13/02/2014 Newsround

Hi, it's your morning Newsround. On today's show: The latest on last

night's weather misery. More than 100,000 homes are waking

up without power after hurricane force-winds battered the UK. Public

transport is disrupted and trees have fallen down. It's the morning

after the night before and a clean up operation is underway. On this

street in Chertsey near London, the water pumps have been running all

night. It's a desperate attempt to keep the water away from homes. Last

night we worked until 4am in the morning. When we got up, we got a

bigger pump, hopefully it is going down. Hopefully we are winning.

But more water is on the way. The River Thames is expected to rise

again and could soon reach its highest level for 60 years. On

Wednesday, 100 mile an hour winds hit parts of Wales - strong enough

to blow trees down. People were warned to stay indoors after trees

fell on power lines. One person died, and more than a 100,000 homes

are without electricity. The bad weather is also affecting public

transport. 500 people had to leave Crewe station after the wind damaged

the roof and caused a fire - and passengers on this train from London

to Edinburgh were stranded in Yorkshire for a while. In Chertsey,

special marine police are making sure everybody is safe. The clean-up

continues, but the wet winter isn't over yet.

Next to your sport headlines and two big football games were called off

because of the weather last night - Manchester City against Sunderland

and Everton versus Crystal Palace both postponed for safety reasons. A

handful of games did survive Arsenal missed their chance to return to the

top of the table after a goalless draw against Manchester Utd.

Emanuelle Adebayor scored twice as Spurs won 4-0 at Newcastle, Stoke

and Swansea drew and Steven Gerrard's late penalty ensured

Liverpool beat Fulham 3-2. This is always a difficult game. They are

very well organised. There is that are fighting to stay in the league.

But a great performance against Arsenal, three points tonight.

To Sochi and it's a busy day for Team GB at the Winter Olympics.

James Woods is on course to make the final of the Freestyle Skiing Men's

Slopestyle after this qualifying jump this morning. Later on all eyes

will be on the Women's Skeleton with 2006 Olympic silver medallist

Shelley Rudman and World Cup champion Lizzy Yarnold representing

GB. There's also curling, cross country skiing, speed skating and

the team relay in the luge - a new event for the games.

Yesterday a massive sinkhole opened up in the fall of the National

Corvette Museum in the USA. It swallowed up a rare and valuable

cars. Nobody was injured. But some vintage motors are now eight feet

underground. The Duke of Cambridge has pledged to

support efforts to tackle the illegal trade in wildlife. Speaking

in London last night, Prince William set out a five point plan to help

look after species such as tigers, elephants and rhinos. Later this

morning the Prince will discuss his plans with leaders from around the

world and Nel is there for us. The illegal wildlife trade is a

business. Worth about six William pounds internationally. It affects

some of the most iconic species such as tigers, rhinos, elephants. But it

is not just animals, the conference will also talk about endangered

plant basis. -- species. Leaders from 50 nations around the world

have been arriving all morning. They will try to knock with a plan to

educate people living in areas where poaching takes place. They want to

reduce the demand in places like Asia and enforcing is asking laws

will stop -- existing laws. That's all from me, there's loads

more to sink your teeth into over on the Newsround website.