If the sandbags made any difference, she shakes her head.

So many businesses here were flooded and not all insured, like the fashion boutique run by Emma Jamal and her husband were.

Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of stock was ruined by four feet, but nothing prepared way something Acela's those caught up in the flooding.

He met Emergency Service's and counsel Starr involved in the response.

Not far from the lied Oh, he'd only reopened a few years ago, now badly damaged and shut for months to come several miles away.

Intra forest, more businesses pile up there.

Debra were shown into a repair garage and told 150 cars.

You have been written off, then a manufacturing plant with a £1,000,000 worth of machinery damage and an N HS depot where outside, they've brought some of the 600 wheelchairs damaged in the flood.

We've had 2.5 foot forward to throw out the entire building.

So we've had Thio look at all our stop on the ground floor.

Take it out.

Look at what we can re contempt, Decontaminate, waken.

Refurbish a lot of the building.

Work needs to be ripped out, being a huge devastation to us and neighboring facilities as well.

In some streets, which were flooded, still lie abandoned cars laden with mud.

This road is yet to get its gas supply back.

And while some begin the painstaking process of repair, others like Stephen Davis still salvaging what they can.

How you gonna find new accommodation?

Um, that's gonna be our.

Then they say, The eggs.

I think a lot of people in the same boat just started looking for something we haven't yet.

No.

Some residents like Diane Sanford, whose 91 year old mother had a home flooded, do little until the insurance companies have assessed the damage.

You can't take the furniture out of the moment.

No, because you have to wait for the ways for the assessor to come on Tuesday, he said he's coming down from Gatwick on because he has sought inundated.

You can't get to me until next Tuesday, and he said he'd read only a couple of weeks just seeing two people in assessing different people.

I mean it's so widespread, as is the infrastructure damage Overnight, another bridge in Ponta Breathe was closed due to structural concerns.

Some are still strewn with the remnants of Storm Dennis.

He's just some of the multi £1,000,000 repairs the Welsh government wants the Treasury to help fund.

There is so much damage that people are still having to confront now, several days after the River Tak burst its banks.

Look at these allotments, tinplate works, allotments, intra forest leveled as if by tsunami is how one here describes it and all now quietly absorbed by old friend sheltering in one of the few bankside huts left standing.

It's all gone.

Everything I know you, all the sheds.

It was along there anything.

How you feeling, right?

Really?

When our reporter Jane Dodger, is in Kirby Worf in North Yorkshire now Jane put us in the picture about what's going on there.

Well, the people here in this small Yorkshire village of Kirby Wolf are watching and waiting tonight, some of them from their kitchen windows overlooking floodwater here.

They know all too well about the risk of flooding.

These houses have been fighting four or five times over the years, the worst back in 2015.

Now, though, they've taken things into their own hands.

On Bought this.

It's a 150 meter long aqueduct.

Sorry, Aqua Dam.

Full of water on is the very same water flood water that's lapping up here.

Besides me, on the path people are uncertain.

The council, the properties people want to move on.

And there's always one eye on the weather living here, and it's just makes life uncomfortable.

Will people be able to relax this weekend?

Certainly not no.

For those nervously watching like Richard water levels over the weekend, there are those some words off reassurance from the environment agency.

We're keeping a close eye on the river level, so a mantra.

River levels across Yorkshire.

We expect the rivers to rise as the rain starts to fall.

So we're making sure all our defenses are working and functioning.

All our pumps are working.

All our trash screens it cleared on were running 24 7 to make sure we can warn.

Inform people if levels start to rise to a tricky situation and a reminder of those areas that face the risk of further flooding.

This weekend the pen nines and parts off the mid lands on the north of England.

Jane, thanks very much while our weather president Ilium Dustin is with me now, Liam people bracing themselves, How bad is it gonna get with the rain this weekend?

Well, obviously, any rain is not welcome a tour, but it's important to make the point that the rain that we're going to see this weekend isn't going to be anywhere near this scale that we saw last weekend with stormed Denis or the weekend before that restore care.

So in those storms we had six inches of rain in the weather warning affected areas of northern England and Wales.

This weekend we could see 12 syringes, maybe three inches, so much less in terms of the amount of rain that's for.

And what about the implications for flooding?

Well, there are two aspects for the potential flooding this weekend.

Obviously, the ground is so saturated, more rain forming on top of that will mean that is the risk of further surface water flooding, disruption to travel, maybe some homes.

The business is flooded, too, and then there's the river level side of things.

Honestly, the rivers is still high.

And for the bigger rivers, it takes a number of days for the water to flow down from the hills into those parts of the catchment.

So we still need to watch the risk of river flooding into next week as well.

Okay, you'll be back at the end of the program.

Thanks so much, man.

Kathy.

Thanks for earlier, I spoke to the Welsh actor and activist Michael Sheen via the Internet from New York.

He's spearheading a crowdfunding campaign for victims off the flooding and began by asking him how much he's hoping to raise.

Well, there's no limit, really.

We just wanna keep going.

People who have bean affected by by the flooding all across Wales.

It's gonna go on for a very long time, you know, after the news on the on the column inches, stop talking about what's going on.

People will still be affected by it, so we want to try toe.

Just keep going on, and you've given your own money as well.

What?

What's behind your interest in this campaign?

Your decision to start his campaign well, I was watching, you know, images like everyone else on the news and on online of what was going on, seeing people being evacuated out of their homes and small businesses.

I'm to throw away their stock, You know, the devastation that was going on there and seeing you know, the risks of tips with the landslides happening again.

You know, images that we haven't seen for a long time in the forest in Wales hold, you know, huge emotional power on.

And it just really moved me as it did so many people.

So I went to look at how I could help how I could contribute some money toe help on.

I saw that there were lots of fundraising sites going on, most of them for individual areas or particular places.

Andi, I couldn't find anything that was sort of more overarching for the whole of whales.

So I remembered that I'm the president of the White House Counsel's a voluntary action who, of course, have a network of community groups, local community groups, all over Wales on.

So we talked about setting something up where whales counsel, the voluntary action could hold the money essentially on distributed to the local groups.

It's always the same when when when something terrible and devastating like this happens, you see the best and the worst.

You know, the worst, as in what damage could be done and on the vulnerabilities that we have a society and certain communities up.

But we also see the best in a way that communities pulled together.

And I've been hearing today about in in an area and other delights where people live.

There have the canal on one side, the river on the other so that the devastation has been awful on Bite my own, about a family member who lives in that area to be evacuated by boat last Sunday morning and just left in her pajamas, literally what she was wearing and a dog under each arm and had to leave all the possessions behind him.

Doesn't know when she'll get back.

Doesn't know how much might be rescue herbal because of health risks to do with sewage, that is, that is, you know, leaked out so on.

You see people rallying around and in that area, and I realized, I know that local businesses have helped out April food and clothing and water.

Andi, Even the local chip shop is giving food away to people.

Given that when the government took power just before Christmas, they made much of the fact that they call themselves the government of the people listening to ordinary people.

What do you make of the fact that Boris Johnson has sort of gone to ground in Kent, hasn't been seen in Wales, appears to have no plans to visit or indeed, caller a Cobra emergency committee meeting.

It's it is very disconcerting.

You know, it seems like this is the first big test of a lot of what was spoken about before the election, in terms of how much the union matter, how much the devolved nations mattered and how much how important it was to this government.

Thio, make sure that everyone felt that they were included on would be cared about and committed to on Dhere.

Here we have the first big test of that.

And as far as I know, three only response so far from Westminster is being that flooding is a devolved matter on which, you know does sound scarily like you're on your own.

So I know that Mr I'm sorry.

What do you say to the Prime minister?

If he was here in front of you.

Now I'd say that you know, whales is for the time being part of the United Kingdom.

The people here, the community here are suffering.

They put a lot of trusted, knew a lot more trusting you that you've had and you've had in the past, is a conservative party.

Recently, in the last election on DDE, that trust needs to be rewarded, I would say by a two very least saying that you care about what's going on on that you're gonna do everything you can, you know, we're no even getting in those words, let alone the actions of the moment.

It's It's way beyond what the world's government can cope with at the moment.

It's It's on a huge scale.

What's going on here?

So we really do need a combined effort.

Michel Jean, Thank you so much for joining us.

Pleasure.

Thank you.

We're joining me now from Monmouth.

Where there has been serious flooding is the Welsh Office minister, David Davis.

It's also his constituency there.

Mr Davis, let's just start with what Michael Sheen ended up there, saying that people put a lot of trust in your government.

And actually, they're not getting kind words, let alone action at the moment.

Well, first, what can I say to both Michael Sheen and you that the this constituency is being very badly affected by flooding?

And the chief executive was absolutely clear he didn't want prime ministers.

He didn't want members of parliament.

He didn't want actors and celebrities turning up in the middle of a rescue operation, trying to get self res and publicity.

He actually asked us to stay away.

So that was the first thing until that way when we moved into recovery, that's what.

No, no, no, man just finished.

Because let me just say the prime mister could have called a Cobra Emergency Committee, which he did the last set of floods in the middle of an election campaign.

Why is he not even done that?

Well, first of all, you asked me why people weren't visiting the chief executive of this constituency, which one of the first the worst affected constituencies in Wales asked people to stay away.

So that answers your first question.

The second point is this.

It is a devolved issue on both Simon Hart, the Secretary of State from for wells on myself, very sensitive to the accusations from people.

Funny enough from some celebrities, in fact, that we're trying to run, ride roughshod over the devolution, settling we're not responsible for the health service or for education or for flood defenses in Wales.

And we understand that I said this very clearly.

The first Minister, May I answer your question because, frankly, you put it in an outrageous fashion.

We're not responsible for that defense, but we are, of course, willing to support the world government in any way they want.

And if they come to us and say this is too big for us, we can't deal with it by ourselves.

Then obviously Simon on myself will be there to support them.

Wear not responsible.

And we cannot tell them how to read defenses.

No, I accept that.

But the Welsh government has come to you and asked for funding from the treasury.

So how much will they get understanding And how much will they get on when?

Well, first of all, the First Minister for Wells has said that he will release £10 million in funding that isn't gonna go very far at all.

now if the first minister is looking for us to support him in getting more money out of Westerns, the government and of course we will be looking to do that.

But he needs to come to us and tell us, first of all, how much he's going to need on what it's going to be spent on, because we have had a problem in the past where money has been passed on by the UK government to the world government and spent way expected it to be spent on.

So there's an issue about making absolutely certain that any extra only going into Wells is spent on third defense for those sorts of assurances.

Okay, the first minister of whales has asked the U.

K government four extra financial assistance.

So I'm asking you, how much assistance will they get on Gwen if the first minister wants to make a case for extra financial assistance on to explain exactly what it's going to be spent on them?

Both Simon and I, he hasn't.

He hasn't said exactly how it's going to be spent there.

He said he wants tens of millions of pounds.