Officials say a factory fire in South Korea has killed one person and more than 20 others are missing

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials say a factory fire in South Korea has killed one person and more than 20 others are missing.

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    As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept working. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power went out that the plant shut down and sent workers home.

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  • The Latest: Kirk becomes a hurricane as North Carolina reels from Helene

    Desperate residents of the storm-battered mountains of western North Carolina lined up for water and food, hunted for cellphone signals and slogged buckets from creeks to flush toilets days after Hurricane Helene’s remnants deluged the region. Emergency workers toiled around the clock to clear roads, restore power and phone service, and reach people stranded by the storm, which has a death toll of more than 150 people across the Southeast.

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  • Tennessee factory employees clung to semitruck before Helene floodwaters swept them away

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  • Hurricane Helene: Death toll reaches 143 as desperation grows to find hundreds still missing

    Death toll continues to climb with at least 143 people killed by Helene and 600 people still missing in North Carolina’s Buncombe County

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  • 2 dead, several missing from Impact Plastics facility after Helene floods Erwin, Tennessee

    A devastating flood struck an East Tennessee plastics manufacturing plant during Hurricane Helene, resulting in multiple employees being missing or deceased.

  • Search crews with cadaver dogs wade through muck of communities ‘wiped off the map’ by Helene

    SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Cadaver dogs and search crews trudged through knee-deep muck and debris in the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday looking for more victims of Hurricane Helene days after the storm carved a deadly and destructive path through the Southeast.

  • Helene's flooding swept away 11 workers at a Tennessee factory. Now the state is investigating

    Tennessee state authorities said Wednesday they were investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene. As the nearby Nolichucky River swelled from rainfall, employees in the Impact Plastics factory in Erwin, a small community in rural Tennessee, kept working. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power went out that the plant shut down and sent workers home.

  • More than 20 are feared dead after a school bus catches fire in suburban Bangkok

    BANGKOK (AP) — A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, leaving more than 20 feared dead, officials and rescuers said.

  • Rescuers search for missing people in Nepal following flooding and landslides that killed 224

    KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers in Nepal searched Tuesday for two dozen people still missing and tried to recover the bodies of those killed in weekend flooding and landslides that left more than 200 dead.

  • Hurricane Helene’s Death Toll Keeps Climbing. Here Are 6 of the Most Important Things to Know Right Now

    FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell tells PEOPLE Helene was “a unique storm,” that brought “different types of threats” to different areas across the U.S. South

  • Biden and Harris visit Hurricane Helene-ravaged Southeast

    President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both headed to the Southeast on Wednesday to survey damage wrought by Hurricane Helene, which so far is confirmed to have killed 182 people. "We have to jump start this recovery process," Biden said. Biden's visit to North Carolina -- which is expected to be a pivotal battleground state in next month's presidential election -- and South Carolina included an aerial tour of Asheville in western North Carolina, which was one of the region's worst hit areas.

  • First floods, now water outages in North Carolina after Helene

    STORY: Tens of thousands of people in North Carolina did not have running water on Wednesday (October 2).It’s been six days since Hurricane Helene carved a path through the U.S. South, killing scores of people.Now residents of hard-hit Asheville have been warned to expect dry faucets for days or even weeks while pipes are repaired.Search-and-rescue teams have been helping to deliver water – and comb through wreckage for the missing.Paul Tartar is the leader of the federal FEMA team at Texas A&M Task Force 1."This is obviously a major disaster, it really affects everybody here, especially the locals that are impacted. It's it's beyond anything I've ever seen."Survivors in the town of Canton, west of Asheville, have been left to pick up the pieces of lives ruined.Martika Stansell and her family are taking stock of what’s left.“That was my son’s room – he lost everything. Everything below the waist was lost.”“We have got to rebuild everything. Our floors are bad, my kids lost everything. We’re waiting on FEMA to approve our application to hopefully get a hotel voucher. We’re staying at my mom’s right now, but, eight people in a two bedroom house - it’s super crowded, with four dogs too.”Ashley Wells, another resident of Canton, says no one there expected how bad Helene got.“Well, out of all the floods that have come through here, in the seventy-one and seventy-three years they’ve lived here, it never came up past the front step of the house. This one came through the house. So, it was unexpected. I mean, we did - it was, we were not told it was gonna be worse than Fred. Fred was like, the disaster here. So, really nobody was that prepared.""We haven’t seen FEMA, we haven’t seen Red Cross, we haven’t seen Hearts with Hands - we’ve seen no agencies come through here. Most people drive through with their cameras out, filming us like we’re animals in a zoo, and don’t stop.""You’ve got some nice people, that are stopping, but majority, no. We’ve seen no help through here."While residents like Wells say they haven’t seen assistance, the White House says more than $10 million had been provided directly to those affected by Helene.Wells also said she’s also wary of leaving behind what she still has.“We could go to the shelter, but, I mean… animals don’t want to go to the shelter, why do we? You know, and not to mention the fact that, if you get away from your stuff a little bit, people are coming through and picking through it. And I don’t know why they wanna pick through it, but I mean - they are.”President Joe Biden visited the state Wednesday to survey from a helicopter its washed out roads, smashed bridges and downed power lines.He said earlier this week he may ask Congress to return to Washington to pass supplemental funding for aid.The White House said more than 3,500 federal workers are involved in response efforts in affected states.Former President Donald Trump, a Republican running against Vice President Kamala Harris in this year's presidential election, has falsely claimed that Biden has been unresponsive to the hurricane's destruction.Local officials have denied that allegation.

  • Taiwan shuts schools and offices ahead of likely direct hit from powerful typhoon

    KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan closed schools and offices and evacuated hundreds from vulnerable areas around the island Tuesday ahead of a strong typhoon expected to hit its densely populated western coast after lashing northern Philippine islands.

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