sechewuan, roves and mud buried 50 homes there, floods in china have already claimed the lives of 800 people, with another 400 missing. it's also cost tens of billions of dollars in damage according to chinese authorities. at least two dozen rivers have risen above their warning levels. and an army of workers are being used to try to hold back the rivers from breaking their banks by building walls of sandbags but it seems to be an impossible job to keep the water back, though. chinese reports suggest some towns and cities continue to face flooding while landslides are increasingly common. and the water levels of the huge three gorges dam which is built to prevent flooding along the yansee river is at its highest level in a week, officials have stopped traffic through the dam as they prepare for a new flood crest -- crest, chinese authorities have warned downstream for rising water and the tropical storm has hit other countries in