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struggled with an Australian barrage all tour. Let's hope this guy has a | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
lot Good evening. A man's died in Devon | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
after being swept away while trying to rescue his dog as river levels | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
rose in the stormy weather of the last 24 hours. It happened this | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
morning in Newton Abbot after more than four inches of rain fell | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
overnight. Live now to our reporter Andrea Ormsby who's at the river. | :00:22. | :00:33. | |
Dreadful news today, especially today being Christmas eve, which | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
makes it all the more poignant. The 46`year`old local man was walking | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
his dog on the edge of the River Leven `` River Lemon. He jumped in | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
after his dog. You can see and hear the River tonight. It is not | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
normally like this. It is incredibly high and fast moving after two days | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
of virtually constant torrential rain. The man was swept down the | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
river for some way. We understand he reached a culvert which runs | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
underneath Newton Abbott. He was then pulled out by police officers | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
and coastguard teams. They tried to resuscitate him. The air ambulance | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
then landed and took him and his family, who were shopping in the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
supermarket nearby, to the hospital, but the sad news this | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
afternoon is that he died. The dog was rescued, but police are saying | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
please do not risk going into dangerous waters. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Winds gusting to more than 80mph and heavy rain caused major problems for | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
people travelling by road and rail today. Almost 2,000 families were | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
without power, with Cornwall and Torbay the worst affected areas. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Rivers burst their banks, roads, homes have been flooded and train | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
services have been disrupted. Some passengers were stranded for eight | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
hours, as Hamish Marshall reports. Tired and jaded, these passengers | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
have been stranded all night on a train at Taunton. The train got | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
stuck in the middle of the night because it hit a tree. We have been | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
stuck it since about 1am. For passengers at Exeter Saint Davids, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
flooding on the line means it is coaches, rather than trains. As long | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
as they get home, that's the main thing. As soon as I sat on the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
train, they announced there would be no trains from Exeter and note us as | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
until 10am. Fallen trees, flooding and signal problems have caused | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
major headaches. There will be a lot of longer journeys today, right | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
across the country. Lots of floods, speed restrictions in place. The new | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
booms were employed at Cowley Bridge to stop the water doing more damage. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Many roads have been impossible to standard vehicles. This car could | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
not finish the journey it started. This was one of dozens of roads that | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
became impossible over night. Cars will not be driving along here any | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
time soon. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue said they dealt with more | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
than 20 drivers who got stuck in their cars in flood water. It was | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
nonstop for highways staff as they tried to weigh up people's safety, | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
while trying to keep traffic moving, like here between Newton Abbot and | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Ashburton. It is quite deep. It is up to four feet in places, but we | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
have got a crew down there at the moment basically just to try and | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
clear some of the gulleys. In North Devon, one river burst its banks, | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
putting a number of properties at risk of flooding. The number of | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
calls to emergency services ran into the hundreds. This was the A39 in | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
Cornwall. Two sailors have been picked up by a | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
cargo ship after a dramatic rescue mission off the Cornish coast. Their | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
racing yacht Cheminees Poujoulat was seriously damaged in horrendous | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
conditions 170 miles south west of Land's End. Rescue helicopters were | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
forced back by the bad weather but the crew of a Norwegian vessel | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
managed to save them by dropping scrambling nets over the side in a | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
two hour operation. Now, the weather forecast. | :03:56. | :04:11. | |
Good evening. Thankfully, our weather is coming down over the | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Christmas period, before it gets wet and windy again on Thursday night | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
into Friday. Still some showers around tonight. One or two could be | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
on the heavy side, perhaps turning a bit wintry over the higher ground. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Between then we will see some clearer skies, with temperatures | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
falling away to around two or three degrees. The breeze will also die | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
back as they go through the night. Still some showers around for | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Christmas Day itself, though for many of us, it will be dry at times. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Although temperatures may reach eight degrees, it will still feel | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
fairly chilly tomorrow. Boxing Day looks to be a fairly dry and bright | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
start. One to shower through the day, but Thursday evening into | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
Friday is when the wind rain returns. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
That's all from the Spotlight newsroom tonight. Have a very merry | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Christmas. Good night. it from us - we are back on Boxing | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Day at One o'clock. Merry Christmas. Hello. The weather has been a little | :05:03. | :05:15. | |
kinder today to travellers and last-minute Christmas shoppers | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
across England | :05:20. | :05:20. |