As we track the hurricane it is pummelling louisiana. It is a massive storm. It s a category 4. It made landfall just about an hour ago and port four shun with winds of about 150 miles per hour. As we give you sunning video this is from a flight right into the eye of the storm earlier this morning. You hear about the hurricane hunters? this is what they see. The national hurricane center issuing an update. Nbc s meteorologist bill carans will brik break it down for us. We are in new orleans as the sewage and water board reports power out ans at the sewage pump stations at this hour. That s not the kind of news they want to have to deliver to the rents. Governor gen john bel edwards will be holding a briefing in the next hour on the state s response to ida. Duly noted, this hurricane comes on a historic day, 16 years to the day after katrina devastated new orleans in louisiana. Residents are being urged to stay indoors to stay safe. Stay inside. Do not venture out. No sightseeing. This
to lord of the dance. michael flatley on 30 years since that life changing eurovision moment. good morning. today in the west it will be fairly cloudy, wet and windy. further east we are looking at drier and brighter conditions with some sunshine but sao is coming to the south east later. all of the detail throughout the programme. it s tuesday the 30th of april. the scottish national party has officially started the process to find a new leader, after humza yousaf announced his resignation as scotland s first minister. he quit ahead of two no confidence votes at holyrood which were due to be held in the wake of his decision to eject to scottish greens from his power sharing government. nominations to replace him opened just before midnight. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. politically, there was nowhere left for humza yousaf to go. his leadership fatally wounded, not by his party or by the voters, but by himself. and so this admission that his time as first m
is found at a nature reserve in salford. and discovered in a field in lincolnshire, this roman artefact is 1,700 years old. but what is it? and coming up on sportsday on bbc news after a season of points deductions in the premier league, are the financial rules that were used to punish everton and nottingham forest about to change? good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six live from the holyrood parliament in edinburgh, on a tumultuous day in scottish politics. humza yousaf has announced he is standing down as snp leader and scotland s first minister afterjust 13 months in office. his politicalfuture had been uncertain since his announcement last thursday that he was ending power sharing with the scottish greens. they had clashed with the government over the scrapping of climate goals and the approach to gender reform. he was at risk of losing a confidence vote later this week. the snp now have 28 days to find a new leader who s supported by a majority here at holyroo
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and on newsnight at 10:30. we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus, we take a first look at what s on tomorrow s front pages. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten, live from the holyrood parliament in edinburgh, at the end of a tumultuous day in scottish politics. tonight, the search is under way for a new first minister and snp leader, after humza yousaf announced he was standing downing afterjust 13 months in office. his politicalfuture had been uncertain since thursday, when he ended the snp s power sharing agreement with the scottish greens. it left him facing a confidence vote he was at risk of losing. today he said he d underestimated the level of hurt and upset his decision about power sharing would cause. 0ur scotland editor james cook is with me. did humza yousaf miscalculate? short answer is yes and spectacularly so. how so? because if we wind back, he inherited this power sharing deal with the scott