Singapore, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore and 1am here in london where the british Prime Minister theresa may has ordered a Public Inquiry into the fire that devastated a residential block of flats in west london. 17 people are now known to have died. Many residents are missing, with whole families unaccounted for. Heres the latest from our home editor, mark easton, and i must warn you, there are some distressing details in his report. Slowly, inch by painstaking inch, Fire Officers continue their grim and dangerous work. Amid the soot blackened shell of what was once home to hundreds are some who did not make it out. Exactly how many, we dont know, but police today said they hoped the final death toll would not be in three figures. The scale of this tragedy is yet to become clear. Sadly, i can confirm the number of people who have died is now 17. We do believe that that number will sadly increase. There are 37 people receiving treatment,
Following the conviction of a former anglican bishop for sex abuse and independent reported heavily critical of the churchs conduct. Inside raqqa, a city engulfed in violence, as so called Islamic State struggles to hold on we have a special report. Gunshot theres still sniper fire going on here. Welcome to Raqqa The Capital of a caliphate, and the siege. And why prince Harry Resents The Decision to make him walk behind his mothers coffin when he was 12 years old. And coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News englands youngsters have booked their place in the under 21 european championships, after a big victory against the hosts in poland. Good evening. Safety inspectors are carrying out urgent checks on hundreds of high rise buildings in england following the deadly fire at Grenfell Tower in west london. The Prime Minister says every possible step is being taken to ensure all the buildings are safe. Local authorities throughout the United Kingdom have been invited to send samples of cladding
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We saw some of that flooding all over the roadways. Now were talking about major highways, i10 south of here. 69 is closed. Beaumont becoming its own mini island, and in very many places across jefferson county, you have islands just trying to get help to them, because there are so many rivers that are passing through. Rivers that used to be streamtr like this street behind me. You see the water coming off the street there. Thats traveling into a drainage ditch, and this is the problem. We just saw a man try to cross the drainage ditch. He thought it was a street. He was almost washed away before our eyes. He was able to swim right back up before the current took him away. That is why police are saying here in southeast, texas, this is not over by any means. The brunt of the storm may be head thing way right now. Drew griffin in beaumont. Emergency services and possible rescues to go into Eastern Parts of texas into western louisiana. We thought new orleans was going to have rain, four