Extreme weather: In China, the
Dongting Lake floods
Yueyang, forcing the evacuation of 600,000 people; the crest of the flooding from the
Yangtze River is expected Sunday. Floods and landslides have killed nearly 1000 people in China, 200 in the
Hunan province. There have been 376 deaths in India, 494 in
Nepal, and 158 deaths in
Bangladesh this
monsoon season.