the state s governor ron desantis, warned that many residents could lose electricity, and said that 25,000 utility workers were on standby, with another 30,000 headed to the state. if you are in a evacuation drain and you have been directed to evacuate a low lying area on the big band region now is the time to do it stop if you wait much longer by the time we get further into tonight the weather will get nasty and nasty and we are looking at an of the eye wall arriving sometime tomorrow morning. you really got to go now. now is the time. you don t, if you stay and hunker down tonight, it s going to be too nasty tomorrow morning to be able to do it. as hurricane idalia intensifies to a category 2 and is set to reach category 4, our news reporter azadeh moshiri takes us through the meaning of the hurricane scale. we often talk about categories of hurricanes but what do they mean? most of them are measured on the safe assumption scale those outside of asia pacific and australia
And the spirit of generosity and optimism, vote yes! cheering and applause. in recognition of 65,000 years of history, vote yes! vote for a better future, vote yes. history, vote yes! vote for a betterfuture, vote yes. vote yes on october betterfuture, vote yes. vote yes on 0ctober11i, thank you. for more on this story, let s speak to our correspondent phil mercer. he is making a very, very strong message to all australians, clearly, vote yes. it is unclear to say what will happen at this point? it it is unclear to say what will happen at this point?- happen at this point? if you believe the happen at this point? if you believe the opinion - happen at this point? if you believe the opinion polls, i happen at this point? if you i believe the opinion polls, they are suggesting that australians are suggesting that australians are veering towards against constitutional reform, that the referendum will not succeed constitutional change in
Australia is pretty rare. there have been 3a referendums in its history and only eight have passed and on october history and only eight have passed and on 0ctober11i, in just over six weeks s time, about 17.5 million australian voters will decide whether for the first time to recognise australia s original inhabitants in the constitution by setting up a so called voice to parliament. this would be an independent, indigenous panel, that would help to guide official policy, it would advise the government and lawmakers, but at the moment the government itself recognises that in the run up to the vote in mid october, it does face an uphill battle. what are the arguments against giving them constitutional rights? giving them constitutional ri . hts? ., giving them constitutional riuhts? ., , ., rights? the no campaign is a broad church rights? the no campaign is a broad church of rights? the no campaign is a broad church of various - rights? the no campaign is a i