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'Biggest Fight Is Against The Clock' As Death Toll Rises From Cyclone Idai

More than 400 people have been killed from the storm and subsequent flooding across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
In the wake of Cyclone Idai, stranded locals take refuge on a strip of land in Buzi district, outside Beira, Mozambique.

Thousands of people remain stranded in floodwaters in the wake of Cyclone Idai, which struck the coast of Mozambique and swept through Zimbabwe last week.

Mozambique's Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia that 15,000 people are still stranded. But as rescue workers struggle

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