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The death toll has risen to 17, but police are warning | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
The building is still smouldering, 36 hours | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
after the devastating blaze took hold. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Firefighters who have reached the top floors say there is no hope | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
My fire fighters were desperate to get in there and desperate | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
to rescue people and we committed crew after crew into a very | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
dangerous, very hot and very difficult situation. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Specialist teams are now trying to make the tower safe so they can | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
The faces of some of the many who are still unaccounted for, | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
young and old, many of them trapped on the upper floors of the building. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Jessica, she is still missing, she was on the news, | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
and it is horrible for me to hear they are missing or | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
they are dead or they are in hospital or something. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
How did the blaze start and why did it engulf the entire | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
So many questions and as yet no answers. | :01:14. | :01:29. | |
Stay with BBC news throughout the day. | :01:30. | :01:53. | |
Firefighters say they are not expecting to find anyone else alive | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
in this tower block, which is still smouldering, | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
36 hours after a massive fire tore through it. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
But the London Fire Brigade chief says there are still unknown numbers | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Friends and relatives of the missing are still desperately | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
37 people remain in hospital, 17 are critical. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
This morning the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
The Prime Minister has announced there will be a full public inquiry. | :02:31. | :02:42. | |
The Queen paid tribute to the "bravery" of the hundreds | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
of firefighters who battled against the flames. | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
She also praised the "incredible generosity" of volunteers who've | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
poured in to this area offering help and support. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Richard Lister with our first report and warning that this | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
The smoke blackened ruin was still smouldering this morning. It took | :02:56. | :03:10. | |
more than 24 hours to get the blaze under control. Pockets of late in | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
areas that were too dangerous to reach. There were bodies as well. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Nobody knows how many. Finding them is a challenge. This will be a very | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
slow and painstaking process. This is a large building. There will be a | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
large amount of building work required internally, structures will | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
need to be built to ensure the floors are safe. Before we do that | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
we are going to utilise some specialist dog training teams that | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
we have, in conduction with the Metropolitan Police, that will go | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
through the building and surrounding area looking for identification of | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
people. The search could take weeks and police say the number of dead is | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
expected to rise, but how much is not clear. Our absolute priority for | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
all of us is about identifying and locating those people who are still | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
missing and it would be fit wrong of me to give a number that is not | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
accurate. One person has been reported 46 times that they believe | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
to be missing. How did this happen? The cause has not been formally | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
identified. Understanding why it spreads of us could take weeks, | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
months, and for local people who saw the disaster unfold, grief is | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
turning to anger. If you had seen that building go up like I saw it | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
from my back window you would have no doubt it was not fit for purpose. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Someone may be catastrophic error. We are grieving but there is public | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
anger underneath and we want to see someone held accountable. I feel | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
angry that I saw people dying in front of my eyes. I saw kids and | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
women and kids this age hanging from windows with teddies. That angered | :04:59. | :05:10. | |
me, and nobody could help them. This war has become a collection of a | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
community upset. Some have left messages for loved ones and others | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
are thanking the emergency services. The Queen said her thoughts and | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones in the Grenfell | :05:25. | :05:25. | |
Tower fire. The Prime Minister went to see the | :05:26. | :05:43. | |
site for herself this morning. Downing Street stressed it was a | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
private visit and Theresa May did not make any public statements. She | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
has promised a full investigation. The area around the tower is | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
littered with these burnt remnants of the building's cladding. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Survivors will want to know why it was so flammable and wider concerns | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
were not taken more seriously. It was obvious that the time when I | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
worked here in 2015 that the tenants were very aware of multiple problems | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
with the building including potential fire safety problems, and | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
I worked with that community, the tenant management did not listen to | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
them. The contractor did not listen to the tenants' concerns. As fires | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
continued in part of the building today those responsible for Grenfell | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Tower insisted it complied with all the relevant building codes and | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
regulations, but it stands as a monument to a fire protection policy | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
that clearly failed in the most devastating way. | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
There are a lot of people missing, whole families | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Heart breaking stories of last phone calls and messages from people | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Relatives and friends have been travelling from hospital to hospital | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Our reporter reports on the desperate search | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
for the missing, and again a warning that viewers may find | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
There's Hospital in Paddington is looking after 11 patients, three of | :07:04. | :07:20. | |
them in critical care, mostly suffering with smoke inhalation. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
This person is visiting her friends daughter who is extremely unwell. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
She is not in a good condition because she is in ICU. She cannot | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
talk. We have just seen this family and this is their extended family | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
that you have gone to see. Utterly distraught. How are you? How is the | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
community? I do not know. I do not know what to say. I am really | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
stressed and really disappointed. I could not believe what happened to | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
them. It was like a dream. Many families desperately searching for | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
loved ones have come here since Wednesday morning but as the hours | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
passed the search becomes more agonising with the realisation that | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
at this stage they are unlikely to get the news they so badly work for. | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
This man is desperate. He was separated from his 12-year-old | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
daughter Jessica during the fire and is still going from hospital to | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
hospital to try to find her. I was at home. I was downstairs with a | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
friend. The fire started and I tried to go upstairs and the firefighters | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
were already there and they would not allow me to go up. She was out | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
of the flat at 1:30am. She was making her way down with some | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
people. Her phone cut off. We do not know. I think she was on the Spears. | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
Hopefully someone has seen her in hospital. This is Jessica. Her | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
friends are also trying to understand what has happened. I have | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
a friend called Jessica. She is still missing. It is horrible for me | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
to hear that they are missing or dead or in hospital or something. So | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
many are still missing, the young and old. | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
37 people are still in hospitals across London. | :09:37. | :09:49. | |
Many of them are critical, adults and children suffering | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
from injuries caused by smoke inhalation. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Our reporter is at St Mary's hospital in Paddington, | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
There's Hospital is the closest major hospital to the tower block. | :09:59. | :10:12. | |
It is currently treating the greatest number of patients. There | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
are 11 patients being treated here, the Mack in critical care. One of | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
the greatest challenges facing medics here will be to treat signs | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
of smoke inhalation. It can have serious effects on the lungs of the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
windpipe, the airways, it can cause swelling and make it difficult to | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
breathe. For anyone the medics are particularly concerned about the may | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
have put them in just coma and given them an artificial breathing chip to | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
allow them to breathe in a controlled wait until the lungs | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
recover. They will be looking for signs of carbon monoxide poisoning | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
and cyanide poisoning because home furnishings in a closed space can | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
leave people at risk of this. They have the antidote to that here as | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
they will at all of the major trauma centres treating people from the | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
fire. I spoke to one doctor who said it is likely the majority of people | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
experiencing these problems will already have been seen across London | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
but if anyone is worried, as signs of wheezing or difficulties | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
breathing they should be checked out. The medics are aware that it is | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
not just the physical problems of smoke inhalation that people will be | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
feeling, there will be the psychological effects lingering | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
across London for some time to come. Indeed. | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
There is of course a lot of focus on the new exterior cladding | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
that was put on this 1970s tower block just last year as part | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
The main question, how was the fire able to take hold in just minutes | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
Our reporter reports on the investigation ahead. | :11:52. | :12:03. | |
Tower block fires, an international pattern is emerging. In France in | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
2012 when a barbecue blaze spread rapidly up the outside mat like at | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Grenfell Tower, the cladding was a factor. Again in Melbourne, three | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
years ago, similar cladding burning contributing to a fire which shocked | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
Australia. On New Year's Eve at the end of 2015 in Dubai, the flames | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
spreading like wildfire and across aluminium composite cladding. For | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
fire safety expert there were warnings. There is enough evidence | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
from fires in Australia, Abu Dhabi, France and others to show there is a | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
problem unfolding. Spreading fires are an emerging issue and it is | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
coming on the back of modern methods of construction which are leading to | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
the introduction of new combustible materials, Vogts, a combustible | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
structure. As the implications thinking it is natural people who | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
live in tower blocks should be seeking reassurance because you only | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
have to look at the website for instance of the company that | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
supplied the cladding to see plenty of other examples of projects where | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
similar looking cladding has been going in. There is a big job for | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
councils calming people's fears where appropriate but taking action | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
where it is necessary. The visits are starting. In derby fire officers | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
going into buildings today to be sure residents about safety. There | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
will be detailed inspections demanded by the government from | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
councils across the country but that will not deal with concerns that | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
materials can still be factor in a fire while meeting building | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
regulations. There is a minimum requirement for the materials used | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
and the installation of those materials. To say it was directly a | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
fault of the cladding... It will soon come to light but it is very | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
difficult to speculate at this time. It was the most shocking blaze | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
firefighters had seen which spread at unprecedented speed. Experts have | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
honed in on the cladding, faced with aluminium which may have peeled off | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
exploding plastic material inside. There may have been flammable form | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
insulation behind. Those babies the reasons. A grim and painstaking | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
investigation is still to come. Well, as we've heard, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
Theresa May has been The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
visited the scene and met volunteers helping the community | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
as they try to cope He told them the truth | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
about what happened had to come Our political correspondent | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Chris Mason reports. The Prime Minister visited | :14:55. | :15:06. | |
Kensington this morning to see the remains of the tower herself and | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
speak to firefighters. She returned to Downing Street and in the last | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
few minutes said this. I am ordering a full public inquiry into this | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
disaster. We need to know what happened. We need to have an | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
explanation of this. We owe that to the families, to the people who have | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
lost loved ones, friends, and the homes in which they lived. The | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Labour leader has also paid a visit. Someone has to be held accountable, | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
responsible. We do not want the government to hide this with some | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
hollow platitude. Kensington this lunchtime. A community angry and | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
demanding an explanation from politicians. Locally and nationally. | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
The truth has got to come out. This is a community that is angry and | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
demanding an explanation from politicians locally and nationally. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
The construction of the tower block is essentially a series of concrete | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
boxes which are the flats. The fire is not supposed to spread from one | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
flat to another. It is supposed to begin teamed. It was not. It spread | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
and it spread upwards and outside through the cladding. | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
In the next half-hour, MPs will have a chance to question a government | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
minister about what has happened and there are lots of questions | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
demanding answers. Among those, should residents in tower blocks | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
continue to be advised to stay put in their flats when fire breaks out. | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
Why has a review of Elding regulations covering fire safety | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
promised by the government not been published? And why are sprinkler | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
system is not in more widespread use? Over the years, just not | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
recently, we've made countless speeches saying that sprinklers | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
should be fitted for incidents. It is absolute madness that it isn't | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
mandatory for sprinklers to automatically befitted in all new | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
school buildings and it's impossible to put any amount of money on | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
someone's life. A rising death toll and hundreds left homeless. A Prime | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
Minister who lost a majority and yet to prove since that she can't | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
govern. And now, ever louder voices demanding the government responds | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
properly to this tragedy. Theresa May will hope a public enquiry can | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
ensure that happens. Chris Mason, BBC News. | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Westminster. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
There is a lot of anger in this community, not surprisingly. Now the | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
Prime Minister has announced this public enquiry? She has, and I | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
suspect that was probably inevitable, given the scale of the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
loss of life, the indignation that this could happen in one of the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
richest cities in the world, and also, the clear sense of anger that | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
was beginning to emerge about the way officialdom was seen to have | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
ignored the seemingly repeated warnings of tenants about the fire | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
risks. Anger directed not just at the tenants' management organisation | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
and the local council, but very directly at the government. So we | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
will now get enquiry which if it follows the course of previous | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
enquiries, may well be headed by a judge. We'll have to see. It will | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
almost certainly hold its evidence sessions in public and those who | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
will give evidence will include a local council, the builders, the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
contractors, but yes, also I expect the tenants and relatives of some of | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
the victims. Now that of course will be difficult testimony to hear and | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
that will be in public session, and the hope will be to establish | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
exactly what happened and the possibility then is you could see | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
criminal charges. Then the hope would be finally to come up with a | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
coherent and binding set of recommendations to ensure firstly | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
that such mistakes are not made again, but also to reassure tenants | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
in existing tower blocks and to set a template for future fire safety | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
future tower blocks. Norman Smith in Westminster, thank you. | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
An emergency number has been set up for anyone concerned for loved ones | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
The Casualty Bureau is 0800 0961 233. | :19:27. | :19:43. | |
The fire crews are still trying to dampen down the flames, a small cup | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
pockets of fire that have been breaking out since we've been on | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
air. There's been an awful lot of the praise for the fire crews. 200 | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
fire crews went into the burning tower and risked their own lives | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
trying to get people out. We'll be talking about them later in the | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
programme and also about the extraordinary community responsive. | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
Now it's back to Simon, in the studio. | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
The Prime Minister has called for a full public inquiry | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
The number of those confirmed dead is now 17 - | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
but police are warning that is expected to rise. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
The faces of some of the many who are still unaccounted for - | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
young and old, many of them trapped on the upper floors of the building. | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
Stay with BBC News throughout the day for all the developments from | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
our correspondents at the scene of the London tower block fire. | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
Theresa May will meet political parties from Northern Ireland | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
She'll discuss plans to restore power-sharing at Stormont - | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
and try to allay growing concerns about her attempt to secure | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
the backing of Democratic Unionist MPs in parliament. | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler is at Stormont for us. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
This could be quite a difficult meeting? Yes, it certainly could. A | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
devolved government here collapsed in January, and the attempts to try | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
to get power sharing up and running, the clock is ticking on that. The | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
deadline is two weeks today. There is a pressure to try and get this | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
deal done. Theresa May will meet the parties half an hour apart, one | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
after the other, inside Downing Street, and she'll encourage them to | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
consult -- to come to some sort of agreement. However a lot of this | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
meeting is also about reassurance, because of that very separate | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
negotiation that is going on at Westminster between the Tories and | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
the DUP. Theresa May of course needs their support to form a government, | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
to try to ensure that they have a majority in parliament. The DUP are | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
crucial to that. But that has caused some concerns for the parties here, | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
particularly Sinn Fein, who have been openly question the -- openly | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
questioning, whether the Conservatives, who have presented | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
themselves as facilitators in the negotiations, can really been seen | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
as impartial in them. The chair for example has seen himself as being, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
James Brokenshire, the Northern Ireland Secretary. There are | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
attempts to offer that reassurance and for example the outgoing head of | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
the Northern Ireland civil service is now being brought in as a kind of | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
mediator. Nonetheless, it is the case that what is happening at | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
Westminster could impinge on things here at Stormont. As for what is | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
happening in Westminster, well, the DUP say that officially no deal has | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
been agreed yet, but it feels like the parties are quite close to | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
coming to an agreement. There is some speculation that issues about | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
money are concerning the Treasury, how that would work, will Northern | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
Ireland get more than other parts of the UK, could that cause problems. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
Those are the kind of discussions that are being had. But it does seem | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
clear at this stage now that Theresa May has said that the Queen's speech | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
will go ahead on Wednesday that she feels she does have the support of | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
the DUP, certainly for her legislative programme going ahead in | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
this Parliament. But it's worth stating again, that friendship, that | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
partnership at Westminster it doesn't necessarily mean better | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
relationships here at Stormont. Chris Buckler, thank you. | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
There are more signs today that consumers are cutting | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
back on their spending - in reaction to higher | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
Official figures showed store prices saw their steepest jump | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
With the exception of food, we bought fewer goods in May | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
than we did in the same month last year. | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
Our economics correspondent Andy Verity is here. | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Up until now, people have seemed to want to spend willy-nilly and | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
there's a warning from the Bank of England we could be looking at a | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
change in interest rates at some stage. We've seen a slowdown in | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
economic growth in the first quarter of the year and it suggests | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
consumers are pulling their horns and a little bit, because in the | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
past even though wages haven't been rowing as fast as prices, we had a | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
long period of that, consumers have still kept up their spending will | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
stop retail sales haven't slowed down, they've kept growing. So | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
what's different now? The big squeeze in incomes in between | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
2011-14, we had other things going on, more people coming into the | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
country, they spend money, households had more with two jobs, | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
that was more money being spent. Things seem to be slowing down. This | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
means the Bank of England have a dilemma. If the economy is slowing | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
down you don't want to be raising interest rates, but on the other | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
hand, inflation at 2.9% looks close to getting above the Bank of | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
England's target rate. It shouldn't go above 3%. Three members of the | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
bank's Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise rates, that is the | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
most we've had voting for arrays for ten years, so potentially looking at | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
an interest rate rise in the next year. Interestingly enough the | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Mansion house speech is tonight and Philip Hammond has just recently | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
announced in breaking News that he's pulling out. He said, in view of the | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Grenfell Tower tragedy I've withdrawn from giving the Mansion | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
house speech tonight. My thoughts are with the local community. That | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
puts Mark Carney, the governor, in an interesting position. If it's | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
sensitive to speak, what attitude should he strike? Thank you. Back | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
now to save the race with in West London. -- to Sophie Raworth in West | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
London. The response from the community | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
here has been extraordinary. Within hours of the fire breaking | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
out, the streets around here were filled with tables covered | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
in food, water and clothes for these people who have lost | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
absolutely everything. Some of the community centres | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
and sports halls that have been turned into temporary shelters have | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
received so many donations they've Tom Burridge reports | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
on the volunteers who have dropped This shows you how people here feel. | :25:36. | :25:54. | |
Everything donated. A diverse community which cares. It's | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
incredible at the moment. Everyone is coming together, more people keep | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
coming and helping out, trying to do as much as possible. I heart feels | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
for London when I feel all these people come together, helping each | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
other in a time of need. People have given so much it's hard to organise. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
We are inundated with donations of fresh food, fruit, vegetables, | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
clothes, toys, you name it. We've got it. Some are giving more than | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
belongings. Counselling those whose loved ones have died. They are | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
sobbing and crying. Can you imagine a woman from Ethiopian, where I've | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
been, very religious, she was coming down the main stairway in Grenfell | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
Tower with her 12-year-old daughter and the flames and smoke covered her | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
daughter and she lost her. Other parents were throwing their babies | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
out of the window. People round, I live opposite, I just saw flame, but | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
people next door the children in the window shouting, help me. A lot of | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
children were inside. It's horrific. This is the reception at the local | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
sports centre. Now storing and distributing food. Local schools | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
here have been touched. Their response is to act. All the local | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
schools have been helping. I know my mum spent 14 hours helping yesterday | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
take donations in and she said look, they're things, people coming in, | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
it's amazing. Helping out offering beds, food, toiletries, clothes, | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
whatever we can do, everyone has been helping out and I'm proud of | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
how well people have chipped in. Help just keeps on coming. To give | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
you a sense of how the community here has reacted, well, they say | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
pictures speak louder than words. At a mosque nearby businesses | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
delivering for free and people pitching up. This is generosity | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
defined. It's so terrible that the situation that's happened and we are | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
all just trying to come together to help everybody, so many families | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
have nothing now. You know, the little that we have we can pass it | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
onto them to make their lives a little bit better. Just around the | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
corner from Grenfell Tower, a of messages. What would you write? For | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
something so awful it is hard to express in words. Tom Burridge, BBC | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
News, in West London. Incredibly moving, reading some of the messages | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
left for the victims of this fire. Our correspondent Richard Galpin is | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
therefore as now. Yes, this wall of remembrance, is | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
also being called the wall of condolences, has been growing by the | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
hour. We've been here for a little while and they are putting more and | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
more panels up, because there are so many people here and have been | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
throughout the day, streaming through here, leaving an enormous | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
number of messages. Obviously the vast majority are essentially, rest | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
in peace, for those who have been killed. But also messages for the | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
missing and we can see here one of the posters for this woman, Mariem | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
Elgwahry, who was on the 19th floor and last seen at 2:30am, when the | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
fire broke out, and appealing for any information and phone numbers | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
for people to call, if they have any information about that. Of course, | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
there are so many missing people. There are also those messages of | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
anger. If I can point you appear it says, jailed those responsible. | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
While this community has very much come together, there's a real sense | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
of community spirit, there's also a sense of anger about how this fire | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
could have happened. Indeed, Richard, thank you. | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
More than 200 firefighters tackled this blaze yesterday. | :29:52. | :29:52. | |
They were sent into this building though it was alight | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
from top to bottom - not knowing what they'd find | :29:56. | :29:57. | |
One firefighter called Mick tweeted a photo of his fire helmet and said, | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
you know it's bad when you're told to write your name on your helmet. | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
London Fire Brigade's chief Dany Cotton has heaped praise | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
on her firefighters, the emergency service | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
heroes who did everything they could to save those | :30:12. | :30:13. | |
Early on in the fire, my firefighters tried to reach some | :30:14. | :30:30. | |
I spoke to a crew before I left who had been to the 20th | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
We specifically targeted flats where we were getting calls, | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
As the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
it was a very stressful and difficult time. | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
I was looking at a building engulfed in fire, I knew members | :30:49. | :30:50. | |
of the public were still trapped yet I was committing hundreds | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
of firefighters to a building which to a lot of people | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
My firefighters were desperate to get in there | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
Crew after crew were sent into a very dangerous, | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
very hot and difficult situation because we have a passion to do | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
as much as we could to rescue the people in there. | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
It was a very challenging, very difficult and very traumatic | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
Up to nine of my firefighters suffered minor burns, | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
some heat exhaustion due to the intensity in | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
Some obvious slips and trips over debris falling everywhere. | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
I am more concerned longer term about the mental | :31:34. | :31:35. | |
impact on the people who were here because it was | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
an unprecedented event and people saw and heard things on a scale | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
Going forward, one of my main concerns is the mental health | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
and well-being of my firefighters and doing trauma and care | :31:50. | :31:51. | |
The words of London's Fire Brigade chief, Dany Cotton. Now the weather, | :31:52. | :32:09. | |
with Jay Wynne. Good afternoon. This rainbow was captured in Somerset | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
from a passing shower. One thing will notice today as it will turn | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
that bit fresher and we have sunshine and showers, but not an | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
equal measures. We have the fresh air coming in behind this band of | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
cloud, just moving its way eastwards. You can see the speckling | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
of showers, mostly in Scotland and Northern Ireland. For the bulk of | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
England and Wales Cricket Board of fine weather this afternoon. A bit | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
of a breeze but some good spells of sunshine. A lovely afternoon across | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
the south-west, 17-18, still a bit breezy but a good deal of sunshine. | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
A bit of patchy cloud. A lovely afternoon on the south coast. But | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
the breeze is there to contend with. Maybe a shower for some parts of | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
south-east of England but most bases fine and dry. Not as warm as | :32:50. | :33:02. | |
yesterday but still 23-24, not too bad for the middle of June. Other | :33:03. | :33:04. | |
teams across northern England, maybe a shower or two but most of the | :33:05. | :33:07. | |
showers are in Central and Scotland. 16-17 in Belfast with some showers | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
moving through on the breeze. Showers are few and far between and | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
across Wales and we'll get temperatures in the upper teens. The | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
breeze continues to blow through this evening. One or two showers | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
across Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland. A lot of dry | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
weather overnight. It should be fresher. By Friday morning, | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
temperatures down by a good few degrees in a few places but still | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
12-13 to start the day. Friday will turn into a day of the north-south | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
split with the northern half of UK seeing more cloud. Most of the rain | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
confined to the west of Scotland, the north-west of injured. The best | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
of sunshine further south and it will be quite warm, 23-24. 20 odd | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
degrees in Belfast, not too far behind that in Aberdeen. At the | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
start of the weekend high pressure builds in. It will be a bit of | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
breeze and rain in the north-west but most bases on Saturday will be | :33:58. | :33:59. | |
fine with variable cloud, some sunshine and some warmth. We will | :34:00. | :34:03. | |
get hotter as we head towards Sunday. Back to you. | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
A reminder of our main story this lunchtime. | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
The Prime Minister has called for a full public inquiry | :34:11. | :34:12. | |
The number of those confirmed dead is now 17 but police are warning | :34:13. | :34:21. | |
that is expected to continue to rise. The faces of some of the many | :34:22. | :34:28. | |
who are still unaccounted for, young and old, many of them trapped on the | :34:29. | :34:34. | |
other floors of the building. -- upper floors. So many people still | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
missing, so many questions unanswered. We have continuing | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
coverage on BBC News. | :34:42. | :34:43. |