Monday morning, Claudette had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. Crews were using boats to search Pebble Creek. Makayla Ross, a 23-year-old Fort Payne woman, died Saturday after her car ran off the road into a swollen creek, DeKalb County Deputy Coroner Chris Thacker told WHNT-TV.Ī search was also underway for one man believed to have fallen into the water during flash flooding in Birmingham, WBRC-TV reported. Jack Kennedy of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit. Garlock identified them as 29-year-old Cody Fox and his 9-month-old daughter, Ariana both of Marion County, Tennessee.Īdditionally, a 24-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy were also killed Saturday when a tree fell on their house just outside the Tuscaloosa city limits, said Capt.

The crash also claimed the lives of two other people who were in a separate vehicle. Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock said vehicles likely hydroplaned. The vehicle erupted in flames in the wreck along a wet Interstate 65 about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of Montgomery.

The children who died Saturday were in a van for a youth home for abused or neglected children.

ATLANTA – Claudette regained tropical storm status Monday morning as it neared the coast of the Carolinas less than two days after 13 people died – including eight children in a multi-vehicle crash – due to the effects of the storm in Alabama.

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