And the d day veteran whos raised thousands of pounds for a memorial to remember his fallen comrades. Ijust had a job to do, all these fellows did a good job. All these men, these wonderful men. Good morning. More than 100 Flood Warnings are in place across the north of england, following hours of torrential rain. Its caused major disruptions to roads and rail services. Dozens of people spent the night in a Shopping Mall in sheffield after torrential downpours flooded the streets. Lets show you these pictures from mansfield from our helicopter. You can see how the floodwater has raised above many of the businesses there in that Business Park area. The disruption has been considerable throughout that part of the country. In fact, notjust throughout that part of the country. In fact, not just around throughout that part of the country. In fact, notjust around mansfield, in particular around doncaster as well. The river don was affected. Some have described these as almost biblical rain.
And until then, chilly start this morning. We zipped into the dipped into the single dints. 10 in nashua. A lot of teens in suburbs north and west of boston. 21 in the sit they. And then a lower 30s in parts of the outer cape where the clouds have been a little thicker overnight with ocean effect cloud cover. Real feel right now Single Digits in worcester is zero in keene 10 in boston. Theres still a bit of a breeze but the wind will subside over the next several hours. Clear skies and sunshine going to greet you today. We have had ocean effect clouds from plymouth to the cape and they will taper and gradually dissipate through late morning. So the planner goes this way. Bright sunshine sunrise coming earlier. Nice winter day on tap. 38 for lunchtime and the wind will be light and dipping into the mid30s for the ride home. Cloud will increase pretty rapidly late in the day. With the sunset at 5 21. Tonight. All the details on your weekend coming up. We will get you on the road together
People had twohour delays. Amtrak told the mbta that this problem with the commute is not going to be fixed any time soon and may be a problem with tomorrow mornings commute as well. Check whdh. Com as well. Check mbtas website. Follow them on twitter for the latest if you need to catch a train because as you can see it is an absolute mess. Brandon gunnoe, 7 news. Adam our coverage continues with dan hausle who is lye at south lye at south station live at south station with the tracks there and it looks vacant behind you. Reporter there is not as many trains going out any where close to what usually would be. A couple of trains and a few of those amtrak trains that would normally go out of here. There is a lot of work to be done. That is by the guys who are trying to fix the signal systems and the guys who are trying to keep the few trains moving. Lucky commuters rush to leaving south station this afternoon. Braintree, you have to take the redline. It has been hellish today. Im hoping
Going to be fixed tonight. Amtrak crews continue to work frantically on the switching system here that failed. Governor baker said it failed when something crashed in this gray building called tower one. That shorted the switching system that handles all Commuter Rail and trains coming into south station. Its just like a traffic signaling system or an air Traffic Control system. It tells you whether its okay for the trains to safely travel along the when this system particularly one goes out it has an enormous impact because trains cant get in and out of south station. As we all know, that is the main station for the southern part of the mbta Commuter Rail system. Reporter with amtrak switching systems the issue, some computers were willing to give the company a pass. The state. On the feds. Reporter workers have been manually operating the signals here but that is only happening a fraction of officials have given up on fixing the problem for tonights commute. Hoping to fix things for
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