Demanding baby, woken up all hours and nick has the festive forecast for us. Good morning. Storm barbara may be pulling away from the uk, but it remains windy today, tomorrow, and into boxing day as well. The latest on the blustery christmas forecast coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. Extensive Railway Engineering works are starting across britain today, with 200 different projects being carried out over the christmas break. Passengers in london, manchester and cardiff are expected to be the hardest hit by the work. One of the biggest stations in the capital, paddington, is closed, with passengers being told to go to ealing broadway. Its where our reporter Jane Frances Kelly is for us this morning. Good morning. Its going to be a good deal busier there than normal. Yes, it is going to be busy. I have seen people turning up with quite heavy suitcases and that is because trains to paddington are terminating here. That is because paddington will be closed for the next six day
Demanding baby, woken up all hours and nick has the festive forecast for us. Good morning. Storm barbara may be pulling away from the uk, but it remains windy today, tomorrow, and into boxing day as well. The latest on the blustery christmas forecast coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. Extensive Railway Engineering works are starting across britain today, with 200 different projects being carried out over the christmas break. Passengers in london, manchester and cardiff are expected to be the hardest hit by the work. One of the biggest stations in the capital, paddington, is closed, with passengers being told to go to ealing broadway. Its where our reporter Jane Frances Kelly is for us this morning. Good morning. Its going to be a good deal busier there than normal. Yes, it is going to be busy. I have seen people turning up with quite heavy suitcases and that is because trains to paddington are terminating here. That is because paddington will be closed for the next six day
for key medications for people who need them. i think, i ve spoken to people that continue to sleep in their cars. and sleep in neighbors houses, friends houses, or strangers houses. it s all hands on deck when you have 4500 people on this island that are now displaced. steve patterson, thank you, we appreciate. it coming up later this hour, i ll speak to one man we resident who lost their family home and coconut farm in the fire, sky mcphee joins me on why they believe more federal assistance is needed to pick up the pieces. let s get to pennsylvania now. or surveillance video captured a deadly house explosion near pittsburgh. a deadly house explosion nea pittsburgh [sound of artillery] a fifth person now confirmed dead just outside of pittsburgh, they were for adults and a child. one survivor is hospitalized in critical condition. you can see the force of the blast. it was felt several homes away. the explosion destroying three
you know, may i ask maggie how old are you? i m 15. will: i think we often tell the story through the eyes of business owners and adults. community members how was this to experience this through the eyes, i mean, i imagine in the last day or so you ve been connecting with your friends or attempting to and experiencing this as a 15-year-old. what was it like what s it been like? yes, sir most of the guys that i go to school with high school, they have been having to night it hit they pulled dead bodies out of the all of the wreckage and just had to set them down and keep looking, and i know that really took an effect on them. also i think all of my friends houses are okay. but one of them the roof is completely gone and people are just having to move away and stuff like that. will: wow. i said i did want to get to this
joining us. what is going on right now? and how are you and your family holding up? right now, we re doing okay. it was pretty rough. i ve lived through this for over 20 years, i ve been through charlie, i ve been through irma. this one was a big one. the wind it felt like a train coming through, the roof going off. just seeing our friends houses that disappeared. our local sorry. our local theater for the kids, that s gone. it s just, i don t even know how to explain it. power lines down, i don t know. i gotta ask you.