fantastic, thank you so much. laura scott at the commonwealth games in birmingham. now fora scott at the commonwealth games in birmingham. now for a look at the weather and hello to chris. we were hearing about the hosepipe bans and no rain in the forecast for a long, long time in parts of the south of the uk. one of our weather watchers spotted this combine harvester bringing the crops in. and although there is a lot of dry weather, across the north of the uk we are seeing some shower cloud speed in. answering the big question, when is it going to rain? well, not for the next five days across the really dry areas but i reckon actually this dry run of weather will last a long time. southern parts of england and wales, i don t think we ll see rain for the next ten days but perhaps even as long as the next two weeks. so perhaps the back end of august we could see some heavy rain moving in, but that is an awful long way off. this afternoon, dry across southern wales, the south m
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60 s, humidity s dropped so those are good things that you want when you re still in search and rescue and eventually into recovery mode here. we have all of the rain that fell. you see this line from up around daytona beach around 24 inches of rain and same here just to the north of where the storm came on shore. and the storm surge around fort myers. and the myakka river you re talking about, interstate 75 is closed due to flooding and up here in an agricultural, more rural area is where the concern for that levee potentially that could have some issues. it did have a breach in 2003, and that was when they got 20 inches of rain over a three-day period. here they got 20 inches of rain in under 24 hours and because of that, we re seeing all of this flooding. latest observation is at 12.67 feet and this is its highest ever flood. that s going to stay at that level for a couple of days.
meanwhile, some superb running from england s cindy sember has seen her secure her place in the final of the women s 100 metres hurdles. with a time of 12.67 seconds she got the better of jamaica s danielle williams. megan marrs of northern ireland finishes fourth in 13.37 seconds. we have also seen as long jump qualifying today. they will all be involved in the final on sunday. next, it s a big day over at the beach volleyball. the quarter finals are being played. england and scotland hoping to keep alive their medal hopes. nesta mcgregor is at smithfield for us nesta, it s certainly one of the liveliest venue of the games, isn t it?