we re so grateful to have you with us on this sunday. it is august 29. thank you for keeping us company here. hi, phil. hey, christi. alrighty. so let s talk about hurricane hunters right now. they are doing hourly updates at this point as hurricane ida zeros in on communities on the gulf coast. ida is already a powerful category 4 storm and it s still gaining strength. now, it will make landfall today bringing as much as 20 inches of rain to some areas with the potential for destructive storm surge and strong winds. now, yesterday bumper -to-bumpe traffic stretched for miles as people left their homes for safety. now, a strike today would fall exactly 16 years after hurrican katrina ripped through the arena. it s a coincidence not lost on many who decided to leave their homes. katrina, hey, i had to stand in the water and slept on a bridge for two days. fema trucks and generators are in the area as well. take a look there. the national guard has also been deplo
thanks, everybody, for watching. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. this is cnn breaking news. all right. good morning to viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is wednesday, april 13th. i m john berman in brooklyn, new york. brianna keilar is in lviv in western ukraine. there is a manhunt under way for a gunman who terrored rush-hour commuters at a train station behind me yesterday morning. he fired 33 shots, hitting at least 10 people. five of the victims children on their way to school. this was mayhem. people rushing from the train. some wounded. the floor of the platform covered in blood. many of the victims gasping for air because smoke canisters were used by the gunman, two of them. police have not named a suspect yet. they are, however, looking for 62-year-old frank james who they say is a person of interest. investigators believe he repeated this u-haul van found a few miles from the scene. police are investigating whether james
storm has turned deadly. the florida highway patrol says that one person was killed in a weather-related accident on interstate 75 in pacifico county. the national hurricane center just put out its latest update on the storm. and right now it is a category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. idalia made landfall around keaton beach, florida, around 7:45 a.m. eastern time as a category 3 storm. the strongest to hit florida s big bend region in more than 125 years. idalia s biggest impact appears to be storm surge, which topped eight feet in some places. and in cedar key, florida, part of a bed and breakfast collapsed and washed away. nearly 300,000 homes and businesses are now without power in florida and georgia. florida governor ron desantis urged people not to go out if they don t have to. please hunker down, wherever you are, don t mess with this storm. don t do anything that is going to put yourself in jeopardy. and there will be a lot of help com
good evening. this is 18 year old itay regev and his sister maya they were kidnapped by hamas from the music festival in israel last october and held for sa days. they were both shot when they were seized. itay has been describing in detail what happened to him, his sister and his best friend, after they were taken hostage. his friend is still being held along with more than 100 others. itay has been talking to our special correspondent lucy manning. itay regev is free, but all he thinks about are the hostages he left behind. the teenager was at the nova music festival with his sister maya and friend 0mer when hamas attacked. translation: we started hearing shooting. - the terrorists were surrounding the whole party area. lots and lots of people started running in all directions. i hear shooting going past my head. i heard people screaming. i saw people falling down. a lot of bodies. we were confronted by a van of terrorists spraying our car with bullets without any mercy.
from the last few minutes. the government has said it will bring forward a change in the law to prevent the ownership of uk newspapers and magazines by foreign states. the move follows concern about the potential takeover of the daily telegraph and spectator by a group backed by the united arab emirates. minister say they will try to amend the digital markets, competition and consumers bill currently going through parliament. labour has indicated it is likely to back the move. so, that developmentjust coming into the last little while. more on that in the six o clock news here in the next little while. now, though, as promised, let s round up all the sport of the day. gavin is in the bbc sport centre. yes, mathew, good evening to you. let s start at cheltenham, where trainer willie mullins is still waiting for his 100th winner, which could come in the weatherby s champion bumper, the final race of the day. it is now under way. el fabiolo was the favourite for the champions ch