hello, this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines... hurricane irma slams into the florida keys with winds up to 130 mph. millions of homes and businesses are without power. the hurricane is predicted to create a catastrophic storm surge, which could be up to 15 feet high in places. we've seen the largest evacuation in florida's history. people just migrating north, trying to get out of the path of the storm as it came up from the keys, hit the southern peninsula, and now of course is veering up the west coast. this is the scene live in bonita springs in florida as the storm hits the state. cuba has already been battered by the hurricane. there's been significant damage, and the recovery process is getting under way. in other news: officials in mexico say at least 90 people are now known to have died in thursday's earthquake.

hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rob merrick, deputy political editor of the independent, and writer and broadcaster natalie haynes. not the two people are announced on twitter, giving them a bit of a heart attack! thank you very much for coming in as planned! caught up in the end. tomorrow's front pages. starting with the financial times, leading with hurricane, leaving more than! million homes in florida without power. the i also talks about the devastating effects of omagh in the us state of florida. the daily express highlights a new treatment to reduce the risk of heart disease. the metro says that at least three people in florida

have died as a consequence of hurricane irma. the times leads with a study that claims that british people is life expectancy has stalled and murrison to other eu countries. the daily telegraph claims that using bleach and other products to clean the house puts people at risk of fatal lung conditions. we are going to begin with hurricane armour, creating absolute havoc and terrible devastation across many caribbean islands. the i says, hurricane irma turns up florida. just look at pictures of trees wrenched out of the ground and flying along the street. there is a curfew in tampa city this evening from six by local time, rob. i mean, who would want to go out in this, i don't know?! no, i gather a lot of people who were told to evacuate have not, 6 million people were ordered to evacuate. the bbc were interviewing people who are holding fast and seemed confident that they were staying in the faletau than everybody else, that remains to be seen. there is no surprise that the papers have gone but the hurricane. it has produced

very dramatic images. we are catching up on the devastation that was caused, you know, early in the week and the caribbean. —— earlier in the week in the caribbean. do come up with so many different examples, i was hearing about water being up to pupils next, that has been the most rheumatic image. —— people's next. i heard it has been downgraded from four 23 22. —— to three 22. the next thing that will happen is a visit from president trump. i thought you were going to say hurricane jose, which trump. i thought you were going to say hurricanejose, which is out in the atlantic! however, some of these pictures, which have really struck me as bizarre, places like long island in the bahamas and parts of florida, where the ocean has not risen, but for the moment dropped

and even disappeared. you can actually walk on the sea bed because there is such an intense low— pressure there is such an intense low—pressure system at the heart of this hurricane that it has sucked the ocean away to. it is properly horrifying. i think the rest at the moment appears to be storm stirred rather than rainfall. obviously it's not something that we spend much time thinking about, i suppose, because we don't have such a big ocean right next door. but the pictures are obviously so dramatic. and every time it seems like we have one of the stories, everyone says, well, why would anyone be out in this? and then every paper as a picture of some idiot outside with his phone! somebody outside, holding a phone, looking for all the world like they are about to be blown off their feet and into the far distance. don't do that, people! go inside and be safe! we spoke to somebody who said that he just wa nted somebody who said that he just wanted to see what it was like! pages six and seven of the sun, i have death, it says, 147 mph winds

kill for. the death toll has gone up to three in florida at the moment. but the afp news agency is saying that new death tolls are reported in st martin, which has brought the death toll there to 27. we just don't know at the moment, because it is still a recovery effort. yes, as i was saying earlier, we are only 110w i was saying earlier, we are only now learning in detail about what happened in the caribbean. there has been criticism of the british government for not doing enough early enough, in particular to try and prepare the british version islands, and overseas territory being struck. it remains to be seen whether the death toll is high in florida or not. perhaps we won't find out for another day also. and, yes, as you say, another one is coming along by hype. that will be three in a row that has dominated the news, if that's what happened, which is quite something. at this time as well, a lot of british

tourists are stuck. the tour operator is saying they are trying to keep everybody say. but they are dealing with thousands and thousands of people in hotels who have never gone through anything like this before. that's the problem, every time one of these storms hit we hear it isa time one of these storms hit we hear it is a one in 1000 year event. they seem it is a one in 1000 year event. they seem to happen awfully often for things that are supposed to happen so things that are supposed to happen so infrequently! i wonder if they are getting worse. i wonder if people are going to start reconsidering when they travel and where they travel. i would probably not now go to quite a lot of america in september— october time. in not now go to quite a lot of america in september— octobertime. in my mind, it is to be only october when you would get caught up in bad storms. nowadays it starts in the summer, in july. the sun has my favourite picture, tragic parrots trying to get inside. right on the far left of your page, there is a cheap two, in a zoo, being taken to safety. it is on a lead! -- there is a cheater. two parrot that looked very big raggle language that they

we re very big raggle language that they were not there! i'm not saying that parrots —— were not there! i'm not saying that parrots — — very were not there! i'm not saying that parrots —— very bedraggled. i'm not saying that parrots are more important than people... saying that parrots are more important than people. . ij saying that parrots are more important than people... i know it isa important than people... i know it is a deadly serious story, but i received the warning that the sheriff told people not to fire their guns into the eye of the hurricane! that is good advice! 25,000 people had signed up on facebook to shoot into the eye of the hurricane! did they think it was going to bring it down?! shooting into the sky, does this not happen at the beginning of cider with rosie? it is set in england... it was in gloucestershire! well done! that's where he lived! let's render it now true and deny any alternative. the forehead up -- the florida sheriff has found that it will not turn the hurricane around!

that's good to know! hurricane dances and all that sort of thing. let's move on to politics. please excuse let's move on to politics. please excuse the intemperate language used in this headline... page two of the sun, farron tells xpm to get lost over eu. tell us what's going on here, natalie? well, everyone is being slightly immature, let's say! laughter at the risk of continuing the theme of inappropriate language. as we know, tony blair said today it would be possible to tighten the borders of britain but without going through the process of leaving the eu, something that seems to have occurred to him relatively recently in the entire story. and michael fallon, who is of course 100% to be relied upon to say something dull just at the point where you are hoping that something more interesting would happen, she has gone, it's a bit late, this epiphany! essentially, please don't

do this, please shut up, is the summary do this, please shut up, is the summary of that exchange. at least some of which happens on andrew marr's programme this morning. on which tony blair, i'm afraid i was watching the great north from actually, and i do feel bad now! did you not realise you were coming in?! but it was the great north run! maybe at 11:30pm... andrew marr had a p0p maybe at 11:30pm... andrew marr had a pop for having a hugged and kissed jean—claude junker... whose side are you really on? it'sjust giving a greeting, hard to say. we think that we know that tony blair is anti—brexit. what a strange thing to accuse him of. i do remember though, rob, i'm sure you do even better thani rob, i'm sure you do even better than i do it that labour said, we've got it wrong on immigration, when ed miliband was in charge. tony blair has not said it before, though. it is significant that he accepts that in the ruled that he allowed when he

was prime minister, they are no longer appropriate, he said, that was the story this morning that he had used to produce this report, saying that it was time to reduce controls on free movement, perhaps that would be enough to change voters' mine, perhaps it would be enough to stop brexit, which is what tony blair wants to do. it was interesting watching this morning, you could see a bit of despair that it is only tony who is out there making the case for, even at this stage believing that voters' mine could be changed and perhaps that brexit could be reversed. ken clarke, the most pro—eu conservative, saying that this belief was hopeless. tony did look on his own. what surprises me is that critics of brexit don't sort of turned to the fact as often as i would have expected to say to politicians, well, at any point you could have stopped non—eu migration. there is more of that. but it hasn't happened. if migration is such a problem, then that would have been an obvious thing to do, wouldn't it

wed ——? an obvious thing to do, wouldn't it wed --? it is a strange question. the general hand—wringing that has gone with the tony blairs of this world, it has at no point people been prepared to make that extra step and say, well, why in that case, if this is such a big issue, why are you ignoring this? and i suppose perhaps they don't want to feed into the sense of nationalism but already upsets them... it is a mystery. the times, britain is the sick man of europe. this is how britain was described politically in the 70s, wasn't it? yes, the way they are phrasing it, a great attention grabbing headline. it is an interesting story. it's darted a couple of months ago, an expert, somewhere, mott, produced figures which suggested that the long running growth of life expectancy in this country was coming to a whole. it kicked off a political row, was it due to austerity cuts? he has gone away and compared the situation

in britain with other european countries, and come back and decided that, yes, austerity is an obvious candidate, because life expectancy appears to still be lengthening in most european countries, and not in the uk. and so therefore it is a bike is calling for further investigation to see what is the cause. “— investigation to see what is the cause. —— therefore he is calling for further investigation. cause. —— therefore he is calling forfurther investigation. it cause. —— therefore he is calling for further investigation. it says here that the life expectancy... about half of the population... the life expectancy is 83, and it is 86 in spain and france. britain is the sick man and woman of europe. but 83 is the average, in some parts of the country it is much, much lower. go and tell people in glasgow that it is 83 and i'm sure they will be delighted to hear it. there was a point when i was researching this for a book a few years ago when your life expectancy in glasgow was lower than in some parts of india. go and tell people who have lived off not

very much money for a while that they can make it to 83. yes, it is certainly worth bearing in mind that for men in the uk, they are still is likely above the european average. women are slightly below the european average. if anybody is complaining, it should be women. european average. if anybody is complaining, it should be womenm should say, britain is the sick woman! it would be nice, but you can't always expect miracles. i'm so grumpy today it i'm sorry, i haven't slept! have you not? no, i haven't slept! have you not? no, i haven't slept for months! is that too much information? i worry for you, but now is not the time to discuss it! the daily telegraph, public sector pay cap will be scrapped. this has been mooted for a while. who is saying it now? intriguingly, we are getting the story from the telegraph. they are not normally infused on the subject of increased public sector pay. but, yes, it seems to be the case that ministers will be announcing it this week. so

perhaps it will be philip hammond, perhaps it will be philip hammond, perhaps he will finally drop his seven—year cap, or at least the tories' seven—year cap on public sector pay. and perhaps, perhaps, people who have seen their pay capped at such a low level of increase, i:e., below inflation and a wheel turns decrease for the past seven years, will start to claw some of that back. but, where is the money coming from? yes, we arranged to see just how much above 1% police officers and probation officers will get, if that is what happens this week will top but it is a big moment. as natalie says, this pay cap has been in place for such a long time. at the moment, it is only going to be police and probation, but it will opened the door for higher rises for other public sector workers as well, you would issue. and if