It's been more than a week since Hurricane Helene crashed ashore, and the full extent of the storm's damage is still unknown as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power and other essential services. Meanwhile, authorities are still looking for missing people as the death toll from the storm rises.
The United Nations said at least 70 people have been killed in a gang attack in Haiti. Meanwhile, a 21-year-old Yazidi woman was rescued from Gaza after a decade. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.
The single mother had been sitting in bed holding sons Khyzier and Khazmir and chatting on the phone with family members while the storm raged outside their home in Thomson, Georgia.
When critical infrastructure like utility lines and cell phone towers go down, emergency response teams from telecom providers like AT&T and Verizon step in with an arsenal of equipment ensuring first responders can communicate in a disaster zone. Here's how that's helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
The single mother had been sitting in bed holding sons Khyzier and Khazmir and chatting on the phone with family members while the storm raged outside their home in Thomson, Georgia.
On the website of the Mountain River Family Campground, old customers and total strangers began reserving campsites, leaving comments like, "I know we can't come."
The death toll from Hurricane Helene keeps rising, with at least 219 people reported dead across six states. The full scope of the destruction is just now coming into clearer focus. Manuel Bojorquez reports from the mountains of North Carolina, where entire towns have been buried under mud and debris.
It's been more than a week since Hurricane Helene crashed ashore, and the full extent of the storm's damage is still unknown as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power and other essential services. Meanwhile, authorities are still looking for missing people as the death toll from the storm rises.
The United Nations said at least 70 people have been killed in a gang attack in Haiti. Meanwhile, a 21-year-old Yazidi woman was rescued from Gaza after a decade. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.
The single mother had been sitting in bed holding sons Khyzier and Khazmir and chatting on the phone with family members while the storm raged outside their home in Thomson, Georgia.
When critical infrastructure like utility lines and cell phone towers go down, emergency response teams from telecom providers like AT&T and Verizon step in with an arsenal of equipment ensuring first responders can communicate in a disaster zone. Here's how that's helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
