Rates in the country across North Western areas, is in surrey, where every where well have some rain, and persistent Hospital Mortuary is now full rain in scotland. And almost 200 bodies are being stored in a temporary morgue. Well, northerly winds feeding into this weather front. Our home editor mark easton well start to see and cameraman James Anderson the rain turn were given access to to snow across the highlands the emergency surrey site and the grampians, located at a former with accumulations above around 200 300 metres elevation. Could be some pretty heavy snow, military hospital. Too, but otherwise, its mild 8 10 degrees celsius. This is the cold conclusion for tuesday, weve got pressure building to the north of a pandemic out of control. Of the uk, and thats going to send colder an emergency body storage north northwesterly facility has been assembled winds across scotland and across northern and some eastern areas in woodland in surrey. Of england, too. Might be colder, but therell be with hospital mortuaries almost loads more sunshine overflowing, the countys dead to go around. Some wintry showers are brought here. For northern scotland, an odd shower also just 20 more body bags brushing into parts of norfolk. Unloaded today. To respect the dignity and sensitivities of the dead and their families, were now, it will be cold not showing the bodies, for many of us. But i can tell you that in this temperatures around 2 6 degrees celsius. But in the south west, fridge, there are around 50 where it stays cloudy and damp, body bags, among 170 bodies it will be relatively mild, around ten in cardiff currently stored here. And plymouth as well. These racks are expected to be now, weve still got mild air full in just a few days. Into Western Areas on wednesday behind this next weather front. Around half the body bags this front pushes in, stored here are marked bringing heavy rain, covid positive. Turns to snow for a time across the high ground surrey now has one of in scotland and across the highest infection rates the pennines as well. In the country. Big temperature contrast. The numbers have increased dramatically and rapidly over the last 2. 5 weeks, you know, and that is causing 10 11 degrees celsius us some concern. Towards Western Areas, but still cold in the north east with temperatures about three. We could start to see some of that and at present, theres no sign snow get down of that actually diminishing, to potentially some lower levels through either. Wednesday night, but some the message from the guidance uncertainty about that. And from government is really clear and i think we should be doing our utmost to uphold that. And this facility is sort of testament of where i think were actually failing to do that at present. Fire and Police Officers have been drafted in to help, some brought back from retirement. Until recently, kirsty was a detective on surreys murder squad. Its been a dreadful year for everyone. However, working here, i can see that the numbers are increasing, not decreasing and i would hate, for the sake of people staying indoors rather than going out and meeting people, that their loved ones or they themselves were to end up here. Thats exactly what we dont want. Surrey is struggling to cope with a raging pandemic that shows little sign of abating. Health officials worry the current restrictions are simply not enough to turn the tide. This lockdown doesnt look or welcome to bbc news, feel like the one last spring. Im james reynolds. Some are urging the government our top stories to introduce a curfew, but the prime ministers understood to regard that idea as unworkable and unbritish. A senior democrat lays out the possible timeline for impeaching donald trump after at least 200 democrats just asking people whether they give their support to a draft think the publics taking this lockdown seriously enough . Article of impeachment. I think there are shops open that arent essential and also indonesian investigators previously, you couldnt have believe the boeing 737 that crashed on saturday broke apart on impact, which could rule out cleaners in your house a mid air break up. And other tradesmen, which you are now, so i dont japan has declared a state think this lockdown is as strict. Of emergency in tokyo, i think people have got fewer than 200 days to go complacent over it, think it wont happen to me and theyre before the olympics. Just going about things normal and with landmines now and like nothings different. Clear, a christian shrine on the riverjordan has hosted its first religious procession in more than 50 years. Just going about things as normal and like nothings different. There are 845 spaces at surreys emergency body storage facility. Some fear that may not be enough. Mark easton, bbc news, surrey. Now on bbc news, tom brook marks the 40th anniversary of former beatle john lennons murder in new york on december 8, 1980, and assesses his powerful legacy a0 years on. Newsreel any doubts about the beatles reception in america were dispelled the moment they touched down. Friday, february 7, 1964. A pan am boeing 707 jet called clipper defiance from london taxis to its destination a terminal atjfk airport in new york. There to greet the beatles the biggest pop act of the 20th century were more screaming fans than the airport had ever seen before. 4,000 of them. Screaming. To americans, the spirit of the most outspoken beatle, john lennon, was evident the moment he arrived as he jousted with reporters and fans at the airport press conference. For lennon, that february gave him his first taste of new york a city he grew to really love and moved to live in permanently in august 1971. Photographer bob gruen took countless images of lennon in new york. The two men grew to become friends. He very much enjoyed the freedom of new york. Maybe some people would wave to him but he could go round the corner to a coffee shop and people wouldnt bother him. He felt very comfortable living here. In his last seven years in the city, this was his home, the dakota Apartment Building on manhattans upper west side. He lived here with his wife yoko ono and son sean, until that fatal day a0 years ago, december 8, 1980. Gunshot. On that night, a disturbed fan fatally shot john lennon as he returned to the dakota Apartment Building with yoko ono. As news of his death spread, it traumatised millions around the world. Nearly everyone can remember exactly where they were when they first got word that he had been killed. As a Young Journalist working for the bbc in new york, i became intimately involved that night in reporting on lennons death. Id arrived in new york ten years after lennon moved here on a twa flight from london on january 5, 1980, to do a temporary stint as a radio news and Current Affairs producer. Much of the time in the bbc news bureau, reading the teletype machines while eating lunch. But it was an exciting time, covering the democratic and Republican Conventions in 1980. In my career with the bbc, i have probably filed some 3,000 reports or packages. I have interviewed nearly every living big name movie star. But whenever i meet people, all they want to know is what was it like to cover the death ofjohn lennon . I never knew the man, but i do feel a real kinship with him. Ive often wondered what his last few hours on this planet were like. John lennon, yoko ono. New york city are your people. I do know that he and yoko ono left the dakota late on that monday afternoon, headed south. They may have gone down central park west, which today with its grand Apartment Buildings overlooking the park looks much like it did when lennon was alive. To him, new york city was the capital of the universe. Lennons destination that monday afternoon was the now defunct Recording Studio called the record plant at 321 west 44th st, not far from times square. Phone rings. Some time after 10pm that night, my phone started to ring. I was living in an apartment, a tiny shoebox, for which i paid 400 a month, on horatio street in greenwich village. Phone rings. Hello. On the phone was a colleague, jonathan king, the british pop impresario then living in manhattan. He told me hed heard thered been a shooting at the dakota and thatjohn lennon was possibly the victim. I moved quickly, leaving the apartment rapidly with a tape recorder, radio and notepad. I rushed to 8th avenue to get a cab uptown. Can you take me to the dakota Apartment Building . The cab couldnt go fast enough. I loved lennons music. Beatlemania and john lennon were a big part of my youth. This is how i looked on my First Official bbc id card in 1976. I had been a bit of a hippie, it shows. I was just the kind of person to have embraced john lennon and yoko ono. As i travelled up to the dakota, lennons music was on my mind. Hed just made an album, double fantasy, after a 5 year break. Siren wails. Across town at the roosevelt hospital, where lennon had been taken after being shot, was wabc tv news producer alan weiss, who lay injured in the emergency room after a motorbike accident, opposite a room where doctors were working on lennon, trying to resuscitate him. The door was open and i was able to watch them working onjohn lennon. So, the scene was this. John lennon, theyve taken all his clothes off, hes lying on his back, his feet are facing me, his head is away from me. And in a semicircle around him are the medical staff. And at least one of the doctors has his hands injohns open chest. Around that time, millions of americans were tuned into monday night football on the abc network when sports commentator Howard Cosell broke the devastating news to the nation. An unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by abc news in new york city. John lennon, outside of his Apartment Building on the west side of new york city, the most famous perhaps of all of the beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to roosevelt hospital, dead on arrival. So i set about doing myjob. Remember in those days there was no internet, no mobile phones, no texting. So i rushed down the street to this point right here where there once stood a payphone. And i made a call to my bbc colleagues in london on the today programme, where i once worked as producer, to let them know what was going on. I spoke to the overnight editor, quite an excitable fellow. He was agitated and so was i. After all, a former beatle being murdered on the streets of new york was a major news story. In those days, we used these rather big west german tape recorders to record interviews out in the field. They had great fidelity but they were rather unwieldy. And in fact, a colleague of mine used to refer to them as clockwork handbags. Anyway, i still have mine from decades ago. And the other day i put some batteries into it, and lo and behold, it kind of worked you can see the reels go round here. Anyway, the night that john lennon died i got most of my interviews with a small cassette recorder and i was speaking largely to fans outside the dakota. They were in a very emotional state. I remember some of their responses to this day. There was one young woman who told me when she heard the news, she felt like shed been punched in the stomach. That to me is a very accurate way of describing the emotional response to lennons death. After i fed the interviews, it was time to do the live reports. It was nowjust around 6 15am in the morning in london. Soon, millions of britons would hear the shocking news. I scribbled out a voice piece for the news bulletin and practised it. But to be honest, i was a novice. I had been trained in news journalism by the bbc but i was not exactly a hard news person. But this story was so dramatic, it was easy to report. I rushed to the payphone, got through to broadcasting house, and soon, i was on the air. Radio 4. Its 6 30. Time for today. Good morning from Brian Redhead and libby purves. The former beatle, john lennon, has been shot dead outside his home in new york. On the line now from outside the Apartment Building where the murder took place is our reporter tom brook. Tom, can you tell us exactly what happened . Well, as you were saying, brian, john lennon was killed two hours ago. He was returning home with his wife yoko ono to his home, the dakota Apartment Building, and everything is still rather confused but we gather that he got out of a car and there was an altercation about an autograph. Shots were then fired, several shots, he was very badly wounded and a Police Squad Car took him to hospital and he was pronounced dead upon arrival. It was a very emotional assignment. I remember at one point saying, of course now, lennon is dead. And i did feel a very big lump in my throat. Outside the dakota, the crowds of fans continued to grow. In the days that followed, there was a mass outpouring of grief. In new yorks central park on the sunday after his death, thousands showed up for a vigil. Imagine theres no heaven. Today, people of all kinds, but perhaps those of my generation in particular, look back on the night of december 8, 1980 with great sadness. This 69 year old lennon fan will never forget. It was a bad day. I heard it on the news and i didnt believe it. I had to listen to it again and again to make sure i wasnt dreaming. It was bad. It was a bad day. I felt as if someone from my own family had died. And it was just so tragic. He was my hero, so i couldnt wait for the new album, and now that was out again, starting over was playing, and all these great songs, i was excited to hear his voice again. Then he was so sadly taken away from us. Imagine all the people. There was a palpable sense of loss but why was the grief so extreme . It was definitely more pronounced than that brought on by the untimely death of other pop culture figures like Whitney Houston or michaeljackson. John lennon in a way connected very emotionally with his fans. People mostly know john through his music, or some of his interviews. And yet they felt very personally connected. I think a lot of the things he says in his music, people took very personally. It was that loss, and violent loss, it was just such a shock to so many people. Lennons greatest legacy is of course his music. Together with fellow songwriter paul mccartney, they formed one of the most successful music partnerships in history. Broadcaster and journalist Robin Denselow appeared on the Bbcs Newsnight programme the day after lennon died with this assessment of the former beatles professional career. John lennon was surely the most remarkable rock artists that britain has ever produced. A0 years on, does rob still see leonards stature in the same way . It has grown in that he is a legendary figure. People still write books about him. People buy books about him in large numbers still. He is one of those few heroes who has kept going and going and going. In terms of his stature musically, i think a lot of people just remember him, apart from the beatles of course, forjust a few songs. Give peace a chance and imagine. Probably musically, people have forgotten how good he was. Ive revisited lennons death every decade since 1980 and ive always found it relatively easy to get big names in the industry to reflect on his talent as a musician and to express how much he means to them. Perhaps because he is so revered. My whole life as an artist was kind of shaped by him. And i cant exaggerate enough the effect his music had on me. He was synthesising a lot of other things that were coming in. Early on Everly Brothers and elvis and rhythm and blues and country music. It was very wide open sources that he had for his music. But as much as many of us might want to praise lennon, he was a complicated character. He could be difficult. He reportedly had a short temper and he admitted he had abused women. None of this seems to have tarnished his love and peace image. He was a very complex character. In his songs he could be very sentimental, very loving. His odes to yoko and his son sean. He could be vicious as in his song about mccartney. He could be very funny. He could be a rocker he could be a balladeer. He could be almost anything. That was what made him so interesting. He could be very nasty. Iam sure. And he could be very funny. There was that contradiction within him that made him such an interesting character. Two years after lennon died i returned to the dakota to interview yoko ono. The interview was broadcast on nationwide, then the bbcs main early evening news magazine programme. Thoughts ofjohn were clearly on yokos mind. Hes still alive, hes still with us. His spirit will go on. You cant kill a person that easily. Thats the way i feel about it. In new york the most obvious memorial to lennon is strawberry fields. A small part of central park, a stones throw from the dakota, dedicated to his memory. His fans routinely gather here often leaving flowers. That lennons spirit is still alive is most evident in the appetite for his music, his lyrics, his thoughts. There is a whole generation that wasnt alive at the time he died that have become his fans. Last year beatles songs were streamed online 1. 7 billion times. Almost half by people under 30. It is remarkable how many young people know about lennon. What is it that you like aboutjohn lennons music in particular . Do you like the words that he uses . Yes, i like the words and i like the music. And i like the rhythm and how it all goes together. I think that its about something that is very important. Hes got a reputation for being a man of peace and spirituality which i think speaks to the moment today in a fundamental way. I mean the song, imagine, is sort of a banner song of what were all trying to work for right now. And lennon isntjust engaging legions of young followers, hes also continued to influence musicians from the time he was alive right up to the present day. The sound of his voice, he has one of the truly great voices in rock history. Now you have artists like Liam Gallagher of oasis and modern bands like tame impala and cut worms who get that specific lennon vocal sound because its such a trademark. Imagine all the people. And among the new generation of Young Musicians influenced byjohn lennons work is a seattle based 26 year old tom. Hes drawn to lennon by the way he thought about the world. You may say im a dreamer but im not the only one. Just the fact that he emphasised love and peace and this idea of striving for something that doesnt currently exist. I still see that message as something that we need. The idea, feeling or thinking about something thats beyond ourselves is just incredibly powerful. Lennons fans have long been drawn in by his pacifism, by his anti vietnam war bed ins for peace. He was a political figure targeted for deportation by the Nixon Administration for his anti war views. He and yoko ono were sometimes criticised for being naive in their approach to world affairs. A matter i brought up with yoko ono a few years ago. What do you say to people who say that you might be naive in terms of the message, war is over if you want it . I dont think its naive at all. I think thats the only way that we can really get some results. And we did get a result in the vietnam war. Lennon may have left us with a world view and great music but it was hoped there might be another legacy. One that resulted from the fact he was murdered with a handgun. Ed koch, the mayor of new york spoke out at the time of lennons death. All of us are here at central park are showing our distress, are upset with the fact that a deranged person who came from honolulu and brought a gun in honolulu and came to the city of new york and struck down a world personality was able to do that. And the only way to stop it is to have national gun control. But restrictions on gun ownership were not part of lennons legacy. Gun related homicide in america is now 25 times higher than it is in other developed nations. With issues like gun violence, a worldwide pandemic, economic meltdowns and calls for racialjustice on peoples minds, many think lennon, were he alive today, would have been speaking out. There is no question. I think if lennon were alive today i think we would be hearing his voice very loudly, trying to call our attention to the incredible divide and polarisation thats going on in this country. Again, i cant think of a better song than all you need is love. So theres no question that the message of his lyrics is as powerful today as back then. John lennon changed peoples lives by setting an example of a normal person who was trying to be better. He didnt stand up and say, im perfect and you should be like me. He said you should be like you but you should try to be better. You should try not to hurt people, you should try to control your anger. He didnt say, do it. He said, try it. He knew the limitations of human beings. I think that people were inspired by that because its not easy to control your anger. And yet its easy to try. John lennon, had he lived, would never have been able to recreate the huge excitement and hysteria that accompanied the beatles early years. But it is highly likely that he would have moved forward as a musician. What would have happened to him had he lived . It depends partly on where he lived. A new yorker spending his time in new york with serious musicians. He might have developed into something extraordinary. The possibilities are enormous. John lennon still haunts my life. I now live just four blocks north of the dakota Apartment Building and go passed it virtually every day. And whenever i go to my gym down on 63rd st it is part of a complex that also houses a hotel. The very hotel where lennons killer stayed in his first night in new york. I have been giving a lot of thought tojohn lennon, what he meant to people like myself and his millions of fans around the world on this 40th anniversary. He remains a hugely talented musician in many peoples eyes and a great iconic figure in the history of 20th century pop culture. He is a true british original, an authentic voice, he certainly isnt a fake. To millions of people he is still very much part of their lives. As yoko ono puts it, his spirit still lives on. You cannot kill a person that easily. So with those thoughts, our programme, remembering john lennon, comes to an end. On behalf of the production crew here in new york, from me, tom brook, its goodbye, as we leave you with a new york based trumpeter playing imagine. 00 25 59,443 4294966103 13 29,430 trumpeter plays imagine