they can to get thousands of british holidaymakers home as soon of british holidaymakers home as soon as of british holidaymakers home as soon as possible. Hopefully some will be arriving at 720. Strong winds are being forecast for lincolnshire and east anglia this morning as storm aileen makes its way across the country. We will have more on that later. Celebrities from the world of film and music have come together for a benefit concert to help raise money for the victims of hurricanes harvey and irma. Beyonce, george clooney, and irma. Beyonce, george clooney, and leonardo dicaprio, were amongst the stars that lent their voices to the stars that lent their voices to the hour long telethon featuring live appearances, performances, and taped tributes. We will try and find out how much they made as well. Strong winds are being forecast for lincolnshire and east anglia this morning as storm aileen makes its way across the country. Gusts as high as 70 Miles Per Hour hit South West England and south wales overnight, but no serious damage has been reported yet. Its definitely not a hurricane. Thank goodness. Matt will have more details in the weather shortly. The National Audit office says the governments welfare reforms are likely to have contributed to rising levels of homelessness in england. Its report claims that in the last six years, theres been a 60 rise in the number of households in temporary accommodation, including 120,000 children. The department for communities and local government says tackling homelessness is a complex issue. Chi chi izundu reports. Homelessness in england is on the rise and the reasons are varied, from lack of social housing to less affordable private rental properties, and even a reduction in housing benefit are being blamed. The number of families in temporary accommodation is up 60 since 2011, while rough sleeping has more than doubled to over 4,000 counted in one autumn evening. But this report paints a picture of a system that isnt fit for purpose, being overseen by ministers who have little interest in tackling it. Even simple things like assessing the impact of how welfare reforms could exasperate the problem. Well, what were seeing is a rise in all measures of homelessness in urban areas of the country so what wed like to see is a proper co ordinated cross government approach between Central Government to try and tackle this, because its very expensive for the public purse and its a tragedy for households as well. And while homelessness costs more than £1 billion a year usually administered by councils, the report criticises ministers as paying little attention as to how that money is spent. In a statement, the department for communities and local governments said they will continue to invest £550 million tackling the issues until 2020, but it will shortly outline plans to eliminate rough sleeping entirely. Martin newman, bbc news. The government has won a vote that will ensure the conservatives have a majority on key committees despite not having a majority in the commons. The leader of the house, andrea leadsom, said the arrangement with the dup meant the government had a working majority and should be able to make progress with legislation. Labour accused ministers of a power grab. A fatberg weighting a 130 tons has been found blocking a sewer in east london. If youre having breakfast, i suggest you turn away now. The solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes and nappies is 250 metres long and is one of the biggest thames water has ever seen. The company said it would take three weeks to remove the blockage. Get ready, everybody. Here we go. That is where it starts. It ends a long way beyond that. 0nce that is where it starts. It ends a long way beyond that. Once they get rid of that blockage, it will be a lot better. We could show you more, there are rats involved, but maybe not a good idea this early in the morning. Where do we go with that one . What are people doing flushing nappies down the toilet . Do you remember a few months ago when they showed us wet wipe mountain. The steaming. Nota disney showed us wet wipe mountain. The steaming. Not a disney movie. Brendan rodgers said Paris Saint Germain have been billed for the nearly. Built for the premier league. Celtic suffered their worst ever home defeat in europe last night, after paris st germain and their record signing, neymar, thrashed them 5 0 in the Champions League. The worlds most expensive player scored the opening goal as celtics campaign got off to the worst possible start. Chelsea made an emphatic return to the Champions League after a season away, courtesy of a 6 0 thrashing of the azerbaijan side fc qarabag. Meanwhile, there was also a comprehensive 3 0 win for Manchester United at home to fc basel. Former england boss roy hodgson has been appointed as the new manager of Crystal Palace just a day after the sacking of frank de boer. Its hodgsons first managerial post since englands exit from euro 2016. England captain, steph houghton, says the whole squad are behind manager mark sampson. He was accused of discrimination by striker eni aluko but was cleared of wrongdoing by two investigations. We will have a little more on that coming up injust a few minutes time. Thank you very much for that, sal. Will you hang around for a bit . You cannot get rid of me yet. I am like that fatberg. Dont be mean. Ijust got a like that fatberg. Dont be mean. I just got a horrible like that fatberg. Dont be mean. Ijust got a horrible image in my head. We will talk about Something Else the first named storm of the season, storm aileen, has brought heavy rain and strong winds overnight. Matts here with more detail. Matt, how much of an impact has storm aileen has so far . Tha nkfully thankfully it hasnt caused too much disruption and is now pushing into the north sea. But it did bring winds of about 70 mph to the west of bristol and across england and wales there are lots of threes and twigs down at the moment. A bit of disruption on Rail Services into london. An update coming up with your local news in about ten minutes. Let me show you where it has been. The strongest winds have beenin has been. The strongest winds have been in the southern flank and thats pushing eastwards. It is moving into the north sea, but certainly over the next hour or two parts of lincolnshire and east anglia will see the strongest gusts. 40 50 anglia will see the strongest gusts. 40 50 mph possible before they ease. Wherever you are a blustery staff, the exception is northern scotland. Sunshine and showers elsewhere. The winds along the eastern coast will is down. It will still remain blustery. Showers pushing across quickly for england and wales. Sunshine in between. Longer spells continue in central and southern scotland. Noted temperatures, only 12 13 degrees. Maybe up to 17 18 further south. Tonight the rain is linked to this weather front, which will push into england and wales. Wet for a tiny northern england, eventually wales into thursday. Either side of that clearer skies and slightly lighter winds. A chilly night. Temperatures into single figures in many towns and cities. We opened the door to even more north, north westerly wind is. A clear day in the midlands, southern england and wales. Elsewhere, sunshine and showers throughout the day tomorrow, but the wind still remain blustery and it still remains rather cool. Temperatures struggling to get into the big teams across some parts of scotla nd the big teams across some parts of scotland and even parts of england midteens. Low pressure across scandinavia. Flow of winds across friday. The story of sunshine and showers all week. That could be longer spells on friday, just pushing into eastern counties of england. Elsewhere, if you have been dodging the showers, maybe the odd rumble of thunder. 0nce dodging the showers, maybe the odd rumble of thunder. Once the showers are with you even temperatures across southern parts of the country by this stage only about 15 16 degrees at the best. Not feeling particularly warm at all. As far as the storm is concerned it is now pushing into the north sea. The winds easing across the country, are still a blustery day this morning. Thanks very much. We can attest to the fact that it was blustery out there. I nearly got knocked off my feet we will have the papers in a moment. The main stories this morning only 2 of council owned tower blocks in the uk are fully covered with Sprinkler Systems, according to a bbc breakfast investigation. Unions have reacted angrily to the governments announcement its lifting the 1 Public Sector pay cap, but only for police and prison officers. Lets have a look at the papers. I can apologise for a slightly crumpled front page of the times. I sat on it. Women told hrt doesnt lead to an early death. And this is a bit of cold from part of an exhibition that the British Museum at the moment. The front page of the daily telegraph. They are talking already about the winter flu and we arent even there yet. Hospitals are expecting twice the number of usual cases. And there was a new phone launch by a so called phone company yesterday, as many of you will be aware. Apple founder steve jobs. Theres the chief executive. This was the grand launch they do every few months. He is dwarfed by the picture of steve jobs. Few months. He is dwarfed by the picture of stevejobs. And here, bobbies on the beat will be cut to fund 2 pay rise. We will talk about that later. It is the daily mirror. The nhs chief says we face a huge food flu crisis, pushing hospitals to the brink. I watched flu crisis, pushing hospitals to the brink. Iwatched it last flu crisis, pushing hospitals to the brink. I watched it last night, flu crisis, pushing hospitals to the brink. Iwatched it last night, it is liar. The front page of the mail, they are talking about the son of this holby city actor who died at a festival of the weekend. Steph. We were just talking about the apple new phone launch and obviously loads of people are watching all around the world. Quite a lot of pressure. What happened . So the boss was demonstrating the facial recognition system demonstrating the facial recognition syste m o n demonstrating the facial recognition system on it and it didnt reckon night his face. Recognise. And the Share Price Fell at that point. It is the wealthiest company in terms of market capitalisation, so its terms of market capitalisation, so its huge. For them they were thinking this doesnt look good. If the boss cant even get into work the boss cant even get into work the launch. They probably practised it quite a few times. He did recover. Yes, because then they went on and it did work. The other thing i wanted to pick up on is Gambling Companies are often criticised. You know the bandit machines, what they call the fixed odds betting terminals, where they make most of their money, they say a lot of makers will lose money in revenues because of the plans that they will curb some of the betting machines because they are seeing as being really addictive for people. Thats interesting. Thats in the ft this morning. Speaking of facial recognition, we recognise this little face . This is roy hodgson after signing his contract with Crystal Palace yesterday. Look at him hes on his own, in his car, just leaving. Hes grimacing, holding his new Crystal Palace scarf. May be feeling slightly awkward. I just thought that was a cute little picture. 0ne awkward. I just thought that was a cute little picture. One more story. We mentioned the england womens manager short time ago. Lots of the papers have this picture. An awkward moment between mark sampson and lucy bronze at training yesterday. It looks like he is trying to direct her and she quite clearly doesnt wa nt her and she quite clearly doesnt want him to do that and is not happy