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Large parts of northern England are inundated by flooding.

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The Government sends more troops in to help.

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In York, the two rivers running through the city burst their banks,

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leaving roads submerged and thousands of homes at risk

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Emergency teams are attempting to help hundreds of people to safety.

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Many tried to protect their homes but in vain.

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Water came so quick, before we could get anything upstairs, the water

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came in. I have been here 20 years and never anything like it.

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Some are bracing themselves for more to come -

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the river levels in this north Yorkshire village are due to peak

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We'll be live with our correspondents in the worst-affected

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after a week of storms across several US states.

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And Stuart Broad gives England the edge in Durban

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on Day 2 of the First Test against South Africa.

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Large areas of northern England remain under water after what's been

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described as unprecedented flooding, inundating homes

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and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people.

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David Cameron has pledged to do whatever is needed to help

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There are now 500 troops brought in by the Government to help -

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Across North-West England there are nearly 6,000 homes

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Electricity to half of those has now been restored. O

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Over 220 O alerts and warnings across England

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24 of them are severe - those are all shown in red -

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to travel in Cumbria, West Yorkshire and East Lancashire -

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we'll be reporting from some of the worst affected areas.

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First tonight, our correspondent Judith Moritz is in York,

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After Cumbria, it is the turn of Yorkshire.

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Another day, another down they in the grip of the floods. The people

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of York knew their city was vulnerable but no-one expected it on

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this scale. The warnings came yesterday. The call to evacuate was

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made last night but not everyone could get out easily and many had to

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Last night we started putting the be rescued.

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Last night we started putting the sandbags up and boards up but water

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came so quick, before we could even get everything upstairs the water

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came N we were stuck upstairs. But not everybody has been happy to

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leave home, despite the warnings. A lot of people want to stay in their

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houses, they are stowic about the fact it is their house. I think

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whilst the weather is good, it is a nice warm dry day, it'll be fine but

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when it goes into the evening and starts to get dark and power goes

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off and that's when people will change and priorities tend to change

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then quickly. On this road, east of the city centre, the water levels

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have been creeping up all day. Helen Rawling has a ground floor flat and

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is worried she may have to leave T I have been here 20 years and never

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seen anything like T I'm concerned the level it is getting to that it

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could potentially get into the flat and we may have to move out.

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Mountain rescue teams are helping from across the north of England and

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extra troops are being brought in, as part of a massive emergency

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effort. In York, this is the nerve centre where they are keeping track

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fted floods and of the teams out working. . It is a hugely dynamic

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situation. All driven by what is going to happen with the water

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levels which continue to be on the rise, although some uncertainty

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about what that is going to mean. We have deployed from Lancashire, where

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we were supporting what was going on there yesterday, with about 200

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troops, more on the way now. A plea has been made for an extra 5,000

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sandbags. Some flood barriers had to be lifted because the pumps were

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overwhelmed, meaning areas of York that would usually be protected,

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were left vulnerable. We have decided to deploy more military

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resources, more military personnel to help but let me say the emergency

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services have done a fantastic job and continue to do so, they deserve

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the whole nation's thanks but of course at this time of year

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particularly, we all feel huge sympathy with those who have been

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flooded and have had to leave their homes. Elsewhere in Yorkshire, Leeds

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city centre Centre has been badly flooded after the river Ayre reached

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record levels and away from the cities in euro Yorkshire, there is

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little respite either. Judith is in York now. There are

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fears there could be worse to come tomorrow. Yes, because the river

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levels are still rising and are not expected to peak until lunch time

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tomorrow. The next few hours are said to be critical. This is a city

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which is functioning, but with enormous difficulty. In the last

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couple of hours the telephone exchange has been flooded. 999 calls

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are back up now but were down briefly and the non-emergency 101

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police line has been lost. I believe there are fire crews currently

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pumping out water from one of the primary electricity substations here

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as well, fearing that power could be lost to 50,000 properties. It is

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very difficult to travel around York. The advice is not to do so,

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unless you absolutely need to get somewhere. You have to take absolute

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care. It took us several hours to get to this position here in the

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centre. Overnight, as I say, it is a critical situation. The Army are

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still working through the night. They'll continue, they say, to knock

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on doors of people's houses around the path of the river Ouse to make

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sure everybody is safe. Thank you.

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As Judith said, the flooding that's now affecting North Yorkshire

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It's been just over 24 hours since the river peaked

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in the Lancashire village of Whalley and residents there have been

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banding together to start the clearing up.

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Our correspondent Emily Unia reports from Whalley.

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Regular customers at Kelly Hughes' hairdressers have come to help.

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The door's been open, everybody all my customers have been

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great, friends, family, you know, dads of the girls who I work with,

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just everyone lending a hand and we will be back open

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But not everyone will be back to normal so quickly.

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For Hugh Shackleton, the volume of water washing down

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It's flooded before but never this badly.

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Oh, well, I have never seen anything like it before.

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It's the first time it has come up from the river.

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It's hard to believe that this was Whalley yesterday.

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As the waters rose Boxing Day festivities were abandoned

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It's now 24 hours since the river peaked here and things couldn't

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But although there is no longer water flowing through the streets,

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The great clean-up is well under way, but it may be premature.

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So scenes like this may keep returning.

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As the Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the Government's

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emergency Cobra committee, there've been questions

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about whether Britain's flood defences are adequate to cope

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with such severe flooding, with Labour accusing

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Today, ministers said they would look again

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Our Science Editor David Shukman reports.

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With rivers still rising, and more rain, a new line of defence.

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This is one of dozens of communities,

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This is an area in Lancashire. One of dozens of communities struggling

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against the floods and all too often losing. From across the country,

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these are scenes that have become painfully familiar. Sometimes

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defences do their job. But year after year, floodwaters have proved

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too much. Triggering a cycle of despair and accusation. This time,

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ministers blame a deluge that set new records. It is absolutely

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horrendous. We have seen very bad flooding right across Yorkshire and

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Lancashire. Through Calder valley, here in York where the water levels

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still haven't peaked and in Leeds. Everybody is saying that the level

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of the river is more than they have seen before. The Government is now

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promising to review the country's flood defences. What are the key

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factors involved? Top of the list is the budget for flood protection.

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Ministers have allocated ?2.3 billion over a six-year period. But

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critics say that isn't enough. Then there are choices about how land is

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used: Are farmers doing enough to hold back rain water upstream? Are

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new houses being built in vulnerable areas? And on top of this, is a

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changing climate. Warmer air can hold more moisture. That can mean

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more intense rain. The bridge at Cawood in North

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Yorkshire is under water. Time after time, reviews into flood defences

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warn that keep infrastructure must be better-protected and that call is

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being made again now. These events which we speak of, as though they

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are one-offs, we have never seen this before as the kind of words

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used. Not no longer one-offs, they are now things happening regularly

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and the country needs to think carefully about how to address the

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problems which are clearly going to be increasingly frequent in the

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future. For the moment, the focus is on battling the rising waters now.

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Yesterday in West Yorkshire a man was rescued through the roof of his

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car. It'll never be possible to keep everyone safe but the cost of this

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month's storms could top ?1.5 billion and already there are

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searching questions about whether the threat of flooding is getting

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the attention it deserves. The village of Cawood

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in North Yorkshire is one of the places badly hit,

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with rivers expected to peak in the early hours

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of tomorrow morning. Soldiers have been helping to get

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residents out of their homes and to build up the

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flood defences there. Our correspondent Dan Johnson

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is there for us now. Yes, villages along this part of the

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Ouse have been affected by this flooding, downstream of York. This

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is the road to York, the bridge that used to go across the river Ouse but

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now the river goes across the bridge. It is completely submerged.

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It has been a difficult, long day for people here and they have all

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worked very hard to keep this water back.

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The battle of Water Row has gone on all day here.

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The sandbags are coming from the far end.

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A village, plus an Army, fighting back against the floods.

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It's important that we keep everybody safe.

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Everybody digs in when we have things like this.

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We will get through it, it will be fine.

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It is on local soil, which is better for us.

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Brews on hand, tea, cakes, everything is good.

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This is a huge effort, involving the whole community,

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Everybody forming a human chain down here to get the sandbags

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They are trying to bolster this wall to keep the river Ouse out

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They think the river may have peaked but can't be sure it'll stay back.

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We have been here six months and this is all new to us.

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It is a nervous time for those whose homes are at risk.

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Our landlord phoned us this morning to make sure things were all right

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It is the worst I have seen for 50 years.

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The level of this water was a surprise even to those

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It has pushed it over on to the other side, filled,

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the ings up and filling other ings up down the system.

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That's how it is supposed to work, so it has done well.

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This is where it all goes, the river, normally a few metres'

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wide, now stretching almost a mile across, filling the floodplain.

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The concern is tomorrow it could reach further

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And the level is high here tonight and further down the river at Selby

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we have seen flooding there already. There is conflicting information

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about what exactly will happen tomorrow but the point is people

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can't be sure. So in the meantime they are weary and worried about

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what comes next. Many thanks, Dan. You can keep up to date

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with all the latest developments And that's on the BBC News

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website at bbc.co.uk/news. Three people have died and another

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person has been critically injured after being hit by

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a car in Doncaster. The four people -

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all aged in their 50s - were walking along Sutton Road

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in Askern, when they were hit. A 24-year-old man has been arrested

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on suspicion of causing death At least 11 people have died

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after a series of tornadoes ripped Witnesses say it took just seconds

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to cause the devastation - flattening homes, toppling trees

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and bringing down power lines. Our North America correspondent

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Laura Bicker reports. This is what's known

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as a tight twister. You can only see brief flashes in

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the dark as it destroys power lines. It was one of many to tear

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through Texas, with winds of over I cannot believe that this

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amount of damage was done in probably 30 seconds but it

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felt like a lifetime. By the time I could go

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inside to tell everybody to get down, the wall was shaking,

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you could feel it in your chest and as fast as it

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happened, it was gone. The devastation is

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clearer in daylight. Debris lifted by the storm

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is scattered for miles. This kind of weather

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is rare in December. These storms, across the south

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and west, have killed 29 people There are now unprecedented

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snowfalls in New Mexico and Texas. Whiteout conditions have closed some

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highways and there are warnings More than 150,000 people have been

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forced to evacuate vast areas of Argentina, Uruguay,

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Brazil and Paraguay, where a state of emergency

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has been declared. The Iraqi army claims it has taken

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control of a key government compound in the centre of Ramadi,

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where militants from group have been resisting

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an army offensive. The government has been trying

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to re-capture the city, Cricket now - and Stuart Broad took

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three wickets for 16 runs to give England the edge on the second day

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of the first Test against South The hosts finished the second

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day in Durban on 137-4, in reply to England's first

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innings score of 303. On one of the world's

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windiest cricket grounds, England's first innings

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could have gone better. Ducks for Ali and Woakes

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after Compton's 85. England made 303, then

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their turn to bowl. Facing the second ball in

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the breeze, South Africa's Van Zeyl Dealing with flying objects

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is a wicket-keeper's job. Jonny Bairstow had dropped Amla

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on two, grabbed him on seven. England desperately

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wanted AB de Villiers, Umpire's called for a replay,

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deciding it touched And with Elgar composed

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at the other end, England needed In the Scottish Premiership,

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Celtic have moved a point clear of Aberdeen at the top of the table

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after a dramatic 2-2draw for the win, but Osman Sow's

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stunning free kick in injury time Just before we go, a Briton has

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become the first person to row non-stop and solo

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across the Pacific Ocean. John Beeden six months to row

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from San Francisco in the US crossed the Atlantic -

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says he's delighted You can see more on all of today's

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stories on the BBC News Channel. That's all from me,

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stay with us on BBC1, it's time for the news where you

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are.

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