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Hi guys - Jenny here with all the stories that matter most to you this | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Saturday. On the way. We want your questions for the teenager about to | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
become the youngest person ever to reach the South Pole. And... I like | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
this one, I have had it since I was eight. We meet the kids who can't | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
get enough of pigeons. But first to America where there's | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
big worries that one of the worst droughts in California's history | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
could cause more wildfires to spread. Emergency services have been | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
responding to a major blaze near LA. It's believed to have been started | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
on purpose but was made worse because forest areas there are much | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
drier than usual for this time of year. The LA County Fire chief | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
explained the extent of the damage. We have identified that five single | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
family dwellings were destroyed, 17 additional buildings, including | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
outbuildings, Barnes, garages and summer homes, were damaged. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Well, this is why the authorities are so worried about more fires | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
spreading. This satellite footage shows the amount of snowfall on | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
nearby mountains last year compared to this year. The one on the right | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
shows far less snow this year and without that melting and running | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
down to soak the land, the dry conditions are much more likely to | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
catch alight. California's governor Jerry Brown is so worried he's | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
declared a state-wide drought and called in extra fire crews to help. | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
We are facing perhaps the worst drought that California has ever | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
seen since records begin, and they have been kept for 100 years. Back | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
home in the UK it's too MUCH water that continues to be the problem in | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
lots of areas with warnings of more floods on the way today. Heavy | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
rain's expected to add to problems in some areas and major roads in | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Surrey, West Sussex and Kent are already closed. The Met Office - who | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
predict the weather - have issued a yellow flood warning for parts of | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
South-West England and South Wales. In other news a teenager from | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Bristol is about an hour away from making history! Lewis Clarke is on | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
the brink of becoming the youngest person ever to reach the South Pole. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
We believe he's close to finishing the final stages of his 7000-mile | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
charity trek through the Antarctic. All being well, the 16-year-old is | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
expected to arrive at the South Pole at around three o'clock. We'll be | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
speaking to Lewis about his achievement. And we want to you to | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
send in your questions for him. Head to the website now to give us your | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
suggestions. And from extreme conditions | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
thousands of miles away, to an extreme sport a little closer to | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
home. Aeroball is the latest craze sweeping schools across the UK. It | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
combines trampolining with basketball and volleyball, and as | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
I've been finding out, anyone can play. If you find it hard to reach | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
the net in PE, then maybe you just need a bit of bounce! It's | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
trampolining and you get to play basketball at the same time. It's | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
fun and it gets you really tired. And it gets you really competitive. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
Aeroball has become one of the most popular sports for school activity | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
weeks. They are very accessible, you don't have to be a big fan of | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
heights greater football or rugby, everyone can have a. Young or old, | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
it is very easy. The sport was created by a former gymnast in | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
America who wanted to make trampolining safer and more fun. You | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
score points by either getting a ball into your opponent's basket, or | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
onto the bottom of their trampoline before they can stop it. There are | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
several balls on the go - and you can play in doubles - so it involves | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
plenty of tactics. We think our jobs I too low, so we are trying to pull | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
ourselves up. As well as making you think, Aeroball can also help kids | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
improve in other sports such as basketball... It's sort of helps you | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
name for the net. At the junior level, it is hard to teach the | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
skills and it can be demoralising, but here, they can see a result. The | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
results seem to be that Aeroball is helping some of you guys reach new | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
heights when it comes to school sport! Well sticking with sport - | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
the big guns have all been firing at the Australian Open today. Britain's | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Andy Murray breezed into the fourth round with a straight sets win over | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Spain's Feliciano Lopez. Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer also won easily. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
And in the women's draw, Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova are | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
also through. Pigeons can be pests to some people | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
- but for others the birds are a prized pet. Up to 25,000 pigeon | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
fanciers are in Blackpool this weekend showing off their beloved | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
birds at a huge show. Some of these racing pigeons are worth up to | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
?10.000, and they're all hoping to be named top bird of the year. | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Competitors come from countries as far away as China, and are of all | :05:12. | :05:24. | |
ages. I like this one, I have had it since I was eight. I have loads more | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
down here, so we have a good chance to win. I have had pigeons since I | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
was two years old. I love waking up on race day, when I'm going to a | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
show, waking up and not knowing if you are going to win. I like to | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
CeBIT is my favourite pigeon coming. Finally - to the dogs and their | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
owners who've been making waves in Brazil. This lot are in practice for | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
a special competition in Rio de Janeiro. Pet and human are both | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
supposed to stand up and paddle round a range of obstacles. Looks | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
like some need | :06:00. | :06:00. |