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Biden, Harris head to battered southeastern US after Hurricane Helene

The US president and vice president are visiting the Carolinas and Georgia, where more than one million lack power.

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are travelling to South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia in the wake of a devastating storm that tore through the states last week, killing at least 155 people.

Hurricane Helene, a thunderous Category 4 storm, unleashed some of the worst flooding in generations after it made landfall on September 26, sweeping away homes and cars and claiming victims across the Carolinas and Georgia, in addition to Florida, Tennessee and Virgina.

Hundreds were still missing and more than a million without power when Biden touched down in South Carolina Wednesday afternoon.

“We have towns that have disappeared, literally,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, travelling with the president. “This is a multi-billion-dollar, multi-year recovery.”

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