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Speaker 1: Vincent mechav any Are, UK europe correspondent Vincent. The death

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Speaker 1: toll still rising from this funding in Spain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. The death toll is now up to

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty eight people with we understand it,

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Speaker 2: one hundreds more still missing. This has been a remarkable

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Speaker 2: and tragic event, about a year's worth of rainfall coming

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Speaker 2: down in just eight hours in the Valencia region. It

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Speaker 2: has caused widespread devastation. You really should look at the photos.

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Speaker 2: I mean this was completely you know, they were expecting

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Speaker 2: bad rain, but nothing like this. It's destroyed roads and homes, buildings,

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Speaker 2: It's taken out bridges and highways. It is utterly devastating

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Speaker 2: and the Spanish Prime Minister has been visiting the scene

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Speaker 2: today promising all kinds of support. There is EU wide

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Speaker 2: support coming in for this region. And sadly, it feels

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Speaker 2: like this death holl, I mean, just looking at these pictures,

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Speaker 2: the number of vehicles sort of stashed up and washed

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Speaker 2: away in this people were just caught completely on the hop.

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Speaker 2: It feels like the death holl will sadly continue to rise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like somebody who has picked up a box

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Speaker 1: full of cars and just tipped them on a street.

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Speaker 1: It's frightening to look at a lot of people angry

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Speaker 1: about the lack of preparedness. You know, by the time

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Speaker 1: they got the warnings, the flooding had already started.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, And I mean from listening to interviews

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Speaker 2: with people on the ground, you know there had been

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Speaker 2: a severe drought in this region of Spain for many months.

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Speaker 2: The ground was completely sort of hard and dry, so

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Speaker 2: this water had nowhere to go. It couldn't steep into

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Speaker 2: the earth, so it has all just gathered so quickly.

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Speaker 2: And I think there are questions now as to why.

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Speaker 2: You know, there were warnings ahead of the rainfall that

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Speaker 2: there would be strong rainfall, but I think the reaction

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Speaker 2: as this rainfall was going along, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: there should have been a bit more perhaps, I think

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Speaker 2: people are saying of a response after the first sort

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Speaker 2: of two three hours of how heavy this rain was,

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Speaker 2: to alert people to get off the roads and get

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Speaker 2: to safe higher ground if possible.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning. That's Vincent

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Speaker 1: meca Any, a UK europe correspondent. More from early edition

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