:00:05. > :00:10.A major disaster is declared in after Superstorm Sandy sweeps
:00:10. > :00:16.ashore on the East coast of America, killing at least 16. There's
:00:16. > :00:19.devastation in New York City as fire destroys at least 50 homes.
:00:19. > :00:24.Much of Lower Manhattan flooded and was plunged into darkness as power
:00:24. > :00:27.failed. One hospital had to be evacuated. In New Jersey a major
:00:27. > :00:37.rescue operation is underway - hundreds of people have already
:00:37. > :00:38.
:00:38. > :00:44.been helped to safety after least three towns were flooded. I am in
:00:44. > :00:52.Manhattan, where the clean-up has already begun, inner-city without
:00:52. > :00:54.power. In other news, calls for more
:00:54. > :00:55.information about breast cancer screening as research shows
:00:55. > :00:59.thousands of women are having unnecessary treatment.
:00:59. > :01:03.And it's here - 4G - the superfast mobile internet launches in 10
:01:03. > :01:06.cities across the UK. Later on BBC London: The Met sell-
:01:06. > :01:10.off - we speak to the deputy mayor for policing about why everything
:01:10. > :01:20.must go. As Superstorm Sandy wreaks havoc, we look at its impact closer
:01:20. > :01:30.
:01:31. > :01:34.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC news at one. The biggest storm
:01:34. > :01:37.to hit the United States in years has swept on to the East coast of
:01:37. > :01:41.America, killing at least 16 people and leaving serious floods, fires
:01:41. > :01:45.and power cuts in its wake. Superstorm Sandy came ashore in New
:01:45. > :01:51.Jersey but the city of New York has been one of the worst affected
:01:51. > :01:54.places. Record flood surges left much of Lower Manhattan under water.
:01:54. > :02:00.Around 50 homes were destroyed by fire in the New Yrok borough of
:02:00. > :02:03.Queens. Around 7 million homes and businesses across the East Coast of
:02:03. > :02:13.America lost power. President Obama has declared a major disaster in
:02:13. > :02:14.
:02:14. > :02:19.New York state. The morning after a night like no
:02:19. > :02:25.other, in which the east Coast of America was pounded by gigantic
:02:25. > :02:30.storm system on a scale not seen before. This was Staton Island in
:02:30. > :02:36.New York at first light, the incredible sight of a tanker picked
:02:36. > :02:40.up and dumped onshore by the water. Overnight, fire ripped through an
:02:41. > :02:46.entire neighbourhood in the New York borough of Queens. The flames
:02:46. > :02:53.quickly spread, destroying hundreds of homes. Firefighters struggled
:02:53. > :02:57.through floodwaters to reach the emergency. Water going up the block,
:02:57. > :03:05.we couldn't get any apparatus down the block due to chest-high water.
:03:05. > :03:09.We got in the boat, went down there. In lower Manhattan, amateur video
:03:09. > :03:14.showed what appeared to be an explosion at an electricity sub-
:03:14. > :03:19.station, knocking out power. When it back up generator failed at this
:03:19. > :03:26.Manhattan hospital, 200 patients were brought out, among them
:03:26. > :03:30.newborn babies from intensive care. The desperate evacuation of the
:03:30. > :03:35.newest New Yorkers. The waters were rising to levels the City have
:03:35. > :03:40.never witnessed before. It poured into tunnels, a combination of high
:03:40. > :03:47.tide and fierce storm surge. Before long there were some PlayStation
:03:47. > :03:51.has flooded and the site at ground zero. The city that never sleeps,
:03:51. > :03:57.shot down by Mother Nature. The we knew this was going to be a
:03:57. > :04:01.dangerous storm and it has met our expectations. The worst of the
:04:01. > :04:06.weather has come and the City is certainly feeling the impact.
:04:06. > :04:12.what made this storm historic was the sheer scale of its impact. This
:04:12. > :04:17.was coastal Connecticut where roads became rivers. Here, New Jersey
:04:17. > :04:27.with sea foam lashing the boardwalk, debris from buildings flying
:04:27. > :04:27.
:04:27. > :04:34.through the air. As far away as Tennessee, heavy snow falls as the
:04:34. > :04:38.system combined with cold air from the Atlantic. This is what people
:04:38. > :04:43.are waking up to this morning - trees down, all too often bringing
:04:43. > :04:47.down power cables as well, and now millions of Americans are without
:04:47. > :04:51.electricity. Many more who travelled here have been left
:04:51. > :04:56.stranded. Hunkered down in their hotel just blocks from the White
:04:56. > :05:00.House and with no confirmed flight home, we found this visiting school
:05:00. > :05:05.group from Bristol. We were supposed to be visiting the White
:05:05. > :05:10.House and the monuments, but we went out for an hour but the rain
:05:10. > :05:15.was awful so we have to come home. My parents have been worried about
:05:15. > :05:19.the hurricane because they have heard reports and they say it is
:05:19. > :05:24.really dangerous. If it was relentless, a once in a generation
:05:24. > :05:33.storm which show no mercy, and in the days ahead it will continue its
:05:33. > :05:40.march across the battered Continent. Our correspondent is in lower
:05:40. > :05:44.Manhattan with the latest. As you can see behind me, this is
:05:44. > :05:50.one of the many streets in Manhattan where floodwater has
:05:50. > :05:56.transformed this into a mini river. Many residents here are without
:05:56. > :06:03.power. We had a little drive around this morning, and for example the
:06:03. > :06:08.subway system has been shut down, and will remain so. One subway
:06:08. > :06:13.system was filled with water. The strength of the wind so strong that
:06:13. > :06:17.tiles were ripped off the walls. People are starting to come out,
:06:17. > :06:21.assess the damage, and pick up the pieces.
:06:21. > :06:30.What are the authorities saying about how long the clear-up can
:06:30. > :06:34.take? Listening to Mayor Bloomberg's office this morning,
:06:34. > :06:40.the first thing they said is they want to get in touch with the power
:06:40. > :06:44.company here because 650,000 homes are without power in New York City
:06:44. > :06:49.alone. Those figures are considerably higher, and they want
:06:49. > :06:58.to establish a timeline, how long it will take to restore power. It
:06:58. > :07:03.is complicated by the water damage, also businesses - how long will it
:07:03. > :07:07.take for them to open question man the New York Stock Exchange was
:07:07. > :07:11.closed yesterday and today, they say they are waiting and assessing
:07:11. > :07:18.how long it will be before it is safe for their employees to return
:07:18. > :07:23.to work. It will take a while for authorities to assess the full
:07:23. > :07:32.extent of the damage before they can give any kind of time frame.
:07:32. > :07:35.Thank you. Wall Street has been forced to
:07:35. > :07:38.close for a second day. Already the economic cost of the storm has been
:07:38. > :07:42.put at around twenty billion dollars but it's only 9 o'clock in
:07:42. > :07:45.the morning on the East Coast. After a night of being battered by
:07:45. > :07:50.the superstorm, the extent of the damage is still not clear. Our
:07:50. > :07:54.correspondent Ben Thompson is in New York. As the light breaks over
:07:54. > :07:58.Manhattan, the city is assessing the extent of the damage. Transport
:07:58. > :08:04.authorities here say it is the worst disaster to have hit their
:08:04. > :08:08.network in more than 100 years, and they are warning it could take up
:08:08. > :08:13.to a week before transport and power infrastructure is back online.
:08:13. > :08:18.The storm that may have passed and the extent of the damage is
:08:18. > :08:23.becoming clear. What happens next is not. President Obama has
:08:23. > :08:28.declared a major disaster in New York, throwing up federal money to
:08:28. > :08:32.rebuild a battered city. New York is the financial centre of the
:08:33. > :08:37.world, but its stock markets are now closed for a second day. Many
:08:37. > :08:42.major financial institutions are without power, businesses are
:08:42. > :08:49.boarded up and workers are staying at home. This could take its toll
:08:49. > :08:54.on an already fragile American economy. The key question is how
:08:54. > :09:00.long lasting this is, when people can go on with their daily lives,
:09:00. > :09:08.and nobody knows the answer to that. That will depend on whether this is
:09:08. > :09:13.a minor economic blip, or a possibly long-term negative problem.
:09:13. > :09:17.President Obama's next moves will be watched closely. A national
:09:17. > :09:22.crisis has the power to make or break his presidency, especially
:09:22. > :09:27.coming just a week before the election. Fresh in his mind will be
:09:28. > :09:31.the condemnation of George Bush when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.
:09:31. > :09:37.Then the authorities were criticised for lack of preparation
:09:37. > :09:42.and slow relief and rescue effort. For Republican contender Mitt
:09:42. > :09:47.Romney, it is an equally difficult challenge. He can't take control or
:09:47. > :09:52.look ineffective, nor can he used the hurricane for political gain.
:09:52. > :10:00.The real test will be in the coming days. If residents remain stranded
:10:00. > :10:05.without power and water, their patience will wear thin. Hurricane
:10:05. > :10:10.Sandy was historic, its political fall-out could be just as great.
:10:10. > :10:13.One piece of economic information still set to be published on Friday
:10:13. > :10:19.is the October jobs report which will be watched closely to see if
:10:19. > :10:25.the unemployment rate stays below the crucial 8% level, and coming
:10:25. > :10:29.just days before the election will be particularly significant.
:10:29. > :10:35.Our science editor joins me in the studio. Why has this storm been so
:10:35. > :10:43.bad? Partly because it is extremely large and covers a vast area. The
:10:43. > :10:47.wind have been less bad than forecast. Many people seem to have
:10:47. > :10:51.been listening to the authorities and they have kept out of harm's
:10:52. > :10:57.way. Let's take a look at the bigger picture of what has been
:10:57. > :11:01.going on here. The starting point for this story is in the north in
:11:01. > :11:05.the Arctic, where a system of high pressure has dominated the
:11:05. > :11:10.atmosphere over the Atlantic so that when Hurricane Sandy started
:11:10. > :11:15.its journey north, it was not able to carry on over the ocean and
:11:15. > :11:21.peter out as usual. Instead it did a sharp left turn slamming into the
:11:21. > :11:26.east coast of the United States. We have never had a storm this big,
:11:26. > :11:30.this far north, at this time of year, significantly because we have
:11:31. > :11:40.another weather system pouring down from Canada bringing very cold air.
:11:41. > :11:44.
:11:44. > :11:48.The two have come together bringing the Hurricane Sandy system more
:11:48. > :11:55.storm surges. The America has been hit by extreme weather in recent
:11:55. > :12:01.years - are these weather systems getting worse? The basic ingredient
:12:01. > :12:06.for a hurricane is warm ocean, and the oceans are getting warmer. The
:12:06. > :12:10.scientific jury is out as to whether climate change is causing
:12:10. > :12:17.more hurricanes. The key factor is that we are a global population of
:12:17. > :12:21.7 billion, the storm that hit last night hit a densely populated area
:12:21. > :12:25.of the United States, so even if climate change is not making things
:12:25. > :12:30.worse, we are certainly in a situation where more and more
:12:30. > :12:36.people are exposed to the kind of extreme weather we saw last night.
:12:36. > :12:41.You can find more information and get live update of the hurricane's
:12:41. > :12:44.progress online. The rest of the news now. There are
:12:44. > :12:47.warnings that thousands of women are receiving treatment for breast
:12:47. > :12:49.cancer even though they may never become seriously ill. A team of
:12:49. > :12:53.scientists says screening for breast cancer prevents more than
:12:53. > :13:03.1,000 women dying a year. But it found that for every life saved,
:13:03. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:09.three women had unnecessary treatment.
:13:09. > :13:13.For more than 20 years, women in their 50s and 60s have been offered
:13:13. > :13:18.breast screening on the NHS to spot the first signs of cancer but there
:13:18. > :13:25.has been controversy about its true benefit. Today's review of the
:13:25. > :13:30.evidence published in the Lancet, it is clear screening saves lives.
:13:30. > :13:37.Women are 20% less likely to die from breast cancer, but every day
:13:37. > :13:41.in the UK screening saves 1300 lives - but that every year the
:13:41. > :13:46.screening diagnoses 4000 people with cancer who are never likely to
:13:46. > :13:50.become ill. Medical experts don't yet know which cancer has picked up
:13:50. > :13:56.through the screening process are safe to be left untreated, which
:13:56. > :14:02.means every year several thousand women undergo procedures which are
:14:02. > :14:07.traumatic and never needed. Miriam is one of those who believes her
:14:07. > :14:13.cancer should never have been treated. Cancer treatment is not a
:14:13. > :14:19.walk in the park, you don't want that. It is a tragedy when it's
:14:19. > :14:23.necessary, but it is appalling to have it when you don't need it.
:14:23. > :14:28.authors of the report today say they were surprised to find so many
:14:28. > :14:33.women are being over diagnosed. Nevertheless, they are not changing
:14:33. > :14:38.their advice. I would prefer to avoid a breast cancer death, and to
:14:38. > :14:44.me the fact I might have cancer over diagnosed and treated would be
:14:44. > :14:46.something I would be prepared to put up with. Christie in Davidson
:14:46. > :14:51.has received confirmation she is now clear of breast cancer and has
:14:51. > :14:55.no doubt it was worth going for breast screening. It was a good
:14:55. > :15:01.thing to do because maybe by the time you think later you should
:15:01. > :15:06.have done, maybe by then it will have grown more and will be more
:15:06. > :15:11.difficult for the surgeons to deal with. It is extremely difficult to
:15:11. > :15:15.know which women are being treated for breast cancer unnecessarily.
:15:15. > :15:23.The government says it will now improve the information given to
:15:23. > :15:26.women about the risk of so-called An Afghan man in a police uniform
:15:26. > :15:30.has opened fire on foreign soldiers, killing two members of the NATO-led
:15:30. > :15:33.coalition. The attack took place in the southern province of Helmand. A
:15:33. > :15:41.Taliban spokesman said the gunman was one of their fighters who had
:15:41. > :15:44.infiltrated the Afghan police force. A woman whose two children were
:15:44. > :15:47.found dead at their home in South London last May has admitted
:15:47. > :15:50.killing them. Felicia Boots pleaded guilty on the grounds of diminished
:15:50. > :15:55.responsibility to the manslaughter of nine-week-old Mason and his one-
:15:55. > :16:03.year-old sister, Lily. Jon Brain is at the Old Bailey. Tell us the
:16:03. > :16:09.background. The judge referred this case as it indescribably sad. On
:16:09. > :16:12.paper it seems that a Felicia Boots and her husband had everything. She
:16:12. > :16:16.was a jewellery designer, he was an investment banker. They were said
:16:16. > :16:22.to delight in their two young children. They had just moved to
:16:22. > :16:25.their new home in an affluent part of south London, but he returned
:16:25. > :16:31.home to find his wife sitting on the stairs, she told him not to go
:16:31. > :16:34.upstairs. When he did so, he found that two children lying side by
:16:35. > :16:39.side, dead on the floor of a walk- in wardrobe. They had been
:16:39. > :16:44.asphyxiated. She had been suffering from post-natal depression. In
:16:44. > :16:48.court today, a statement was read out on her behalf in which she said,
:16:48. > :16:54."I am a good mum and I never intended any of this to happen, I
:16:54. > :16:59.am truly sorry." or what was decided in court? She had been
:16:59. > :17:04.charged with murder. She pleaded not guilty to those charges but did
:17:04. > :17:07.admit manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The
:17:07. > :17:10.prosecution said didn't believe it was in the public interest to
:17:10. > :17:14.pursue the murder charges. The judge said it would be
:17:14. > :17:24.inappropriate sent her to Britain so she has been referred to a
:17:24. > :17:25.
:17:25. > :17:29.psychiatric unit. I our top story: a major disaster is declared after
:17:29. > :17:33.superstore must Sandy sweeps through the east coast of the US,
:17:33. > :17:36.leaving flooding, fires and power cut in its wake.
:17:36. > :17:42.Home to the Met for half a century, now a new Scotland Yard could be
:17:42. > :17:47.put up for sale as part of plans to save �500 million.
:17:47. > :17:51.Later, we spent 24 hours in a Tommy drenched. I historically accurate
:17:51. > :18:01.reconstruction in Surrey. And the children's author who is inspired
:18:01. > :18:06.by it to life of the first black Britain's first 4G mobile phone
:18:06. > :18:08.service is now up and running in 11 cities. The EE network says it will
:18:08. > :18:12.mean a much faster mobile internet connection, allowing you to
:18:12. > :18:14.download films for example in just minutes. But rival networks are
:18:14. > :18:18.telling consumers to wait until they provide a more comprehensive
:18:18. > :18:28.service next year. Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is
:18:28. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:35.in Salford. Quite an important day for the mobile internet and all the
:18:35. > :18:39.companies surrounding it. The final arrival of 4G in Britain. It is
:18:39. > :18:45.only on one network, EE network, and only in 11 cities, including
:18:45. > :18:52.Manchester. We are in Salford, we are getting a 4G connection on this
:18:52. > :18:56.a fine. It is straining at the One o'clock News in a very good quality.
:18:56. > :18:59.-- streaming. An indication of the sort of speed you get with this new
:18:59. > :19:05.policy. But in the end up will be consumers to decide how quickly
:19:05. > :19:10.this takes off. It is supposed to be the super-fast future of marbled
:19:10. > :19:15.publications but 4G has taken its time to arrive in Britain. It is
:19:15. > :19:20.all about speed. Now it has gone live with just one company, EE
:19:20. > :19:26.network, but you will need one of the 4G could have bought phones and
:19:26. > :19:31.you will pay more. We are all using a smart phones and tablets more,
:19:31. > :19:34.using Google maps, Facebook, trying to send and receive presentations
:19:34. > :19:38.if we are business people on the move, we have been talking to many
:19:38. > :19:44.customers out there and there is a huge demand for being able to do
:19:45. > :19:49.those things much faster than you are experiencing today. Manchester
:19:49. > :19:55.is one of the 11 cities to get 4G a first and I have been out and about
:19:55. > :20:03.testing it. So here, with a 4G master Narnia By Ruth, I am getting
:20:03. > :20:10.a good signal. But what happens one move out of town? De 4G has
:20:10. > :20:14.completely disappeared. But I'm getting a pretty good 3G signal.
:20:14. > :20:18.People say it can be pretty patchy, and it can disappear. Back in the
:20:18. > :20:23.centre of Manchester there is some excitement among high-tech firms
:20:23. > :20:27.that faster connections are arriving, and a bit of caution, too.
:20:27. > :20:33.I'm excited by the potential of 4G but I'm not going to rush out and
:20:33. > :20:36.get it, right now it is expensive, the contractors don't have enough
:20:36. > :20:40.data for what I want to do with them so I think I'm going to hold
:20:40. > :20:45.off into what happens when there is more competition in the marketplace.
:20:45. > :20:50.A decade ago 3G promised everything from video calls to online gaming
:20:50. > :20:56.but it took time for did it start using the services. Now 4G to offer
:20:56. > :21:02.even more, but again, people may wait until signing up to the super-
:21:02. > :21:07.fast future. I have done another little test of the speed of this 4G
:21:07. > :21:11.network, there it is, at 13 megs download, so that is good, not
:21:11. > :21:16.quite as productive as you might have hoped for from this technology.
:21:16. > :21:20.In the centre of London I have heard you can get 50 megabits a
:21:20. > :21:26.second and there are big hopes for this, it is important to stress we
:21:26. > :21:30.only have wondered what doing it, EE network. The other networks are
:21:30. > :21:34.saying, wait and see, we are going to launch this technology, ours is
:21:34. > :21:39.going to be better, it is going to be good indoors. That will really
:21:39. > :21:42.make a difference. Next year, a lot more competition, that should also
:21:42. > :21:46.mean it get a bit cheaper. The Metropolitan Police is drawing
:21:46. > :21:49.up plans to sell New Scotland Yard in a bid to save �500 million a
:21:49. > :21:53.year from its budget. The force would move its headquarters to a
:21:53. > :21:56.smaller building. The Met also wants to shut almost half of its
:21:56. > :21:59.front counters at police stations in London. Instead, people would be
:21:59. > :22:06.able to talk to police officers at supermarkets and community centres.
:22:06. > :22:10.Matt Prodger reports. A building in keeping with our time.
:22:10. > :22:14.It has been home to the Metropolitan Police since 1967. New
:22:14. > :22:24.Scotland Yard moved to a state-of- the-art building near St James's
:22:24. > :22:26.Park. Bringing information within seconds of being received. For 50
:22:26. > :22:34.years Dorival the sun has been the backdrop to some of the biggest
:22:34. > :22:42.crime stories. But what was once high-tech is now old hat and the
:22:42. > :22:45.move. The people of London one to see officers out on the street,
:22:46. > :22:50.they don't want to see us in the office buildings. This is about how
:22:50. > :22:54.we can be more imaginative and how we can save money. The idea is to
:22:54. > :23:00.move here, a building closer to Parliament. It would cut the head
:23:00. > :23:03.count at HQ from 3000 to 800, shifting many specialist units to
:23:03. > :23:09.other London buildings. This would be the first time that Scotland
:23:09. > :23:14.Yard has moved. It has done it twice before. His name derives from
:23:14. > :23:18.its original address over there in Westminster, but this time it is
:23:18. > :23:22.not expansion forcing the move, but budget cuts. The Metropolitan
:23:22. > :23:27.Police needs to save half a billion pounds in pre- years. Another plan
:23:27. > :23:32.is to cut senior officers and two put more police on the street. More
:23:32. > :23:36.controversial is the closure of some police stations and counters.
:23:36. > :23:40.Others it would meet the public in a supermarket and community centres
:23:40. > :23:45.-- officers. It is not certain yet, but senior officers say that the
:23:45. > :23:48.eye can make -- iconic assignable follow.
:23:48. > :23:51.Up to 1,000 jobs are being created by Royal Mail's expansion of its
:23:51. > :23:59.parcel business. The company is planning to invest �75 million over
:23:59. > :24:01.four years because of an increase in demand due to online shopping.
:24:01. > :24:04.The Swiss bank UBS has announced around 10,000 job losses worldwide.
:24:04. > :24:07.They represent a 16% cut in the workforce, and follow more than
:24:07. > :24:12.3,000 job cuts last year. The losses will affect its investment
:24:12. > :24:15.banking arm. A Japanese company is to build two
:24:15. > :24:18.nuclear power plants in the UK. Hitachi says it expects the project
:24:18. > :24:23.to create up to 12,000 jobs, during construction and 2,000 permanent
:24:23. > :24:33.jobs after that. Our industry correspondent John Moylan is in
:24:33. > :24:34.
:24:34. > :24:38.Central London. Explain what has been announced. They have bought
:24:38. > :24:41.what is called the Horizon project, which has been on hold, it was one
:24:41. > :24:44.of our best options for getting new nuclear plant in the future, but
:24:44. > :24:49.two German companies involved said they would pull out of it earlier
:24:49. > :24:54.in the year, so Hitachi have decided to buy this project,
:24:54. > :24:59.spending �700 million on it. Their plan is to build 46 nuclear
:24:59. > :25:03.reactors in two locations in Britain, one in North Wales and one
:25:03. > :25:07.in Gloucestershire. They said it will mean something like 12,000
:25:07. > :25:11.people being employed, but the big news we heard at a hotel behind me
:25:11. > :25:15.this morning was that 60% of the value of the first reactor will be
:25:15. > :25:19.spent here with companies in Britain, that has to be good news
:25:19. > :25:23.for British companies and for the supply chain, for what is going to
:25:23. > :25:26.be a new industry. How long will it take until those jobs and the
:25:26. > :25:31.investment come through? Good question, new nuclear is often
:25:31. > :25:37.associated with running way over budget and behind schedule. Hitachi
:25:37. > :25:41.have been building on their reactor designed for several years now,
:25:41. > :25:45.they have built several of them and say it always comes in on time and
:25:45. > :25:49.on budget, so they claim they will have the first tractor operational
:25:49. > :25:53.by the early part of the next decade. But all of this depends on
:25:53. > :25:57.whether Hitachi thinks it can make money here. That will depend on how
:25:57. > :26:01.much they are going to get for the electricity, the strike price,
:26:01. > :26:04.today they said they believed the strike price will be fair, but
:26:04. > :26:14.negotiations between Hitachi and the government haven't even begun
:26:14. > :26:17.yet on that. Dramatic footage has emerged of the moment that two
:26:17. > :26:20.fishermen were rescued from a trawler in the middle of the Irish
:26:20. > :26:22.Sea just minutes before their boat sank. The men were airlifted to
:26:22. > :26:28.hospital and have now been discharged. Andy Martin reports on
:26:28. > :26:34.a lucky escape. So often, fishing boats sink at
:26:35. > :26:40.night, far from sure and from help. It doesn't help but the Snowdonia
:26:40. > :26:45.skipper and his crew mates were incredibly fortunate that a largely
:26:45. > :26:53.Lithuanian crew was close by, and one of thing captured the bike's
:26:53. > :26:58.last dramatic moment. -- one of them. He was dragged down with it,
:26:58. > :27:04.had he not somehow become free, he would almost certainly have drowned.
:27:04. > :27:08.It has something that does happen in that industry, I am afraid.
:27:08. > :27:12.is unique in that we have film footage of it, with other ones, we
:27:12. > :27:16.haven't. The two boys were fortunate, that is for sure. They
:27:16. > :27:21.were airlifted to hospital shortly after the rescue, but were
:27:21. > :27:26.discharged within hours. We didn't even have time to put out a
:27:26. > :27:30.distress call. They had the right equipment, they had time did get a
:27:30. > :27:35.life jacket on, had they not done that, and have the equipment
:27:35. > :27:39.available, we would be looking at a different outcome. Ardglass, like
:27:39. > :27:43.many harbours, has seen its fair share of losses at sea. This
:27:43. > :27:48.footage shows a rare glimpse of how frightening and fast as sinking can
:27:48. > :27:50.be in this incredibly tough industry.
:27:50. > :27:54.The Metropolitan Police have launched a criminal investigation
:27:54. > :27:58.into alleged comments made by referee Marcus and boat during the
:27:58. > :28:02.match between Chelsea and Manchester United. Chelsea say he
:28:02. > :28:12.used it appropriate and racial language. The FA have also started
:28:12. > :28:17.an inquiry. Time for a look at the Sandy certainly lived up to
:28:17. > :28:21.expectations, just some of the statistics, we had 300 mm Of Rain a
:28:21. > :28:29.falling in New Jersey. That is about half of what we would expect
:28:29. > :28:33.any year in places like Birmingham and York. There is plenty more rain
:28:33. > :28:36.and more snow to come from this huge storm, extending all the way
:28:37. > :28:41.from the eastern seaboard to Lake Michigan. Back home, a spell of wet
:28:41. > :28:45.and windy weather, but nothing that extreme. A pretty pleasant
:28:46. > :28:54.afternoon across the bulk of England and Wales. A bit more cloud
:28:54. > :28:58.across north-west England. De winds, picking up, that is going to
:28:59. > :29:02.strengthen through the night. Bringing rain to Northern Ireland
:29:02. > :29:06.and it is going to start coming down across much of Wales and
:29:06. > :29:11.north-west England as well. It will not be anything like as cold as
:29:12. > :29:17.last night. Perhaps telling a bit colder in north-west Scotland, as
:29:17. > :29:24.the rain clears away. The rain should clear from Northern Ireland,
:29:24. > :29:27.brighter skies here. To Rayner will last for much of tomorrow over the
:29:27. > :29:32.hills in Cumbria, the same goes for the hills and mountains of north
:29:32. > :29:37.and west Wales. That rain can that really building up. A dry and
:29:37. > :29:42.bright start, maybe a bit more cloud and a few showers across the
:29:42. > :29:50.south-east. Wherever you are, you will notice that wind. The rain
:29:50. > :29:53.band will linger, wheelie building up -- really building up. Brighter
:29:53. > :30:01.skies following across Scotland and Northern Ireland, a few showers
:30:01. > :30:04.here. It will feel cooler because of the wind. The wind and wet
:30:04. > :30:10.weather continues during Wednesday evening, particularly across
:30:10. > :30:13.England and Wales. Be prepared for a blustery and rather soggy evening,
:30:13. > :30:18.the rain clearing in Scotland and Northern Ireland, it could lead to
:30:18. > :30:22.a frosty start on Thursday. The wet and windy weather is from an area
:30:22. > :30:29.under pressure, the weather front is heading eastwards, getting to
:30:29. > :30:35.Eastern Counties by the early hours of Thursday morning. Lida winds
:30:35. > :30:45.further north, possibly a frosty start here. -- lighter winds.
:30:45. > :30:47.
:30:47. > :30:53.Our top story: a major disaster is declared after superstore on sandy
:30:53. > :30:57.sweeps through the east of the US, leaving flooding, fires and power
:30:57. > :31:02.cuts in its wake. Much of lower Manhattan was flooded and plunged
:31:02. > :31:09.into darkness as a PoW failed and one hospital had to be evacuated.