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there was a bank there. it is just licked clean. there is nothing left. britain warns russia it will face severe consequences if it invades ukraine a g7 meeting of foreign ministers is discussing rising tensions. it would be extremely serious if russia were to take that action. it would be a strategic mistake and there would be severe consequences. and it s going to be a nail biter. max verstappen beats lewis hamilton to pole position for tomorrow s formula one title decider in abu dhabi with the two men level on points. good afternoon. the uk is facing a substantial wave of omicron infections injanuary and less restrictions more extensive than those announced on wednesday are introduced. that is the money from a group of scientist this afternoon put up the researchers from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine also said that depending how well vaccines perform the new variant could cause between 25000 and 75,000 deaths by the end of april. although t ....
incident, and we re hoping to do that. we re now 35 seconds away from launch. this is going to be this is of course blue origin. this is a jeff bezos company. we know that richard branson and elon musk have got projects like this. this is blue origin, jeff bezos s company. let s watch this launch. seven, six, five, four, main engine star . as long as i live, this is never going to get old for me. i can watch launches all the time. this is picture perfect so far. we are, i believe, still awaiting separation, but so far this has gone very well. you saw a drone shot of it, this allowed us to take the takeoff. you see the con trails behind it. this is a view down to earth from the rocket. this is only going to be a ten-minute flight, and they re four minutes into it now. so far going very well, and we hope that continues. it is a little bit of a hope on a day that is filled with tragedy. so at least we got something that we can be happy about today. but we are of cou ....
hurricane ian? absolutely, although it s been downgraded to a tropical storm ida it was one of the most powerful to hit florida ranked it s not finished with its damage. there is still rain to fall in florida and as you can see it s very extensive, the rain heading into northern florida and into georgia and the carolinas so again a lot of storm surge potentially here, five or six feet, nearly two metres and several hundred millimetres of rain forecast for other states in the usa in the south east in the next couple of days. close to our shores nothing quite as stormy but we do have our first autumnal gale is coming quite widely tomorrow with some wet weather as well, so quiet today in contrast, we ve got few wish i was around, more sunshine. the wind, that chilly northerly wind, starting to ease a bit so in the sunshine away from the showers, 16 17 feels quite pleasant, we are still in september after all but it is all change. not tonight necessarily in the south and ea ....
you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands and some of the coasts but some of those inland places of rivers and these inlets, you are likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead, so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that if you have weathered the storm to this point, going on doing and getting involved in that is totally not worth it and we want to minimise any harm to anybody as a result of what we are seeing right now in the streets. it s gonna be put to use, i don t think we ve seen in effort mobilise for this minutes rate rescues this quickly, but we appreciate and we will make good use of it. we want people to be safe, those people who are in need of life supports, health is on the way help. they are able to see the areas that were hardest hit, and they are focusing assets there. obvious ....
is up. we see contrast from before and after pictures. for example, fort myers, where the hurricane first hit last. 2.5 million people are without power. i can tell you specifically for florida power and light, we have just over 1.1 million customers across the state at the moment, that said, we ve been out and about throughout the storm, it s been safe to do so restoring power to our customers and we ve already restored power to 500,000 customers, but majority of lines are still above the ground and that will take time to assess. we ll use drones to figure out where biggest damage is and that will allow us to get power back on as quickly as possible. ainsley: ian is hitting central florida and we expect to hear from governor ron desantis 8:45 and will bring as it happens, meanwhile, live across the state. senior meteorologist janice dean is standing by and brandy campbell is back in orlando and fox weather correspondent robert ray is live. we are learning the sheri ....