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MEDIA GUARDIAN:
Senior correspondents from the BBC and ITN are on standby at Stansted airport, where they are poised to catch a chartered plane to the US as soon as they get clearance from the authorities.
The most seasoned reporters, many of whom have covered wars all over the world, are waiting to fly to US on a plane that has been chartered since 7pm last night.
The BBC and ITN are pulling out all the stops in an attempt to get their key staff out to the US.
Jeremy Paxman, the presenter of Newsnight, has returned to his BBC office to be replaced by Jeremy Vine, after spending the night at Stansted.
George Alagiah, the presenter of BBC Ten O'Clock News and News 24, is still waiting to board the plane, together with ITN's Dermot Murnaghan, Tom Bradby, Andrea Catherwood and Mark Austin and Channel 4 News's Alex Thompson and Kirsty Lang.
Jeremy Bowen, the BBC Breakfast presenter who was waiting at Stansted before being summoned back to the BBC to present this morning's programme, said the journalists had managed to find a hotel late last night and were now frustrated by their inability to travel.
The BBC already has five correspondents in New York and five Washington, with other reporters currently travelling across mainland America by car.
John Simpson, the BBC's World Affairs editor, is already in Islamabad and is attempting to get access to Afghanistan, as is Ian Williams of Channel 4 News.
ITN's Bill Neely, who is travelling to the US, will land in the Dominican Republic and will attempt to get into the US by crossing the Mexican border, according to Nigel Dacre, the editor of ITN's news programmes on ITV.
The British government is believed to be making an announcement at 5pm on whether to allow certain flights out of the UK to the US.
Senior correspondents from the BBC and ITN are on standby at Stansted airport, where they are poised to catch a chartered plane to the US as soon as they get clearance from the authorities.
The most seasoned reporters, many of whom have covered wars all over the world, are waiting to fly to US on a plane that has been chartered since 7pm last night.
The BBC and ITN are pulling out all the stops in an attempt to get their key staff out to the US.
Jeremy Paxman, the presenter of Newsnight, has returned to his BBC office to be replaced by Jeremy Vine, after spending the night at Stansted.
George Alagiah, the presenter of BBC Ten O'Clock News and News 24, is still waiting to board the plane, together with ITN's Dermot Murnaghan, Tom Bradby, Andrea Catherwood and Mark Austin and Channel 4 News's Alex Thompson and Kirsty Lang.
Jeremy Bowen, the BBC Breakfast presenter who was waiting at Stansted before being summoned back to the BBC to present this morning's programme, said the journalists had managed to find a hotel late last night and were now frustrated by their inability to travel.
The BBC already has five correspondents in New York and five Washington, with other reporters currently travelling across mainland America by car.
John Simpson, the BBC's World Affairs editor, is already in Islamabad and is attempting to get access to Afghanistan, as is Ian Williams of Channel 4 News.
ITN's Bill Neely, who is travelling to the US, will land in the Dominican Republic and will attempt to get into the US by crossing the Mexican border, according to Nigel Dacre, the editor of ITN's news programmes on ITV.
The British government is believed to be making an announcement at 5pm on whether to allow certain flights out of the UK to the US.