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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/03/hurricane-helene-aftermath-live-updates/75493504007/
ASHEVILLE, N.C. ? The death toll surpassed 200 as the need for power and water grew more urgent Thursday for hundreds of thousands of residents across the Southeast a week after Hurricane Helene began a deadly, devastating march across the region.
Outages decreased from a peak of more than 4.5 million reports last week, but about 784,000 homes and businesses remained without power across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Tens of thousands of residents, most in western North Carolina, remained without running water.
According to a USA TODAY Network analysis, the number of confirmed deaths in the region crossed the 200 threshold Thursday when North Carolina officials said the state's tally had risen to 97, a figure that later climbed to 108. In addition, South Carolina has reported 41 fatalities, Georgia 33, Florida 19, Tennessee 11 and Virginia two for a total of 214.
Helene is now the fourth deadliest hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. mainland since 1950 and the deadliest since Katrina in 2005.
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