28/10/2013 Newsround


28/10/2013

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To7day on Newsround - hurricane-force winds

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To7day on Newsround - parts of

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To7day on Newsround - one of the wildest days of weather

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in decades. The man who wants to make the World

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Cup bigger, and the new technology that let's you fly like a pigeon.

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Let's start with the very latest on the biggest storm to hit the UK in

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your lifetime. Winds of almost 00 miles an hour have been recorded as

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hurricane force gales battered parts of southern England. In the last few

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minutes, it's been confirmed for people have been killed, and more

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than 250,000 homes are left without power. Hundreds of you have been in

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touch on the Newsround website to tell us what you've seen and how

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you've been affected. The dramatic images of devastation.

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Taken and witnessed by some of you. Through the bedroom window, I could

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hear a loud crash. In the morning, I came down and had a look. The wall

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had fallen -- a tree had fallen on to the house. It had taken out a

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street lamp. As hurricane force winds made their way in from the

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coast this morning, Frankie was one of the thousands of people across

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Southern England who woke up to fallen trees, mangled cranes and

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even overturned buses. This morning at 8am, we were hit quite badly by

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the storm, and loads of trees fell down in our driveway. It was quite

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scary, as you can see. Emma lives in one of the 250,000 homes left

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without power. When I woke up this morning, it was pitch black. One I

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turn on the light, it kept flickering on and off. All I could

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see out the window was up in the tree, and the branch had snapped.

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Three people have been confirmed as dead. Several others are unaccounted

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for, as winds that reached up to 99 mph tore up more than

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for, as winds that reached up to 99 lifted marquees from the ground and

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for, as winds that reached up to 99 brought trains, planes and roads to

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a standstill. brought trains, planes and roads to

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have been very bad. You don't normally see them. Five or seven

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years ago was the last time we saw a storm of a similar sort of strength

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affecting the UK, so it was quite a restaurant, and it hit quite a big

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part of southern England. The worst of the storm had moved on by late

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morning, but the emergency services and families in the badly hit areas

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will continue to count the costs. Thank you for sending those in. The

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storm has now headed off across the North Sea and into mainland Europe.

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The worst weather for us is over. We went to one of the areas hit really

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hard by the storm. The devastating effect of St Jude

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has been felt in this street. This is a normal street with normal

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people going about their daily business. Earlier this morning, one

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tree fell on to a property, and it is thought that that might have

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caused a gas explosion and impacted on two other homes. This morning I

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was sleeping, and we felt the ground shake. We heard a bang and I was

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really scared, so we ran downstairs. Looking out the window, we saw they

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had been an explosion. Everything was ruined. The emergency services

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have been here all day trying to make sure that people are safe and

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OK, that we have heard that two people have sadly died. More than 20

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people have been evacuated to the local nursing home, and it is

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thought they will stay there overnight. In other parts of the UK,

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people are going to be starting to clear up and make sure they can get

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back to their daily business, but on this street, it is going to be quite

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difficult for life to go back to normal.

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That was Hounslow in west London. The number of teams playing in the

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World Cup finals could be The number of teams playing in the

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from 32 to 40. Ahead of European football,

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from 32 to 40. Ahead of European the best way of getting more African

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and Asian science involved. Sepp Blatter, head of FIFA, suggested

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reducing the number of European teams involved, which could impact

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the English team and other home nations. The latest in 3D technology

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is the pigeon simulator. It is the brainchild of researchers at

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University College London. It uses motion sensors and live data feeds

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to help people navigate their way through streets in the English

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capital. Get me one of those! That's all from me for now, but I

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will be back this evening. Head over to the Newsround website

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