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Into the final straight - it's the last day of campaigning in the race | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
for the White House. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are criss-crossing | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
the country in a last-ditch bid for votes in an election that's too | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
close to call. We'll be reporting from Florida - one of the crucial | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
swing states, that both men are fighting hard to win. I'm in | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Washington, where I'll have the latest on the final 24 hours of | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
campaigning. Businesses are urged to pay at least a pound more an | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
hour than the minimum wage - in a bid to lift those on low pay out of | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
poverty. Forced to destroy 50,000 ash trees because of fungal disease | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
- this nursery is threatening to sue the government for failing to | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
block imports sooner. And a second Forth bridge - Scotland's biggest | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
construction project in decades On BBC London, hundreds of homeless | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
children in the capital have no paperwork to show they exist - we | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
have an exclusive report. And low morale at Scotland Yard - a staff | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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survey finds only a fifth have Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
BBC News at One. With just one more day to go until the US presidential | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
election, the final push for votes has begun. Barack Obama and Mitt | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Romney have been campaigning in the so-called swing states with appeals | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
for the faithful to turn out. Their tour of key battle grounds | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
continues today, before the candidates return to their home | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
states tonight, ready for election day. My colleague Jane Hill is in | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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Washington - Jane... Yes, hello and good morning, as it is in | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Washington DC, with the dollar's waking up to its final full day of | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
campaigning. There are quite a few states Wiltshire will be getting a | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
visit in the next 24 hours from either President Obama, or his | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Republican challenger. The latest on all of this crucial final | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
campaigning now from Emily Buchanan. They are neck-and-neck, and this is | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
the final sprint. Both candidates have been wooing voters in the key | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
state of Ohio. Sold at legend Stevie wonder lent his voice to | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
Barack Obama. The President needs it, and the strain on his own vocal | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
cords are beginning to show. This is not just a choice between two | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
candidates or parties, it is between two different visions of | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
America. It is a choice between and return to the top down policies or | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
the strong, growing, middle class based policies which are getting us | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
out of a crisis. With millions of voters still undecided, the | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
President is do spread to appeal to the middle ground, and every second | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
counts now to get his message across. He lost several minutes | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
after an anti-abortion campaigner shouted from the balcony. The crowd | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
booed as he had to be prised away. Hours earlier, Mitt Romney was in | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Cleveland, Ohio, a Democrat stronghold. He was aware that every | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
vote counts, with him narrowly trailing Obama. Talk is cheap, but | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
a record is real and it is burdened with a real effort. Change is not | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
measured in words and speeches, it is measured and achievements. So, | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
let's look at that record. The election can be won or lost in Ohio, | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
one of nine battleground states where voters have traditionally | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
determined who will become President. Another key stake is | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
Nevada. Here in Las Vegas, there are some real political issues. | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
Both sides say they have answers to the economic hardship. Nevada | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
continues to be a battleground state. I am confident that we are | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
going to deliver to President Obama, but we will not take anything for | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
granted. We are excited that we think we're going to win on | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
election day. As the candidates zig-zagged frenetically across the | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
country, it looks as if that was sold will be tight. Many predict | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
heating arguments over access to polling stations and vote counting | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
already. It really is all about those key swing states. They are | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the ones to watch, if you will be staying up for the overnight | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
election coverage. We can go to one of those key states now, Florida, | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
to join Jon Sopel. He is in Tampa. Yes, in terms of electoral | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
significance, no state is more important than Florida, with 29 | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
votes in the electoral college. Here in Florida, four million | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
people have already voted. In Hillsborough County, 41% of people | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
have turned out to vote. But the queues were long and not everybody | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
managed to get their vote done on time on Saturday, which has led to | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
an argument, which has led in turn to lawyers, as we found out. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Saturday in Tampa, Florida, and this is not a cue for the shops, | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
these people are lining up to vote. So popular has early voting proved, | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
that democrats wanted it to be extended into Sunday and today. The | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Republican governor said no, and so, with echoes of 12 years ago, when | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
the entire election was decided on disputed ballots from here, the | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
lawyers are wading in. It just kills me, as an American, to see | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
anyone trying to prevent something like this. It is maybe the most | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
important thing which makes America great. The thinking is that early | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
voting favours the Democrats, low, or workers, in poor areas, who will | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
not be able to find time, so the argument goes. This Democrat party | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
worker just braise for a clear cut, lawyer free result. We have had | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
that before. We do not need any more of that. But in knife-edge | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Hillsborough County, in a knife- edge stay, clear cut seems the | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
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least likely outcome. -- state. A think for myself, a chimpanzee | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
could predict the outcome with the same degree of accuracy. It is down | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
to the margin of error. And so, the pre-election poster battle is | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
getting dirty. But who's to say that pose to election legal scrap | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
will not be every bit as rough? the post-election legal scrap. Mitt | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Romney arrives here later today. Barack Obama was here later. -- was | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
here yesterday. Two polls were published yesterday, each selling | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
different results. What will -- what we will not know for certain | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
is who has one until tomorrow night, and even then, it is not 100% | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
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guaranteed. Back to you. Thank you very much, Jon Sopel in Tampa. What | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
is absolutely vital is simply, as the Americans call it, getting out | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
the vote. We know that the Obama has a very sophisticated campaign, | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
a sophisticated way of encouraging people to vote, helping them to | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
vote, and we saw that in 2008. But the team of Mitt Romney says it has | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
the enthusiasm. Much more about the American election on the BBC News | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
website. For now, back to London. Businesses are being urged to pay | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
employees at least a pound more an hour than the minimum wage - in a | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
bid to lift those on low pay out of poverty. The living wage is a | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
voluntary scheme that employers can sign up to and it's intended to | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
provide an adequate standard of living for low-paid people. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
But unlike the national minimum wage, it is not compulsory. Our | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
political correspondent Ross Hawkins has the details. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Politicians are explaining why the worst off employees deserve an | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
increase. It is also about giving them, from employers that can | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
afford it, extra cash to help the wheels of the economy turn, to give | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
them some more spending power, to help consumption in the city. | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
makes economic sense. So, people who work for the mayor will earn | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
more, as will Terry Marsh, a cleaning worker on a housing estate | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
in London, whose employer has also signed up to what is called the | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
living wage. It has allowed me a bit of dignity, with my children, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
who can now go from plimsolls to it pair of trainers. I can afford to | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
pay for their school dinners. It gives you back your pride and joy | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
dignity. In the 1990s, Labour introduced a minimum wage, making | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
it illegal for any company to pay less. It now stands at �6.99 per | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
hour, for over-21s. But campaigners have been pushing for more, what | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
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they call the living wage. -- �6.19. Among those guaranteeing that | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
voluntary, higher rate are the Scottish Government and 19 Labour | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
councils. We are looking for more companies, more local authorities | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
and government departments, to pay their staff enough to be able to | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
live with a decent quality of life for themselves and their families. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Labour is considering how to persuade more companies to sign up, | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
by naming and shaming those that do not, or by giving tax breaks to | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
those that do. The idea is that if employers pay more, then the | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
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government will not have to top the about up. Where the politicians are | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
asking companies to give more, this could bring real change. The | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Government is investigating claims of sexual abuse allegedly committed | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
by a Conservative MP during the Thatcher era. It is thought the | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
allegations relate to the abuse of children at care homes in North | :11:08. | :11:16. | |
Wales during the '70s and '80s. The First Minister of Wales and said | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
this morning he would meet the Children's Commissioner tomorrow to | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
discuss the matter. Our political correspondent Norman Smith is at | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
Westminster - what will happen now? Downing Street says the Prime | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Minister views these allegations extremely seriously, and has taken | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
a close personal interest in them. He is adamant that its needs to be | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
investigated properly. He has ordered civil servants from the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
Wales Office and the Home Office, amongst others, to go through the | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
paperwork from the 1970s, to see whether there is anything which | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
substantiates these claims, to decide whether they should be | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
passed on to the police. More than that, the Prime Minister is also | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
ordering officials to look at the initial investigations by the | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
police and by the judge-led inquiry, to examine whether the police | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
responded with sufficient rigour to the original claims, and whether | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
that inquiry got to the truth. And he is suggesting, the Prime | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Minister, that if there are flaws in those initial investigations, | :12:13. | :12:22. | |
then he may order an independent Experts are warning it may be too | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
late to stop the spread of a fungus threatening the UK's ash trees. The | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
number of cases has almost doubled in a week. The Government has | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
confirmed more than 50 different locations with ash dieback disease. | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
More than 100,000 trees have been destroyed. And now the Government | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
is facing possible legal action over the way it has handled the | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
threat to the UK's ash trees. Jenny Hill reports. Ash dieback has | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
already left its mark on the British countryside. 50,000 ash | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
trees were destroyed at his nursery in Lincolnshire after the disease | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
was confirmed here. The owner plans to sue the Government for | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
compensation. The inspectors came and identified that we had the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
disease, and issued us with a notice in July which prevented us | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
from doing anything to those trees, we could not destroy them, we could | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
not prune them, we could not do anything. It took them a further | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
two months to take the decision to destroy them, during which period | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
the disease's spread throughout the trees very rapidly. We should have | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
destroyed those trees immediately. This is what ash dieback can do. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Experts are warning it will decimate the UK population. Many | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
say this should have been prevented. The Trades Association in 2009 | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
warned of a new virulent strain of ash dieback. If we had closed the | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
door into a 1009, we might have prevented it coming in. In 2009, | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
the Science indicated that the disease once widespread in the | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
country, so it would have been inappropriate to put a ban in place | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
at that time. The first confirmed finding in the country was in March | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
this year. Since then, we have taken action to put in place a ban | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
on movements and imports. There are a now 52 confirmed cases of ash | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
dieback in the UK. An emergency survey of forest and woodland is | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
now under way, and by Wednesday, the Government expects to have a | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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more extensive assessment of the spread of the disease. Our main | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
headline - it is the final day of campaigning in the US election, in | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
a race which is still too tight to call. Coming up - more than 100 | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
dead, more than one million still without power, we report from New | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
York, one week after super Storm Sandy. Some areas are still under | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
water. There was a huge amount of clearing up to be done. The lights | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
may have come back on in New York City, but all along this coast line | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
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are communities which will take Even in a double-dip recession, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
there's one industry at least that seems to be bucking the trend. | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
Gambling profits last year topped �5.6 billion. And with casino-style | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
gambling available day and night, the popularity is growing. For | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
tonight's Panorama programme I've been speaking to people who've | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
found their lives spiralling out of control with debt and also to | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
industry insiders who claim violence and frustration is | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
increasing in our High Street betting shops. | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Gambling is a multibillion pound industry, last year the industry | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
made a �5.6 billion profit. One machine generates a quarter of | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
those profits. The fixed odds betting terminal, or FOBT, these | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
machines allow stakes of up to �100 every 20 seconds. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Panorama spoke to four high street betting shop managers, each with | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
over 20 years' experience who said FOBTs were a cause of of crime and | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
aggression in their shops. People just go beserk, kicking | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
machines, smashing it, trying to tip it over. They're picking up | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
chairs, stools to throw at it, simply because they've lost their | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
money. Available police statistics show crimes of violence in betting | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
shops in Britain rose 9% between 2008 and 2011. Criminal damage | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
reports fell by almost half. Industry insiders claim that's | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
because many acts of criminal damage to FOBT machines are not | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
being reported to the police. William Hill said any suggestion | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
that it covers up violence or permits illegal activity is | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
seriously mistaken. Ladbrokes said, betting shops are safe places to be | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
enjoyed by millions all over the UK without incident. And Betfred told | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
us people do sometimes punch machines out of frustration and | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
that they they intervene on rare occasions that a customer causes | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
damage. Later this month the Government is | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
due to respond to calls for further deregulation of the gambling | :17:28. | :17:36. | |
industry, including proposals to allow more FOBTs in betting shops. | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
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You can see more on that in Nine people have pleaded guilty to | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
identifying a woman who was raped by the footballer Ched Evan. One | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
woman has pleaded not guilty to the offence. Let's speak to our Wales | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Correspondent Hywel Griffith, who's at Prestatyn Magistrates' Court. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
Very unusual case, tell us what's happened. Yes, it's exceptional. | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
The first time we have seen members of the public brought before the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
court charged with identifying the victim of a rape. It followed the | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
trial of Ched Evans, the Sheffield United footballer found guilty of | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
raping a 19-year-old woman back in April. In the 48 hours that | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
followed there were tweets and Facebook postings that not only | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
named the victim, but in several cases made abusive claims about her, | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
saying she was money-grabbing and had cried rape. The ten were all in | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
the magistrates court, sat together but they don't know each other, | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
they only thing they have in common is they either made tweets or | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
postings, they are from all walks of life, one a teacher and one a | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
father of three. One evident defendants was a first cousin of | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Ched Evans, another said he was a close friend. In all cases of the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
nine who pleaded guilty, their lawyers spoke on their behalf and | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
said they simply didn't realise that the law prohibited them from | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
identifying the victim of a sexual offence. In one case it was said | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
that so many people simply do not understand how easy it is to break | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
the law by using new media. The judge is expected to come back with | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
his findings in the next hour. Thank you very much. | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
The Prime Minister has begun a three-day tour of the Gulf and the | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Middle East to try to strengthen the UK's defence, security and | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
commercial ties there. Britain is looking to sell Typhoon fighter | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
jets to a number of Gulf states. David Cameron has also pledged to | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
raise the issue of human rights, saying there weren't any "no-go" | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
areas. From Dubai, our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports. | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Touching down at a desert air base, David Cameron will need to perform | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
a delicate balancing act here. He he is come to promote trade and | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
defence ties but in a region heavily criticised for alleged | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
human rights abuses. His Gulf Arab hosts are openly welcoming but | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
privately critical of Britain's support for the Arab Spring. At | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
stake is the possible sale of 60 typhoon jets a deal deal worth | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
billions of pounds and thousands of jobs. The two countries are also | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
discussing developing this base as a major hub for the British | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
military. The Prime Minister met some of the | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
70 airmen and women based here. If tension rises with Iran that number | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
will grow with the RAF's own typhoons possibly based here as a | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
deterrent. But the Dubai leg of this trip is also about business. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
With the help of trade shows like this Britain is hoping to boost | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
bilateral trade with the UAE to �15 billion a year. We are in a global | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
economic race and it's vital Britain links up with some of the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
fastest growing economies in the world like this one, already this | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
year the fast half of this year, our exports to the United Arab | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Emirates are up 16% and I want to us go further and faster. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
This is a big opportunity for David Cameron to promote British business | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
in a lucrative market because while much of the west is in recession | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
the Gulf is booming. Here is the dilemma. Gulf rulers are warning | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
privately that if Britain pushes too hard on democracy and human | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
rights, it risks losing out on major contracts to other countries | :21:08. | :21:17. | |
that ask fewer questions. The first part of a new Forth Road | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
Bridge is being unveiled today. The crossing, which is the biggest | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
transport project in Scotland for a generation, is due to be completed | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
in 2016 and has provided 1,000 jobs. Our correspondent Lorna Gordon is | :21:26. | :21:35. | |
in South Queensferry for us. This replacement crossing has been | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
not without controversy. Opposition parties here in Scotland say more | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
of the work should go to Scottish firms, the SNP Government say 300 | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Scottish companies have benefited from the subcontracts awarded so | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
far. Other politicians here in Scotland say it shouldn't have been | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
built in the first place. But it is being built and today a critical | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
milestone was reached. From the tranquil waters of the | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
Forth a new bridge is starting to emerge. Slowly, meticulously, the | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
foundations for this key crossing are being winched into place. It | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
will soar alongside the current bridge whose traffic it should ease. | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
Not much to see so far, but this is a key part of a six-year | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
construction project. This is the most critical phase of the project. | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
This foundation phase, because this is our - these are the most | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
riskiest operations, we are having to deal with geological risks, | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
having to deal with water, marine tides and we are more exposed to | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
weather conditions than later. often bad Scottish weather has | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
caused problems on the bridge drivers currently use. Up to 70,000 | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
vehicles cross it every day. It is a critical artery into and out of | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Edinburgh. But the cables have been showing signs of deterioration. The | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
new replacement crossing is a huge building project, the biggest seen | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
in Scotland for a generation, costing around �1.5 billion, | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
employing more than 1,000 people. It's a massive boost to the economy. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Those employment levels will obviously fluctuate over the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
remainder of the project but the fact that it's supporting that many | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
people shows that not only is it a vital project in terms of keeping | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Scotland connected, but it's also providing a boost to the economy, | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
as well. It's thought this may be the only | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
place in the world where three iconic bridges will stand alongside | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
each other in one location. The best of engineering from the 19th, | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
20th and with the new Forth crossing, the 21st century, as well. | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
And work from now on will progress incredibly quickly. You can just | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
about see the foundations of the bridge in the distance. It will | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
start emerging very fast now from the water and it's scheduled to | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
open in 2016. Andy Murray's back on court in | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
London this afternoon for the first time since winning his Olympic gold | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
at Wimbledon. He starts his campaign in the ATP World Tour | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Final at the O2 Arena in just a couple of hours when he takes on | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Tomas Berdych. But his path to glory wont be easy with the likes | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
of Novak Djokovic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to beat. Andy Swiss reports. | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
This report does contain flash photography. | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
Back in London, as we have never seen him before. Andy Murray | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
preparing for his home debut as a Grand Slam champion, two months on | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
from that unforgettable day in New York. Since then it's been a | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
whirlwind of celebrations, but at last his thousands of British fans | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
have the chance to see him back in action. I spent very little time in | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
the UK since the US Open and even since the Olympics. Been over to | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Asia and then we played a couple of tournaments in Europe, as well. So, | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
we will see, but they they get unbelievable crowds here, hope I | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
get good support. London has provided two of Murray's defining | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
moments this year. Despair at Wimbledon, followed by | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
delight at the Olympics. It's a golden triumph! | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
From agony, to euphoria and the man he played in both finals believes | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
there will be more glittering moments. It's important to see the | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
positive out of even a loss sometimes and that's what he did. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
He's turned it around and he is in his prime right now and we will see | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
more of Andy to come, not only in this tournament but the coming | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
years. He will have to face world number one Novak Djokovic this week, | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
the top eight players are here in London but Murray will be hoping | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
this glorious year can reach a glorious ending. | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
It's a week since Superstorm Sandy hit the US East Coast, killing at | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
least 100 people. Around a million still have no power and tens of | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
thousands of people are in need of re-housing as the cold weather | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
correspondent sent this report. The skies may now be clear, but the | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
evidence is everywhere of what this storm left behind. This is Breezy | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Point, but it wasn't the wind or even the flooding which caused the | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
damage here, it was fire. One of the enduring images of the tragedy, | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
they blame a gas leak. Fuelled by wooden timbers and strong wind, the | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
fire quickly spread to engulf the whole neighbourhood. It's | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
devastating, it's heart-breaking, it's something you wouldn't think | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
would happen to you. This woman lost everything in the house she | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
lived in for 23 years. It's going to take a while for this community | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
to come back. But it is going to come back? I think it will, yeah. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
It will not be - I don't think it will be what it was. This is a | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
close community. Many of those who live here are in the emergency | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
services. The people they were rescuing were their own friends and | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
family. Everyone's 9/11 survivors, first | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
responders, so it's some disaster some people down here have seen | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
before. History has shown that we will be back. We overcome stuff | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
like this and things are things, if you have your friends and family | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
alive that's one thing. Houses can be rebuilt and TVs purchased. | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
coastline suffered some of the worst damage but it was the images | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
of New York which are still etched on the memory of Superstorm Sandy. | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
The power outages which left America's biggest city in darkness, | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
and took almost a week to bring back. And the flooding, tens of | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
thousands of people will have to find new places to live. | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
A week after the storm and some areas are still under water. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
There's a huge amount of clearing up to be done. The lights may have | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
come back on in New York City, but all along this length of coastline | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
are communities that will take months to get back to some sense of | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
normality. And there's an urgency about their | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
work. The temperature has plummeted and another storm threatens to | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
sweep in this week, further pushing people already tested to their | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
limits. Let's look at the weather now with | :28:30. | :28:38. | |
More nasty weather on the way for the Eastern Seaboard. But on our | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
shores it's looking good. It's quiet out there. It's cold but | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
there is sunshine and it should be a decent afternoon. | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
You can see there is a lot of sunshine for most parts of the UK. | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
Some cloud drifting down that eastern seaboard, it's been | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
bringing sharp showers. Those will continue into the afternoon and the | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
odd shower out towards the west. Temperatures are strul -- | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
struggling. This evening, little change. Clear | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
skies for the vast majority and one or two showers around the coasts. | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
But by the middle part of the evening we are thinking about | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
heading out to see bonfire displays and fireworks, it's looking good. | :29:18. | :29:25. | |
Across Scotland, yes it will be cold with a touch of frost, but | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
away from that it's a decent sort of look to things. Clear skies | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
across much of northern England. In Northern Ireland temperatures are | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
beginning to pick up with more cloud and that's a sign of things | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
to come. For the vast majority, it's a dry night with clear spells | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
and one or two showers along that eastern coast and the odd shower | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
across parts of western Wales down towards the tip of Cornwall. The | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
main message for tonight is that it will be cold, that's for sure, with | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
a frost setting in and that frost becomes harder into the second part | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
of the night. However, in Scotland and Northern Ireland there is a | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
change on the way because we have thicker cloud rolling in on a | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
noticeable breeze and that's going to help to raise temperatures here | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
during the overnight period. Temperatures will come up by a few | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
degrees. Across England and Wales it will be colder in rural spots. A | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
widespread frost here to start the day. I suspect Tuesday will be a | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
different sort of day. Yes, a bright start in the south but it | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
will cloud over. A lot of rain spilling south across Scotland into | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
northern England and much of the east of England. Further west, yes | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
a lot of cloud and a few breaks here and there, but temperatures | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
are on the rise. A good few degrees up on today across Scotland and | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
Northern Ireland. Elsewhere, temperatures similar to today's | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
values. Through Wednesday, we start the day essentially frost-free | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
because we have this breeze and a lot of cloud and we keep cloud into | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
the afternoon. Not much rain around but some in the north-west. | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
Temperatures are getting back to double figures across the board. A | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
definite trend with temperatures over the next few days, turning | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
milder not just by day but night, too. But there will be a lot of | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
cloud around and a noticeable breeze but it's a westerly breeze | :31:04. | :31:09. |