you couldn't get the cairo barge up the river because the river is too shallow. they get one of these one of the hurricanes come in and we can get cairo up the river and at the of the yazoo river and to the site. we are moving to october of 1963. what we planned to do is lift cairo in a nest of wires, which are three inches in diameter, lift it out of the grave in which the cairo has rested since she went to the bottom. here, everything is going good. this is the last good day we are going to have. we have deployed. this is boaz. there is cairo. there is altlas. we have the river blocked with floating barracks. now is sunday. he says ed, why don't you go listen to the football game? i use a low-pressure steam in my boilers on my cranes. i come back and boy, in my happy. am i happy. there is the first part of the cairo that has been above water. that would be the section of the vessel on the right side of the casement shield. now, that is the first part of the vessel to see above water, that slide. that is the only picture because it needs to be raised more. we ha

and the river's been flooding.rst time it's really broke its banks. the city centre's been at a standstill, and floods have caused chaos on the roads all around it. getting home has been the priority, no matter how difficult. phil mackie, bbc news, derby. that was the situation they're in derbyshire. —— that was the situation there in derbyshire. back in 2007 sheffield suffered extensive damage when the river don burst its banks. in the 12 years since, new flood defences have been built to prevent similar problems from happening. this time round, those flood defences seem to have worked, but of course memories, painful memories, of what happened i2 course memories, painful memories, of what happened 12 years ago have come flooding back for so many people in that city. judith moritz has more. fast moving and full, but the river don in sheffield has stayed within its banks today. there is huge relief here, because 12 years ago this area was flooded. this is where we keep all the beers... ed's pub was swamped then, an

river pea ks over the next further downstream as the river peaks over the next few hours.ank you for that, on the of derby. —— on the outskirts of derby. in 2007, sheffield suffered extensive damage when the river don burst its banks. in the 12 years since, new flood defences have been built to prevent similar scenes from occuring. but bitter memories of what happened 12 years ago have been brought back for many of the residents asjudith moritz explains. fast moving and full, but the river don in sheffield has stayed within its banks today. there is huge relief here because 12 yea rs there is huge relief here because 12 years ago, this area was flooded. this is where we keep all the beer. ed's pub was swamped then and yesterday, he was really worried it could happen again. this time there was more water, and the flood defences, did they manage to hold out? because we have been flooded before we can't get flood insurance 110w before we can't get flood insurance now which when occasions like last night occur, makes me even more nervous. it adds an extra layer to the nightmar

we came up, we river to keep our eye on it. we came up, we rang river to keep our eye on it. asked them, and they had ordered sandbags, but how do we know that it was going to get flooded like that? then the next morning, the sandbags came about ten o'clock. and the water was one foot deepin o'clock. and the water was one foot deep in our house. it was too late then, really. and presumably, now you know that the rain has started again, i don't know if it is raining in doncaster but it is raining in the area. it is raining in doncaster. heavy? yes, all of the sandbags have gone back up. we could get flooded again, they are actually pumping water from there into the river don. it could be coming back onto our street. and when you look at the prospects, you got three last night, successfully despite the terrible damage that has been done where you live, is there a point where you live, is there a point where you live, is there a point where you say actually, we don't wa nt to where you say actually, we don't want to be here while this is going on? perhaps we want to go and stay

and the river's been flooding.'ve been here four years and it's the first time it's really broke its banks. the city centre's been at a standstill, and floods have caused chaos on the roads all round it. getting home has been the priority, no matter how difficult. phil mackie, bbc news, derby. now on bbc news, part of our 100 women series: how to build a city for women. cities are supposed to be built for all of us. men, women and children to we live, we move, work, play. we'll to share this space together. but they are not built by all of us. because most cities, if not all of them, are designed and built by men. so half the population is deciding how all of us should live. what would a city look like if it were designed by women? we have come to barcelona to find out about a bold feminist experiment. can female centric design change the way we experience a city? barcelona has a long history of reinventing itself with brave and adventurous urban design. over 6000 yea rs, adventurous urban design. over 6000 years,

the water from the river goes back into the river and did not flood any properties.tacted them as you would expect, they told us them as you would expect, they told us today that opening that particular gate you are talking about definitively, they say, it would not have alleviated the flooding in the town, the water would have stayed in the area. they say it is not a drainage solution. i don't know what viewers are meant to make of this really. 0ne don't know what viewers are meant to make of this really. one person says one thing and another says another. i have walked the route, i have followed the water, the flow of the water, i would say that the canal and river trust need to get some new maps. iam and river trust need to get some new maps. i am very happy to walk that route with them the water level now is far better than it was, thank goodness. but the reality of the situation is that want to mitigate the impact of action needed to be taken, they didn't take it, i was later, thank goodness it was. that is why last night, the water level was able to go down as

and you have the confluence of the two rivers which join to create the ohio river. first, there is the famous three rivers stadium in pittsburgh. this point of land, the peninsula jutting out into the rivers was, in the 1750's, the most important strategic piece of real estate in north america. i will say it again. that point of land was the most important piece of strategic real estate in north america. and george washington was deeply involved in this issue. the governor of virginia at the time, robert dinwiddie -- a hugely important person in george washington's life. and he was george's patron. somehow, when washington went to see him for the first time in williamsburg in 1753, washington was already an imposing person at that time. at age 21. dinwiddie was smitten with george washington and through thick and thin, dinwiddie stuck with him even when washington was not entirely successful. indeed, in the early 1750's for a period of time, dinwiddie came up to winchester to be closer to the action up in the allegheny mountains. washington's early career in the 175

. >> bay area brayden point atmospheric river. how much rain is expected this weekend. >>> hopefully a lot more terrain will be open too. >> snow is piling up in the sierra, but it could pose problems for skiers looking for holiday powder. >>> a teenage-a bay area target. >> i just don't want anyone going in with nd of weapon. nobody wants to see that. >>> right now on the kpix 5 at 7:00, it's streaming on cbsn bay area. a live look at the wet sanded matteo bridge. >> a few showers hanging around the bay area tonight. that's what it looked like before the sun went down in the san mateo bridge. you can see it was boring on all those drivers. the rain also coming down in fremont just a little while ago. it's all by way of setting the stage for what is going to come starting tomorrow. for tonight, let's go to san francisco's union square where the 30th annual tree lighting ceremony is underway. the event coming just in time before the major rain begins. >> meteorologist darren peck joining us nevada once this rain starts, it is not g

and the river's been flooding. years and it's the first time it's really broke its banks. the city centre's been at a standstill, and floods have caused chaos on the roads all round it. getting home has been the priority, no matter how difficult. phil mackie, bbc news, derby. it's emerged that two fifteen—year—old boys were among the 39 people from vietnam who were all found dead in a refrigerated lorry, east of london, last month. police have now released all their names. daniel sandford reports. some of the faces of the 39 people who died in the refrigerated trailer 6,000 miles from home. all were from vietnam and were being smuggled into britain. the oldest was 44, but ten of them were teenagers and the two youngest were just 15 years old. one of the 15—year—olds was nguyen huy hung. his relatives say he had been trying tojoin his parents who live in britain. hoang van tiep was 18. he'd been living in paris for a year. he told his family he was getting a taxi to the uk, but they'd not heard from him since. bui t

this river is going to be running very high as our other rivers in this region and as professor hannahf you think you're in a flood area and think you might be at risk, there are warnings to be heated both online and on local broadcasting and local television. keep an eye on them is the message. back to you. absolutely, thank you robert. it is coming up to 5:15pm and time for us to look at politics because the scottish national party leader, nicola sturgeon, has launched her party's election campaign saying the snp will try to form an alliance with other parties to lock the conservatives out of government. she pledged to protect the nhs from privatisation and future trade deals, saying the health service is "not for sale at any price". our scotland correspondent james shaw reports. nicola sturgeon launched her party's campaign with a warning. this was, she said, the most important election for generations to come. why? because it will determine the future of the united kingdom in or out of the european union and the future of scotland, in or out of the uk. and she looked ahead to a pos

and the river's been flooding.'ve been here four years and it's the first time it's really broke its banks. the city centre's been at a standstill, and floods have caused chaos on the roads all round it. getting home has been the priority, no matter how difficult. phil mackie, bbc news, derby. now on bbc news, our world. for five months, forfive months, huge protests have rocked hong kong. hundreds of thousands of people taking on the authorities and the might of china. so why are they risking so much? in an ever more violent battle. and how will this struggle and for ordinary hong kong is? our city is really under chaos, right now, we are within the flame. bobby and joyce, not their real names, a monitoring police movements. they are constantly on social media, feeding the information to a hub that shares it with the crowds. part of a sophisticated web that makes these protests so ha rd sophisticated web that makes these protests so hard to police and control. there are two police cars. when police started to take

the river don again isjust two minutes look at the river.gain is just two minutes away. look at the river. the river don again isjust two minutes away. it is falling. we can tell because we do have some piles with a steel barrier. it is quite easy to measure on there and it has definitely gone down. we were told by the environment agency at four o'clock that the river would peak between five and six, and that would be a great risk of flooding. several the residents have left the village because of that, but i'm convinced now that we will not get flooded. would have you done with your livestock? it is limited to what we can do with it. you can't put them in the back of the van and take them somewhere else. finding somewhere to ta ke somewhere else. finding somewhere to take them would be difficult. if i get flooded, they will get flooded. and what harm can it do if they get caught in deep mud and floodwater? you could lose them. it could be days until they get somewhere dry where they could lie down. they could be fine. it is difficult but fe

hills, down towards the sea, so some river levels will rise for a good few hours yet, so worth

a violent flood, the river don brea ks a violent flood, the river don breaks its banks and surges throughart of rotherham in the small hours. elsewhere in the town, abandoned cars that are empty roads. the council here advised people to stay at home. upstream, next to the meadowhall shopping centre, the new flood defences were tested and abetted by the seine river. a christmas event had to be cancelled at the centre as transport was seriously disrupted, staff and shoppers finding themselves boxed in by gridlocked traffic. my friend said she would give me a lift home so we said she would give me a lift home so we walked to the staff car park and it was so flooded, she could not get her car outs we have walked back again and my husband has gone to fetch us. i went to leave at 20 minutes to five and i went 100 yards out of the staff car park, back in, it'll be 1.5 hours to do so and i we nt it'll be 1.5 hours to do so and i went back into meadowhall. my concern is the children walking around in their pyjamas because i have come to the concert and have not been able to go home. well this is j

don't do you feel the same seems like this will be prevented when it builds up stem on the blue nile river but some say the project will cost them their livelihood. hello i'm christine one the welcome to news africa it's good to have you along the west african nation of guinea the south is due to hold a presidential election this sunday may be hoped the voters will be a step toward stabilizing the country in esol has experienced frequent and sometimes violent upheaval since winning independence from portugal in 1974 yet there is still much uncertainty surrounding the pope would have warned that in the moment they'd have used lisa in the swim to the capital basalt to find out what life is like for ordinary people in one of the poorest nations on. school's out for another day in the capital of guinea b. sound west africa. it's fun and games for now. but many of these children will face a difficult future they live in one of the poorest and most volatile countries on the planet. as youth activists sacred to watch in yog explains there are few jobs and virtually no industry now and there's bee

it's mostly rivers. delays the start of the -- it swells the rivers. thanksgiving day, and to -- instead of settling into dinners , the sorters are told to get up and start marching. they headed to the banks of the river. they have the pontoons ready to go. they get them into place. those swollen rivers from the storms had widened and deepened, leading the army one pontoons short at two of its three crossings. engineers would have to try to shuffle together a makeshift trust to allow that to happen. if we take a look at the map, they will cross over here. and over here. map, lose our room as a culpepper is out of the wooden doors. as the army crosses into the chapel and comes forward, they will come on the orange turnpike, which will head into the city of orange. they will come along orange park road, which lines to the tables and comes out here. he will send a portion of his army through the back hallway into the restrooms to come this way. [laughter] chris: if you think the restrooms have been busy up to now, just wait until you have a portion of the

this is the burdekin river, the biggest on the burdekin river, the biggest on the coast, and it is dryst rivers on earth and some of the mother comes out of this goes over the inshore reefs and a very tiny amount, just occasionally, reaches the great barrier reef itself. is this threatening the great barrier reef, this river system? in my view, not. dr ridd also takes issue with the belief of an overwhelming number of scientists that the greatest threat to the reef is from climate change and warming seas. i disagree that there is a huge rush. the problems of climate change are going to hit the reef, if they are going to, in 100 years. there is billions of dollars being spent on the size of the reef and i think that a lot of the reef and i think that a lot of the threats to it are negligible, almost infinite is more, in fact. although most scientists reject dr ridd's assertions that the science is wrong, the australian government found his views credible, launching a senate enquiry into the quality of scientific data on the great barrier reef. with their research under a cloud of suspic

the day after the army crosses the river. it is loaded with tics and shovels and all manners of tools. accompanied with the full force of carpenters and workmen. visiblyes are now working on the heights of the virginia sore. believe this was built after the first forerunner. they had five or six already built by the time the battle began. they will build the operations that the army can move in. they are already covering the arlington heights to make sure. then you have that quote right there. 1861, this is what i call the foundation of the defense of washington. you will see this evolve over the course of the war. you will see how big and elaborate the system of war can get. here of the new jersey -- i will talk about how that was done. it was made out of dirt and wood . runyons an image of fort sitting at present day where the pentagon is at. if you look at this image here, up the hill before in alexandria. they are going to come into certain spaces and start building forts. was a commanding position in alexandria. an image

river's behalf. don hauled rolls of straw up. the kinkaid fire burned down almost to the russian river. and now this crew from the russian river keepers is racing to beat the rain. >> really the priority is there is about 80 some homes that are next to waterways. >> reporter: they're pounding k. hard work, but a lot easier, they say, than two years ago with the tubs fire. >> we had homes burned where we had curbs, gutters and sidewalks and that puts it right in our river. >> reporter: on the list of priorities, this property is the highest risk for contamination because the burm is 50 feet from the river. the county has not yet signed their contract to pay the crew for their work. but with the rains coming, they decided they couldn't wait. so they used the money they had set aside for their holiday party. they're not only doing the job, they are paying for it themselves. >> the homeowners have a lot on their plate rebuilding homes. so for us, you know, we exist to protect the rivers, so that came bef

moderate strength and spirit river heading away.

and the mississippi river. the west discontent is also humans for whom the idea of the promise,esents less more disenfranchisement, exploitation, expulsion and incarceration. including those we have come to call asian-american, lesson in people, african-americans and latinx people, african-americans and indigenous people. dave told me that his graduate studies were over the relationship of their work to the new western history. a field toward which they felt ambivalent at best. when the students asked them how to navigate earth waters, how did a state true to their intellectual and political commitments while claiming themselves in the profession, dave told them right away. he wanted his students to get jobs but he also knew that malibu and the rest of the west would never be the same. dave was right. a generation of scholars studying the west discontent had turned annual meeting into a site where you will reliably here i about canadians and places andple and aboutnous -- hear canadians and mexican people in pl

, iam the river is pouring off the river don, i am sort of on the northside here, really, it has gothour that i have been here, there is more coming of, cattle normally cross around these banks, but the water is pouring off wider and wider, there is no grass to stop it, and it is just pouring down, flooding the land below. how far is the water currently from the church? i know you said you are a bit away from the church. well, as far away as the river is at the moment, apart from this that is lending down below, but the land where it is running down to is quite a lot lower than the church is. oh, how far is it? i have got a neighbour who lives in the old vicarage, how far away from the church here, garth? 200 yards? 400 yards. , he thinks about 200 yards. we are looking at pictures more generally of the flooding, and some of it is absolutely horrendous, and obviously it came so fast. how concerned are you? currently, i... i am not over concerned at the moment. what the problem with the... yes, yes, yes, there are some ditches around here, and they are very full at the moment. if the

he was awakened that morning in shelves screamed upon the river. he got out of bed and joint men and demanding the lines and these forms were headed for hundreds of forms on skis, meringue tunics and heading straight within minutes they were upon these americans which were overwhelmed quickly and the fight for their lives to escape north for their companies headquarters and north which is where they were stationed. they put the flight and a handful of them got back to their company headquarters and that's just a lead in to the question of what americans were doing in russia in 1919. i'm glad you asked that. basically, there this western front but also and eastern front that the russians had been holding since the outset of the war in august of 1914. they tried to invade missouri lakes but on the western front there's a semi static development and were faced off against germans and gary an empire. in late 1917, volodymyr who took russia out of the war he did and signed a treaty with the germans in early march of 1918, russia left a bore and that fre

a major incident has been declared in sheffield after the river don burst its banks. residents in doncaster and rotherham have been told to leave their homes only if it's essential. 35 homes have been evacuated in mansfield and nottinghamshire following a mudslide, and there are now more than 100 flood warnings across the region. lots of updates for you this morning on all of this, the first reporters from tom ingle. a violent flood. the river don breaks its banks and surges through the heart of rotherham in the small hours. elsewhere in the town, abandoned cars litter empty roads. the council here advised people to stay at home. upstream, next to the meadowhall shopping centre, the new flood defences were tested and bettered by the same river. a christmas event had to be cancelled at the centre as transport was seriously disrupted, staff and shoppers finding themselves boxed in by gridlocked traffic.

and the river's been flooding.t's the first time it's really broke its banks. the city centre's been at a standstill, and floods have caused chaos on the roads all round it. getting home has been the priority, no matter how difficult. phil mackie, bbc news, derby. meteorologist dr peter inness, from the university of reading, says multiple factors have caused the flooding — from already saturated ground to a shift in the jet stream, and a slow—moving weather front. before even the persistent rain we had very wet weather through all of october in that part of the world so everything is already wet. reservoirs are full in the water that meant ground is wet. and then we have a weather system sitting over us we have a weather system sitting over us for 24—hour is also with a frontal system across derbyshire and south yorkshire into lincolnshire which was not moving at all. it was stationary. the rain was not heavy but it was persistent and over that 24—hour period enough rain fell to cause this flooding. the jetstream

various severe flood warnings in force on the river don.w is heavy across southern areas of the uk. this was central southern england, berkshire, the london area. that sort of thing. not pleasant there. on top of that it is cold, but a big difference in northern england, northern ireland and scotland. the skies overnight, leading to a widespread frost. especially across scotla nd widespread frost. especially across scotland and northern england. in scotla nd scotland and northern england. in scotland in the highlands, i wouldn't be surprised if it gets down to minus seven degrees this coming night. like last night. on remembrance sunday, first thing we do have cloud, mist and murk across central and southern parts of england. on the whole, fine weather. it will be nippy, temperatures of six or 7 degrees. and this next weather front is bringing some six or 7 degrees. and this next weatherfront is bringing some rain. for because to bring rain to northern ireland, on sunday evening, and in the early hours of monday, we do see that rain turning

and the river's been flooding.e been here four years and it's the first time it's really broke its banks. the city centre's been at a standstill, and floods have caused chaos on the roads all round it. getting home has been the priority, no matter how difficult. phil mackie, bbc news, derby. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show, i found out how punk helps to end the cold war. also on this weekend's special programme, we are off to bulgaria to visit an iconic relic of its communist past. powerful, powerful architecture. and we meet the people in that be are recreating a good night out, eastern block style. — latvia. i think that will warm me i this weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, back in november 1989. poland was the first eastern block country to turn its back on communism, earlier that year. country to turn its back on communism, earlierthat year. but those iconic images of the wall coming down here in berlin really did confirm that the cold war in europ

but 16 kilometers up the road it's a reminder that despite its importance the fate of the iris riverwetland is far from secure this is why i wanted to bring you here just to see what happens when you build a dam on our us river could birds not live here i've scanned already and there's basically nothing i mean there's a couple things on the arid cliffs but where the wetland birds nothing on the shoreline no waders on the mudflats. about a decade after this is built there's no revegetation hardly anything has come back and remember at our us it's the floodplain of the river that's creating all those wetlands and because here by design there will not be any flooding you're not going to have that rich soil and all the vegetation that grows on the whole valley will look like this ecologically that everywhere you go around the world this that fine balance between development and nature and of course progress has to be made what's needed is solutions that benefit both populations and the natural world. chan has some reason to feel hopeful in his efforts to win protected status for the arri

so the river are reacting really quickly. still a live incident, we are still on the ground responding, we are working fantastically with all of the other emergency services and the local authorities as well to make sure that people who have been displaced from their homes have got somewhere to go and obviously making sure that as the water moves down the river network, we are warning and informing those people that may be impacted further down. and that is our current focus, watching the peak of water as it moves downstream into the watercourses. the response effort continues around the river don, one of the areas where there has been majorflooding. earlier i spoke to the assistant chief fire officer steve helps, from south yorkshire fire and rescue, about what's being done in the areas affected. we have areas where we are pumping large amounts of water or helping to evacuate people who are at risk of the rising floods. we are working with partners and continue to support those who require our help. a lot of what we have see

with the ground being so wet, any rainfall is immediately going into the river, so the rivers are reactingin the early summer, your chairwoman in launching the strategy was talking about some of the consequences of the changing climate and you can't isolate individual weather incidents to that, but the cumulative effect was the way the events will become a more common and more persistent. in terms of how we prepare ourselves better in the future, what are the things that can be done when you are not simply dealing with an immediate crisis?l lot of the work we do is planning ahead for looking at what the future flood risk will be. as we design flood risk will be. as we design flood defences, obviously we factor in any climate change allowances. we will design flood defences for a given frequency of flooding and we will then add a percentage under the top of that. at the moment we are at 30% on the flood defence design to account for future climate change allowa nces. account for future climate change allowances. in most circumstances you hope it will be enough. the lesson goes back to 2007

so, we've got 2a construction sites, all dotted along the river thames and some just away from the riverg on the project so it is a very significant project for london and indeed the uk. they have been huge projects to build new tunnels, new rail lines, underground lines and so on. but this is unique because it is following the line of the river thames, that has never been done before, it is at very different depths, so it starts at 30 metres below a ground and it finishes at more like 80 metres below ground. a ground and it finishes at more like 80 metres below ground. this will be the first time in 200 years that we have created these new bits of land directly on the river thames. london is a master of reinvention. but a city is more than the structures it is made up of. the people are the life blood. and one in six of them here works in the creative industries. we are talking art, film, fashion, media, design, basically all the cool jobs. in fact, they are the fastest growing part of the economy. take visual effects. london is home to more vfx companies than any other city in the worl

the town of stein on the civets river. it's customary to take stone from the very along with you it's said to bring good luck and when you reach the end of the bench take you through it into this is a bit. so my mission is clear but from start to finish rich trail is about 170 kilometers long uphill downhill always along the crest of the thuringian forest it's going to be exhausting and maybe my shoes will look like this. along the way i'll served here in the biosphere reserve. our v mail this week takes us on a tour of paris. check in viewer shows us her hometown jakarta indonesia. the 1st section of the stock is up hill of course fortunately it's a low mountain range here in the thuringian forest so i don't have to huff and puff my way out to 2 or $3000.00 metres. all in all the tree it stretches 170 kilometers some hikers do the whole thing in 6 days others in 8 or 10 . these are along the way let us know we're on the right path. there grange diecast plenty of rest areas and observation points. from this bench you have

they pushed violently down the dvina river -- up the dvina river to create a buffer zone for when they were going to leave. the americans boarded ships beginning in early june and were taken to france. the british state behind mopping up and left in september. that was the end of that little war. the americans went to france for a short time and came back. the first companies arrived in detroit on july 3, 1919. the next day, they had a big fourth of july parade. the quickly formed a thing called the polar bear association to commemorate their ordeal and the loss of their 235 comrades. over time, the gathered funds. in 19 29th, they sent a small contingent back to russia. they were allowed in by the russians to look for the grave of the fallen. when they left russia, they took about 100 bodies with them. on the various fronts, they located 86 bodies and shipped them back to the united states where 40 or claimed by relatives for private burial. 46 were buried under this magnificent statue in detroit, michigan, at the whitechapel cemetery in september. it is really nice. it is about eight

and what has happened when rivers move. rivers are always moving. am thinking here also of the incredible work that is being done now to map the mississippi river including some of the work cartographer, it is doing that is centering them assisted the -- the mississippi as a dynamic space. i also want to have us think about the ocean waters as josh reed has done. really centering movement within oceans. way oceans conserve serve as connecting spaces among people. also, this map of the westssippi -- for us, the is also the place where corn came from and corn stories connect us in the east down throughout the great lakes and down through the mississippi and territories into what is now mexico and guatemala. these rivers connect us a across oceans and land spaces. whether we are talking about the emergence of corn and corn stories and its travel throughout the continent before there was a united states or whether we are talking about the migrations of indigenous peoples across these boundaries, either way, we are talking about a isry map that transcend

what will happen with the river levels ? what will happen with the river levels?times a day or $0. levels to rise and sometimes a day or so. it is still raining but i wa nt to or so. it is still raining but i want to make the point that the rain thatis want to make the point that the rain that is falling right now because our heavy showers going through this tool will funnel into the rivers, that will be brief. if anybody is worried, though showers will be out of away but the river levels will stay high for quite some time because it was a lot of rainfall. the good news is the weather is improving. and finally, some sunshine. yes. and i think we are looking forward to some sunshine this weekend. you will do the weather forecast in a moment but firstly, i will talk to a woman who was stranded in the meadowhall shopping centre in sheffield until four o‘clock this morning. shopping centre in sheffield until four o'clock this morning. how did that happen? basically, what happened was i was meeting my sister in meadowhall, coming from london. and she said the bus was n

it is from the sheer on the canal and ohio rivers. they were on the rivers in this area. earlier, when we were talking about coverlet's, we talked about james rossi, inventor of the steamboat. he developed a process and showed it to george washington. we have a model of the steamboat on the state museum collection. some have referred to him as the first engineer in the country. been a lot ofhas first in production manufacturing borrow the history of the united states. one of the leaders is the china company that produced more china than any other company in the world. today, you know it for fiesta where. they are also very big in dinnerware. madevirginia not only china, but glass, one of the top producers of glassware. michael owens developed the first automated bottling plants for the production of glass bottles. highway was the largest producer of sheet glass of anybody in the world at a time. when you talk about west virginia leading the way in production, in manufacturing, coal is one of the resources that has shaped the history of west virginia. i goes back, it actua

the river don is a tidal river and it remains dangerously high. fiona trott, bbc news, doncaster.ted by this. give us an idea of the scale of what has been happening. well, the problem remains. the heavy rain that, months rainfall in one day. the rain is now travelling down the rivers from the hills, down to the floodplains where it meets the north sea and the problems are in those low—lying areas where the rivers meet tidal areas. we saw there in fishlake for example. hundreds of people in that community had been told to leave their homes. similar problems on the river trent stop again, the lower reaches of the river now, the low—lying communities there, some of the places there are being warned that there is a high tide coming in about five hours‘ time and as the floodwaters come down and meet that ha rd to floodwaters come down and meet that hard to tie —— high tide, they may be hours that make may be problems. give us an idea over the coming days. what are we expecting? certainly the environment agency here in the uk, the flood risk, on the river don in south yorkshire, is not

he says poor river management is to blame. there‘s no doubt about it. this area, is not receiving any maintenance whatsoever. the environment agency says natural flood management has a role to play, but flood defences are important. 0ur flood defences have protected 4,000 properties but of course unfortunately, there are still 300 that have flooded. and to protect more properties tonight, the raf has been brought in, dropping supplies in the bentley area, ten miles away. the local pub in fishlake has become a refuge. it‘s on higher ground and has gas, a place to sleep and get a hot meal. the first night, everyone was devastated, weren‘t they? absolutely devastated. we had grown men crying, which were horrific but spirits have lifted now, haven‘t they? they are able to cook meals because people have been donating food at the local church. food that‘s being distributed by a force of volunteers. neighbours with rucksacks and farmers with tractors. without them, this village would be struggling to cope. the last surviving world war ii veterans were among th