Good morning welcome to breakfast withjon kay and tina daheley. 0ur headlines today. Britain braces itself for storm dennis, with warnings that it could inflict more damage and destruction than last weekends storm ciara. Tens of thousands of passengers have flights cancelled during the half term holiday. Good morning. Delays are expected on the railways and roads. Well keep you updated. Welcome to breakfast, withjon kay and tina daheley. Our headlines today hundreds of flights are cancelled as the uk prepares to be battered there are amber warnings in force by storm dennis. From the met office, up to a months worth of rain falling on saturated ground heavy rain and flooding is expected in some parts of the uk. Flooding is very to lead to major disruption likely on top of that. For a second weekend some very strong and gusty winds. Running in some areas. We will keep you updated a huge blow for Manchester City. Throughout the morning. A huge blow for Manchester City. Theyre banned from
In the city as being grave and that it worsens with each passing day. The Prime Minister said he would resist another National Lockdown if at all possible. The government has come under pressure to impose a short Circuit Breaker across the country, but mrjohnson said he wanted to continue with taregted local action in order to avoid damaging health, economic and social effects. The government also said that there had been a further 15,650 cases of coronavirus in the uk. A further 136 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for covid 19. Lets listen to what the Prime Minister said about manchester in his News Conference a few minutes ago. Now, we have not yet reached an agreement with Greater Manchester. I com pletely agreement with Greater Manchester. I completely understand the reluctance
of the mayor and his colleagues to ta ke of the mayor and his colleagues to take manchester into the very high alert level. It is far from a pain free course of action and it will mean a
Social care officials in the uk deliver a scathing assessment of the governments handling of the pandemic in a leaked letter they describe the distribution of protective kit for carers as shambolic. And the 99 year old war veteran captain tom moore completes 100 laps of his garden before turning 100 himself raising over £12 million for the nhs. Im surrounded by the right sort of people, so yes, i feel fine. I hope youre all feeling fine too. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. And here, the uk Health Secretary says everyone can see it is too early to make changes to the nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Matt hancock says a formal decision will be announced this afternoon. The Opposition Labour Party says it will back the government, but is asking for more clarity on how and when the lockdown will end. Well, as the number of people whove died rises, tributes have been paid to a
Bit of sunshine coming through, but in scotland and Northern Ireland staying quite cloudy today, and there will be a little bit of rain to come for some of us as well. I will have the full forecast coming up will have the full forecast coming upa will have the full forecast coming up a little bit later on. Its saturday, may the 16th. Our top story stick with the rules and dont take risks. Thats the message from the Health Secretary matt hancock, as we enter our first weekend since lockdown restrictions were eased in england. Local councils are warning us to stay away from beauty spots and beaches, fearing a surge of visitors will lead to an increase in infections. It comes after scientists revealed the infection rate across the uk has risen. John mcmanus has the latest. In southwold in suffolk, they are hoping for visitors this weekend, so long as they follow the distancing rules. They dont want to see a repeat of these scenes from march. With warm weather on the way, and a resumption
Wow. A state of emergency is in effect for two counties after a csx train hauling crude oil flew off the tracks. 14 tankers exploding and a house catching on fire. 85 are evacuated at this hour. 100 cars jumped the track. One of them spilling oil into a river used for drinking water. Residents being told to conserve their water as crews are bringing in tanker trucks. To an extreme weather. We dont need to tell you tens of millions of americans feeling the freeze waking up to record low temperatures snow, dangerous commuteses as well. Up in boston transit workers digging to clear the train tracks there after more snow pounded that area. This winter they have gotten eight feet. Goodness. The snow on the ground is not the only problem. This massachusetts load couldnt handle the weight of the snow andtely caved in. In new york city we are feeling the freeze. The south not being spared from the cold either. The semitruck in kentucky could not handle the ice and the roads it got stuck on the