hey how's it going thatt here let's see what's making news it's been a wild 24 hours for Southeastern Australia with huge storms bringing destructive winds and heavy rainfall to the area Josh found out what's going on yeah if you live in Victoria or Tasmania chances are you've been impacted by some really wild weather I woke up really early to like a crush on my window and I realized a branch hit my window from the trees next to my room parts of Victoria have been lashed by Winds of up to 146 K an hour it's been really windy and cold and rainy and I got knocked off my bike this morning riding to school the wind just knocked me to the side on the grass luckily some schools around the state have had to close with the wind bringing down trees and damaging properties and some of the schools that have been able to stay open like Michaela's have been told to keep people inside and they may or may not have any power with more than 180,000 victorians in the dark this morning PHS weren't working we couldn't use computers had no internet tazzy's been hit really hard too and some people have had to evacuate their homes after days of heavy rainfall led to an emergency flood warning for the Derwin River and the sticks River weather experts say conditions in both States should start to ease tonight and many are hoping there's not too much to clean up it's all right don't worry we'll be safe it'll blow over soon and we'll be [Music] okay over the weekend Western Australia and South Australia banned a whole heap of single-use plastics that means things like thin plastic bags for fruit and veg and plastic coffee cups and Lids will now need to be swapped for Greener Alternatives in those States it's all to help Australia's massive plastic problem with State and territory governments agreeing to introduce regulations for recyclable packaging by 2025 Australia has had its most successful day of the Paris par Olympics overnight the Aussies won 10 medals across Paris swimming par rowing Paras cycling and para Athletics in fact Nikki SES and Jed alswager won Australia's first Power rowing gold in gamees history in the pr3 mix double skulls final taking our gold medal tally to six at the end of day four staying with sport it's bad news for Aussie Alexi poin at the US Open over to you cushy that's right now after a hard fought battle against America's Francis TFO in the fourth round today Alexi pin's US Open campaign has ended it was a neck and neck battle on Center Court but a fouret victory s tifo sered himself through to the quarterfinals now to the AFL W where North Melbourne has had a huge victory over Brisbane to kick off the season nor on fire it was a pretty windy opening round but that didn't stop the r from sealing a 44o win over the reigning Champs meanwhile Hawthorne enjoyed its biggest ever win smashing Carlton by 38 points and finally let's shift gears to the Italian Grand Prix where it was a big victory for this guy Char clir is the winner of the Italian Grand Prix it was a rough setup for lir after losing the initial lead to aie osar pastri and Oscar pastri is going all the way around the outside to take the lead but a quick decision to opt for only one Pit Stop saved him the title leaving piastri to finish in second H well that's not good it seems the cat's been let out of the bag I hope it hasn't gone too far oh there it is here in Shanghai cats have been invited to visit a new exhibition of Egyptian artifacts most of the things here are cat related it's a tribute to the ancient Egyptian goddess bastet who's often presented as a humanoid with a cat head tickets have been selling fast on Saturday Night Alone 2 200 cats and their owners came to check it out now to a big parade in the small town of zunder near the border of the Netherlands and Belgium every one of these floats is decorated with thousands of flowers making it the biggest flower parade in the world to Art of a different kind now in Armenia andr Nick here has been using cobwebs to make everything from abstracts to portraits he started collecting spiders and experimenting with webs years ago after feeling like the paints he was using just weren't doing the trick and says there's something special and inspiring about working with spiderwebs well that's all from us today we'll see you tomorrow bye for now [Music]