Death toll reaches 200
The death toll from Hurricane Helene has reached 200, according to The Associated Press.
Helene has become the deadliest mainland hurricane since Katrina in 2005.
Hurricane Helene's inland flooding has been catastrophic.
The storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding from Hurricane Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods, stranding residents and destroying homes in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
At least 200 people have been killed, according to The Associated Press. Helene, which made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region last week as a massive Category 4 hurricane, has become the deadliest mainland hurricane since Katrina in 2005.
The death toll from Hurricane Helene has reached 200, according to The Associated Press.
Helene has become the deadliest mainland hurricane since Katrina in 2005.
At least 61 people have died in hard-hit Buncombe County, North Carolina, which encompasses Asheville, county officials said.
There's no official count of missing persons "because search and rescue operations are still underway," Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder said Thursday.
"We’re in day seven, and we’re still finding people in areas isolated by downed power lines and lack of phone service," she said.
"The recovery is going to take a long time, and FEMA will be here for the duration of the response and recovery," FEMA Regional Administrator Maryann Tierney said.
-ABC News' Jason Volack
In Georgia, the death toll from Hurricane Helene has climbed to 33, Gov. Brian Kemp said Thursday.
Three of the fatalities were due to carbon monoxide poisoning from generators in the Savannah area, he said.
Two-thousand Georgia National Guard soldiers have been deployed across the state to help devastated residents recover from the historic storm, the governor said.
Over 200,000 Georgia customers remain without power. Eight-thousand utility poles need to be replaced, Kemp said.
All of the cleanup costs for the next three months will be paid by Georgia Emergency Management, he said.
-ABC News’ Mariama Jalloh
Hundreds of thousands of customers in the South are still without power nearly one week after Hurricane Helene made landfall.
More than 380,000 customers are in the dark in South Carolina and nearly 300,000 are without power in North Carolina.
Another 268,000 are without power in Georgia.
"This has been a historic storm. We've never seen anything like this," Duke Energy spokesperson Bill Norton said. “The biggest challenge has been the unprecedented flooding. It’s not just poles and wires that are down -- it's the backbone of our system, the transmission infrastructure and substations."
"We’re still targeting end of day Friday for the majority of our customers who are able to receive power," he added.