Members of the Pasco Sheriff’s Office and Pasco County Fire Rescue were working through the night and into the early morning responding to water rescue calls along the US-19 corridor on Florida’s Gulf coast.

As of 3:30 a.m. ET, the Pasco Sheriff's Office said a total of 65 people were rescued, with additional efforts ongoing.

Emergency services received more than 100 calls for assistance due to flooding, the Pasco Sheriff's Office wrote on Facebook.

-ABC News’ Ahmad Hemingway

Severe flooding hit North Carolina in the early hours of Friday as Hurricane Helene brought torrential rainfall to swaths of the Southeast.

Parts of the state saw up to 15 inches of rain with more expected through Friday. Some areas are expecting as much as 20 inches of rain through the course of the storm. Dangerous landslides are also expected.

The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg issued a flash flood warning for Haywood County in western North Carolina, in effect until 10:15 a.m. Friday.

As of 4:09 a.m., emergency services reported numerous road closures, ongoing water rescues, and flooded homes across Haywood County.

-ABC News’ Max Golembo

Storm-related outages left more than 2 million customers without power across four states overnight into Friday, according to poweroutages.us.

Nearly 1.3 million customers in Florida lost power as Hurricane Helene made landfall and passed north into Georgia.

In Georgia, 596,194 customers were reported without power early on Friday.

Another 45,045 customers in North Carolina and 155,428 in South Carolina are also without power.

-ABC News' Kori Skillman

The number of customers in Georgia disconnected from the electricity grid rose to 510,265 in the early hours of Friday as Hurricane Helene passed into the state from Florida, according to poweroutages.us.

Another 1.3 million customers in Florida were without power following Helene’s passage north from the Gulf of Mexico.

-ABC News’ David Brennan