through the second set. after rolling his ankle midway through the second set. alcaraz had won the first 6 2. meanwhile, the women s world number one, iga swiatek, has taken the first set against daria saville. plenty of grit and determination from the australian, but it s the defending champion, swiatek, who seals it 6 3. and it is currently 4 3. looking good to the next round. the women s second seed, aryna sabalenka, overcame a poor start on serve to win her opening match against belgium s maryna zanevska. she hit five double faults to lose her first two service games, but found her rhythm and won in straight sets. rangers are among the sides looking to qualify for the champions league tonight. they ve travelled to psv eindhoven, with the scores level from the first leg. in the other fixtures, aek athens of greece are up against belgian side royal antwerp and danish champions fc copenhagen take on polish side rakov chestochowa. that one also 0 0. not many goals to tell you
the diplomacy will go. and a 56 year dynasty comes to an end in gabon another coup, the eighth in former french colonies injust the past three years. good evening. idalia s power has waned some as it heads towards georgia, but maximum sustained winds were still over 100 miles per hour. and it s worth remembering a storm s category doesn t necessarily indicate how much damage there will be. this storm surge that was pushed into the big bend area of the gulf coast peaked at 15 feet high. and that area of north west florida acts like a giant baseball mitt, it s flat, it s low lying, there s every reason to fear that the waters will have washed right over it. the federal emergency management agency said idalia is the strongest storm to make landfall in this part of florida in more than 100 years. more than a quarter of a million people in florida and another 100,000 in georgia are without power right now. the national guard and the federal emergency teams are staged ready to re
hit the big bend region since the 1800s. and this is what that looked like . you have to wonder who stuck around to be close to that as it was happening. both florida and georgia are experiencing significant power outages. we heard from fema of 300,000 and counting. serious flooding as well. areas in florida are now undertaking search ands are cue missions assisted by the national guard. we re going to go to simons island in south georgia. jimmy marlo is there. tell us what you re seeing as the storm moves through? reporter: i have been in the glen county area since yesterday. i started off the day in brunswick where folks were preparing for the storm by filling sandbags. a lot of people worried about localized flooding. we haven t seen any of that in the area. i started the day in brunswick. the story of the day really in the county has really been the wind. there s been a steady wind going from 20 to 30 nauts and i m in an area that has a lot of trees. i want to show yo
tonight a quarter of a million people are without power with storm surges and serious flooding in multiple locations along florida s gulf coast. we ll bring you reaction, including the thoughts of our panel tonight, joel rubin, former advisor to the us state department and the uk editor at politico jack blanchard. both will have a view onjames cleverley s controversial visit today to beijing. we will also talk about the equally contentious, land grab that china has just peformed in their latest edition of the world map. good evening. we are still to learn the full extent of the damage in florida. mercifully the hurricane came ashore this morning in an areas of the gulf coast that is far less populated than the city of tampa further to the south. but forecasters say the seas rose 9 ft in two hours in the big bend area of the coast, and they project that level of of flooding will submerges areas some 3 miles in from the coast, with water up to 4 feet deep. that is going to brin
all of this. i m going to get to it. i ll see you tomorrow night. thanks. this is don lemon tonight, and i m in orlando florida, and being here, what s really amazing is the amount of water. as i said last night, this has been a water storm. it s all about the water. it s not about the wind. this hurricane dumped so much water on the state of florida. what you see behind me, these trees are usually under water behind me, so people would normally be walking behind me on this path. but now, if you go there, you re at your own risk. the destruction it s caused here is amazing inland, and it didn t even see the worst of hurricane ian. their whole neighbors, homes, everything people had in the world under water right now. also, it s important to talk about the bravery of the first responders risking their own lives, rescuing strangers, some of them people who stayed in their homes that were at risk. i went out on a small boat with orange county fire and rescue today. we talked wit