you're watching bbc news. —— from thomas cook.a split this weekend, weather—wise. today, for many, plenty of dry weather and some sunshine as well. there are some showers around and some patchy rain, however. tomorrow, some of us seeing a very different thing, we will see heavy outbreaks of rain, but equally a bit of an east—west split tomorrow, more detail on that in just a moment. this is how it is looking today. we have this weak weaher front draped across the uk, that is introducing cloud and rain as well. here it is on the close—up view. just drifting into eastern parts of scotland, slowly moving out of here and then into the north of england, wrapping around western parts of wales, down towards the south—west of england. much of scotland should be dry, if we take a bit of a tour. to the west, breezy, patchy rain, moving into parts of northern ireland later as well. sunny spells here, there is that weatherfront, introducing showery spells of rain, then, across western fringes of wales, towards the south—west of england. eithe

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thomas and her family. how are you bathing? >> bottled water. >> reporter: and for mothers across louisiana like amy, the biggest worry -- their kids. >> not being able to cook properly, to eat properly. i just was overwhelmed. >> reporter: utility companies say there could be weeks more of this. a forest's worth of power poles down and thousands of miles of power lines. no electricity and no water is bringing critical infrastructure to its knees. terrebone hospital in houma now fully evacuated. but tonight, some signs of hope. more than 20,000 electric workers descending on new orleans. those crews restoring one of eight transmission lines that power the city, turning the lights back on for 85,000 customers. >> and we're going to stay on this. matt, we know there are still nearly a million customers without power. it could be out for weeks and i know many are now turning to generators and you're learning authorities are growing more and more concerned over carbon monoxide poisonings? >> reporter: david, ems officials here are reporting a 180% rise in their call volume, partly driven by those carbon monoxide poisonings. and today in new orleans, we learned t

she loves to dance henley thomas, from orlando, already, turning 1 she loves everything her dada cookshdays, guys >> i wish you could have seen craig. he's sitting here eating an orange >> has a lot going on. >> interpreter: couldn't see him, but i could hear him. >> oh, i'm sorry sorry about that >> it was like you were sucking on tropicana >> i was so hungry this morning. those are great. thank you, mr. roker thank you. we'll see you in a few minutes on the third hour. >> thank you, al miss you >> do we no, i'm kidding. >> uh-oh uh-oh. >> no, no. no, i'm sorry. i was just kidding around. >> now you made him laugh and cry. >> and leave >> you may only catch us for a few hours every morning, but we're a round the clock operation. in fact, its takes a huge team effort to bring you "today." it takes a village so we decided to take you behind the scenes to reveal what it actually takes to put this broadcast together day in, day out. it's a new show. it's called making of "today." so for the first episode, you'll see how we covered the opening night of three broadway shows we brought you o

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