ten people are now confirmed to have died, after a huge explosion at a petrol station in county donegal in ireland. a search operation is continuing as some people are still thought to be missing, eight people were also taken to hospital. police say the cause remains under investigation but are describing what happened as a tragic accident . the explosion happened at an applegreen service station in the village of creeslough. from there, our ireland correspondent chris page reports. a rescue effort has now become a recovery operation, a sad sign that the emergency services don t expect to find anyone else alive. blown out walls, a crumpled roof, and tonnes of rubble showed this was a lethal explosion. the blast triggered a wave of devastation and desperation. local people hurried to what was left of the petrol station to see who amongst their friends and relatives may have been caught up in the incident. there were several flats above the garage shop which largely collapse
everywhere. i ve never seen damage like this in my whole life. it s unreal. reporter: boats tossed like toys. the lone bridge connecting the island cracked and crumbled with the storm s winds putting some sections totally under water. we had about 200 households that didn t evacuate on the island that we know of. reporter: anyone still trapped on the isolated island now waiting for rescue by boat or air. we joined the lee county sheriff as he surveyed some of the hardest hit areas to see the full scope of ian s power. you know that as we are speaking right now, there are people that want us and need us and we can t get to them. reporter: people like jack and betty. an elderly couple who hasn t been heard from since the storm hit their continue dope. the worst part is the waiting and the unknown and not knowing that they re okay. reporter: their son scott says his parents were unable to evacuate in time and forced to hunker down on their ground floor. but rescuer
to the mainland. and above the shear scale of the wreckage, the storm left some areas completely unrecognizable. one person told the tampa bay times lee koth looks like a bomb has been dropped. momentarily, we ll go live to fort myers beach where this side by side shows the destruction to the popular pier. here s a man from fort myers who had a terrifying experience. i stayed here as long as i could until i got scared for my life and went across the street. the it didn ts last too long. the big bad wolf puffed it away. i watched my house disappear with everything in it. right pfr my eyes. right before his eyes. i want to bring in kat park in south carolina where hurricane ian is expected to make landfall soon. what are the conditions you re seeing? what are you hearing about what you re expecting in the next couple hours or so? reporter: so we have been out here for several hours now. i can can tell you the landscape has changed dramatically. behind me is the ashley riv
benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. the vatican says benedict s condition has worsened in recent hours. you are watching bbc news. here s weather world. this time on weather world, we are at raf coningsby which set the uk s highest temperature record this summer during our hottest heatwave. and i will be finding out what it was like that day and how heat and other severe weather affects operations here. i am here at the uk s national meteorological archive and i will be finding out how that new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the world s changing climate. if we want to understand our climate of the future, the first step is we need to understand our climate now and we also need to understand our climate going back into the past. all these sleeping bags and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after one of the country s most devastating floods. i will report on 2022 s biggest storms and look at what happen
expected to reach hurricane strength when it reaches puerto rico later today. we are live in the cnn weather center. gruesome discoveries in kharkiv, and accusations of depravity from a fleeing russian military, we will have that story coming up here in a second. japan issues a tsunami warning for an outlying area. right now we are looking at live pictures of the queen lying in state in westminster. it s 9:00 a.m. in london, the final full day that people can come pay their respects to the late queen elizabeth. public viewing is set to end at 6:30 tomorrow morning, that s when the queen s coffin will leave westminster hall in preparation for the funeral. prince william and prince harry along with their royal cousins surrounded the queen s coffin just as their parents are done the day before. even though harry is no longer a working royal the king granted special dispensation for him to wear his ceremonial uniform and medals. also on saturday king charles did a walk ab