good morning, everyone. we re going to take a minute to announce some good news. yesterday, clant collins is the new host of the 9:00 p.m. hour, opposite side of the day. i am. just when i got into this whole, you know, waking up at 3:30, everything. i had it down pat. i almost brought you a trash can and larmalarm clock. will you ll never have to set an alarm clock. it will be very exciting. f fun to i don t views and i will miss you. of course i m going to miss you. you ve been everything to me. i m not far away. what is also great is the reporting you do every day on everything washington can really be highlighted and featured at 9:00. i m excited for that. and i ll see you a lot. so we have a week left with kaitlan, thank goodness. let s get started with five things it know. the suspect behind that big leak of military secrets was repeatedly warned about his mishandling of classified documents but still was never removed from his post. this is according to new
give up its secrets. rebecca morelle, bbc news. the time is 10:30pm and darren is here with the weather. hello, i want to touch on the flooding in italy first of all. this is just another example of severe weather becoming more severe and happening more often. it wasn t too long ago that this part of italy was in drought, but there has been six months of rain in the last couple of weeks which has certainly changed all that. this programme contains repetitive flashing images there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with victoria which is just getting under way the site of the former redcar steelworks is at the centre of a furious row between the conservative mayor of tees valley and labour. truly shocking. industrial scale corruption on teesside. a huge site acquired by the public body south tees developments limited for £12 million, in 2019. what s going on then? we ll talk live to the conservative mayor who s facing labour claims of cronyism, corruption
back to our may news over the course of the last few hours. prince harry s spokesman says he, his wife meghan and her mother were involved in a near catastrophic car chase while being followed by photographers after an event in new york. a statement says the pursuit lasted more than two hours and resulted in multiple near collisions last night, the duke and duchess of sussex and ms ragland were involved in a near catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi. this relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two nypd officers. these pictures have just come in a warning there s flashing photography. they show prince harry and meghan leaving the gala in new york. on leaving the gala in new york. tuesday night. thoss recently on tuesday night. those pictures are recently ended and we have also been hearing in the last little while new york s mayor, eric ad
within the coming years. they also say that a key temperature threshold, a rise in global temperature by 1.5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels, is likely to be breached for the first time. our climate editorjustin rowlatt has more details. rising temperatures thanks to global warming are one reason but we are also seeing a change in a crucial weather system in the pacific ocean called el nino. for the last few years, winds blowing along the equator have been stronger than normal, pushing warmer water towards the coast of asia and helping deep, cold water well up on the coast of the americas. this phase is known as la nina, and is associated with below average global temperatures. we are now moving into the el nino phase, where winds are weaker which means warm water spreads across the pacific. now, that tends to increase global temperatures by about 0.2 celsius on average. that does not sound much, but it makes it almost certain, a 98% chance according to the un s w
beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho