04/02/2014 BBC London News

Good evening. Disruption on the Tube is already being felt after the

48`hour strike got underway this evening. There are severe delays and

part suspensions on some lines. The walk`out which began at 9:00pm is

over plans to close all ticket offices and cut jobs. Another

two`day strike is planned for next week. Here's our Transport

Correspondent Tom Edwards. In home late, and commuters are

facing problems already as union members walked out of 24 hours and

more disruption tomorrow. Painfully annoying, so there are buses and

mainline trains. I'm a bit annoyed, but I'll doubt it don't have any

choice. He did promise to keep the ticket booths open, and that's not

happening, so I understand why the unions want to make a big deal out

of it. This morning, in an extremely unusual move, union bosses were at

City Hall. They wanted to talk to the London mayor directly. They did

talk via a radio phone in, but this was the day negotiations never

started. It will make absolutely no difference to the long`term future

of their members and it won't do anything for London Underground

It's completely the wrong way forward. They need to get to the

table, call of the strike and begin negotiating. If more people want to

use London Underground, and this is an increasing industry, a growing

industry, hundreds of thousands more people will use the London

Underground, so the last thing you want to do is take out 1000 jobs if

you want to use the services more. The strike is over 950 job losses

and the closure of all ticket offices. The Oyster card means they

are not needed, says London Underground and it will seek to

avoid compulsory redundancies, but the union have safety concerns. This

new company has a launch party in the city tomorrow. I think it could

really blow a hole in our plans We could end up with half the people

that we thought were coming in coming. Not far away, strike

supporters have supported all day. The strikers are defending their

jobs. They are also defending the service they are giving. At the

moment in this dispute both sides are entrenched. Another strike is

planned for this time next week And Tom's outside Warren Street Station

now, and there's been a lot of political reaction to the strike?

Yes, tonight the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition both

condemned the strike. David Cameron said it was shameful, and Ed

Miliband said it should not have gone ahead. Harriet Harman, the

deputy leader, said both sides needed their heads knocking

together. I think lots of commuters would have sympathy with that

sentiment tonight. The strike already having an impact on

services? Yes, but I have to say it is quiet in town and a lot of people

have gone home already. However there are already problems. The

Jubilee line is already part suspended. Six lines have severe

delays. The bad news for commuters is it will be even worse in rush

tomorrow. Daschle rush`hour tomorrow. So the

strike will affect all Underground lines with only limited services

expected over the next two days Alice Bhandhukravi has more details

on just how it'll affect travel in the capital.

Heading home tonight and planning how they will get around the next

two days. It's likely to be a challenging 48 hours for commuters.

Everybody will be on the road, on buses, on bikes, and that will slow

it down. It's going to affect me coming into work, the two days, so

it has a huge impact. I am working a long day, so I have to find a way of

getting the bus at about 5:30am in the morning. We don't know exactly

how badly services will be affected, but here is what we do

know. There will be disruption on all lines. Trains that are running

will operate between every six and 20 minutes with services starting

later than normal at 7am and finishing early at 11pm. The picture

is pretty complicated, but to give you an idea of how the tube will

run, let's look at some examples. On the Central line, no trains in the

middle section between White city and Leytonstone, but there will be

some services at either end. It s a similar search `` situation on the

Piccadilly line, no service in central London from Acton town do

not growth but the outer edges will have a similar service. One of the

difficulties is you have to have a minimum number of staff for safety

reasons. Safety is always the number one priority. When we have a number

of people supporting the service and we have to distribute them around

the network we have to do it to the best of our ability, so we're trying

to create an integrated service So how else can you get around town?

The DLR, London Overground and tram services will operate as normal

There will be extra buses and river bus services, and Londoners are

being advised to consider cycling and walking to work. Of course, it

is a changing picture. You can keep up`to`date on the BBC London website

or follow our travel team on twitter.

And as you heard there you can head to our website at bbc.co.uk/London,

where our Local Live page will be updated with the latest travel

information from 6:00am tomorrow morning.

Let's get a check on tomorrow's weather, as well, with Wendy.

It will only add to the woes, cycling, walking, standing up bus

queues will not be fun tomorrow Serious weather coming our way, all

covered by a yellow weather warning with gusty winds up to 50 mph and 50

millimetres of rain on top of what we've already had. We just don't

need it. It's already started raining across London and the heavy

stuff will come through at midnight, and with that the gusty winds.

Temperatures overnight down to four or five Celsius. We start tomorrow

with bright spells, but also heavy showers and strong winds. Parts of

Surrey, towards the coast and Kent, that will have an amber warning in

place for those strong winds. Then we have the showers continuing till

tomorrow afternoon, the heaviest with temperatures of about 10

Celsius. Not much fun tomorrow. Bright to start with on Thursday,

less breezy, but heavy, persistent rain overnight into Friday which we

will tell you about in the National forecast coming up. That's

We will of course have the latest on the travel situation in our

bulletins during Breakfast tomorrow morning. From us here, goodnight.

Good evening. Much like the local forecast, the national picture is a

stormy one in the next 24 hours The Met Office have issued an amber

weather warning for strong winds across southern counties. Wilts up

to Surrey in particular. There will be some transport disruption, no

doubt, and it could go beyond that, so if you're travelling across the

country there could be transport and power disruption and with more rain

in the forecast, further flooding where areas have flooded and some

very strong winds and high seas Southern coastal counties of England

and Wales have been troubled, but Dorset sees three severe flood

warnings, and more details on them on our own website. Still some very

strong winds and heavy rain although it is set to ease off in the next

hour. The strongest winds will be on the back edge of this band of more

persistent rain which extends across much of England, Northern Ireland