the third—strongest storm in recorded history to hit the us mainland continues to sweep across the south east of the country. michael, which made landfall as a category four hurricane, is heading for south carolina. two people, including a child, have been killed. i was in a bunker, and just prayers. and how half of this missed us i have no godly idea. we'll have the latest from florida, where storm surge warnings are still in place. also this lunchtime... two astronauts make an emergency landing in kazakhstan after their soyuz spacecraft, bound for the international after their soyuz spacecraft, bound for the international space station, malfunctioned after take off. the former prime minister sirjohn major warns universal credit could be as damaging to the conservative party as the poll tax. the struggle to access some nhs services in england is a growing ‘care injustice‘ which needs to be tackled immediately, says the health regulator. and the man who tackled

a london bridge terrorist armed only with his skateboard posthumously receives the george medal for bravery — his parents collected his award. and coming up on bbc news... the former aston villa chairmen doug ellis has died at the age of 94 — good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. two people have died, after the third strongest storm in recorded history to hit the us mainland battered north western florida. hurricane michael brought storm surges nearly ten feet high, and 155 mile an hour winds. it has now weakened to a tropical storm, and is heading

towards the carolinas. our correspondentjon donnison has the latest. a category four landfall, in the month of october... one of the strongest storms ever to hit america... the strongest storm to hit this coast since the 1850s. florida has been battered. sustained winds of more than 155mph have left a trail of destruction. those who chose to stay put, lucky to get out alive. it just came flying through the roof. i heard all the trees snapping and everything, it sounded like a tornado. first the attic caved in and everything wasjust happening so quick when it landed. and then, afterthat, like, my roof came in from the top part to the bottom. so everything, everything is gone but i'm just glad we made it out safe because i thought

i was going to get trapped in there and not be able to get out. look at the roof of this school — ripped off like a tin of sardines. camper vans tossed around like toy cars. and imagine the force needed to flip over an entire freight train. hundreds of thousands of homes are without electricity, with power lines torn down. manyjust can't believe their eyes. whole neighbourhoods are underwater after a storm surge of up to three metres. you live on the coast, this is what you get. so it'sjust a matter of picking up the pieces and putting it back together. putting our lives back together. but that is going to be a big job. there it goes! we made it, baby! many chose to ride the storm out.

the task will now turn to rebuilding and the cost to the state could come to billions of dollars. following the landfall, i requested that president donald trump issue a major disaster declaration to allow federal resources to flow quickly into the impacted communities. overnight, the hurricane passed over georgia, having weakened slightly, and satellite images show the eye of the storm now heading towards south carolina. it will take days to assess the full extent of the damage and hurricane michael has some way to run. jon donnison, bbc news. hurricane michael has been downgraded, but storm surge warnings are still in place for exposed coastal areas. cbs correspondent nikole killion has the latest from panama beach city on florida's gulf coast. hurricane michael is leaving behind a trail of damage and destruction. just take a look here, we have this huge tree down.

we have a power pole down and then over here we've got some pieces of tin stuck on these wires, and because of all of this damage and devastation local authorities have imposed a curfew here until the sun comes up. they really want people to stay off the roads so they have time to try and clear up some of this debris. in terms of the power, we understand from utility companies that that may not be restored for days, perhaps even weeks at this point. the governor of the state, rick scott, has said that his response will be aggressive and that he will do everything possible to try to help these devastated communities. in panama city beach, i'm nikole killion. cbs news for bbc news. two astronauts bound for the international space station have made an emergency landing in the kazakh desert after a fault developed with the booster rockets on their soyuz spacecraft. a rescue team has located the pair — an american and a russian — who are said to be safe and well.

andy moore reports. and there is lift—off of the soyuz msio to the international space station carrying nick hague and alexey ovchinin. this was the launch of the soyuz rocket heading for the international space station. the lift—off itself went fine. but then there was some violent vibration on board. was this the first sign of something going wrong? and we have the escape tower for the soyuz now jettisoned. about three minutes into the mission, the russian cosmonaut reported a problem. hearing there that there has been an issue with the booster and we are standing by for information as we continue to get it from the russian flight control team, but everything seems to be fine with the crew. we had good comm with them and they are ok. it was the first trip

into space for the american astronaut nick hague. his mission was supposed to last six months but it ended with a premature return to earth and a rough landing. before the mission, he spoke about expecting the unexpected. i have an idea of what i think it's going to be like and i've talked to lots of veterans who have flown, and tried to get their impressions of what it's like but until you've been through it, all the sights and sounds and different feelings you're going to feel, you don't know until you're going and you're there. seen here before the flight, nick hague and his russian colleague are now said to be safe and well after the emergency landing. they have been picked up by helicopter. their colleagues on the space station will have their stay extended. how long that will be is unknown. andy moore, bbc news. sirjohn major has warned that the introduction of universal credit could prove as damaging to the conservative party as the poll tax. the former prime minister says voters will see it as unfair that low income families risk losing out

from the new system that combines six separate benefits for working age people, into one monthly payment. downing street says £3 billion has been set aside to ease the introduction of the system. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. millions will be affected by what is the biggest change to the welfare system in decades. universal credit, which merges six benefits into one, is designed to simplify the system but it has faced long delays. now a former conservative prime minister has this warning. in order to introduce something like universal credit, you need to look at those people who in the short term are going to lose and protect them or you will run into the sorts of problems the conservative party ran into with the poll tax in the late 19805. into with the poll tax in the late 1980s. the poll tax was a change to

the way local councils were funded, so the way local councils were funded, so unpopular it led in part to the downfall of margaret thatcher as prime minister. the man whose big idea universal credit was says the problem is not the system but the cuts the government has made to the benefits budget. if the money wasn't taken out, benefits budget. if the money wasn't ta ken out, there benefits budget. if the money wasn't taken out, there would be an exact parity so i make no bones about it, in the past i have been called for that money to be put back in. the government has put 2 billion of the money back in and use other changes at christmas last year... do you acknowledge some people are still... going forward i think we should direct the money back into universal credit exactly as it was originally planned to be rolled out. after reports last week the work and pensions secretary said some families would lose £2000 a year under universal credit, today she admitted some people would lose out. some people could be worse off under

this benefit but 1000 people each and every day since 2010, each and every day 1000 people have gone into work. until now only people making a new benefit claim have been put onto universal credit. from the new year the vast majority of people will be transferred across from old—style benefits. that logistical challenge, added to concerns many people could be worse off as a result, has led to some mps to say it could be time to put universal credit on hold. it's easy when you have small numbers to have lots of staff around to work things through, but if you have complicated cases there won't be this level of resource so we have to make sure the system is working properly. labour says universal credit is not delivering and should be scrapped in its current form. the government says the system ensures work always pays and those who need support receive it, but it is

listening to concerns. our assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster. as sirjohn major hit a nerve here? his intervention has prompted a flurry of demands from mps in all parties for the chancellor to use budget this month to pump more into universal credit to make sure some of the poorest in society don't lose out. we heard the architect of the new benefit, iain duncan smith, suggesting the tories should abandon raising tax thresholds and to use that money to make up some of the cuts to universal credit. but politically this matters hugely, not just because of the human cost potentially off families losing out hundreds, maybe even thousands of pounds, but because it comes after mrs may made the centrepiece of her party conference speech at the pledge to end austerity and it is very ha rd to

pledge to end austerity and it is very hard to make that argument if claimants are losing significant sums of money. added to which the sta kes a re sums of money. added to which the stakes are high because we have seen successive governments come to grief when they have tried to reform benefit. tony blair when he tried to cut disability benefits, david cameron when he tried to cut tax credits and now mrs may is embarking on the biggest shake—up of welfare payments in a generation. the quick thought about events later today because a cabinet meeting closer to tea—time today. because a cabinet meeting closer to tea-time today. we get a crucial cabinet meeting on brexit this afternoon where the prime minister will update of the key cabinet ministers trying to get them to buy into her negotiating strategy but this comes as the dup appeared to be remorselessly cranking up the pressure on mrs may, today suggesting they may vote against

brexit legislation, welfare reform legislation and domestic legislation. that suggests they are prepared to make the day—to—day business of government almost impossible for mrs may. thank you for now. norman smith at westminster. the struggle to access some nhs services in england is a growing care injustice which needs to be tackled immediately — that's the warning by health regulator, the care quality commission, in its annual report. the commission also highlights growing hospital waiting lists, delays at a&e, and treatment delays for mental health patients. our health correspondent catherine burns reports. so, we have been asked to visit mr and mrs robinson. in this room, there are nurses, social care and mental health workers, charities and housing officers. several different departments working as one team to keep people who are at risk healthy and out of hospital. mrand mrs robinson, erm, we have been asked to visit due to concerns

around their mobility. they're concerned about a couple who are in their 905. within hours, a social worker and occupational therapists are visiting them in their homes, seeing what help they might need. what we might do is put you through your paces a little bit, if that is ok, and see how you are on your feet. hi, dad. the couple's daughter helped organise extra support through the wakefield integrated connecting care hub. i think it helps because they all spoke to each other about the need for my mum and dad and because they were actually speaking to each other, that is how we got them in here, and we just feel happy about everything now. this is being seen as an example of care being done well because different professionals work together. and it is highlighted in the care quality commission's report. it also says most people in england generally do get good care. but in some areas, people can only access services that are rated as needing

improvement or inadequate, so this warning about what it calls a care injustice. we recognise that it is just simply not fair, that some people in some parts of the country find that they get good care all of the time and in other parts of the country, that is simply not available to them. the urgent challenge is to bring all parts of the health and social care system together, so they work as one, as a single system. increasingly busy a&e departments are the most visible way of showing this stress on the system, says the report. but it also points to adult social care and delays getting mental health help, especially for young people. the government has promised an extra £20 billion for the nhs, but some point out that doesn't include social care. while we are still pushing carers to the limit of what they are able to do in looking after their own loved ones, and local authorities really struggling to fulfil their statutory duties, there's no point in fixing the nhs if social care

is threadbare. the department of health and social care says it will set up a £2110 million fund for adult social care to ease pressures over the winter. catherine burns, bbc news. companies may be forced to reveal their ethnicity pay gap, under plans unveiled by the government this morning. a consultation has been launched into whether mandatory reporting will help address differences between the pay and career prospects of staff from minority groups. our business editor, simon jack, is here. this suggestion following on from work the last year. they did something called the race disparity audit and what i found was there we re audit and what i found was there were significant differences on pay and promotion prospects at the white britons, as they call them, and other ethnic groups who were proud to be is proportionately likely to be on low income, from promotion

prospects, just 1% of non—white police officers were in senior roles, four example. the government has said that since then, companies voluntarily publishing this in the mission has been very poor so they will look at forcing them to do it and the consultation will run until january. businesses and organisations will be asked what they can and should be doing, what kind of additional burden of administration it would bring on it. business groups have been pretty welcoming of the move, saying this kind of transparency worked very well as a catalyst to start gender pay and they hope this will be the same. simon, thank you. the time is 17 minutes past one. our top story this lunchtime. the third strongest storm in recorded history to hit the us mainland, hurricane michael, continues to sweep across the south—east of the country. it's killed two people, including a child, in florida. coming up... a british artist's haunting tribute to the 72,000 commonwealth soldiers

lost on the fields of the somme. coming up on bbc news... kyle edmund is into the quarterfinals of the shanghai masters after a straight sets victory. he faces a tough test to reach the last four — he plays world numberfive alex zverev for a place in the semifinals. 2,000 people in indonesia are known to have died following the earthquake and tsunami which devastated parts of the island of sulawesi two weeks ago. 5,000 people are still missing but the government says it's drawing the major search and rescue operations to a close, in order to stop the spread of disease, and because it's increasingly difficult to identify bodies. our correspondent howard johnson reports from the city of palu. it's the end of the day here in balaroa, one of the worst hit districts in palu. this morning we saw mechanical diggers coming through here,

looking for bodies. you can see the devastation here, the tracks of the mechanical diggers that have come through here. this evening, family members have come here to find out whether their loved ones have been found in the excavations. today we saw seven bodies recovered. now, what we heard earlier on was that the search and rescue operation will continue for another day. i spoke to one gentleman here and said to him, how do you feel about that? he is missing his wife and his two children and his nephew. and he said that wasn't enough. the search and rescue operation should go on until his family are found and that means going on for a lot longer than a day. what we do know is that, beyond the search and rescue operation, the city authorities will move on to rehabilitation and rebuilding of the city. areas like this will be flattened and turned into a sports field or memorials for the missing people. and what we've also heard is that, for the next two weeks, there will be continued aid operations trying to get tents,

water purification units, and also transportation out to the remote districts where people have been badly hit by this earthquake and tsunami. howard johnson in palu. a british couple who are among ten people killed by flash floods in majorca have been named locally as anthony and delia green, who were believed to have been on holiday on the island. people there have described having minutes to find safety, as water levels rose, inundating houses and catching motorists off guard. a search is continuing for three people who are still missing. our correspondent gavin lee is in majorca. gavin, give us your sense of the devastation on the island and what people have been telling you. looking behind me, this is charity strea k looking behind me, this is charity streak in the main town in the east of the island, sant llorenc, and it was a picture postcard image of

majorca which many british tourists have flocked to and in the last two days have been evacuating as quickly as possible from hotels. behind me... cars swept... inaudible many apologies, we seem to have trouble with the sound there. as you can see from majorca. our correspondent with the latest web can beadle died in that flash flooding including two british people —— where ten people died. criminals are recruiting teenagers to work as money mules, using their bank accounts to launder cash, and threatening violence if they refuse to co—operate. students are lured through social media into handing over their bank account details, so dirty money can be made legal. in return, the young people are given a payment. the money being laundered comes from drugs deals, financial scams and sexual exploitation. our reporter leanne lawless has gained exclusive access to some teenagers caught up

in this dangerous crime. music plays. these are the videos posted on social media to lure cash—strapped students into laundering dirty money. the accounts on social media cynically target young people, tempting them to hand over their bank cards and account details so illegal money can be transferred in and out of it. in return, the students get to keep some of that money for themselves. it seems simple, but in reality, being a young money—laundering means you become part of a criminal network. jamie, who has asked us to protect his identity, was a student when he first became

a money mule. you were always looking over your shoulder. i mean, this is a lot of money to people above you. of course we are making pennies compared to what they are making. if that money doesn't get to the end person, you'll get all the abuse, the phone calls and the threats. a lot of threats of violence, they'll essentially kill you if you don't give over that money. during my investigation, i discovered dozens of accounts operating on social networking site instead instagram, set up specifically to recruit young people as money mules. they asked for squares, that's slang for bank accounts, in return for cash. one person who runs one of these accounts told me, "all i need is your name, date of birth, address and online banking details and if you find people like your friends who are up for it, i will also pay you." they all told me it was safe, just like the money mule recruiter i met in person when i was pretending to be a student. if you are caught and convicted

of money—laundering, you face up to 1a years in prison. instagram told us, illegal activity is not allowed and they encourage young people to report it. meanwhile, jamie says he fears there will always be young people like himself who are willing to gamble with their future by taking a risk that pays. leanne lawless, bbc news. if you're in the south—east of england, you can see the full report on bbc south east today at 6:30pm this evening. it will also be available on the iplayer. a record number of year 6 children in england are severely obese, according to new figrues from the national child measurement programme. 4.2% of 10 and 11 year—olds were defined as severely obese — an increase of a third since data was first collected in 2006. one in five of england's year 6 pupils were assessed as being obese or severely obese last year, according to the study. several people caught up in last

year's london bridge terrorist attack are among those being honoured at buckingham palace today. 39—year—old ignacio echeverria has been posthumously awarded the george medal for confronting the attackers and trying to protect members of the public. three police officers also collected honours. our correspondent sophie long is at buckingham palace. few of the hundreds of people who we re few of the hundreds of people who were out that saturday night trying to enjoy a night out lastjune will ever be able to forget the horrific scenes they witnessed. three men drove a van in to bursting and started stabbing people indiscriminately, but while they unleashed terror they were confronted by acts of bravery and heroism and to date some of those

we re heroism and to date some of those were recognised. ignacio camacho beria had been on a night out, he used his skateboard to head of the attackers —— dutch . today his parents came here and accepted the george medal on his behalf. his dad told me how proud he was off his son, how deeply they had felt their loss, but how proud his son would have been had he been able to be here and meet the queen himself. pc charlie guenigault was not on duty that night but went towards the danger, sustaining multiple stab wounds the day he received the george medal and said how proud he was. pc wayne marques had been on duty but was armed only with a bat on but nonetheless he went towards the attackers and tried to save as many lives at the good and he said difficult the past year had been as he tried to get back to physical and mental health. he thanked his partner and the public for their unwavering support. he was awarded a george medal and said how proud he had been to be able to meet

the queen. pc leon mcleod's bravery was also recognised awarded the queen's gallantry medal. all of those men recognised today for the a cts those men recognised today for the acts of bravery that saved lives, even though it's changed theirs for ever. sophie, thank you. one million lives were lost in the battle of the somme during the first world war. the bodies of more than 72,000 commonwealth troops were never recovered. the british artist rob heard has spent five years creating a unique tribute to those men — a shrouded figure for each life lost. but he's only recently been to visit the battlefield itself, and our correspondentjohn maguire went with him. for the first time, the shrouds of the somme lie here on the ground in northern france that inspired them and, for the first time, the artist working with that inspiration is here. forfive years, i brought the somme to my living room. and to actually be standing on this

ground is an amazing feeling. the idea that we are standing on the soil that these men are actually in, you know, when i've dealt with it for so long, thinking about this and the idea of, in some way, bringing them back from here in a form, in a small way, it's so positive. it could easily... you know, people could think it was morbid but it's not. back home in somerset, rob heard creates each and every shroud by hand, matching them to a name from the official record of those missing at the somme. he came up with the idea while battling depression following a car crash and seeing images of the dead and wounded returning from afghanistan. you ask the question why, why are you doing this? we are self—funding, it's always been a struggle, but then days like this, you really do understand. you really do understand deep down what the point of this was. these are just small figures. it's nothing like the real thing, obviously. but i think once you do this,

you do understand what all that effort and all that time and those years was for. next month at queen elizabeth olympic park there will be 72,396 — the number of commonwealth troops who died at the somme but whose bodies were never recovered. their names, known to rob, are immortalised in stone on the thiepval memorial. these are obviously displayed with comrades from their regiments. so i assume this is how they would have been on the day. you know, they would have been next to each other. rob lays one last shroud, an unknown warrior, on a flag that once draped a coffin returning from afghanistan. his is a mammoth task, creating 200 figures a day — yet another number. but his work turns these numbers into lives, giving them a human form, helping us to at least try to make sense out of so much senselessness. john maguire, bbc news, at the somme battlefield. time for a look at the weather.

here's helen willets. the weather dominic king. —— dominating. it has been, particularly hurricane michael a phenomenally strong storm, one of the most powerful to hit the us mainland, almost category five and it is ripping through the south—east, moving through georgia and into the carolinas and there is and into the carolinas and there is a concern of more flash flooding, following on from florence. on to our shores and this is the start of storm callum, nothing in comparison to michael but it will