Video: TARIQ BOKHARI

A crisis unfolded in western North Carolina as officials rushed to get more water, food and other supplies to flood-stricken areas without power and cellular service Monday, three days after Hurricane Helene ripped across the U.S. Southeast.

The death toll from the storm approached 100.

At least 94 people across several states were killed. A North Carolina county that includes the mountain city of Asheville reported 30 people killed.

Video footage showed Lake Lure in Rutherford County filled with wooden debris.

Supplies were being airlifted to the region around the isolated city of Asheville. Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder pledged that she would have food and water to the city by Monday.