Evacuation order for California community as floodwaters sweep away five-year-old boy

A roughly seven-hour search for the missing boy turned up only his shoe before officials called it off as water levels were too dangerous for divers
Evacuation order for California community as floodwaters sweep away five-year-old boy
Residents in the seaside California community which is home to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their children have been ordered to evacuate as another powerful storm hit the state (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group/AP)

Residents in the seaside California community have been ordered to evacuate as another powerful storm hit the state.

A five-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters on Monday on the state’s central coast, though he was not officially declared dead, while two people were fatally struck by falling trees to take the death toll from 12 to 14.

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