
Kathy Park
News Correspondent at NBC News
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Oct 25, 2024 |
nbcnews.com | Kathy Park |Daniella Silva
Oct. 25, 2024, 9:51 PM UTCASHEVILLE, N.C. — One month after Hurricane Helene destroyed mountain towns, swept away homes and upended countless lives here, thousands of Buncombe County’s students returned to school Friday. Students were hopeful and said it was a joyous occasion to be able to reconnect with friends and see some normalcy return to their lives after the storm brought catastrophic flooding and record-breaking rain to some parts of western North Carolina.
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Oct 18, 2024 |
nbcnews.com | Laura Strickler |Frank Thorp V |Kathy Park
Oct. 18, 2024, 3:31 PM UTCWhen the river began to rise in Asheville, North Carolina, last month, Lucious Wilson stood on a nearby hill and watched as his brewery slowly vanished in the floodwaters generated by Hurricane Helene. “We need help,” he told NBC News this week, standing near the ruins of his business, Wedge Brewery. “We don’t need politics.”But a key source of federal aid may not be available any time soon for those impacted by the recent hurricanes.
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Oct 16, 2024 |
nbcnews.com | Kathy Park |Elizabeth Chuck
Oct. 16, 2024, 10:47 PM UTCASHEVILLE, N.C. — When schools here reopen for the first time since Hurricane Helene unleashed a frightening deluge on western North Carolina, teachers won’t simply pick up where they left off in their lesson plans. They’ll also provide a space for students to discuss the life-altering effect the storm had on their region. While all Asheville City Schools students and staff members have been accounted for, they are grieving the deaths of other members of their community.
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Oct 1, 2024 |
msn.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Kathy Park |Debra Jones |Tavleen Tarrant |Alexandra Chaidez |Didi Martinez
Our thoughts & prayers are with all those affected by Hurricane Helene & its devastation to the region that has...
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Oct 1, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Kathy Park |Debra Jones |Tavleen Tarrant |Alexandra Chaidez |Didi Martinez
Bertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant. Workers have said they were allowed to leave when water was already swamping its parking lot in Erwin on Friday. In a call to her husband, Elias Mendoza, Bertha, 56, said she loved him, her son Guillermo Mendoza told NBC News. She asked him to also tell her children she loved them.
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