Governor Roy Cooper will share an update Sunday on the impacts of Helene.
It is happening at the Emergency Operations Center on Gold Star Drive in Raleigh. It starts at 12:30 p.m.
This comes as cleanup is underway in The western part of North Carolina . Helene moved through as a tropical storm Friday morning, leaving a trail of damage.
Houses and businesses are flooded, damaged, or destroyed. Debris and mud were all over the roads.
“This is the most significant natural disaster that any one of us has ever seen in western North Carolina,” Ryan Cole, Buncombe County assistant emergency services director, said.
As of Saturday night, the governor’s office confirmed 10 storm deaths statewide but did not provide a breakdown of where they occurred.
Buncombe County Sheriff Quintin Miller said the death toll stood at 10 Sunday morning in Buncombe County, but it will likely go higher. It was not clear whether the numbers he cited overlap with 10 deaths confirmed by the state. Telephone, cellphone, and internet outages make it difficult for authorities to notify families of victims.