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residents. people need to get ready for life-threatening storm surge that could be up to 16 feet that officials are now calling non-survivable. brian: all right. we have fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean has been all morning long. tracking the storm on the ground. fox weather multi journalist brady campbell. nicole valdes in tampa and we begin in clearwater beach with robert ray. hey, robert. yeah. good morning, guys, from clearwater beach we have experienced what we expected and that is the storm surge that is coming in to clearwater beach here this morning. this is coronado street here and right off of the gulf of mexico. what do we see? we see at least a foot of water here come in. many of these roads are inundated around clearwater beach. this is what the anticipation was of this storm as overnight it just actually in the past hour kicked up to a category 4 major hurricane as it s making its way to the southeast of tallahassee ....
we saw heavy downpour, strong winds and would hit lulls and become dry and calm. now the winds moving steadily over past couple hours and notable, the water line. the gulf has slowly inched closer to land hitting the dune, probably moved up 10, twenty, 30 feet overnight consuming the beach behind me. seeing combination of high tide with storm surge we ve been reporting on. this area is low lying area, st. pets beach is barrier island, popular tourist destination. there are hotels and sprawling resorts up and down the beach. mandatory evacuation orders for this town, mostly a ghost town. most people are cooperating. governor desantis said if you have not evacuated by now, a first responder may not be able to respond to you. todd: matt finn, thank you. bring in nicole valdes live on the ground in tampa. nicole, what are you seeing out there? nicole: just along tampa bay, show you this, we are seeing three feet of storm surge come crashing over bayshore boulevard, site ....
said it would not comment on reports in the foreign media . the international court ofjustice has ordered israel to take all necessary action to ensure that basic food supplies reach palestinians facing hunger in gaza. thejudges said the israeli military must not violate the international convention on genocide. it s the world court s strongest language yet on the war. it s also ordering israel to open more land crossings to allow aid into the strip. but the icj does not have any power to enforce its ruling. meanwhile, aid agencies are concerned for patients at gaza hospitals that now face daily israeli bombardment. for more on the situation, i spoke to the medical director of medglobal nahreen ahmed. she returned from her second mission to gaza last week. thank you for taking the time to speak to us on bbc news. you are just back from gaza and you were in various locations. talk us through all of that, but let s start with northern gaza. what did you see there? we re ....
idalia dangerously close to being a major category 3. now within about 100 miles of the florida gulf coast where some areas of florida s big bend could get catastrophic 15-foot storm surge. matt finn is live in saint pete, florida as it idalia closes intricate is beginning to look bad where you are. trace, the wind and rain has been very consistent for several hours now. the beach where we are is a barrier island to the tampa bay area. only about a 20 minute drive rest up tampa bay. this is considered zoned a of evacuation area. this is under a mandatory evacuation because of how low-lying this area is. fema and the national weather service in pinellas county officials have been warning that this area could see a 7 to 10-foot storm surge. anybody who remains here at this hour now perhaps faces that storm surge. governor desantis has warned that if you have not evacuated this area now, if you were to dial 911 are called emergency services, they may not be able to res ....
hello and welcome to our look at the business news. i m lukwesa burak. we start here in the uk, where the country s biggest water company, thames water, may have to be nationalised after investors refused to pump in more money. thames, which provides water for around a quarter of the uk population, is struggling under a £15 billion debt pile and a worsening environmental record. its boss has told the bbc that customers bills will need to rise by 40% in the coming years, to help cover the investment it needs. but he admitted it could end up being taken into government hands. our business editor simonjack reports. in the village of lambourn in west berkshire grains have overflowed regularly, pouring raw sewage onto the streets and straight into the local will become a protected chalk stream. thames water says rohan wood has overjuande storm dennis, villages and local charity said is that he is of underinvestment by the company. we would like to see water cullity been put ....