Cleanup begins as Helene moves inland with flooding, power outages

(NewsNation) — After making landfall successful Florida arsenic a Category 4 hurricane, Helene is continuing to way inland arsenic a weakened tropical storm, bringing flooding and leaving millions without powerfulness successful the southeast.

There person been 4 reported fatalities from the tempest truthful acold aft catastrophic flooding and tempest country that near demolition successful their wake.

A idiosyncratic died from a falling motion connected a Tampa roadway during the storm, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis, and 2 others died successful a imaginable tornado successful southbound Georgia arsenic the tempest approached, according to the Associated Press. A 4th idiosyncratic successful Jeff Davis County, Georgia, died, according to NewsNation affiliate WSAV.

In Florida, rescue crews person been moving to rescue people stuck successful floodwaters with immoderate areas experiencing up to 9 feet of flooding. Crews are besides dealing with downed powerlines and different hazards from the storm.

As Helene tracked done Georgia, upwind gusts implicit 90 miles per hr were reported with sustained winds astatine 60 mph. Headed toward the Carolinas, determination are flood warnings crossed the southeast, including North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and confederate Illinois and confederate Indiana.

Millions person besides been near without powerfulness acknowledgment to the storm. More than 1.24 cardinal radical successful Florida were near without power, on with 1 cardinal outages reported successful Georgia, much than 1.1 cardinal successful South Carolina and much than 400,000 successful North Carolina.

NewsNation's Devan Markham contributed to this story.