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Large parts of northern England are inundated by flooding. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
The Government sends more troops in to help. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
In York, the two rivers running through the city burst their banks, | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
leaving roads submerged and thousands of homes at risk | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Emergency teams are attempting to help hundreds of people to safety. | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
Many tried to protect their homes but in vain. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Water came so quick, before we could get anything upstairs, the water | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
came in. I have been here 20 years and never anything like it. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Some are bracing themselves for more to come - | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
the river levels in this north Yorkshire village are due to peak | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
We'll be live with our correspondents in the worst-affected | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
after a week of storms across several US states. | :00:52. | :01:10. | |
And Stuart Broad gives England the edge in Durban | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
on Day 2 of the First Test against South Africa. | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
Large areas of northern England remain under water after what's been | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
described as unprecedented flooding, inundating homes | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
David Cameron has pledged to do whatever is needed to help | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
There are now 500 troops brought in by the Government to help - | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Across North-West England there are nearly 6,000 homes | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Electricity to half of those has now been restored. O | :01:49. | :02:01. | |
Over 220 O alerts and warnings across England | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
24 of them are severe - those are all shown in red - | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
to travel in Cumbria, West Yorkshire and East Lancashire - | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
we'll be reporting from some of the worst affected areas. | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
First tonight, our correspondent Judith Moritz is in York, | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
After Cumbria, it is the turn of Yorkshire. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Another day, another down they in the grip of the floods. The people | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
of York knew their city was vulnerable but no-one expected it on | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
this scale. The warnings came yesterday. The call to evacuate was | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
made last night but not everyone could get out easily and many had to | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Last night we started putting the be rescued. | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
Last night we started putting the sandbags up and boards up but water | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
came so quick, before we could even get everything upstairs the water | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
came N we were stuck upstairs. But not everybody has been happy to | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
leave home, despite the warnings. A lot of people want to stay in their | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
houses, they are stowic about the fact it is their house. I think | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
whilst the weather is good, it is a nice warm dry day, it'll be fine but | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
when it goes into the evening and starts to get dark and power goes | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
off and that's when people will change and priorities tend to change | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
then quickly. On this road, east of the city centre, the water levels | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
have been creeping up all day. Helen Rawling has a ground floor flat and | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
is worried she may have to leave T I have been here 20 years and never | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
seen anything like T I'm concerned the level it is getting to that it | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
could potentially get into the flat and we may have to move out. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Mountain rescue teams are helping from across the north of England and | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
extra troops are being brought in, as part of a massive emergency | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
effort. In York, this is the nerve centre where they are keeping track | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
fted floods and of the teams out working. . It is a hugely dynamic | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
situation. All driven by what is going to happen with the water | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
levels which continue to be on the rise, although some uncertainty | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
about what that is going to mean. We have deployed from Lancashire, where | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
we were supporting what was going on there yesterday, with about 200 | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
troops, more on the way now. A plea has been made for an extra 5,000 | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
sandbags. Some flood barriers had to be lifted because the pumps were | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
overwhelmed, meaning areas of York that would usually be protected, | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
were left vulnerable. We have decided to deploy more military | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
resources, more military personnel to help but let me say the emergency | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
services have done a fantastic job and continue to do so, they deserve | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the whole nation's thanks but of course at this time of year | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
particularly, we all feel huge sympathy with those who have been | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
flooded and have had to leave their homes. Elsewhere in Yorkshire, Leeds | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
city centre Centre has been badly flooded after the river Ayre reached | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
record levels and away from the cities in euro Yorkshire, there is | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
little respite either. Judith is in York now. There are | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
fears there could be worse to come tomorrow. Yes, because the river | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
levels are still rising and are not expected to peak until lunch time | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
tomorrow. The next few hours are said to be critical. This is a city | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
which is functioning, but with enormous difficulty. In the last | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
couple of hours the telephone exchange has been flooded. 999 calls | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
are back up now but were down briefly and the non-emergency 101 | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
police line has been lost. I believe there are fire crews currently | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
pumping out water from one of the primary electricity substations here | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
as well, fearing that power could be lost to 50,000 properties. It is | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
very difficult to travel around York. The advice is not to do so, | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
unless you absolutely need to get somewhere. You have to take absolute | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
care. It took us several hours to get to this position here in the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
centre. Overnight, as I say, it is a critical situation. The Army are | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
still working through the night. They'll continue, they say, to knock | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
on doors of people's houses around the path of the river Ouse to make | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
sure everybody is safe. Thank you. | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
As Judith said, the flooding that's now affecting North Yorkshire | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
It's been just over 24 hours since the river peaked | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
in the Lancashire village of Whalley and residents there have been | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
banding together to start the clearing up. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Our correspondent Emily Unia reports from Whalley. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Regular customers at Kelly Hughes' hairdressers have come to help. | :06:41. | :06:52. | |
The door's been open, everybody all my customers have been | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
great, friends, family, you know, dads of the girls who I work with, | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
just everyone lending a hand and we will be back open | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
But not everyone will be back to normal so quickly. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
For Hugh Shackleton, the volume of water washing down | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
It's flooded before but never this badly. | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
Oh, well, I have never seen anything like it before. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
It's the first time it has come up from the river. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
It's hard to believe that this was Whalley yesterday. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
As the waters rose Boxing Day festivities were abandoned | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
It's now 24 hours since the river peaked here and things couldn't | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
But although there is no longer water flowing through the streets, | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
The great clean-up is well under way, but it may be premature. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
So scenes like this may keep returning. | :07:59. | :08:14. | |
As the Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the Government's | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
emergency Cobra committee, there've been questions | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
about whether Britain's flood defences are adequate to cope | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
with such severe flooding, with Labour accusing | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
Today, ministers said they would look again | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Our Science Editor David Shukman reports. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
With rivers still rising, and more rain, a new line of defence. | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
This is one of dozens of communities, | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
This is an area in Lancashire. One of dozens of communities struggling | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
against the floods and all too often losing. From across the country, | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
these are scenes that have become painfully familiar. Sometimes | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
defences do their job. But year after year, floodwaters have proved | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
too much. Triggering a cycle of despair and accusation. This time, | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
ministers blame a deluge that set new records. It is absolutely | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
horrendous. We have seen very bad flooding right across Yorkshire and | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Lancashire. Through Calder valley, here in York where the water levels | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
still haven't peaked and in Leeds. Everybody is saying that the level | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
of the river is more than they have seen before. The Government is now | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
promising to review the country's flood defences. What are the key | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
factors involved? Top of the list is the budget for flood protection. | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
Ministers have allocated ?2.3 billion over a six-year period. But | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
critics say that isn't enough. Then there are choices about how land is | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
used: Are farmers doing enough to hold back rain water upstream? Are | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
new houses being built in vulnerable areas? And on top of this, is a | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
changing climate. Warmer air can hold more moisture. That can mean | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
more intense rain. The bridge at Cawood in North | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
Yorkshire is under water. Time after time, reviews into flood defences | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
warn that keep infrastructure must be better-protected and that call is | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
being made again now. These events which we speak of, as though they | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
are one-offs, we have never seen this before as the kind of words | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
used. Not no longer one-offs, they are now things happening regularly | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
and the country needs to think carefully about how to address the | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
problems which are clearly going to be increasingly frequent in the | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
future. For the moment, the focus is on battling the rising waters now. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Yesterday in West Yorkshire a man was rescued through the roof of his | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
car. It'll never be possible to keep everyone safe but the cost of this | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
month's storms could top ?1.5 billion and already there are | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
searching questions about whether the threat of flooding is getting | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
the attention it deserves. The village of Cawood | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
in North Yorkshire is one of the places badly hit, | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
with rivers expected to peak in the early hours | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
of tomorrow morning. Soldiers have been helping to get | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
residents out of their homes and to build up the | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
flood defences there. Our correspondent Dan Johnson | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
is there for us now. Yes, villages along this part of the | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
Ouse have been affected by this flooding, downstream of York. This | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
is the road to York, the bridge that used to go across the river Ouse but | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
now the river goes across the bridge. It is completely submerged. | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
It has been a difficult, long day for people here and they have all | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
worked very hard to keep this water back. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
The battle of Water Row has gone on all day here. | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
The sandbags are coming from the far end. | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
A village, plus an Army, fighting back against the floods. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
It's important that we keep everybody safe. | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
Everybody digs in when we have things like this. | :11:48. | :11:59. | |
We will get through it, it will be fine. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
It is on local soil, which is better for us. | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
Brews on hand, tea, cakes, everything is good. | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
This is a huge effort, involving the whole community, | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
Everybody forming a human chain down here to get the sandbags | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
They are trying to bolster this wall to keep the river Ouse out | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
They think the river may have peaked but can't be sure it'll stay back. | :12:22. | :12:39. | |
We have been here six months and this is all new to us. | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
It is a nervous time for those whose homes are at risk. | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Our landlord phoned us this morning to make sure things were all right | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
It is the worst I have seen for 50 years. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
The level of this water was a surprise even to those | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
It has pushed it over on to the other side, filled, | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
the ings up and filling other ings up down the system. | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
That's how it is supposed to work, so it has done well. | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
This is where it all goes, the river, normally a few metres' | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
wide, now stretching almost a mile across, filling the floodplain. | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
The concern is tomorrow it could reach further | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
And the level is high here tonight and further down the river at Selby | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
we have seen flooding there already. There is conflicting information | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
about what exactly will happen tomorrow but the point is people | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
can't be sure. So in the meantime they are weary and worried about | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
what comes next. Many thanks, Dan. You can keep up to date | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
with all the latest developments And that's on the BBC News | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
website at bbc.co.uk/news. Three people have died and another | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
person has been critically injured after being hit by | :13:49. | :14:02. | |
a car in Doncaster. The four people - | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
all aged in their 50s - were walking along Sutton Road | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
in Askern, when they were hit. A 24-year-old man has been arrested | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
on suspicion of causing death At least 11 people have died | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
after a series of tornadoes ripped Witnesses say it took just seconds | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
to cause the devastation - flattening homes, toppling trees | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
and bringing down power lines. Our North America correspondent | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
Laura Bicker reports. This is what's known | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
as a tight twister. You can only see brief flashes in | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
the dark as it destroys power lines. It was one of many to tear | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
through Texas, with winds of over I cannot believe that this | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
amount of damage was done in probably 30 seconds but it | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
felt like a lifetime. By the time I could go | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
inside to tell everybody to get down, the wall was shaking, | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
you could feel it in your chest and as fast as it | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
happened, it was gone. The devastation is | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
clearer in daylight. Debris lifted by the storm | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
is scattered for miles. This kind of weather | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
is rare in December. These storms, across the south | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
and west, have killed 29 people There are now unprecedented | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
snowfalls in New Mexico and Texas. Whiteout conditions have closed some | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
highways and there are warnings More than 150,000 people have been | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
forced to evacuate vast areas of Argentina, Uruguay, | :15:33. | :15:47. | |
Brazil and Paraguay, where a state of emergency | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
has been declared. The Iraqi army claims it has taken | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
control of a key government compound in the centre of Ramadi, | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
where militants from group have been resisting | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
an army offensive. The government has been trying | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
to re-capture the city, Cricket now - and Stuart Broad took | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
three wickets for 16 runs to give England the edge on the second day | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
of the first Test against South The hosts finished the second | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
day in Durban on 137-4, in reply to England's first | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
innings score of 303. On one of the world's | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
windiest cricket grounds, England's first innings | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
could have gone better. Ducks for Ali and Woakes | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
after Compton's 85. England made 303, then | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
their turn to bowl. Facing the second ball in | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
the breeze, South Africa's Van Zeyl Dealing with flying objects | :16:48. | :17:04. | |
is a wicket-keeper's job. Jonny Bairstow had dropped Amla | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
on two, grabbed him on seven. England desperately | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
wanted AB de Villiers, Umpire's called for a replay, | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
deciding it touched And with Elgar composed | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
at the other end, England needed In the Scottish Premiership, | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
Celtic have moved a point clear of Aberdeen at the top of the table | :17:36. | :17:51. | |
after a dramatic 2-2draw for the win, but Osman Sow's | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
stunning free kick in injury time Just before we go, a Briton has | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
become the first person to row non-stop and solo | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
across the Pacific Ocean. John Beeden six months to row | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
from San Francisco in the US crossed the Atlantic - | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
says he's delighted You can see more on all of today's | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. That's all from me, | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
stay with us on BBC1, it's time for the news where you | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
are. | :18:31. | :18:34. |