:00:00. > :00:10.Good evening. The Army have been the late news
:00:11. > :00:13.Good evening. The Army have been brought in to help with flood
:00:14. > :00:18.prevention in the South East. Winter storms have battered Kent and Sussex
:00:19. > :00:23.overnight, more than 4,000 homes are without power. Trees are blocking
:00:24. > :00:26.roads and there's been severe travel disruptions at the QE bridgd in
:00:27. > :00:34.Dartford and on the stretchds of the M 2 and M 20.
:00:35. > :00:40.Sandbag arrive in bishops born. This time brought by soldiers from the
:00:41. > :00:44.light dra goons, doing what they can to keep the floods at bay. What
:00:45. > :00:48.army's can do is deploy mass at short notice to affected villages
:00:49. > :00:51.and towns across the countrx. My soldiers have been able to deploy on
:00:52. > :00:56.the ground into our local communities and hopefully, the
:00:57. > :01:00.communities `` community's appreciating what we're doing.
:01:01. > :01:03.Getting into Yalding this morning was impossible. Every route was
:01:04. > :01:07.flooded or blocked by trees. Just manic. I think they have in excess
:01:08. > :01:15.of 200 trees down, all over the place. You can't go anywherd. The
:01:16. > :01:17.trees are down and the floods, you come to this and you don't know
:01:18. > :01:24.nothing about. It you think, that's it, we're stuck now. We're dxpecting
:01:25. > :01:29.this, that's what you get. H'm from Northampton and we never have
:01:30. > :01:33.anything like this. Neighbours were relieved to discover
:01:34. > :01:38.it was only their cars that had been crushed. We heard an almighty crash.
:01:39. > :01:42.With that my neighbour came round last night and, yeah, to find a
:01:43. > :01:46.couple of cars crushed. Mord frustration if you tried to travel
:01:47. > :01:51.by rail. Many routes were not running at all this morning, due to
:01:52. > :01:56.fallen trees, like this one. Southern and south`eastern `re now
:01:57. > :02:00.running a limited and severdly disrupted service. This has been a
:02:01. > :02:06.familiar sight across the South`East today. Just outside Mepham the storm
:02:07. > :02:10.brought down a tree, which, in turn, brought down the power cabld. It's
:02:11. > :02:16.incidents like this that have left thousands of people without power
:02:17. > :02:20.today. While the severe weather takes its toll on modern life,
:02:21. > :02:27.traditional modes of transport may be the only reliable way to get
:02:28. > :02:30.around. Parts of Chatham town centrd,
:02:31. > :02:35.including a Royal Mail sorthng office, were cordoned off this
:02:36. > :02:39.morning flog a security alert `` following a security alert. Police
:02:40. > :02:43.said despite initial concerns, a suspect package was not involved.
:02:44. > :02:47.Earlier this week three suspect path `` packages were found. The Prime
:02:48. > :02:50.Minister said the earlier threats bore the hall mark of Northdrn Irish
:02:51. > :02:54.terrorism. The road was cordoned off, both
:02:55. > :02:58.ends. The police were there. The policeman come running up to me
:02:59. > :03:04.telling me to get inside and stay in the back of my property, because if
:03:05. > :03:08.the glass goes through, if this goes off and the glass goes throtgh, the
:03:09. > :03:12.glass could go in my jugular and it wouldn't be pretty. Kent's new
:03:13. > :03:16.Olympic champion, Lizzie Yarnold, has been speaking about how she
:03:17. > :03:19.hopes to inspire a newspaper generation of South East school
:03:20. > :03:24.children. The 25`year`old Skelton racer from West Kingsdown collected
:03:25. > :03:29.her medal in Sochi this aftdrnoon. She says she feels a close `finity
:03:30. > :03:33.with Kelly Holmes. We're from the same athletics club. We both started
:03:34. > :03:38.at the same place. She's a lovely playedy, a great inspiration to us
:03:39. > :03:41.all `` lady. I've met her a few times. I can't believe that I've
:03:42. > :03:44.also got a Gold Medal and I could inspire people. I've got a lot of
:03:45. > :03:48.school talks organised for Larch. Get in touch, if you want md to come
:03:49. > :03:53.into your schools. In footb`ll, Charlton will have to wait ` little
:03:54. > :03:56.longer for the fifth round of the FA Cup. Their match at Sheffield
:03:57. > :04:00.Wednesday was postponed due to bad weather. As was Crawley's m`tch at
:04:01. > :04:05.home to Carlisle. Weather time now with Kate.
:04:06. > :04:09.Good evening. Any remaining showers will gradually die away tonhght
:04:10. > :04:13.leaving it dry and clear, that means it will be cold. In rural locations
:04:14. > :04:16.down to around zero, perhaps a little bit of ice or ground frost
:04:17. > :04:20.tomorrow morning. The Met Office has a yellow weather warning in place
:04:21. > :04:23.for those areas. Those showdrs moving out of the way, the sky
:04:24. > :04:28.clears, the windfalls lightdr overnight as well. A little bit of a
:04:29. > :04:31.breeze, but it is much calmdr. That's when the temperature will
:04:32. > :04:34.drop to one or two Celsius. It means we will have clear skies tolorrow
:04:35. > :04:37.morning, blue sky and sunshhne and really nothing else getting in the
:04:38. > :04:41.way. The wind a lot lighter as well. It is just generally going to feel
:04:42. > :04:44.rather pleasant. The maximul temperature on the south co`st,
:04:45. > :04:47.around nine Celsius. Heading into the new working week for Monday a
:04:48. > :04:49.bit of cloud around, a bit of a breeze, but not as much rain as
:04:50. > :04:54.we've been having for the l`st few we've been having for the l`stfew
:04:55. > :04:56.few weeks. All from us. We're back late tomorrow afternoon. Until then,
:04:57. > :05:16.have a lovely evening. Goodbye. Hello, good evening, finally some
:05:17. > :05:19.quieter weather on the way for the British Isles for the remainder of
:05:20. > :05:23.this weekend, also somewhat for the week ahead. More on that in a
:05:24. > :05:31.moment. Tonight, the biggest story is the winds continuing to ease
:05:32. > :05:32.Into the small hours of Sunday, the winds will be