An aircraft carrier has been dispatched to the Florida Keys to help with relief efforts as Irma after its historic assault on Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, killing at least nine people.
Five deaths have been attributed to the storm in Florida, including two deaths in Hardee County, one death Orange County, one in St. Johns County and one in Winter Park. Deaths were also reported in Georgia's Worth and Forsyth counties and the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs.
South Carolina saw its first death Monday when a man was killed by a falling limb in Calhoun Falls as he worked outside to clear storm debris.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday the Navy has deployed the USS Iwo Jima, USS New York and the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln to help with search and rescue as damage that has been called a looming "humanitarian crisis" is assessed.
A coastal flood warning continues in the Jacksonville area continues. Elevated water levels will continue along the St Johns River basin the next few days and along the coast, National Weather Service says.
More than 7.4 million people are without power in the Southeast.
Georgia
• A 62-year-old Worth County man became the first Georgia casualty from Tropical Storm Irma Monday.
• A 55-year-old man was killed in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs when a tree fell on his home.
• A woman died in Forsyth County Monday after a tree collapsed on top of her vehicle.
• More than 1.3 million Georgia residents were without power Tuesday morning, the Atlanta Journal-Courier reports.
• Flooding has closed coastal Glynn County "until further notice."
• St. Simons Island is cut off from the mainland as is Tybee Island off Savannah.
• About 190 flights into and out of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport were canceled Tuesday morning
South Carolina
• In Calhoun Falls, 57-year-old Charles Saxon was killed by a falling limb as he worked outside to clear storm debris Monday.
• Emergency Management officials are in the process closing portions of the Charleston peninsula.
• More than 55,000 customers are without power statewide.
• Flooding exceeded levels seen during Hurricane Matthew last year, weather.com meteorologist Christopher Dolce said.
• South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says a massive oak tree fell on an apartment building he owns in Columbia around noon Monday, AP reports. College students living in the complex are safe, McMaster added.
Florida
• Residents were allowed to return to the Upper Keys, including Key Largo, Tavernier and Islamorada, on Tuesday.
• Heavy equipment crews began clearing roadways and other debris in Florida. Cleanup crews are using chain saws to remove downed trees.
• More than 5.7 million people were without power in Florida as of Tuesday morning.
• Roughly 90 percent of Jacksonville Beach residents are without power.
• An estimated 10,000 Florida Keys residents who chose to ride out Hurricane Irma may now require evacuation, the U.S. Dept. of Defense said Monday.
• Florida Gov. Rick Scott flew over the Keys Monday and said he witnessed "devastation."
• Martin Senterfitt, emergency management director for Morgan County, said a "humanitarian crisis" is looming in the middle and upper Florida Keys after the massive storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane early Sunday, the Miami Herald reports.
• The full extent of the damage is yet unknown on the 110-mile chain of islands, but Senterfitt says fatalities are expected.
• Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay has declared an indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew.
Floodwaters surround Gilbert's Resort in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in Key Largo, Fla.
(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
The U.S. military has dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Keys to help with relief.
At least nine deaths have been reported in the U.S.
More than 7.4 million people are without power in the Southeast.
Miami Beach reopened Tuesday morning and residents in the Upper Keys can return home.
• Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastesi said crews began going house to house Monday to search for people who need help and to assess damage.
• The storm knocked out power throughout the Keys and damaged some of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority's transmission lines, which may cripple the flow of fresh water to the island chain.
• More than 350 people in Jacksonville Monday as water raced through city streets, the AP reports. The Sheriff's Office responded with a tweet: "We hope the 356 people who had their lives saved yesterday will take evacuation orders seriously in the future."
• Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry called the storm a disaster "of the magnitude we have not seen in 150 years," the Florida Times-Union reports.
• Authorities reopened Miami Beach Tuesday morning, with cars bottlenecked to return, the Miami Herald reports.
• The Miami International Airport said it hopes to be up and running Tuesday with limited service after experiencing significant water damage and 100 mph wind gusts during the storm.
• The Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport reopened Tuesday.
• Miami-Dade and Broward public schools will remain closed until further notice due to recovery efforts.
• More than 120 homes were evacuated early Monday in Orange County, just outside the city of Orlando, as floodwaters started to pour in, the AP reports.
NGO Batisseurs Solidaires members rebuild a house destroyed by the hurricane Irma, in Quartier d'Orleans on February 28, 2018, on the French overseas island of Saint-Martin six months after the passing of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September. (Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images)
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