First Thing: 18,000 people still stranded in Canada

Alarm grows about climate breakdown in British Columbia after terrible, terrible disaster'. Plus, a 95-year-old message in a bottle

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Emergency crews in western Canada have been trying to reach 18,000 people stranded by landslides and struggling to find food among bare grocery store shelves after devastating flooding.

How many have died? One person is confirmed dead in a landslide that swept vehicles off a road, but with many others missing that number is almost certain to rise.

What's been done to help the stranded? Troops have been deployed in British Columbia to help stranded residents, support supply chains and search areas hit by landslides and floods.

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