NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: The National Guard is on the scene in West Virginia, to help with evacuation and cleanup efforts following massive flooding. Emergency officials say up to 3,000 homes in the southern part of the state have been damaged. The governor has declared eight counties disaster areas, and he's touring the hardest- hit regions today. Up to eight inches of rain fell yesterday, flooding roads and leaving hundreds of residents stranded. Entire houses were swept away by creeks that overflowed their banks. It is a mess. For more now, we check in with CNN's Jeff Flock there. He's standing by near Fayetteville, West Virginia -- Jeff.</s>JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: ... West Virginia. We're been, for the past hour, hour and a half, or so, traversing Route 61, which runs from the northwest to the southeast, and I'll tell you, the damage here -- you've seen the pictures from yesterday, with the water at height -- tremendous amount of rain falling, up to 7 inches in some area, and water washing through the creeks and down the gullies -- is now down. That is the good news: The water is pretty well down and not rushing anywhere near the way it was yesterday. But you can picture the damage that was done. We've seen, on Route 61, railroad beds washed out, homes off of foundations, trailers literally ripped in half and dumped into creeks. Many of the bridges that traverse the creeks where people live here have been washed out as a result of this. A tree is sheered off, phone polls are sheered off. There's tremendous debris. Route 60, which runs along the river, in one point is completely washed out with debris and mud. As you say, Natalie, it is a mess in southern West Virginia.</s>ALLEN: Jeff Flock, in West Virginia. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
National Guard in West Virginia After Floods