Videos show Helene's catastrophic consequences in the southeast

On Thursday evening, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida as a massive Category 4 storm with winds of up to 140 miles per hour. As the system spread across the southeastern part of the United States, it left behind widespread flooding, power outages, and mass destruction.

CNN reports that at least 115 people have died in six states as of Monday morning, with that number expected to rise as search and rescue operations continue. Officials in Buncombe County, North Carolina, one of the hardest-hit areas that includes the city of Asheville, said at least 35 people were killed by Helene and more than 600 were still missing as of Monday morning.

In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp announced that the state's death toll had risen to 25 people as of Monday morning, with the death toll ranging from a mother and her two young sons to a local firefighter. “This storm spared literally no one,” he said, according to NBC News.

Over the weekend, President Joe Biden issued emergency disaster declarations for the Carolinas, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia as states continue to grapple with the remnants and aftermath of Helene. The president said he planned to travel to affected areas on Wednesday or Thursday to avoid disrupting emergency services. “It’s not just a catastrophic storm. “It’s a historic, historic storm,” Biden said at the White House on Monday.