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California at the of 85. That is all from us. There is a | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
first look at Good evening. The planned 48`hour | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Tube strike which was due to have started tonight was called off after | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
a last`minute deal was agreed between union officials and | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Transport for London. The dispute was over the closure of ticket | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
offices and job losses. Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
reports. This morning, the strike was on | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
This afternoon, it was off, welcome news for commuters. That is really | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
good news. The unions have to sit together. They need to open their | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
communication levels a bit more because they cannot hold the country | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
to ransom, yes, the unions. Last week the strike caused huge | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
disruption. Transport unions walked out our proposals to close all to | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
get offices and cut 950 jobs. London Underground said ticket offices were | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
only used in 3% of journeys. This morning a new deal was put forward. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
A station review means busier ticket offices could be kept open and a | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
trawl for voluntary redundancies has been suspended. That was enough to | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
call off the strike. Do you regret taking at the strike? Was that an | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
overreaction? No, because they were not taking seriously until we called | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
strike action and we got more done over a of time when the strike | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
action took place and it concentrated their minds. I want to | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
look at every individual station and look at specific issues that may | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
emerge and as we do that we will respond accordingly to what puzzles | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
are put forward. You need to have that level of detailed dialogue and | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
I am pleased we have got time and space to do that. The Mayor visiting | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Croydon said the modernisation of the Tube is still essential. There | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
will be a detailed negotiation, but I think a programme that is | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
fantastic for Tube, it offers up huge opportunities to modernise the | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
system and it will be good for London Underground staff as well. It | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
will not be the last we hear of this modernisation plan. There will | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
probably be other serious disagreements and many staff have | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
concerns about what the future holds. But tonight at least good | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
news for commuters. So, hundreds of people were evacuated from their | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
homes along the Thames, thousands more are at risk from rising water | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
levels and tonight hundreds of residents in Datchet were left | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
without power. Let's get more from Nick Beake who is down river in | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Chertsey. What is the latest? Around 7000 | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
people `` 1700, were left without power this evening. The latest we | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
are hearing is that some of it has been restored, but Sun faced the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
bleak prospect of being without electricity overnight. This is | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Chertsey Fire Station. There are search and rescue teams, the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
ambulance, and the military are playing a significant role. Some of | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
the soldiers from the Royal artillery were fighting the Taliban | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
in Afghanistan two months ago. Today they are fighting the ever | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
encroaching water in Surrey. Meanwhile, my colleague Gareth Furby | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
has been taking a look at what has been happening in Berkshire. We are | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
on a journey into the heart of the floods after dark. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
And we are here to find people who do not want to leave their homes. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
They are willing to stay put in a house that is flooded, cold and | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
could lose power at any moment. Ian Elliot invited us in. He built this | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
house and even though the water was inside and rising, he was not going | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
anywhere. We lost our heating, but fortunately I have got a log burner. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
You stay in your home as long as you can. We will take it day by day we | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
are happy here. Across the road we found Derek who has even more reason | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
to cherish his home. He shared it with his wife Kay who died from | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
breast cancer six years ago. It is desperate. When the house is fine | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
and the weather is fine, there is nowhere else my set. In sunlight | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
there was some beauty in this flooded village, but later we found | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
another emotion, fear. This was a patrol, volunteers worried about | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
possible looting. We are approaching people we do not know because it is | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
now getting dark. A lot of houses are empty and there is the | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
possibility of people breaking in. We will take all night long. There | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
were stories as well in the morning of people marooned in their homes. | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
But the volunteers rallying in the primary school were determined to | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
help. We joined Mark Jones and Sam as they were called to a family | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
trying to arrange evacuation for a woman in her 70s. She is about 1 | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
years old, she has got mobility restrictions. If you need us to pick | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
up medication, we can do that. But the job of evacuation was too big | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
for the volunteers and she was staying put for now. The family say | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
they will call 999 if she deteriorates. The volunteers say | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
they will continue to work 24 hours a day. Today these have been the | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
best two methods of transport for getting around. I spoke to the top | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
officer in Surrey and he said the extra levels of staffing would apply | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
for possibly the next ten days. That gives you an indication of how the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
water and the misery is simply not going underway. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
A full national forecast follows after a detailed look at the weather | :06:43. | :06:43. | |
in and around London. It is not good news at all. Many | :06:44. | :06:59. | |
places will see 15 millimetres more of rain by Saturday. We have got | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
very strong winds in the forecast tomorrow afternoon, possibly gusting | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
up to 50 or 60 miles an hour. We have got two mornings tomorrow, one | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
for the wind and one for the rain. Tonight there will be a few stray | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
showers. In the morning milder air pushes in from the west along with | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
further showers. That will lead to heavy rain by tomorrow afternoon. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
That is when the wind is going to pick up. Thursday looks like a | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
quieter day. Good evening, a roller-coaster ride | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
of weather continues across the British Isles. We want to get off, | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
but unfortunately we have got more white knuckle rides to come. This | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
area of low pressure is bringing wet and extremely windy weather. It | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
happens again on Friday with another deep low moving in from the | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
south-west. That means that potentially over the next five days | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
we could see as much a 60 - 80 millimetres of rainfall, among's | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
worth in just five days. Before that there are lots of tricky conditions | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
out there at the moment. We have got snow across Scotland and Northern | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Ireland. As these showers pushed further inland and temperatures fall | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
away, we could see snow at lower levels as well. It is a similar | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
story for South Yorkshire and into Derbyshire and perhaps the Midlands. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Even if we do not get the snow, and we keep the showers, it will be a | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
cold night, so that could lead to icy stretches on the roads. That | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
will pale into insignificance because the wind is already picking | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
up and an intense band of rain continues to push in across the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
country. This time it will be a bit more prolonged for tomorrow. The | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
wins either significant feature There is an amber warning for the | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
gusts of wind. Let's look at the afternoon. In the Northern Isles and | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
the far north of Scotland it is quite quiet. Snow continues across | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
the mountains and sharp showers in northern Ireland and northern | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
England. The winds pick up into the North West and the South of Wales. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
The band of rain is still clinging on to East Anglia and the Essex and | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Kent coasts. Blizzard conditions are possible overnight in Scotland and | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
on the higher ground. By Thursday things potentially get a little | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
quieter. There will be some showers around, but wet and windy weather | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
set to return as we move towards Friday. | :10:00. | :10:01. |