Hurricane milton has re strengthened to a category five storm as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of its projected landfall on wednesday night local time. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. You can see this timelapse, here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick, showing how this storm looks from space. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring a destructive storm surge, in which some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been canceled ahead of its landfall, which is expected to bring strong winds of up to 165 mph or 270 kph. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the south eastern us; 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlan
funerals are being held for the 2a soldiers killed in israel s deadliest day since the war began in gaza. there has been intense fighting around khan younis, israel says it has surrounded the southern gaza city. could i hostage deal close, though? reports that israel has proposed a two month pause to negotiate prisoner exchanges with himars. the us and uk carry out joint strikes against houthi targets in yemen for the second time in two weeks. hamas. and oppenheimer leads the oscar nominations with 13 but barbie s margot robbie and director greta gerwig miss out. time for a look at the business news now with lu kwesa burak. it afternoon, lukwesa. could afternoon. good afternoon. we start here in the uk with the government s finances because the amount it had to borrow last month was far less than expected. that has raised hopes the chancellor, jeremy hunt, may have extra room to cut taxes when he announces his spring budget in march. a lot of it is down to lo
larry: one week from tonight we have mick jagger. first, we welcome back laura bush. her new book is spoken from the heart. a terrific read published by scriptners. you were such a private first lady. wasn t this hard for you to do? it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted it to be very candid. i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about, all those eight years we were there, you know, didn t cover some of the things that were in this book. so i had a great time writing it. i went back home to midland when i started it. my mother still lives there, and went by all those houses my dad built. and the houses george and i lived in, and the schools we went to. larry: lived your life over. that s right. and i really did there is something cathartic about it. i saw things really for the first time with my vantage point, now, at my ag
one week from tonight we ve got mick jagger here for the hour. right now we welcome back former first lady laura bush to larry king live. we spent many hours together. her new book is spoken from the heart. a terrific read published by scriptners. you see its cover. you were such a private first lady. wasn t this hard for you to do? it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted to be very candid, i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about, all those eight years we were there, you know, didn t cover some of the things that were in this book. so i had a great time writing it. i went back home to midland when i started it. my mother still lives there, and went by all those houses my dad built. and the houses george and i lived in, and the schools we went to. larry: lived your life over. that s right. and i really did and there s something really cathartic about it. i saw things re