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Parliament or served in government. Six, on BBC One we can now join the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
BBC News teams where you are. We are live in Surrey on how | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
flooding has hit homeowners and businesses. We will hear from | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
residents who have been evacuated from their properties. Why was | :00:18. | :00:30. | |
devastated. Hate being away from home. You do, when you are older. `` | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
I was devastated. Plus, we have spent the week in a Berkshire | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
village where the emergency services have been rescuing people by boat. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
And I have been given an aerial view of the flood hit towns on the | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Thames. It is from the air that you get a real sense of the scale of | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
what flood hit communities have been dealing with, and the task ahead. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
In other news, flames erupt from a pavement near King's Cross, leading | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
to the evacuation of homes and businesses. And catch me if you | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
can, how the world's greatest long`distance runner will set the | :01:07. | :01:20. | |
pace at the London Marathon. Welcome to a special edition of BBC | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
London News. We live in Surrey, at one of the places worst hit by the | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
floods. This is the local fire station, not unfamiliar with | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
rescuing people. At the moment, they have been joined by the police and | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
army. This has become the centre of the flood relief effort in the area. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
There has been some respite for residents. All along the Thames | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
water levels are now gradually starting to go down. And we have | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
learned this evening that the 1 severe flood warnings that were in | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
place have been lifted by the Environment Agency. But they are | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
still warning people to be vigilant. That is the view from the ground. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
This is what the police have been using to help people. They are | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
getting ready, I think, for a shift change at the moment. This is the | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
view from the ground but what about from above? Earlier this morning, a | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
new week and clearer skies. A welcome relief for the flooded areas | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
in Berks and Surrey. But this is a long road to recovery. It is from | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
the air that you get a real sense of the sheer scale of what flood hit | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
communities have been dealing with, and the task ahead. | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
When the Thames burst its banks in Wylfa, hundreds were forced to leave | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
their homes. `` Chertsey. One week on, houses and gardens are | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
surrounded by water and these horses are stranded. It is a similar | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
picture in Staines. Fields barely recognisable and some roads | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
impassable. Looking at things from a dear, you can understand why experts | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
say that it will take weeks or months for the water to clear. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Things have improved, thanks to a dry weekend. But high ground water | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
levels continue to pose problems. The Environment Agency says that | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
water levels are expected to rise again over the next few days, as | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
rainwater makes its way downstream. But thankfully, not back up to the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
levels that we have seen over the past week. And further downstream, | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
this is what has been protecting central London since 1982. The | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Thames barrier. Originally designed to be raised once every six years, | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
it has already been raised 41 times this winter. Another reminder that | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
we are experiencing the unexpected. Back on the ground, let's talk to a | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
couple who took it upon themselves to coordinate the relief effort here | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
in Chertsey. Kevin, do you feel that you are making progress? In some | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
ways, yes. We're getting together as a community and there is quite a lot | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
of activity, people helping out I would say that everyone is doing | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
their best but we are still short on how to do better if it occurs again. | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
Because it will, I'm sure, and it has done before. From a progress | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
point of view, we are slow. And why did you feel that you had to take it | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
into your own hands? Cos they get fed up after being flooded in | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
January, when the water started to rise again. All of January, the only | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
way for me to get in and out of the house was by wearing waders. There | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
is no strategy. There is no coordination between the | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
authorities. There is not an action plan of what needs to be done. They | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
know that they are going to flood us. We were sitting in the car | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
waiting for this interview and we had a flood warning from the | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Environment Agency. We had water in our house last Monday, but it is a | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
typical Environment Agency flood warning, and the water is going to | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
rise, so we are to evacuate. There is no factual information to allow | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
us to understand what is going to happen and how we could prepare what | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
we need to do. You're feeling out of the loop, unclear about what to do. | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
Do you feel reassured by the military presence? Absolutely. Them | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
and the firefighters have been really good. Once things have kicked | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
into a reactive mode, it seems to work. But it took a long time to get | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
there. The involvement of the fire and military have been brilliant. | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
Think you both. They do for your efforts. `` thank. Let's put some of | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
those concerns to the council leader. Starting with something that | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Mr Webster said, it feels like the response has been reactive rather | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
than proactive. We mobilise very quickly in my view. We have been | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
working with the partner agencies to ensure that this community is as | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
safe as possible. And we will continue to do so. Why did you not | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
feel the need to call the military earlier? It is not our job to call | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
the military. Once the seriousness of the situation was known, that | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
military support was with us very quickly. Under has been concern that | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
people are worried. There is a lot of effort going on at the moment but | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
when the emergency services leave and the army leaves, people will get | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
forgotten. How do you reassure them that they are not? We are not | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
forgetting people. We're working hard with our partner agencies and | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
the Flood Forum to put in place all the advice that we can and all the | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
support we can. In practical terms, people like Ken will want to know | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
where does the council's job stopped and start in terms of the clean`up | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
operation? Our job is just art it. We will put in place the clean`up | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
operation with our partner agencies and we will be providing financial | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
advice and assistance and also insurance. `` our job is just | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
starting. They queue for your time. We touched on the clean`up operation | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
there. `` thank you. A few miles away, that is precisely what people | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
are doing. My colleague is in Berks. Thanks. I am in the garden of a | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
house in old Windsor. The first thing you notice when you come in | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
here is the carpet, rolled up on the front lawn. What has happened? The | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
lady who lived here had to cut it up into small pieces and carry out her | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
entire carpet, including the underlay, because house was | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
completed flooded. There is a skip outside because she happens to be | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
having renovation work done. It does come in handy because the builders | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
have had to bring out most of her furniture, especially the things | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
which have been damaged. Let's come into her house. Let us meet the lady | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
who lives here. She is busy with a huge clean`up operation. I know that | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
you have had to do a huge amount of work, please explain the extent of | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
the damage. I was completely flooded through the ground floor. It is a | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
large house and we just had to get everything off the floor or | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
upstairs. And you woke up in the middle of the night? There was a | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
roar in the middle of the night When looked down the stairs, the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
water was plodding through the house. Have you had helped? `` | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
flooding. From the time it happened, I have had more help than I could | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
ask for, from friends and the local council, the army, the air force. | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
Firemen. I have heard every accent over the country. They have come | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
from everywhere. But too late to do anything about it. Because there has | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
been a lot of damage. It is right through the house. My daughter's | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
bedroom is on the ground floor and have another lounge, the kitchen and | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
bathroom. And the situation with insurance, do you have insurance? | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Yes, but they could not come to assess until the water went away. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
They are due to come tomorrow. Thank you for talking to us. Maggie and | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
her neighbours are in the same position. They are going to be | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
getting insurance assessments over the next few days, hoping for the | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
very best because there is a huge amount of work to be done in terms | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
of the clean`up operation. I cannot me imagine. Thanks very | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
much. You can probably see the flashing lights behind me. The fire | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
crew are just eating ready for a changeover. They are heading off to | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
believe some of the guys in Egham. Because the continuing things going | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
on have meant that people have had to cancel leave. They may well just | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
come out behind us. Flooding is not the only problem that has been | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
caused by the recent bad weather. Several sinkholes have been | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
appearing in several places. In one case, the ground collapsed | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
underneath a block of flats. Sharif is still in shock. I've found | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
him standing here looking blankly at his home. His house is direct way | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
above the sinkhole, a 20 foot crater that collapsed in the early hours of | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Saturday morning. He and his son ran from the house as it teetered. My | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
son was terrified. I cannot sleep because they do not know what is | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
going to happen. `` I do not know. For two days, we have been wearing | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
the same thing. We could have died here. My whole family could have | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
died here. What part did the weather play in creating this sinkhole? The | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
structural engineers will not yet be drawn but the residents are clear. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
They say that weeks of rainfall are to blame. This is not the only | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
sinkhole that has appeared. This is high Wycombe two weeks ago. And this | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
is the motorway a few days ago. Today, another in Watford. For the | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
experts that studies, the explanation is simple. In the | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
south`east, there is a lot of chock and when rain touches the chock it | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
dissolves it because it is acidic. Much of the area is covered with | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
other materials. Hemel Hamstead is covered in clay. The material gets | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
washed away with the rainwater and collapses. For those affected, | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
retrieving what they can from a damaged homes, the sinkholes are a | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
reminder of how even miles from the Thames, torrential rain is taking | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
its toll. Stay with us. I will be back with | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
more later in the programme, including a chat with some of the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
guys coordinating the emergency services here. But now, let's get | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
some of the other news with Assad Ahmed. | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
50 people had to be evacuated from a street near King's Cross this | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
morning after flames burst through a pavement on the Caledonian Road A | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
full investigation is underway to find out exactly what happened. | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
A busy North London streets of this morning. The pavement is on fire. | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Without warning, flames burst through the paving slabs. Luckily, | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
no one was injured. This man runs a minicab business nearby and when the | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
power went out, he ran into the street. I do not know how the flames | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
started but one I was out, it was quite shocking. It was half my | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
height. Luckily, no one was standing there otherwise there would have | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
been a serious injury. 50 people had to be evacuated from their homes | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
after firefighters brought the flames under control. It appears to | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
have been caused by analytical folds underneath the pavement. These | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
engineers have been here all day trying to fix it but this is not the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
first time in London Street has suddenly exploded. The local road in | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
April last year. There has just been an explosion. And another. The man | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
next to it narrowly escaped serious injury. There have been about 5 | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
such explosions across the capital over the past few years. Caused by | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
various faults in East `` beneath our feet. The power should be | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
restored here soon. The flames were not as serious as some incidents but | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
fuel concerns over yet another sudden unexpected explosion. | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
Figures released from a Freedom of information request show an average | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
of four strivers update are attacked or verbally abused in London. The | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
Conservatives on the London assembly who obtained the figures say that | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
over one third of incidents of old `` involves weapons and assault | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
They want to see more undercover police helping staff. Scotland Yard | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
say they will still continue to target criminals on buses. | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Lisa charge two 17`year`olds with the murder of a man in West London | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
with learning difficulties. Dean Mayley died from a single stab wound | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
to the heart ten days ago walking down the street. | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
After being refused permission to expand, Pinewood Studios in | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Buckinghamshire has announced that it will move to Cardiff instead The | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
company involved with making James Bond films had a ?200 million | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
development plan rejected after the local council said it was | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
inappropriate to build on green belt land. The new studio in Wales will | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
support around 2000 jobs. A cruise ship on which an elderly | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
passenger died after being hit by a freak wave has been passed as fit to | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
sail by the police and port authorities. James Winstead was | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
killed when water crashed through the windows of the Marco Polo. His | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
widow decided the ship before being badly maintained. This couple was | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
sitting in the dining room of the Marco Polo near the end of their | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
voyage, just yards from 85`year`old James Swinstead, killed when a giant | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
waves struck the ship. There were screams and shouts as the windows | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
came in. I thought all the windows have smashed, but in fact one of | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
them flew across the cabin. That hit the poor man who died. It was | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
really, really frightening. Of course, the big wave came in and | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
pushed two of the panes of glass out, which measured three or four | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
feet, a quarter of an inch thick. They flew out because the metal | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
surround holding them was obviously inadequate, and the windows flew | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
out. The other two probably shattered with the weight of water. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
And one of them struck the man who died in the back of the head. And | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
the other one flew over the top of that table and flew over the tops of | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
the heads of people in the next row. And then it crash landed harmlessly | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
on the floor in the middle of the dining room. Otherwise they could | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
have been more really serious injuries. The sea water was coming | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
in, there was broken crockery, knives and forks all over the | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
place. And of course the ship was rocking like mad. Did you fear for | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
your life? Yes, I did. I thought about... It went through my mind, do | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
we have to get on a lifeboat? I said to him, do we have to get on the | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
lifeboat? I thought, those would never stand up to those waves, we | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
would just be turned over. James Swinstead's widow has criticised the | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
vessel is badly maintained. The operator said it was fully compliant | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
with strict maritime regulation It is now taking around 800 passengers | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
on a cruise to Norway and the Northern Lights. A spokesman said it | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
had been passed fit to leave port following an inspection by police | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
and the Port authority. Organisers of the London Marathon | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
have enlisted the help of an all`time great in long`distance | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
running to try to guarantee a world`record breaking race. Haile | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
Gebrselassie, who has broken over 25 world records in his career, will be | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
a pacemaker for other elite runners, including Mo Farah. Here is | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Warren Nettleford. These gentle footsteps may seem | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
ordinarily, but his runner is anything but. He is long`distance | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
royalty. Haile Gebrselassie broke countless world records, has two | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
Olympic gold medals and won the Berlin marathon four times. He | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
cannot train as much these days but London Marathon organisers still | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
want him to be the pacemaker for the race. It is the best field ever I | :18:07. | :18:16. | |
can say. Including Mo Farah, world champion, Olympic champion, world | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
record holder. Both men and women, it is going to be one of the best | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
marathons ever. And it is job to get the best out of this year's | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
competitive field which contains double Olympic champion Mo Farah, | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
who will be running his first marathon. Mo can do something very | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
special, look at what he achieved in the last three or four years, it is | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
amazing! With a top line up in the elite race, organisers are hoping | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
for a record time. He will enable the athletes to go at a fantastic | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
pace and really, whoever wins, they will be the best athlete on the day, | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
and it is anybody's race. The entire field will be doing their best to | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
keep up for the first half of the race before the steps of the route. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
He really is a great runner. That is it from me for now, back to Riz in | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
the flooded area of Chertsey, Riz. Thanks very much indeed, welcome | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
back to Chertsey Fire Station. If you have just joined us, this has | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
been the centre of the coordination of the flood relief effort for | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Chertsey, because it was one of the worst hit areas. You can just hear | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
one of the guys getting ready to go out. I think they are going to | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
relieve another team in Egham. Someone who can tell us all about it | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
and has kindly given us some of this is dying is the area commander force | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
Ore Fire and Rescue, tell us what is going on there. `` for Surrey. The | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
oncoming shift are going out to a high`volume pumping unit in Egham to | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
relieve the existing crew there and we have put another pumping unit in | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
there to try to get rid of the ground water which is coming up | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
This has been a long haul for you, I assume lead being cancelled, how are | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
you coping? We are coping in the same way, trying to manage risk and | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
deploy resources appropriately to the risk. It is a huge joint effort | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
by the military, civil authorities, emergency services. We will go on as | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
long as it needs to be done. The biggest challenge to me obviously, | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
it is a huge area, a lot of people affected. We have got limited | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
resource, that is why we called in lots of different services to help | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
us. I will let you get on, clearly there is a job to do. He mentioned | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
it is a joint operation, lots of people involved, not least of course | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
the military. Let's talk to Captain Joe Sand and, thank you very much | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
indeed, how long have you been here? We relieved another army unit | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
a few days ago. In a few days we have been here, we have been | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
supporting in any way we can, from sandbagging houses to directing aqua | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
dams or protecting national infrastructure. People have said | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
they feel reassured by seen you on the ground. We have had an | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
overwhelmingly positive reception, the locals have been incredibly | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
supportive. We have had people bringing us cakes, it has been | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
really great, and that makes all the difference. In terms of you going, | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
one of the worries that people are saying is that they feel once the | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
emergency services leave and you guys have gone, they will be left | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
behind. How do you reassure them? We are here for the long`term, 24/ . | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Thank you very much, keep those cakes coming, the guys are doing an | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
extremely, extremely great job. A few miles upstream from here is one | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
of the worst hit villages, and although we have been hearing that | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
the river levels are now gradually going down, there is of course a | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
huge clean`up operation to be, you know, that is going to be going on. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Gareth Furby spent the best part of a week in the village of Wraysbury | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
in Berkshire. The levels may be falling, the Fire | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
crews sometimes paddling instead of waiting, but it has been a very bad | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
week for Wraysbury. So many houses lost and lives ruined. I felt like I | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
was having a breakdown, to be honest. For 30 years, Tim has run a | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
boat repair yard from his Wraysbury home right by the river. I saw the | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
water rising, it made me feel sick. The water in the ground floor of the | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
zone was by high. The only place to live was upstairs. `` the water in | :22:59. | :23:14. | |
the ground floor of his home was thigh high. Evacuations continued, | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
this was a baby called Jasper. Three and a half weeks, he is fine, but I | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
have got a four`year`old who wants to see his mummy. I'm going to cry! | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
Immediately in front of us who have the children's playground, and | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
beyond that is the village green. That is where they play cricket in | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
the summer, but there is no cricket being played now, it is more | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
foreboding. But weather permitting, the | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
rebuilding, the clearing up. But it will not be easy. Once the water has | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
gone down and we are clearing the sewage from the homes and gardens, | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
that is when we will really need help. Many of us do not have flood | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
insurance, because we are not insure a ball, so it would be nice if the | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
Government could help us out. So when will all this be over? There is | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
only one place to look for an answer, the river, and at the moment | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
it is still flowing strongly. It is deep and powerful. The trend at the | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
moment is for falling water levels, but this could still change. | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
Wraysbury villagers and countless others are hoping that it doesn t. | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
And you can see more on that story and Inside Out London at 7:30 | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
tonight on BBC One. As you heard in that report of Gareth's, water | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
levels are slowly going down. It is just starting to rain here, so when | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
we talked about that respite, let's get the weather forecast from Wendy | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
Hurrell in the studio. The good news is that the rain is | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
not going to be too heavy through tonight, and in fact this week is | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
all relative, it is looking try and calm `` it is looking drier and and | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
calmer. The River Thames is still on the way up because it is processing | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
water from last week. Any rain that falls will trigger river levels | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
quite quickly. There is a bit of respite, it does not feel like it | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
has lasted all that long, and there is rain edging into the west of | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
London at the moment. It will move slowly eastwards through the night, | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
nothing too heavy, it will be patchy, drizzly, one to moderate | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
bursts will go through as well. Underneath the cloud, pretty mild. | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
`` one or two moderate bursts. Fairly light winds as well. As we go | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
through the first part of tomorrow, we will start fairly cloudy, a | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
little bit on the downside, the remnants of the rain moving off | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
towards the east. The best brightness will be towards the | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
afternoon, but we have got one or two she was likely to pop up. They | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
will be quite well isolated. `` one or two showers. They will be | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
slow`moving, and there may be hailed as well. `` hail. Wednesday is not | :26:24. | :26:33. | |
going to be too much trouble, but we have this low`pressure system, the | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
next one from the Atlantic, coming in for Thursday, it will be around | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
for Friday and the weekend, keeping things unsettled. The squeeze in the | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
isobars will mean it is breezy, and there will be showers from that | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
occluded fronts that is wrapped around the low`pressure system. It | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
will be a case of cloud for Wednesday, still sort of respite of | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
sorts, there will be a spell of rain through the middle part of Thursday, | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
slightly drier and brighter for Friday. Back to you, Riz. | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
You can see more on the day's stories on our website, and we will | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
be back with the latest for you during the ten o'clock news. From as | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
here in Chertsey and the rest of the BBC London team, thanks for joining | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
us and a very good night. | :27:18. | :27:20. |