Sally is leaving widespread flooding in parts of Alabama and Florida, and rescues are underway

Sally is now a tropical storm -- but the crawling cyclone still has plenty of misery to deliver to parts of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle that it has pummeled in the hours since it smashed ashore as a Category 2 hurricane.

The storm has spurred water rescues, sapped power, dropped trees and left serious flooding as it crawled at an agonizingly slow pace since Wednesday morning.

"We anticipate the evacuations could literally be in the thousands" David Morgan, sheriff of Florida's Escambia County which includes Pensacola, said of rescuing...