We start the day's other headlines in Spain where crews are searching for bodies

in abandoned cars and swamped buildings after devastating flash floods. At least

158 people are confirmed dead and an unknown number of others remain missing.

The eastern region of Valencia was by far the worst hit.

From there, ITN's James Mates reports.

This was how a flood was to be handled, a ravine, a channel that could tame nature and get water safely to the sea. On Tuesday night nature had other ideas. Three of the four bridges simply swept away, water surging two to three meters above the

banks. Cars were tossed aside like toys dumped even onto railway lines and all with such speed that people many on the streets on their way home from work had little chance.

Sort of ocean came here and everything was under water.

Everything suddenly in 10 minutes all the town was absolutely full of water.

We found Elena and her husband Ismael, beginning the clear up outside their home, just a few meters from where the river burst.

Elena showed me how they fled up their front steps, only to find the water rushing in to waste

height after them. The trauma of the next few hours is still with her.

Me, she said.

My son couldn't get to us, she said.

The brother of her life.

This is a roroosum. I can't talk it was a terrible catastrophe.

Without being here at the time it's almost impossible to conceive of the force of water that came down this street.

Locals talk about it as a tsunami and when you see what happened,

when the water had nowhere else to go, simply smashed everything into the end of this street, they weren't exaggerating.

The irony of course is that this sort of storm is not unusual here at this time a year.

They thought they were resilient to it.

It turned out, they simply weren't. A local

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