Early bird: Storm in France has two victims, it also flooded into parliament. Brad Pitt's house was robbed
It rained on the French Prime Minister speaking in parliament
Flash floods in France have claimed two lives, flooded the streets of Paris and caused a leak in the Parliament roof, which interrupted the Prime Minister's speech. "Did you notice it was raining?" Premier François Bayrou brought attention to the leaky ceiling of the National Assembly dome after delivering a speech on the Middle East, while heavy rain was falling outside, quickly flooding the Parisian boulevards on Wednesday evening. The assembly's deputy chairman, Roland Lescure, interrupted the debate so that firefighters could investigate the problem.
Seventeen people were injured, one of them critically. The storm, which swept widely across France after a heatwave, also interrupted power supplies to 110,000 households. In southwestern France, a falling tree killed a twelve-year-old child, and in the northwest, a man died when his ATV hit an uprooted tree, reported the agency AP.
