Storm Franklin batters UK with high winds, flooding

Northern Europe was battered by the third major storm in five days, with heavy rains and high winds on Sunday and Monday killing at least two more people, disrupting travel and prompting hundreds of flood alerts across a region still recovering from last week's hurricane-force winds.

Storm Franklin pushed in from the North Atlantic on Sunday afternoon. Heavy rains and high winds swept across Northern Ireland and northern England before moving on to France.  England's environment agency issued more than 300 flood warnings and alerts and train operators urged people not to travel.

At least 14 people have died across Europe during a week of wild weather that meteorologists say is being fueled by an unusually strong jet stream over the North Atlantic.