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Hello and welcome to bbc news. The army have been called in to help shore up flood defences across West Yorkshire, with large parts of the uk expected to be hit by severe rain and wind from storm dennis. The regular troops and reservists have been deployed to ilkley and calderdale. The Highways Agency has warned of hazardous driving conditions and north wales police has urged people not to go out unless its absolutely neccessary. Matches in the scottish premiership at rangers and motherwell have been called off. There more than 250 flood warnings and alerts in place across the uk, and wind spe...

Good evening. The Television Presenter Caroline Flack, host of some of the biggest reality tv shows of recent times, has been found dead at her home in east london. Her family says she took her own life. Ms flack, who was 40, was on bail awaiting trial next month for assaulting her boyfriend, an allegation she denied. She fronted programmes that garnered many millions of viewers, including itvs the x factor and love island. She won strictly come dancing in 2014. Heres our media correspondent, david sillito. It isa it is a return of Caroline Flack love island, x factor, im a celebrity, Caroline...

The failed test kits, the utter inability for weeks to ramp up testing to know where the virus was and how prevalent it was. The fact that they took way too long to begin to recommend social distancing. The fact that the president during this entire period as the virus was spreading would come out and do a series of song and dance routines to pump up the stock market as if that was the goal instead of taking action on the virus. Right. All those errors are what got us to this point. Right now, there are almost 30,000 americans who have lost their lives. Its an incomprehensible toll. New york c...

Two, not having adequate testing capacity. And three, thinking that the problem to be managed is the economy as if that is somehow separate from the Public Health emergency of fighting the virus. Those mistakes gave us the whole disastrous response from the white house. The failed test kits. The utter inability for weeks to ramp up testing, to know where the virus was. The fact that they took way too long to begin to recommend social distancing. The fact the president during this period would come out and do a series of song and dance are you teens to pump up the stock market as if that was th...

Delivering a very personal message. Good morning, well to the daily rundown. It is thursday, october 30th, 2014. The ebola standoff between nurse kaci hickox and the state of maine. Hickox emerged from the house he shares with her boyfriend to say shes not backing down, that she wont stay inside for 21 days and shell go to court if necessary. It is not my intention to put anyone at risk in this community. We have been in negotiations all day with the state of maine. And tried to resolve this amicably. But they will not allow me to leave my house and have any interaction with the public. Even t...