Search, rescue and relief efforts continue four days after Hurricane Helene made landfall. NBC News correspondents George Solis and Guad Venegas are on the ground in North Carolina and Florida, where many residents are still without electricity or clean drinking water.
There have been at least 116 deaths as a result of the storm, according to an NBC News count of confirmed fatalities. A third of them were reported in North Carolina.
"We are devastated by the tragic loss of great employees," Gerald O'Connor, founder of Impact Plastics, said in a news release."Those who are missing or deceased, and their families are in our thoughts and prayers." The company is located in Erwin, Tennessee, in an industrial park alongside the Nolichucky River.
Finding their people is made more difficult without reliable phone and internet connections, the statement said. “Even those who are physically safe are generally without power, water or connectivity.” Individual assistance from FEMA would likely need to be first requested, which could take several weeks. At that point, if there is a funding issue, FEMA would let Congress know, the sources said. But the full assessment and request could take over a month, considering the scope of the damage, and it’s not yet possible to predict how large the request will be.
“New Yorkers lead by example and help our neighbors in times of despair,” Hochul said in a statement. “Our expert team and the equipment they will bring with them will help save lives and assess damage from Hurricane Helene. I thank these brave New Yorkers for answering the call and look forward to their safe return.”
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said water entered her home and it appeared she had drowned. But Runner said his mother was found outside her condo in the parking lot and “she didn’t make it to the house.”Runner, a high school art teacher in West Virginia, and his brother, a firefighter, also in West Virginia, hoped to be in Florida by Monday or Tuesday to inspect their mother’s home and deal with the aftermath.
“They called to evacuate where she was at Indian Rocks Beach, but she didn’t go, obviously,” he said.“If you walk behind the condos, it’s the Intracoastal Waterway right there, so there’s water on either side. On one side is the Gulf of Mexico and on the other is the Intracoastal. It’s surrounded by water and it’s flat,” he said.
“We’re praying and hoping that she’s found somewhere safe and just can’t talk to anyone yet,” Meidinger said. Biden said that FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell will stay in Asheville, North Carolina, one of the most hard-hit places, for the"foreseeable future." Twelve deaths were reported in Florida, where Helene first made landfall Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane. Georgia has reported 25 deaths; North Carolina, 44 deaths; South Carolina, 25 deaths; Tennessee, four deaths; and Virginia, two deaths.Drone footage captured the flooding damage in Asheville, North Carolina, where county officials are saying dozens of people are dead after Hurricane Helene dropped record rainfall over the state.Gov.
“In the wake of this devastating storm, a deputy from the Macon County Sheriff’s Office and a deputy from the Madison County Sheriff’s Office were tragically killed in raging flood waters,” the association said.Around 11:30 a.m. that day a 911 call came in regarding a truck in the river on Fulton Road, with witnesses reporting seeing someone inside before the vehicle went underwater.
The result has been severe and ongoing flooding that has caused problems across the region and devastated parts of western North Carolina. NBC's George Solis is in Asheville, North Carolina, where some communities are underwater and some areas are unreachable due to washed-out roads and slowly receding floods.
"Right now our biggest concerns are getting food and water to people. We have very limited phone service, the towers are starting to come back on. We did put a temporary tower downtown for folks to get some phone access," Lillian Govus, the county's director of communications, said on NBC's"TODAY" this morning."We don’t have running water and we don’t have a timeline for when we’ll have running water.
“Driving through the area where I live, homes are gone and that’s a big, big concern for us,” Govus said. “Where are those people?”The mayor of Cocke County, Tennessee, Rob Mathis, said last night that two people died there as a result of severe flooding. That brings the total known deaths related to Helene to at least 90, according to a list maintained by NBC News.
At least 30 people have died in a single county in Asheville, North Carolina, the site of disastrous flooding, Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller said at a news conference yesterday.
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