Will take them to the euros. Holidays are coming, and that means so are the christmas ads. Nearly £7 billion will be spent on them this year, so as thejohn lewis film is revealed, ill have a look whether the focus is on tv or online. Westlife are back with a new album, with a helping hand from ed sheeran. They will be here after 8 00am to tell us how it happened. It isa it is a cold start to the day, for some of us a frosty one, but also some of us a frosty one, but also some heavy rain extending through wales to central and south eastern england. That will move northwards today towards Northern England. U nfortu nately today towards Northern England. Unfortunately it is also going to rein in areas where we already have some flooding. I will have more details in 15 minutes. It is thursday 1a november. Our top story the army is preparing fresh defences for flood stricken parts of South Yorkshire as more heavy rain is forecast across the uk. The village of fishlake near doncaster has be
According to the pacific disaster center, more than 2200 structures are damaged or destroyed on maui, and the town was decimated in a matter of a few hours. Abcs melissa melissa. Has more from maui, where locals are showing frustration. Christ can teams continued to search looking for victims or possible survivors of the deadly fires which tore through parts of maui beginning tuesday. This is the largest Natural Disaster we have ever experienced. It is also going to be a Natural Disaster which is going to take an incredible amount of time to recover from. More than 22 hundred structures damaged, the flames burning more than 2100 acres. Patients, prayers, and perseverance. That is what we need. Many now it works expressing anger at local government. There was no alert, no alarm, no text. I saw no management of the situation whatsoever. Authorities responded saying that the speed and intensity of the flames complicated efforts to warn citizens. Resident biden signed a federal disaster de
Lynch. Thats a mouthful, they are under the same umbrella. Talking about the money pouring into the market. Individual money in the latest week, a record 33. 2 billion in the stockbased funds. That is through wednesday. I guess they do it that way. To put that in perspective, stepping back, 278 billion for all of 2017. If you were to maintain that pace and it were to continue to go at that frenetic pace, the gist of the merrill report is things would be looking frothy. Now theyve been saying that for many years, you could go back to a few years into the bull market that celebrates its nineyear anniversary in march. But among some of the things out there, and a big disappointment for me was starbucks. They were very high at holiday sales and a lot of that had to do with dismissing the pumpkin latte. [ laughter ] moving the peppermint latte to the front of the line, and i warned the baristas here, locally, i said youre giving up the cash cow, they said what do you want . And that was it.
We can see President Trump. There onsee the media trucks standing by, standing hanging. Big flatbeds. So they can have a perspective and behind them, the president s vehicle. We can see that from our vantage the Canadian Embassy. That tells you where things are right now. Theouldnt imagine president would think about getting out here and taking a walk. A bit of wayste to the white house. Out,me point he can get shake hands. We dont know what he was told his security detail, whether or not thats a good idea. And see. E to wait its always a bit of a surprise. From our understanding, it the circumstances whether or not they do a walk. We do see the vehicle right as dave was saying, the from, we can see that where we are and you c that on the screen, as well. We want to talk to sam sam ford. Is there at freedom plaza. Sam, what are you seeing . Sam well, allison, jonathan, we just saw the d. C. Police Motorcycle Division go by and the is always the start of parade except i noticed they hav
Of the right frequency. Thanks. Thanks very much. Youre watching booktv. Next, flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that the u. S. Needs to change its policy towards the government of iran which they say is a rational actor and will play a leading role in the middle east for years to come. This is about an hour. It is an honor this morning to introduce Flynt Leverett who served at the state department and cia, but hes currently a professor at penn state out of carlyle. Also with him is Hillary Mann Leverett, and she served at the National Security council and the state department. She negotiated the u. S. Government, with the u. S. Government with the iranian officials. Shes now a senior professor, lecturer at American University in washington. Their writing has appeared in the new york times, politico, Foreign Policy and washington monthly, among others. They came to us last night from virginia. They took the late night train and stayed here. And what id like to do is just turn it ov