Mules are helping deliver aid to residents in North Carolina as they grapple with the fallout from the destructive Hurricane Helene.
The big picture: Five Southeastern states are responding to widespread devastation caused from the hurricane that made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm last week, withthe death toll surpassing 130.
Hurricane Helene's damage across five southeastern states is still emerging some three days on from it making landfall in Florida's Big Bend region as a Category 4 storm.
The big picture: The storm has killed at least 132 people in North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, which former President Trump visited on Monday. President Biden said he plans to visit storm-hit areas of N.C. on Wednesday and Georgia and Florida "as soon as possible."
Two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday welcomed the SpaceX capsule that will shuttle them home from a longer-than-anticipated mission.
The big picture: NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams had to extend their stay by months after technical issues prevented them from returning home aboard the Boeing Starliner craft that brought them there.
