Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that Florida is sending recovery assistance to North Carolina and Tennessee to help with Hurricane Helene’s impacts in “Operation Blue Ridge.”

Follow live updates on Helene here. Hurricane Helene forged a devastating path of floods and wind damage after slamming into Florida’s Big Bend region on Thursday night, submerging much of the state’s Gulf Coast before continuing its destructive march through Georgia and into the mountains of Appalachia.

Hurricane Helene has left a trail of destruction across multiple states, with a death toll climbing and damages projected to exceed $100 billion, prompting a massive recovery operation.

At least five people have died in East Tennessee in the devastating Hurricane Helene floods. The number is expected to rise. Two deaths were confirmed Sept. 29 in Unicoi County an

Hurricane Helene has left officials in five Southeastern states grappling to respond to the widespread destruction it caused after hitting Florida as a Category 4 storm last week, with the death toll now entering the triple digits.