Death toll from Hurricane Helene in US rises to 90

At least 90 people have died in the southeastern US as a result of Hurricane Helene, which hit the country, CNN reported, Report informs referring to TASS.

According to the TV channel, at least 36 people died in the state of North Carolina, 24 - in the state of South Carolina, 17 - in Georgia, 11 - in Florida, and another two deaths were reported in the state of Virginia.

More than 2.3 mln residents of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia still don’t have power as a result of the hurricane, according to the monitoring resource PowerOutage.us.

Hurricane Helen, a Category 4 storm, made landfall in Florida's sparsely populated Big Bend region early Friday morning East Coast time. It weakened to a Category 1 storm and then to a tropical storm shortly thereafter.