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ten people are now confirmed to have died, after a huge explosion at a petrol station in county donegal in ireland. a search operation is continuing as some people are still thought to be missing, eight people were also taken to hospital. police say the cause remains under investigation — but are describing what happened as "a tragic accident". the explosion happened at an applegreen service station in the village of creeslough. from there, our ireland correspondent chris page reports. a rescue effort has now become a recovery operation, a sad sign that the emergency services don't...

everywhere. i've never seen damage like this in my whole life. it's unreal. >> reporter: boats tossed like toys. the lone bridge connecting the island cracked and crumbled with the storm's winds putting some sections totally under water. >> we had about 200 households that didn't evacuate on the island that we know of. >> reporter: anyone still trapped on the isolated island now waiting for rescue by boat or air. we joined the lee county sheriff as he surveyed some of the hardest hit areas to see the full scope of ian's power. >> you know that as we are speaking right now, there are ...

to the mainland. and above the shear scale of the wreckage, the storm left some areas completely unrecognizable. one person told the tampa bay times lee koth looks like a bomb has been dropped. momentarily, we'll go live to fort myers beach where this side by side shows the destruction to the popular pier. here's a man from fort myers who had a terrifying experience. >> i stayed here as long as i could until i got scared for my life and went across the street. the it didn'ts last too long. the big bad wolf puffed it away. i watched my house disappear with everything in it. right pfr ...

benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. the vatican says benedict's condition has worsened in recent hours. you are watching bbc news. here's weather world. this time on weather world, we are at raf coningsby which set the uk's highest temperature record this summer during our hottest heatwave. and i will be finding out what it was like that day and how heat and other severe weather affects operations here. i am here at the uk's national meteorological archive and i will be finding out how that new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk a...

expected to reach hurricane strength when it reaches puerto rico later today. we are live in the cnn weather center. ♪ gruesome discoveries in kharkiv, and accusations of depravity from a fleeing russian military, we will have that story coming up here in a second. japan issues a tsunami warning for an outlying area. right now we are looking at live pictures of the queen lying in state in westminster. it's 9:00 a.m. in london, the final full day that people can come pay their respects to the late queen elizabeth. public viewing is set to end at 6:30 tomorrow morning, that's whe...