the longtime trump confidant predicting political violence. in washington, jury selection in the trial of the only keepers, facing seditious conspiracy charges. good day. i m andrea mitchell. there will be a brief on the government s plan to assist florida communities bracing for hurricane ian. evacuations are under way. a shift in the storm s direction is now heading towards sarasota and ft. myers, veering away from tampa. we have a new forecast. tell us about this more than change in direction. now that we are 30 to 36 hours from the hurricane force winds coming onshore, every wobble will have impact for one town. some will be better. some the forecast will be worse. first, this is cuba. you can see the eye coming off the coast. look how it cleared out. with the sun angle high in the sky, you can see into the ocean in the center of the storm. the eye clears out. we expect it to infence phi. the latest from the hurricane center. it s pouring in south florida. we are at
the economy, dealing with their waiting lists, getting british people back to work, setting up great british energy, those are the changes this country desperately needs. and i think so many people are yearning for change, if you want change, you have to vote for it. that was at the leader of the labour party, sir keir starmer speaking a little earlier on today. their battle bus going off to essex to do more campaigning. that was launched this morning. the conservative party battle bus also lunch today. we can see the image of rishi sunak there. our correspondentjess parker is there. we can see the battle bus behind you. a lot more at the conservative party are offering throughout this election campaign. party are offering throughout this election campaign. yes, we ust the prime minister election campaign. yes, we ust the prime minister lunching election campaign. yes, we just the prime minister lunching effectivelyl prime minister lunching effectively the battle bus.
rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in re
campaign here in the uk. all parties out again this weekend vying for support. rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each if the conservatives are re elected. he says the money would go towards the long term regeneration of the areas, under the government s levelling up scheme. a topic labour leader kier starmer hasn t been able to escape is dianne abbott. there s been a lot of controversy over the terms of the re admittance of the veteran labour mp into the party. keir starmer has been tackling that issue as well this morning, denying that his party is blocking left wing candidates. 0n diane abbott you said last week you weren t going to get involved in her case. you said the days when the leader rolls up his sleeves and gets involved are well and truly over, that s what corbyn did and ended badly. you said it was a matter for the nec on candidate selection and you avoided having a view becausejeremy corbyn expressed a view and that leads to a