Watch a live tracker of Helene as it moves through the southern U.S. after making landfall in Florida.
At 11 a.m. ET the storm was 3 miles south-west of Bryson City, North Carolina, with sustained winds of 45 mph.
Biden has also ordered more than 1,500 federal personnel to be deployed to the region, including search and rescue teams, medical teams and power restoration teams. Flash flood emergencies are in effect for the metro Atlanta area and much of upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina. The Anderson County Coroner's Office responded to a death reported around 8:30 a.m. this morning on West Whitner Street in Anderson, and a second report around 10:15 a.m. on Williams Road off of Whiten Road in Anderson, coroner's office spokesperson Alyssa H. Whitfield said.North Carolina residents who live below the Lake Lure Dam in Rutherford County were told to evacuate to higher ground immediately because water is overtopping the dam.In South Carolina there are 1.
That brings the Florida storm death toll to two and the overall Helene death toll to at least six, according to a count by NBC News. Helene brought massive devastation: The Florida coast from Tampa to Cedar Key experienced record storm surge of 6 to 9.5 feet last night. Some places set storm surge records including Cedar Key, Clearwater Beach, St. Petersburg and Old Port Tampa.
"Right now the sun is starting to rise, we’re starting to get the first glimpse of what we actually have laying on the ground and what we’re going to be dealing with. We have helpers everywhere now doing the first push through to try to see what we need to do to clear these roads to get assets and resources in here that we desperately need to serve our communities," Cruse explained.
“The pictures I saw, the I videos saw last night were just devastating along Clearwater Beach, along all of our beaches here in Tampa Bay. I know from our fire and police that we had some homes burn to the ground out on the island, there were some folks that we just couldn’t get to because of high waters to rescue,” Rector explained.“Last night it was a historic storm surge. We saw things out there in the flooding that people who have lived out there their entire lives have never seen.
A flash flood warning for Habersham County and Rabin County in northeastern Georgia was extended through 11 a.m. ET. This morning doppler radar indicated 3 to 7 inches of rain has fallen in those counties with the rate at 1 to 1.5 inches an hour, theA flash flood warning was also issued for Jackson County and Transylvania County in western North Carolina through 3:15 p.m. p.m. ET due to widespread catastrophic flooding across these counties.
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