A budget that will define the next Half Decade under labour begins to take shape with more investment in big projects, more borrowing, and perhaps less of a Tax Rise than expected. And devastating israeli strikes on beirut actively targeting hezbollah s leadership, as Benjamin Netanyahu dashes back from the Un And Tehran holds emergency meetings. Where will this escalation take the region and the world . Good evening. This is newsnight, home to Insight And Analysis from home and abroad. Well discuss the emerging situation in the Middle East a little later, matters could develop as we are on air. Breaking news is that they hezbollah it senior leadership is unreachable following the israel strikes on the Beirut Southern Suburbs on thursday. We will discuss that later. But first a domestic Mid Conference political and economic stock take with our top panel. Anushka asthana, Itv News deputy political editor, author of taken as red, an Insider Account of Labours Ascent to power, zing tseng,
Is Cnn Newsroom. We begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, its now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. Now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. The mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more than 1,000,000. 5 homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. At least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast to end georgia. And one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Car driving on i4 near your Ybor City and tampa, was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway. So that just shows you that its very dangerous. Chris conditions out there you need to be right now. Just hunkering down nows not the time to be going o
Look at georgia, look at some of look at the massive amount of area in florida right now, were gonna be here for as long as it takes. Were going to help florida get back on its feet one meal at a time. Were going to give these people hope, let them know that were, that were here for him. And that were going to be keep coming back every day until until theyre settled, until there big, they get their Feedback Underneath so glad youre there, so thankful that youre there. John torpey. And the whole crew from World Central Kitchen really appreciate what youre doing out there a new hour of cnn new central starts right now is cnn Breaking News im John Berman in tallahassee, florida. This is cnns special Live Coverage of helene, which is now a tropical storm, but a storm that has caused major your peril over hundreds and hundreds of Miles Water rescues in multiple states. This after a catastrophic Storm Surge on Floridas Coast that surge was nine feet or higher in some areas, me right now, fra
And unsurvivable about Helene Making Landfall Last Night in florida. Cat 4 hurricane. Big storm and really moving like a clipper, too. Im bill hemmer, welcome to our program. Dana im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. Another fast week. It was good that it moved fast but still means there is a lot of damage. Ron desantis was right on time yesterday and we expect to see him any moment. Lets get to Steve Harrigan outside of tampa. This is the scene a lot of people in florida and even georgia are waking up to today. Two feet of water on the ground. Gets deeper the closer you get to the water. Many houses under water. The challenge now for people is getting out of their homes. Getting to their cars trying to make sure theyre safe. Weve seen a number of Air Boats and water rescues, 80 in this county just overnight. We see people really just stumbling around. More than A Million people in florida without Electric Power right now. More than 800,000 in georgia. So it will be a tough day a
Two candidates, theyre dueling economic messages and the former president s claims about the two attempts on his life and iran, plus the very latest on Hurricane Helene now forecast to reach category four heading for the Florida Panhandle good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, keeping them honest with politics specifically the brand of it, which runs on falsehoods and fear. And frankly, racism the latest example, louisiana republican Congressman Clay higgins, this guy, now it doesnt have much of a record of accomplishment in the house, but today, hes certainly got noticed this is what he posted on social media, quoting the congressman now, lol, these haitians are wild, eating pets, voodoo, Nastyas Country in the western hemisphere, colts slapstick gangsters, but if they dont feel all sophisticated now filing charges against our president and vp, all these thugs better get their Mind Right and their out of our country before january 20. So a couple of things to unpack he