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Flood damage is strewn across a road in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on September 29, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
OAN Staff Blake Wolf 12:56 PM – Monday, September 30, 2024
At least 120 people have now been killed across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
The tragic circumstances were prompted by catastrophic flooding, leaving residents stranded while causing widespread damage to homes, businesses and other critical infrastructure.
The western region of North Carolina has been hit especially hard as a result of the hurricane, causing disastrous levels of flooding, leaving hundreds of roads and bridges destroyed. Flood levels have also made it extremely difficult for rescue crews to deliver food, water, and fuel to impacted residents.
Additionally, dozens of confirmed deaths, along with hundreds who have been unaccounted for, have forced North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D-N.C.) to predict that the death toll will continue to rise as rescuers venture further into isolated areas.
The large majority of routes into Asheville, a city of nearly 100,000, have been “completely blocked or washed away.” The city’s water system has also suffered severe damage.
Unsettling video footage of the flooding shows houses floating downstream, revealing widespread destruction.
ICYMI – Here’s footage of two homes that were swept away during Hurricane Helene in the Asheville area of North Carolina. The force of the floodwaters was so strong, entire houses were seen floating downriver as the storm caused widespread destruction.#HurricaneHelene… pic.twitter.com/eQUEmWxpK6
Meanwhile, some residents are working together to survive, sharing food supply and water while comforting each other throughout this extremely difficult time.
“That’s the blessing so far in this,” said resident Sommerville Johnston, who spoke with reporters. Johnston explained that she planned on making a venison stew “before it goes bad,” as she has been without power since Friday. “Just bring your bowl and spoon,” she said with a smile.
Hurricane Helene’s most noticeable destruction occurred on Thursday as it hit Florida and evolved into a Category 4 hurricane. The storm made its way through Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials announced that they were sheltering over 1,000 people, as well as the continued deployment of dozens of search and rescue teams operating in flooded northwestern zones within North Carolina.
Over 100,000 pounds of supplies have been brought in from FEMA to provide emergency supplies to residents in need.
Water rescues continue in northwest North Carolina for more than a dozen search & rescue teams.
Pictured: Our Urban Search & Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 team working diligently in Jackson and Haywood counties to find stranded people and animals.#Helenepic.twitter.com/LFhiLD1HoV
North Carolina Air National Guard hauls over 100,000 pounds of supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a C17 to Western North Carolina as a part of Tropical Storm #Helene support. pic.twitter.com/QYa1UA2ASa
Additionally, the White House announced that President Joe Biden has approved disaster funds for residents impacted, which includes “upfront funds” for emergency supplies, funds for “storm-related damage to homes,” and assistance funds for temporary housing.
President Biden has also pledged to travel to the impacted communities, “as soon as it will not disrupt emergency response operations.”
“As president, I’ve heard dozens of stories from survivors about… How it feels to be left with nothing, and to not even know where to begin to get back on track. "I am here to tell every single survivor in these impacted areas that we are here for you as long as it takes,” Biden said.
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West Point Military Academy Drops ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ From Its Mission Statement
People look into a nearly 200-year-old time capsule during a ceremony in the Robinson Auditorium at Thayer Hall of the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, on August 28, 2023. (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)
OAN’s Brooke Mallory 3:56 PM – Wednesday, March 13, 2024
The superintendent of West Point has announced that the U.S. Military Academy will no longer include the motto “Duty, Honor, Country” in its mission statement. General Douglas MacArthur famously underlined this phrase in a speech in 1962.
From this point forward, the famous phrase will be replaced with a simple line that reads, “Army Values.”
The shift, which many view as West Point becoming more progressive, was authorized by Army Chief of Staff Randy George and Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth.
“Our responsibility to produce leaders to fight and win our nation’s wars requires us to assess ourselves regularly,” Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland wrote in a letter to cadets and supporters on Monday.
“Thus, over the past year and a half, working with leaders from across West Point and external stakeholders, we reviewed our vision, mission, and strategy to serve this purpose.”
“As a result of this assessment, we recommended the following mission statement to our senior Army leadership: To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation,” he added.
The mission statement of West Point has undergone nine revisions, according to Gilland, who also pointed out that “Duty, Honor, Country was first added to the mission statement in 1998.”
The commander stated that “Army Values include Duty and Honor, and Country is reflected in Loyalty, bearing true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit, and other Soldiers.”
The previous mission statement was, “To educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army.”
Randy DeSoto, a West Point alumnus, claimed in The Western Journal that he was one of the “entire Corps of Cadets” that viewed a video of MacArthur’s 1987 speech commemorating the school’s 25th anniversary.
“The general closed by telling the cadets, ‘In the evening of my memory, I always come back to West Point." Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country,'” DeSoto wrote.
“Hopefully, the same will be true for today’s West Point cadets, even with ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ no longer in the mission statement.”
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