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Tonight at 10 o'clock: Millions of Americans are braced for the

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imminent arrival of Hurricane Sandy. It is drawing ever closer to the

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eastern seaboard, sending huge waves to batter coastal defences.

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This is going to be a slow-moving process through a wide swathe of

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the country. Millions of people are going to be affected. Experts are

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warning of storm surges of more than three metres. Thousands of

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people have been moved from their homes to safety. We were here for

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the last storm but this one is supposed to be three times as bad

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so I am a little bit concerned. have a ton of food upstairs which

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is non-perishable it so that if the refrigerated goes out we can eat.

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The authorities say the 1000 miles storm is a catastrophic event.

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It is also affecting the closing stages of the presidential campaign.

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Vulnerable adults are still at risk in some care homes according to a

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new BBC investigation. And how Jimmy Savile was barred

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from Children In Need according to a former charity boss.

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Returning home to troubled Iraq, the refugees who had once found

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safety in Syria. I and the Premier League referee

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who now finds his own conduct under formal investigation.

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Coming up in Sportsday: The latest cyclist to leave Team Sky after

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admitting to taking performance- enhancing drugs earlier in his

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Good evening. Millions of people along the north-eastern coast of

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the United States are bracing themselves for the arrival of

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Hurricane Sandy within the next couple of hours. Barack Obama has

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warned of days of disruption and chaos to come. Many people have

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been moved from their homes in low- lying areas and there are some

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reports of flooding in New York City, where we can join our

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correspondent laura Trevelyan for the latest.

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Hurricane Sandy is about to make landfall in southern New Jersey, a

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company to buy life threatening storm surge and hurricane force

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winds. -- a a company to buy. Manhattan is going to become an

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island once again. The wind and rain grow stronger

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tonight and only the most dedicated of storm chasers are still on the

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streets. It is a historic event. I had to come and see this so I can

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at least look at it, you know. Right now we are not in the eye of

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the storm. It is supposedly 12 hours away. So far it is pretty

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safe here. The worst of the storm is not here yet, but the conditions

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are dramatic and they are deteriorating by the second. The

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water levels are rising and the winds of very strong indeed. In

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midtown Manhattan, a crane dangled perilously. An ominous indicator of

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what could be to come. The centre of the storm is going to hit land

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for some time this evening. Because of the nature of this storm, we are

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certain this is going to be a slow- moving process through a wide

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swathe of the country. Millions of people are going to be affected.

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has been eerily quiet in Manhattan, utterly unlike the average Monday.

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The city is shuttered and the subway is closed even Wall Street

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is deserted. The trading floor is empty, the first unplanned closing

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since the 9/11 attacks. Turn it down at the wall and then you can

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spray. This family in Brooklyn, like so many others, are preparing

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for the long night to come. If we get a lot of water in the backyard,

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it could go over that sill, so we are going to Sandbach that. -- sand

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bag. We have a ton of food, mostly non-perishable so that we can eat

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if the refrigerator goes up. In New Jersey, Atlantic City is being

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beaten by the waves. Of the North Carolina coast, teenagers rescued

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from the HMS Bounty. Newport's airport is closed with thousands of

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flights cancelled, causing chaos for money. This family from

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Cornwall do not know when they can get home. It was not on our radar

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when we left home. We were concerned that we would be delayed

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later in the week. We are really quite anxious, really. We would

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have preferred to come at a different time. This storm is

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unprecedented. A want of a generation event with the potential

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to kill and flatten. -- once in a generation event. The impact is yet

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to be felt. Tell us about the conditions in New

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York tonight. Well, it is very wet, as you can see. It is very windy.

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They are getting stronger by the second. The real concern is the

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rising sea level behind me in the New York harbour. You can see the

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light of Manhattan coming on tonight. In three hours, it will be

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a high-tide, higher than usual because of the full moon. That is

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when the impact of the storm will be felt. There could be a storm

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surge in the harbour, maybe up to 11 ft, which could cause widespread

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flooding in the southern tip of Manhattan, behind me. I am standing

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in an evacuation zone and it could knock out the subway and take out

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the power in the electricity sub- stations. For historic reasons they

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are just behind in -- behind me in lower Manhattan. The city is

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waiting for whatever the storm could bring. Thank you.

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The final week of campaigning in the US presidential election has of

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course been heavily affected by this weather crisis. The rival

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camps are having to change tack and improvise a little. Mark Mardell is

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in Florida, where Barack Obama had been due to address a rally this

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evening. Barack Obama had been looking forward to the rally when

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he arrived in Florida last night but this storm is pulling politics

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out of shape. By the morning he was back in wind lashed Washington with

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his campaigning cancelled. His team claimed he was not bothered about

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how it would look, because it was about his responsibilities. But

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this is a critical political moment eight days away from polling.

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not worried about the effect on the election. I am worried about the

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impact on families and on our first responders. I am worried about the

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impact on our economy and transportation. The election will

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take care of itself next week. President abandoned this rally in

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Orlando but it went on without him. It was designed to define the last

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vital for week of campaigning with a double blast of President's past

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and present. He said Bill Clinton had to explain the absence of the

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President. We planned this whole rally and he called me and said he

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had to go back. He said it is going to be worse than we thought and it

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is going to hit South of where we thought. Keep your fingers crossed

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for your fellow Americans today. made the case that most American TV

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networks had pulled out with the President. Vote for the man with a

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plan, Barack Obama. This is a reminder that politics will not

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stop and the vital swing states away from the East Coast. It will

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go on at a local level. But national campaigning will be frozen

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for a while. Mitt Romney went ahead with one last rally in Ohio but has

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cancelled events planned for tonight and tomorrow at of

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sensitivity for those in the path of the store. -- out of sensitivity.

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They are enduring difficult times and our hearts and prayers go out

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to them. A huge amount of money has been spent by both sides on

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campaign ads this week. Millions more may yet see them are trapped -

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- because they are trapped at home by the storm. At least until the

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power goes up. Leadership in this crisis goes to the very heart of

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what the crisis is about. Can we really believe that campaigning can

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be frozen, the word you used in that report, in this tightly fought

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campaign? I think it will be, for the main candidates. Mitt Romney

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and Barack Obama, for a few days, they will be on hold. Local

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campaigning, because there are elections to Congress, will go on.

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The vital business of getting people to the polls will go on. I

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think politics steps up to a higher level. When you think about it,

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this is what a presidential election is all about. The

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Americans are looking for a man that can lead them at a time of

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crisis and speak for the nation and to the nation. I think it is

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inevitable that Mitt Romney gets shoved to the side of the stage for

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a while and then Barack Obama gets the spotlight. It is a moment of

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opportunity but also great danger. A lot depends on how he performs.

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The people I have spoken to are still not decided at this late

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moment. They are not talking about it tax and the economy, they are

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talking about character. This is a critical few days for the election.

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Thank you. We will have more from America and the hurricane later on

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in the programme. A new BBC investigation into the

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abuse of patients in care homes has found that vulnerable adults are

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still being put at risk despite the high-profile case of the

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Winterbourne View private hospital in Bristol. Staff that assaulted

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patients there were jailed last week. Panorama has shown that 19 of

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the patients moved from the centre have been the subject of the so

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cutting alerts, as they are called. This -- safeguarding alerts. This

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report contains distressing images. Only 18 at the time, so men was one

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of the patients at Winterbourne View he was filled suffering

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shocking abuse. -- Simone, who was filmed. In 2011, she was moved to

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another hospital. Four months ago, her parents got a letter saying

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there was an alert over her care at the new place. All they know is

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that there was an investigation into how the staff dealt with their

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daughter one day when she was upset. Disciplinary action has been taken.

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It is not the same as Winterbourne View, but she has still gone

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through a restrained, or whatever, but it is still wrong. She is not

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the only Winterbourne View patient to have a safety alert in the new

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facility. 51 patients with challenging behaviour spend time at

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the hospital. NHS figures obtained by Panorama have shown that at

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least 19 have had new concerns raised since leaving. Not all will

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have been harmed, but we know of one assault and criminal

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investigation into the treatment of a second patient. Winterbourne View

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is long closed and its then owners have made major changes elsewhere.

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The Government wants the whole care sector to learn. The Prime Minister

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has called it a national scandal that people spend so long in these

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institutions. He says everybody has responsibility for protecting

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patients. What about the accountability of the Board of

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Directors, who recklessly neglect what is happening in hospitals that

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they are responsible for? They have to be responsible as well for what

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happens and I am determined to make sure that our response is robust.

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Simon was also abused at Winterbourne View. He is now doing

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well, living with support near his family. But he spent three years in

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different hospitals. His mother believes that should never have

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happened. The world needs to see what happened to Simon and the

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others so that people do not ever forget that that is how we treat

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people who have learning disabilities and cannot fight their

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own battles. Next month, the Government is due to detail the

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improvements they want in England for people like Simon. Wales,

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Scotland and Northern Ireland have also looked at strengthening

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Dame Janet Smith has started her inquiry into the BBC, during the

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time that Jimmy Savile was there. Today, it has emerged that Jimmy

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Savile had been barred from any involvement with Children In Need.

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Back in the 1980s, Jimmy Savile appeared once or twice on Children

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In Need. But a few years later, he was banned. Quietly, behind the

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scenes, the chairman of Children In Need had decided to keep him away.

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There were rumours, suspicions. Some of the staff on Children In

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Need were apprehensive. Words were used, and it was very important for

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me to support the staff of Children In Need. It is a wonderful charity.

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So, there were doubts about Savile in the BBC years ago. Have the

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revelations damaged the reputation of the corporation? New research

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suggests there has been a decline. BBC Radio 5 Live did a poll which

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ask two questions, is the BBC Trust were the, and are you proud of it?

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On both questions, the BBC had taken a knock. These are the people

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in charge of trying to get at the truth. Dame Janet Smith was

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beginning work today on an inquiry to look back at the Jimmy Savile

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time at the BBC. Nick Pollard is investigating the handling of a

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Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile which was dropped last year.

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The BBC, the police and many others knew something. Together, they

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might have seen that there was a pattern. Coming up tonight - we

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explore the factors driving Hurricane Sandy.

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The Football Association has started an investigation into the

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conduct of Mark Clattenburg, the referee in charge of yesterday's

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match between Chelsea and Manchester United. Chelsea have

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claimed that Mr Clattenburg used inappropriate language to tingle of

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their players. The BBC has been told that part of the complaint

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relates to the use of alleged racial language. Referees are used

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to being the target of abuse, but rarely do they find themselves

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accused of insulting the players they are supposed to officiate.

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That is the position Mark Clattenburg finds himself in

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tonight. Chelsea say he used inappropriate language against two

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of their players during yesterday's Premier League defeat by Manchester

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United. What is more troubling is that the alleged insults are

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understood to be of a racial nature. I think just like when you hear any

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allegations, they are upsetting. There is a shock element to them.

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You just want to know that they're going to be dealt with swiftly and

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efficiently. There was no comment from Clattenburg as he left his

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house today. He is one of the top three elite referees in the country.

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But any match official's reputation relies on setting the right example.

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All referees are under a code of conduct, to apply the laws of the

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game, to be credible, impartial, to do decent things. For the FA, the

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claims have presented them with another high profile and

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contentious inquiry into matters of race. You will struggle to find too

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many people these days who think English football has a deep and

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entrenched problem with racism. And yet again and again over the last

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year, this toxic issue has come to dominate the game. Just look at

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what has happened recently - high profile players have been found

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guilty of racial abuse. First, Liverpool's Luis Suarez, then

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Chelsea captain John Terry. Then, earlier this month, Serbian fans

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were accused of directing racist monkey chants at England's under-21

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players. And now, today's accusations against Clattenburg.

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His football going backwards? distressing. We have come a long

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way in terms of stamping out racism. I guess it will always exist to

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some degree. We have moved on. Having said that, you cannot let it

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linger. If there are in the cases of proven racism, you have to clamp

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down really hard on them. English football hoped it had moved on from

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its recent races and scandals, but the prospect of a referee being

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charged with racial abuse has the potential to take the issue to a

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new level to get there. -- a new level altogether. The

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Defence Secretary has reaffirmed the Government's commitment to its

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nuclear deterrent. He said contracts were being signed to

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spend a further �350 million on designing the next generation of

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submarines. Scotland's First Minister has pledged that an

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independent Scotland would make nuclear weapons illegal. A man who

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killed six people, including four members of his own family, has been

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sentenced to 30 years in prison by a court in Jersey. Damian

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Rzeszowski, a builder from Poland, stab his wife, his two-year-old son,

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five-year-old daughter and father- in-law a year ago. For several

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years before the outbreak of civil war, Syria was a refuge from

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violence for thousands of Iraqis fleeing the violence in their own

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country. But the conflict in Syria has changed everything, and many

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Iraqi families are now having to flee again, returning home to a

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country which is still not safe. Dozens of civilians have died this

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weekend alone in bomb attacks. Our correspondent Caroline Hawley

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reports. Once, they had queued to leave the country, but now, many

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families who had sought sanctuary in Syria are back in Baghdad, after

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escaping to save their lives for a second time. Here, they are lining

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up for government grants to help them start again. Stress has taken

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its toll on the health of Haidar Jaber. His children told me they

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wished Iraq was safer. With no home to come back to, the whole family

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is now staying with relatives. Haidar Jaber says he was forced to

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leave everything he had in Baghdad, when his younger brother was killed.

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TRANSLATION: It was the gun that ruled when I left. The Americans

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were here and it was chaos. Now, some things are better, some are

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not. The capital, Baghdad, is a city on constant guard, a city

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choked by checkpoints. Officials are being assassinated virtually

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every day. Officials also say that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is now regrouping.

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Hikmat al-Taie now runs his younger brother's restaurant, but after

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watching Hassan die in front of him, he is struggling. His much-loved

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brother was killed as he stood on the pavement outside. It was

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captured by a bystander on a mobile phone, who witnessed the bomb

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exploding. TRANSLATION: I cannot sleep at

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night, not a wink. Our family has been destroyed, especially my

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mother. Iraqi families are no longer cooped up at home as they

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were in the darkest days of the civil war. But a power-sharing

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agreement between Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds has led to political

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crisis, and sectarianism still simmers below the surface. This is

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one of the most popular places in the country for people from all of

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the different communities in Iraq to come together and relax. But

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this is still a deeply divided and traumatised society, and there are

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now fears that war in neighbouring Syria could reignite sectarian

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tensions here. More than 200 civilians have already been killed

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in violence this month, and many here mourn for the future they had

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hoped for. Let's have a little more on our

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main story tonight, the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the north-

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eastern coast of the United States. Experts are predicting that this

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storm could be bigger than anything seen in this part of the world for

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decades. Our correspondent explains some of the factors which have been

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involved. This is a view from space of the largest hurricane ever

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recorded in the Atlantic. It is a menacing swirler cloud 1,000 miles

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wide. Down on the ground, a reporter experiencing the winds,

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which have been picking up speed all day. Hurricane Sandy is the

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lowest category of hurricane, but it is extremely unusual. Hurricanes

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normally get weaker when they hit the coast, but this one could get

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stronger. Tropical storms lasting for an extended period, this means

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it will take a long time to clear out. Sandy is such a large

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hurricane. Hurricane Sandy is blanketing most of the eastern

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United States. This storm is on a scale which is hard to comprehend.

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Imagine it superimposed on a map of Europe. Centred just to the east of

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Paris, it would cover much of the continent, including all of the UK.

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It is just the size of it. The centre is out in the Atlantic, but

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it has already been causing significant problems for Virginia,

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as well as the Carolinas. It is the size, rather than the intensity,

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which is causing the problems at the moment. High pressure is

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blocking the storm from petering out in the Atlantic. This is one of

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the factors. Instead, the massive system is being forced up and

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towards the coast. There, a massive cold air from the Arctic is giving

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it even more energy. All of this means faster winds, 85mph recorded

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by a research plane, as well as storm surges, made more threatening

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because the tides are unusually high. The coming hours could be

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extremely tense. Even before the hurricane reached land, its impact

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was being felled with rising wind and falling trees. The high tide

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flooded this New Jersey town. Hurricane Sandy killed at least 60

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people in the Caribbean. The poorest countries are the most

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vulnerable to extreme weather. Now, there are sandbags in Wall Street.

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Not for a century has the weather forced the financial markets to

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close for two days running. Early- warning means the impact could be

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less than feared, but this highly unusual storm is yet to do its

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