thessaly region, larissa, have been inundated, and there's a push to reinforce embankments of the pineiosooding was caused by unprecedented rainfall brought by storm daniel earlier this week. earlier i spoke to our correspondent sofia bettiza who is in larissa — one of the towns most affected. there's a big search and rescue operation this morning in larissa in central greece. you can see behind me, two people have just been rescued and they are getting to safety. we have seen all morning volunteers getting on dinghies like this one, on boats, on canoes, and looking for people who are still stranded, stuck on rooftops, stuck on their balconies. this rescue operation is extremely complicated. entire villages are without power. hundreds of people are still stranded. roads are damaged. and there are some villages that are entirely submerged by water. and that means that the authorities have been unable to reach some of the worst affected areas. there are several people still missing and the fear is that the death toll could go up. the greek prime minister, kyriakos mitsotakis, said that gree