
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 Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.











