:00:07. > :00:12.Hi there. I'm Leah with your last Newsround update of the day. First,
:00:13. > :00:15.all day we've been talking about the extreme weather battering parts of
:00:16. > :00:19.America as well as the UK. The United States has been hit by a
:00:20. > :00:22.blast of air from the Arctic which has created some of its coldest
:00:23. > :00:27.weather in 20 years. And over here, giant waves and flooding have caused
:00:28. > :00:32.chaos in parts of the country. Last month was the stormiest in the UK
:00:33. > :00:35.for more than 40 years. Could this bad weather across the globe be
:00:36. > :00:44.linked? Ayshah went to ask weather expert Simon King. At the moment
:00:45. > :00:49.we've got colder towards the north with warm air coming from the south.
:00:50. > :00:53.As they meet we have the jet stream which is a bigger conveyor belt of
:00:54. > :00:58.air and what happens is storms develop and come across the United
:00:59. > :01:01.Kingdom. That's what we've had over the last couple of weeks.
:01:02. > :01:04.Next, imagine becoming an astronaut or helping launch a rocket into
:01:05. > :01:08.space. I'm sure these sound like dream jobs to some of you but the
:01:09. > :01:12.good news is they might not be impossible dreams. The Chancellor,
:01:13. > :01:16.George Osborne, who is in charge of the country's money, says he wants
:01:17. > :01:21.the UK space industry to treble over the next 20 years. That should mean
:01:22. > :01:24.loads more jobs for when you grow up, whether it's helping to send up
:01:25. > :01:30.the satellites that make mobile phones work or making devices like
:01:31. > :01:33.this one to map the stars. Well, earlier today Ricky spoke to
:01:34. > :01:44.two girls whose school science projects were about to get sent into
:01:45. > :01:47.space. Mine is looking at antibiotics and
:01:48. > :01:52.we're going to see whether the medicine works better or worse in
:01:53. > :01:56.space. You are working on something
:01:57. > :02:00.fascinating. It's a single organism that acts
:02:01. > :02:08.like it has a brain that will grow to have a food source. We hope that
:02:09. > :02:11.it will grow 3-dimensional leave. How do you feel knowing that
:02:12. > :02:16.something you have worked on is going to be looked at in space?
:02:17. > :02:22.It's absolutely amazing. I can't wait for the results.
:02:23. > :02:26.Really, really surreal. Next, take a look at this driver
:02:27. > :02:29.caught on a police safety camera in Yorkshire. The 36-year-old man
:02:30. > :02:36.drives his car for about 30 seconds with both hands behind his head at
:02:37. > :02:41.62 mph. In court, he argued he was in control of the car but was found
:02:42. > :02:44.guilty of dangerous driving. Head online to see the amazing
:02:45. > :02:52.pictures from an ice festival in China where sculptors have made a
:02:53. > :02:56.whole city from ice. And you can also play our quiz.
:02:57. > :03:01.That's all from me. Newsround's back bright and early tomorrow.