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Recorded in the latest 24—hour period, as well as 161 deaths. that's those who've died within 28—days of a positive covid test. 81.1% of people aged 12 and over have received two doses of a covid vaccine, 37% have received a booster or third dose. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent ben wright and asked him how much pressure the government is currently under. the pressure is firmly on, there are political events moving at a breathless pace this week and as helen said this morning, the remit of this enquiry will be leading into the parties that happened last year was widened sudd...

Cuts down your chance of having to go into hospital or dying from covid. now, there is one of these made by a company in the uk, initial trials were quite encouraging and they were cutting the risk of hospitalisation and death by 50%. later trial results are slightly less encouraging and that came down to 30% plus the other downside with these, you have to take them quite quickly after getting invited so ideally within three or five days. we are likely to hear more about the roll—out of these by the government at six. let's take a look at the latest covid figures for the uk. a further 51,342...

You see the water here, kind of picking up in some of its furious nature. have said we're not even allowed to walk there. they're just concerned for everybody's safety. what we'll do, which is somewhat different, i'll show you a device here. it's going to help us for all the folks who want to get instant weather data, we're going to be able to monitor that with things like the wind speed and everything else. so i'm standing right now with a building protecting me. i'm going to step out of the way. randy who's on the camera is going to zoom on the water. i'm going to come around to the side and...

Great care. i want to talk about what happens, there's been a huge debate for years, should there be seat belts on trains? i think there should be but again, when something like this occurs that's when i start to look right. the kind of injuries you are going to see our people flying through the air, hitting their head, damaging their spine and crashing. i hate to see this but we are talking head injuries, spinal cord injuries and fractured -- that's what they are going to be dealing with. >> harris: not to mention one of the cars went off the overpass, we know it was going 81.1 miles per hour...

Casualties. at least some injuries, potentially death. we don't have the hard and fast numbers yet. we do have the hard and fast facts on this. that train according to a web site that tracks it and what authorities are looking at right now, had it going at 81.1 miles per hour, just before this happened. it went around the curve you can see. at least one railcar right away when off that overpass and hit interstate five. you can see another dangling behind it and another. this gives us the perspective of what we haven't been able to se see. we hadn't seen those cars that were left into the woods...