officially, treasure . there s fierce criticism here of the decision to suspend parliament for more than 4 weeks. requested by the prime minister and approved by the queen it means members of parliament who want to prevent the uk leaving the european union without a deal, have even less time to do that. for some, it s a constitutional crisis, some critics use the word coup for others it s a way to shortcut years of prevarication about brexit. borisjohnson says it means he can get on with his agenda for the future. this from bbc political editor laura kuennsberg. shutting up shop at the prime minister s request, the gates will clang shut here for an extra few days next month. debates won t take place, mps won t vote or stand in the way of borisjohnson. we are bringing forward a new legislative programme on crime, on hospitals, and making sure that we have the education funding that we need. and there will be ample time on both sides of that crucial october the 17th su
as it heads towards the u.s. mainland. good evening, i m julie haener. and i m frank somerville. the good news is that hurricane dorian only caused limited damage today as it passed the virgin islands and then puerto rico. the hurricane did knock down trees and caused scattered power outages across the northern caribbean but there is no official flooding or excuse me no major flooding and officials in puerto rico say they are breathing a huge sigh of relief tonight. chief meteorologist bill martin is here now with a look at the storm. dorian is now a herrick and as you know. checking out the last 10 hours or so as it moves by puerto rico and they dodged a bullet here. this went right between the islands, not a lot of damage at least so far on san juan, puerto rico. but we are looking light in thi the forecast for dorian as a category one for it to turn into a category three as we get to the weekend here and look at the focus of the storm. category two as it moves in thr
until sentencing. the government s decision to suspend parliament. we re expecting to hear from ruth davidson in the next few minutes. in her resignation letter she said it had been ‘the privilege of my life to serve as the leader good afternoon. of the scottish conservative welcome to bbc newsroom live. and i‘m annita unionist mcveigh. party.‘ the government has insisted a government whip, lord young, that mps will have time has also resigned in the last half to debate the uk‘s departure from the european union hour, saying shutting parliament down risks fundamentally undermining it. despite plans to suspend parliament but cabinet ministers reject claims for five weeks into october. yesterday, the queen approved the move is an attempt to stop mps the prime minister‘s request to close parliament until 14th from debating brexit october less than three or preventing a no deal exit. weeks before the uk this is completely constitutional, and proper, there is going t
a voting machine glitch w a boat beinging machine glitch was caught on video in. . everybody should watch this. a man trying to catch a ballot in the primary runningoff for governor saw his intended vote change more than a dozen times. mnc it really is. police have found a cache of weapons inside a man s home in philadelphia. officers recovered more than 50 guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, 10 hand grenades, a pipe bomb, and liquid mercury, which can affect the nervous system. a 72-year-old man in the home was taken to the hospital for evaluation. no word on any charges. now to the new details in that deadly nighttime boat collision involving shark tank star kevin o leary. o leary is confirming the boat he was on crashed into another vessel, killing two people. there has to be a better way. reporter: one of the stars of the hit show shark tank revealing he was on a boat involved in a fatal collision on lake joseph in ontario, canada, over the weekend
obviously something s going on, and it needs to be cleaned up. it needs to be cleaned up, period. reporter: the today it is always fully cooperated with investigators and that there was no need for the fbi to use search warrants. meanwhile, fiat-chrysler had no comment. john? dean reynolds in chicago. we have an important update related to a huge air bag recall we ve been covering that involves 10s of millions of vehicles. it turns out some of the replacement air bags are now failing. today toyota announced it is recalling 135,000 cars in the u.s., including 2003 to 2008 corolla sedans and 2005 to 20ma tricks hatchbacks. for a full list go to cbsnews.com/recall. turning to overseas today, british prime minister boris johnson made an extraordinary move to force through his brexit plan. he got parliament suspended until mid-october. elizabeth palmer reports on the outrage that followed. reporter: just when it looked as if brexit s exit from the european union couldn