Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Wednesday,

the 12th of July, 2023.

Today, we hear the latest from Vermont after devastating flooding, plus a NATO summit

rolls on, and we look at how to live healthier longer.

Vermont was hit with a day loose of rain this week, causing severe flooding in a number

of towns and cities across the state.

That includes the capital of Montpelier, where residents could be seen paddling through

the streets yesterday.

I spoke with USA Today National Correspondent Trevor Hughes, who's in Vermont, about what

he's seen.

Thanks for hopping on five.

Thanks, Trevor.

Absolutely.

So you're in Vermont right now, just how bad has the flooding been there this week?

The flooding in certain areas is just terrible.

I mean, we're talking about areas that had, in some cases, nine inches of rain in like

24 hours, more or less a whole summers worth of rain in a day.

And the thing is, it came on top of days and days and days of rain.

The ground was already soaking wet.

And so when this fresh rain came, it just had nowhere to go, but downhill.

And Trevor, do we have a sense of how severe the property damage is at this point?

We don't yet have an idea of how bad the damage is.

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