Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction through six states.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Rennie Srenovsky in for Hannah Jewel.

It's Monday, September 30th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

After making landfall in Florida on Thursday, Hurricane Helene pushed north.

Western North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia,

all experienced extreme flooding.

Two waves of torrential rain unloaded as much as 30 inches in the mountains of North Carolina.

That unleashed catastrophic landslides while rivers soared to unprecedented levels and lakes

overflowed. At least 87 people have died. Entire communities are flooded, some are cut off

with no way in or out. Homes and vehicles have been swept away by high water.

Hundreds of roads have been washed out. Bridges were destroyed, and more than 4 million people lost power across 10 states.

Authorities said the town of Swananoa

just outside of Asheville, North Carolina

was completely devastated.

Janetta Barfield is a traveling nurse.

She described to the Associated Press getting trapped in her flooded car in Asheville on Friday.

And even before the officer got to me, the water was all the way up to my chest inside my car. I couldn't even

think what was going on it happened so fast to me and scared the life out of me

because nothing like that ever happened. Number two, J.D. Vance and Tim Walls are preparing for tomorrow's vice presidential debate.

The two running mates will face contrasting

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