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pelman to give you weather and traffic. yeah, we re trying to remember all that joy that we felt yesterday morning as we deal with the challenges this morning. keep trying. there s a lot going on with the weather. we ve got rain, we ve got fog, we ll have gusty winds as well and we re looking at satellite and radar showing that heavy rain is really coming in waves. we re seeing the first waves hit early this morning getting a little bit of break in part of the region but you see the rain down to the south that s still yet to move through the area. it s really the first half of the day that s going to be a wet one here. not just the early morning hours. storm tracker6 live double scan is really the best way to see exactly what s happening in your area, so i want you to take a closer look as we start off here, we re seeing in the lehigh valley, some pockets of heavy rain. you see that area of yellow, pockets of it traveling around kutztown around reading on 422 near p ....
a sharp rise in young people struggling with debt with many having to borrow to meet basic living costs. two stars on a collision course some 800 billion billion miles from earth scientists detect gravitational waves. and the case of gao zhisheng the prominent chinese human rights lawyer ho s still missing. we ll be talking to his daughter. it s 5 o clock. our main story is the effect of storm ophelia which is causing damage across the republic of ireland and claimed the lives of three people. 100 mile an hour winds have swept across the country. more than 360,000 homes and businesses around ireland are now without electricity. police have warned people to stay at home and not travel unless absolutely necessary. troops have been deployed to coastal areas in what s expected to be the most severe storm to hit ireland in half a century. an amber warning for northern ireland, west wales, south west scotland and the isle of man is in force. 0ur correspondent ia ....
northern ireland could have a very tough play off draw tomorrow. and all eyes are on today s weather. ican hear and all eyes are on today s weather. i can hear in kent. this area was devastated during the storm is 30 yea rs devastated during the storm is 30 years ago. i will be talking about the weather today and also looking back at what happened 30 years ago. more details throughout the afternoon. more details throughout the afternoon. thanks. coming up on afternoon live we stay with that theme. if you re being affected by 0phelia, then tweet us your stories and pictures. and let s also have your memories of the great storm 30 years ago. hello, everyone, this is afternoon live. ireland has been battered by storm 0phelia. one woman has died, thousands of people are without power, and hundreds of schools have been forced to close. what s described as a violent and destructive storm with winds of 100 miles an hour is now heading for northern ireland, parts of scotland, a ....
thousands of homes in northern ireland and wales are left without power as storm ophelia sweeps across the british isles commuters in scotland are being warned of difficult travelling conditions this morning. to not just scotland to notjust scotland but parts of north east england does well but it is in scotland and north east scotla nd is in scotland and north east scotland have gusts of 60 or 70 mph will that could possibly lead to trouble disruption. the win will ease over the day and there is rain and the forecast but i will have more later. of the wind will ease. in sport, what a night there is in store for tottenham. they take on the 12 time winners real madrid in the champions league their manager says it s so special to be playing at the bernabeu. and some are calling it red october the extreme weather conditions left many of us with some amazing views. we ll have more of the pictures you ve been sending us throughout the morning. and that was one o ....
it s tuesday october the 17th i m ben brown. welcome to bbc newsroom live. inflation has risen to its highest level in more than five years. the rate of inflation, as measured by the consumer prices index, increased to 3% last month, up from 2.9% in august. the figure is significant because the government uses data from september to set pension and benefit increases. our business correspondent ben bland is here. you are here to chew over these latest figures. what is behind this rise? when we talk about inflation, cpi, typically the things we spend oui’ cpi, typically the things we spend our money on like food, this figure relates to an average how those prices have gone up this september with a year before, and as we were talking about that figure was 3%, in pa rt talking about that figure was 3%, in part driven by food prices going up, transport cost going, but also as you mentioned the weak pound, after brexit, which affects raw materials and foods, imported, the ....