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Tropical Storm Michael continues to weaken as it over eastern Georgia as it makes its way toward the Carolinas. Early Thursday, the eye of Michael was about 90 miles (144 kilometers) northeast of Macon, Georgia and 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Augusta. The storm's maximum sustained winds have decreased to 50 mph (80 kph) and it was moving to the northeast at 21 mph (33 kph).
The National Hurricane Center says the core of Michael will move across eastern Georgia into Central South Carolina on Thursday morning. It will then move across portions of central and eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean by late Thursday or early Friday.
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An official with an emergency management agency says Tropical Storm Michael is responsible for a child's death in Georgia.
News outlets report Seminole County Emergency Management Agency Director Travis Brooks says someone called 911 as the storm passed through the area and reported the death. WMAZ-TV quotes Brooks as saying a tree fell onto a home Wednesday afternoon and killed an 11-year-old girl. Authorities have not released her identity.
Brooks says responding crews reached the home after nightfall due to clear downed power lines, poles and trees.
Early Thursday, the eye of Michael was about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Macon in central Georgia. The storm had top sustained winds of 60 mph (96 kph) and was moving to the northeast at 20 mph (32 kph).
The National Hurricane Center says the core of Michael will move across central and eastern Georgia Thursday morning, and then over southern and central South Carolina later in the day.
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Hurricane Michael's battering waves swamped streets and docks and shrieking winds splintered trees and rooftops. The most powerful hurricane on record to hit Florida's Panhandle left widespread destruction and wasn't finished Thursday as it crossed Georgia toward the Carolinas, a region still reeling from epic flooding in Hurricane Florence.
Authorities say at least one person died, a man hit by a falling tree on a Panhandle home.
The supercharged storm crashed ashore Wednesday afternoon amid beach resorts and coastal communities, a Category 4 monster packing 155 mph (250 kph) winds. Downgraded to a tropical storm over south Georgia, it was weakening by the hour. But it's still menacing the Southeast with heavy rains, winds and a threat of spinoff tornadoes.
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Florida's Panhandle coast is littered with evidence that Hurricane Michael is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US Roofs and awnings are peeled from buildings, pieces of homes are scattered amid snapped trees and downed power lines, chunks of beaches are washed away. After landfall in Florida, Michael's fierce winds and heavy rains thrashed Georgia and headed toward the Carolinas, including areas that got a soaking last month from Hurricane Florence.
BY THE NUMBERS
-Hurricane history: first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Florida's Panhandle since record-keeping began in 1851.
- Top winds: 155 mph (250 kph), strong enough to completely destroy homes and cause weekslong power outages.
- Major pressure: 919 millibars minimum pressure in the hurricane's eye, the third most intense hurricane landfall in the U.S. in recorded history.
- High tides: storm surge of 6 feet (2 meters) up to 14 feet (4 meters) forecast for Florida's Panhandle and Big Bend.
- Get out: roughly 375,000 people in Florida warned to evacuate. Gov. Rick Scott says search and rescue teams are heading into the state's hardest-hit areas to help survivors.
- Staying safe: nearly 6,700 people took refuge in 54 shelters in Florida.
- Power outages: 325,775 Florida customers and 271,346 Georgia customers without power.
- Food and water: 1.5 million ready-to-eat meals, 1 million gallons (3.75 million liters) of water and 40,000 10-pound (4.5-kilogram) bags of ice ready for distribution.
- The human cost: At least one death has been reported in Gadsden County, Florida, where authorities say a tree crashed through a home and crushed a man.
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Hurricane Michael claimed its first life after roaring ashore in Florida on Wednesday, flooding homes and streets and toppling trees and power lines in the Gulf of Mexico beachfront area where it made landfall as a raging Category 4 storm.
Florida officials said Michael, packing winds of 155 miles per hour (250 kilometers per hour), was the most powerful storm to hit the state's northern Panhandle area in more than a century.
Hurricane Michael tore off roofs as its powerful winds and devastating storm surge wreaked havoc in Panama City Beach, Florida https://t.co/VYgrAEkXPj pic.twitter.com/jlP7ODTXHF
- CNN (@CNN) October 11, 2018
One dead as monstrous Hurricane Michael tears into Floridahttps://t.co/cLw4fLJdnH
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- AFP news agency (@AFP) October 11, 2018
Mexico Beach, Florida, was hit hard by Hurricane Michael. Tessa Talarico captured footage of some of the damage on her phone. https://t.co/Y5cq5jYXoe pic.twitter.com/FYDrqZzcQB
- CNN (@CNN) October 11, 2018
"And, as you can see, there is no more Goodwill."
Video shows what's left of a Goodwill store near Panama City, Florida after #HurricaneMichael came ashore earlier today. https://t.co/BVUP5FtoKA pic.twitter.com/yunbO0nzbo
- ABC News (@ABC) October 11, 2018
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