Helene continues to unleash its fury across the Southeast after leaving at least 55 people dead in five  countries, leveling communities, knocking out power and stranding  numerous in floodwaters following the  major storm’s landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region Thursday night as a monstrous order 4 hurricane. Then’s the  rearmost

• levee break no longer imminent The National Weather Service in Morristown, Tennessee, has extended the flash  flood tide warning for  municipalities and  metropolises  incontinently below the Nolichucky levee on the Nolichucky River until 4 p.m. ET on Saturday, as  levee drivers had reported “  inordinate water inflow ” over the  levee. The  levee had been facing implicit imminent breach but no longer is, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency  blazoned at a noon news conference. The agency worked with Tennessee Valley Authority “ to confirm that the Nolichucky is n't in that state  presently and that we've no  levee failures that are reported at the moment, ” TEMA Chief of Staff Alex Pellom said.

• Deaths across 5  countries Over 50 storm- related deaths have been reported in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. At least 19 are dead in South Carolina, including two firefighters in Saluda County, according to state  officers. In Georgia, at least 17 people have  failed, two of them killed by a williwaw in Alamo, according to a  prophet for Gov. Brian Kemp. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday morning raised the number of  verified dead there to 11, including several people who drowned in Pinellas County. Six  further deaths were reported in North Carolina and they include a auto wreck on a storm-slick road that killed a 4- time-old girl. And in Craig County, Virginia, one person  failed in a storm- related tree fall and  erecting collapse, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Friday.

• FEMA chief sees Florida damage Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell is on the ground in Florida on Saturday surveying damage and assessing the need for civil  coffers. FEMA says it has  further than 800 stationed staff supporting  countries affected by the hurricane. “ Our distribution centers are completely grazed and ready to  give goods and  outfit to any impacted state as  needed, ” FEMA said in a release. Among those involved are the Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, the Army Corps of masterminds, and the Salvation Army, the release said. The American Red Cross said at least  1,900 people remained at about 80  harbors after evacuation orders were lifted.

• further rain  prognosticated fresh  downfall is anticipated this weekend across portions of the southern Appalachian region. fresh  summations of over to 1 inch are anticipated for areas of western North Carolina, including Asheville, and eastern Tennessee, including Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. Up to 2  elevation is possible for portions of Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania through Monday. “ Although  downfall  quantities will be light, areas that  entered  inordinate  downfall from Helene may see isolated aggression of  inordinate runoff, ” the National Weather Service office in Greenville- Spartanburg said Saturday morning.

• Hundreds of roads closed further than 400 roads remain unrestricted in western North Carolina, the state Department of Transportation said Saturday morning. “ All roads in Western NC should be considered unrestricted, ” the post on X says. Since Thursday, Buncombe County has  entered over  5,500 911 calls and conducted  further than 130  nippy water rescues. officers advised  residers to stay down from the water because of downed power lines, sewage  impurity and debris. An  exigency  sanctum is  presently serving 400 people at the WNC Agricultural Center near Asheville Regional Airport.

• Water conservation  prompted residers in the Greeneville, Tennessee, area are being  prompted to conserve as  important water as possible after  submerging due to heavy  downfall along the Nolichucky River washed out all of the Chuckey Utility District’s water lines crossing the swash. Repairs to the water lines are anticipated to take place “ as soon as conditions are safe for everyone, ” the  mileage  quarter said. 

• Storm deliverance  operations underway Nearly  4,000 National Guardsmen were conducting deliverance  sweats in 21 counties across Florida, the Defense Department said Friday. North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama have also actuated guardsmen. The Biden administration has also  mustered  further than  1,500 civil  labor force to support communities affected by Helene, Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday.

• Severe flooding in North Carolina Helene “ is one of the worst storms in  ultramodern history for  corridor of North Carolina, ” Gov. Roy Cooper said. Western  corridor of the state were slammed by heavy rains and strong winds  skirting on hurricane- strength  situations, life- hanging  flash flooding,  multitudinous landslides and power outages. further than 100 people were  saved from high waters, the governor said. further than 2  bases of rain fell in the state’s mountainous region from Wednesday morning to Friday morning, with Busick recording a aggregate of 29.58  elevation in just 48 hours. In the hard- hit  megacity of Asheville, a citywide curfew was in effect until 730 a.m. Saturday,  officers said. About 20  long hauls southwest of Asheville, inviting, torrential  downfall was pushing the Lake Lure Dam into “ imminent failure, ” according to the National Weather Service, but Rutherford County  officers said early Saturday the  levee is no longer at  threat. Engineers controlled the inflow rate, according to Rutherford County Emergency Management, but the  city is still  passing cell and internet service issues along with  highways blocked by fallen trees and power lines.

• further than 3 million without power The remnants of Helene continued to knock out power for several  countries across the eastern US on Saturday morning, with nearly 3.3 million  guests left in the dark in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida and Ohio, according to PowerOutage.us.

• The  trouble is n’t over Helene’s remnants will continue to bring rain and  breezy winds over hundreds of  long hauls of the East. Multiple  countries have recorded  further than a  bottom of rain, with at least 14 different flash  flood tide  extremities issued for  roughly 1.1 million people in the Southern Appalachians of Western North Carolina and  conterminous  corridor of Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia. In addition to the  downfall, winds continued to gust 30 to 50 mph over the Ohio and Tennessee Valley regions Friday evening and  further than 35 million people were under wind  cautions heading into Saturday.

• Dozens  saved from sanitarium roof in Tennessee further than 50 people stranded on the roof of Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tennessee, were  saved after  fleetly rising waters from Helene made evacuation  insolvable Friday morning, Ballad Health said. 

• Helene disrupts  trip and delivery services Helene has caused  multitudinous  dislocations to travel and delivery services. Several Amtrak trains arriving or departing Florida and Georgia have been canceled, the company said. Delivery services were also impacted, with UPS  publicizing it has suspended service to Florida, North Carolina and Georgia because of the storm. FedEx likewise suspended or limited its service in five  countries. Water  submersed  innumerous  highways across the region, making them impenetrable. In North Carolina, 290 roads were closed throughout the state, and Gov. Roy Cooper said the state’s transportation department is shutting down indeed  further  highways as severe flooding, landslides and washed- out roads pose serious  pitfalls to public safety.

• Helene is now apost-tropical cyclone Helene – the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend region – is now apost-tropical cyclone with winds of 35 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. That means Helene no longer has an  systematized center of rotation and is losing its hurricane- suchlike features. But this change does n’t alter much of Helene’s overall  trouble going forward, as Helene will continue to unleash heavy,  submerging  downfall and  breezy winds. Keith Turi of FEMA advised  residers of the  troubles remaining from Helene indeed after it passes. “ There are a lot of  troubles in those floodwaters,  effects you can see and  occasionally  effects you ca n’t see that are going under the  face, and so really you need to stay out of those floodwaters, ” Turi told CNN.