this is bbc news i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 8. hurricane florence makes landfall on the us bringing high winds and storm surges, might months worth of rain is predicted to fall in the next two days. evacuation warnings are in place for more than a million people, and scores are already waiting to be rescued. i want to emphasise this is only the beginning. florence is a very slow mover, but will continue to track along the south and north carolina coastline for the next 24—36 hours. in the philippines, typhoon mangkhut has made landfall with sustained winds of a hundred and twenty five miles—per—hour. president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, agrees to co—operate with prosecutors, in the investigation into russian interference in the presidential election. also this hour, yet more success en route for another british cyclist.

simon yates takes a big step towards winning his first grand tour, as he bids to become only the second briton to win the tour of spain. and after a run of 19 series, the makers of big brother announce that the show is being axed. hurricane florence has made landfall on east coast of the united states and it's predicted to bring eight months of rain in two days. the storm's destructive winds have already left more than half a million homes without power, and the storm surge has reached nearly ten feet in some places. the governor of north carolina says hurricane florence is wreaking havoc

and whole communities "could be wiped away". chris buckler is in wilmington in north carolina and has this report. the carolinas knew all of this is coming. but they could never fully prepare for the force of florence. as expected winds caused destruction, and at the coast line the flooding was for some home owners simply fierce. this morning, people who had chosen not to abandon their houses gathered in the streets to see what was left in their neighbourhoods. although after all the warnings there was a genuine sense of relief. i'm still worried because as far as i know, the eye is still off the coast and is heading south, so we are going to be in this wind for a long time. and that is the fear, along all the streets already littered with the debris of the storm.

there are still places further out towards the coast that are cut off completely because the water levels are simply too high to drive through. new bern in north carolina was on the front line as florence made her way off the atlantic and onto land. although it soon disappeared underwater. and these kinds of storm surges are expected to cost plenty more flooding in the days ahead. to anyone still unwilling to take this storm seriously, let me be clear. you need to get yourself to a safe place now and stay there. many people have taken that advice and have gone to emergency shelters where they know they'll be safe. but they remain worried about their homes and their neighbours. she's wheelchair bound and it's been really rough. i said, "god tojesus christ our

lord, would you please, please protect our home and anyone else in wilmington". dozens of people have had to be rescued from homes and hotels, florence is expected to hover over this area for some time. and forecasters are predicting that north carolina could see eight months of rain in just two or three days. that means more nights of worry for families here on cape clear. one of the most accurate, and turbulent, ways of collecting hurricane data is from the air. our correspondent nada tawfik has been on board a us air force reconnaissance plane which gathers storm data. another mission complete, but there is no time to waste to ready the next. with millions vulnerable to the force of florence these hurricane hunters have been flying around the clock right into the eye of the storm. the team of pilots and scientists

from the us air force reserve will pass through florence five times during the exhaustive eight our mission. dropping sensors to collect the temperature, pressure and wind speed of the storm. this cargo plane with its cutting—edge technology is essentially a laboratory with wings. an hour after take—off we enter the storm. we are flying through hurricane florence now, and you can see that there is zero visibility. on top of that, we are hitting winds of up to 100 mph. now, these pilots are experienced with flying in danger situations, but they know that the information they collect will be critical to determining the storm's next move. we will now release one in the eye wall and another one onn the eye wall on the way out as well. sensors get dropped at specific points in the storm. he gave me the command so i am

launching it. that was the drop, that sound, that was the drop, the capsule being released from the plane. information gets sent back to the national hurricane centre every ten minutes. it's used to constantly update the storm model and can improve forecasts by 20%. when we reached the eye of the storm, it's clouded over. hurricane florence has been weakening, but it's no less destructive. we're out here with boots on the ground, eyes on the scene. i've had other storms i've gone through where on the side—line it looked like a tropical storm, when you went into the storm and all the wind it turned it to category three hurricane. after a long day they turned for home in darkness. on the ground, the next team of hurricane hunters prepare theirjourney back into the storm. hurricane florence is making

its way towards charleston in south carolina. joining me now from charleston is ciaran traquair who has lived there for three years. what are you still doing there, are you not evacuating? i probably should have a few days ago but we have been fortunate in the path of the storm has somewhat moved away from charleston, it looked slightly like one of the worst there is potential to hit the coast, somehow some way we have really fortunate so far with how it has developed after getting the carolina. what is the latest there, what can you see what is going on? well, up until about 12 o'clock today, and look like a nice summer o'clock today, and look like a nice summer day, but it's gradually going downhill the last two outside trees are starting to move. the rain is on

its way, i think at the back end of charleston so i'm about 15 miles from where it's been recorded. i think we might be about to see the start of it for our area and from what i have learned from the local news agency, we may be at the beginning of probably a 48 hour period of potential heavy downfalls and maybe flooding within the area, flash flooding potentially. what have you done to prepare seeing as you will be sitting it out? as of tuesday morning we were the eye of the storm it was coming to trust in, so the storm it was coming to trust in, so there was mandatory evacuation for the whole coastline in city of south carolina. i made sure to make my children out of here and some people were close to us in the plan was to play by ear for the next 48 hours. and get out by thursday morning but here we are sitting on a friday, and as i said we have been somewhat thankful that the path change, but just buckling somewhat thankful that the path change, butjust buckling down getting everything in the garden and the garage closed, a lot of my neighbours within your for many

yea rs neighbours within your for many years boarded up windows and evacuated in the last few days. but, for me it was making sure we took ca re of for me it was making sure we took care of the people here but also at the same time, trying to endure things to the best of my abilities, so things to the best of my abilities, soiam things to the best of my abilities, so i am watching tv at home. is seem very calm, what does worry you the most about this event? that's lighting to be honest, i think we're close to the coastline at the low lying area we could be it's in serious trouble here. especially where i work, lots of people i know who live within a few miles of the coastline there could be areas that change forever. they do not —— depending on how much rain, but like isaid depending on how much rain, but like i said comparing to tuesday at what actually happened, and north carolina we were fortunate to we see how the next hours go with the damage actually is you hope we do not receive too much damage in the house does not completely collapse on itself, we can get through on the back end of this and feel quite fortu nate. back end of this and feel quite

fortunate. very quickly, can you explain why you got your children out but you decided to stay? just for safety in general, you're looking at having pets and children here you want to get them away bad the same time i'm employed at the local university we have to get 25 players that play for me but for the soccer programme as players that play for me but for the soccer programme as well to different parts of the country, california, newjersey so basically we're taking care of those people first as well as my own family before looking at what my priorities would be, ithink before looking at what my priorities would be, i think once they look to my priorities it was the house after the family, and then playing it by earand the family, and then playing it by ear and waiting for local news agencies to make it a serious threat. maybe a challenge we had here is that many people who lived here is that many people who lived here longer than me, and they treated as let's hold out until the last second, so i kind of follow that trend and hope that we'd be in a position that we are in today, and hopefully i do not regret it looking on the back end of the storm. you are worried about security really, aren't you? potentially, yet

something to consider, when we evacuated last year, captain now the local news you see there's little that goes on, so for someone like me, who no longer has to worry about my family being here or the pets, kids stay home and keep how secure knowing you're gonna be saved for expecting yourself to be said, there's some comfort in that as well. please do say save and thank you for speaking to us. thank you very much take care. meanwhile thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal areas of the northern philippines ahead of super typhoon mangkhut. the authorities say more than five million people are in the path of storm which is due to make land shortly. which has made landfall the past hour we understand. it's approaching the country's northern coastal tip, forecasters say it's the strongest typhoon yet this year. howard johnson has sent this report. there is a sense of calm here. but a

storm is on its way and it's likely to devastate this coastline. the owner of this comes as he is staying put and he does not want beats stealing his possessions. this man says he will watch the waves and pray to god before making any decision to evacuate his family. nearby, local officials are not taking any chances. this village of school has been turned into an emergency shelter. translation: there is a tendency for landslides in this area in the past, so the village council advises to out early. on the road outside of the province we passed farmers anxious to do what can to they salvage their harvest. rice prices have been steadily increasing in the philippines, and many fear the storm will only reinforce that trend. as

he crossed into this other province, the weather began to worsen. electricity company was busy at work cutting down trees near power lines. as we enter the commercial hub, many we re as we enter the commercial hub, many were setting up shop early. the mood in this town is changing as a storm gets closer, people are beginning to go home to hunker down to stay safe. the manager this hotel taped up his windows to stop them from blowing in with a storm comes. livelihoods, properties, and lives are all at risk tonight. earlier i spoke to our weather presenter darren bett, who told me that this typhoon is larger and stronger than hurricane florence. the eye is making landfall in the north of the philippines, northern parts, now the sustained winds are around 125 miles an hour, gus in

excess of that. we are expecting as much as half a metre rain. it is moving into very mountainous terrain, there's likely to be some flash flooding and landslides as well, and there could be a storm surge something like tics metres. as it moves over northern parts, it will lose some energy so the wind will lose some energy so the wind will weaken to a certain extent. in across northern parts as well, in less tha n across northern parts as well, in less than 12 hours. so not only is his typhoon and large, moving quicker than florence. so it loses some energy and tracks. that's tricky, where does it go after, and it's changing slightly. we picked it up it's changing slightly. we picked it up here, this is at their local timeout in the south china sea now, and the forecast takes a closer to hong kong. on a sunday, not making direct hit on hong kong, but the outer band of rain and some strong

wind will be affecting hong kong. and by this stage you have sustained winds in the centre of this around the wall, of 90 miles an hour, and la ndfall the wall, of 90 miles an hour, and landfall looks like it will be probably to the west of hong kong, nader on sunday into monday and it will take heavy rain in india to china by the stage. how has this season fair so far, the typhoon for the asian pacific? we had the other typhoon, which was only a few weeks ago that was injapan, that one moved really quickly, and does what is not moving so quite quick. this is not moving so quite quick. this is the peak of the typing season in the philip means —— and philippines august september, last time we had a typhoon hit the philippines was in december 2016. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers, our guests joining me tonight are the independent‘s deputy political editor rob merrick, and the author

and broadcaster, natalie haynes. the headlines on bbc news... hurricane florence makes landfall on east coast of the united states, with high winds and torrential rain. in the philippines, typhoon mangkhut has made landfall with sustained winds of a hundred and twenty five miles—per—hour. president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort has agreed to co—operate with prosecutors in the investigation into russian interference in the presidential election. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's lizzie greenwood—hughes. hello good evening. simon yates is on the verge of winning the first grantor on the verge of winning the first gra ntor after on the verge of winning the first grantor after extending his

on the verge of winning the first gra ntor after extending his lead on the verge of winning the first grantor after extending his lead to newly admitted and a half with one competitive stage left. jo reports. climbing the hills of spain, would come down to the neighbours. stage 19 rides into pandora but the well, is deceiving, the day lasts 20 km would see them right up 1200 feet, declined to stretch out the entire field. everyone is in first gear. but in rare, simon faced the hills, him and his brother lived here and train here it'll make it a title decider played on home turf. yates job to stop as i was making up ground overall, but with ten km to go he decided not to wait for them. he moved away from the path towards the stage at leaders where the brave or foolish the final miles the site. he kept up the pace, he opened up a minute lead on the nearest challenger. as he crossed the line in seconds, the briton's courage

confirmed, we'd extended. tonight he ta ke confirmed, we'd extended. tonight he take the jersey home and one more day it might belong there. davis cup tennis team with one nail up in a crucial world group playoff tie with his pakistan. dan was pushed all the way both for eventually beating danis in five sets in the glasgow opener. there are without both andy murray and call her a admin, and the other match cameron is currently to set up. they're into third set tie—breaker to pretend need to win best of five times to be seated in the next year new format. difficult start to the season for man u, rama lu has defended the code. they believe mourinho is the right man in charge. people know i of believe mourinho is the right man in charge. people knowl of him believe mourinho is the right man in charge. people know i of him which is who he is, he's a winner, but

what i like about them as he is not going to fake his emotions. when he is mad you know he is mad and when he is happy you see it. my relationship with them at school, he makes me happy and makes the players like these of family guy. he fights for the players. but he's real. so people need to appreciate that at least there are people who are real in this world like him. you can see more of the interview on tomorrow bbc one at midday. their verbal manager has hit back at the former manchester united gary at the former manchester united gary at the former manchester united gary at the former manchester united gary at these adjusted clock could improve their premier prospered by wearing less about the champions league. we have to qualify for the champions league andi to qualify for the champions league and i don't think gary would have said quarterfinals on, that's the win, it is a work like this, it's a bit. i do want to be too critical about it because i don't know

exactly how it was said, but sitting in the opposite talking about is different than doing the job to be on the. another story for you celtic striker leads find a new four—year contract with scottish champions. he scored the 100 goal last month for the call —— cloud and says he's targeting ten titles in the road celtic have one premiership in the last seven seasons. in action right now for celtic keep up—to—date with that much in the news of all the other sport tonight including tennis i mention its 2—1 great britain in second run in the davis cup tie. of course at visit our website for more information. president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort has agreed to co—operate with the investigation by special counsel robert mueller into russian interference in the us election. the deal emerged as mr manafort pleaded guilty to two criminal charges relating to his role as a lobbyist for ukraine. his lawyer made this statement outside the court in washington a little earlier.

we want to make sure that his family was able to remain safe and live a good life. he has accepted responsibility and this is all contact that dates back many years, everyone should remember that. thank you, everyone. i've been speaking to our washington correspondent gary o'donoghue, who says today's developments could play a crucial role in determining the outcome of the investigation into claims of collusion between russia and the trump campaign. this has the potential to be enormously significant in the sense that not only has he pleaded guilty to the charges, but his agreement to operate with the special counsel, don't forget the man is looking into allegations of collusion between russia and the trump campaign, that agreement to co—operate could be to

all sorts of directions. so it could lead to him disclosing information or example about that meeting in trump tower, back injune of 2016. where people close to the russian government sacked our members of the trump campaign including paul manafort, who is the chairman of the time. yet they given chapter and verse on how that came about, who knew about it, exactly what was discussed and the expectations were, and what any discussions with president were in relation to that. that could be enormously explicit and get all sorts of other details alternatively this cooperation could also be involved in an picking other lobbying activities of people in washington connected to the ukraine and russia and other elements as well. and part that's charges that he actually pleaded guilty to. so you got a man here who is been through one trial and found guilty on eight charges and pleaded guilty to another to charges now facing

significant amount of time in jail, he 69 years old, and as the president would say, he's finally let. we heard from the white house, but really we need to hear from the president himself, any indication as to when that will be? now, but i would like to be there when it happens because he will be furious about this. he had so much praise on ma nafort about this. he had so much praise on manafort even after he had been convicted in that first trial, said he was a good man, there have been a lot a suggestion floating around that perhaps palma at manafort was hoping that in the long run, the president would pardon him even after he had been convicted. that could still happen, the president has talked about using pardons in the past and he has used them in his first 18 months in power. but if he sta rts first 18 months in power. but if he starts to co—operate, paul manafort, if he starts cooperating with special counsel, on matters related to the president, we do not act know exactly what questions they have for

him but if he does, i suspect that'll make a part in less likely we'll stop the plea agreement interestingly which we just got through, 17 pages of it, it has about the broadest definition of operation you could have written into it. they are going to, i think they're going to drain him dry quite frankly. the inquests into the westminster terror attack have heard harrowing details of attempts to save the life of pc keith palmer. khalid masood killed the unarmed officer at the palace of westminster after driving into pedestrians on the bridge in march last year. lawyers for pc palmer's family today raised concerns about the lack of armed officers stationed near him outside parliament. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports from the old bailey. pc keith palmer, on duty at westminster less than an hour before the attack. armed with a radio, a whistle, a stab—proof vest, cs spray and his baton. then, this.

a car smashed into the side of parliament after killing people on westminster bridge. and witnesses saw khalid masood heading round the corner. police officers on duty at the entrance to parliament saw him coming through the gate. "i noticed a very large man with two extremely large knives, one in each hand", pc doug glaze told the inquest today. "he was walking like a robot, his hands moving up and down." pc glaze thought there might be multiple attackers. "i remember thinking, we're going to die", he said. antonia kerridge was watching from a nearby parliament building and she she saw pc keith palmer fall over as khalid masood charged towards him. "the policeman had collapsed", she said today. "the attacker ran over to him, lent towards him and raised the knife quite high, and hejust stabbed him two, three orfour times." another witness, james west, said the stabbing was slow and deliberate, like in a hollywood horrorfilm. after about five seconds pc palmer, now badly injured, managed to get away and a nearby close protection

officer rushed in and shot khalid masood. the inquest was played a distressing audio recording of the 25 minutes in which people tried to save pc keith palmer's life. "police officer stabbed in the head", one person said into their radio, while others tried to reassure pc palmer, "you're ok, you're ok" and "come on, sun", they can be heard saying. but his pulse was getting weaker and eventually they lost him. at the time of the attack it was not routine to have firearm officers at carriage gates. instead, they did a roving patrol around new palace yard. pc james ross, who was also on the gate that day, agreed that has left the ordinary unarmed officers like him exposed. "you've got no protection at all", he explained. asked if he thought the arrangements had been adequate, he said, "it's above my pay grade." no firearms officers had been at the gate for more

than three quarters of an hour when masood attacked. pc palmer's widow's lawyer said he had been left to defend himself with a spray and a stick. daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey. the high court has ruled the electoral commission misinterpreted election spending laws during the eu referendum, allowing the vote leave campaign to break them. vote leave paid more than six hundred thousand pounds to clear bills allegedly run up by a university student, darren grimes, who ran the ‘beleave' campaign. the commission initially said it had no grounds to suspect this was a scheme to get round spending limits, but later changed its mind and fined vote leave and mr grimes. both deny wrongdoing. the reality tv show, big brother, is to end after nearly 20 years on british television. channel 5 announced this year's series, the 19th will be the last. it's time for this game to end.

the celebrity big brother programme is also being dropped. starting on channel 4 in 2000 it made household names of many people including jade goody and created some memorable tv moments including the politician george galloway pretending to be a cat. joining me earlier, entertainment reporter and tv critic emma bullimore, and former big brother contestant aisleyne horgan—wallace, who appeared in the 7th series of the programme. it's in an debonair and with such a revolution show back in 2011, basta rd ize revolution show back in 2011, bastardize one with the bold and different nothing so someone like it, it feels sort of dated and almost irrelevant, so that shows you how far we have come in 18 years, things like levine and had just exploded, so it's like an old hat.

that touches a nerve with me we are the originators of reality tv, i think i agree it's gone down a path and monotonous that i think people go in for the wrong reasons which is for fame where before it was a social experiment, but i refuse to believe it's the end i don't believe we are going to and it's not going to and. what did it mean to you? a change my life completely i came from living in hostels to making a lot of money and now have up part —— portfolio worth millions to help me make right is a clever business decisions but it has helped me down the road to a better life. do you think in terms of reality tv we will see more these reality formats ending is it the end of the road?|j think it's not the end, everything has a think it's not the end, everything hasa time, think it's not the end, everything has a time, i think it'sjust audiences are moving on a it didn't

taste like when you went in, it was a different show it was not experimenting, it was —— it was experimenting, it was —— it was experiment and interesting analysis wannabes say people and not them from different walks of life as before. they're taking it back to basics for the show for tonight so apparently no one is then ask reality star which gives me hope and i think other channels will take it oni i think other channels will take it on i know they have been granted an extra three years for planning permission for big brother house why would you go for three more years if you have not got another channel interested something is crossed. maybe visitor attraction. my heart. the stories that evolved in the house made headline news, do you think those controversies rather have just got think those controversies rather havejust got more think those controversies rather have just got more controversial and too controversial for the audience? i think it's a bit contrived now come i think everyone who goes knows what they're going in for her which