Medical aid rushed to flood disaster towns

US and Canadian troops rushed medical supplies, drinking water and chlorine tablets today to flood-battered towns where bodies were floating near the tops of palm trees and thousands of marooned survivors were in desperate need of aid.

The official death toll climbed to about 1,000 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but with hundreds missing in both countries, it was feared that the final toll could climb as high as 2,000.