18/09/2014 Newsround

Millions of people in Scotland are deciding

In an historic decision on whether to make Scotland Independent

Queues of people started voting at 7am and the polling places are

I'm in Ingliston and this is where the count will be happening soon.

Millions of people have been going to polling places across Scotland,

Looks quiet at the moment later on though will be loads of activity in

this hall. The polls will close at 10pm and we will be here all night

bringing you the latest tomorrow morning in Newsround at 7:40am and

8:15am so make sure you do not miss it.

Next, to the extreme weather wreaking

north west coast of Mexico has been hit by a huge hurricane.

In Arizona they're preparing for heavy rain and flash flooding

Hurricane Odile has caused massive destruction.

Witnesses on Mexico's west coast say it's the

It is crazy. I have never been in a storm like that before. Everything

was completely destroyed, there is nothing left.

Thousands of tourists trapped by the hurricane can now finally

The airport's been closed for days - it's been too dangerous to fly.

Earlier this week Odile slammed into Las Cabos, destroying entire

holiday resorts and neighbourhoods, leaving thousands without power.

TRANSLATION: all of this has been lost. Now we have to start over,

little by little. Remarkably authorities say no

deaths have been reported. The heavy rains brought by Odile

have fallen on dry, hard ground, As the hurricane leaves Mexico

and heads north to Arizona, people They're only just recovering

from floods a week ago. But east of here, in California,

the opposite - a heatwave is Millions there are overloading

electricity supplies by using air conditioning to cope

with high temperatures. 15 big fires are burning

through dry forests. With hot weather set to continue and

high winds fanning the flames the south west of the US looks like it

has more weather troubles to come. A thief's has been caught on CCTV

stealing a piece of art from The footage shows the man removing

the painting - worth several hundred pounds from the wall and

trying to hide it in his jacket. Now check out these amazing

pictures from space. There's a close up at

the swirling gases on the Sun, night The stunning pictures

from 51 countries are part of a yearly competition to show

pictures of our planets, And finally - 180 litres of slimy

green gunge, and 60 people. In just under an hour's time,

Barney, Radzi, Lindsey and the Blue Peter gang, will attempt to

break the world record for most It's all part of

the 60th anniversary celebrations of We stopped by their studio,

a little earlier on, Hello in Newsround and say hello to

the gunge which will be going over hopefully 60 people 's heads today.

The current world record stands at 49. We are hoping to get 60 buckets

over 60 heads which will be a brand-new record. Watch Blue Peter

at 5:30 p.m.. Head to the website to see news

about wombats, whales and hippos. That's also where you can watch

Ricky's report about what to do That's all from me,

I'm off to the Blue Peter studio to get gunged for their World Record

attempt at 5.30pm.