China floods spark evacuations

July 13, 2007

Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from areas flooded by China's Huai River. The river has swollen to its highest level in over half a century. Tens of thousands of troops are helping rescue efforts along the Huai, which originates in the central province of Henan and runs east through densely populated but underdeveloped parts of Henan, Anhui and coastal Jiangsu.