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Large parts of northern England inundated by flooding. The | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
government deploys 500 more troops to help. In York, the River Foss | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
broke its banks leaving thousands at risk. Emergency teams attempting to | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
help hundreds of people to safety. Many people tried to protect their | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
homes but in vain. We started putting the sandbags up and the | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
boards, but the water came so quick. Before we could even get everything | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
upstairs the water just came in. The clean-up begins in Whalley after | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
yesterday's flooding but there are warnings of yet more rain to come. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
We will be live with our correspondent in some of the worst | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
affected areas and we will bring you a round-up of all of today's news. | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
Stuart Broad gives England the edge in Durban on day 2 of the first test | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Large areas of northern England remain underwater after what has | :01:08. | :01:27. | |
been described as unprecedented flooding, inundating homes and | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. David Cameron has pledged | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
to do whatever is needed to help those affected. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
The Government has brought in 500 extra troops to help people | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
and to evacuate homes, with a thousand more on standby. | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Across North West England there are nearly 6,500 | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
There are over 230 alerts and warnings across | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
24 of them are severe - those are shown all in red - | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
We'll be reporting from some of the worst affected areas | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
First tonight - Judith Moritz reports from York. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
After Cumbria and Lancashire, now it is the turn of Yorkshire. Another | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
day, another county in the grip of the floods. The people of York new | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
their city was vulnerable but nobody expected it on this scale. The | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
warnings came yesterday, the call to evacuate was made last night but not | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
everyone could get out easily and many had to be rescued. At Tadcaster | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
fire crews helped several families. We started putting the sandbags and | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
boards up last night but the water came so quick. Before we could even | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
get everything upstairs the water just came in. We were stuck | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
upstairs. But not everybody has been happy to leave home despite the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
warnings. Some people want to stay in their houses, quite stoic about | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
the fact it is their house. Whilst the weather is good they will be OK, | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
but it is when the day progresses into the evening, it starts to get | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
dark. If the power goes that is when priorities change quite quickly. On | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
this road, east of the city centre, the water levels have been creeping | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
up all day. Helen has a ground floor flat and is worried she may have to | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
leave it. I've been here 20 years and never seen anything like it. I'm | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
quite concerned of the level it is getting to that it could potentially | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
get into the flat. And that we may need to look at moving out. Mountain | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
rescue teams are helping from across the North of England and extra | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
troops have been brought in as part of what is now a massive emergency | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
effort. In York this is the nerve centre where they are keeping track | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
of the floods and of the teams out working. Hugely dynamic situation. | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
The water levels continue to be on the rise, although some uncertainty | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
as to what that will mean. So we have deployed from Lancashire where | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
we were supporting what was going on there yesterday. About 200 troops, | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
more on the way now. A plea has been made fried extra 5000 sandbags. Some | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
flood barriers had to be lifted because the pumps were overwhelmed. | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
-- for and extra 5000 sandbags. We have decided to deploy more military | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
forces and personnel to help. -- military resources. At this time of | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
year, particularly, we all feel huge sympathy for those who have been | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
flooded and for those who have had to leave their homes. Leeds city | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
centre has been badly flooded after the River area reached record | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
levels. And away from the city is integral Yorkshire there is little | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
respite, either. We can talk to Judith in York. Please bring us | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
up-to-date with the situation. Although it has just started | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
raining, ironically there has been good weather here today. Despite the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
sun in the sky you can see there is still a lot of water on the ground. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
That is because of the length of time it takes for the brain which | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
has fallen over the last few days to come down off the Dales. -- rain. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
The River loses 5.1 metres above its normal level in the summertime. -- | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
the River Ouse. We have been told that it will probably peaked at | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
lunchtime, and hopefully just short of the defences which were put in | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
after the serious floods in 2000. This evening there are still a lot | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
of people worried about what is still going to happen here possibly. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Thanks very much. More than 6,000 homes | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
are still without power Two of the worst hit areas | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
are Ribchester and Whalley - where hundreds of homes have had | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
to be evacuated. Residents have spent the day | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
clearing up in the aftermath Our correspondent Emily Unia | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
reports from Whalley. Many hands making light work | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
in Whalley where the post-flooding It is now 24 hours since the rivers | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
peaked here and things could not But although there is no | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
longer water flowing -- But although there is no longer | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
water flowing through the streets Skips have been steadily arriving | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
and are filled within minutes. Everyone is helping, | :06:29. | :06:40. | |
making the clean-up a little easier. What he saw this morning | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
and what we have achieved now. It is hard to believe | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
that this was all yesterday. As the waters rose Boxing Day | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
festivities were abandoned At Kelly Hughes's hairdressers | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
regular customers turned up Friends, family, all of the girls | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
who I work with, everyone has landed a hand and we will be back open | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
tomorrow at nine o'clock. But not everyone will be back | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
to normal but quickly. -- But not everyone will be back | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
to normal that quickly. For Hugh Shackleton | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
the volume of water escaping from the River Calder | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
was a huge shock. It has flooded before | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
but never this badly. I've never seen anything | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
like it before. It is the first time it has come up | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
from the river. And there is more bad weather | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
on the way, which means scenes like this one could return | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
sooner than expected. There have been calls for ministers | :07:36. | :07:48. | |
to reflect carefully on whether Britain's flood defences are | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
accurate given the severity of the flooding experienced. The government | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
said it would look again at whether more needs to be done. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Our Science Editor David Shukman reports. | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
With rivers still rising and more rain on the way, | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
yet another last line of defence is made ready. | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
This is Ribchester in Lancashire, one of dozens of communities | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
struggling against the floods and all too often losing. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
From across the country, these are scenes which have become | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Sometimes defences do their job, but year | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
after year flood waters have proved too much. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
Triggering a cycle of despair and accusation. | :08:26. | :08:26. | |
This time, ministers blame a deluge that has set new records. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
We have seen very bad flooding right across Yorkshire and Lancashire. | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
The water levels still have not peaked here. | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
Everyone is saying that the level of rivers is more | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
The government is now promising to review the country's flood defences, | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
so what are the key factors involved? Top of the list is the | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Budget for flood protection. Ministers are allocated ?2.3 billion | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
over a six-year period. Critics say it isn't enough. Then there are | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
choices about how land is used. Our farmers doing enough to hold back | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
rain water upstream? Our new houses being built in vulnerable areas? And | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
on top of all of this is a changing climate. Warm air can hold more | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
moisture, that could mean more intense rain. | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
The Bridge at Kaywood in North Yorkshire | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
Time after time reviews into flood defences warned | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
that key infrastructure must be better protected. | :09:31. | :09:31. | |
And that call is being made again now. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
These events which we speak of as if they are one-offs, | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
we've never seen this before, these are the words used, | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
They are things which are happening regularly and the country needs | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
to think very carefully about how to address the problems | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
which are clearly going to be increasingly frequent in the future. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
For the moment, the focus is on battling the rising waters now. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Yesterday in West Yorkshire man was rescued through the roof | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
It will never be possible to keep everyone says, | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
but the cost of this month's storms could top ?1.5 billion | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
and there are questions over whether the threats of flooding | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
is getting the attention it deserves. | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
The Environment Agency is warning people to remain vigilant as river | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
levels continue to rise, with the threat of more severe | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
Northern Rail is advising people not to travel in Cumbria, | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
East Lancashire and West Yorkshire - unless "absolutely necessary". | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
Our correspondent Dan Johnson is in the village of Cawood | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
This is that bridge you saw in the report. It is the lifting bridge | :10:41. | :10:57. | |
over the Ouse. It normally goes over the river, but it is flowing over | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
the bridge. It is something unprecedented. They are used | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
flooding but they've never seen levels like this. It has prompted a | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
furious effort from everybody in the village, along with the Army, laying | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
thousands of these, sandbags, to bolster the to protect the village | :11:13. | :11:24. | |
from this water. -- to bolster the protection to the village. Everybody | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
has been breathing a sigh of relief but they are waiting to see what | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
tomorrow brings. It is raining again and there are worries that the river | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
will peak again tomorrow and they will be under threat once more. | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
Thanks very much. You can keep up to date | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
with all the latest developments And that's on the BBC News | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
website at bbc.co.uk/news. In today's other news - | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
severe flooding is also effecting More than 150,000 people have been | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
forced to evacuate vast areas of Argentina, Uruguay, | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
Brazil and Paraguay - where a state of emergency | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
has been declared. It's thought that the worst flooding | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
in 50 years has been caused And in the United States, | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
at least eleven people have died in the latest tornadoes | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
that have hit Texas, knocking cars off roads, | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
flattening houses, toppling trees 29 people are now known to have died | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
in storms that have battered the southern United States over | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
the Christmas period. Meteorologists have warned that | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
dangerous weather The Iraqi army claims it has taken | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
control of a key government compound in the centre of Ramadi, | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
where Islamic State militants have The government has been trying | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
to re-capture the city - which fell to Islamic State | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
in May - for weeks. Cricket now and Stuart Broad enjoyed | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
a fine day for England as the first test match in South Africa | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
continued as a tight contest. South Africa - officially ranked | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
the world's best side - finished the second day | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
on 137 for 4 in Durban. On one of the world Windies cricket | :13:03. | :13:12. | |
grounds you have to be ready for anything. -- world's windiest. Could | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
have been worse. England's first innings could have gone better. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
Morne Morkel bowled well. England made 303 then their turn to bowl. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Broad began. Facing the second ball in the breeze, van Zyl almost stood | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
still. Dealing with flying objects is the wicketkeeper's job, Jonny | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Bairstow had dropped Hashim Amla on to, but grabbed him on seven. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Relief. Broad again. The captain gone. England desperately wanted a B | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
de Villiers, conceivably the world's best cricketer. He played 11, the | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
ball flew to Ben Stokes, and he court it. But hold on. The umpire | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
wanted a replay and decided that the ball touched the ground before | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
fingers. Not out officially. De Villiers can do this. With Dean | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Elgar composed at the other end England needed more. They needed | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
Stuart Broad. South Africa were four down at the close. In Durban, | :14:22. | :14:22. | |
England are delivering. A Britain has become the first | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
person to roam nonstop solo across the Pacific Ocean. | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
-- A Briton has become the first person to row non-stop and solo | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
It took John Beeden six months to row from San Francisco in America | :14:44. | :14:48. |