Thousands of motorists have been stranded in West Virginia after a mudslide sent water and debris onto highway.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. CHARLESTON, W.Va.West Virginia teachers whose protests sparked a national wave of unrest took to chanting Ditch Mitch as they descended on the Capitol. West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichae fell in stunning defeat to small-town elementary school teacher Amy Nichole Grady in the state's primary Tuesday night, following back-to-back years of strikes in which teachers packed into the state Capitol and made the powerful Republican their chief target. You have to walk the walk.Fred Albert, president of the West Virginia chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, which endorsed Grady, said the protests mobilized voters against Carmichael. Later, he noted that teachers received two raises when he was Senate president. The district voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump in 2016 and the seat is expected to remain in Republican hands in the general election.