Our main story is that snow and freezing temperatures are causing widespread disruption in many parts of the uk. Heathrow airport is trying to clear a backlog of hundreds of flights, the port of calais is closed, while roads and rail have been badly affected. Its all making travel difficult and even hazardous. More than a thousand schools failed to open this morning because of the snow. Hundreds of homes, mainly in wales, and a belt across the centre of england, are without power. The forecasters say temperatures could fall in places tonight to as low as 12 celsius. Our correspondent phil mackie reports. A large swathe of Central England and most of wales woke up to a winter wonderland, but the morning commute was tricky, many areas saw their heaviest snowfall for seven years. Some areas saw 20 centimetres, which froze when temperatures plummeted. Driving conditions were extremely dangerous, and the Breakdown Services have been working around the clock. On an average sunday, we do 10,0
And its sticking around ill start wearing sweatpants to work. Its freezing. We have a crash in alexandria, richmond highway southbound and huntingdon steering you clear of that one. Well check in with you in a few. It is cold outside this morning, if work or any other reason takes you outdoors, baby its really cold outside. Let me say it right. Just get ready. Biting cold temperatures will greet you at the door, some places so could snowflakes the Colder Weather plans could is that clear around, because after all it is winter. As we usher in the new year with freezing temperature, what else do we decide to do but send annie yu out on the coldest day so far of the year, which will get worse. Good morning to you, annie yu. Reporter good morning, youre right, its winter, it is supposed to be cold out here. But of course with the talk about possible snow, it ups the antiheres the deal, win of north of dc, so we came up here to urbana which is in frederick could you tell the, sort of where
It is very cold out here, this is certainly something that we will all feel as we step outside this morning, temperatures will be around freezing mark today, right now i think its at 28 here in urbana, behind me you do see a couple or few of snowplows. They say theyve been out since 1 00 a. M. In case something happens and were all kind of doing the same, watching the sky, waiting for something to fall. I can tell you we do see sometimes with the flurries coming down and then it stops and started up again, but thats basically what we have been seeing out here, but you know be well just kind of continue to monitor whats happening out here. No treatment has happened in maryland, but in virginia, vdot said they started treatment last night. Laid down sand and salt in case for icy conditions, of course, these crews are treating them, you know, differently, because with snow you have traction but with ice, its a different beast. We dont want people slipping and sliding, they last night. Wel
Betsy ross bridge, kind of quiet this morning, virtually no overnight construction because of the holiday. Couple of fire locations, one here in abington, Huntingdon Pike, police and fire crews on the scene, with the fires comes the water. Then that gets iced over just like here in the neighborhood. The fire location, we will tell but in a moment at that church, corn well just off of f street. So watch for some local detours. Septa had some problems last night, signal problems, causing big delays on the Airport Media elwyn and wilmington line late last night. Were still wait fog find out if those signal delays will carry into the start of our morning rush hour, well have that update the next time around, thomas, back over to you. Bob, thank youment lets talk about the developing story. Still breaking right now, overnight fire at old Vacant Church. This is in kensington. Sending 19 Homeless People back into the bitter cold. That cold weather certainly made it hard for crews to get all o
Caused travel chaos and is being blamed for up to 17 deaths. And well be finding out why irn bru fans are stockpiling the soft drink ahead of a planned recipe change. Good evening. Theres even more evidence today of the mounting pressure on the nhs in england this winter. New figures compiled by the bbc show that for the last six weeks of 2017 more than 75,000 patients were left in ambulances for 30 minutes or more. Thats one in every eight patients enduring a delay. And last week was the busiest ever for the nhs111 helpline it received more than 480,000 calls. Today theresa may apologised for the thousands of operations that have already been cancelled. 0ur health editor, hugh pym, reports. But were in a queue with lots of other people who are clearly very sick. Everybodys waiting to get in. A patients eye view of the stress across the nhs. A queue of ambulances waiting to hand over patients at a hospital. Leah was stuck for more than an hour in the ambulance with her mother, who was