through the second set. after rolling his ankle midway through the second set. alcaraz had won the first 6 2. meanwhile, the women s world number one, iga swiatek, has taken the first set against daria saville. plenty of grit and determination from the australian, but it s the defending champion, swiatek, who seals it 6 3. and it is currently 4 3. looking good to the next round. the women s second seed, aryna sabalenka, overcame a poor start on serve to win her opening match against belgium s maryna zanevska. she hit five double faults to lose her first two service games, but found her rhythm and won in straight sets. rangers are among the sides looking to qualify for the champions league tonight. they ve travelled to psv eindhoven, with the scores level from the first leg. in the other fixtures, aek athens of greece are up against belgian side royal antwerp and danish champions fc copenhagen take on polish side rakov chestochowa. that one also 0 0. not many goals to tell you
the diplomacy will go. and a 56 year dynasty comes to an end in gabon another coup, the eighth in former french colonies injust the past three years. good evening. idalia s power has waned some as it heads towards georgia, but maximum sustained winds were still over 100 miles per hour. and it s worth remembering a storm s category doesn t necessarily indicate how much damage there will be. this storm surge that was pushed into the big bend area of the gulf coast peaked at 15 feet high. and that area of north west florida acts like a giant baseball mitt, it s flat, it s low lying, there s every reason to fear that the waters will have washed right over it. the federal emergency management agency said idalia is the strongest storm to make landfall in this part of florida in more than 100 years. more than a quarter of a million people in florida and another 100,000 in georgia are without power right now. the national guard and the federal emergency teams are staged ready to re
tonight a quarter of a million people are without power with storm surges and serious flooding in multiple locations along florida s gulf coast. we ll bring you reaction, including the thoughts of our panel tonight, joel rubin, former advisor to the us state department and the uk editor at politico jack blanchard. both will have a view onjames cleverley s controversial visit today to beijing. we will also talk about the equally contentious, land grab that china has just peformed in their latest edition of the world map. good evening. we are still to learn the full extent of the damage in florida. mercifully the hurricane came ashore this morning in an areas of the gulf coast that is far less populated than the city of tampa further to the south. but forecasters say the seas rose 9 ft in two hours in the big bend area of the coast, and they project that level of of flooding will submerges areas some 3 miles in from the coast, with water up to 4 feet deep. that is going to brin
out front next, trump s legal team just hours away from facing the judge in the january 6th case in court for the first time. this is the special counsel jack smith wants to start trump s trial january 2nd. and the death toll rising in maui as search and rescue operations are frantically underway. i m going to speak to a woman who narrowly escaped a wall of flames. her incredible story. plus, all the republican presidential candidates heading to iowa, our john king just returned from there. we re talking to voters, and he will be at the magic wall tonight. for us, let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outface-to-face, trump s team set to meet judge tanya chutkan. chutkan is the judge overseeing the january 6th case, and their meeting comes as the clock is ticking. trump now on notice to reply to jack smith s formal request for the trial january 6th case to begin,anuary 2nd, 2024. that would put the doj case to hold trump to account for trying to overtu
the house january 3rd and they re waisting no time lining up a flurry of investigations. rich: the administration points out republicans do not officially take power until next week. it says gop can rerequest for fear at that time. republicans call it an attempt to deflect and distract. the important thing everyone needs to understand about those respects, 100% of that pertains to taxpayer dollars. to money being spent with covid, money being spent in afghanistan with weapons being left behind, money being spent with different projects and different agencies within the federal government. that s what the oversight committee s role is. julie: we have team fox coverage. let s get to peter doocy who joins us live from the white house. good morning. the white house says they ll play ball but since the last congress is over all the subpoenas written while temp was speaker will have to be resent when republicans take over. a spokesman for the white house counsel s office is