:00:42. > :00:48.We have been talking to people coping with the floods. They rolled
:00:49. > :00:53.across the bridge. Army troops helping out. 100 troops from the
:00:54. > :00:58.Royal Irish here in Worcester and I have another 300 troops and vehicles
:00:59. > :01:02.on standby for the whole of the West Mercia area. We'll have a command
:01:03. > :01:05.centre at Worcester police station, where we co`ordinate military
:01:06. > :01:08.activity across the area and those resources will be working with
:01:09. > :01:13.police officers to work out where we can best get the Army out. From the
:01:14. > :01:18.air, the vast expanse of water is breath`taking. Whilst some areas
:01:19. > :01:21.have have been flooded, the defences along the River Severn in
:01:22. > :01:28.Worcestershire are still holding. These flats were evacuated yesterday
:01:29. > :01:32.by the river. Today, we found one couple who had waded back in. We
:01:33. > :01:37.came back to check in. How is it? Dry at the moment. What are you
:01:38. > :01:42.being told to expect? Well, another inch of rain tomorrow. It could be
:01:43. > :01:46.worse than what it is now. Do you think you'll stay for now? We're
:01:47. > :01:50.staying until tea`time and then we're going up to the Travel Lodge.
:01:51. > :01:55.Levels in Worcester remain high, but the sunshine was bringing people out
:01:56. > :01:59.and back into the city centre. I've walked into town and I'm going to go
:02:00. > :02:02.down to the bridge to see how bad it is compared to the previous years.
:02:03. > :02:05.The shops are fine. I was in work yesterday and that was packed. It's
:02:06. > :02:09.not stopping people coming in. But the drop if visitors is still a
:02:10. > :02:14.worry for business. Getting people back into the city, despite the road
:02:15. > :02:18.closures, remains a priority. This is causing a lot of distress for a
:02:19. > :02:21.lot of people. The centre has been in lockdown, even though the shops
:02:22. > :02:25.are open and car parks are there. Most of the car parks, two thirds,
:02:26. > :02:30.have been open. The good news is the city centre is still open for
:02:31. > :02:34.business. The bad news ` this river isn't going to be going down
:02:35. > :02:36.significantly any time soon, which means road closures and more
:02:37. > :02:40.disruption for some time yet. The longer it goes on, the tougher it
:02:41. > :02:46.gets, but for one shop, business is up. They're buying lots of wellies,
:02:47. > :02:50.they're literally walking out of store. Worcester has endured many
:02:51. > :02:55.floods before and they're confident here they'll survive this one,
:02:56. > :02:59.however long it takes. That gives you a good idea about how
:03:00. > :03:04.the people are coping down on the ground around the floodwater. Today,
:03:05. > :03:08.the BBC helicopter was up in the skies above the city taking pictures
:03:09. > :03:13.which graphically illustrate just how severe the flooding is. As you
:03:14. > :03:16.can see if these pictures, Worcestershire county cricket ground
:03:17. > :03:21.is completely under water. The start of the new season is just two months
:03:22. > :03:24.away. Earlier I spoke to Dave Throup from the Environment Agency and I
:03:25. > :03:29.asked him what we can expect in the days ahead. The story will be about
:03:30. > :03:35.surface water and the smaller rivers reacting, so a lot of trouble on the
:03:36. > :03:39.roads. That will feed into the main river and push levels up slightly.
:03:40. > :03:43.Away from the floods, high winds have been battering parts of our
:03:44. > :03:47.region, with particular problems in Staffordshire and Shropshire. We
:03:48. > :03:50.have reports from both counties, starting with Liz Copper, who
:03:51. > :03:59.reports on an extraordinary picture of a school roof tumbling across the
:04:00. > :04:04.county. Repairs under way at homes in Stoke after a huge sheet of steel
:04:05. > :04:07.sliced through roof tops. This was the scene last night, as rescue
:04:08. > :04:12.teams were called to remove the enormous piece of metal, which had
:04:13. > :04:16.flown through the skies, caught by the storm`force winds. Neighbours
:04:17. > :04:20.described their relief. Nobody was seriously hurt. Frightening. I
:04:21. > :04:23.thought it was a bomb. We didn't know whether it was a gas explosion.
:04:24. > :04:27.All we could see, I went in the garden, all I could see was
:04:28. > :04:32.something hanging over the roof. Great big massive thing. Very lucky
:04:33. > :04:36.nobody was hurt. Very, very lucky indeed. Especially how it crashed
:04:37. > :04:39.through that bungalow. Families whose homes have been damaged are
:04:40. > :04:44.now staying with friends and relatives. We opened the front door
:04:45. > :04:52.and you hear the whistling sound and the thing landed. It was scary and
:04:53. > :04:56.nervous. We were in shock. The sheeting had been ripped from a
:04:57. > :05:00.nearby school, before becoming embedded in the roof tiles. This is
:05:01. > :05:04.just one of many, many incidents dealt with by the emergency services
:05:05. > :05:09.last night. In a little more than two hours, Staffordshire police took
:05:10. > :05:13.more than 1,000 calls. In the police control room they described events
:05:14. > :05:17.as unprecedented. The volume of calls was much higher than we
:05:18. > :05:21.normally anticipate. It was certainly as much as we would expect
:05:22. > :05:25.on a business Friday Friday or Saturday and enup to the level for
:05:26. > :05:31.New Year's Eve. As work continues to make the homes safe, emergency teams
:05:32. > :05:37.are bracing themselves for more unsettled weather ahead.
:05:38. > :05:40.There are more dramatic scenes in Shropshire, where the gales for
:05:41. > :05:48.roofs from buildings. Schools are closed and trees uprooted. The
:05:49. > :05:53.dramatic moment a roof is torn off a training centre in Whitchurch.
:05:54. > :05:57.Hurling through the air and damaging four cars on a neighbouring office
:05:58. > :06:03.car park. Meanwhile, in Shrewsbury, the damage caused by another flying
:06:04. > :06:08.roof. This time at Wilfred Owen Primary School. Pieces of metal and
:06:09. > :06:12.fibreglass now entwined with toys in a playground reserved for the
:06:13. > :06:15.youngest children here. Very frightening. We had children in
:06:16. > :06:20.school still at that moment, because we had extended clubs running. We
:06:21. > :06:23.had to make sure the children and staff were safe and we could
:06:24. > :06:30.evacuate them as quickly as possible and get them away. There's obviously
:06:31. > :06:34.quite significant damage. Some very upset children when they realised
:06:35. > :06:39.what happened. Parts of the roof also wreaked havoc for another
:06:40. > :06:42.school sharing the same site. Severndale is the country's largest
:06:43. > :06:47.school for children with special needs and the clean`up operation
:06:48. > :06:51.will need to be meticulous. We have on the spectrum and children with
:06:52. > :06:55.severe learning difficulties who don't understand the dangers, so
:06:56. > :07:00.they could pick up some fibreglass up and that's dangerous, so we have
:07:01. > :07:04.to make sure that the areas are exceptionally clean. It's much
:07:05. > :07:07.calmer today, but yesterday this is the roof from the school and it
:07:08. > :07:13.travelled all the way from there right the way around to neighbouring
:07:14. > :07:19.homes. There are sheets of metal and fibreglass all hurtling through the
:07:20. > :07:25.air. It was just like in America where you see the storms. Elsewhere,
:07:26. > :07:29.Shropshire council workers spent much of the day dealing with scores
:07:30. > :07:34.of trees, which fell victim to the weather. From floods to gales,
:07:35. > :07:42.seemingly no let`up in the chaos being caused by the elements.
:07:43. > :07:47.And you can see more of the week's flooding pictures on our Facebook
:07:48. > :07:49.page. Don't forget, for the late ef information on the floods and how
:07:50. > :07:52.they're affecting where you line, tune into your BBC radio station for
:07:53. > :08:00.the latest: That's it from me from Worcester at
:08:01. > :08:05.the end of a very unusual dry day. Unfortunately, I don't think it's
:08:06. > :08:09.going to last. Now the forecast with Rebecca.
:08:10. > :08:17.We have a Met Office yellow weather warning in place for more heavy rain
:08:18. > :08:21.tomorrow and strong winds to come as well. Overnight, the riSk is a
:08:22. > :08:25.colder one, because we see the temperatures falling away under
:08:26. > :08:29.clearer skies so we'll get patchy frost developing. Some icy stretches
:08:30. > :08:34.coming tomorrow morning. Temperatures hover around freezing
:08:35. > :08:38.overnight. Winds easing, but as we start tomorrow, we have this next
:08:39. > :08:43.band of heavy rain working its way up from the south`west. Ahead of
:08:44. > :08:48.that, we'll start to see the cloud building and then that rain making
:08:49. > :08:52.its way through the early hours of tomorrow. On the leading edge, we
:08:53. > :08:55.could see is turning pour wintery and the rain sticks with us through
:08:56. > :09:01.the day. Another 25 millimetres. Gust of wind really picking up, up
:09:02. > :09:03.to 50mph. The national picture is on the way.
:09:04. > :09:04.few days and now we go to the weather centre for the national
:09:05. > :09:12.forecast from Nick Miller. Hello, in this winter of perpetual
:09:13. > :09:13.autumn,