yesterday, starting off with some frost and ice, snow showers in parts of scotland and northern ireland, rain clearing the far south and more snow coming into the south pushing north tonight into tomorrow. it s wednesday the 7th of february. proposals to improve access to nhs dentists in england are being announced by the government today. the plans include offering top up payments for dentists to take on new nhs patients as well as bonuses to work in under served areas. but health leaders say the measures don t go far enough. here s our health editor, hugh pym. a long queue outside a new dental practice in bristol. local people simply wanting to register as nhs patients. the opening following a public campaign after the previous site closed. the story was covered on bbc breakfast yesterday. the images illustrate the growing sense of frustration at the lack of nhs treatment in areas of the country which have been branded dental deserts. a new government and nhs plan for engla
elizabeth makes its final journey. you re looking at the pictures of the mile in central london. here in a few hours the queen s casket will be moved from buckingham palace to westminster hall where the queen will lie in state until her funeral on monday. king charles, prince harry and prince william will walk behind the casket as it makes its way. first on cnn we learned that the royals had dinner together at buckingham palace last night after receiving the casket. standing by along this morning s procession route, nada bashir and nina dos santos at buckingham palace. nina, what can we expect today? reporter: a big day, visible day. more junior members of the royal family. many of them, john, gathered here at buckingham palace for that intimate gathering to bid good-bye to the monarch. the queen is survived by 4 children, 8 children and 12 great grandchildren. we ll see prominent members of that family walk behind her coffin later on today. we re expecting the coffin, wh
night. but i think he s doing okay. the wind and the rain last night was really intense, but we are really lucky and fortunate and are so many people who are not. our prayers and thoughts are out to everybody. john: i wanted to ask you just a little bit more about that. i have covered so many hurricanes in my career that i don t care if i cover another one and some of them very powerful, some of them small ones. i always talk to people who ride out the storms. i remember my first hurricane, hugo, and charleston. i talked to people saying in the home and they said they would have a hurricane party. i saw them the next day and they said they were hidden in a closet all night long screaming. and i talked to other people had written them out and said not much problem. on that scale, where did you folks come through it last night? in the middle. in the beginning we didn t know what we were going to be hit
whether we call it a tropical storm or hurricane, still a big impact for a lot of folks. ken, thank you very much. again, you used a key word there, stalling. a big deal. there s a part of that happening over new york city. we saw the rain last night. one of the outer boroughs of new york, brooklyn, got over six inches of water. that can change a community quickly. we re going to see that in different pockets of rhode island depending on how long different aspects of this storm stay in the same place dumping rain. even if you don t have the winds, you can have six, eight hours of rain. the reason i follow that in a storm thanks to ken. i ll check back with you later. i want to go to boston. we have a correspondent there. the reason duration matters is, if power were to go out because you have 20 to 30-mile-an-hour gusts, i understand that s not that impressive to you by hurricane standards, but if that s enough with foliage to knock out power, the back side of a storm like this cou
chris. i hopped in a car after reliable sources. we re in battery park, the lower tip of manhattan we ll flip the dash cam on as we make our way across lower manhattan towards the south end seaport. these areas were under water during super storm sandy. it s remarkable to see the amount of rain that some of these communities are dealing with. right now the flash flood warnings have expired in new york. in connecticut, new london, groton, we re seeing those flash flood warnings right now. these different rain bands sitting on different areas. people who were watching the concern here on cnn last night, when you saw that tremendous rain band come into central park, we now know it was the w wettest hour in new york city history. almost two inches, a record going back more than 100 years.