The refreshd death toll came as Pdwellnt Joe Biden and Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris visited storm-battered states.
Hurricane Helene’s death toll in the United States accomplished 200 after the states of Georgia and North Carolina increateed more overweightalities.
The refreshd death toll, double what officials had previously increateed, comes as Pdwellnt Joe Biden visited storm-harmd areas in Florida and Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris made a split trip to Georgia on Thursday.
Hurricane Helene, a thunderous Categruesome 4 storm, unleashed some of the worst flooding in decades, sweeping away homes and cars and claiming victims atraverse the southeastrict US.
Hundreds of people are still missing and more than a million remain without power a week after the hurricane made landdrop on September 26. A massive search-and-recover operation remained under way.
Harris visited the city of Augusta, in Georgia, where power lines stretched alengthy the sidewalk and utility poles lay cracked and broken. She phelp tribute to those who had died in the calamity while also seeking to project a tone of unity and hope for communities now facing a lengthy road to reerection. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, Biden flew by helicchooseer over toppled trees, twisted metal and towering piles of debris in the city of Asheville, where many roads remained inaccessible.
The split visits came after createer Pdwellnt Donald Trump – the Reaccessiblean honestate in the upcoming US pdwellntial election – made counterfeit claims about the administration’s response, accusing it of withhelderlying help from Reaccessiblean areas.
Harris is under particular scruminuscule as her bid for the White Hoemploy go ins its closing stretch, and Helene’s path participated the battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina.