but rutland in leicestershire has been declared a major incident according to the fire brigade, who say 200 calls this morning to rescue people from stranded vehicles and flooded homes. 17 people rescued so far. you can see the extent of the flooding into fields and so forth from these live pictures coming to us. there is a qr code on the screens for the viewers in the uk if you want to get right up to date with the bbc on what is happening. ben rachel will be in the studio with me shortly to talk about the snow in the states as well. let's just keep with these pictures are for a few moments. you can see some vehicles moving on the roads but unfortunately, we don't have that rather extraordinary image of someone being pulled along by a car on water skis but that is the latest that we are hearing from the fire service in rutland and leicestershire. the fire brigade they are urging locals to take these flood warning seriously and take steps to prepare themselves, including turning off electricity, gas, and water and of course, checking all the flood alerts. the assistant chief fire and re

leicestershire fire and rescue service declared a major incident across the county and rutland today,eople caught out by the flooding. in excess of 200 calls in fire control, and every appliance across the county was out at some point throughout the day responding to various different incidents from vehicles in flooded water, flooded properties, rising water levels. leicestershire is one of the places hit hardest by the weather over the last 2a hours, but there's been disruption across the midlands to roads and railways. dozens of schools have been closed across the region, and nearly 100 flood warnings still remain in place across the east midlands. the advice from the authorities has been to avoid driving through floodwater and to check routes before travelling. i love a chicken sandwich... with many vehicles unable to cope in this weather, some have chosen to be creative, like this paddleboarder in a supermarket car park. for communities in the north of england and wales, it's been another day of heavy snowfall causing disruption. danny savage has more from north yorkshire. after m

. >> those structure, structures, this is a bradford and rutland avenue here where firefighters are staged there across the wash. here you have another set of homes, quite a few homes in there. this is a and so and the sounds like the streets are dodger theme. the former players dangers that the i'm sorry, drysdale and lasorda streets there. but any event, the firefighters are set up in that area as well to protect the homes. in the meantime, the brush fire couple lakers in size was being fought by the firefighters on the ground. they and crews were around all 3 sides of the fire. and they were cutting a line. very quickly working really hard right against the flames. but then they brought in bulldozer to come in kind of really big path around that the fire, which is going to help to contain it firefighters are are just waiting or the dozer to get done so that they get in there put water on the fire affected to your point water lines. there. let's see if this yeah, there's a looks like water line and that they have. i was like should say that they're getting ready to deployed to be time th

leicestershire fire and rescue service declared a major incident across the county and rutland today,ays it's rescued dozens of people caught out by the flooding. in excess of 200 calls in fire control, and every appliance across the county was out at some point throughout the day. point throughout the day responding to various different incidents from vehicles in flooded water, flooded properties, rising water levels. leicestershire is one of the places hit hardest by the weather over the last 2a hours, but there's been disruption across the midlands to roads and railways. dozens of schools have been closed across the region, and nearly 100 flood warnings still remain in place across the east midlands. the advice from the authorities has been to avoid driving through floodwater and to check routes before travelling. i love a chicken sandwich... with many vehicles unable to cope in this weather, some have chosen to be creative, like this paddleboarder in a supermarket car park. for communities in the north of england and wales, it's another day of heavy snowfall that's been causing di

leicestershire fire and rescue service declared a major incident across the county and rutland todayit's rescued dozens of people caught out by the flooding. in excess of 200 calls in for control, and every appliance across the country was out at some point throughout the day. responded to various incidents from vehicles and flooded water, flooded properties, rising water levels. leicestershire is one of the places hit hardest by the weather over the last 2a hours, but a major incident has also been declared in lincolnshire. 50 children were rescued after their school was cut off by floodwater and homes were flooded in the county, including tom's house. yeah, we've got three—month—old daughters, so we now need to find somewhere else to live. as adults, we can cope, but i can't raise two three—month—old daughters in here safely. roads and railways have been disrupted and 180 flood warnings are still in place across the country tonight. the advice from the authorities has been to avoid driving through flood water and to check routes before travelling. that way, hopefully, another such

a majorflooding incident has been declared across rutland and leicestershire — 17 people rescued so faralled on people living in affected areas to take steps to protect themselves, including turning off electricity gas and water, moving to higher ground, avoiding flooded roads, and checking for flood alerts. meanwhile, yellow warnings for snow and ice are in place for northern and western scotland, northern ireland, as well as wales and south—western england. we can speak now tojulie beresford, assistant chief fire officer for leicestershire fire and rescue. thank you for joining us. especially after what is obviously a very busy time for you and all your staff. what the situation? thank you and good evening. i'm pleased to say the situation doesn't seem to have calmed down, but that's not to say those dreadful conditions don't still exist out there. he experienced this morning, as you've already said, a significant number of calls, which is why we issued a major incident notice at around about 7.30 this morning.— 7.30 this morning. yeah, and we've been — 7.30 this morning. yeah, and we

there have been 160 flood alerts, with a major incident declared across rutland and leicestershire. the beginning of your picture, this is my naivety, a big blue bar in the picture off to the west. talking to brian and kansas city, are there connections between these weather systems, does their cold weather affect us? in does their cold weather affect us? , :, . , , does their cold weather affect us? . us? in some ways the atmosphere is linked in — us? in some ways the atmosphere is linked in some _ us? in some ways the atmosphere is linked in some shape _ us? in some ways the atmosphere is linked in some shape or - is linked in some shape or form, you can get a surge of cold air in the us then you get a surge of warm air through the atlantic and on the other side another surge of cold air affecting us, so it is all linked to the position of the jet stream, i do get these corresponding surges in both directions. corresponding surges in both directions-— corresponding surges in both directions. what you make of the blue sort? _ directions. what you make of the blue sort? would - dire

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rescue service has declared a major incident as widespread flooding hits leicester, leicestershire and rutlandthe fire brigade has received more than 200 calls since this morning, with crews finding cars stuck in floodwater and evacuating residents from flooded homes. around 17 people have been rescued so far, while weather warnings persisted across the country this morning as many commuters suffered travel disruption from severe weather. major roads have been closed and railway lines blocked. manchester airport's runways were closed early this morning because of heavy snow but have since reopened. this comes after most of the uk saw heavy snow or icy rainfall over the weekend, and even reaching the weekend, and even reaching the coldest night of the winter so far at —13.3 degrees. now to our top story today. the prime minister has defended his position as director of public prosecutions, saying child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening and it was something he had tackled head on whilst in that role. the prime minister has also hit back at elon musk over his comments on twitter that claim