:00:00. > :00:00.To7day on Newsround - hurricane-force winds
:00:00. > :00:11.To7day on Newsround - parts of
:00:12. > :00:19.To7day on Newsround - one of the wildest days of weather
:00:20. > :00:23.in decades. The man who wants to make the World
:00:24. > :00:28.Cup bigger, and the new technology that let's you fly like a pigeon.
:00:29. > :00:32.Let's start with the very latest on the biggest storm to hit the UK in
:00:33. > :00:36.your lifetime. Winds of almost 00 miles an hour have been recorded as
:00:37. > :00:44.hurricane force gales battered parts of southern England. In the last few
:00:45. > :00:49.minutes, it's been confirmed for people have been killed, and more
:00:50. > :00:53.than 250,000 homes are left without power. Hundreds of you have been in
:00:54. > :00:55.touch on the Newsround website to tell us what you've seen and how
:00:56. > :01:04.you've been affected. The dramatic images of devastation.
:01:05. > :01:08.Taken and witnessed by some of you. Through the bedroom window, I could
:01:09. > :01:14.hear a loud crash. In the morning, I came down and had a look. The wall
:01:15. > :01:19.had fallen -- a tree had fallen on to the house. It had taken out a
:01:20. > :01:22.street lamp. As hurricane force winds made their way in from the
:01:23. > :01:25.coast this morning, Frankie was one of the thousands of people across
:01:26. > :01:31.Southern England who woke up to fallen trees, mangled cranes and
:01:32. > :01:36.even overturned buses. This morning at 8am, we were hit quite badly by
:01:37. > :01:40.the storm, and loads of trees fell down in our driveway. It was quite
:01:41. > :01:45.scary, as you can see. Emma lives in one of the 250,000 homes left
:01:46. > :01:49.without power. When I woke up this morning, it was pitch black. One I
:01:50. > :01:58.turn on the light, it kept flickering on and off. All I could
:01:59. > :02:03.see out the window was up in the tree, and the branch had snapped.
:02:04. > :02:07.Three people have been confirmed as dead. Several others are unaccounted
:02:08. > :02:10.for, as winds that reached up to 99 mph tore up more than
:02:11. > :02:11.for, as winds that reached up to 99 lifted marquees from the ground and
:02:12. > :02:12.for, as winds that reached up to 99 brought trains, planes and roads to
:02:13. > :02:16.a standstill. brought trains, planes and roads to
:02:17. > :02:22.have been very bad. You don't normally see them. Five or seven
:02:23. > :02:27.years ago was the last time we saw a storm of a similar sort of strength
:02:28. > :02:35.affecting the UK, so it was quite a restaurant, and it hit quite a big
:02:36. > :02:38.part of southern England. The worst of the storm had moved on by late
:02:39. > :02:41.morning, but the emergency services and families in the badly hit areas
:02:42. > :02:46.will continue to count the costs. Thank you for sending those in. The
:02:47. > :02:51.storm has now headed off across the North Sea and into mainland Europe.
:02:52. > :02:58.The worst weather for us is over. We went to one of the areas hit really
:02:59. > :03:02.hard by the storm. The devastating effect of St Jude
:03:03. > :03:05.has been felt in this street. This is a normal street with normal
:03:06. > :03:10.people going about their daily business. Earlier this morning, one
:03:11. > :03:17.tree fell on to a property, and it is thought that that might have
:03:18. > :03:20.caused a gas explosion and impacted on two other homes. This morning I
:03:21. > :03:25.was sleeping, and we felt the ground shake. We heard a bang and I was
:03:26. > :03:29.really scared, so we ran downstairs. Looking out the window, we saw they
:03:30. > :03:34.had been an explosion. Everything was ruined. The emergency services
:03:35. > :03:39.have been here all day trying to make sure that people are safe and
:03:40. > :03:44.OK, that we have heard that two people have sadly died. More than 20
:03:45. > :03:47.people have been evacuated to the local nursing home, and it is
:03:48. > :03:52.thought they will stay there overnight. In other parts of the UK,
:03:53. > :03:58.people are going to be starting to clear up and make sure they can get
:03:59. > :04:01.back to their daily business, but on this street, it is going to be quite
:04:02. > :04:07.difficult for life to go back to normal.
:04:08. > :04:10.That was Hounslow in west London. The number of teams playing in the
:04:11. > :04:15.World Cup finals could be The number of teams playing in the
:04:16. > :04:20.from 32 to 40. Ahead of European football,
:04:21. > :04:24.from 32 to 40. Ahead of European the best way of getting more African
:04:25. > :04:31.and Asian science involved. Sepp Blatter, head of FIFA, suggested
:04:32. > :04:35.reducing the number of European teams involved, which could impact
:04:36. > :04:43.the English team and other home nations. The latest in 3D technology
:04:44. > :04:46.is the pigeon simulator. It is the brainchild of researchers at
:04:47. > :04:50.University College London. It uses motion sensors and live data feeds
:04:51. > :04:54.to help people navigate their way through streets in the English
:04:55. > :05:00.capital. Get me one of those! That's all from me for now, but I
:05:01. > :05:01.will be back this evening. Head over to the Newsround website