the midterms are in a year. so the point of last week s appearance outset chicago was to remind all of us in the country that our perceptions of biden s performance are silly and baseless. actually joe biden is a great president. he s totally aware of what s happening. he s completely on top of things. he knows exactly what he s doing, and he ss got your well-being at heart. not the narrow economic interests of some soulless multinational corporation that hates america and your family. no, you buried his joe biden is awesome. and to prove it, biden talked at length about the covid vaccine his greatest achievement, he said. strangely, biden didn t say a lot about the vaccine itself. he did note that if you get the shot, you cannot spread kovic over to other people, if there were doctors in the audience they might have been confused because that is ridiculously and provably untrue.ig of course the vaccinated can but he didn t pause and dwell on the science such as it is instead
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
impacted by the storms bands and we are seeing that particularly in the northern part of the state. so are seeing that particularly in the northern part of the state.- northern part of the state. so far there have northern part of the state. so far there have been northern part of the state. so far there have been 262000 - northern part of the state. so far there have been 262000 and - northern part of the state. so far - there have been 262000 and accounts that have lost power, have been restored. and there are more than 250,000 accounts that are currently out of power and in need of restoration. as you imagine the counties that have the highest percentage of power outage other counties that were in the main pathway of the storm, dixie, suwanee, madison and jefferson and columbia. utility workers are actively working to restore power in all affected areas. they have started doing that is soon is it was safe to do so. those restoration efforts are ongoing. we do anticipat
good afternoon. people in florida are bracing themselves for a hurricane which the authorities say could be catastrophic . these are some of the latest pictures of hurricane idalia, with possible winds of 130 miles an hour and the danger of a storm surge of sea water overwhelming low lying areas. pilots on an evacuation mission filmed these pictures of the rare electrical weather phenomenon known as st elmo s fire. more than a million residents have been told to leave their homes and the hurricane is making landfall about now in northwest florida. our correspondentjon sudworth has the latest from tampa. as you can say, the straits of tampa are pretty quiet this morning for a city of 400,000 people but the hurricane has largely passed by this stretch of coastline is now coming ashore in an area of the state known ashore in an area of the state known as big bend. the realfear is the storm surge, with warnings it could bring waves as high as 16 feet. the unusually warm conditio
the suspension of the conviction does not necessarily mean that mr khan will be free to walk out ofjail or that he will be allowed to contest the national election due later this year. earler i spoke to our pakistan correspondent caroline davies this is complicated. inside court just behind me, thejudges decided that imran khan s jail sentence has now been suspended, and back at the beginning of august he was found guilty of not having declared gifts that he had been given, state gifts that he had been given, state gifts that he had been given, state gifts that he then sold on. he was jailed for three years from that point. thatjail for three years from that point. that jail sentence for three years from that point. thatjail sentence has now been suspended but it doesn t mean that imran khan is about to come out of prison. there are lots of other cases against the former pakistan prime minister and those, there are also various different arrest warrants out for him in relat