Rescue efforts continue after storms kill 20

Search efforts resumed amid fresh rain today across a swath of central Florida devastated by tornado-bearing thunderstorms that killed at least 20 people, including a high school girl struck by a tree as she lay in bed.

President George Bush declared four counties disaster areas, freeing federal aid for recovery from the storms that struck yesterday, spawning at least one tornado that ripped roofs and walls off single family homes and threw mobile homes off their foundations.