Helene -- which weakened to a Category 1 hurricane on Friday morning -- made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on Thursday with 140 mph winds.  Latest DevelopmentsSep 27, 4:27 AMExtreme flooding hits North CarolinaSevere flooding hit North Carolina in the early hours of Friday as Hurricane Helene brought torrential rainfall to swaths of the Southeast.

Hurricane Helene left one person dead in Florida and two in Georgia as it sped north. One of the biggest storms on record to hit the Gulf Coast, Helene slammed into Florida’s Big Bend area on Thursday night as a Category 4 colossus with winds of up to 140 mph before weakening to Category 1.