President Biden has ordered the Pentagon to deploy 1,000 active-duty troops to help with flood relief efforts as the death toll from Hurricane Helene reached 190. Hundreds remain missing and are feared dead. Power outages and water shortages remain rampant across six southeastern states. On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris surveyed storm damage in Augusta, Georgia, where residents have struggled for nearly a week to secure food, water and electricity. Harris toured a Red Cross relief center and spoke to reporters from in front of a home with a fallen tree on its roof.

Vice President Kamala Harris: “I am here to personally take a look at the devastation, which is extraordinary. And it is particularly devastating in terms of the loss of life that this community has experienced, the loss of normalcy and the loss of critical resources.”

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday the Federal Emergency Management Agency — FEMA — does not have the funds to make it through the rest of the hurricane season. President Biden has said he may call Congress back early from its October recess to take up the issue.

Meanwhile, two separate rapid-attribution studies have found global heating is to blame for Hurricane Helene’s ferocity, boosting the storm’s top wind speeds and increasing the amount of rain that fell across Georgia and the Carolinas by as much as 50%.