Ten deaths have been confirmed in the U.S. as Hurricane Irma weakened into a tropical storm and finally left Florida on Monday after running up the entire 400-mile length of the state. ABC News reports that six deaths in Florida have been blamed on Irma, as well as three in Georgia and one in South Carolina. (Additionally, at least 35 people were killed in the Caribbean.) An estimated 13 million people--two-thirds of Florida's population--are still without power. And officials have warned it could take weeks for electricity to be restored to everyone.
Meanwhile, an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships have been sent to the hurricane-battered Florida Keys to help with search-and-rescue efforts--although several residents in the Upper Keys have been cleared to return to their properties. (FEMA reports that 25 percent of the homes in the Keys have been destroyed.) "I just hope everyone survived," Gov. Rick Scott said. "I don’t think I saw one trailer park where almost everything wasn’t overturned."