hello. live in atlanta, 3:00 a.m. in florida. we continue to follow the path of hurricane ian. now, weaker, but still a major worry. that hurricane has finally been downgraded to a category-1 storm, but it s still moving menacingly right above the state of florida and heading northeast winds, approximately 75 miles or 125 kilometers per hour, still lashing large sections of the state.just 12 hours after it crashed in southwest florida as an almost category-5 hurricane. as you can imagine, there have been power outages with more than 2 million homes and businesses in the dark. that s about 20% of customers throughout the state the mayor of fort myers, meantime, saying, 96% of his entire city has lapsed with electricity. meanwhile, charlotte county, florida, telling cnn, rescuers can only do so much during the height of the storm. unfortunately, our dispatch continues to receive calls from the 911 center, and just like every other county, the emergency response, they get up a
plan to this month. the indonesian authorities have sacked the police chief in east java, where one of the world s worst football stadium disasters happened on saturday. at least 32 children were among 125 people who died in a crush. the police have been widely criticised for using tear gas on the fans. now on bbc news, witness history. we join celestina olulode in bristol with five important stories from black british history. a warning that this programme contains language that some may find offensive. hello. i m celestina olulode, and welcome to this very special edition of witness history from the m shed museum in bristol. this month, we are getting first hand accounts of some important moments in black british history. coming up, the uk s first caribbean carnival set up to showcase west indian culture. we travel back over 100 years, to hear a witness to liverpool s 1919 race riots. we meet britain s first black female head teacher. and we re in manchester to discover a l
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Heavy rain and a band of squally downpours spreading south east woods as we go through the day. behind that a scattering of heavy and thundery showers towards the north west of the uk. the main concern is windspeed. these are some of the average speeds but gusts could be significantly higher and the northern areas could see gusts of 70 80 miles an hour. more likely the wind will not be that strong just raising the potential that there could be disruption because of the wind on wednesday. remains blustery for the rest of the week as we see further weather systems bringing in some rain from the west. this picture entering thursday a lot of dry weather will start to the day as well. it will feed some outbreaks of rain particularly into this part of scotland as you can see. ahead of that, however, you may catch a shower towards wales in the western part of england. weatherfronts england. weather fronts overnight and england. weatherfronts overnight and into friday will move southwards and
Across the state of florida. again, there it goes. pushing across the areas of eastern florida in a couple hours. 150 mile parel winds speeds at landfall, the significant storm surge as a result of it. the highest ever observed in fort myers for hurricane ian. one element i want to show you, because looking into the data sets around the screen, try different in the current windspeed shifted towards the east. look at it here. all of the weather instruments, with the power outages in the dark, and the storm system, couldn t find too many in the way of current wind gusts. even orlando s airport wasn t giving me the system update from south of orlando pushing to the east. the latest numbers, 2.3 million customers in the dark in a large area of florida. the system is beginning to make a push towards the eastern shoreline, near the east coast again, and we expect a sharp right turn. if it maintains intensity in the coming hours, doesn t drop back down to a tropical system, i wouldn t be surp