what will matthew barzun to do the same, if i am asked. i encourage you and yours to visit that someday. —— louisville in kentucky. the home of the late, great muhammad ali. do you have a message for the people of the uk? we are ina message for the people of the uk? we are in a time of great change, our own challenges in the uk. i have not asked you about brexit but the view of president obama last year was clear on that. but do you have a message to the people of the uk as you read? i do, and thank you for that opportunity. i would like to thank you and everyone at the bbc for the amazing job you all do everyday. greatjournalism. iwould personally like to thank everybody in the uk, the people of the uk, who have shown me and my family such a warm welcome from the very beginning, then perhaps broadening that even more. and a half of americans in the uk and back home, thank you for generations and generations of cooperation in the past, and finally, i guess... let‘s stay engaged together, and by that i mean the strength of the special relat

and tomorrow, i‘ll be talking to this man — the outgoing us ambassador to the uk, matthew barzun — tohigh winds have caused problems across large parts of northern britain this morning. more than 2,000 homes across the north—east of england are without power. a main shopping street in newcastle city centre has also been closed because of damage caused by the weather. andrew anderson is at the forth road bridge now. it's it‘s still pretty windy here at the forth road bridge. the lorry at the centre of the chaos here today was finally removed. it was towed past us finally removed. it was towed past us about li.30pm this afternoon. it had eventually been righted a short time before that. recovery teams couldn‘t get to grips with it until the wind had dropped sufficiently. they needed it to drop to below a0 mph for at least 20 minutes before getting that lorry and its trailer back up and off this bridge. the bridge has still not reopened. the accident at 2.00 this morning caused significant damage. when the lorry was blown over from the northbound carriageway to the southbound carriageway