Officials are cautiously optimistic that damage won't be as extreme as initial forecasts predicted.

Impacted residents in a region still recovering from Helene's devastation have been urged to evacuate again.

More than 5.2 million people face a moderate or high risk of excessive rain from the storm.

The storm came ashore in a sparsely populated area and is expected to weaken to a post-tropical cyclone.

Two different storm systems have a 40% chance of becoming a storm in the next week.

The storm has killed at least seven people and pushed more than 100 rivers into flood stage.

As much as 12 inches of rain is forecast to fall across a wide area from northern Florida to North Carolina this week.

The first half of 2024 laid bare the catastrophic extremes that now characterize the global, rapidly changing climate.