The full human toll of Hurricane Helene is still coming into view, with over 100 confirmed dead and hundreds still missing. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman reports.
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00:00The full human toll of Hurricane Helene is still coming into view.
00:04CNN reported Tuesday that there have been at least 130 confirmed deaths
00:08across the southeast as a result of the storm, but hundreds more are missing.
00:12North Carolina's CBS 17 quoted Black Mountain City Manager John Harreld
00:16as saying that 600 people are missing just in Buncombe County,
00:20which contains the city of Asheville.
00:22According to NBC News, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said Sunday
00:26that 153 people are missing in the northeast of that state.
00:29President Biden spoke about the disaster Monday.
00:32There's nothing like wondering, is my husband, wife, son, daughter, mother, father alive?
00:36He has announced plans to fly over Asheville on Wednesday
00:39as the roads are not in good enough shape for him to access the area via motorcade.