protect their homes. jim boldin's live in one hard-hit area. jim, what's latest? >> reporter: christine, you can see it's actually quite a nice day today. we had terrible storms yesterday and we expect more storms tomorrow, so we are really just in the middle of that. but what you see here, and even though we're near the river thames, this is not the river flooding. this is groundwater. that's why we've come here. this is sewers that cannot handle all the rain that this area's getting. people had put out these sandbags, but it hasn't worked, it doesn't work because the water's coming from below. so, you see these families here have been flooded out, homes evacuated. these people live near the river, but they weren't expecting flooding because it doesn't flood here from the river. so, a lot of people really caught out. you see this family here. they've had to take their refrigerator and put it out into the front yard. some people, i've been told, are still in these homes, are refusing to leave. the police have said they should leave because we're going to get higher water tomorrow. luckily at this moment, the water has gone down a little