All of the people who were stranded on the roof of Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tennessee, have been rescued safely, Sen. Bill Hagerty said in a post on X.

Nearly 60 patients and hospital staff were stuck on the roof as rising floodwaters crept higher throughout the day.

But Hagerty warned there is more "trouble on the horizon for East Tennessee communities" and urged residents to stay safe.

After facing record storm surge for the Big Bend region, recovery efforts for Florida’s gulf residents have begun at a slow and steady pace. David DeCarlo, Director for the Emergency Management office of Hernando County, Florida, joins José Diaz-Balart to give his initial assessments and explain the difficulties crews may find on the ground.

The Virginia State Police dispatched aviation units to help with the rescue of nearly 60 hospital patients and staff trapped on the roof of Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tennessee.

The state police tweeted a photo showing the hospital engulfed in rising floodwaters and people scattered across the white rooftop.

Patrick Sheehan, the director of Tennessee's emergency management agency, told reporters that three helicopters from the Tennessee Army National Guard were also en route to the scene.

"That’s a great relief to us in the community, to take care of those Tennesseans," Sheehan said during a Zoom briefing.

Police in Clearwater, Florida, posted video of multiple water rescues from overnight, showing officers and firefighter pulling residents to safety on their shoulders. Clearwater is in the Tampa Bay area, which was hit hard by Helene.

All of downtown Newport, Tennessee, is under immediate evacuation after the Waterville Dam suffered "a catastrophic failure," Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis said.

Drone footage shows flooding overtaking houses, roads and cars in Atlanta from Helene.

Helene, now a tropical depression, is located 125 miles southeast of Louisville, Kentucky, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, moving northwest at 28 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center's 2 p.m. ET advisory.

All tropical storm warnings have been discontinued and there are now no coastal watches or warnings in effect. 

It’s forecast to slowdown and will stall over the Tennessee Valley through the weekend. 

Helene will still produce more rainfall for the Central and Southern Appalachians, resulting in “catastrophic and potentially life-threatening flash and urban flooding.” Tornadoes are possible today across eastern South Carolina, central and eastern North Carolina and southern Virginia. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Helene's powerful winds caused damage to buildings that survived Hurricane Idalia last year and Hurricane Debby earlier this year.

"Areas that were hit in Idalia and Debby said that this was more extensive than both combined," he said at an afternoon news conference. "So I think you’re gonna see buildings that survived those two storms didn’t make this storm."

Helene, which made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region as a Category 4, caused widespread power outages, leaving millions in the dark. The governor said since the storm began there have been over 1.4 million power restorations statewide. About a million remain without power.

One of the hardest hit areas was Pinellas County. Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy’s state president in Florida, said that power outages are affecting a little over 200,000 customers in the county.

At least seven deaths have been blamed on the storm in Florida, DeSantis said.