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Gavin Grey: UK and Europe Correspondent on the deadly storm in the UK and a potentially deliberate explosion in the Netherlands · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kevin Great from the UK gooborning toy Hi there, Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Hio mat So. Every the week in UK authority said
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  Speaker 1: stay at home. So how because the weather was going
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  Speaker 1: to be so bad? So was it so bad? And
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  Speaker 1: did everyone stay at home?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I know not everyone did, of course, people can't
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  Speaker 2: cancel the travel plans. Travel was in absolute chaos, as
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  Speaker 2: you can imagine. This was the fourth named storm that
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  Speaker 2: the winter. It has claimed that we know at least
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  Speaker 2: two lives. Some gusts up to almost one hundred miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour, so you're looking at one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: kilometers an hour were recorded on Saturday and then again
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  Speaker 2: early Sunday morning. The deaths were in the northwest of
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  Speaker 2: England in Lancashire, when a tree fell onto a vehicle
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  Speaker 2: and a man in his late forties died. There was
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  Speaker 2: another death in the West Midlands, same thing, a separate incident,
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  Speaker 2: somebody driving and a tree falling on them. The gusts
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  Speaker 2: have slightly died down, but the problem now is this
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  Speaker 2: storm with the strong winds was accompanied by a lot
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  Speaker 2: of rain, and indeed the previous named storm had only
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  Speaker 2: just left the country. The soil is really, really soggy already,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm afraid now there is a big danger of flooding.
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  Speaker 2: There are some fifty four flood warnings for riverside communities
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  Speaker 2: in England alone, and that means that flooding is likely.
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  Speaker 2: And in Wales where I'm talking to you from this morning,
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  Speaker 2: the ground really really wet. There are lots of tree
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  Speaker 2: surgeons out trying to keep the roads open. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: the winds have died down. The big, big risk now
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  Speaker 2: is all the water that is collecting and going down
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  Speaker 2: into the river.
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  Speaker 1: And indeed there's a change. Really I never used to
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  Speaker 1: remember England flooding and now you do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you know, more development of course, and
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  Speaker 2: more people and therefore a bigger demand on the services
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  Speaker 2: and also fewer places for the water to seek down
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  Speaker 2: into the soil.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Netherlands where there was
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  Speaker 1: an explosion at a block of flats. So tell me
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  Speaker 1: about that story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was in the Hague and at least five
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  Speaker 2: people have died four others have been injured. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: was an explosion of a block of flats. It's a
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  Speaker 2: three story building and it is said that there were
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  Speaker 2: up to twenty people in the flats at the time.
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  Speaker 2: That would mean therefore that eleven or more are missing,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the big concern. There is so much debris
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  Speaker 2: around the place, Andrew that the big crane has been
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  Speaker 2: brought in to try and get lift off these huge blocks.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a big concern this death toll will
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  Speaker 2: increase significantly now at the moment, the authorities are not
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  Speaker 2: saying what they believe to be the cause. However, one
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  Speaker 2: eyewitness describes a car driving off at very high speed
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  Speaker 2: shortly before the explosion. That that is an unconfirmed report.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we believe there's to be at least five
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  Speaker 2: flats that have been completely destroyed in this explosion, which
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  Speaker 2: has left a lot of debr for the authorities to
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  Speaker 2: try to get through. But I'm afraid more and more
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  Speaker 2: this is proving and I think not to be a
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  Speaker 2: rescue operation. If there are more bodies under there, this
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  Speaker 2: is proven to be a recovery operation.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Grave from the UK.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you Imagine for more from early edition with
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. Listen live to news Talks it be from
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