:00:08. > :00:13.The death toll has risen to 17, but police are warning
:00:14. > :00:21.The building is still smouldering, 36 hours
:00:22. > :00:26.after the devastating blaze took hold.
:00:27. > :00:29.Firefighters who have reached the top floors say there is no hope
:00:30. > :00:35.My fire fighters were desperate to get in there and desperate
:00:36. > :00:38.to rescue people and we committed crew after crew into a very
:00:39. > :00:42.dangerous, very hot and very difficult situation.
:00:43. > :00:48.Specialist teams are now trying to make the tower safe so they can
:00:49. > :00:55.The faces of some of the many who are still unaccounted for,
:00:56. > :00:59.young and old, many of them trapped on the upper floors of the building.
:01:00. > :01:01.Jessica, she is still missing, she was on the news,
:01:02. > :01:04.and it is horrible for me to hear they are missing or
:01:05. > :01:10.they are dead or they are in hospital or something.
:01:11. > :01:13.How did the blaze start and why did it engulf the entire
:01:14. > :01:29.So many questions and as yet no answers.
:01:30. > :01:53.Stay with BBC news throughout the day.
:01:54. > :02:00.Firefighters say they are not expecting to find anyone else alive
:02:01. > :02:06.in this tower block, which is still smouldering,
:02:07. > :02:13.36 hours after a massive fire tore through it.
:02:14. > :02:17.But the London Fire Brigade chief says there are still unknown numbers
:02:18. > :02:21.Friends and relatives of the missing are still desperately
:02:22. > :02:25.37 people remain in hospital, 17 are critical.
:02:26. > :02:30.This morning the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition
:02:31. > :02:42.The Prime Minister has announced there will be a full public inquiry.
:02:43. > :02:44.The Queen paid tribute to the "bravery" of the hundreds
:02:45. > :02:46.of firefighters who battled against the flames.
:02:47. > :02:49.She also praised the "incredible generosity" of volunteers who've
:02:50. > :02:53.poured in to this area offering help and support.
:02:54. > :02:55.Richard Lister with our first report and warning that this
:02:56. > :03:10.The smoke blackened ruin was still smouldering this morning. It took
:03:11. > :03:14.more than 24 hours to get the blaze under control. Pockets of late in
:03:15. > :03:18.areas that were too dangerous to reach. There were bodies as well.
:03:19. > :03:24.Nobody knows how many. Finding them is a challenge. This will be a very
:03:25. > :03:28.slow and painstaking process. This is a large building. There will be a
:03:29. > :03:34.large amount of building work required internally, structures will
:03:35. > :03:39.need to be built to ensure the floors are safe. Before we do that
:03:40. > :03:43.we are going to utilise some specialist dog training teams that
:03:44. > :03:47.we have, in conduction with the Metropolitan Police, that will go
:03:48. > :03:51.through the building and surrounding area looking for identification of
:03:52. > :03:56.people. The search could take weeks and police say the number of dead is
:03:57. > :04:01.expected to rise, but how much is not clear. Our absolute priority for
:04:02. > :04:06.all of us is about identifying and locating those people who are still
:04:07. > :04:13.missing and it would be fit wrong of me to give a number that is not
:04:14. > :04:17.accurate. One person has been reported 46 times that they believe
:04:18. > :04:22.to be missing. How did this happen? The cause has not been formally
:04:23. > :04:27.identified. Understanding why it spreads of us could take weeks,
:04:28. > :04:31.months, and for local people who saw the disaster unfold, grief is
:04:32. > :04:35.turning to anger. If you had seen that building go up like I saw it
:04:36. > :04:40.from my back window you would have no doubt it was not fit for purpose.
:04:41. > :04:48.Someone may be catastrophic error. We are grieving but there is public
:04:49. > :04:53.anger underneath and we want to see someone held accountable. I feel
:04:54. > :04:58.angry that I saw people dying in front of my eyes. I saw kids and
:04:59. > :05:10.women and kids this age hanging from windows with teddies. That angered
:05:11. > :05:15.me, and nobody could help them. This war has become a collection of a
:05:16. > :05:20.community upset. Some have left messages for loved ones and others
:05:21. > :05:24.are thanking the emergency services. The Queen said her thoughts and
:05:25. > :05:25.prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones in the Grenfell
:05:26. > :05:43.Tower fire. The Prime Minister went to see the
:05:44. > :05:47.site for herself this morning. Downing Street stressed it was a
:05:48. > :05:52.private visit and Theresa May did not make any public statements. She
:05:53. > :05:56.has promised a full investigation. The area around the tower is
:05:57. > :05:59.littered with these burnt remnants of the building's cladding.
:06:00. > :06:04.Survivors will want to know why it was so flammable and wider concerns
:06:05. > :06:09.were not taken more seriously. It was obvious that the time when I
:06:10. > :06:14.worked here in 2015 that the tenants were very aware of multiple problems
:06:15. > :06:20.with the building including potential fire safety problems, and
:06:21. > :06:25.I worked with that community, the tenant management did not listen to
:06:26. > :06:29.them. The contractor did not listen to the tenants' concerns. As fires
:06:30. > :06:33.continued in part of the building today those responsible for Grenfell
:06:34. > :06:38.Tower insisted it complied with all the relevant building codes and
:06:39. > :06:41.regulations, but it stands as a monument to a fire protection policy
:06:42. > :06:44.that clearly failed in the most devastating way.
:06:45. > :06:47.There are a lot of people missing, whole families
:06:48. > :06:52.Heart breaking stories of last phone calls and messages from people
:06:53. > :06:56.Relatives and friends have been travelling from hospital to hospital
:06:57. > :07:00.Our reporter reports on the desperate search
:07:01. > :07:03.for the missing, and again a warning that viewers may find
:07:04. > :07:20.There's Hospital in Paddington is looking after 11 patients, three of
:07:21. > :07:25.them in critical care, mostly suffering with smoke inhalation.
:07:26. > :07:31.This person is visiting her friends daughter who is extremely unwell.
:07:32. > :07:41.She is not in a good condition because she is in ICU. She cannot
:07:42. > :07:45.talk. We have just seen this family and this is their extended family
:07:46. > :07:54.that you have gone to see. Utterly distraught. How are you? How is the
:07:55. > :08:01.community? I do not know. I do not know what to say. I am really
:08:02. > :08:10.stressed and really disappointed. I could not believe what happened to
:08:11. > :08:14.them. It was like a dream. Many families desperately searching for
:08:15. > :08:18.loved ones have come here since Wednesday morning but as the hours
:08:19. > :08:21.passed the search becomes more agonising with the realisation that
:08:22. > :08:28.at this stage they are unlikely to get the news they so badly work for.
:08:29. > :08:32.This man is desperate. He was separated from his 12-year-old
:08:33. > :08:37.daughter Jessica during the fire and is still going from hospital to
:08:38. > :08:42.hospital to try to find her. I was at home. I was downstairs with a
:08:43. > :08:47.friend. The fire started and I tried to go upstairs and the firefighters
:08:48. > :08:56.were already there and they would not allow me to go up. She was out
:08:57. > :09:00.of the flat at 1:30am. She was making her way down with some
:09:01. > :09:08.people. Her phone cut off. We do not know. I think she was on the Spears.
:09:09. > :09:13.Hopefully someone has seen her in hospital. This is Jessica. Her
:09:14. > :09:20.friends are also trying to understand what has happened. I have
:09:21. > :09:25.a friend called Jessica. She is still missing. It is horrible for me
:09:26. > :09:29.to hear that they are missing or dead or in hospital or something. So
:09:30. > :09:36.many are still missing, the young and old.
:09:37. > :09:49.37 people are still in hospitals across London.
:09:50. > :09:52.Many of them are critical, adults and children suffering
:09:53. > :09:56.from injuries caused by smoke inhalation.
:09:57. > :09:58.Our reporter is at St Mary's hospital in Paddington,
:09:59. > :10:12.There's Hospital is the closest major hospital to the tower block.
:10:13. > :10:17.It is currently treating the greatest number of patients. There
:10:18. > :10:21.are 11 patients being treated here, the Mack in critical care. One of
:10:22. > :10:26.the greatest challenges facing medics here will be to treat signs
:10:27. > :10:31.of smoke inhalation. It can have serious effects on the lungs of the
:10:32. > :10:36.windpipe, the airways, it can cause swelling and make it difficult to
:10:37. > :10:44.breathe. For anyone the medics are particularly concerned about the may
:10:45. > :10:47.have put them in just coma and given them an artificial breathing chip to
:10:48. > :10:52.allow them to breathe in a controlled wait until the lungs
:10:53. > :10:57.recover. They will be looking for signs of carbon monoxide poisoning
:10:58. > :11:00.and cyanide poisoning because home furnishings in a closed space can
:11:01. > :11:05.leave people at risk of this. They have the antidote to that here as
:11:06. > :11:09.they will at all of the major trauma centres treating people from the
:11:10. > :11:13.fire. I spoke to one doctor who said it is likely the majority of people
:11:14. > :11:19.experiencing these problems will already have been seen across London
:11:20. > :11:21.but if anyone is worried, as signs of wheezing or difficulties
:11:22. > :11:27.breathing they should be checked out. The medics are aware that it is
:11:28. > :11:31.not just the physical problems of smoke inhalation that people will be
:11:32. > :11:35.feeling, there will be the psychological effects lingering
:11:36. > :11:38.across London for some time to come. Indeed.
:11:39. > :11:42.There is of course a lot of focus on the new exterior cladding
:11:43. > :11:45.that was put on this 1970s tower block just last year as part
:11:46. > :11:51.The main question, how was the fire able to take hold in just minutes
:11:52. > :12:03.Our reporter reports on the investigation ahead.
:12:04. > :12:10.Tower block fires, an international pattern is emerging. In France in
:12:11. > :12:15.2012 when a barbecue blaze spread rapidly up the outside mat like at
:12:16. > :12:25.Grenfell Tower, the cladding was a factor. Again in Melbourne, three
:12:26. > :12:30.years ago, similar cladding burning contributing to a fire which shocked
:12:31. > :12:35.Australia. On New Year's Eve at the end of 2015 in Dubai, the flames
:12:36. > :12:42.spreading like wildfire and across aluminium composite cladding. For
:12:43. > :12:47.fire safety expert there were warnings. There is enough evidence
:12:48. > :12:55.from fires in Australia, Abu Dhabi, France and others to show there is a
:12:56. > :12:58.problem unfolding. Spreading fires are an emerging issue and it is
:12:59. > :13:02.coming on the back of modern methods of construction which are leading to
:13:03. > :13:10.the introduction of new combustible materials, Vogts, a combustible
:13:11. > :13:14.structure. As the implications thinking it is natural people who
:13:15. > :13:17.live in tower blocks should be seeking reassurance because you only
:13:18. > :13:21.have to look at the website for instance of the company that
:13:22. > :13:24.supplied the cladding to see plenty of other examples of projects where
:13:25. > :13:31.similar looking cladding has been going in. There is a big job for
:13:32. > :13:36.councils calming people's fears where appropriate but taking action
:13:37. > :13:41.where it is necessary. The visits are starting. In derby fire officers
:13:42. > :13:45.going into buildings today to be sure residents about safety. There
:13:46. > :13:49.will be detailed inspections demanded by the government from
:13:50. > :13:54.councils across the country but that will not deal with concerns that
:13:55. > :13:57.materials can still be factor in a fire while meeting building
:13:58. > :14:01.regulations. There is a minimum requirement for the materials used
:14:02. > :14:07.and the installation of those materials. To say it was directly a
:14:08. > :14:13.fault of the cladding... It will soon come to light but it is very
:14:14. > :14:17.difficult to speculate at this time. It was the most shocking blaze
:14:18. > :14:21.firefighters had seen which spread at unprecedented speed. Experts have
:14:22. > :14:27.honed in on the cladding, faced with aluminium which may have peeled off
:14:28. > :14:31.exploding plastic material inside. There may have been flammable form
:14:32. > :14:34.insulation behind. Those babies the reasons. A grim and painstaking
:14:35. > :14:39.investigation is still to come. Well, as we've heard,
:14:40. > :14:41.Theresa May has been The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also
:14:42. > :14:47.visited the scene and met volunteers helping the community
:14:48. > :14:49.as they try to cope He told them the truth
:14:50. > :14:54.about what happened had to come Our political correspondent
:14:55. > :15:06.Chris Mason reports. The Prime Minister visited
:15:07. > :15:12.Kensington this morning to see the remains of the tower herself and
:15:13. > :15:18.speak to firefighters. She returned to Downing Street and in the last
:15:19. > :15:22.few minutes said this. I am ordering a full public inquiry into this
:15:23. > :15:27.disaster. We need to know what happened. We need to have an
:15:28. > :15:30.explanation of this. We owe that to the families, to the people who have
:15:31. > :15:36.lost loved ones, friends, and the homes in which they lived. The
:15:37. > :15:41.Labour leader has also paid a visit. Someone has to be held accountable,
:15:42. > :15:46.responsible. We do not want the government to hide this with some
:15:47. > :15:50.hollow platitude. Kensington this lunchtime. A community angry and
:15:51. > :15:59.demanding an explanation from politicians. Locally and nationally.
:16:00. > :16:03.The truth has got to come out. This is a community that is angry and
:16:04. > :16:07.demanding an explanation from politicians locally and nationally.
:16:08. > :16:12.The construction of the tower block is essentially a series of concrete
:16:13. > :16:16.boxes which are the flats. The fire is not supposed to spread from one
:16:17. > :16:22.flat to another. It is supposed to begin teamed. It was not. It spread
:16:23. > :16:28.and it spread upwards and outside through the cladding.
:16:29. > :16:33.In the next half-hour, MPs will have a chance to question a government
:16:34. > :16:37.minister about what has happened and there are lots of questions
:16:38. > :16:42.demanding answers. Among those, should residents in tower blocks
:16:43. > :16:45.continue to be advised to stay put in their flats when fire breaks out.
:16:46. > :16:48.Why has a review of Elding regulations covering fire safety
:16:49. > :16:52.promised by the government not been published? And why are sprinkler
:16:53. > :16:59.system is not in more widespread use? Over the years, just not
:17:00. > :17:02.recently, we've made countless speeches saying that sprinklers
:17:03. > :17:05.should be fitted for incidents. It is absolute madness that it isn't
:17:06. > :17:11.mandatory for sprinklers to automatically befitted in all new
:17:12. > :17:15.school buildings and it's impossible to put any amount of money on
:17:16. > :17:22.someone's life. A rising death toll and hundreds left homeless. A Prime
:17:23. > :17:27.Minister who lost a majority and yet to prove since that she can't
:17:28. > :17:30.govern. And now, ever louder voices demanding the government responds
:17:31. > :17:35.properly to this tragedy. Theresa May will hope a public enquiry can
:17:36. > :17:38.ensure that happens. Chris Mason, BBC News.
:17:39. > :17:43.Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.
:17:44. > :17:50.There is a lot of anger in this community, not surprisingly. Now the
:17:51. > :17:53.Prime Minister has announced this public enquiry? She has, and I
:17:54. > :17:58.suspect that was probably inevitable, given the scale of the
:17:59. > :18:02.loss of life, the indignation that this could happen in one of the
:18:03. > :18:06.richest cities in the world, and also, the clear sense of anger that
:18:07. > :18:10.was beginning to emerge about the way officialdom was seen to have
:18:11. > :18:17.ignored the seemingly repeated warnings of tenants about the fire
:18:18. > :18:20.risks. Anger directed not just at the tenants' management organisation
:18:21. > :18:24.and the local council, but very directly at the government. So we
:18:25. > :18:27.will now get enquiry which if it follows the course of previous
:18:28. > :18:32.enquiries, may well be headed by a judge. We'll have to see. It will
:18:33. > :18:37.almost certainly hold its evidence sessions in public and those who
:18:38. > :18:42.will give evidence will include a local council, the builders, the
:18:43. > :18:46.contractors, but yes, also I expect the tenants and relatives of some of
:18:47. > :18:49.the victims. Now that of course will be difficult testimony to hear and
:18:50. > :18:54.that will be in public session, and the hope will be to establish
:18:55. > :18:57.exactly what happened and the possibility then is you could see
:18:58. > :19:04.criminal charges. Then the hope would be finally to come up with a
:19:05. > :19:07.coherent and binding set of recommendations to ensure firstly
:19:08. > :19:12.that such mistakes are not made again, but also to reassure tenants
:19:13. > :19:20.in existing tower blocks and to set a template for future fire safety
:19:21. > :19:23.future tower blocks. Norman Smith in Westminster, thank you.
:19:24. > :19:26.An emergency number has been set up for anyone concerned for loved ones
:19:27. > :19:43.The Casualty Bureau is 0800 0961 233.
:19:44. > :19:48.The fire crews are still trying to dampen down the flames, a small cup
:19:49. > :19:52.pockets of fire that have been breaking out since we've been on
:19:53. > :19:56.air. There's been an awful lot of the praise for the fire crews. 200
:19:57. > :19:59.fire crews went into the burning tower and risked their own lives
:20:00. > :20:03.trying to get people out. We'll be talking about them later in the
:20:04. > :20:05.programme and also about the extraordinary community responsive.
:20:06. > :20:08.Now it's back to Simon, in the studio.
:20:09. > :20:13.The Prime Minister has called for a full public inquiry
:20:14. > :20:17.The number of those confirmed dead is now 17 -
:20:18. > :20:21.but police are warning that is expected to rise.
:20:22. > :20:24.The faces of some of the many who are still unaccounted for -
:20:25. > :20:32.young and old, many of them trapped on the upper floors of the building.
:20:33. > :20:38.Stay with BBC News throughout the day for all the developments from
:20:39. > :20:49.our correspondents at the scene of the London tower block fire.
:20:50. > :20:51.Theresa May will meet political parties from Northern Ireland
:20:52. > :20:55.She'll discuss plans to restore power-sharing at Stormont -
:20:56. > :20:57.and try to allay growing concerns about her attempt to secure
:20:58. > :21:00.the backing of Democratic Unionist MPs in parliament.
:21:01. > :21:06.Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler is at Stormont for us.
:21:07. > :21:14.This could be quite a difficult meeting? Yes, it certainly could. A
:21:15. > :21:18.devolved government here collapsed in January, and the attempts to try
:21:19. > :21:22.to get power sharing up and running, the clock is ticking on that. The
:21:23. > :21:27.deadline is two weeks today. There is a pressure to try and get this
:21:28. > :21:30.deal done. Theresa May will meet the parties half an hour apart, one
:21:31. > :21:34.after the other, inside Downing Street, and she'll encourage them to
:21:35. > :21:37.consult -- to come to some sort of agreement. However a lot of this
:21:38. > :21:41.meeting is also about reassurance, because of that very separate
:21:42. > :21:44.negotiation that is going on at Westminster between the Tories and
:21:45. > :21:49.the DUP. Theresa May of course needs their support to form a government,
:21:50. > :21:54.to try to ensure that they have a majority in parliament. The DUP are
:21:55. > :21:58.crucial to that. But that has caused some concerns for the parties here,
:21:59. > :22:02.particularly Sinn Fein, who have been openly question the -- openly
:22:03. > :22:05.questioning, whether the Conservatives, who have presented
:22:06. > :22:09.themselves as facilitators in the negotiations, can really been seen
:22:10. > :22:13.as impartial in them. The chair for example has seen himself as being,
:22:14. > :22:17.James Brokenshire, the Northern Ireland Secretary. There are
:22:18. > :22:19.attempts to offer that reassurance and for example the outgoing head of
:22:20. > :22:26.the Northern Ireland civil service is now being brought in as a kind of
:22:27. > :22:29.mediator. Nonetheless, it is the case that what is happening at
:22:30. > :22:33.Westminster could impinge on things here at Stormont. As for what is
:22:34. > :22:38.happening in Westminster, well, the DUP say that officially no deal has
:22:39. > :22:41.been agreed yet, but it feels like the parties are quite close to
:22:42. > :22:45.coming to an agreement. There is some speculation that issues about
:22:46. > :22:49.money are concerning the Treasury, how that would work, will Northern
:22:50. > :22:53.Ireland get more than other parts of the UK, could that cause problems.
:22:54. > :22:56.Those are the kind of discussions that are being had. But it does seem
:22:57. > :23:00.clear at this stage now that Theresa May has said that the Queen's speech
:23:01. > :23:04.will go ahead on Wednesday that she feels she does have the support of
:23:05. > :23:06.the DUP, certainly for her legislative programme going ahead in
:23:07. > :23:12.this Parliament. But it's worth stating again, that friendship, that
:23:13. > :23:15.partnership at Westminster it doesn't necessarily mean better
:23:16. > :23:20.relationships here at Stormont. Chris Buckler, thank you.
:23:21. > :23:22.There are more signs today that consumers are cutting
:23:23. > :23:24.back on their spending - in reaction to higher
:23:25. > :23:28.Official figures showed store prices saw their steepest jump
:23:29. > :23:31.With the exception of food, we bought fewer goods in May
:23:32. > :23:33.than we did in the same month last year.
:23:34. > :23:37.Our economics correspondent Andy Verity is here.
:23:38. > :23:42.Up until now, people have seemed to want to spend willy-nilly and
:23:43. > :23:45.there's a warning from the Bank of England we could be looking at a
:23:46. > :23:49.change in interest rates at some stage. We've seen a slowdown in
:23:50. > :23:51.economic growth in the first quarter of the year and it suggests
:23:52. > :23:58.consumers are pulling their horns and a little bit, because in the
:23:59. > :24:00.past even though wages haven't been rowing as fast as prices, we had a
:24:01. > :24:03.long period of that, consumers have still kept up their spending will
:24:04. > :24:05.stop retail sales haven't slowed down, they've kept growing. So
:24:06. > :24:11.what's different now? The big squeeze in incomes in between
:24:12. > :24:16.2011-14, we had other things going on, more people coming into the
:24:17. > :24:19.country, they spend money, households had more with two jobs,
:24:20. > :24:23.that was more money being spent. Things seem to be slowing down. This
:24:24. > :24:26.means the Bank of England have a dilemma. If the economy is slowing
:24:27. > :24:31.down you don't want to be raising interest rates, but on the other
:24:32. > :24:35.hand, inflation at 2.9% looks close to getting above the Bank of
:24:36. > :24:39.England's target rate. It shouldn't go above 3%. Three members of the
:24:40. > :24:44.bank's Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise rates, that is the
:24:45. > :24:48.most we've had voting for arrays for ten years, so potentially looking at
:24:49. > :24:51.an interest rate rise in the next year. Interestingly enough the
:24:52. > :24:54.Mansion house speech is tonight and Philip Hammond has just recently
:24:55. > :24:58.announced in breaking News that he's pulling out. He said, in view of the
:24:59. > :25:01.Grenfell Tower tragedy I've withdrawn from giving the Mansion
:25:02. > :25:06.house speech tonight. My thoughts are with the local community. That
:25:07. > :25:10.puts Mark Carney, the governor, in an interesting position. If it's
:25:11. > :25:14.sensitive to speak, what attitude should he strike? Thank you. Back
:25:15. > :25:17.now to save the race with in West London. -- to Sophie Raworth in West
:25:18. > :25:20.London. The response from the community
:25:21. > :25:23.here has been extraordinary. Within hours of the fire breaking
:25:24. > :25:25.out, the streets around here were filled with tables covered
:25:26. > :25:28.in food, water and clothes for these people who have lost
:25:29. > :25:30.absolutely everything. Some of the community centres
:25:31. > :25:32.and sports halls that have been turned into temporary shelters have
:25:33. > :25:35.received so many donations they've Tom Burridge reports
:25:36. > :25:54.on the volunteers who have dropped This shows you how people here feel.
:25:55. > :25:59.Everything donated. A diverse community which cares. It's
:26:00. > :26:03.incredible at the moment. Everyone is coming together, more people keep
:26:04. > :26:08.coming and helping out, trying to do as much as possible. I heart feels
:26:09. > :26:12.for London when I feel all these people come together, helping each
:26:13. > :26:17.other in a time of need. People have given so much it's hard to organise.
:26:18. > :26:21.We are inundated with donations of fresh food, fruit, vegetables,
:26:22. > :26:25.clothes, toys, you name it. We've got it. Some are giving more than
:26:26. > :26:32.belongings. Counselling those whose loved ones have died. They are
:26:33. > :26:36.sobbing and crying. Can you imagine a woman from Ethiopian, where I've
:26:37. > :26:42.been, very religious, she was coming down the main stairway in Grenfell
:26:43. > :26:46.Tower with her 12-year-old daughter and the flames and smoke covered her
:26:47. > :26:52.daughter and she lost her. Other parents were throwing their babies
:26:53. > :26:57.out of the window. People round, I live opposite, I just saw flame, but
:26:58. > :27:03.people next door the children in the window shouting, help me. A lot of
:27:04. > :27:08.children were inside. It's horrific. This is the reception at the local
:27:09. > :27:11.sports centre. Now storing and distributing food. Local schools
:27:12. > :27:16.here have been touched. Their response is to act. All the local
:27:17. > :27:21.schools have been helping. I know my mum spent 14 hours helping yesterday
:27:22. > :27:30.take donations in and she said look, they're things, people coming in,
:27:31. > :27:34.it's amazing. Helping out offering beds, food, toiletries, clothes,
:27:35. > :27:37.whatever we can do, everyone has been helping out and I'm proud of
:27:38. > :27:43.how well people have chipped in. Help just keeps on coming. To give
:27:44. > :27:49.you a sense of how the community here has reacted, well, they say
:27:50. > :27:55.pictures speak louder than words. At a mosque nearby businesses
:27:56. > :28:03.delivering for free and people pitching up. This is generosity
:28:04. > :28:07.defined. It's so terrible that the situation that's happened and we are
:28:08. > :28:10.all just trying to come together to help everybody, so many families
:28:11. > :28:16.have nothing now. You know, the little that we have we can pass it
:28:17. > :28:21.onto them to make their lives a little bit better. Just around the
:28:22. > :28:26.corner from Grenfell Tower, a of messages. What would you write? For
:28:27. > :28:34.something so awful it is hard to express in words. Tom Burridge, BBC
:28:35. > :28:38.News, in West London. Incredibly moving, reading some of the messages
:28:39. > :28:40.left for the victims of this fire. Our correspondent Richard Galpin is
:28:41. > :28:47.therefore as now. Yes, this wall of remembrance, is
:28:48. > :28:51.also being called the wall of condolences, has been growing by the
:28:52. > :28:54.hour. We've been here for a little while and they are putting more and
:28:55. > :28:57.more panels up, because there are so many people here and have been
:28:58. > :29:00.throughout the day, streaming through here, leaving an enormous
:29:01. > :29:07.number of messages. Obviously the vast majority are essentially, rest
:29:08. > :29:12.in peace, for those who have been killed. But also messages for the
:29:13. > :29:16.missing and we can see here one of the posters for this woman, Mariem
:29:17. > :29:22.Elgwahry, who was on the 19th floor and last seen at 2:30am, when the
:29:23. > :29:26.fire broke out, and appealing for any information and phone numbers
:29:27. > :29:29.for people to call, if they have any information about that. Of course,
:29:30. > :29:33.there are so many missing people. There are also those messages of
:29:34. > :29:37.anger. If I can point you appear it says, jailed those responsible.
:29:38. > :29:42.While this community has very much come together, there's a real sense
:29:43. > :29:46.of community spirit, there's also a sense of anger about how this fire
:29:47. > :29:51.could have happened. Indeed, Richard, thank you.
:29:52. > :29:52.More than 200 firefighters tackled this blaze yesterday.
:29:53. > :29:55.They were sent into this building though it was alight
:29:56. > :29:57.from top to bottom - not knowing what they'd find
:29:58. > :30:02.One firefighter called Mick tweeted a photo of his fire helmet and said,
:30:03. > :30:05.you know it's bad when you're told to write your name on your helmet.
:30:06. > :30:08.London Fire Brigade's chief Dany Cotton has heaped praise
:30:09. > :30:11.on her firefighters, the emergency service
:30:12. > :30:13.heroes who did everything they could to save those
:30:14. > :30:30.Early on in the fire, my firefighters tried to reach some
:30:31. > :30:35.I spoke to a crew before I left who had been to the 20th
:30:36. > :30:39.We specifically targeted flats where we were getting calls,
:30:40. > :30:44.As the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade,
:30:45. > :30:48.it was a very stressful and difficult time.
:30:49. > :30:50.I was looking at a building engulfed in fire, I knew members
:30:51. > :30:53.of the public were still trapped yet I was committing hundreds
:30:54. > :30:57.of firefighters to a building which to a lot of people
:30:58. > :31:01.My firefighters were desperate to get in there
:31:02. > :31:08.Crew after crew were sent into a very dangerous,
:31:09. > :31:11.very hot and difficult situation because we have a passion to do
:31:12. > :31:13.as much as we could to rescue the people in there.
:31:14. > :31:16.It was a very challenging, very difficult and very traumatic
:31:17. > :31:22.Up to nine of my firefighters suffered minor burns,
:31:23. > :31:26.some heat exhaustion due to the intensity in
:31:27. > :31:33.Some obvious slips and trips over debris falling everywhere.
:31:34. > :31:35.I am more concerned longer term about the mental
:31:36. > :31:39.impact on the people who were here because it was
:31:40. > :31:42.an unprecedented event and people saw and heard things on a scale
:31:43. > :31:49.Going forward, one of my main concerns is the mental health
:31:50. > :31:51.and well-being of my firefighters and doing trauma and care
:31:52. > :32:09.The words of London's Fire Brigade chief, Dany Cotton. Now the weather,
:32:10. > :32:12.with Jay Wynne. Good afternoon. This rainbow was captured in Somerset
:32:13. > :32:15.from a passing shower. One thing will notice today as it will turn
:32:16. > :32:18.that bit fresher and we have sunshine and showers, but not an
:32:19. > :32:22.equal measures. We have the fresh air coming in behind this band of
:32:23. > :32:27.cloud, just moving its way eastwards. You can see the speckling
:32:28. > :32:30.of showers, mostly in Scotland and Northern Ireland. For the bulk of
:32:31. > :32:34.England and Wales Cricket Board of fine weather this afternoon. A bit
:32:35. > :32:38.of a breeze but some good spells of sunshine. A lovely afternoon across
:32:39. > :32:41.the south-west, 17-18, still a bit breezy but a good deal of sunshine.
:32:42. > :32:45.A bit of patchy cloud. A lovely afternoon on the south coast. But
:32:46. > :32:49.the breeze is there to contend with. Maybe a shower for some parts of
:32:50. > :33:02.south-east of England but most bases fine and dry. Not as warm as
:33:03. > :33:04.yesterday but still 23-24, not too bad for the middle of June. Other
:33:05. > :33:07.teams across northern England, maybe a shower or two but most of the
:33:08. > :33:10.showers are in Central and Scotland. 16-17 in Belfast with some showers
:33:11. > :33:14.moving through on the breeze. Showers are few and far between and
:33:15. > :33:17.across Wales and we'll get temperatures in the upper teens. The
:33:18. > :33:21.breeze continues to blow through this evening. One or two showers
:33:22. > :33:24.across Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland. A lot of dry
:33:25. > :33:29.weather overnight. It should be fresher. By Friday morning,
:33:30. > :33:32.temperatures down by a good few degrees in a few places but still
:33:33. > :33:36.12-13 to start the day. Friday will turn into a day of the north-south
:33:37. > :33:40.split with the northern half of UK seeing more cloud. Most of the rain
:33:41. > :33:43.confined to the west of Scotland, the north-west of injured. The best
:33:44. > :33:49.of sunshine further south and it will be quite warm, 23-24. 20 odd
:33:50. > :33:54.degrees in Belfast, not too far behind that in Aberdeen. At the
:33:55. > :33:57.start of the weekend high pressure builds in. It will be a bit of
:33:58. > :33:59.breeze and rain in the north-west but most bases on Saturday will be
:34:00. > :34:03.fine with variable cloud, some sunshine and some warmth. We will
:34:04. > :34:07.get hotter as we head towards Sunday. Back to you.
:34:08. > :34:10.A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.
:34:11. > :34:12.The Prime Minister has called for a full public inquiry
:34:13. > :34:21.The number of those confirmed dead is now 17 but police are warning
:34:22. > :34:28.that is expected to continue to rise. The faces of some of the many
:34:29. > :34:34.who are still unaccounted for, young and old, many of them trapped on the
:34:35. > :34:38.other floors of the building. -- upper floors. So many people still
:34:39. > :34:41.missing, so many questions unanswered. We have continuing
:34:42. > :34:43.coverage on BBC News.