The other headlines start in Central Europe where authorities say at least 16 people have died amid

catastrophic flooding. A slow moving storm system is pounding the region with unrelenting rain.

Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic,

and southern Germany are among the hardest hit.

Sedgill Karia of I TV News has our report.

Such as the size and scale of the flooding across Central Europe, it's being called a catastrophe.

In Poland, raging rivers and torrential downpours have swallowed whole towns and villages in the southwest of the country,

leaving people stranded on the roofs of their homes.

This the only means of rescue.

Whole swades of the continent submerged by some of the worst flooding to hit in 30 years,

from Austria to remain. The gushing force of the floodwaters sweeping away

everything in their path, destroying lives and livelihoods.

The death toll rising from the devastation caused by storm Boris.

The waters in Clotsko in Poland ripping through,

leaving no stone unturned and no street and road

untouched. The highest rainfall has been in the Czech Republic in the town of Jeznik. They spoke of barely believable

water levels.

The water was rolling in here, this man said, the flooding here is a disaster.

It's really terrible.

In lower Austria, the area surrounding the capital Vienna has been declared a disaster zone. Two elderly men died here

after being trapped by rising flood water in their homes. A firefighter also lost

his life.

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