Brazil Flood Survivors Scrambling For Supplies

BRAZIL – Hundreds of residents in São Paulo Brazil scrambling to find water and daily supplies after floods and mudslides cut off their communities and left at least 48 people dead.

Government and private aid groups were trying to provide necessities, but say the logistics of reaching the isolated towns was creating difficulties.

Authorities said they have reopened some damaged roadways into the region, but says the recovery will take time.

Some 1,700 people have been displaced and more than 1,800 left homeless.