Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. In North Carolina, high water from excessive rainfall has inundated Asheville and other cities, trapping residents in their homes without lights and food.

Maps show possible storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Hurricane Helene makes its way north toward Florida's Gulf Coast.

Meteorologists are monitoring a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico that will bring rain to the Florida peninsula later this week.

Before and after satellite images show Hurricane Helene's destruction across Florida's coastline when it made landfall on Thursday as a Category 4 storm.

Hurricane Helene has laid waste to the southeastern United States. Its sheer wind force and deadly floods left behind a path of destruction stretching over 500 miles from Florida to the Southern Appalachians.

More than 150 deaths have been confirmed in the days since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, including dozens in flood-stricken North Carolina. “Communities were wiped off the map,