25/08/2011 Newsround

Good evening, all, Hayley and Ricky bring you Thursday's top stories.

And there is plenty coming your way including: I find out what it is

like to spend your life in a refugee camp. Plus we take a look

at the gadgets that have changed the world. First, to the monster

hurricane which has been battering the Caribbean and is swirling its

way towards the East Coast of America. With winds of up to 120

mph, hurricane Irene is not looking to tail off anytime soon. It is

looking set to be the first hurricane to hit America's mainland

since 2008. Pavel winds and dangerously high

seas, hurricane Irene is on a course of devastation. Ripping

through pylons across the Caribbean, Irene is unstoppable. Thousands of

people have already been forced to leave their homes and many have

been stranded. Some people manage to escape the storm. TRANSLATION:

It was a bad night, but we were OK. But others are not so lucky.

TRANSLATION: Since three in the morning we have been getting people

out and have rescued over 3000 people. Here is what it looks like

from a bulb. These are satellite images from the International Space

Station and show hurricane Irene as it heads towards the American state

of North Carolina. She seems to be getting stronger. There is no

guarantee the hurricane it will reach the mainland, but people are

bracing themselves for a direct hit. We all know how hard it is to

predict the weather, so how do forecasters work out exactly where

the hurricane is going to hit. I went to the BBC Weather Centre to

find out. It is difficult to pin down the exact track, but we can

give enough warning so people know if it will get close to the coast.

Would a hurricane like this ever happen in the UK? Fortunately not.

The sea temperatures get colder and colder. It means the worst storms

we ever get in the UK would barely make it onto the bottom of the

hurricane scale. More of the other top stories and a

reward of �1 million is being offered in Libya to help catch

Colonel Gaddafi. He has been leader of the country for more than 40

years, but no one knows where he is. They are still fighting in the

capital Tripoli between those who are loyal to him and those who want

to take control of the country. Let's take you back to the world's

largest refugee camp in Kenya. month I travelled there to see what

it is like for children fleeing the famine in South Africa. But people

have been travelling there for years to escape things like war.

For many children the camp is the only life they know. The Dadaab

refugee camp in Kenya, thousands of desperate families arrive here

every single week. They are escaping the drought in Somalia and

other neighbouring countries. Last month, I visited the camp to see

how aid organisations are helping hundreds of thousands of people. In

the main camps there are hospitals, a place to get food and water and

there are schools. But on the outskirts there is hardly anything.

This is life for the people who live here, they have practically

nothing. They have to make their houses out of whatever they can

find and getting food and water is very difficult. On my journey I

made friends with our translator. He is 25 and almost all of his life

he has lived here. But I was really interested to see how he went from

having very little when he first arrived to making a life for

himself 20 years on. I came here when I was five years old in 1991

when the civil war broke out in Somalia. I fled with my parents, my

mother and father and two other children. You can see now I have my

television set, my own computer. I have a brighter future now. The

hope of going back to Somalia is fading day-by-day. Random fighting

is going on inside Somalia. You can see our special programme on the

Newsround website. In sports and no wonder Usain Bolt

is smiling today because he has had a massive boost ahead of the World

Championships. One of his main rivals has pulled out. Asafa Powell

has run the fastest 100 metres this year and was tipped to be Usain

Bolt in South Korea this weekend, but now he will not be on the

starting blocks. We might as well hand Usain Bolt the gold medal now.

Have a look at this guy, he is called Steve. His inventions have

changed the face of technology. was the head of Apple, but now he

has quit, so we have been finding out how he has changed the world of

gadgets. Over the years computers have

changed a lot. Today there are gadgets for music and messaging our

mates, they are small and fit into our pockets. If there is one man

who has done more than anyone else to achieve all this, it is Steve

Jobs, head of Apple. This is the very first Apple Computer and it

was made in 1976. Only 200 were ever made. This one is in the

Science Museum. If you compare this to your computer at home, this is

about 1000 times slower. Over the years, things improved. This is the

Apple Mac. It looks old-fashioned now, but back then it was state of

the art. Apple focused on computers that looked good and were easy to

use. Then Steve Jobs created the gadget that changed the way we

listen to music, the iPod. These are the type of gadgets we are used

to now, but 50 years ago technology was very different. Back then

computers looked like this and they would not fit into your living room

and this Pegasus would set you back �50,000. It is hard to predict how

gadgets will look in the future, because things change so fast. Now

that Steve Jobs has stepped down, everybody is wondering what would

be the next big thing. The how the world has changed.

certainly has because a few years ago there would be no such thing as

yoga classes for dogs. This is happening in Hong Kong and you can

see more on the Newsround website. I cannot see that working with cats.