
Search efforts are underway in Virginia as more than 40 people are unaccounted for after severe flooding
CNN
Search efforts will continue Thursday for more than 40 people unaccounted after a torrential downpour inundated a rural Virginia county, tearing homes from their foundations and damaging roads and bridges across the region.
Buchanan County in the western part of Virginia was soaked with more than 6 inches of water in just a matter of hours Wednesday, causing extensive damage, according to CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford.
"Combined with the fact that the area is mountainous, rainfall is able to collect quickly and dangerous runoff occurred," Shackelford said.

The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval Office showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an overwhelming win underscoring Trump’s “America First” leadership, dispatching top officials and allies on the airwaves to amplify Trump’s handling of the situation even as European leaders are putting on a key show of force of unity for Ukraine and its leader.