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uncertainty building on whether house speaker nancy pelosi will visit taiwan during her visit to asia. we ll have a live report from beijing. plus political chaos in iraq as protests in baghdad force sessions of parliament to be suspended. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky. an area that has already severed through days of heart break and anguish after massive flash floods is waking up this morning to more dreaded news, more heavy rain is on the way. a flood watch is now in effect and that s raising concerns about the ongoing search and rescue operations. at least 25 people have been killed, and that number includes four children, all from the same family. their aunt telling us they were siblings between 2 and 8 years old. neighbors say the parents tried to hold on to them, but the young children were swept away. there was a house there, and this trailer with this family of six, and it just washe ....
Don t have a whole lot, and a lot of them have lost everything they have got. for some residents of eastern kentucky, the true scale of their own loss is becoming heart breakingly real. cnn s evan morris santoro has that. reporter: when the flash flood came to this part of kentucky, locals watched houses, cars, their lives get submerged by water. wondering just what kind of damage would be done. now that those waters have receded, they re getting a chance to see it. a huge swath of destruction across many counties in this area and crews still going out trying to find people who may be trapped in their homes, may have perished when the waters came through. one local here described the impact on this area of these floods. thinking about all the devastation that i ve seen, all over the county, there are some ....