00:00At least three people from the same family were among those killed during heavy rain and flooding in the U.S. state of Tennessee, as submerged roads caused chaos and led to dramatic rescues of people trapped in their cars.
00:16The three, a mother, father and child, were killed when saturated ground caused a large tree to fall on their car in Eastridge just after midnight, emergency officials said.
00:28Authorities said they found another buddy on Wednesday while searching for a man who was swept away when he ran past firefighters and a barricade blocking a flooded road on Tuesday.
00:40This summer, severe thunderstorms are bringing heavy rainfall and flash flooding across parts of the U.S., grounding flights and forcing emergency rescues.
00:50By the end of last month, the U.S. National Weather Service had already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings nationwide, nearly equal to its annual average.
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