-my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then here s this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew. -oh! -you got to remember the hat you re wearing is your flight-surgeon hat, not your family hat. it would have broken protocol for me to bring up an issue to a crew member, even though it s my wife. -i remember a certain sense of relief like, it s almost over. she s almost back. -i didn t talk to laurel about the foam issue. that conference was for iain and laurel, and i was a bystander. -i knew she was going to come back. you know, i never had a question in my mind. -given the fact that you may have lost a little bit of tile during lift-off, i m wondering
our priority has been, our concern has been, the rain that has fallen with that wind. we saw a lot of rainfall over the last few weeks, which resulted in a lot of flooding, and as a result the ground is saturated and so any rain that is falling now will fall through the day, will run off quite quickly and flow into the already swollen rivers. currently, we have 68 flood warnings in force across the country and a further 174 flood alerts, which means that flooding is possible. i would urge anybody who is thinking of going out and about to listen to the advice of other emergency services and the coastguard near the sea, and seriously consider your own safety. certainly when you are driving, we would expect to see quite a lot of surface water flooding. driving through flood water has its own risks and i would discourage anyone from doing that. if the water is deeper than about a foot, cars can start to float. you cannot see what is below floodwater. you cannot see how deep it is
the boats there. these pictures are from this morning in milford on sea on the hampshire coast. you can see the swell this system is creating, which has forced the closure of the beach. the system has already been over north west france, bringing gale force winds. the country s transport minister says a lorry driver was killed when a tree fell on his vehicle in the ayn region. our reporter, aruna iyengar, has the very latest. waves crashing over the sea wall in devon. a car is washed into the sea. this is penzance in cornwall. and there is heavy rainfall and flooding across the country. areas of northern ireland have been flooded. this is the scene in newry. storm ciaran is unleashing its power across the country. hampshire county council has declared a major incident for residents in hampshire and the isle of wight. many schools are putting safety first and will be shut in hampshire, southampton and devon. amber wind warnings, the second highest level of alert, are in place
coastal communities are among the worst hit, as this image from christchurch in dorset shows. lots of trees blocking roads. our reporter danjohnson is in st helier injersey and a short time ago sent us this update. it is absolutely battering these silence relentlessly overnight. some people have had a really rough night. i have been said one of the hotels where people have been evacuated. around a0 people have had to be moved from their homes. windows have been smashed, roofs have been ripped off, there were hailstones at one point in the early hours of the morning. rows have been blocked across jersey. hours of the morning. rows have been blocked acrossjersey. my hours of the morning. rows have been blocked across jersey. my roads. there are no flights whatsoever. commercial flights at least. and there are no flights whatsoever. commercialflights at least. and no boat services out there. that has caused some concern. authorities have said to people there will be abl
you know, we were very quiet. -in my mind, i m thinking kind of like the spaceship is like a cruise ship. there are lifeboats. surely they got on a lifeboat, you know, and, you know, somebody s just got to, like, go get them. cause, you know, i m thinking of, like, you know, all of the science-fiction movies where they get into the little pods, and they zoom away from the danger. -somehow, they have survived the crash in the ocean somewhere, and they were all out living on an island. -there was explosive crying. if you ve ever heard an animal scream in agony or it was primal. it was horrific. -and then they told us that the shuttle had broken apart.