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The US homeland security adviser, Liz Sherwood-Randall, said on Monday that there could be as many as 600 deaths, though the figure has not yet been . More than 1 million Americans were still without power in the Carolinas and Georgia as of Monday morning. Helene made landfall last Thursday night in Florida’s Big Bend as a category 4 hurricane. Even though it weakened to a tropical storm before moving through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, the storm’s winds, rainfall, storm surge and flooding destroyed entire in its path. On Sunday, North Carolina’s department of public safety said that supplies such as food, water and other needs were arriving in Asheville, a city in Buncombe county that has seen widespread . The state’s national guard was airlifting supplies into counties across western North Carolina, too, officials said: “This is an unprecedented tragedy that requires an unprecedented ,” Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s governor, said. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said Monday that hundreds of roads had been closed across western North Carolina and that shelters were more than 1,000 people.

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The US homeland security adviser, Liz Sherwood-Randall, said on Monday that there could be as many as 600 deaths, though the figure has not yet been confirmed. More than 1 million Americans were still without power in the Carolinas and Georgia as of Monday morning. Helene made landfall last Thursday night in Florida’s Big Bend region as a category 4 hurricane. Even though it weakened to a tropical storm before moving through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, the storm’s winds, rainfall, storm surge and flooding destroyed entire communities in its path. On Sunday, North Carolina’s department of public safety said that supplies such as food, water and other needs were arriving in Asheville, a city in Buncombe county that has seen widespread destruction. The state’s national guard was airlifting supplies into counties across western North Carolina, too, officials said. “This is an unprecedented tragedy that requires an unprecedented response,” Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s governor, said. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said Monday that hundreds of roads had been closed across western North Carolina and that shelters were housing more than 1,000 people.