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