Helene has weakened to a tropical storm and is moving north across the Southeast, bringing strong winds and heavy rain in what the National Hurricane Center called "life-threatening" conditions.

Helene still wielded enough power to inflict historic flooding across multiple states, millions of power outages and widespread damage.

Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region — where the state’s peninsula meets the Panhandle — about 11:10 p.m., the National Hurricane Center said. The massive system is now “an extremely dangerous Category 4” storm,