The Latest: Body in submerged truck in St. Helena Parish

Wilkinson County Chancery Clerk Thomas Tolliver says an apartment complex and surrounding houses in the town were heavily flooded by deluging rains falling over southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.

Tolliver says a creek in the low-lying area of Crosby overflowed its banks after the region received 10 inches of rain overnight, running through houses and apartments.

Amtrak is stopping a Chicago-to-New Orleans train in central Mississippi because of flooding on railroad tracks in the southern part of the state.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says the train stopped Friday in Jackson, and Amtrak was planning to get passengers to New Orleans by bus.

Water was covering the tracks in Osyka, Mississippi, a small community in Pike County at the Louisiana state line.

Hansford says he and other family members were rescued from the waist-high water by emergency workers in a large military-style truck.

Amite County Emergency Manager Grant McCurley said Friday that officials are trying to rescue people trapped by floodwaters in Crosby.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency for the entire state as a result of heavy rain and widespread flooding.

Mike Steele of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness says requests are coming for high-water vehicle, boats and sandbags.

Numerous rivers in southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi are spreading beyond of their banks, threatening widespread flooding after extreme rainfall.

Carlene Statham, the deputy director of the Pike County Emergency Management Agency, says waters began rising before dawn Friday in Osyka (oh-SY'-kuh), leading the county to send out rescue teams.

Heavy rain and flooding has caused Louisiana officials to closed state offices in 14 parishes.

Heavy rain and street flooding have prompted five school districts in southeast Louisiana to cancel classes.

St. James, Washington, Tangipahoa (tan-jih-puh-HOH') and St. Tammany parishes and the Bogalusa (bohg-uh-LOOS'-uh) City School District announced early Friday schools would be closed due to weather and flooding concerns.