Eyewitnesses caught the moment firefighters pulled an elderly woman to safety as her car was surrounded by several feet of gushing floodwaters in a suburban street in Wichita, Kansas, on Tuesday as the Midwest and parts of the South were battered by storms,

Some two million people were under a flash flood warning in the two states as several inches of rain fell, trapping some in their cars.

Severe storms unleashed chaos across Kansas, triggering flash flood warnings in Wichita and El Dorado, where people were trapped in their homes and cars were submerged in rising waters. As the storm pushed northeast toward Kansas City,