Woman dead after trying to save son from high waters in East Tennessee

Mary Evelyn Nicole Manning-Kellione, a 39-year-old woman, died in East Tennessee on Sunday morning while attempting to rescue her son from high flood waters. The Grainger County Sheriff's Office reported that the son had been swept into a culvert. Her death is one of at least five fatalities reported during recent flooding across a region encompassing Tennessee and Kentucky. Officials confirmed the tragedy occurred as the woman tried to save her child from the rising waters.