09/12/2017 Newsround

Good morning, it's

Whitney here with your

Saturday morning Newsround.

Now if you're heading out

and about today make sure you wrap

up warm because winter has

well and truly arrived.

Snow has been falling

in parts of Scotland,

Northern Ireland, Wales,

and Northern England

and temperatures could drop

to as low as -6.

And the snow won't be disappearing

overnight as experts are predicting

that the weather is due to get

worse on sunday.

Looks like it's time

to get your sledges out, guys.

US President Donald Trump has

declared a state of emergency

as the wildfires continue to spread

in Southern California.

Firefighters are continuing

to battle the fast moving fires.

More than 200,000 people have had

to leave their homes

and thousands of buildings

have been damaged.

Next to a guest who

is out of this world,

astronaut Tim Peake came

into the studio yesterday to answer

some of your questions.

Take a look.

This is no longer Newsround HQ.

Just for a moment,

this is Mission Control

and that's because we have a very

special guest who is about to join

all of us here.

Are you guys ready?

Yes!

I think they're ready.

It is the one, the only,

it's Tim Peake.

Hi, guys.

Hiya.

That is wonderful, Tim.

Ayshah, lovely to meet you.

Welcome to Newsround.

Thank you very much.

Take a seat right here for us.

Thank you.

Tim, thank you so much

for joining us at

Newsround HQ.

Let's go straight in to the first

question right here.

What do you miss most about space?

Two things, really.

I think the first thing I miss

is weightlessness, you know,

floating around in space

and the second thing

is the view of Planet Earth.

And I know we have a

great question here

as well.

What's your question?

If you were to name

a new planet, what

would you name it?

I'd have to see it first.

I think you've got to see

something to be able to come

up with a name.

But, yeah, I mean, there's

loads of new planet out there

and there's loads

of potential for it.

What about you?

What's your question?

So, what differences

in, like, experiences

are there from Earth's

atmosphere to zero gravity?

Wow.

I mean, coming back

into Earth's atmosphere is

incredible.

You get the re-entry,

you get the heat, the deceleration.

Up in space it's really liberating.

You're just floating around

and seeing the stars

at night and the Earth

by day, it's beautiful.

I'm going to squeeze one more in.

What's your question?

Who or what was your

inspiration to become an

amazing astronaut?

Well, I've had a lot

of inspirational characters

throughout my life and the first

thing I wanted to do was become a

pilot, test pilot.

So people like Chuck

Yeager and reading books

like The Right Stuff for me

was very inspirational.

How cool was it to me to him the? --

Tim Peake.

That's it from, I'll

be back just after 12.