:00:08. > :00:11.Large parts of northern England are inundated by flooding.
:00:12. > :00:14.The Government sends more troops in to help.
:00:15. > :00:18.In York, the two rivers running through the city burst their banks,
:00:19. > :00:20.leaving roads submerged and thousands of homes at risk
:00:21. > :00:28.Emergency teams are attempting to help hundreds of people to safety.
:00:29. > :00:32.Many tried to protect their homes but in vain.
:00:33. > :00:39.Water came so quick, before we could get anything upstairs, the water
:00:40. > :00:43.came in. I have been here 20 years and never anything like it.
:00:44. > :00:45.Some are bracing themselves for more to come -
:00:46. > :00:47.the river levels in this north Yorkshire village are due to peak
:00:48. > :00:51.We'll be live with our correspondents in the worst-affected
:00:52. > :01:10.after a week of storms across several US states.
:01:11. > :01:13.And Stuart Broad gives England the edge in Durban
:01:14. > :01:22.on Day 2 of the First Test against South Africa.
:01:23. > :01:30.Large areas of northern England remain under water after what's been
:01:31. > :01:33.described as unprecedented flooding, inundating homes
:01:34. > :01:36.and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people.
:01:37. > :01:38.David Cameron has pledged to do whatever is needed to help
:01:39. > :01:43.There are now 500 troops brought in by the Government to help -
:01:44. > :01:48.Across North-West England there are nearly 6,000 homes
:01:49. > :02:01.Electricity to half of those has now been restored. O
:02:02. > :02:04.Over 220 O alerts and warnings across England
:02:05. > :02:10.24 of them are severe - those are all shown in red -
:02:11. > :02:17.to travel in Cumbria, West Yorkshire and East Lancashire -
:02:18. > :02:19.we'll be reporting from some of the worst affected areas.
:02:20. > :02:23.First tonight, our correspondent Judith Moritz is in York,
:02:24. > :02:27.After Cumbria, it is the turn of Yorkshire.
:02:28. > :02:33.Another day, another down they in the grip of the floods. The people
:02:34. > :02:36.of York knew their city was vulnerable but no-one expected it on
:02:37. > :02:41.this scale. The warnings came yesterday. The call to evacuate was
:02:42. > :02:44.made last night but not everyone could get out easily and many had to
:02:45. > :02:55.Last night we started putting the be rescued.
:02:56. > :03:01.Last night we started putting the sandbags up and boards up but water
:03:02. > :03:05.came so quick, before we could even get everything upstairs the water
:03:06. > :03:08.came N we were stuck upstairs. But not everybody has been happy to
:03:09. > :03:12.leave home, despite the warnings. A lot of people want to stay in their
:03:13. > :03:17.houses, they are stowic about the fact it is their house. I think
:03:18. > :03:22.whilst the weather is good, it is a nice warm dry day, it'll be fine but
:03:23. > :03:25.when it goes into the evening and starts to get dark and power goes
:03:26. > :03:29.off and that's when people will change and priorities tend to change
:03:30. > :03:34.then quickly. On this road, east of the city centre, the water levels
:03:35. > :03:39.have been creeping up all day. Helen Rawling has a ground floor flat and
:03:40. > :03:43.is worried she may have to leave T I have been here 20 years and never
:03:44. > :03:48.seen anything like T I'm concerned the level it is getting to that it
:03:49. > :03:52.could potentially get into the flat and we may have to move out.
:03:53. > :03:55.Mountain rescue teams are helping from across the north of England and
:03:56. > :03:59.extra troops are being brought in, as part of a massive emergency
:04:00. > :04:02.effort. In York, this is the nerve centre where they are keeping track
:04:03. > :04:06.fted floods and of the teams out working. . It is a hugely dynamic
:04:07. > :04:11.situation. All driven by what is going to happen with the water
:04:12. > :04:14.levels which continue to be on the rise, although some uncertainty
:04:15. > :04:18.about what that is going to mean. We have deployed from Lancashire, where
:04:19. > :04:22.we were supporting what was going on there yesterday, with about 200
:04:23. > :04:27.troops, more on the way now. A plea has been made for an extra 5,000
:04:28. > :04:32.sandbags. Some flood barriers had to be lifted because the pumps were
:04:33. > :04:37.overwhelmed, meaning areas of York that would usually be protected,
:04:38. > :04:41.were left vulnerable. We have decided to deploy more military
:04:42. > :04:45.resources, more military personnel to help but let me say the emergency
:04:46. > :04:49.services have done a fantastic job and continue to do so, they deserve
:04:50. > :04:52.the whole nation's thanks but of course at this time of year
:04:53. > :04:56.particularly, we all feel huge sympathy with those who have been
:04:57. > :05:01.flooded and have had to leave their homes. Elsewhere in Yorkshire, Leeds
:05:02. > :05:05.city centre Centre has been badly flooded after the river Ayre reached
:05:06. > :05:07.record levels and away from the cities in euro Yorkshire, there is
:05:08. > :05:18.little respite either. Judith is in York now. There are
:05:19. > :05:22.fears there could be worse to come tomorrow. Yes, because the river
:05:23. > :05:25.levels are still rising and are not expected to peak until lunch time
:05:26. > :05:29.tomorrow. The next few hours are said to be critical. This is a city
:05:30. > :05:32.which is functioning, but with enormous difficulty. In the last
:05:33. > :05:38.couple of hours the telephone exchange has been flooded. 999 calls
:05:39. > :05:42.are back up now but were down briefly and the non-emergency 101
:05:43. > :05:46.police line has been lost. I believe there are fire crews currently
:05:47. > :05:50.pumping out water from one of the primary electricity substations here
:05:51. > :05:53.as well, fearing that power could be lost to 50,000 properties. It is
:05:54. > :05:57.very difficult to travel around York. The advice is not to do so,
:05:58. > :06:01.unless you absolutely need to get somewhere. You have to take absolute
:06:02. > :06:05.care. It took us several hours to get to this position here in the
:06:06. > :06:09.centre. Overnight, as I say, it is a critical situation. The Army are
:06:10. > :06:12.still working through the night. They'll continue, they say, to knock
:06:13. > :06:16.on doors of people's houses around the path of the river Ouse to make
:06:17. > :06:21.sure everybody is safe. Thank you.
:06:22. > :06:24.As Judith said, the flooding that's now affecting North Yorkshire
:06:25. > :06:29.It's been just over 24 hours since the river peaked
:06:30. > :06:31.in the Lancashire village of Whalley and residents there have been
:06:32. > :06:34.banding together to start the clearing up.
:06:35. > :06:40.Our correspondent Emily Unia reports from Whalley.
:06:41. > :06:52.Regular customers at Kelly Hughes' hairdressers have come to help.
:06:53. > :06:57.The door's been open, everybody all my customers have been
:06:58. > :06:59.great, friends, family, you know, dads of the girls who I work with,
:07:00. > :07:02.just everyone lending a hand and we will be back open
:07:03. > :07:06.But not everyone will be back to normal so quickly.
:07:07. > :07:08.For Hugh Shackleton, the volume of water washing down
:07:09. > :07:19.It's flooded before but never this badly.
:07:20. > :07:25.Oh, well, I have never seen anything like it before.
:07:26. > :07:32.It's the first time it has come up from the river.
:07:33. > :07:36.It's hard to believe that this was Whalley yesterday.
:07:37. > :07:39.As the waters rose Boxing Day festivities were abandoned
:07:40. > :07:46.It's now 24 hours since the river peaked here and things couldn't
:07:47. > :07:53.But although there is no longer water flowing through the streets,
:07:54. > :07:58.The great clean-up is well under way, but it may be premature.
:07:59. > :08:14.So scenes like this may keep returning.
:08:15. > :08:16.As the Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the Government's
:08:17. > :08:19.emergency Cobra committee, there've been questions
:08:20. > :08:21.about whether Britain's flood defences are adequate to cope
:08:22. > :08:23.with such severe flooding, with Labour accusing
:08:24. > :08:27.Today, ministers said they would look again
:08:28. > :08:31.Our Science Editor David Shukman reports.
:08:32. > :08:33.With rivers still rising, and more rain, a new line of defence.
:08:34. > :08:39.This is one of dozens of communities,
:08:40. > :08:45.This is an area in Lancashire. One of dozens of communities struggling
:08:46. > :08:49.against the floods and all too often losing. From across the country,
:08:50. > :08:52.these are scenes that have become painfully familiar. Sometimes
:08:53. > :08:56.defences do their job. But year after year, floodwaters have proved
:08:57. > :09:01.too much. Triggering a cycle of despair and accusation. This time,
:09:02. > :09:07.ministers blame a deluge that set new records. It is absolutely
:09:08. > :09:12.horrendous. We have seen very bad flooding right across Yorkshire and
:09:13. > :09:16.Lancashire. Through Calder valley, here in York where the water levels
:09:17. > :09:21.still haven't peaked and in Leeds. Everybody is saying that the level
:09:22. > :09:24.of the river is more than they have seen before. The Government is now
:09:25. > :09:27.promising to review the country's flood defences. What are the key
:09:28. > :09:33.factors involved? Top of the list is the budget for flood protection.
:09:34. > :09:36.Ministers have allocated ?2.3 billion over a six-year period. But
:09:37. > :09:42.critics say that isn't enough. Then there are choices about how land is
:09:43. > :09:46.used: Are farmers doing enough to hold back rain water upstream? Are
:09:47. > :09:52.new houses being built in vulnerable areas? And on top of this, is a
:09:53. > :09:56.changing climate. Warmer air can hold more moisture. That can mean
:09:57. > :10:02.more intense rain. The bridge at Cawood in North
:10:03. > :10:06.Yorkshire is under water. Time after time, reviews into flood defences
:10:07. > :10:11.warn that keep infrastructure must be better-protected and that call is
:10:12. > :10:16.being made again now. These events which we speak of, as though they
:10:17. > :10:21.are one-offs, we have never seen this before as the kind of words
:10:22. > :10:24.used. Not no longer one-offs, they are now things happening regularly
:10:25. > :10:28.and the country needs to think carefully about how to address the
:10:29. > :10:32.problems which are clearly going to be increasingly frequent in the
:10:33. > :10:36.future. For the moment, the focus is on battling the rising waters now.
:10:37. > :10:42.Yesterday in West Yorkshire a man was rescued through the roof of his
:10:43. > :10:47.car. It'll never be possible to keep everyone safe but the cost of this
:10:48. > :10:49.month's storms could top ?1.5 billion and already there are
:10:50. > :10:51.searching questions about whether the threat of flooding is getting
:10:52. > :10:57.the attention it deserves. The village of Cawood
:10:58. > :11:00.in North Yorkshire is one of the places badly hit,
:11:01. > :11:02.with rivers expected to peak in the early hours
:11:03. > :11:04.of tomorrow morning. Soldiers have been helping to get
:11:05. > :11:06.residents out of their homes and to build up the
:11:07. > :11:09.flood defences there. Our correspondent Dan Johnson
:11:10. > :11:18.is there for us now. Yes, villages along this part of the
:11:19. > :11:22.Ouse have been affected by this flooding, downstream of York. This
:11:23. > :11:27.is the road to York, the bridge that used to go across the river Ouse but
:11:28. > :11:29.now the river goes across the bridge. It is completely submerged.
:11:30. > :11:33.It has been a difficult, long day for people here and they have all
:11:34. > :11:36.worked very hard to keep this water back.
:11:37. > :11:38.The battle of Water Row has gone on all day here.
:11:39. > :11:40.The sandbags are coming from the far end.
:11:41. > :11:45.A village, plus an Army, fighting back against the floods.
:11:46. > :11:47.It's important that we keep everybody safe.
:11:48. > :11:59.Everybody digs in when we have things like this.
:12:00. > :12:01.We will get through it, it will be fine.
:12:02. > :12:03.It is on local soil, which is better for us.
:12:04. > :12:10.Brews on hand, tea, cakes, everything is good.
:12:11. > :12:12.This is a huge effort, involving the whole community,
:12:13. > :12:16.Everybody forming a human chain down here to get the sandbags
:12:17. > :12:21.They are trying to bolster this wall to keep the river Ouse out
:12:22. > :12:39.They think the river may have peaked but can't be sure it'll stay back.
:12:40. > :12:42.We have been here six months and this is all new to us.
:12:43. > :12:45.It is a nervous time for those whose homes are at risk.
:12:46. > :12:53.Our landlord phoned us this morning to make sure things were all right
:12:54. > :12:57.It is the worst I have seen for 50 years.
:12:58. > :12:59.The level of this water was a surprise even to those
:13:00. > :13:06.It has pushed it over on to the other side, filled,
:13:07. > :13:08.the ings up and filling other ings up down the system.
:13:09. > :13:10.That's how it is supposed to work, so it has done well.
:13:11. > :13:13.This is where it all goes, the river, normally a few metres'
:13:14. > :13:15.wide, now stretching almost a mile across, filling the floodplain.
:13:16. > :13:20.The concern is tomorrow it could reach further
:13:21. > :13:26.And the level is high here tonight and further down the river at Selby
:13:27. > :13:29.we have seen flooding there already. There is conflicting information
:13:30. > :13:32.about what exactly will happen tomorrow but the point is people
:13:33. > :13:34.can't be sure. So in the meantime they are weary and worried about
:13:35. > :13:40.what comes next. Many thanks, Dan. You can keep up to date
:13:41. > :13:42.with all the latest developments And that's on the BBC News
:13:43. > :13:48.website at bbc.co.uk/news. Three people have died and another
:13:49. > :14:02.person has been critically injured after being hit by
:14:03. > :14:04.a car in Doncaster. The four people -
:14:05. > :14:07.all aged in their 50s - were walking along Sutton Road
:14:08. > :14:09.in Askern, when they were hit. A 24-year-old man has been arrested
:14:10. > :14:12.on suspicion of causing death At least 11 people have died
:14:13. > :14:16.after a series of tornadoes ripped Witnesses say it took just seconds
:14:17. > :14:20.to cause the devastation - flattening homes, toppling trees
:14:21. > :14:22.and bringing down power lines. Our North America correspondent
:14:23. > :14:24.Laura Bicker reports. This is what's known
:14:25. > :14:33.as a tight twister. You can only see brief flashes in
:14:34. > :14:36.the dark as it destroys power lines. It was one of many to tear
:14:37. > :14:45.through Texas, with winds of over I cannot believe that this
:14:46. > :14:50.amount of damage was done in probably 30 seconds but it
:14:51. > :14:53.felt like a lifetime. By the time I could go
:14:54. > :14:59.inside to tell everybody to get down, the wall was shaking,
:15:00. > :15:01.you could feel it in your chest and as fast as it
:15:02. > :15:03.happened, it was gone. The devastation is
:15:04. > :15:05.clearer in daylight. Debris lifted by the storm
:15:06. > :15:13.is scattered for miles. This kind of weather
:15:14. > :15:17.is rare in December. These storms, across the south
:15:18. > :15:21.and west, have killed 29 people There are now unprecedented
:15:22. > :15:29.snowfalls in New Mexico and Texas. Whiteout conditions have closed some
:15:30. > :15:32.highways and there are warnings More than 150,000 people have been
:15:33. > :15:47.forced to evacuate vast areas of Argentina, Uruguay,
:15:48. > :15:50.Brazil and Paraguay, where a state of emergency
:15:51. > :15:56.has been declared. The Iraqi army claims it has taken
:15:57. > :15:59.control of a key government compound in the centre of Ramadi,
:16:00. > :16:01.where militants from group have been resisting
:16:02. > :16:05.an army offensive. The government has been trying
:16:06. > :16:07.to re-capture the city, Cricket now - and Stuart Broad took
:16:08. > :16:15.three wickets for 16 runs to give England the edge on the second day
:16:16. > :16:18.of the first Test against South The hosts finished the second
:16:19. > :16:22.day in Durban on 137-4, in reply to England's first
:16:23. > :16:24.innings score of 303. On one of the world's
:16:25. > :16:31.windiest cricket grounds, England's first innings
:16:32. > :16:41.could have gone better. Ducks for Ali and Woakes
:16:42. > :16:43.after Compton's 85. England made 303, then
:16:44. > :16:47.their turn to bowl. Facing the second ball in
:16:48. > :17:04.the breeze, South Africa's Van Zeyl Dealing with flying objects
:17:05. > :17:08.is a wicket-keeper's job. Jonny Bairstow had dropped Amla
:17:09. > :17:10.on two, grabbed him on seven. England desperately
:17:11. > :17:17.wanted AB de Villiers, Umpire's called for a replay,
:17:18. > :17:27.deciding it touched And with Elgar composed
:17:28. > :17:35.at the other end, England needed In the Scottish Premiership,
:17:36. > :17:51.Celtic have moved a point clear of Aberdeen at the top of the table
:17:52. > :17:58.after a dramatic 2-2draw for the win, but Osman Sow's
:17:59. > :18:05.stunning free kick in injury time Just before we go, a Briton has
:18:06. > :18:12.become the first person to row non-stop and solo
:18:13. > :18:14.across the Pacific Ocean. John Beeden six months to row
:18:15. > :18:18.from San Francisco in the US crossed the Atlantic -
:18:19. > :18:24.says he's delighted You can see more on all of today's
:18:25. > :18:28.stories on the BBC News Channel. That's all from me,
:18:29. > :18:30.stay with us on BBC1, it's time for the news where you
:18:31. > :18:34.are.