We are back live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We are tracking hurricane hilary. The system just weakened to a category 2 storm with winds of 110 miles per hour. The historic and potentially catastrophic storm is barrelling toward the southwestern United States, triggering the first ever Tropical Storm warning for millions of people in Southern California. The San Bernardino county Sheriffs Department just issued an Evacuation Warning for some areas in that part of Southern California. Thats just east of los angeles in the mountain and foothill areas. Hilary could bring a years worth of rain in a single day to parts of california, arizona, and nevada. Lets go straight to the cnn weather center, Meteorologist Derek Van Dam has been following the hurricanes path. I suppose its good news that the hurricane is weakening at some point, but that doesnt necessarily mean that people in that part of the country can let down their guards or folks in mexico as well. We should
Morning, they issued a joint statement saying they had agreed to go the extra mile to try to find a solution. The Prime Minister said the two sides remained far apart on key areas, but they wouldnt be walking away while there was still hope of a deal. Today had been given as a deadline to decide whether negotiations should continue. Our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. It was supposed to be the call that would make the call. Was there enough chance of a deal to keep talking . The answer. Despite the exhaustion after almost one year of negotiations and despite the fact that deadlines have been missed over and over, we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile. We have accordingly mandated our negotiators continued the task and to see whether an agreement can be reached, even at this late stage. In the last few minutes, the Prime Minister has downplayed expectations. As things stand, and this is basically what ursula and i agreed, i am afra
His mum was a nurse. And Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, born in guilford, and as a child was so poor that when her dad left the family, her cats had to be put down. Shes the only one who doesnt yet have enough support to get to the final round of the contest. Weve got an audience of labour supporters and voters, weve got 90 minutes. What do you need to hear that will convince you . Let me know. Also, borisjohnson is reshuffling his top team , theres one casualty already, julian smith, the Northern Ireland secretary, has been been sacked. Well bring you news on that throughout the programme. Welcome to the programme, live until 11 with a studio full of labour supporters in the four mps who want to lead them. Applause good morning. Who do you want to be the next leader of the labour party and potentially your next Prime Minister . After four election defeats for the party, its going to be a very big job. You know we absolutely welcome your views on this programme you are
Now on bbc news lightsjoin now on bbc news lights join Victoria Derbyshire for the best of her show this week. Letsjoin. Hello and welcome. For the next half an hour, we will show you some of the highlights of our Award Winning journalism over the last week. On thursday, we revealed that some people who want to come off antidepressants, which are not addictive, by the way, are being sent to street drug charities for support. That is according to the Mental Health charity mind. It is estimated that at least 16 of adults in england, that is about 7 Million People, take antidepressants. Alex gatenby has this report. Inner restlessness, insomnia. Stabbing pains inside my body. Slurring my words. Waking up on and off all night. Itching all over my body. Brain zaps. No motivation, apathy. These symptoms are common with street drug withdrawal. But some people feel like this when coming off anti depressants. And weve discovered that theyre feeling forced to turn to street drug charities for he
Care staff are going to have to make difficult decisions about who should be admitted because there may not be enough staff, beds or ventilators. This professor, who is coordinating the network of icus in italys lombardy region, is warning that the uk must get ready. What happened to us is like a bomb which exploded. So they have to be ready to take care of a huge number of patients, and a number of patients that is growing day by day and that can certainly exceed the capacity of icu admission of any health care system, no matter how efficient and modern it is. Also this morning, well be talking to two of the 140 brits whove been stuck on a cruise ship off the coast of california. Because of coronavirus. One word, nightmare. We have just been confined to our cabin since thursday. Luckily we can get outside because we have a balcony, unlike other passengers. Not a lot we can do. The cabin is very small, probably 12 paces up and down it, so you cant really do anything. No exercise, nothi