:00:08. > :00:12.Tonight at 10 o'clock: Millions of Americans are braced for the
:00:12. > :00:17.imminent arrival of Hurricane Sandy. It is drawing ever closer to the
:00:17. > :00:21.eastern seaboard, sending huge waves to batter coastal defences.
:00:21. > :00:26.This is going to be a slow-moving process through a wide swathe of
:00:26. > :00:29.the country. Millions of people are going to be affected. Experts are
:00:29. > :00:33.warning of storm surges of more than three metres. Thousands of
:00:33. > :00:36.people have been moved from their homes to safety. We were here for
:00:37. > :00:41.the last storm but this one is supposed to be three times as bad
:00:41. > :00:48.so I am a little bit concerned. have a ton of food upstairs which
:00:49. > :00:54.is non-perishable it so that if the refrigerated goes out we can eat.
:00:54. > :00:59.The authorities say the 1000 miles storm is a catastrophic event.
:00:59. > :01:03.It is also affecting the closing stages of the presidential campaign.
:01:03. > :01:07.Vulnerable adults are still at risk in some care homes according to a
:01:07. > :01:11.new BBC investigation. And how Jimmy Savile was barred
:01:11. > :01:15.from Children In Need according to a former charity boss.
:01:15. > :01:18.Returning home to troubled Iraq, the refugees who had once found
:01:18. > :01:25.safety in Syria. I and the Premier League referee
:01:25. > :01:32.who now finds his own conduct under formal investigation.
:01:32. > :01:37.Coming up in Sportsday: The latest cyclist to leave Team Sky after
:01:37. > :01:47.admitting to taking performance- enhancing drugs earlier in his
:01:47. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:57.Good evening. Millions of people along the north-eastern coast of
:01:57. > :02:03.the United States are bracing themselves for the arrival of
:02:03. > :02:07.Hurricane Sandy within the next couple of hours. Barack Obama has
:02:07. > :02:10.warned of days of disruption and chaos to come. Many people have
:02:10. > :02:14.been moved from their homes in low- lying areas and there are some
:02:14. > :02:18.reports of flooding in New York City, where we can join our
:02:18. > :02:23.correspondent laura Trevelyan for the latest.
:02:23. > :02:27.Hurricane Sandy is about to make landfall in southern New Jersey, a
:02:27. > :02:37.company to buy life threatening storm surge and hurricane force
:02:37. > :02:41.
:02:41. > :02:45.winds. -- a a company to buy. Manhattan is going to become an
:02:45. > :02:48.island once again. The wind and rain grow stronger
:02:48. > :02:54.tonight and only the most dedicated of storm chasers are still on the
:02:54. > :02:59.streets. It is a historic event. I had to come and see this so I can
:02:59. > :03:03.at least look at it, you know. Right now we are not in the eye of
:03:03. > :03:08.the storm. It is supposedly 12 hours away. So far it is pretty
:03:08. > :03:12.safe here. The worst of the storm is not here yet, but the conditions
:03:12. > :03:17.are dramatic and they are deteriorating by the second. The
:03:17. > :03:21.water levels are rising and the winds of very strong indeed. In
:03:21. > :03:27.midtown Manhattan, a crane dangled perilously. An ominous indicator of
:03:27. > :03:33.what could be to come. The centre of the storm is going to hit land
:03:33. > :03:38.for some time this evening. Because of the nature of this storm, we are
:03:38. > :03:44.certain this is going to be a slow- moving process through a wide
:03:44. > :03:50.swathe of the country. Millions of people are going to be affected.
:03:50. > :03:54.has been eerily quiet in Manhattan, utterly unlike the average Monday.
:03:54. > :03:59.The city is shuttered and the subway is closed even Wall Street
:03:59. > :04:05.is deserted. The trading floor is empty, the first unplanned closing
:04:05. > :04:10.since the 9/11 attacks. Turn it down at the wall and then you can
:04:10. > :04:14.spray. This family in Brooklyn, like so many others, are preparing
:04:14. > :04:24.for the long night to come. If we get a lot of water in the backyard,
:04:24. > :04:28.it could go over that sill, so we are going to Sandbach that. -- sand
:04:28. > :04:33.bag. We have a ton of food, mostly non-perishable so that we can eat
:04:33. > :04:39.if the refrigerator goes up. In New Jersey, Atlantic City is being
:04:39. > :04:48.beaten by the waves. Of the North Carolina coast, teenagers rescued
:04:48. > :04:53.from the HMS Bounty. Newport's airport is closed with thousands of
:04:53. > :04:59.flights cancelled, causing chaos for money. This family from
:04:59. > :05:02.Cornwall do not know when they can get home. It was not on our radar
:05:02. > :05:08.when we left home. We were concerned that we would be delayed
:05:08. > :05:12.later in the week. We are really quite anxious, really. We would
:05:12. > :05:16.have preferred to come at a different time. This storm is
:05:16. > :05:21.unprecedented. A want of a generation event with the potential
:05:21. > :05:24.to kill and flatten. -- once in a generation event. The impact is yet
:05:24. > :05:31.to be felt. Tell us about the conditions in New
:05:31. > :05:36.York tonight. Well, it is very wet, as you can see. It is very windy.
:05:36. > :05:40.They are getting stronger by the second. The real concern is the
:05:40. > :05:46.rising sea level behind me in the New York harbour. You can see the
:05:46. > :05:50.light of Manhattan coming on tonight. In three hours, it will be
:05:50. > :05:57.a high-tide, higher than usual because of the full moon. That is
:05:57. > :06:02.when the impact of the storm will be felt. There could be a storm
:06:02. > :06:06.surge in the harbour, maybe up to 11 ft, which could cause widespread
:06:06. > :06:11.flooding in the southern tip of Manhattan, behind me. I am standing
:06:11. > :06:14.in an evacuation zone and it could knock out the subway and take out
:06:14. > :06:22.the power in the electricity sub- stations. For historic reasons they
:06:22. > :06:27.are just behind in -- behind me in lower Manhattan. The city is
:06:27. > :06:30.waiting for whatever the storm could bring. Thank you.
:06:30. > :06:34.The final week of campaigning in the US presidential election has of
:06:34. > :06:39.course been heavily affected by this weather crisis. The rival
:06:39. > :06:44.camps are having to change tack and improvise a little. Mark Mardell is
:06:44. > :06:49.in Florida, where Barack Obama had been due to address a rally this
:06:49. > :06:53.evening. Barack Obama had been looking forward to the rally when
:06:53. > :06:57.he arrived in Florida last night but this storm is pulling politics
:06:57. > :07:01.out of shape. By the morning he was back in wind lashed Washington with
:07:01. > :07:05.his campaigning cancelled. His team claimed he was not bothered about
:07:05. > :07:09.how it would look, because it was about his responsibilities. But
:07:09. > :07:13.this is a critical political moment eight days away from polling.
:07:13. > :07:17.not worried about the effect on the election. I am worried about the
:07:17. > :07:23.impact on families and on our first responders. I am worried about the
:07:23. > :07:28.impact on our economy and transportation. The election will
:07:28. > :07:32.take care of itself next week. President abandoned this rally in
:07:32. > :07:36.Orlando but it went on without him. It was designed to define the last
:07:36. > :07:40.vital for week of campaigning with a double blast of President's past
:07:40. > :07:43.and present. He said Bill Clinton had to explain the absence of the
:07:43. > :07:47.President. We planned this whole rally and he called me and said he
:07:47. > :07:52.had to go back. He said it is going to be worse than we thought and it
:07:52. > :07:57.is going to hit South of where we thought. Keep your fingers crossed
:07:57. > :08:02.for your fellow Americans today. made the case that most American TV
:08:02. > :08:06.networks had pulled out with the President. Vote for the man with a
:08:06. > :08:10.plan, Barack Obama. This is a reminder that politics will not
:08:10. > :08:14.stop and the vital swing states away from the East Coast. It will
:08:14. > :08:20.go on at a local level. But national campaigning will be frozen
:08:20. > :08:23.for a while. Mitt Romney went ahead with one last rally in Ohio but has
:08:23. > :08:32.cancelled events planned for tonight and tomorrow at of
:08:32. > :08:35.sensitivity for those in the path of the store. -- out of sensitivity.
:08:35. > :08:39.They are enduring difficult times and our hearts and prayers go out
:08:39. > :08:49.to them. A huge amount of money has been spent by both sides on
:08:49. > :08:50.
:08:50. > :08:54.campaign ads this week. Millions more may yet see them are trapped -
:08:54. > :08:59.- because they are trapped at home by the storm. At least until the
:08:59. > :09:03.power goes up. Leadership in this crisis goes to the very heart of
:09:03. > :09:07.what the crisis is about. Can we really believe that campaigning can
:09:07. > :09:14.be frozen, the word you used in that report, in this tightly fought
:09:14. > :09:19.campaign? I think it will be, for the main candidates. Mitt Romney
:09:19. > :09:22.and Barack Obama, for a few days, they will be on hold. Local
:09:22. > :09:26.campaigning, because there are elections to Congress, will go on.
:09:26. > :09:31.The vital business of getting people to the polls will go on. I
:09:31. > :09:34.think politics steps up to a higher level. When you think about it,
:09:34. > :09:37.this is what a presidential election is all about. The
:09:37. > :09:42.Americans are looking for a man that can lead them at a time of
:09:42. > :09:46.crisis and speak for the nation and to the nation. I think it is
:09:46. > :09:51.inevitable that Mitt Romney gets shoved to the side of the stage for
:09:51. > :09:55.a while and then Barack Obama gets the spotlight. It is a moment of
:09:55. > :09:58.opportunity but also great danger. A lot depends on how he performs.
:09:58. > :10:04.The people I have spoken to are still not decided at this late
:10:04. > :10:09.moment. They are not talking about it tax and the economy, they are
:10:09. > :10:13.talking about character. This is a critical few days for the election.
:10:13. > :10:19.Thank you. We will have more from America and the hurricane later on
:10:19. > :10:22.in the programme. A new BBC investigation into the
:10:22. > :10:26.abuse of patients in care homes has found that vulnerable adults are
:10:26. > :10:30.still being put at risk despite the high-profile case of the
:10:30. > :10:35.Winterbourne View private hospital in Bristol. Staff that assaulted
:10:35. > :10:38.patients there were jailed last week. Panorama has shown that 19 of
:10:38. > :10:46.the patients moved from the centre have been the subject of the so
:10:46. > :10:51.cutting alerts, as they are called. This -- safeguarding alerts. This
:10:51. > :10:56.report contains distressing images. Only 18 at the time, so men was one
:10:56. > :11:06.of the patients at Winterbourne View he was filled suffering
:11:06. > :11:10.shocking abuse. -- Simone, who was filmed. In 2011, she was moved to
:11:10. > :11:14.another hospital. Four months ago, her parents got a letter saying
:11:14. > :11:17.there was an alert over her care at the new place. All they know is
:11:17. > :11:25.that there was an investigation into how the staff dealt with their
:11:25. > :11:30.daughter one day when she was upset. Disciplinary action has been taken.
:11:30. > :11:36.It is not the same as Winterbourne View, but she has still gone
:11:36. > :11:39.through a restrained, or whatever, but it is still wrong. She is not
:11:39. > :11:43.the only Winterbourne View patient to have a safety alert in the new
:11:43. > :11:48.facility. 51 patients with challenging behaviour spend time at
:11:48. > :11:53.the hospital. NHS figures obtained by Panorama have shown that at
:11:53. > :11:57.least 19 have had new concerns raised since leaving. Not all will
:11:57. > :12:02.have been harmed, but we know of one assault and criminal
:12:02. > :12:07.investigation into the treatment of a second patient. Winterbourne View
:12:07. > :12:11.is long closed and its then owners have made major changes elsewhere.
:12:11. > :12:14.The Government wants the whole care sector to learn. The Prime Minister
:12:14. > :12:18.has called it a national scandal that people spend so long in these
:12:18. > :12:23.institutions. He says everybody has responsibility for protecting
:12:23. > :12:27.patients. What about the accountability of the Board of
:12:27. > :12:31.Directors, who recklessly neglect what is happening in hospitals that
:12:31. > :12:36.they are responsible for? They have to be responsible as well for what
:12:36. > :12:41.happens and I am determined to make sure that our response is robust.
:12:41. > :12:46.Simon was also abused at Winterbourne View. He is now doing
:12:46. > :12:49.well, living with support near his family. But he spent three years in
:12:49. > :12:54.different hospitals. His mother believes that should never have
:12:54. > :13:03.happened. The world needs to see what happened to Simon and the
:13:03. > :13:06.others so that people do not ever forget that that is how we treat
:13:06. > :13:12.people who have learning disabilities and cannot fight their
:13:12. > :13:16.own battles. Next month, the Government is due to detail the
:13:16. > :13:19.improvements they want in England for people like Simon. Wales,
:13:19. > :13:29.Scotland and Northern Ireland have also looked at strengthening
:13:29. > :13:39.
:13:39. > :13:47.Dame Janet Smith has started her inquiry into the BBC, during the
:13:47. > :13:56.time that Jimmy Savile was there. Today, it has emerged that Jimmy
:13:56. > :14:00.Savile had been barred from any involvement with Children In Need.
:14:00. > :14:07.Back in the 1980s, Jimmy Savile appeared once or twice on Children
:14:07. > :14:11.In Need. But a few years later, he was banned. Quietly, behind the
:14:11. > :14:20.scenes, the chairman of Children In Need had decided to keep him away.
:14:20. > :14:30.There were rumours, suspicions. Some of the staff on Children In
:14:30. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:34.Need were apprehensive. Words were used, and it was very important for
:14:34. > :14:41.me to support the staff of Children In Need. It is a wonderful charity.
:14:41. > :14:45.So, there were doubts about Savile in the BBC years ago. Have the
:14:45. > :14:51.revelations damaged the reputation of the corporation? New research
:14:51. > :14:55.suggests there has been a decline. BBC Radio 5 Live did a poll which
:14:55. > :15:00.ask two questions, is the BBC Trust were the, and are you proud of it?
:15:00. > :15:05.On both questions, the BBC had taken a knock. These are the people
:15:05. > :15:09.in charge of trying to get at the truth. Dame Janet Smith was
:15:09. > :15:14.beginning work today on an inquiry to look back at the Jimmy Savile
:15:14. > :15:18.time at the BBC. Nick Pollard is investigating the handling of a
:15:18. > :15:22.Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile which was dropped last year.
:15:22. > :15:32.The BBC, the police and many others knew something. Together, they
:15:32. > :15:41.might have seen that there was a pattern. Coming up tonight - we
:15:41. > :15:45.explore the factors driving Hurricane Sandy.
:15:46. > :15:48.The Football Association has started an investigation into the
:15:48. > :15:52.conduct of Mark Clattenburg, the referee in charge of yesterday's
:15:52. > :15:56.match between Chelsea and Manchester United. Chelsea have
:15:56. > :16:00.claimed that Mr Clattenburg used inappropriate language to tingle of
:16:00. > :16:07.their players. The BBC has been told that part of the complaint
:16:07. > :16:11.relates to the use of alleged racial language. Referees are used
:16:11. > :16:15.to being the target of abuse, but rarely do they find themselves
:16:15. > :16:18.accused of insulting the players they are supposed to officiate.
:16:18. > :16:23.That is the position Mark Clattenburg finds himself in
:16:23. > :16:27.tonight. Chelsea say he used inappropriate language against two
:16:27. > :16:31.of their players during yesterday's Premier League defeat by Manchester
:16:31. > :16:37.United. What is more troubling is that the alleged insults are
:16:37. > :16:43.understood to be of a racial nature. I think just like when you hear any
:16:43. > :16:46.allegations, they are upsetting. There is a shock element to them.
:16:46. > :16:50.You just want to know that they're going to be dealt with swiftly and
:16:50. > :16:55.efficiently. There was no comment from Clattenburg as he left his
:16:55. > :17:01.house today. He is one of the top three elite referees in the country.
:17:01. > :17:06.But any match official's reputation relies on setting the right example.
:17:06. > :17:13.All referees are under a code of conduct, to apply the laws of the
:17:13. > :17:17.game, to be credible, impartial, to do decent things. For the FA, the
:17:17. > :17:21.claims have presented them with another high profile and
:17:21. > :17:25.contentious inquiry into matters of race. You will struggle to find too
:17:25. > :17:29.many people these days who think English football has a deep and
:17:29. > :17:35.entrenched problem with racism. And yet again and again over the last
:17:35. > :17:39.year, this toxic issue has come to dominate the game. Just look at
:17:39. > :17:45.what has happened recently - high profile players have been found
:17:45. > :17:49.guilty of racial abuse. First, Liverpool's Luis Suarez, then
:17:49. > :17:55.Chelsea captain John Terry. Then, earlier this month, Serbian fans
:17:55. > :18:00.were accused of directing racist monkey chants at England's under-21
:18:00. > :18:04.players. And now, today's accusations against Clattenburg.
:18:04. > :18:09.His football going backwards? distressing. We have come a long
:18:09. > :18:13.way in terms of stamping out racism. I guess it will always exist to
:18:13. > :18:18.some degree. We have moved on. Having said that, you cannot let it
:18:18. > :18:22.linger. If there are in the cases of proven racism, you have to clamp
:18:22. > :18:27.down really hard on them. English football hoped it had moved on from
:18:27. > :18:31.its recent races and scandals, but the prospect of a referee being
:18:31. > :18:39.charged with racial abuse has the potential to take the issue to a
:18:39. > :18:42.new level to get there. -- a new level altogether. The
:18:42. > :18:46.Defence Secretary has reaffirmed the Government's commitment to its
:18:46. > :18:51.nuclear deterrent. He said contracts were being signed to
:18:51. > :18:56.spend a further �350 million on designing the next generation of
:18:56. > :19:00.submarines. Scotland's First Minister has pledged that an
:19:00. > :19:05.independent Scotland would make nuclear weapons illegal. A man who
:19:05. > :19:09.killed six people, including four members of his own family, has been
:19:09. > :19:15.sentenced to 30 years in prison by a court in Jersey. Damian
:19:15. > :19:21.Rzeszowski, a builder from Poland, stab his wife, his two-year-old son,
:19:21. > :19:26.five-year-old daughter and father- in-law a year ago. For several
:19:26. > :19:29.years before the outbreak of civil war, Syria was a refuge from
:19:29. > :19:34.violence for thousands of Iraqis fleeing the violence in their own
:19:35. > :19:38.country. But the conflict in Syria has changed everything, and many
:19:38. > :19:43.Iraqi families are now having to flee again, returning home to a
:19:43. > :19:47.country which is still not safe. Dozens of civilians have died this
:19:47. > :19:57.weekend alone in bomb attacks. Our correspondent Caroline Hawley
:19:57. > :20:02.reports. Once, they had queued to leave the country, but now, many
:20:02. > :20:06.families who had sought sanctuary in Syria are back in Baghdad, after
:20:06. > :20:12.escaping to save their lives for a second time. Here, they are lining
:20:12. > :20:20.up for government grants to help them start again. Stress has taken
:20:20. > :20:25.its toll on the health of Haidar Jaber. His children told me they
:20:25. > :20:31.wished Iraq was safer. With no home to come back to, the whole family
:20:31. > :20:36.is now staying with relatives. Haidar Jaber says he was forced to
:20:36. > :20:41.leave everything he had in Baghdad, when his younger brother was killed.
:20:41. > :20:45.TRANSLATION: It was the gun that ruled when I left. The Americans
:20:45. > :20:52.were here and it was chaos. Now, some things are better, some are
:20:52. > :20:55.not. The capital, Baghdad, is a city on constant guard, a city
:20:55. > :21:01.choked by checkpoints. Officials are being assassinated virtually
:21:01. > :21:05.every day. Officials also say that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is now regrouping.
:21:05. > :21:10.Hikmat al-Taie now runs his younger brother's restaurant, but after
:21:10. > :21:16.watching Hassan die in front of him, he is struggling. His much-loved
:21:16. > :21:21.brother was killed as he stood on the pavement outside. It was
:21:21. > :21:23.captured by a bystander on a mobile phone, who witnessed the bomb
:21:23. > :21:28.exploding. TRANSLATION: I cannot sleep at
:21:28. > :21:34.night, not a wink. Our family has been destroyed, especially my
:21:34. > :21:39.mother. Iraqi families are no longer cooped up at home as they
:21:39. > :21:43.were in the darkest days of the civil war. But a power-sharing
:21:43. > :21:47.agreement between Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds has led to political
:21:47. > :21:52.crisis, and sectarianism still simmers below the surface. This is
:21:52. > :21:56.one of the most popular places in the country for people from all of
:21:56. > :22:01.the different communities in Iraq to come together and relax. But
:22:01. > :22:06.this is still a deeply divided and traumatised society, and there are
:22:06. > :22:11.now fears that war in neighbouring Syria could reignite sectarian
:22:11. > :22:16.tensions here. More than 200 civilians have already been killed
:22:16. > :22:22.in violence this month, and many here mourn for the future they had
:22:22. > :22:26.hoped for. Let's have a little more on our
:22:26. > :22:29.main story tonight, the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the north-
:22:29. > :22:33.eastern coast of the United States. Experts are predicting that this
:22:33. > :22:39.storm could be bigger than anything seen in this part of the world for
:22:39. > :22:44.decades. Our correspondent explains some of the factors which have been
:22:44. > :22:49.involved. This is a view from space of the largest hurricane ever
:22:49. > :22:59.recorded in the Atlantic. It is a menacing swirler cloud 1,000 miles
:22:59. > :22:59.
:23:00. > :23:04.wide. Down on the ground, a reporter experiencing the winds,
:23:04. > :23:08.which have been picking up speed all day. Hurricane Sandy is the
:23:08. > :23:11.lowest category of hurricane, but it is extremely unusual. Hurricanes
:23:11. > :23:19.normally get weaker when they hit the coast, but this one could get
:23:19. > :23:23.stronger. Tropical storms lasting for an extended period, this means
:23:23. > :23:27.it will take a long time to clear out. Sandy is such a large
:23:27. > :23:33.hurricane. Hurricane Sandy is blanketing most of the eastern
:23:33. > :23:37.United States. This storm is on a scale which is hard to comprehend.
:23:37. > :23:42.Imagine it superimposed on a map of Europe. Centred just to the east of
:23:42. > :23:47.Paris, it would cover much of the continent, including all of the UK.
:23:47. > :23:52.It is just the size of it. The centre is out in the Atlantic, but
:23:52. > :23:57.it has already been causing significant problems for Virginia,
:23:57. > :24:02.as well as the Carolinas. It is the size, rather than the intensity,
:24:02. > :24:06.which is causing the problems at the moment. High pressure is
:24:06. > :24:10.blocking the storm from petering out in the Atlantic. This is one of
:24:10. > :24:15.the factors. Instead, the massive system is being forced up and
:24:15. > :24:21.towards the coast. There, a massive cold air from the Arctic is giving
:24:21. > :24:27.it even more energy. All of this means faster winds, 85mph recorded
:24:27. > :24:30.by a research plane, as well as storm surges, made more threatening
:24:30. > :24:35.because the tides are unusually high. The coming hours could be
:24:35. > :24:44.extremely tense. Even before the hurricane reached land, its impact
:24:44. > :24:47.was being felled with rising wind and falling trees. The high tide
:24:47. > :24:52.flooded this New Jersey town. Hurricane Sandy killed at least 60
:24:52. > :24:56.people in the Caribbean. The poorest countries are the most
:24:56. > :25:00.vulnerable to extreme weather. Now, there are sandbags in Wall Street.
:25:00. > :25:04.Not for a century has the weather forced the financial markets to
:25:04. > :25:09.close for two days running. Early- warning means the impact could be
:25:09. > :25:13.less than feared, but this highly unusual storm is yet to do its