New Photo - Ukraine's front line grows bigger as Russia shifts tactics, top commander says

Ukraine's front line grows bigger as Russia shifts tactics, top commander says HANNA ARHIROVA and BARRY HATTON September 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM 6 Ukrainian soldiers of the 66th Brigade attend a training combat exercise in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025.

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HANNA ARHIROVA and BARRY HATTON September 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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Ukrainian soldiers of the 66th Brigade attend a training combat exercise in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The front line on the battlefield in Ukraine has grown in length to nearly 1,250 kilometers (800 miles), stretching Kyiv's defenses, while Russian forces employ a new tactic of sending swarms of small assault groups to infiltrate Ukrainian lines, Ukraine's top military commander says.

The line of contact has grown by roughly 200 kilometers (120 miles) over the past year, and Ukrainian forces are averaging between 160 and 190 combat engagements every day with Russia's bigger army, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a review of the battlefield situation.

At the same time, Russian tactics have switched since the start of the summer from costly large-scale offensives to deploying small assault groups in a new approach that Syrskyi called the "thousand cuts" tactic.

His version of events could not be independently verified, and Russian officials made no immediate comment.

Russian forces have been trying to engulf Ukraine with sheer weight of numbers and relentless barrages of drones, missiles, artillery and devastating glide bombs. Though they have slowly pushed Ukrainian defenders back in rural areas, the Russian army has failed to conquer cities that constitute defensive strongholds.

U.S. President Donald Trump, whose efforts to bring an end to the war have made no progress, said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could turn the tide and win back all the territory it has lost to Russia, equivalent to around 20% of its land.

Syrskyi said Russia is launching large numbers of small assault groups of about four to six soldiers who use the cover of the terrain to penetrate the front line and then strike Ukrainian rear areas, disrupting supply lines and troop rotations. However, those small groups become cut off and are trapped by encircling Ukrainian forces, he said in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

Syrskyi told reporters that Russian forces are firing roughly twice as many artillery shells as Ukrainian units.

But he claimed that a recent Ukrainian push against Russian positions has regained control of 168 square kilometers (65 square miles) of land.

Ukraine's long-range strike program, meanwhile, has inflicted heavy damage on Russian military and industrial assets in recent weeks, he said.

Ukraine's newly created Unmanned Systems Forces, which use increasingly sophisticated drones, carried out 85 strikes on targets inside Russia in less than two months — 33 against military sites and 52 on plants that produce weapons, ammunition, engines, rocket fuel and drones, according to Syrskyi.

He credited the strikes with triggering a fuel shortage inside Russia that is hampering logistics and army supplies.

With winter approaching and Russia expected to escalate its attacks on the Ukrainian power grid, Kyiv is enhancing its air-defense system that combines interceptor drones, helicopters, light aircraft and electronic-warfare systems, Syrskyi said.

The improved interceptors take down Russian attack drones at least 70% of the time, he said, adding that Ukraine is now testing light, fixed-wing aircraft armed with machine guns as an additional counter-drone measure.

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Hatton reported from Lisbon, Portugal.

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New Photo - Hurricane Helene began a path of destruction a year ago. Why was it was so deadly?

Hurricane Helene began a path of destruction a year ago. Why was it was so deadly? Dinah Voyles Pulver, Ana GoñiLessan and George Fabe Russell, USA TODAYSeptember 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM 0 Hurricane Helene delivered a painful message about hurricane dangers to millions during its terrifying trek a year ...

- - Hurricane Helene began a path of destruction a year ago. Why was it was so deadly?

Dinah Voyles Pulver, Ana Goñi-Lessan and George Fabe Russell, USA TODAYSeptember 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM

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Hurricane Helene delivered a painful message about hurricane dangers to millions during its terrifying trek a year ago.

Tropical cyclones are far from just a coastal threat, wreaking deadly and devastating impacts much farther away than many realize, whether it's winds, rain or river flooding miles downstream.

"Helene was a really powerful example of how far the impacts of a hurricane can reach inland, and how complicated the messaging can be in those situations," said Andrea Schumacher, a project scientist studying weather risks and decisions in society at the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research.

While flooding caused the most devastation, the storm's winds also showed how far Helene's impacts reached. A peak gust of 68 mph was reported at Indianapolis International Airport, more than 700 miles from where Helene's most powerful winds and storm surge had arrived around 24 hours earlier.

Many along Helene's path may have had more experience hearing about hurricanes than preparing for major impacts, Schumacher said. Since Helene, she's been "grappling with the question of how we get people's attention when the weather is doing something 'different than it always has in the past.'"

Helene was born in the northwestern Caribbean on Sept. 24, 2024. It quickly proved to be one of the kinds of storms that forecasters fear the most, rapidly intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and making landfall near Perry, Florida less than 72 hours later.

1 / 18Hurricane Helene devastation still lingers one year later across SoutheastA home that was damaged by Hurricane Helene is seen on Sept. 17, 2025, in Pensacola, North Carolina. Hurricane Helene struck western North Carolina on Sept. 27, 2024, causing at least 108 confirmed deaths in the state, with several people still unaccounted for.

A combination of weather factors and geography helped make it one of the more brutal hurricanes in modern history. Its quick forward speed spared Florida prolonged winds and rain but plagued those who felt hurricane-force wind gusts hundreds of miles inland. A double whammy from a colliding weather pattern set up historic rainfall across the North Carolina and Tennessee mountains.

Helene shocked people from the plains and pine forests of Central and Eastern Georgia through scenic mountain vistas in North Carolina and Tennessee. It displaced thousands who lost homes, or whose properties suffered major damages. A year later, many hurricane victims from Florida to Tennessee continue to struggle with attempts to rebuild and recover.

"People weren't prepared at all," said Gina Heath, a resident of Marshall, North Carolina, her hometown. She and her husband are emotional health practitioners, she said, and share a practice in Marshall, where they've spent months talking with their community about trauma.

"All the neighbors were saying, floods have never, ever come to the back part of our neighborhood," Heath told USA TODAY. "And as we all know, the water came where it had never come." Of the 27 homes on their street in the Rollins neighborhood, 25 were either destroyed, demolished or suffered extensive damage that left them unlivable until they could be gutted and rebuilt, Heath said.

Residents begin cleaning up along Main Street in downtown Marshall, North Carolina on Oct 1, 2024 after Helene caused catastrophic flooding along the French Broad River.

Fortunately for Heath and her family of five, before Helene arrived, her husband moved the camper they live in and travel throughout the nation in during the summer time, which saved their home. The community where they live for most of the year was buried under the French Broad River, and they lost 60 feet of their land, she said. A neighbor in his 70s died after being trapped in a tree for hours and hours, she said, while other neighbors and swift water rescuers tried desperately to devise a way to save him.

It took six months to finally remove all of the foot-deep layer of contaminated silt and other rubble that remained when the river receded, she said.

A deadly storm How Hurricane Helene devastated the Southeast

A striking toll of death and loss

The National Hurricane Center's Helene report spelled out the destruction in excruciating detail.

At least 250 storm-related deaths were reported across seven states, from Florida to Indiana. That includes 95 direct deaths from freshwater flooding, including 78 in North Carolina, 15 in Tennessee and 2 in South Carolina. At least 2,700 people were rescued from high water along Helene's path. Half those occurred during storm surge along Florida's west coast and more than 1,000 were during freshwater flooding in western North Carolina. Helene is the fourth deadliest hurricane in the mainland United States since 1950.

The roughly $80 billion in estimated damages puts Helene seventh on the list of costliest hurricanes in modern history, behind Katrina, Harvey, Ian, Maria, Sandy and Ida, the hurricane center said. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed.

My most memorable experience was with the Schaumann-Rhodes family. I met Michele Rhodes while she was sitting in her driveway airing out clothing. Her husband, Pete Schaumann, was at work. Their daughter Tallulah Schaumann, a piano performance major at Augusta University, was home inside. The two showed me where a large pine tree sliced through their roof, making the home unlivable and humid — an imminent threat to Tallulah's two pianos. The smaller of the two pianos was moved out the night before on Pete's skateboard. Shortly after, they rented a U-Haul and with the help of several friends, rescued the larger piano. Pete and Michele prioritized this over finding a temporary place to stay and slept under the one section of solid roof in their home while Tallulah stayed with her boyfriend. This was an act of determination and unconditional love for their daughter. Hurricanes have the power to crush homes but not human resilience." - Angela Piazza

" style=padding-bottom:56%>"Hurricane Helene caught everyone off guard. Augusta and surrounding area residents told me repeated tales of powerlessness as hurricane-force winds tore through their heavily wooded neighborhoods, toppling trees onto vehicles, roadways and still-occupied homes. Through luck or miracle, their lives were spared and some still had intact homes.My most memorable experience was with the Schaumann-Rhodes family. I met Michele Rhodes while she was sitting in her driveway airing out clothing. Her husband, Pete Schaumann, was at work. Their daughter Tallulah Schaumann, a piano performance major at Augusta University, was home inside. The two showed me where a large pine tree sliced through their roof, making the home unlivable and humid — an imminent threat to Tallulah's two pianos. The smaller of the two pianos was moved out the night before on Pete's skateboard. Shortly after, they rented a U-Haul and with the help of several friends, rescued the larger piano. Pete and Michele prioritized this over finding a temporary place to stay and slept under the one section of solid roof in their home while Tallulah stayed with her boyfriend. This was an act of determination and unconditional love for their daughter. Hurricanes have the power to crush homes but not human resilience." - Angela Piazza

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"Hurricane Helene caught everyone off guard. Augusta and surrounding area residents told me repeated tales of powerlessness as hurricane-force winds tore through their heavily wooded neighborhoods, toppling trees onto vehicles, roadways and still-occupied homes. Through luck or miracle, their lives were spared and some still had intact homes.My most memorable experience was with the Schaumann-Rhodes family. I met Michele Rhodes while she was sitting in her driveway airing out clothing. Her husband, Pete Schaumann, was at work. Their daughter Tallulah Schaumann, a piano performance major at Augusta University, was home inside. The two showed me where a large pine tree sliced through their roof, making the home unlivable and humid — an imminent threat to Tallulah's two pianos. The smaller of the two pianos was moved out the night before on Pete's skateboard. Shortly after, they rented a U-Haul and with the help of several friends, rescued the larger piano. Pete and Michele prioritized this over finding a temporary place to stay and slept under the one section of solid roof in their home while Tallulah stayed with her boyfriend. This was an act of determination and unconditional love for their daughter. Hurricanes have the power to crush homes but not human resilience." - Angela Piazza

">"Hurricane Helene caught everyone off guard. Augusta and surrounding area residents told me repeated tales of powerlessness as hurricane-force winds tore through their heavily wooded neighborhoods, toppling trees onto vehicles, roadways and still-occupied homes. Through luck or miracle, their lives were spared and some still had intact homes.My most memorable experience was with the Schaumann-Rhodes family. I met Michele Rhodes while she was sitting in her driveway airing out clothing. Her husband, Pete Schaumann, was at work. Their daughter Tallulah Schaumann, a piano performance major at Augusta University, was home inside. The two showed me where a large pine tree sliced through their roof, making the home unlivable and humid — an imminent threat to Tallulah's two pianos. The smaller of the two pianos was moved out the night before on Pete's skateboard. Shortly after, they rented a U-Haul and with the help of several friends, rescued the larger piano. Pete and Michele prioritized this over finding a temporary place to stay and slept under the one section of solid roof in their home while Tallulah stayed with her boyfriend. This was an act of determination and unconditional love for their daughter. Hurricanes have the power to crush homes but not human resilience." - Angela Piazza

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- Katie Goodale

" style=padding-bottom:56%>"As the only photographer for the Augusta Chronicle, I felt immense amounts of pressure to show our readers (many of whom were stuck at home amongst debris) the scope of the damage of the storm. But when you live in the impacted community, you both report on and deal with the damage. Hurricane Helene devastated Augusta in a way that no one was prepared for. What I remember most about the storm, though, wasn't the devastation, but the way the community gathered around each other." - Katie Goodale

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"As the only photographer for the Augusta Chronicle, I felt immense amounts of pressure to show our readers (many of whom were stuck at home amongst debris) the scope of the damage of the storm. But when you live in the impacted community, you both report on and deal with the damage. Hurricane Helene devastated Augusta in a way that no one was prepared for. What I remember most about the storm, though, wasn't the devastation, but the way the community gathered around each other." - Katie Goodale

">"As the only photographer for the Augusta Chronicle, I felt immense amounts of pressure to show our readers (many of whom were stuck at home amongst debris) the scope of the damage of the storm. But when you live in the impacted community, you both report on and deal with the damage. Hurricane Helene devastated Augusta in a way that no one was prepared for. What I remember most about the storm, though, wasn't the devastation, but the way the community gathered around each other." - Katie Goodale

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" - Andrew Dolph

" style=padding-bottom:56%>"I remember approaching coverage of the communities impacted by Hurricane Helene just as I would have treated any other, in that the people came first and it was my job to faithfully and ethically go to work to execute the best visual storytelling I could as if I was a member of The Augusta Chronicle staff. What struck me most about the damage was the amount and size of trees down. It became almost immediately apparent that the line workers called in would have a lot of hard work ahead of them. Showing people helping people was also a critically important component to every story I was assigned." - Andrew Dolph

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"I remember approaching coverage of the communities impacted by Hurricane Helene just as I would have treated any other, in that the people came first and it was my job to faithfully and ethically go to work to execute the best visual storytelling I could as if I was a member of The Augusta Chronicle staff. What struck me most about the damage was the amount and size of trees down. It became almost immediately apparent that the line workers called in would have a lot of hard work ahead of them. Showing people helping people was also a critically important component to every story I was assigned." - Andrew Dolph

">"I remember approaching coverage of the communities impacted by Hurricane Helene just as I would have treated any other, in that the people came first and it was my job to faithfully and ethically go to work to execute the best visual storytelling I could as if I was a member of The Augusta Chronicle staff. What struck me most about the damage was the amount and size of trees down. It became almost immediately apparent that the line workers called in would have a lot of hard work ahead of them. Showing people helping people was also a critically important component to every story I was assigned." - Andrew Dolph

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- Merrily Cassidy

" style=padding-bottom:56%>"By the time I arrived, the extent of the damage, for the most part, was known. The city was in cleanup mode. Trees that had fallen were now cut and piled on the sides of roads, everywhere. Crews were working around the clock picking up trees and taking them to large staging areas where they were being turned into mulch. I was particularly affected by the stories of residents who were not only dealing with their own damage and cleanup but also helping their neighbors by volunteering at food pantries or packaging supplies. The selflessness of their actions continues to resonate with me to this day, especially when I see similar disasters in the news."- Merrily Cassidy

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"By the time I arrived, the extent of the damage, for the most part, was known. The city was in cleanup mode. Trees that had fallen were now cut and piled on the sides of roads, everywhere. Crews were working around the clock picking up trees and taking them to large staging areas where they were being turned into mulch. I was particularly affected by the stories of residents who were not only dealing with their own damage and cleanup but also helping their neighbors by volunteering at food pantries or packaging supplies. The selflessness of their actions continues to resonate with me to this day, especially when I see similar disasters in the news."- Merrily Cassidy

">"By the time I arrived, the extent of the damage, for the most part, was known. The city was in cleanup mode. Trees that had fallen were now cut and piled on the sides of roads, everywhere. Crews were working around the clock picking up trees and taking them to large staging areas where they were being turned into mulch. I was particularly affected by the stories of residents who were not only dealing with their own damage and cleanup but also helping their neighbors by volunteering at food pantries or packaging supplies. The selflessness of their actions continues to resonate with me to this day, especially when I see similar disasters in the news."- Merrily Cassidy

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- Evert Nelson

" style=padding-bottom:56%>"It started as soon as I got off the plane traveling from Topeka, Kansas, to Augusta, Georgia. Rental car companies were struggling to keep up with the demand and cancelled our reservations along with many others at the airport and across town. From there, I helped to report on the aftermath of the hurricane by following roofers evaluating damaged properties, homeowners reflecting on their survival in some of the worst-hit neighborhoods, and county efforts to slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. I'm accustomed to covering the aftermath of tornadoes in Kansas, but this was different and much more widespread."- Evert Nelson

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"It started as soon as I got off the plane traveling from Topeka, Kansas, to Augusta, Georgia. Rental car companies were struggling to keep up with the demand and cancelled our reservations along with many others at the airport and across town. From there, I helped to report on the aftermath of the hurricane by following roofers evaluating damaged properties, homeowners reflecting on their survival in some of the worst-hit neighborhoods, and county efforts to slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. I'm accustomed to covering the aftermath of tornadoes in Kansas, but this was different and much more widespread."- Evert Nelson

">"It started as soon as I got off the plane traveling from Topeka, Kansas, to Augusta, Georgia. Rental car companies were struggling to keep up with the demand and cancelled our reservations along with many others at the airport and across town. From there, I helped to report on the aftermath of the hurricane by following roofers evaluating damaged properties, homeowners reflecting on their survival in some of the worst-hit neighborhoods, and county efforts to slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. I'm accustomed to covering the aftermath of tornadoes in Kansas, but this was different and much more widespread."- Evert Nelson

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-Sam Upshaw

" style=padding-bottom:56%>"Although my time in Augusta was brief, it was abundantly clear that the town's residents were resilient. Weeks after the storm hit as they picked up the pieces from the devastation of Hurricane Helene, they made time to cast early ballots, check on their friends and to share a laugh. An elderly couple, Francis O'Shea and his wife Magda Newland [pictured], took time to enjoy each other's company as they went weeks without a WiFi or television signal. Their bond and love for one another was a bright spot through the turmoil." -Sam Upshaw

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"Although my time in Augusta was brief, it was abundantly clear that the town's residents were resilient. Weeks after the storm hit as they picked up the pieces from the devastation of Hurricane Helene, they made time to cast early ballots, check on their friends and to share a laugh. An elderly couple, Francis O'Shea and his wife Magda Newland [pictured], took time to enjoy each other's company as they went weeks without a WiFi or television signal. Their bond and love for one another was a bright spot through the turmoil." -Sam Upshaw

">"Although my time in Augusta was brief, it was abundantly clear that the town's residents were resilient. Weeks after the storm hit as they picked up the pieces from the devastation of Hurricane Helene, they made time to cast early ballots, check on their friends and to share a laugh. An elderly couple, Francis O'Shea and his wife Magda Newland [pictured], took time to enjoy each other's company as they went weeks without a WiFi or television signal. Their bond and love for one another was a bright spot through the turmoil." -Sam Upshaw

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- Zachary Allen

" style=padding-bottom:56%>"I arrived about a month after Hurricane Helene and was amazed at the amount of cleanup that was still underway. Everywhere I traveled, there were line workers and tree removal trucks. I found it inspiring to see the number of community members out clearing trails and parks, all while knowing they were likely dealing with their own personal devastation." - Zachary Allen

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"I arrived about a month after Hurricane Helene and was amazed at the amount of cleanup that was still underway. Everywhere I traveled, there were line workers and tree removal trucks. I found it inspiring to see the number of community members out clearing trails and parks, all while knowing they were likely dealing with their own personal devastation." - Zachary Allen

">"I arrived about a month after Hurricane Helene and was amazed at the amount of cleanup that was still underway. Everywhere I traveled, there were line workers and tree removal trucks. I found it inspiring to see the number of community members out clearing trails and parks, all while knowing they were likely dealing with their own personal devastation." - Zachary Allen

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1 / 25USA TODAY Network photojournalists reflect on what it was like covering Hurricane Helene

"Hurricane Helene caught everyone off guard. Augusta and surrounding area residents told me repeated tales of powerlessness as hurricane-force winds tore through their heavily wooded neighborhoods, toppling trees onto vehicles, roadways and still-occupied homes. Through luck or miracle, their lives were spared and some still had intact homes.My most memorable experience was with the Schaumann-Rhodes family. I met Michele Rhodes while she was sitting in her driveway airing out clothing. Her husband, Pete Schaumann, was at work. Their daughter Tallulah Schaumann, a piano performance major at Augusta University, was home inside. The two showed me where a large pine tree sliced through their roof, making the home unlivable and humid — an imminent threat to Tallulah's two pianos. The smaller of the two pianos was moved out the night before on Pete's skateboard. Shortly after, they rented a U-Haul and with the help of several friends, rescued the larger piano. Pete and Michele prioritized this over finding a temporary place to stay and slept under the one section of solid roof in their home while Tallulah stayed with her boyfriend. This was an act of determination and unconditional love for their daughter. Hurricanes have the power to crush homes but not human resilience." - Angela Piazza

High winds

A hurricane's winds often weaken quickly once they encounter friction with the ground, trees and buildings at landfall, but Helene's high winds moved "much farther inland" than other hurricanes, the hurricane center said. The peak winds felt along a hurricane's path are often never adequately measured by either permanent or temporary weather stations, either because of location or equipment failures.

Damage surveys by National Weather Service meteorologists concluded wind gusts across much of North Florida, eastern Georgia and into central and western South Carolina probably exceeded 80 mph and may have exceeded gusts of more than 100 mph in some areas.

Georgia: A peak gust of 100 mph was measured at the Bacon County Airport in Alma, more than 130 miles from landfall.

South Carolina: A 77 mph gust was recorded at Laurens, more than 325 miles from landfall.

North Carolina: Higher elevations along the state's western mountains experienced hurricane-force winds.

Sustained winds atop Mount Mitchell, the state's highest peak, were Category One strength at 80 mph, even though Helene's circulation had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it arrived in the mountains. A peak gust of 105.8 mph was the highest measured gust along the storm's path.

A 101 mph wind gust was recorded near Banner Elk, more than 440 miles from landfall.

Helene produced 39 tornadoes across five states, including a 1,100 yard EF-1 in Cordova, South Carolina that is the widest documented tropical storm tornado in the U.S., dating back to 1995.

Catastrophic storm surge in Florida

A "catastrophic" surge of seawater reached heights up to 16 feet above dry ground where Helene made landfall on North Florida's Gulf coast, the hurricane center reported. Near Keaton Beach, "entire homes appear to have been picked up by the storm surge and moved to remote wetlands."

In communities along Helene's path, its victims recall a year of stress and difficult emotions as they deal with grief, loss and decisions about how - or whether - to rebuild, as well as frustrations with insurance companies, building permits and feelings of abandonment by some of the officials who showed up for photos in the early days.

"I just feel like we've been totally forgotten," said Mandy Adams, a Keaton Beach resident.

Shane Padgett walks out of his flooded neighborhood where his home was destroyed by storm surge after Hurricane Helene hit the area on September 27, 2024 in Steinhatchee, Florida.

Surge destroyed about 80% of the buildings in Keaton Beach and Steinhatchee, and about 70% of the community of Horseshoe Beach, according to the center.

A stream gauge 2 miles inland from the mouth of the Steinhatchee River failed, but a post-storm survey found a high-water mark of 14.25 feet, more than 4 feet higher than during Hurricane Idalia 13 months earlier.

In Cedar Key, roughly 50 miles to the south, a tide gauge measured its highest water level since the station began reporting in 1914. The water destroyed homes with its height and force.

In Citrus County, more than 75 miles to the south, the surge inundated at least 300 homes with water up to 5 feet deep.

Water levels of two feet above ground level or more were reported along more than 380 miles of Florida coastline, from Apalachicola on the northern Gulf coast to Naples on the southwest coast.

Rainfall

Trillions upon trillions of gallons of water fell as rain, enhanced by a rain event across the mountains even before Helene made landfall. Rainfall greater than 10 inches fell across six states.

Across a large swath of the mountainous regions, 20 to 30 inches of rain saturated soils and swelled stream and river levels.

At Busick, North Carolina, near Mount Mitchell, 30.78 inches of rain fell over four days, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information. More than 18 inches of rain fell across portions of a dozen counties in North Carolina and northern South Carolina.

The rain sent rivers to record highs that washed away homes and roads and caused more than 2,000 landslides in the region, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Highest rainfall in other states:

South Carolina: Sunfish Mountain, 21.66

Georgia: Dillard, 14.64 inches

Florida: Sumatra, 14.39

Tennessee: Trade, 10.98

Virginia: Galax, 10.89

Ohio: Rosemount, 8.51

Alabama: Pansey, 8.5

Kentucky: Henderson, 7.67

Illinois: 7.47

West Virginia 6.11

Indiana 5.69

Volunteers remove debris from the home of Mark Dempsey in Swannanoa, N.C., on Oct. 16, 2024. After Dempsey's home was destroyed by Hurricane Helene, a group of friends of his and his girlfriends showed up at the house and started helping to gut it. His hope is to be able to rebuild the home that he has lived in for the past nine years.

On Sept. 27, 2024, April Blair, 52, watched as her house and several of her neighbors' were submerged and splintered by the flooded Rocky Broad River in Bat Cave, North Carolina. The group was trapped, and broke a lock off the window of a nearby church to take refuge for two nights until the National Guard came to help them.

In September, Blair told the Hendersonville Times-News: "It's been a journey, and I'm exhausted."

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USA TODAY Network papers along Helene's path followed up with some of the communities that suffered most under Helene's terrifying winds and water. Read their stories here:

Keaton Beach residents feel forgotten, rely on each other one year after Hurricane Helene

What can you do to help children still coping with weather anxiety?

It's fall in Western N.C. Here are the parks and attractions that have reopened

Helene by the numbers: A year after the storm, here's the data on Western NC's recovery

A year later, revisiting the people and places of eastern Tennessee

Dinah Voyles Pulver, a national correspondent for USA TODAY, has written about hurricanes, tornadoes and violent weather for more than 30 years. Reach her at [email protected] or @dinahvp on Bluesky or X or dinahvp.77 on Signal. Ana Goñi-Lessan and George Fabe Russell are reporters with the USA TODAY NETWORK.

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New Photo - The greatest comeback in MLB history might be unfolding right in front of us

The greatest comeback in MLB history might be unfolding right in front of us Andrew GreifSeptember 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM 0 Steven Kwan 38, Daniel Schneemann 10 and Petey Halpin 0 of the Cleveland Guardians celebrate the team's 52 win over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Andrew GreifSeptember 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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Steven Kwan #38, Daniel Schneemann #10 and Petey Halpin #0 of the Cleveland Guardians celebrate the team's 5-2 win over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio. (Nick Cammett / Getty Images)

Tradition in Major League Baseball dictates that teams celebrate milestone victories with booze-soaked clubhouse parties. And on Sept. 1, it surely seemed safe for the Detroit Tigers to begin ordering champagne.

Even after a loss to start September, the Tigers were given a 99.8 percent chance that day to win the American League's Central division by FanGraphs. Detroit's odds of winning the division would remain at 99.0 percent or higher for the next two weeks, too. With the postseason beginning at month's end, it appeared likely the Tigers could earn one of the two first-round playoff byes that go to the two division winners with the best records.

Yet beginning Sept. 11, the Tigers lost 11 of their next 12 games to begin a spectacular free-fall — one that could ultimately set MLB history.

A loss Wednesday dropped the Tigers out of first place in the AL Central for the first time in 155 days. In the standings, they were looking up to Cleveland — the same Guardians who, on July 6, were 15 1/2 games behind the Tigers in the standings. At that point, only three American League teams had worse records than Cleveland.

"It's painful," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told reporters Wednesday.

"I'm having a hard time coming up with words, obviously. I know that's not always that acceptable or the norm, but what I'm seeing out of our team is not normal, but unfortunately, it's our reality."

On Thursday, the Tigers (86-73) moved back into a tie for first by beating Cleveland (86-73). Whether the cathartic 4-2 win stops their slide, or acts as only temporary relief, remains to be seen before Sunday's end of the regular season.

As recently as Sept. 5, Cleveland was still 11 games behind the Tigers. But it has won 17 of its last 20 games through Thursday.

Since MLB created divisions in 1969, the 1978 Yankees (14 games back), 2012 Athletics (13 games), 1995 Mariners (13 games), 2006 Twins (12 1/2 games) and 1973 Mets (12 1/2 games) have completed the largest comebacks to win a division title, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, via MLB.com.

Including the pre-division era, the record for largest comeback belongs to the 1914 Braves (15 games back).

If the Guardians win the Central, they will have surpassed even the Braves' 111-year-old record. Their torrid stretch has taken place even though two of their best pitchers, closer Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, have been on non-disciplinary leave since July as the league undergoes a sports-betting investigation that remains ongoing.

Cleveland outfielder Steven Kwan told reporters Wednesday that trying to jumpstart such a comeback had appeared "daunting" earlier this summer, as the team weighed whether to be a seller at the trade deadline.

"But it's one of those things where ignorance is bliss," Kwan said. "You keep your head down and don't worry about it. If you get caught up in those things early on, you're going to be doomed."

Before Sept. 5, Cleveland owned the league's second-worst on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS), second-worst slugging percentage and was dead last in on-base percentage. Only three teams had scored fewer runs. Its pitching staff, meanwhile, ranked firmly in the middle in earned runs allowed and in the bottom third in how often it allowed runners on base.

Since the teams' fortunes diverged Sept. 5, the Guardians' hitting didn't undergo an earth-shattering rejuvenation. It didn't need to — because no team has had better pitching. In that span they allowed allowed a league-low 34 earned runs. (Detroit, over the same span, has allowed 81.)

Detroit hasn't helped itself by forgetting how to score. Amid its slide over the last 13 games, it has scored more than three runs just four times.

Under the current MLB postseason format, six teams apiece from both the American and National leagues earn a spot in the postseason. The two division winners with the best records earn a first-round bye, and the four remaining teams play a best-of-three series where all three games are hosted by the higher seed.

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Detroit still appears headed for the postseason. ESPN estimated its odds of qualifying at 70.6 percent through Thursday, when it was still five games ahead of Texas, the first team currently projected to be left out of the AL postseason.

But if the Tigers make it, they will have to shake off a month of historically bad baseball and refocus on the postseason. After being overtaken in the standings Wednesday for the first time since the spring, they were struggling to process a slide that could go down in history.

"That's some of the best baseball I've seen in September, just in what they've been able to do," Tigers pitcher Jack Flaherty told reporters Wednesday. "They've done their job, and we haven't done ours."

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CAIRO (AP) — A building in Egypt's Nile Delta partially collapsed following a fire that broke out Friday at dawn, killing at least eight people and injuring 29 others, according to officials.

An electrical short circuit caused a boiler to explode and a fire to break out on the second floor of a dye business in el-Mahalla city, which is known for textile manufacturing, in Gharbia province. That led to the partial collapse of the building, said the governor's media office in a statement.

Gov. Ashraf al-Gendy, who visited the site, said in a statement that emergency response crews fully contained the fire and removing destroyed parts of the building, but rescuers are still trying to pull out three people from under the rubble. Their conditions are unclear.

The labor ministry said in a statement that some members of the civil defense personnel died while extinguishing the fire. One of the injured is in intensive care, eight are still in the hospital and the others have been treated and released, according to the governor's office.

In July, a fire engulfed the main telecom company building in downtown Cairo, injuring at least 14 people and prompting a temporary outage of internet and mobile phone services.

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