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California at the of 85. That is all from us. There is a | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
first Good evening. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
The West Country is now 50 days into the flooding crisis and things are | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
getting worse, not better. The Prime Minister made his second visit today | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
and promised that he is in personal charge. We'll have more on that from | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
our political editor Paul Barltrop in a moment. But first, Andrew Plant | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
looks at how more people are having to abandon their homes because of | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
the rising water levels. Some of Somerset's most picturesque | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
countryside now under five feet of water. This is as French door. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
Bthis is his front door. In the back garden, a prized possession left | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
standing in the rush to save people and pets before the water came in. | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
The worst I have seen by a long way. Last year it was only near the | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
door handle. The family have fled. Neighbour Chris says someone has | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
already tried to break in. The locks have been damaged. There is nothing | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
left to steal. It is all gone. This was the house over the road on | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Saturday. Neighbours worked to make a protective wall. This morning the | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
water is a foot deeper. These tiny pumps working flat out and still the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
situation is tense. Everything feels like it could just crumble at any | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
second. This is part of the plan. Lorries are lined up with huge pumps | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
on the backs. Giant machinery making sure the Levels are better weapons | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
to fight this war on water. This is the drain on the edge of Bridgwater | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
in Somerset. You can see they are building a solid platform. That is | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
going to house eight of those huge pipes we have been seeing over the | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
past couple of weeks. At high tide, when the River Parrett has trouble | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
flowing to see, they will suck up the water from the Somerset levels | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
and blasted into the river and straight out of the sea. That eases | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
the pressure on the whole system. A couple came in because they needed | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
toothbrush is as they had to leave everything they had. Nearby in | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Bridgwater, the relief effort has supplies. It is the basics that for | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
many are now floating in water. The only way into this Moorland farm is | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
walking the plank. With any luck, this defence is the difference | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
between living at home with water outside every window or having to | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
escape as it finally porous insight. The question is, when will this what | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
a start to go? On the other side of the Levels, you can see more grass | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
than there was seven days ago. The Levels are falling in some places, | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
but on this side of the River Parrett, the river is still rising. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
On the river is still rising. On this site is much more susceptible | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
to rainfall. Who knows when it will start to go down. There is an online | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
fund that says it has raised more than ?200,000 for flood victims One | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
local action group has told us it has had enough donations and does | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
not need any more. It is now the involvement of the Government which | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
has risen questions. `` which is raising questions. So, as Andrew | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
said, questions being asked about the Government on the day David | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Cameron paid his second visit to Somerset. David Cameron and senior | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
figures have been critical of the Environment Agency for the autumn is | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
to dredge rivers. But last year the agency decided it wants to dredge | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
the River Tone and the River Parrett. Government rules meant it | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
was not able to put in more than ?400,000 towards the operation which | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
would cost ?4 million. Farmers in Somerset got together and wrote to | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
the Government requesting ?1 million worth of help. That went all the way | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
to Downing Street and the relevant Government ministry and was turned | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
down. I got the chance to talk to the Prime Minister today. He was not | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
too keen to discuss this. They asked for ?1 million last year, | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
it was turned down. More dredging needs to be done and it will be | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
done. Was that a failure on your behalf? We have learned the lessons | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
of the past and more dredging will take place. | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
The Prime Minister has been here twice, many other ministers came and | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
went. What has it achieved? One thing they like as media coverage. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
There is the odd exception. Labour's Shadow Environment | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Secretary came to Bridgwater and Roland today and did not want other | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
cameras there. No such reluctance with David Cameron. He visited | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Taunton police station, seen some of the officials from the emergency | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
services, council and military who are running the operation. The in | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
the decisions. What is a political visit bring us? It helps free up | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
resources both in terms of personnel. The military are actively | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
involved in Somerset. And financial, as we have heard from David Cameron | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
today. Significantly, the Government wants to show they are getting a | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
grip after many weeks when they have been criticised for being behind the | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
curve on this big issue. Avon and Somerset Police have | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
breached data protection laws more than any other force in the country | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
over the past five years. Between January 2009 and October last year | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
there were almost 300 breaches made by police staff. These include | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
releasing names to the media without permission. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
In tonight's football, bottom of the Championship table Yeovil shared the | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
points with fourth from bottom Millwall. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Bristol City were 3`1 winners on the road at Leyton Orient. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
And in the West derby, Bristol Rovers moved further from the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
relegation zone with a 1`0 defeat of Cheltenham. | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Now, just a warning there are unfortunately more storms to come. | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
For the latest, you can tune into your local radio stations and check | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
online. We're back with you in Breakfast tomorrow, but for now | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
let's take a look at the latest weather forecast with Ian Ferguson. | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
A very unsettled story into tomorrow. Two Met Office warnings | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
out. The first of those for the strength of the wind which could be | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
disruptive in its own right. Gusts could well be touching 60 mph. The | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
second of those will be for rain. The rain again will be exacerbating | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
the flooding problems we already have. This could be maybe an inch of | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
rain in some areas. Tonight, it will be a pretty chilly story. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Temperatures getting down to freezing. Could be snow in parts of | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
Gloucestershire. Tomorrow, sherry outbreaks of rain and winds. The | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
rain matches until lunchtime, maybe two hours worth of that. Dyer in the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
afternoon, despite showers, but windier still and so it will | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
continue as we head into the evening. All in all, a recipe for | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
what could be disruptive conditions. Temperatures of 7`9 Celsius. For the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
warnings on the way for Friday and Saturday. | :07:32. | :07:32. | |
That is when the wind is going to pick up. Thursday looks like a | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
quieter day. Good evening, a roller-coaster ride | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
of weather continues across the British Isles. We want to get off, | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
but unfortunately we have got more white knuckle rides to come. This | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
area of low pressure is bringing wet and extremely windy weather. It | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
happens again on Friday with another deep low moving in from the | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
south-west. That means that potentially over the next five days | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
we could see as much a 60 - 80 millimetres of rainfall, among's | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
worth in just five days. Before that there are lots of tricky conditions | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
out there at the moment. We have got snow across Scotland and Northern | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Ireland. As these showers pushed further inland and temperatures fall | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
away, we could see snow at lower levels as well. It is a similar | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
story for South Yorkshire and into Derbyshire and perhaps the Midlands. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Even if we do not get the snow, and we keep the showers, it will be a | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
cold night, so that could lead to icy stretches on the roads. That | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
will pale into insignificance because the wind is already picking | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
up and an intense band of rain continues to push in across the | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
country. This time it will be a bit more prolonged for tomorrow. The | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
wins either significant feature There is an amber warning for the | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
gusts of wind. Let's look at the afternoon. In the Northern Isles and | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
the far north of Scotland it is quite quiet. Snow continues across | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
the mountains and sharp showers in northern Ireland and northern | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
England. The winds pick up into the North West and the South of Wales. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
The band of rain is still clinging on to East Anglia and the Essex and | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Kent coasts. Blizzard conditions are possible overnight in Scotland and | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
on the higher ground. By Thursday things potentially get a little | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
quieter. There will be some showers around, but wet and windy weather | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
set to return as we move towards Friday. | :10:01. | :10:02. |