Helene is deadliest mainland US hurricane since Katrina as toll hits 200

Hundreds of people are still missing and nearly a million homes are without power a week after the storm tore across the US south-east.

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More than half of the deaths were in North Carolina, where entire communities were uprooted and devastated by the deadliest mainland storm since Katrina in 2005, which killed more than 1,800 people.

Hundreds of people are still missing and 780,000 homes were without power nearly a week after Helene made landfall.

The rising death toll comes as President Joe Biden continues his two-day tour of the area visiting Florida and Georgia on Thursday.

Biden received an aerial tour of the damage in Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday where the hurricane made landfall as a category four storm last week.

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