the tide level in charleston harbour was reported as the fifth largest ever recorded. idalia made landfall in florida as a category three storm, before charging across georgia. at least two people have died due to driving accidents in wet conditions, and nearly half a million people are without power across florida, georgia and south carolina. now that the rain has mostly cleared in florida, the impact of idalia can be seen. this is footage from cedar key, filmed by our team on the ground there. as you can see, although the skies were blue and the sun was shining, the destruction is clear to see. live now to our correspondent helena humphrey, who is in ha rd hit cedar key. what are conditions like where you are now? you like where you are now? have to keep in mind, her on you have to keep in mind, here on the big bend of florida, this is the worst storm they have seen in over a century, want to show you some of the destruction we have seen on the ground, if i move out of shot
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
spain have had an impressive tournament with a talented attacking side, so its expected to be a tight match. we will have all the build up from australia, across england and of course from spain as well. but first, here s our sports editor dan roan sent this report from sydney. having booked their place in the world cup final with a memorable victory over co hosts australia, england s preparations have continued to go smoothly in sydney, a fully fit squad enjoying a final training session on the eve of the match, intent on surpassing the european crown they claimed last year. your players are about to play the biggest game of their lives, when you look in their eyes, what do you say? when you look in their eyes, what do you see? i see calmness, we are in a good place, everyone is fit, the team is confident and we want to play our best game. this is a tournament the lionesses have had to battle through, overcoming injury, the suspension of a star player and a penalty shoot out
came back on the bbc before moving to itv. it is a fact that he was, of course, such a presence on so many different forms of broadcasting for many years. everything from morning talk shows to the infamous ghost watch, which terrified the entire nation. i think his legacy is that he was able to have informative, intelligent conversation, with people who were anyone from a notable news figure to globalstar. and really managed to get them to open up and reveal a bit more of themselves. he was really a class act at coming up with the right questions, framing it in the right way, and, ithink, allowing the person who was being interviewed, to open up in a form they wouldn t do to any other interviewer. i think the amount of people who i have been reading and seeing talking about, in the last few hours, who have said they had got into journalism and broadcasting because they were inspired by watching something on his show. that is the true legacy of a person, notjust the show they
looks back at his life. don t you get fed up of each other? oh, yes, yes. i call him golden balls, you know, now. - did you ever say, you dirty rat? never. jimmy cagney. orson welles. jimmy stewart. these were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. the fact is that you re a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he? why is that? well, number one, he s ugly. his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2,000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. he s not aggresive! rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a y