It has become a very big business as i understand it. A giant business in a very short period of time. But we cant allow people to get sick and we cant have our youth be so affected. The human toll of Hurricane Dorian after the devastation across the bahamas, 2,500 people are now registered as missing. So near, yet so far. Have astronomers really discovered a planet in another solar system, with the ingredients to sustain life . Mps here in the uk have demanded the immediate recall of parliament after the highest civil court in scotland ruled its suspension was unlawful. Thejudges also said Prime Minister borisjohnson had effectively misled Queen Elizabeth in advising her to suspend parliament. The case will go to the Uk Supreme Court next week the uk government says its disappointed by the ruling, and that dissolving parliament was legal and necessary. Our uk Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has this report. Judgment day. In scotlands court of session, a clear verdict on borisjohnson
Breaking news. Hi. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Thanks so much for joining us. Im robyn curnow. So at this hour we are following two big stories in the uk, a major blow to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson after a Rebel Alliance of lawmakers seize control of parliament. But we also begin with the very latest on the destructive path of Hurricane Dorian. For almost two days now, Hurricane Dorian smothered the bahamas. We heard reports of utter devastation. Well, now we get to see the destruction. Parts of the island are in ruins. As you can see from these aerial images, many, many areas underwater, homes ripped apart, communities gutted. Flooding is a threat to rescue efforts as well and the rescuers themselves, in fact. Every day people are using boats and jet skis, putting their lives at risk to save others. At the moment, the storm killed at least seven people, but the Prime Minister expects that to rise, and hes called dorian a historic tragedy. We
events that we ve experienced in the past few years are different, unique, different locations, different types of storms. can you compare this, the devastation that you re expecting, that we re seeing can you compare it to anything else that we ve seen recently in living memory? yeah. i mean it was worse, right, because this was a category 5. so the wind speeds were very, very high. but i think as far as the flooding, a lot of that is looking like hurricane florence in north carolina or hurricane harvey in houston. some of the wind damage similar to that of puerto rico. i visited some towns with wooden structures in puerto rico that were just flattened by the wind damage there, and a lot of what we re seeing in the pictures and videos coming out of the bahamas looks very similar to that. and so i think it s going to be a long recovery effort. okay. jill morehead, good luck. thanks to your team, and keep us posted on any developments and any information on how people