the coastal area of somerset levels himself was england is at least for the flooding large areas have been underwater for four weeks and counting the fishers with the environment agency are tearing up the country's largest ongoing operation ever. more rain heavy at times its forecast please go here and here he was in the theory. the british ious that is in our half of the series of low pressure systems. now it looks like it again when heavy rain is likely in windy conditions will persist here for the next couple of pace. like the british trials at the toliet the ball companion sly and the black sea region are in a path to victory low pressure systems one is now situated over italy providing one speck of precipitation that one and moved into that apple campaign is now a new wednesday while increasing and then ahead of that i'm not a one over the black sea region will drift to the north of taking a course of the western russia today temperatures are going to be fine tune called across the isa mine is a train can find tough conditions to stay not signed and snow is likely to occur is tha

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it's so beautiful and in fact the dean of the british historian sir john somerset says this house is so architecturally sophisticated that you would think it would have been designed by a british royal architect. but it wasn't. it was designed by virginia born william wilkins which nobody knows. nobody knows anything about him. >> maybe my judgment of the house is affected by the oddity of the hamptons. >> well, i mean isn't it extraordinary, so you have these four brothers richard henry lee, francis lightfoot lee, and arthur lee and some sisters. and then the next owner of the house was the dashing commander of lee's legion in the revolutionary war who won the famous battle of what is now jersey city. he was an extraordinary caricature in his own right. a great real estate speculator who ended up indebted. >> our real estate speculators come back. he unfortunately did not. and, then owning that house was his son robert. so imagine that, the man who tears apart the union that his ancestors made was born there and you know if you go there you will see there is one of those cast-iron f

there are a number of particular concerns, including dorset, wiltshire, hampshire, somerset and oxfordshiregiven these ongoing threats, which could last for several days to come, i urge members of the public to keep following the advice of the emergency services and the environment agency in those areas at risk. at a national level, we have co- ordinated this response via cobra, which will continue to meet under the chairmanship of my right hon. friend the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs until the threat has passed. >> edward miliband. >> i thank the prime minister for that answer. i know he and the environment secretary will keep us updated. he will recognise that some people felt that the response was, at times, too slow. in particular, will he explain whether it has become clear why it took so long for some of the energy distribution companies to restore power to homes over the christmas period? what steps does he believe can be taken to ensure that that kind of thing does not happen again? >> the prime minister. >> i think he is right. the right hon. gentleman

there was one famous case, somerset case in 1772 where slave owners from the united states brought their slaves with them to england, and one of them escaped. there was an effort to -- his owner wanted him back, it's my property. and it went to court and went to lord mansfield, famous jurist, who ruled that slavery so odious, that was the term that he used, that it cannot be tolerated on english soil. crucially, it could be tolerated in the colonies. but that's another story. [laughter] but not on english soil. and the united states, the founders of the country were almost all slave owners. and they could see the handwriting on the wall. if the colonies remained under british rule, probably these laws would apply here, and they'd lose their property. that was surely a significant element of the revolution. and it runs right to the present. i mean, right to this moment the civil war is still being fought. simply take a look at the electoral maps. say the map of the election in 2012, red states and blue states. it's almost identical to the civil war. it's the confederacy, can which now cal

. >> the people of somerset put it as a mark of a statesman to take a collaborative and intelligent approacho these problems. not to rush it in a typical socialist fashion. i wonder if he agrees with me that his critics have forgotten to read their bible and remember the line on beams. they have a veritable forest in their i.t. suggestions. >> norman smith is with me once again. universal credit not coming up to scratch. how big of a setback for the government is this? >> potentially a massive setback. perhaps not in time for the general election. massive because this is the linchpin of the government's welfare reforms. if it falls apart, that whole agenda falls apart. there is mounting nervousness not just in the treasury but in other parts of government about what on earth is going on with universal credit. the deadline has slipped and slipped and slipped. the only person we have seen relatively confident is iain duncan smith. the track record of success with these massive computer schemes is pretty catastrophic. you think of -- they have all ended in tears. universal credit is the mother

. >> the people of somerset think that it is a mark of a statesman to take a deliberative and intelligentach to these problems, and not, not to rush it in a typical socialist fashion. i wonder if he agrees with me that his critics have forgotten to read their bible and remember the line, for there may be the tiniest specks in his proposals, they have a veritable forest in their i.t. suggestions. >> norman smith is with me was again. universe not coming out with a scratch and a target date has slipped back. how big a setback is this? >> potentialpotential ly a massive setback but perhaps not in time for the german election. massive setback because this is a linchpin basically of the a government welfare reform and it falls apart, that whole agenda falls apart. you have to say there is mounting nervousness not just in the treasury but in other parts of government about what on earth is going on with universal credit. the deadline has slipped and slipped and slid. the only person who seems competent that it will be delivered on time is iain duncan smith but you have to say the track record o

there was one famous case, somerset case in 1772 where slave owners from the united states brought their slaves with them to england, and one of them escaped. there was an effort to --

i'm on a snowplow in somerset county, new jersey.g and the other snowplow operators have been working all night. the roads are in good shape considering we got up to a foot of snow in this area. these plows are typically dispatched according to the weather models. there are new technology tried out in some places that turns them into mobile weather labs using sensors to target theize siest roads. >> snow and ice caused this deadly pileup near milwaukee in december. 50 cars were involved in the massive wreck. one man was killed. each winter states and cities spend tens of millions of dollars to keep roads safe. accidents related to wintery weather still claim the lives of more than 4,000 americans a year. in michigan the state's department of transportation or mdot maintains those roadways. this year michigan along with minnesota and nevada are rolling out a new weapon for tackling ice and snow-covered roads, custom design sensors that measure road and weather conditions attached to hundreds of plow trucks. the goal? ensure that hard-

in our calculation winbook ipab underwriting by another five-somerset. on top of the 15% tight credit restriction that we have already encountered. so all they compensating factor is for non-qm to increase. non-qm lending increased? with the threat of lawsuit hanging over the lenders? i was a they could increase read only on the upper segment. for people on the general category, people who are really extremely in high income, say recent medical graduate with a huge and not of student debt load, maybe they will get that non-qm law. so if one looks at the overall incentive of the job they were assigned to monitor, director cordray probably would not be a round four, six years, and then you have to say what are the civil servants incented. it's to protect consumers and their what -- they will be judged on the level of consumer default. the way to do that is to restrict underwriting, restrict lending. so from their incentive performance they may consider lower default, good outcome. however, from societies out, we may be shifting towards where we have clearl

end meeting again this afternoon to explore what we can do to help the somerset level the current situation is not acceptable. it is not currently save to dredge in the levels but i can confirm dredging will start as soon as it is practical, as soon as the waters have started to come down. the environment agency are pumping as much water as possible given the capacity of the rivers are around levels but i have ordered further high-volume pumps from the national reserve will be made available to increase the volume of the pumping operation as soon as there is capacity in the rivers to support that. we are urgently exploring what further help the government can give local residents to move around and i will nothing out to get this problem sorted. >> can i invite the prime minister to visit my constituency to spend a day working with a rogue employment industry on that zero our contract being paid less than the minimum wage so he can get a world of insight for the people under his watch? >> i can assure i have been visiting his constituency in the next 16 months and i absolutely agree, it is u