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administration as assistant to the secretary of state. welcome to the programme. for the first time since brexit took effect in january 2020, the british prime minister was in europe today for a summit, the first meeting of the european political community. not an eu construct, not an eu alternative, said liz truss, but an opportunity to discuss wider interests relating to ukraine, energy and security. russia s war demands cooperation beyond the eu s 27 member states. in all, 44 countries were represented in prague today, including countries like alabania and azerbaijan, who are currently in a state of conlict. but the seating plan was hardly the most difficult issue. after last month s sabotage of the two pipelines in the baltic sea and the 0pec+ decision wedneday to cut daily oil production by 2 million barrels, europe is staring at a winter energy crisis. the national grid warned today that households in the uk could face three hour power cuts this winter in a cold ....
they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i wo ....
and hurricane irma, which veered at the last second. businesses are putting plywood up on windows. this is an ice cream shot trying to inject some levity, no ice cream for ian. sandbags are on the ground to prevent flooding. that s small potatoes in terms of mandatory evacuations. pinellas county and hillsborough county have about 2.5 million people collectively. the whole tampa bay area is 3.2. 75%, 08% of the people are in two counties that have mandatory evacuations. they re looking to move a million-plus people. that process started last night, 2:00 for hillsborough, 6:00 for pinellas. but you ll see the biggest chunks of people fry trying to get out today. the topography of this area, there are bays and inlets, barrier reefs, the bay on one side, the gulf on the other. the water has nowhere to go. storm surge right now certainly the biggest concern as the projections are between 5 and ten feet. for historical context, the last time a major hurricane struck tampa ....
a u turn from russia freeing up grain export is rejoined three days after pulling out. a move which risked worsening global hunger. a move which risked worsening global hunger. and the us central bank announces its fourth straight three quarters of a point rate hike. today raise the policy in dress rate by .75 points and we continue to anticipate on growing dues ongoing raises will be appropriate. huge breakthrough in ethiopia. the government and tigrayan rebels have agreed to a truce to end two years of civil war. the conflict has left millions of people in desperate need of aid. peace talks facilitated by the african union have been taking place in south africa. this is the mediator. the two parties in the ethiopian conflict have formally agreed to the cessation of hostilities. ina in a statement posted online ethiopians prime minister said. this is what the representative of the to grand said. we this is what the representative of the to grand said. the to g ....
as the biden administration right now works on a response to the republican governors who are sending these migrants across the country. let s begin with mj lee. what tune about the discussions happening behind you inside the white house right now? everything that you just described with the situation with migrants unexpectedly being bussed and flown to different places like martha s vineyard, everyone the vp s residence here in washington, d.c., of course white house officials have been monitoring that situation very closely. and one thing we expect to happen today is a meeting between white house and cabinet officials to basically discuss all important issues related to immigration. we certainly expect those topics to include the situation at the border and generally some of the issues that have come up in these places where he s groups of migrants are showing up are obviously the situations that created a big logistical and as well as humanitarian situation in all ....