Hurricane Florence – where has the storm hit, how many people have died and where’s it heading next?

HURRICANE Florence has been linked to at least 32 deaths and has left more than 1.1million homes and businesses without power.

Here’s how the wild tropical storm has wrought havoc across the southeastern United States.

Where is the tropical storm now?

The ex-hurricane has now dissipated — with its remnants now passing over New York and the northeastern seaboard, according to the .

But what remains of the storm is still bringing heavy rain to the area as well as the risk of flash floods.

The NHC said this morning: “The remnants of Florence are expected to produce heavy to potentially excessive rainfall through Tuesday.

"Portions of the northern mid-Atlantic states northeast through southern New England are expected to receive an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain, with isolated maximum amounts of 4 inches possible."

How many people have been killed?

Hurricane Florence has been linked to 32 deaths, according to US media.

Among them were:

• A mother and her seven-month-old baby died after a tree fell on their house near Wilmington, North Carolina on Friday, also injuring the infant's father
• A woman in Hamstead, North Carolina died. Emergency crews responded to a "cardiac arrest" call but found the path to the property blocked by fallen trees. When they reached the house the woman
• A 78-year-old man was killed in Lenoir County, North Carolina - he was electrocuted while hooking up a generator
• A 77-year-old man, also from Lenoir County, North Carolina, was also killed after going outside to check on his hunting dogs
• A woman died from cardiac arrest in the town of Hampstead after an emergency crew had its route to her blocked by downed trees
• In South Carolina, a 62-year-old woman died when her car hit a tree that had fallen across a road in the town of Union
• Two others died in the state from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a generator inside their home, according to a local coroner
• Three people who died in flash flooding or swift water on roads in Duplin County, North Carolina
• Two people who died in a storm-related fire in Cumberland County, North Carolina

Florence struck on Friday in North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane.

So far, it has left 1.1million customers without power in the affected area.

Prisoners were affected too, with North Carolina corrections officials saying more than 3,000 people were relocated from adult prisons and juvenile centers in the path of Florence.

Officials said some 1.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were warned to evacuate, but it's unclear how many did.

The homes of about 10 million were under threat.

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