29/06/2012 Newsround

Hi guys - Joe here live on BBC Two from the Newsround studio. But I'm

not alone - oh no. That's right - Nel here with all the latest from

Wimbledon. I will bring you write a date, but first, back to you.

who needs a bridge to cross a river, when you can do it in a cable car.

First, it's summer but you wouldn't know it. The clean up has begun

after parts of the UK were hit by super storms which caused flooding

and damage to homes and schools. These are just some of the pictures

that have been sent into the BBC. From flooded classrooms in Whitby

Bay to golfball-sized hail stones in the Midlands. In the Lake

District this road temporarily became a river and there was even a

tornado spotted in Lincolnshire. The wild weather has meant that

loads of you have had the day off school. Izzy and Rotundo made it to

school today. And earlier they told me about the damage to their school

buildings. We live in the Lake District, so we expect some rain,

but it was very heavy. It was leaking. We had leaks in the roof.

There were big patches on the City. I now way home, the bus started

leaking. I was a little bit scared. But the bus was fine. We've been

swamped with your messages about how the weather's affected you. So

lets take a look. Emily from Leicestershire got in touch to tell

us about the damage to her school hall which scared her and her pet

Bad weather too for Claudia in Whitley Bay, her dad had to go and

help clean up the flooding at her school. Over in Belfast, Alice's

house was hit a power cut after a long thunder and lightning storm.

And Maisie's sports day was cancelled in the West Midlands

because the rain turned her field So why has the weather been so

terrible? I went to talk to the BBC's weather forecaster Simon King

to see if he had any answers. Basically, we have had a lot of

heat pumping up from near the equator, moving to the UK, it nets

and cold air, and that is a recipe to produce severe thunderstorms. We

normally get small thunderstorms, but this one in particular has been

pretty bad. It is like something you would see in America.

Absolutely. I will show you what happened yesterday. This is the

rainfall, the blue blocks are just normal showers. As you get the

brighter colours, that is showing us really intent showers and

thunderstorms. As these showers move through the Midlands, we see

them clumping together. That is almost like as super storm in the

north-east, it dumped all that rain. We have got the Hale, the Tornados.

And of course, the flash floods as well. Are our summers being

hijacked by this extreme weather more and more? It might feel like

that. The statistics for June have come out, it could be one of the

wettest Junes on record. We have had some pretty wet summers in the

past, but we cannot save it is a trend, we have to wait and see with

that went. Moving on now to a natural disaster of another kind in

America. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed by wildfires in the

state of Colorado. One person has died and tens of thousands of

people have been forced to leave their homes to escape the flames.

President Obama is expected to visit the area later today.

Time for a bit of sport now, and Nel is at Wimbledon for us. Yes, I

have got a great view of some of the Court here at Wimbledon. Behind

me, you can probably see Murray Mount, which is heaving with people,

as it was yesterday, when they were cheering on Andy Murray to victory.

It was quite an easy Mac -- a match for Novak Djokovic. He started off

badly, one set down, and then went through against Radek Stepanek.

Heather Watene is playing Radwanska, but she is - I'm been joined by

someone you might recognise. She is not doing so well against her?

Radwanska is seeded No. 3, so it is going to be a tough ask to beat her,

because had the what and is ranked 103. -- header Watson. She is the

first British woman in 10 years to get to this part of the tournament.

She has not had an easy tournament? She has had a rough ride, the

players she is up against. But she has won her matches. One of the

biggest shock is history, Rafael Nadal being beaten by a player who

is 98 players -- places below him in the rankings. This can only be

good for Andy Murray? Only if he gets through his next few matches.

He was due to meet him in the semi- finals, if he gets through his next

couple. He still has to beat Marcos Baghdatis tomorrow. They have only

played on grass won't, and Marcos one that one. So great to see such

a giant killing, his surname in Czech me -- means Jelly! Who do you

expect to win the men's final? could be Federer, Djokovic, Jo-

Wilfried Tsonga that... It could be Andy Murray! We are going to enjoy

the atmosphere. For now, back to you. Next up, a dazzling display of

jewels that's gone on display at Buckingham Palace. The jewellery

belonging to the Queen contains thousands of the precious stones

and will be on show for everyone to see at Buckingham Palace from

tomorrow. It includes the crown the Queen is wearing in her picture on

stamps. Visitors to the Olympics in London

are being offered a novel way to get from A to B - by using C - a

cable car! It opened in London this week and will carry passengers

across the River Thames between two of the big Olympic venues, the O2

Arena where events including basketball are taking place, and

the Excel exhibition centre where athletes will be competing in table

We sent Nel to take a closer look. This might look like something you

might get in a ski resort, not London town, but I am on board the

first cable car in the UK, that will take me from one side of the

River Thames to the other. Are you aiming this more at tourists or

Londoners? Both. The key message we were to get his this is for

everyone. It is a system that is used all around the world in

different places. There are three towers, that hold up the line.

There are 34 cables at any one time, equivalent to nearly 30 buses. We

are really pleased we have been able to have it in place before the

Olympics, and we will be pleased to be part of it. It has been one of

the best views of London bus stop but I have to say, a little bit

scary! Here on Newsround we don't run away from the big questions

like, what's quantum physics and is it possible to time travel? We

can't answer them ourselves, but scientist Brian Cox can, so we put

him and his pal Jeff Forshaw to the test. Here's a taste.

Scientists have reported single particles, particles of light, a

cross the river Danube in an optical fibre. You destroy it here

and it appears, a perfect, identical, not even at a copy, over

there. We don't know whether it can Confused? To watch the rest of that