Days after Hurricane Helene made landfall, devastating flooding, road closures and power outages remain in hard-hit areas. There have been at least 88 deaths as a result of the storm, according to an NBC News count of confirmed fatalities. A third of them were reported in North Carolina.

The storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding from Hurricane Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods, stranding residents, destroying homes and toppling trees in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Dozens have been killed.

This page is a summary of news about Helene for Friday, Sept. 27. For the latest on the storm, see our story for Saturday, Sept. 28. ST. MARKS, Fla. – Helene weakened to a post-tropical cyclone as it swept through the Southeast on Friday but the storm still wielded enough power to inflict historic flooding across multiple states,

Parts of the U.S. Southeast are strggling to recover from the damage inflicted by powerful Hurricane Helene Massive rains brought by Hurricane Helene have left many people stranded or homeless as the cleanup begins from the monster tempest that killed at least 64 people.