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30 miles from where she disappeared at Deluge Beach 16 years ago ITV News correspondent Emma Murphy joins me now from Portugal and Emma the weather hampered the

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effort was yesterday, It is not like this? Lorraine did it. I mean, the day started like that when the searches started, but at five o'clock it was torrential and they had to stop things and it's very frustrating for those teams because of course they know it. They only have a limited time here this entire search has been recorded for 48 hours, they may be extended, but this morning we heard from the Portuguese authorities that there has been no formal request, so perhaps they felt they had done Yesterday there was enough progress and if they manage to maintain the climate today they will be able to continue.

Just to catch you up on what we've seen in the last 24 hours. There was a lot of activity involving the Portuguese. The police led by German investigators and also representatives of Scotland Yard who are here and were working there on that ridge that you can see behind me, they were digging in the ground with pickaxes and then raking and we understand that We are looking for anything that can connect to Madeleine McCann with this area. The reason this area is being monitored so carefully is because German investigators say that when they held Christian Brookner in custody for the rape of another woman in the past, we have been able to gather information from the searches they have conducted and from his laptop, suggesting that this was a place he frequented a lot about 20 years ago.

Now we also know that the night Madeleine disappeared he was located by telephone signals very close to the apartment so the German investigators think that he really is a person of great interest and what has brought them to this place exactly now they will obviously be looking for anything that can be found forensically. and that will take a huge amount of time, particularly of interest we think it's probably the pajamas that Madeleine was wearing the night she disappeared but of course it's been 16 years now so anything they find here will have to be subject to scrutiny. an extensive investigation.

Absolutely DNA testing and can you tell us what you expect to happen today? I think we'll see more of the same, um Lorraine, and they'll be working on that land behind me and potentially on the banks of the

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as well, you know. I was mentioning to my colleague as we were driving here this morning that 16 years ago we were here covering this story and we would never have imagined then that all these years we would be back here once again with an incredibly challenging ongoing police investigation like This must be for For the families, the only thing that may perhaps comfort them is that this investigation is still ongoing and also the fact that, like every time it appears in the media, there is the possibility that more information will be presented.

Absolutely thank you. You're absolutely right Emma, ​​16 years old, and the family needs some kind of closure, right?