:00:00. > 3:59:59Much more throughout the evening on the BBC News channel. We are
:00:00. > :00:00.the wettest December 4/100 years. Low pressure I
:00:00. > :00:22.Good evening. I'm Alice Bhandhukravi. A seven`year`old boy
:00:23. > :00:26.has died after he two adults became ill at a house in Chertsey which has
:00:27. > :00:29.been badly affected by flooding It comes as water levels continue to
:00:30. > :00:32.rise in London and the Home Counties, with parts of Surrey and
:00:33. > :00:37.Berkshire particularly badly affected. Here is Emma North.
:00:38. > :00:42.There is still no clear idea of what happened on this house in a street
:00:43. > :00:48.in Chertsey last night, yards from a fast flowing Thames. Amylin screws
:00:49. > :00:52.were called at around `` ambulance crews were called at about 3:30pm,
:00:53. > :00:56.where a mother, father and seven`year`old boy had been taken
:00:57. > :01:00.ill. The bridge has been closed since yesterday afternoon because of
:01:01. > :01:03.flooding, so when ambulance crews arrived in the early hours of the
:01:04. > :01:07.morning they had difficulty getting to their destination. The little boy
:01:08. > :01:11.died later in hospital. His parents are still seriously ill and 15 other
:01:12. > :01:16.people including some police were treated in hospital. With so many
:01:17. > :01:20.affected and the source of field is not yet established, the whole
:01:21. > :01:24.street remained sealed off. The police say they can't rule out that
:01:25. > :01:28.what happened here may be linked to the flooding. More wind and more
:01:29. > :01:31.rain is on the way. By mid`morning this morning on the other side of
:01:32. > :01:35.Chertsey, people were wondering how much worse things could get and who
:01:36. > :01:40.they could rely on when the waters rise again. There seems to be a lack
:01:41. > :01:46.of coordination between the authorities. We don't have a direct
:01:47. > :01:50.telephone number that we can phone up and get all our problems
:01:51. > :01:56.resolved. We need, there needs to be more coordination between the
:01:57. > :02:00.various authorities such as EDF Thames Water and Runnymede Council.
:02:01. > :02:06.The local MP and Defence Secretary agreed lessons need to be learned.
:02:07. > :02:12.What will be necessary is to make sure that in future we have a single
:02:13. > :02:15.lead public agency, it could be the local authority, it could be the
:02:16. > :02:19.police, it could be the county council. All of these services are
:02:20. > :02:23.bracing themselves as the bad weather returns tonight.
:02:24. > :02:29.We will have the latest weather later on in the bulletin. A north
:02:30. > :02:32.London hospital is considering banning electronic cigarettes. The
:02:33. > :02:35.cigarettes, as they are called, have proved a big success with many
:02:36. > :02:39.former smokers, but a number of organisations are worried about
:02:40. > :02:46.them. Sarah and John used to be smokers.
:02:47. > :02:52.Now they inhale the vapour from their electric cigarettes. Coming in
:02:53. > :02:55.all different shapes and sizes, they deliver nicotine via liquid vapours,
:02:56. > :02:59.offering a smoking sensation without the smoke. There is growing
:03:00. > :03:03.concern. The University of London has already banned them. Some
:03:04. > :03:07.countries you can only get them under medical prescription and they
:03:08. > :03:11.are untested. I have to keep coming back to the fact they are untested.
:03:12. > :03:15.The Whittington Hospital in Highgate is the latest public body to
:03:16. > :03:18.consider a ban, claiming that into line with national guidelines there
:03:19. > :03:23.is insufficient evidence about their long`term safety. Speaking last
:03:24. > :03:25.November the British Medical Association believe there is an
:03:26. > :03:32.image problem as well. Our concern with the use of e`cigarettes is that
:03:33. > :03:35.this normalises that behaviour again and our biggest concern is that
:03:36. > :03:41.becomes glamorous again. But those lobbying for e`cigarettes, the
:03:42. > :03:45.medical profession is missing a golden opportunity. They are orders
:03:46. > :03:49.of magnitude safer than smoking and the public health community needs to
:03:50. > :03:54.get on board. Sarah and Johnny are happy not to be smoking cigarettes.
:03:55. > :03:58.A man who was found with stab wounds after crashing a car into a bus in
:03:59. > :04:02.Stockwell yesterday evening has died. Police have named the
:04:03. > :04:05.22`year`old as Femi Junaid and believe he was stabbed in Clapham
:04:06. > :04:09.Road before getting into his car and colliding with the boss. They are
:04:10. > :04:12.appealing for witnesses. Now with the latest on the rain
:04:13. > :04:23.here is Georgina Burnett. It is a wet and windy night to come.
:04:24. > :04:26.There is heavy showers coming and this strong bath `` south`westerly
:04:27. > :04:31.wind continues, with temperatures down to five or six Celsius in the
:04:32. > :04:35.night. Winds continuing through tomorrow as well. Fairly cloudy
:04:36. > :04:39.start of the day. The best of the sunshine is likely to be in the
:04:40. > :04:42.afternoon. By about 3pm we are reaching five or six Celsius but it
:04:43. > :04:46.could go a couple of degrees above that later in the day. The strong
:04:47. > :04:51.south`westerly winds and heavy showers are going to be a fairly
:04:52. > :04:55.similar day today. Monday, ice may be a risk as we have a cold start to
:04:56. > :05:00.the day. For Tuesday and Wednesday there is an early yellow warning for
:05:01. > :05:01.rain again. That is it from us. We will be back tomorrow afternoon
:05:02. > :05:17.Enjoy your evening, goodbye. Good evening. Unfortunately I don't
:05:18. > :05:20.have much good news in this forecast. There may be a brief
:05:21. > :05:24.respite later tomorrow with the wind and the rain but it will not be long
:05:25. > :05:29.enough and we have today's storm withers, pounding many coastlines in
:05:30. > :05:30.the south and west, hence the Amber wind warning from