Tropical air mixed in as wealth to enhance the rain. Saturday looks like the driest day of the weekend for many of us and it has certainly been a soggy start to the day today for many of us but i am glad to say it is brightening up from the west, this was belfast an hour ago. It was still raining at that stage in guernsey but that rain is clearing from here and from southampton for the one day match. You can see how extensive has been and how bright it is to the west but there are some showers coming in behind so not all fine and right and there is a near gale forced wind blowing those shelves in the western scotland the most of us end the day on a bright note. It is quite warm but although the showers continue tonight on the coast we will get down to single figures and it will be a chilly start to saturday morning with the odd pocket of rural fog and even some grass frost these goddess glens but otherwise the better day of the weekend because of this High Pressure for the next band of
On the way, the government now saying all major roads are clear. The five days after haiyan hit, food, water and medicine remain scarce and those who survived the storm are now contending with hunger and disease even as they try to identify and bury their dead. The latest casualty physician, the official number of dead is now 2,344. Others are ored injured and many missing. We have more from the philippines. International aid continuing to stream in here in cebu at the air force base. The Australian Medical Team just arrested. They a collection of doctors and nurses provided by the Australian Government are going down to tacloban to set up field hospitals and help provide relief on the medical front, much needed there at the moment. They arrived in this c130 just a short time ago. The Philippine Government today saying that the situation is still extreme. They dont expect the number of dead to be as high as they originally thought, however, which is the first good news that weve had, b