Details in half an hour. Good morning, its saturday 15 september. Our top story five people have been killed and hundreds of thousands left without power as Tropical Storm florence continues to batter americas east coast. A mother and her baby are among the victims. Despite being downgraded from a hurricane, florence is still posing a danger to millions of people on its path, with forecasters warning of life threatening storm surges. Evacuation warnings are in place for 1. 7 Million People across South Carolina, North Carolina and virginia. Our correspondent Chris Buckler has this report. The carolinas knew what was coming, but they could never fully prepare for the force of florence. Along this coastline, houses found themselves on the front line for a fierce incoming storm. And a surge of water that flooded streets and homes. Despite the many days of warnings, there were people caught out, and families who needed to be rescued from their homes. Cool water. There you go. In new bern,
Has brought about new searches by police in australia for a woman who vanished more than three decades ago. How is america preparing for the arrival of florence . We will be keeping a close eye on the storms progress throughout the evening and we will be asking what the country has learned from the devastation wrought by previous hyuri kane s. Can Mark Soderberg fix facebook before it breaks democracy . The question posed by beyond 100 days, who hears from a journalist who spent the summer with the facebook boss to pick his brains on everything from free speech to data protection. And tonight we will take a look at tomorrows front pages. Ill bejoined by a look at tomorrows front pages. Ill be joined by the a look at tomorrows front pages. Ill bejoined by the deputy Political Editor of the guardian and editor of the political london playbook. So that is all ahead on bbc news. Now, time for sports day. Youre live at the bbc sport centre with me, chris mitchell. Coming up for you on sport
Design to be inspirational to people coming here, whether theyre locally from dundee or more widely from scotland or visitors from around the world. This is one of the museums star exhibits its Charles Rennie mackintoshs art nouveau masterpiece, the oak room, which started life as a tearoom in 1907 in glasgow, before being salvaged prior to a Hotel Redevelopment in the 1970s and then lovingly refurbished and reinstalled here for people to enjoy for the first time in 50 years. The galleries look terrific but what effect will the museum have on dundee itself . It means jobs, it means an increased profile across the country, but, more than anything, it means a sense of pride to the people who live and work here. We have the affluent parts of the city. But of course, there are still parts where there is economic deprivation. Weve got children living in poverty and we do have a drug problem. Hows the v a going to help that . It will encourage people to see that culture is notjust for afflue
Time was a category two hurricane but still with sustained winds of 110 Miles Per Hour in the centre and its going to become very slow moving, so there are huge amounts of rain in the forecast, exceptionally severe flooding is on the cards. Back home its quieter, split fortu nes back home its quieter, split fortunes over the next few days. We will see some rain at times, most towards the north and west. Further south and east well see the driest and brightest of the weather. Thats the case for today. Weve had quite a lot of sunshine across the southern half of the country a decidedly still chilly start. More cloud in Northern Ireland, parts of western scotland and north west england particularly. Some outbreaks of showery rain. After the chilly start in the south temperatures up to 20 degrees, 12 across the north west of scotland. This evening and tonight its the northern half of the uk that will continue to see most of the cloud, some outbreaks of patchy rain at times, perhaps some he
Parts of england. More details on all of that coming up. Good morning. Its sunday, the 16th of september. Our top story the Prime Minister has defended her plan for brexit and revealed she becomes irritated when asked how long shell last in thejob. In an exclusive interview with bbcs nick robinson, theresa may said the debate was not about her future, but the future of the United Kingdom. And she was also critical of the former foreign secretary borisjohnson, as our Political Correspondent chris mason reports. You know what some people say . They rather liked it when you joked about being that bloody difficult woman. They liked that. And they sometimes say, wheres she gone . Laughter. We want her back. Well, shes still there. Theres a difference between those who think you can only be bloody difficult in public and those of us who think, actually, you bide your time and youre bloody difficult when the time is right. Smiling but defiant, in her car and at chequers, after a week in which