ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> STORY: Thailand's tourist attractions and Chinatown in the capital were briefly flooded during the highest tide of the day on Saturday evening, as residents attempted to go about their lives as normal.<br/> The normally bustling city center was flooded, as were the streets around the glittering Grand Palace and Temple of the Reclining Buddha, areas usually thronged with tourists.<br/> Increasing water levels have inundated Chinatown, the Chinese community, though residents in the area attempt to continue their daily routines.<br/> Bangkok's main waterway, the Chao Phraya River, overflowed its banks and flooded some areas on Saturday during unusually high tides in the Gulf of Thailand, about 20 km to the south.<br/> The high tides will last until Monday.<br/> Thailand's worst floods in half a century have killed 381 people since July.
