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Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast, making landfall late Thursday as a powerful Category 4 storm, bringing with 140 mph winds, torrential rain and a record storm surge before moving inland across Georgia and the Carolinas.

After making landfall in Florida on Thursday, Hurricane Helene continued north, bringing catastrophic flooding to western North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Asheville,

Helene, now a weakened post-tropical cyclone, left chaos and destruction across the Southeast. A damage estimate said the storm will cost billions.

The Southeast is grappling with widespread devastation after Helene made landfall Thursday as the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend region and tore through multiple states,

FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell said the flooding in western North Carolina was "historic" and teams are conducting search and rescue operations.

Helene made landfall in Florida on Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane, wreaking havoc across the Southeast, leaving at least 40 people dead and millions without power.

Road closures caused by surging rivers and disrupted communications in the wake of Hurricane Helene on Saturday isolated western North Carolina in what officials are calling a "catastrophic natural disaster.

President Joe Biden has granted North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s request for a federal major disaster declaration for Tropical Storm Helene. The declaration means that the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) will be able to speed additional help to the state and provide individual assistance to people living in affected counties,