Two dead along flooded highway in California on New Year's Day

STORY: Two dead along flooded highway in California on New Year's Day DATELINE: Jan. 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. aerial view of the flooded highway 2. various of vehicles stuck in the flood STORYLINE: Two people died after a strong winter storm hitting northern California's Sacramento County on Saturday caused a double levee breach along a local river and flooded parts of a state highway, local media said Sunday. One of them died after being pulled from the water, and the other was found dead in a submerged vehicle, local media said. The breach along the Cosumnes River near Wilton, 35 km south of the city of Sacramento, flooded parts of Highway 99, the main thoroughfare through California's 47,000-square-km-large Central Valley. Local emergency personnel have been performing rescues since Saturday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Dozens of people have been plucked from their cars that got stuck in floods. Sacramento County proclaimed a local