Brazil Death Toll Rises As Rescuers Battle Floods -- Yahoo News/Reuters
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (Reuters) – Rescue workers in Brazil braced for more rain on Friday as they struggled to reach areas cut off by massive floods and landslides that look certain to have killed more than 500 people.
In one of the country's worst natural disasters, rivers of mud tore through towns in the mountainous Serrana region outside Rio de Janeiro, leveling houses, throwing cars atop buildings and stranding thousands of residents.
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